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  1. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Hamburg Konsulat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Hamburgu (Sygn.476)

    Reports, agreements, instructions, statistics, and other materials related to the condition, legal status and emigration of national minorities in Germany, including Poles and Polish Jews who were residing in Germany.

  2. Feige Gitl Senft collection

    Contains documents issued in Nonatola and Modena, Italy; Geneva, Switzerland; and later in Israel to Feige Gittl Senft (donor's mother), born on December 24, 1925 in Stettin, Germany. Fanny Senft was one of 120 children from Germany and Austria smuggled into Yugoslavia, and later among 43 children transferred to Nonatola and who, in September 1943, crossed the border into Switzerland. They stayed there until the summer of 1945, when they immigrated to Palestine. Fanny’s parents and three siblings were murdered and one brother, Akiva, born August 22, 1927, reached Palestine in 1941.

  3. Asher Antal family photographs

    Contains photographs depicting the Asher Antal family from Szeged, Hungary, who survived in Budapest under a false name (Antal). Lili Antal (Asher), donors’ mother, b. 3/3/1922; her sister Judit Judka, b. 1925 and their parents: Joši Josef and Miriam. Asher Antal acquired false papers, which enabled them to survive. Sandu Israel Züssmann, donors’ father and his four sisters came to Palestine from Târgu Neamț, Romania in 1939. Two of the photographs are from Zduńska Wola in Poland, and depict Menashe Glassberg, married to Sali Züssmann Glassberg, Sandu’s sister. Includes a photo album given ...

  4. Private Papers of Frieda Rosenthal Nachlass Frieda Rosenthal (P 240)

    Frieda Rosenthal (born circa 1900), was an author in Vienna who wrote under the pseudonym "Sulamith; Ef. Er." The collection consists of private papers of Frieda Rosenthal: a diary, poems, manuscripts, articles written for the Vienna edition of the Jüdische Jugend, Neue Freie Presse, A.B.Z.-Zeitschrift sowie Israelisches Familienblatt, on a variety of topics such as Zionism and emigration. Also features teaching materials, children’s' song texts, and event programs.

  5. Spangenthal family papers

    The collection primarily contains the correspondence of Ludwig and Kurt Spangenthal, who immigrated to the United States in 1936 and 1938 respectively and settled in Baltimore, with their mother Marianne Spangenthal (née Schönemann) in Kassel, Germany prior to her deportation in 1942. Also included is correspondence between Ludwig, Kurt, and Marianne and Marianne’s brother Robert Schönemann, who immigrated to the United States in 1939. There is biographical material related to Ludwig which includes his German passport, photographs, scattered notes, and identification papers mostly related t...

  6. Krys family papers

    The collection primarily contains prewar photographs and wartime postcards of the Krys family of Skierniewice, Poland. Included are prewar photographs of Martin and Anna Krys prior to immigrating to the United States, Martin’s sisters and brothers, and other relatives including the Munkabotzki family. There is one postwar photograph of Miriam Ordenas’s (Krys) son Yitzchak (Jack) and his wife in a DP camp. Correspondence consists of two prewar postcards and six wartime postcards addressed to Martin Krys in the United States from his sisters Miriam in Skierniewice and Roiza in Warsaw, both of...

  7. Switzerland in the 1930s; Hungary 1945

    Twelve films by Carl Lutz documenting life in Switzerland and Hungary: Nr. 295 A Swiss Travel Film by Charles R. Lutz (Film Nr. 35) [ca. 1933] (10:52) Nr. 319 Trachtenfest 1939 (Film Nr. 32) [1939] (09:27) Nr. 320 In the Bernese Oberland (Film Nr. 17) [ca. 1935] (10:59) Nr. 321 A Swiss Travel Film - From Lauterbrunnen to Jungfraujoch I (Film Nr. 29) [ca. 1935] (16:22) Nr. 322 From Lauterbrunnen to Jungfraujoch Part II (Film Nr. 30) [ca. 1935] (11:48) Nr. 325 Winzerfest Lugano - Skiferien (Film Nr. 34) [1949-1950] (11:21) Nr. 326 Narcissus Festival Montreux - Jodelfest Interlaken (1933) - Wi...

