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  1. Ancestry registration form, Tunisia

    One document, issued by the Vichy French government of Tunisia, 1941, used to determine the ancestry of Jewish residents. Completed by Victor Assal, of Tunis, in September 1941. Also includes census of family members, history of employment, and list of property owned by Assal family.

  2. Red Cross notice about Isidor Gutter's deportation to Sobibor

    Notice from the Dutch Red Cross stating that Isidor Gutter [donor's maternal grandfather] was deported to Sobibor on July 20, 1943, as per the testimony of Sara (Selma) Engel-Wijnberg and her husband Chaim Engel; dated October 8, 1947; in Dutch.

  5. Notice demanding the surrender of the city of Utrecht to German forces

    Notice issued May 14, 1940, by the German Supreme Military Commander to the Military Commander of the city of Utrecht, Netherlands, demanding the city's unconditional surrender to Germany. It warns that the city is surrounded by German forces, including Stuka bombers, and that the Dutch commander should consider sparing Utrecht and its residents the fate of Warsaw. If Utrecht does not surrender, it will be regarded as a fortress and attacked. The German blitzkrieg attack on the Netherlands began on May 10 with bomb attacks near Rotterdam. On May 14, Rotterdam was attacked and occupied by Ge...

  6. Jack (Isaac) Groner collection

    Contains a poem written in Yiddish by Alter Albert Groner on the occasion of his youngest brother Jacques (Isaac) Grober's (donor) fourth birthday on June 2, 1941; written in the Pithiviers camp three weeks after the author was arrested in Paris, and three weeks before we was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Includes a passport issued to Jacques Isaac Groner on March 8, 1946; Jack, his parents and siblings survived in hiding in France.

  7. London

    London street scenes with automobile and bus traffic, circa 1935-1939 when Kurt Ehrenfeld had been living there to attend high school while his family remained in Nazi Germany. MS, in Hyde Park on Oxford Street. Bus advertising "Give Havana Cigars" passes the Marble Arch. Crowds at Speakers' Corner. Camera follows a tall man with a hat as he crosses the street. CU of Kurt's mother, Alice, smiles as she walks toward the camera in Hyde Park. Families feeding the birds from the Old Stone Bridge at the lake in the Hyde Park. Quick LS of a group gathered in front of a gated house, cars parked al...

  8. The Call Print 2 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting prisoners, including those that had died, being accounted for during roll call at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat ...

  9. Aart and Johanna Vos papers

    Dutch identification cards (2) for Aart Vos and Johanna Kuyper, from Laren, the Netherlands, 1942, with later stamps from 1945 declaring these as no longer valid. Also contains one order of confiscation from the German occupation authorities, documenting the confiscation of an automobile from Vos for use by the Wehrmacht, 1942.

  10. Drudgery Print 4 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting a line of prisoners pushing full wheelbarrows uphill while guards and dogs attach them at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a...

  11. Hahn and Laks family collection

    Contains an Arbeitskarte (work ID) issued to Piotr Kaszuba (donor's father; real name Juliusz Hahn) by the employment office in Plauen, Germany on August 31, 1944, stating that the bearer was born on December 29, 1915, is stateless, and is employed as metal worker in the Oskar Otto factory in Elsterberg. Also includes an identity card issued to Ruchla Laks (donor's mother), on July14, 1937; Ruchla Laks, born on October 8, 1916 in Włodzimierz Wołyński, Poland, left Poland on a passport which didn’t belong to her in 1938, escaping imprisonment for belonging to the illegal Communist Party. She...

  12. Salm family papers

    The Salm family papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, emigration and immigration records, and restitution papers documenting the Salm family of Cologne, Germany and their immigration to the United States. The papers primarily consist of biographical materials and emigration and immigration records of Kurt and Meta Salm’s immigration to the United States in 1937, and Kurt’s parents David and Anna Salm’s immigration to the United States in 1940. Biographical materials include birth, marriage and death certificates; identification papers; military papers of David Salm, includi...

  13. Clay crematorium tag stamped 5781

    Clay disc, stamped with the number 5781, of the type that was placed with the body of deceased inmates to be able to identify the ashes after cremation. The numbers on the tags did not correspond to prisoner numbers. Produced in large quantities, not all the tags were used. Little is known about the origins of this clay tag. It was recovered by a retired United States Army colonel, identity unknown, shortly after his division liberated an unknown concentration camp in Germany. Similar discs were used at Dachau, Majdanek, Sachsenhausen, and Theresienstadt concentration camps.

  14. Tamar Enkaova photograph collection

    Contains prewar and postwar photographs of donor and her family, including three wedding photos of sisters and one friend taken in 1941-1944 in Lyon, France.

  15. Literary works Utwory literackie (Sygn. 266)

    Jewish literary works: poems, memoirs, letters, songs, literary and political notes, written in various ghettos, mainly in the Łódź ghetto (Litzmannstadt), as well as in various concentration camps in Poland and Lithuania. Includes also copies of „Getto szriftn“, a clandestine newspaper published in Łódź ghetto, and some personal photographs. This collection consists of both original work (mostly from the Ghetto Litzmannstadt (Łódź)) and their postwar copies.

  16. Teenagers smile for the camera

    Closeups of Ida Van Pesh (a non-Jewish friend), Vera Serlui (Ellis's second cousin, killed at Auschwitz on November 19, 1942), Ellis, and Abraham as they pose for the camera inside their home. The girls pose for a group shot.

  17. Samuel Gotz collection

    Consists of loose photographs, photograph albums, and documents related to pre-war Zionist Congresses and of photographs related to young Zionists in Latvia and Lithuania. The photographs depict groups of men and women in formal and informal settings. Includes a photograph album of the 18th Zionist Congress, held in Prague in 1933, and documents from the 14th Zionist Congress, held in Vienna in 1925. The material was collected by Samuel Gotz.

  18. Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz papers

    The Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz papers consist of records documenting the lives, medical careers, relatives, and persecution of Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz in Oradea as well as wartime and postwar Hungarian printed materials. Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz records include biographical materials, student records, correspondence, and legal records documenting Gergely’s and Kenéz’s relatives, educations, medical careers, involvement and prominence in the Jewish community of Oradea, persecution as Jewish doctors under the Hungarian occupation, defense by colleagues who provided testimonials ...

  19. Gladys Martin collection

    One letter, written on personal stationery of Adolf Hitler, from an American soldier ("Johnny") to "Gladys," 20 June 1945. In the letter, he describes how his unit is living in Hitler's former apartment in Munich, his general impressions of Munich, his recent tour of the Dachau concentration camp, and plans to return to the United States.

  20. Regional Hungarian Records

    This collection contains records from various archival repositories including the Hungarian Ministries, Lutheran Church and Jewish community. Records relate to visas and emigration applications; confiscation of Jewish properties; petitions for aid and tax documents. Included is a list of Jews of Sopron and an inventory of Jewish confiscated properties, 1945-1946.