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  1. Altenberg family papers

    The Altenberg family papers include photographs, cultural programs and posters, and printed material documenting the Altenberg family of Antwerp, the work of Bernard Altenberg’s photo studio, and the educational and cultural work of the Jewish Artisan Association and Jewish Zugob school at 115 Lange Kievitstraat before and after the Holocaust. The programs and posters feature Marcel Pfeffer Patin and Annie Rutzky among other performers.

  2. Marcia Krause photograph collection

    Contains three photographs depicting: a posed group of school girls in Łódź, Poland, in June 1939; a group of women at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945 catching food thrown by a man on the outside; and Germans publicly humiliating two Jewish men in Grójec, Poland, in 1939 or 1940.

  3. Maurycy Leonard Kohl collection

    Documents related to the life of Maurycy Leonard Kohl, dated 1908-1984, including, but not limited to identification documents, union cards, educational and professional credentials, immigration documents, and birth and death certificates.

  4. Lusya Kalika memoir

    Contains a memoir, 33 pages, as well as photocopies and newspaper articles about experience of Jewish family who survived war by hiding underground in Odessa.

  5. Jay M. Rostov collection

    Contains 27 black and white photographs depicting Holocaust-era subjects including concentration camp victims, Roma and Sinti children, concentration camp survivors, Jewish ghettos, and transports.

  6. Fred Weissmann collection

    Contains ten photographs of Fred Weissmann and other children under the care of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) organization in France.

  7. Nordhausen concentration camp photos

    Contains eight post-liberation photographs of the Nordhausen concentration camp.

  8. Richard Vanger memoir

    Typescript memoir of Polish Holocaust survivor, 23 pages, dated October 1991, unattributed.

  9. Annotated transport lists to Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen

    Contains documentation from the Saxony State Archive, with donor's annotations, detailing transports from Leipzig, Germany to Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen in 1938.

  10. Litman Turovsky papers

    The Litman Turovsky papers contain a photograph of Litman, 4 photographic postcards with scenes of Rėchytsa around the early 20th century, and a diary kept by Litman between 1910 and 1941. The diary records his daily life in Rėchytsa and also discuss Jewish tradition, famine, and the effects of war on the community during the town period recorded. The last entry was recorded three weeks before Germany invaded the town.

  11. Stephanie Klein papers

    The papers contain a letter written by Abram donor's uncle to "Moniek" in July 1944 while he was stationed with the Polish Army outside of Lublin, Poland, and a photograph of Abram and his family in Czestochowa, Poland, circa 1938.

  12. Anna Rosenberg family photographs

    Contains four photographs of the wedding of Karola Winiecki and Mayer Kopytko in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1946. Karola Winiecki is a survivor of the Krushin, Pionko, Auschwitz, and Malchow camps, and Mayer Kopytko is a survivor of the Demblin ghetto and workcamp, then escaped and survived in the woods of Poland from 1942-1945.

  13. Levy-Saltiel family papers

    The papers consist of documents; identification cards; newspaper clippings; a CD of memoirs, family photographs, and a family tree related to the Levy family of Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece. The documents relate to life under the German occupation, forced labor as Jews, and life in the Salonika ghetto. After being warned of upcoming deportations, the Levys went into hiding in Athens, where they spent the remainder of the war. The collection also relates to Salomon Saltiel, who was a member of the Greek military and spent the war in Italian and German POW camps. He and Dora Levy married i...

  14. Death certificate

    The death certificate was issued for Siegfried Israel Drucker donor's father upon his death in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) concentration camp. The certificate states that he died on March 26, 1943.

  15. Identification card

    This "National Registration Identity Card" for children under the age of 16 was issued to Zofia Tymejko [donor] after she emigrated to London, England.

  16. Centrala Evreilor

    Contains correspondence, requests, and reports from the Jewish Center in Romania. Correspondence relates to forced labor camps in various places in Bucharest, Romania, and Jewish schools including a list of 42 women at forced labor at Institutul Central de Statistica. Some letters addressed to Radu Lecca by Nandor Gingold concern requests of exemption from forced labor for various Jews. Other requests concern the special taxes for Jews and Centrala's inspection in Transnistria. Correspondence of Filderman relates to Jewish doctors from 1941 to 1943. Collection also includes information conc...

  17. Selected records of the Cluj Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Includes selected fragments of transcripts from war crimes trials held in Cluj, Romania, from 1944 to 1945, documents from the Inspectoratul de jandarmi, Inspectoratul de politie (including police reports from Cluj, Turda, Abrud, Aiud, Dej, Huedin, Zalau, Alba Iulia), and Parchetul General, Prefuctura judetului, Tinutul, Parchetul General Maghiar, and Pretura plasii Cluj, and a few documents from the Prefectura judetului Somes and the Jandarmeria judetului Turda. Most are status reports, requests, transcripts of trials, and police/gendarmes reports on everything from Zionist and Legionary m...

  18. Telegram

    Telegram, dated December 1942, from Mrs. Benjamin Spitzer to Mrs. Isadore Freedman, warning of the wholesale massacre of Jewish children in Europe and requesting a meeting of national Jewish organizations. Mrs. Spitzer was the Chair of the Conference Committee of National Jewish Women's Organizations; Mrs. Freedman represented the Habanoth organization.

  19. Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Aisne

    Documents from the following prefectures: Préfecture régionale, Préfecture de l'Aisne, Sous-préfecture de Soissons, and Sous-préfecture de Château-Thierry. Contents include: repressive measures against Jews and Jewish companies; name lists of Jews by citizenship; list of Jewish companies; reports of the Prefect; deportations of non-French Jews; lists of Jews who could not be located; German orders and their implementation; secret societies; war crimes and war criminals; German atrocities; police reports; the concentration camp of Rotallieu; application of the October 1940 law; economi...

  20. Selected records of Jewish communities in Romania from Asociatia Culturala Mondiala a Evreilor Originari din Romania (ACMEOR)

    Contains records of the following Jewish communities in Romania: Botosani, Alba Julia, Bacău, Bucharest, Cernauti (Chernivt︠s︡i), Dorohoi, Falticeni, Galați, Iași, Piatra Neamț, Craiova, Constanța, Ploiești, Suceava (Suchava, Succava) and others. Also contains information about the ships Struma and Mefkure, antisemitism, Aserei Zion (arrested for Zionism), aliyah (going to Israel), parachutists, and files on the indivisuals Zissu, Filderman, and Safran.