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  1. Anti-Semitic Nazi sticker

    Anti-Semitic Nazi sticker: "Tod dem Marxismus. Her zu uns! The sticker depicts a man with a swastika-emblazoned hammer about to strike a man wearing a tuxedo and top hat; the bottom half of his body is that of a serpent-like creature. Red, white and red ink on paper with adhesive backing.

  2. Tepper family papers

    Documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating Jenny and David Tepper (donor's parents) who fled Germany in 1938 for the United States. Included is correspondence received by Jenny and David in the United States from their relatives who were exiled to Sosnowiec, Poland in 1938 from Germany. Also included is the paperwork detailing their exhaustive efforts to extend their visas in the United States while waiting for citizenship, and affidavits of support made on their behalf. Also includes documentation concerning Zitta Tepper (David's sister) and Dora Tepper (David's mother), both o...

  3. Book

    Six volumes from a set of prayer books published in circa 1793 in the Netherlands and given to Emilie Mittwoch in 1934 on the occasion of her 11th birthday [as inscribed on the inside cover of each volume] by her father. The volumes were purchased by the donor, who was a former classmate of Emilie before the war. Included in the volumes are two for Passover, two for Sukkoth, one for Shavuot and one for Yom Kippur. In Hebrew, printed in the Netherlands.

  4. Rachel Zonszajn Benshaul collection

    The collection includes a diary written by Cypora Zonszajn while living in the Siedlce ghetto. The diary recounts Cypora's flight from her family home in the ghetto to an attic above the ghetto police command post with her daughter Rachel while part of the ghetto was forcibly evacuated in August 1942, including Rachel's paternal grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Through information received by someone who escaped, Cypora writes that people are being deported to Treblinka and details the events leading to their deaths. The diary was written in Polish and entrusted to Irena Zawadzka an...

  5. Trial of David Frankfurter Prozess David Frankfurter Bestand

    Contains records of the trial of David Frankfurter in Chur, Switzerland, 1936. Includes personal documents of Frankfurter, correspondence, press articles, reports and protocols. The Jewish student David Frankfurter, shot to death the German Nazi official, NSDAP state party leader for Switzerland, Wilhelm Gustloff, on February 4, 1936, in Davos in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland. He was sentenced to a long prison term; pardoned in August 1945 and released.

  6. Nachlass Dr. h.c. Paul Schmid-Ammann Dipl. ing. agr. ETH

    Contains personal papers of Paul Schmid-Amman, a chief editor of "Volksrecht." The collection includes correspondence with public figures and representatives of the Swiss-Jewish community, publications, manuscripts, and reviews. Consists of correspondence with: Konrad Akert, Hermann Böschenstein, Robert Bratschi, Willy Bretscher, Hans Conzett Emanuel Dejung, Emil Egli, Jonas Frankel, David Frankfurter, Erich Gruner, Walter King, Ernst Laur, Leonhard Ragaz, Willy Spühler, Paul Trautvetter, Werner Weber, Hans Wildberger, and many others.

  7. Helena Kaut-Howson and Mieczyslawa Wazacz collection

    Contains four photographs, one letter, and one undated testimony describing the writer's experiences during the German occupation in Poland, and the experiences of her late husband, who died in a labor camp.

  8. Cross of Honor of the German Mother [Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter] medal, 3rd Class Order, Bronze Cross

    Cross of Honor of the German Mother [Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter] 3rd class order, Bronze Cross, an award instituted following a December 16, 1938, decree by Adolph Hitler to encourage German women to bear more children. It was awarded by the Nazi Party in Hitler's name, with his signature engraved on the back. A recipient could be nominated by the Party or a government official and had to be of pure German origin and good character. The medal was issued in three levels: first class, gold, for mothers with eight or more children; second class, silver, for six to seven children; third cl...

  9. Herenfeld family papers

    Correspondence: from the Herenfeld and Nisenholc families in the Warsaw ghetto to Bela Genya Yosovitz in Buffalo, NY, in Polish and in Yiddish, dated 1940 and 1941. Correspondence includes letters sent to Bela and Natan Yosovitz from David Herenfeld (brother of Bela) and from Chaim Nisenholc. Letter: addressed to Cpl. Richard Connuck (donor's father) in the US Army, from the Central Jewish Committee in Warsaw, dated March 20, 1946, notifying him that Leizer Herenfeld is not listed as a survivor; Photographs: images of of Lejzor Herenfeld in Warsaw, c. 1930 and of David Herenfeld, date unknown.

