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  1. Agriculture in the 1930s, private films

    Various activities in agriculture in the 1930s, a movie about agriculture in earlier years

  2. Nora Orchan collection

    The Nora Orchan collection includes a autograph book that Nora carried with her during her emigration with her siblings from Germany to Israel in 1938. Autographs and entries date 1935-1941 and include poems and drawings as well as diary entries, perhaps by Nora. The collections also includes pre-war photographs of Nora and her family.

  3. The German East

    Bessarabia - Germans, villages, agriculture, horse-drinking, rain, fishing, crafts, peasant woman, church, children play and dance, large ponds, volcanic mountain, Thanksgiving, potato harvest

  4. Selected records of the Jewish communities of the Travnik kanton

    Selected records of the Jewish communities of the Travnik kanton in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Includes selected records of Jewish properties and the local schools (public and Catholic) related to individual Jews and Jewish families residing in the town of Travnik and Travnik kanton before, during and after World War II. The collection also includes records from the personal archival collection of Anton Pelić, with a large number of postcards and photographs of private buildings (houses, synagogue, shops, small factories etc.) owned and occupied by Jewish families in Travnik before WWII.

  5. Blue and white Zionist flag with a Star of David from the ship Exodus 1947

    Blue and white Zionist flag taken down from the mast of the Exodus 1947 on July 18, 1947, by Mike Weiss, a Jewish American crew member, after the ship was forced into the port in Haifa. Weiss removed the flag before the passengers and crew were forced to disembark. This flag design was later adopted as the Flag of the State of Israel, which was created on May 10, 1948. Weiss had volunteered for the clandestine effort to smuggle Holocaust survivors from Europe to Palestine. He was a boatswain-carpenter on the ship, which was under the command of Haganah, an underground Jewish paramilitary or...

  6. Woven shirt made by a woman for her infant nephew while in a labor camp

    Infant's blouse made for Ivan Répás by his aunt Kato Holtzek in Strasshof labor camp in 1944. Ivan was born while they were being transported to the camp.

  7. Circular letters, Jewish Agency for Palestine.

    Mimeographed circular letters, distributed by various offices of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, primarily between 1936 and 1944, describing various developments and issues related to the re-settlement of European Jews in Palestine. Some of the letters are from the Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews, and others relate to Youth Aliyah and the resettlement of Polish Jews by way of Iran. Included are carbon copies of two letters from Henrietta Szold, addressed to communities that had welcomed youth from Germany, 1936-1937.

  8. County Command of the State Police in Zawiercie Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Zawierciu (Sygn. 1050)

    Reports and information from police officers and police informers relating to political, social and labor organizations; as well outgoing correspondence from the Police.

  9. 750th anniversary of the town of Wadersloh in 1938

    Beautiful scenes from village life in the town, striking faces, the daily routine, hunting, agriculture, Parades, RAD, concerts, Hitler Youth with wreath to honor the dead, police, RAD camp, flag appeal. 33:20 railroad. Honoring old men by the Nazi Warrior Association, handing over of pictures

  10. Landesgericht Klagenfurt : NS-Verfahren

    Postwar court records of Nazi-related cases in the state court of Klagenfurt, Austria for the years 1970 to 1973. The collection includes the case against Ernst Lerch and Helmut Pohl for the murder of 2 million Jews under Aktion Reinhardt, which was dismissed in 1976. Includes also cases of Rudolf Payker and Gerhard Rupp who took part at the execution of 2 members of Gebirgsjaegerregiments 143 in May 1945 in Norway.

  11. Friedrich Günser correspondence

    Correspondence sent and received by Friedrich Günser, originally of Vienna, Austria, who was interned by the British as an enemy alien in the early years of World War II, first in Camp Mooragh on the Isle of Man, and then at Camp Tatura in Australia. Includes one postcard from Günser's wife, Lilly (Cölestine), sent from Vienna (August 1940); a letter from Günser to relatives in New York (June 1940); an empty envelope that had contained a letter from Günser's father, Jakob, sent from Vienna (October 1941), and three letters from Günser to his wife Lilly (October 1941, January-February 1943),...