  8. Slow-motion dancing scenes

    A study of the cinematic filming of movement (dancing) in slow-motion. This reel was located among Lizzy Kessler's personal amateur recordings.

  9. Seitel and Knoll families papers

    The Seitel and Knoll families papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Seitel and Knoll families from Nadwórna, Poland, before the Holocaust and Chaim Eli and Frieda Knoll Seitel’s immigration to Palestine around 1939. Biographical materials include Frieda’s Nadwórna elementary school report cards, Chaim’s military document, their marriage certificate, a ketubah, receipts documenting the couple’s support of the Jewish National Fund and World Zionist Organization, and information about their baby boy, Eliezer. This series also includes a noteb...

  10. International Worker's Day poster

    Poster for May 1st, on behalf of the Histradrut (General Organization of Jewish Workers in Palestine). Lin. Z. Bergman, "Achdut" printing press, Tel Aviv, 1943. Illustration of red hammer inscribed "1943 1 May" striking and breaking a swastika in flames

  11. Edwin Allan diary and photographs

    The collection includes a diary kept by Edwin Allan after he was captured during the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the French port of Dunkirk in 1940. The diary documents his experiences starting in January 1942 as a prisoner of war in Stalag IX-C. Other POWs, including members of the Jewish Brigade, added their names, address, and sometimes a messages to the diary. Next to some names there are dates of their death written by Edwin. The collection also includes photographs depicting the British POWs in Stalag IX-C, including Allen.

  12. Youth Aliyah and "Tehran Children" photographs

    Consists of 11 photographs documenting the arrival of Jewish children and youths in Palestine who were assisted in fleeing Nazi Europe with help from the Youth Aliyah organization founded by Recha Freier and the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Select photographs depict the arrival of the so-called "Tehran children" who lived as refugees in Iran prior to their immigration to Palestine.

  13. Teodor Diamant papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Teodor Diamant, originally of Turčiansky Svätý Martin (Martin, Slovakia), on the SS Pentcho, its shipwreck on the uninhabited island of Kamilonissi, while en route to Palestine, and his internment at a concentration camp on Rhodes and then the Ferramonti concentration camp in Tarsia, Italy. Included is a photograph album documenting his voyage on the ship and his internment in the camps. Other photographs document his military experience with a Czech unit in Great Britain, family and friends, and post-war experiences in London and the United State...

  14. Selected records from State Archive Potenza

    Selected records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the community of Potenza, including a census of the Jews and records of the Police headquarters relating to citizens of Jewish origin.

  15. Anne Heineman-Beer collection

    Collection of documents, receipts, correspondence and other papers relating to the restitution claims of Anne Heineman-Beer (donor's grandmother) and her family's experiences during the Holocaust.

  17. Star of David window from Velikiy Komjati / Magyarkomjat synagogue

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn676559
    • English
    • a: Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Diameter: 35.375 inches (89.853 cm) b: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) c: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)

    Star of David window from Velikiy Komjati / Magyarkomjat synagogue. The local Jews were rounded up in the synagogue before they were transported to the regional ghetto. They were eventually deported to Auschwitz.

  18. To you all: Merry Christmas WWII Public Utilities Commission broadside

    Broadside, "Keep Calm/Keep Cool/Jitters Help Hitler" on one side, and "To you all: Merry Christmas" on the other side.

  19. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Consulate General in Frankfurt Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej we Franfurcie nad Menem (Sygn.635)

    Correspondence, passports, photographs, questionnaires, certifications related to the establishment of Polish citizenship, and issue extension of passports to Jews born in Poland but living in Germany.

  20. August Bohny-Reiter papers Nachlass August Bohny-Reiter (1919-2016)

    Private papers of August Bohny-Reiter (1919-2016), a refugee aid worker and teacher. The collection consists of Bohny-Reiter biographical materials: photographs, records of civilian and military service, honors,and a diploma from Yad Vashem (1990); reports, correspondence, clippings, articles, publications and photographs relating to aid to refugees and refugee children in France and Switzerland, the founding of the Pestalozzi Children's Village, and cooperation with the Red Cross.