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  1. U.S. Accidents in '41 Lost Enough Time to Build 30,000 Bombers/We Can't Afford it! WWII Public Utilities Commission broadside

    Broadside, "Tokio Likes Talkio/Don't Help with a Word" on one side and "U.S. Accidents in '41 Lost Enough Time to Build 30,000 Bombers/We Can't Afford it!" on the other side.

  2. Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Danish Internal Political Condition (Group 120 D 28c-49c)

    Records of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs relating to the German action against the Jews, case files of Jews who were persecuted, including some who were deported, some who escaped to Sweden, and others referring to Jewish property. Included are lists of arrested Jews, records on the Nazi movement, and the placement of Jewish children from Denmark in Palestine. Consists also records of the Danish Ministry of Social Affairs relating to support of emigrants, and publications relating to Freemasonry, Nazi oppressions, and Danish resistant.

  3. Olympic fencer Helene Mayer demonstrates fencing techniques

    Title card reads: “Distributed by the University of California Extension Division Berkeley.” Techniques of Foil Fencing.” Produced and Distributed by the Extension Division of University of California.” "Prepared under the Supervision of the Physical Education Department for Women University of California Berkeley, California.” "Demonstrated by Helene Mayer U.S.A and World Champion.” "The Salute and the Bout.” Two fencers, a man on the left and Helene Mayer on the right, stand in uniform facing on another. They perform the salute with their swords. They put their helmets on. They fence. Tit...

  4. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Diplomatic Legation in Mexico City Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Meksyku (Sygn.593)

    Notes, circulars, correspondence, memorandums, telegrams, speeches, reports, registers, newspaper clippings relating to search of the opportunities for Polish agricultural settlement and Jewish immigration in Honduras, Santo Domingo, Colombia, Venezuela; social welfare for emigrants and Polish refugees in Mexico, recruitment of Polish workers in Central America, illegal immigration, circulars concerning the forgery of passports, passport regulations of the Free City of Gdańsk, establishment in Mexico of the Committee for the Care of Polish Refugees, negotiations with the Mexican government ...

  5. Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews Kehillat Haharedim (RG 340)

    Records of the Kehillat Haharedim (Association des Israelites Pratiquants. Association of Orthodox Jews). Consist of correspondence, letters, list of refugees and internees, lists of students, lists of members of Kehillat Haharedim in Paris, bulletin of the organization, financial records, questionnaires, statistical reports, and minutes. Most of records constitute of correspondence with children's homes, internees of camps, rabbis, with the organizations as: the Union générale des israélites de France (UGIF), Hias-Ica Emigration Association (HICEM), World Union OSE (OSE), Federation de ...

  6. Josh Hamerman collection

    Contains a photographic postcard of Garbáty Zigarettenfabrik in Berlin, a Jewish-owned company, decorated for the 1936 Olympics; a photographic postcard of the steam ship Europa; and a postcard, from M. R. Kessel in Kishinev to Mr. M Kessel in care of Mr. Hammerman [not related to donor] and dated April 15, 1940.

  7. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Thessalonikē Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Salonikach (Sygn. 467)

    Correspondence related to Jewish minorities in Greece and Poland, Zionist organizations in Thessalonikē, Palestinian matters, the situation of Jewish emigrants living in Greece, Jewish emigration, ritual slaughter, Polish Presidency of the Thessaloniki Consulate in the face of anti-Polish revolution and claims.

  8. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Honorary Consulate in Zürich Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Zürichu (Sygn.496)

    Reports, correspondence, newspaper clippings, instructions and regulations related to the condition of national minorities, mainly Jews, in Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France and other countries in Europe. Included are materials about matters of visa regulations, Jewish communists, anti-fascist militia, testimony of the refugees, participation of the Polish citizen Lejz Horowitz in the work of the XX Zionist Congress in Zurich, commercial information about Polish Jews in Switzerland, Zionist congresses in Zürich, creation of the Polish-Swiss Export Association and their fraudulen...

  9. Children at displaced persons camp

    Crowd of DPs moves off a field, wild panning shots show faces, volleyball net, camp buildings at a DP camp. The young men and women congregate in a line. 01:19:37 CU, man with two mugs smiles and talks to the camera; two women. DP camp camp building with people in the window. Large residence. VAR CUs, DPs, young girls dancing, schoolchildren. The children stare at the camera, hold hands, dance in concentric circles, smile, play, and chat. 01:22:35 Brief shot of Boder with the children, boy sings for the camera, playing. 01:23:27 Elders pose for the camera. (glimpse of girl with head bandage...

  10. Expropriation files of the Regional Financial Directorate Munich Entziehungsakten der Oberfinanzdirektion München

    Expropriation files of the Regional Financial Directorate in Munich, Germany.

  11. Turquoise bead necklace made in a ghetto-labor camp

    Turquoise bead necklace purportedly made in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. The necklace was given to Judith Sardi by her mother Katalin Szönyi. Katalin received it from a friend in Israel who told her that it was made in Theresienstadt. Katalin, her husband, and Judith survived imprisonment in multiple forced labor camps during the Holocaust.

  13. German documents Dokumenty niemieckie (Sygn. IZ. Doc I)

    Various German documents regarding German policies in the occupied Polish territories, especially in the “Wartheland”: administration, economy, the police bodies and German settlements in the Wartheland. Records mostly relate to germanization and atrocities against Polish and Jewish population, in addition, to the activity of "Rechsuniversität Posen" created in Poznań. Included are trials against Poles who offended the so-called Volksdeutsche, directives for Germans how to behave towards Poles, a list of names that Polish parents were allowed to choose for their children [File 48], Germaniz...

  14. List of Vilnius Residents and Refugees looking for Relatives

    List of residents and refugees of Vilnius looking for relatives. The table includes names of 159 residents and refugees of Vilnius looking for their relatives worldwide with some residing in Palestine and others in Europe, Displaced Persons Camps, Cyprus, and the USA. Source of information is registered in the left-hand side column, such as the Jewish Agency or the Joint Distribution Committee.

  16. Photographic print of David Eckstein and classmates in cheder

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613483
    • English
    • overall: Height: 13.940 inches (35.408 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm)

    Gelatin silver print depicting David Eckstein, seven years old, and classmates in cheder (Jewish elementary school), in Brod, ca. 1938.

  17. "Ha’Bricha Derech Czechoslovakia Ba’Shanim 1945-1946"

    Typed manuscript titled “Ha’Bricha Derech Czechoslovakia Ba’Shanim 1945-1946” by Elchanan Gafni. Gafni studied at the Sorbonne, Prague University, and Hewbrew University in Jerusalem, and served in several public positions in Israel. This unpublished draft manuscript describes the efforts to bring survivors from Czechoslovakia to Israel shortly after World War II.

  18. Wolf and Rachael Munic collection

    Collection of materials documenting the postwar life of Wolf and Rachel Munic in various locations including Linz, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Hamilton, Canada. Includes their Canadian passports, a notebook, handwritten memoirs by Wolf Munic dated circa 1948, their ketubah, identity papers, correspondence, and other documents from the late 1940s to early 1970s.

  19. Prayer book

    Hamash volumes belonging to Leo Loeb, with inscriptions by him as well as by his father.

  20. Photographic print of a grandfather and granddaughter

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613481
    • English
    • overall: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 10.940 inches (27.788 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.940 inches (25.248 cm) | Width: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of a grandfather and granddaughter, Warsaw, ca. 1935-38.