  12. Loewy family papers

    The collection primarily documents the wartime experiences of the Paul and Margarete Loewy, their children Hans and Vera, and their extended family in Berlin, Germany. The biographical material includes birth and marriage certificates; World War I veteran documents of Friedrich Abt; passports and other identification documents; Paul Loewy’s wartime workbook (arbeitbuch); and Jüdische Kultusvereinigung documents. There are also papers documenting Max and Hedwig Lasker’s attempt to emigrate from Berlin to Uruguay. The correspondence includes postcards written from family and friends imprisone...

  13. Herbert Hordes collection

    Contains a collection of postal covers, mail forms, postcards, and Red Cross correspondence from the Holocaust era. Includes materials sent to/from Stalag VIIIB, Italy, Theresienstadt, Berlin, Nurnberg, Sachsenhausen, France, Canada, Palestine, and Israel; dated 1940-1949; collected by Herbert Hordes (donor's late husband).

  14. County Command of the State Police in Końskie. Police Station in Borkowice Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Końskich. Posterunek w Borkowicach (Sygn. 1336)

    Police control book of investigations. The book is divided by fourteen sections with the following information: e.g. location, committed crimes, damages; names of victims, their occupation and whereabouts, result of investigations, and how the case was investigated and revealed.

  15. SA membership files, Varel (Germany)

    Consists of 43 separate personnel files on members of the Sturmbabteilung (SA) of the Nazi party, from the town of Varel (Friesland), Germany. The files, called "Stammrolle," contain information about a persons membership in the SA, in the Nazi party, their vital statistics, profession, prior military or paramilitary service, and the dates on which they received various ranks in the SA. The files were numbered in sequential and chronological order, based on the date when this form was completed, which could have been at the same time as a person's entry into the SA, or at a much later date....

  16. Records of the Geneva Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1945-1954

    Records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Geneva Office, relating to global overseas operations in the immediate post-World War II (WWII) period: global rescue and relief efforts, primarily focused on resettling Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors around the world; facilitating the renewal of Jewish life in Europe; rebuilding Jewish communal institutions; and providing sustaining aid to the remnants of Jewish communities worldwide. This collection include: correspondence; committee and board meeting minutes; field reports from worldwide staff; budgets; income a...

  17. Henry Krystal papers

    Case files of Dr. Henry Krystal, a psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor based in Southfield, Michigan, who treated other Holocaust survivors who lived in the Detroit region, circa 1960s to 1990s. The files, arranged alphabetically by patient name, contain evaluations, descriptions of patients' ailments, and the descriptions of their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes reports filed by Krystal in support of patients' restitution claims with the West German government.

  18. Goering's train in Ostmark

    Intertitle: “Ostmarkreise.” In Austria, Goering's train. Goering in white jacket in conversation with Nazi Party member. He walks along the rails, Arthur Seyss-Inquart is next to him. Civilians with “Heil” greetings, party members in white shirts and arm bands block off a crowd.View out traveling train at men greeting the train from the platform. Horse-drawn carriage moving through the woods, shot from the carriage. Men walk through the woods. White horses pull carriages. Goering in hunting costume with binoculars, accompanied by hunters, climbs in carriage with two white horses, travels in...

  19. Star of David badge printed with Jude

    Star of David badge; yellow textile with black outline of Star of David and "Jude" printed in center.

  20. Records of the registry office of the Jewish community in Wolbórz Akta urządu stanu cywilnego gminy żydowskiej w Woliborzu (Sygn.1734)

    Books of the registry office in Wolbórz, Poland. Selected records contain registry books with data of marriages, births and deaths of inhabitants in Wolbórz as well as bound copies of annexes.