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  1. Magistrate Bergedorf 415-12/1 Magistrat Bergedorf

    Selected records of the Magistrat Bergedorf (Magistrate of the city Bergedorf) related to re-construction of broken memorials in the town, burial places of the Jews on the Gojenberge (Hamburg), 1883-1938, and honorary distinction of the cemeteries. Consists of architectural plans, photographs of burial monuments, clippings, correspondence, bank financial documentations, a register of names of bank customers.

  2. Erich Lilienthal death certificate

    Death certificate issued for Erich "Israel" Lilienthal, a Jewish man who died in Berlin on June 14, 1940 at St. Hedwig Hospital. He was survived by his wife Gerda Amanda "Sara" Lilienthal (nee Sürth); she was deported to Auschwitz on November 29, 1942 and did not survive.

  3. Stella Luftig collection

    Contains two photographs: one, dated 15 May 1927, a studio portrait of two boys; the other, undated, of a woman with three children in a park.

  4. UNRRA selected records AG-018-016 : Czechoslovakia Mission

    Consists of correspondence, reports, transport lists, and forms of individual case of repatriated persons. Records relate to repatriation of Chinese nationals, Czechoslovakian, German and Polish Jews, Poles, Greek nationals, and unaccompanied children. Contains correspondence, reports, transport lists, and individual cases of repatriated German Jews.

  5. Rita Oppenheimer Gelman papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Rita Oppenheimer Gelman, originally of Berlin, Germany, including her flight from Germany to Palestine in 1940. Included are postcards, photographs, and a small amount of documents. The postcards are primarily received by Rita’s maternal uncle Arno Lewenberg, who survived the Holocaust in Davos, Switzerland, from family members in Berlin. One postcard received from Jules Malinowski references Jules’s brother Adolf in Buchenwald. There are also two postcards sent by Klara and Moses Oppenheimer from Theresienstadt to Rosette Kahn in Ba...

  6. Oral history interview with Sara Fransson

  8. Soltz family photographs

    Contains two family portraits from Eishyshok [Eišiškės, Eisiskes; Lithuania], of Baila Leibnitz and Fanushka Soltz.

  9. I.T. Platzner collection

    Contains three photographic postcards of parents and friends in Luhačovice, Czechoslovakia, dated 1947; and one photo of Izhak and his mother at the beach before WWII.

  10. Oral history interview with Maurice Behar

  11. Famous soccer clubs prewar; snowy Szeged; sightseeing

    Soccer matches before the Holocaust at the stadium in Szeged, including Lajos Baróthy and Ferenc Langfelder. 01:30 Postwar, woman and toddler Kati Pető (born 1946) leave their home for a sleigh ride in the snowy city sidewalks. Touring ruins (color) in Athens, Operetta theater, postwar 1960s. Film ends 02:49

  12. David Goldberg collection

    Contains identification documents, restitution paperwork, and passports of various unrelated individuals, most likely all Jews, who fled Nazi occupation.

  13. Oral testimonies of Lewis Schloss and Trudy Schloss

  14. Oral history interview with Fred Haber

  15. Horthy enters Košice

    On November 11, 1938, Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy enters Košice (Kassa), Slovakia, which Hungary regained, along with other Slovak territories, as a result of the Munich Agreement. Hungarian titles throughout. “Egy kis világtörténelem.” “1938 November 11” “A Kassai Bevonulás.” “Fotografálta: Pető György.” “A kassai kórhaz bejárata előtt…” Building “Nemocnica” with people milling about. “...két órai alvás után álmosan gyülekezik a társaság.” MS, Pető and friends from Szeged (four men and one officer) stand beside a car. “Ezer és ezer autó érkezik a történelmi napra.” Street scenes with ca...

  16. County Starosty in Kielce Starostwo Powiatowe Kieleckie (Sygn. 101)

    Consists of various records relating to Jewish population in Poland, Kielce County: Registers of real estate of Kielce county; situational reports concerning security in the county (Files 203-221, 229-240), and situational reports of the Kielce voivode and other starosts (Files 247-265, 273-297), files on the general political situation in the county (Files 298, 306-309, 310-313), police reports from accidents and events (Files 928-940, 946-947), court activities (Files 941-942), files regarding the activities of political parties (Files 326-337 ), National Party (Files 338), Communist Part...

  17. Oral history interview with Laura Fabrizio

  18. Oral history interview with Enrico Bellio

  19. Maria Madi papers

    Documents related to the December 2015 designation of Maria Madi as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem. Includes a program for the Colorado Springs, CO ceremony honoring her 2016; a copy of the certificate proclaiming Madi as "Righteous"; and written testimony by Alfred Lakos, who was hidden by Madi in Budapest in 1944-1945.

  20. Oral history interview with Jack Zatz