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  1. Dr. Henry P. Limbacher photograph collection

    Collection of seven black and white photographs, mounted on an album page with typed captions, documenting the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. The photos were taken by Major Henry P. Limbacher, MD, who headed the medical unit at the camp following liberation, and was head of a MASH unit under General Patton.

  2. Selected records of the files of the bailiff of District II of the Court of the First Instance in Skierniewice-Czesław Gołębiowski Akta Komornika II Rewiru Sądu Grodzkiego w Skierniewicach-Czesław Gołębiowski (Sygn. 952)

    Protocols and certificates of the bailiff, Czesław Gołębiowski and the court cases of execution of verdicts concerning alimonies, eviction and putting in possession.

  3. Alfred Jaretzki, Jr. papers

    Reports and correspondence from American attorney Alfred Jaretzki, Jr., reporting on visits to Vienna and efforts to work with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to assist Austrian Jews with emigration, 1938. Includes one report, undated, 11 pages, describing his trip to Vienna in June 1938, including meetings with American diplomats, journalists, members of the Viennese Jewish community, and non-governmental organizations. Among his contacts were Therese Bloch-Bauer, and her daughter Maria; Josef Löwenherz of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien; the American journalist Vin...

  4. Looking Back, But Not in Anger The Story of One who Eluded the Holocaust by the Skin of his Teeth

    Consists of one memoir, 12 pages, entitled "Looking Back, But Not in Anger: The Story of One who Eluded the Holocaust by the Skin of his Teeth," by Herbert P. Paisley, originally of Berlin, Germany. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Germany, schooling in Belgium, imprisonment in St. Cyprien and Gurs, joining the French Foreign Legion and later the British Pioneer Corps, where he worked as an interpreter.

  5. Leslie Nichols collection

    Consists of letters, dated August-September 1935, related to the efforts of Leslie Nichols of Cleveland, OH, to assist in the emigration of Dr. Walter Jaffe (who was half Jewish) and his wife, Sylvia Lavalle (who was not Jewish), of Berlin, Germany. Includes instructions on how to proceed, blank visa paperwork, a letter from Leslie Nichols to Judge Maurice Bernon of Cleveland asking for his assistance; and a letter from Leslie Nichols to Sylvia Lavalle informing her of his efforts on her behalf. The couple eventually survived the war in Paris.

  6. Selected records of the Tax Office in Pruszków Urząd Skarbowy w Pruszkowie (Sygn. 86)

    The collection includes financial books and a list of debtors and depositors of the Municipal Administration of Pruszków, Poland. The records relate to the Jews and the Jewish Community in Pruszków.

  7. Izba Zdrowia w Warszawie Gesundheitskammer Warschau (Sygn.497)

    Selected materials from the records of the Gesundheitskammer, an organization established by the German occupation authorities to govern the administration of health services in occupied Poland. The records include hundreds of personal files: questionnaires of Jewish health professionals "Questionnaire for the first submission of medical professions" ("Fragebogen erstmaligen zur Meldung der Heilberufe"). The questionnaires contain personal details, information about family, education, work history, and a photograph.

  8. Touring Switzerland

    Mountains and villages from a train as some members of the 51st Field Hospital travel around Europe at leisure. Beatrice and another nurse descend a staircase holding cameras. They pose beside Lake Lucerne and travel on Rigi-Bahn on Mt. Rigi in Switzerland. More views of the Alps and villages and corps members posing.

  9. Selected records from State Archives in Warsaw and its branches in Otwock, Mława, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Pułtusk and State Archives in Płock

    Contains selected records from the State Archives in Warsaw and its branches: The training materials for police officers concerning the Jewish Youth organization, 1939-1943; Resolutions of the City Council, 1915-1919; Correspondence and the lists of registered associations, circulars, announcement.; Records of Jewish organizations and Judenrat (Jewish councils); Books of tenants in various regions of Otwock and other places; The questionnaires about the course of the war activities in the municipality in 1939-1945. Lists of population loss, 1946; Opening protocols of mass graves of Poles mu...

