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  1. Miriam Patipa prayer book

    The prayer book is a thirteen-page Hungarian translation of a published Hebrew prayer book completed by Miriam Patipa while she was working as a slave laborer rebuilding an oil refinery in Gelsenkirchen concentration camp. The Hebrew prayer-book belonged to a fellow laborer at Gelsenkirchen.

  2. Dziedzic family papers

    The Rosh Hashanah postcard from the Bergen-Belsen DP camp bears a photograph of Teddy and Sarah Jay [donor's parents] and their daughter [donor] and other photographs of life in the camp. A banner near the bottom is printed with the greeting, "L'Shana Tova / T'catevu v'Tchtamu" (Happy New Year / May you be inscribed in the Book of Life). Also included are documents and photographs illustrating post war displaced persons experiences of Tejwie Dziedzic, his wife Sara Dziedzic and their daughter Michla (donor) in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp.

  3. Photograph of Avram Kanczuker's children

    The collection consists of a pre-war photograph depicting the two children of Avram Kanczuker in Zbaraż, Poland (Zbarazh, Ukraine). Both children perished during the Holocaust.

  4. Paul Mandel papers

    The papers primarily consist of Holocaust-era postcards related to the Mandel family of Łódź, Poland. Included are seven postcards written from Mirel Mandel in Łódź to her brother Barney Solomon in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1940. There is also one postcard to Barney Solomon from Estera Moszkowicz in Radom, Poland. Photograph postcards of the Mandel family depict Mirel and Abraham Mandel, their sons Mendel, Machel, and Paul, and their daughter Balcha. Also depicted is Barney Solomon and various other relatives.

  5. Agnes Papier photographs

    The collection consists of three photographs of a concentration camp immediately after liberation.

  6. Photograph of two women

    The photograph depicts a young girl with her arms around a seated woman.

  7. Lia Volfson photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs documenting the Reznikov or Reznikova family in Voznesensk, Ukraine. The first photograph depicts a large group of men and women, including Sura Reznikova, gathered around a man reading a document. The second photograph depicts Lia and Natful Reznikov. The description on the verso of both photographs states in part “…perished by Nazi in 1941.”

  8. Polish passport

    The Polish passport (Paszport) was issued to Simon Haber in Lipsk, Poland, and bears an American immigration visa.

  9. Siegfried Heinrich papers

    The papers consist of a receipt booklet for the number of eggs a farmer gave the German state and a ballot from 1934 requesting the German people to vote if they accepted Hitler's takeover as Reichspraesident after Paul von Hindenburg's death.

  10. Rena Herzog papers

    The papers consist of twelve photographs, three identification cards, and four documents relating to Rena Herzog's family before World War II in Poland, during the war in the Soviet Union, and after the war in Poland.

  11. Regina Gothelf photographs

    The collection consists of nine photographs of the Gothelf family's life before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland.

  12. Envelope

    The envelope was sent from David Aronson [donor's brother] in the United States to Tania Aronson [donor's mother] in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, in 1941 and returned.

  13. David Beitner photographs

    The photographs depict relatives and friends from David Beitner’s hometowns of Strzemieszyce Wielkie, Poland, and Sławków, Poland, before World War II and of David and his friends in the Preibitz DP camp in Germany after the war. Some of the photographs have captions in Yiddish and Polish.

  14. Larry Lubetzky photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of the "Graphic Arts Section" ("Mal und Zeichen Werkstatt") in the ghetto in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, in 1943 and a photograph of Larry Lubetzky in Kraslice, Czechoslovakia, in July 1945.

  15. Herta Leeds papers

    The papers consist of a telegram written to the Lichtblau Triangle Shoe Company in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., from a Jewish family ("Mutti Pings Familie Friedman") in Europe and an envelope from Cesia Kaufler-Morawetz in Vienna, Austria, to Herta Leeds in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

  16. Frieda Lederer photograph collection

    The photographs depict Frieda Lederer in Mukacheve, Hungary (now Ukraine), before World War II, as a refugee with the Lowengart family in Göteborg, Sweden, and as an employee with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Munich, Germany, after the war.

  17. Michael Kaplan photograph collection

    The photographs depict Esther and Eli Kaplan and other residents of Eišiškės (Eishyshok), Lithuania, before World War II.

  18. Lilka Elbaum papers

    The papers consist of 325 photographs and copyprints as well as certificates and identification cards from the ghetto in Biała Rawska, Poland, and Skierniewice, Poland.

  19. Zina Gasko photographs

    The collection consists of photographs of Zina Gasko, her brother, Jefim, and her aunts and cousins in Krzemieniec, Poland, before World War II.

  20. Herman and Dwora Flamholc papers

    The Herman and Dwora Flamholc papers consist of two photographs of Herman Flamholc, Dwora while he was a refugee in Kara-Balta, Kyrgystan; a postcard sent from Ewa Chawa Flamholc, Dwora's aunt, in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to Salek Flamholc in Chett, Siberia; a certificate that Dwora attended a Jewish school in Charkov, Ukraine; and two certificates of repatriation from the Soviet Union to Poland for Dwora and Herman Flamholc.