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  1. David Friedmann research materials

    Contains research materials relating to the artwork of David Friedmann

  2. Jules Graff collection

    Two copy photographs showing the interior and exterior of the mobile darkroom used by Jules Graff, who was photographer for the 333rd Regiment.

  3. The Day of Fast, Prayer and Cry for Saving Remnants of the Jewish People from Extermination by the Nazis

    A Hebrew-language broadside (mimeographed manuscript) titled "The Day of Fast, Prayer and Cry for Saving the Remnants of the Jewish People from Extermination by the Nazis". It was issued the 14th of Sivan (June) 1944, by the Chief Rabbinate of Haifa, Palestine (now Haifa, Israel). The broadside details the "prayer and memorial service" conducted at the central synagogue in Hadar Carmel Gilad St. The memorial day's agenda included a mandatory fast for every man and woman above the age of 18 years, sitting in silence on the ground for five minutes, "to mourn the holy and pure… who were cruell...

  4. Miriam and Ruth Renzer papers

    Collection of correspondence, postcards, and photographs, including letters between Ruth Renzer in Palestine and her sister Miriam in England. Ruth lived at the "Ahava" children's home at Kiryat Bialik, near Haifa, and Miriam was sent to England on a Kindertransport.

  5. French Anti-Semitic Illustrated Leaflet Issued by Action Française

    A large, illustrated French leaflet (newspaper-format) issued by the political movement Action Française. One of its sides deals with the 40 French kings (Les 40 rois qui, en mille ans, firent la France) and the other side with the Jews "who in sixty years have ruined France": Adolphe Crémieux, Alfred Naquet, Dreyfus, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Blum and more – Marxists, communists, Bolsheviks, and others. The illustrations are by the caricaturist Ralph Soupault. Les Mille Juifs, qui, en soixante ans, ont ruiné la France [The Thousand Jews, who in sixty years have ruined France], Paris:...

  6. Emil and Martha Feigenbaum collection

    Two albums related to Emil and Martha Feigenbaum's emigration from Berlin, Germany, and their arrival in the United States. The materials cover the pre-war, war, and post-war periods and include documentation of the efforts to save Emil's parents, Meier and Flora, both of whom perished in the Holocaust.

  7. Liberation photographs and ration book

    Collection of post-liberation photographs showing corpses, graves, crematorium, and survivors at multiple concentration camps. These include an image of the Jewish cemetery in Neustadt, and recurring liberation images from Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, 1945 - 1946. A ration book in Russian from 1941 is also included.

  8. A Journey Through Darkness

    Transcript written by Mimi Markus of interview with Nat Glass entitled "A Journey Through Darkness"

  9. Evvy Eisen collection

    Biographies and related documents of the Holocaust survivors photographed by Evvy Eisen for the "Multiply by Six Million: Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors" project.

  10. Furman family papers

    The Furman family papers document the pre-war lives of the Furman family in Krynki, Poland and Palestine, including Hanoch Furman’s education and employment at a Tarbut school in Krynki, his immigration to Palestine in 1926, and his mother Zelda Furman’s immgration to Palestine in 1936. Documents include Tarbut school certificates and report card, marriage certificate for Hanoch and Dina Flaumenbaum, a Ketubah, Palestinian immigration certificates for Hanoch and Zelda, Palestinian naturalization certificate for Hanoch, and Zelda’s Polish passport and health card for immigration. Photographs...

  11. Géza Winter diary

    Illustrated Poetic Diary of a Jewish Hungarian forced into Labor Service during WWII. [Budapest]: Unpaginated. [108] loose pages, as issued. Original wrappers, with illustration pasted on front cover. Géza Winter's illustrated poetic diary documenting his personal experiences in the labor service in 1940. Winter was a Hungarian Jew from Budapest, and was enrolled in the service in 1939. In the beginning, his company was serving around Budapest, later they were sent to Transylvania. The following cities are mentioned: Szentendre, Budakalász, Pomáz, Szatmámémeti (Satu Mare), Kolozvár, Kraszna...

  12. Forrest J. Robinson, Jr. collection

    Photo: Fritz Kuhn & Gustav K. Elmer look at subpoena, May 29, 1939 Photo: 13 seized when mob attempt to invade Bund meeting in Chicago, October 16, 1938 Photo: Anti-Nazi picketers outside German-American Bund meeting in Long Island City, November 18, 1938 Photo: Fritz Kuhn reading while interned in Apsburg, Germany, 1945 Photo: Anti-Nazi crowd outside Madison Square Garden, February 24, 1939 Photo: “Bund Leader in Court Verbal Battle,” Bay Ridge Court, Brooklyn, NY, March 3, 1939 Photo: Fritz Kuhn appears before House Committee, August 16, 1939

  13. Hannah Zimmerman papers

    The collection is comprised of affidavits, a passenger list of voyagers on the RMS Queen Elizabeth aboard which Hannah Zimmerman and her parents arrived to the United States, and a luggage tag. It also includes photographs of Hannah Zimmerman as a young child. With the exception of one wartime photograph showing Hannah circa 1 ½ - 2 years of age, the photographs of Hannah were taken while she and her parents lived in Bratislava after the war, and later as displaced persons in Munich prior to their immigration to the United States in 1952.

  14. Kopolovic family papers

    Documents including certificates, correspondence, and identification information, family photographs, and restitution-related papers, relating to Olga Schuman (formerly Ester Kopolovicova) of Drahova, Czechoslovakia (Drahovo, Ukraine), who survived Auschwitz and Stutthof. Also includes a DVD photos and Olga's oral history, in addition to a guidebook, Nový Tlumaĉ Americky [The American Interpreter] in Czech and English that Olga used when she arrived in the United States.

  15. Franka and Abram Charlupski papers

    Loose photographs, a photo album, documents, and Wielun Yizkor book prospectus relating to the experiences of Franka Wajntraub Charlupski and Abram Charlupski, both survivors of the Łódź ghetto.

  16. Eckdish family papers

    The Eckdish family papers include correspondence and immigration documents relating to Paul Eckdish and his family's experience emigrating from Germany in 1939. Correspondence includes originals and photocopies of letters sent to Paul in the United States, mainly from his brother, Martin, and Martin’s wife Ilse, in Palestine. Immigration documents include clearances, a job referral, and a receipt for passage on the SS Rotterdam. Also included is correspondence and receipts from Paul’s attempts to assist his parents in leaving Europe to go to Shanghai.

  17. Morton Adell collection

    Six page report and cover letter titled “Hanukkah Celebration – December 1946-5707, at the Children’s Welfare and Educational Centre Salonica”

  18. Dr. Arthur Kessler papers

    Papers related to Dr. Arthur Kessler's compensation claims Papers related to Chaia (Schulsinger) Kessler's compensation claims

  19. WWI medal

    Medal awarded to Hugo Morck for service on the front in WWI.

  20. Paul Steinberg collection

    The Paul Steinberg collection consists of a leather notebook which illustrates Paul Steinberg's [Morton Steinberg's father] experiences living with his relatives in Vienna, Austria, circa 1919-1920.