  10. Eisig Ornstein collection

    Contains an English translation of a memoir originally written by Eisig Ornstein from Skole, Poland, in Yiddish during the Holocaust while he was in hiding in Ricske, Hungary and later in Budapest; translated into English with preface, images, and maps by his son Morris Ornstein. In his writings, Eisig describes life, hunger and death in Skole and the Stryj ghetto in Poland and surrounding areas; the fate of his family and friends; creating a bunker and going into hiding; being discovered and the journey with his daughter Hudi (Helen) to Hungary where they acquired official Polish papers id...

  11. Children's Crusade for Children fundraising collection can

    Metal fundraising collection can used by the Children’s Crusade for Children. The Children’s Crusade for Children was a penny sharing relief program with the purpose of providing assistance to the war stricken children of Europe. The program was organized during the winter of 1939-1940 under the leadership of Marion G. Canby and Dorothy Canfield Fisher. The program was supported by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and special tin collection cans were decorated with artwork designed by Norman Rockwell and distributed to schools around the country. The children were instructed to give as many pen...

  12. American League for Free Palestine letter

    Contains a mass-mailed, typed letter from Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook) and Samuel Merlin with an appeal for financial support of the American League for Free Palestine; in English. Verso is a full page of handwritten text in German; not dated.

  13. Jewish religious and philanthropic associations, Kaunas (Fond 1143)

    Correspondence and other records of various Jewish religious and philantropic organizations active in Lithuania before WWII.

  14. Oral history interview with Pierre Arnaud

  15. Drawing of Paula Wolkowitz

    Paula Wolkowitz (who went by the name "Pesa") was born in 1898 and was the mother of Hugo Zulawski, who was one of the "50 Children" from Vienna who were saved by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus in 1939.

  16. Selected records of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Waszyngtonie (Sygn. 490)

    Correspondence, reports, memoranda, press clippings, press reviews and other documents concerning the following subjects: Political relations between the US and Germany; minorities in Poland and the USA, immigration policy in USA and Canada; Polish and Jewish scouting in the USA; Polish Army in France (1939); Jewish issues in Poland and Germany (1935-1937); diplomatic reports on the situation in Germany (1940); Polish-American relations (1944-1945); World War 1939: the situation of children and women, the fate of prisoners of war; immigration policy in USA and Mexico (1940-1944); aid for re...

  17. Stuffed bear

  18. Jewish children at play after the Holocaust

    Little girl (Menachem’s sister) waves flags outdoors besides car, plays with two older boys and mother (in Israel).

  19. Hinda Saul collection

    Consists of one folder of typed English language translations of letters sent from Nochum Berman in Šeduva (Lithuania), Lithuania, to Hinde Zarachaite (Zarkey), who immigrated to the United States in 1937. The letters are dated 1937-1940, and the later letters describe the beginning of the persecution of the Jews in Lithuania. Nochum Berman most likely perished in August 1941 as part of a roundup in Seduva. Also includes three facsimile autograph books, based on Hinda Saul's own autograph books, dated from 1934 in Widze (now Vidzy, Belarus) and 1936-1937 in Šeduva, and after her arrival i...

  20. FDR campaigns for NY governor; Morgenthau family home movies

    Franklin D. Roosevelt swimming in the pool at the Morgenthau residence. Henry III holds up fish. The three children, Elinor, and another boy roast marshmallows outside. Women's luncheon (possibly a Vassar reunion organized by Elinor) outdoors at the farm, views of the property and a river. The Morgenthau children play on rings, swim in the pool, play ball, and sail toy ships in the swimming pool. Airplanes fly overhead. The children help build a dock in the summer at the farm; playing with the family dog, whose name was Puddles. A large group of people on the farm with a stable in the BG wh...