  10. Dr. Marcel Petiot photographs

    Consists of 46 enlarged copyprints related to Dr. Marcel Petiot, a French doctor and serial killer who operated in Paris, France, during World War II. Includes mugshots of Petiot and his collaborators, photographs of his victims, photographs of evidence (including human remains) found after his arrest in Paris, and phtoographs of his trial. Dr. Petiot attracted many of his victims by promising them a way to escape from the occupying forces to safety outside of France.

  11. Shulamit Goldstein photograph collection

    Consists of two photographs taken on November 9, 1938 in Oldenburg, Germany. The photographs depict the Nazis arresting Jewish men in Oldenburg as part of the Kristallnacht pogrom. The men were then taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

  12. Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family papers

    The Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family papers consist of biographical materials, memoirs, and photographs documenting Edward, Julia, and Abe Firestone from Kołomyja, Poland (now Kolomyia, Ukraine), the family arrangements they made after the war in order to immigrate to the United States, and their Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family members who perished during the Holocaust. Biographical materials include a postwar pass allowing Edward Feuerstein to move freely about Wrocław, a membership card for the Committee of Liberated Jews for Julia Feuerstein, a certificate in lieu of passport for Edward, ...

  13. Records of the Committee for Allocation of Land to Jewish Workers of the Presidium of the Council for Nationalities of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR (KOMZET) (P-7541)

    Collections consists of the records related to the activity of the KOMZET and its regional branches. It includes bylaws of the organizations, directives of the state authorities, minutes of the meetings, reports, correspondence with other Jewish and Soviet public organizations, annual plans, reference materials, various statistical information, financial and personnel records of the organization. In addition to these records, collection also includes detailed information about Jewish collective farms, their economic situation, statistical information about Jewish population and Jewish settl...

  14. Book

    Booklet, Dachau, inscribed by a US soldier, James G. Brookman, of the 6833rd Regulating Company, T.C. The pamphlet was published by the 7th Army to illustrate the atrocities committed under the Nazi regime in Dachau concentration camp in Germany during the Holocaust.

  15. Adam Lityński collection

    Collection of documents including a matriculation diploma, identity card, and health insurance book issued to Władysław Lipszyc (donor’s father), in Łódź, Poland, and a marriage certificate issued in Samarkand, Uzbekistan to Władysław Lipszyc and Lea Tiger, on October 12, 1944. Also includes a collection of family photographs of the Lipszyc family in Łódź and during vacation in Ciechocinek, Poland. The donor’s parents later changed their last name to Lityński.

  16. Krosno Ghetto photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken during the war by an unknown German soldier in the Krosno ghetto in Poland.

  17. Sonnenmark family correspondence

    Correspondence between members of the family of Robert Sonnenmark, of Prossnitz, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Prostějov, Czech Republic). Most of the letters are from Robert, while he was imprisoned at Buchenwald, addressed to his wife, Marta and daughter, Miriam in Prossnitz, and dated from October 1939 to March 1940. Many of these letters were forwarded by Marta to her father and brother in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, who added their own comments in the margins and forwarded them to Peter Sonnenmark, the son of Marta and Robert, who was living in Palestine. Other correspondence in...

  18. Lakhovitzky family collection

    The Lakhovitzky family papers contain birth certificates, marriage certificates, certificates of identity, travel documents, photographs, and similar materials documenting the family’s migration from Russia to France in 1927-1928, their internment in camps from 1941-1942, and their immigration to the United States in 1942. Outside of birth certificates from Russia for Natan Lakhovitzky, and documents attesting to the marriage and Russian citizenship of Natan and Vera Lakhovitzky from their stay in Turkey in 1927, the majority of the documents date from the period of their residence in and a...

  19. Sirkis family papers

    The Sirkis family papers include records and photographs documenting Theodor and Frida Sirkis and their relatives in Moldova and Kazakhstan during the Holocaust. Documents include Theodore Sirkis’ Iasi student identification card, records documenting the evacuation of members of the Sirkis family to Salsk (Rostov oblast) and Tyulkubas (Kazakh SSR) in 1941, and a letter Frida composed but never mailed to the NKVD demanding justice for her mother and brother. Five photographs depict members of the Sirkis and Gore families and Theodore Sirkis with medical staff in an identified location.

  20. Jewish Philanthropic Association : Membership Card Index Asociación Filantropica Israelita : Indice

    Contains membership card index of the Asociación Filantrópica Israelita (AFI), with approximately 20,000 names of Jewish refugees, mostly from Nazi Germany (including Nazi annexed Austria), who emigrated to Argentina between the years 1933 to 1939. Also includes the names and biographical data of a few Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and other countries in Europe. The card index was periodically updated through the 1970s.