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  1. Janina Birenstam papers

    The papers consist of photographs of Janina Birenstam as a teacher at a boarding school for Polish and Polish-Jewish children in Ili, Kazakhstan, during World War II, certificates from her days as a student at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, before the war, and letters of recommendation from the director of the Polish school in Kazakhstan, Edward Kofler.

  2. Rywek Żytnik photograph collection

    The Rywek Żytnik photograph collection consist of photographs of the Żytnik family in Sawin, Poland, and the surrounding area before and during the Holocaust as well as a photograph of a memorial to Jews killed by the Germans in Dashev, Ukraine, from 1941 to 1942.

  3. Róża Zyto papers

    The papers consist of photographs, identification cards, a diploma, and a report card relating to the Plac family in Poland before and after the Holocaust and in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust.

  4. Jane Thomsen photographs

    The collection consists of nine photographs of the Zalcman family in Siedlce, Poland.

  5. Aveda Ayalon photograph collection

    The collection primarily consists of photographs depicting Aveda Ayalon's family in Chełm and Warsaw, Poland, before, during, and after the Holocaust. Included are photographs of Aveda’s uncle, Szmuel Artur Zygielbojm (1895-1943) a member of the National Council of the Polish Government-in-Exile.

  6. Mark Stern papers

    The Mark Stern papers consist of letters and postcards from Jacob, Erna, Tosia, and Manek Stern [donor's father, mother, sister, and donor] in Poland and Italy to Leon Stern [donor's brother] in Palestine. Topics range from everyday life (school, work, family business, health, and weather) to life after liberation, conditions in an United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) camp, finding work, disappointment, attempts to immigrate to the United States, happiness, and starting a new life.

  7. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers

    The Dingfelder and Wolff families papers contains photographs of the Dingfelder family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the MS St. Louis, a photograph of Rudi Dingfelder after liberation in 1945, as well as a studio photograph of Aline and Arthur Wolff, circa 1920s, and an undated tourist postcard of the MS St. Louis. Correspondence in the papers includes a typewritten letter written by Rudi Dingfelder in English regarding his wartime experiences imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp, Buchenwald concentration camp, and other slave labor camps, August 12, 1945; ...

  8. Arthur Keenan photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, after liberation.

  9. Agathe Ehrenfried papers

    The papers consist of a Nazi Party membership book ("Mitgliedsbuch") issued to Dr. Walther Brunk on Nov. 4, 1936, in Berlin, Germany, and two receipts ("N.S. Bolkswohlfahrt") issued for contributions in the amount of RM 4.50 in 1943 and inserted into the membership book

  10. Selected records from the collection LIV, Morocco and Tunisia

    Contains records pertaining to the application of anti-Jewish legislation enacted in Morocco and Tunisia.

  11. Selected records from collection LIII, Algeria

    Contains records pertaining to the application of anti-Jewish legislation enacted in Algeria.

  12. Selected records from collection CCVII, Belgium, Ministry of Reconstruction

    Contains records pertaining to Belgian forced labor in Germany, particularly Belgian-Jewish forced labor, and the repatriation of Belgian nationals after the war.

  13. Selected records from collection CCVIII, Belgium, Ministry of Reconstruction

    This collection contains information on internment camps in France and Belgium during World War II, including information on the fate of Jewish children.

  14. Selected records from collection DXXXIII, correspondence sent to Drancy

    This collection contains postcards sent to Drancy by French prisoners of war in German POW camps. (Many Jewish soldiers in the French army were interned as POWs.)

  15. Selected records from collection DXLIX, Archives of the Sixième et de la Resistance Juives

    Contains forged, falsified, and stolen documents used by the French Jewish rescue organization “Sixième” in the conduct of their operations during the German occupation of France.

  16. Selected records from collection DLI, Archives of the Sixième et de la Resistance Juives

    Contains materials related to Sixième and other Jewish resistance fighters, including lists of members, operational documents, and post war materials related to pensions and decorations awarded by the French government.

  17. Selected records from Drancy

    Contains a list of food and care packages sent to Drancy internees via the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (French national railway service). The list contains the name of the recipient and date of receipt.

  18. Selected records from collection DLXXXI, Résistance

    Contains primarily post-war materials related to the French resistance, the decorating and honoring of resistance fighters, resistance memorialization, and resistance fighters' reunions and organizations.

  19. Selected records of Lucien Lublin related to resistance (CMXX)

    Contains materials, collected and assembled by Lucien Lublin, related to Jews in the French Resistance and to post-war Jewish French Resistance organizations.

  20. Selected records of Lucien Lublin related to resistance (CMXXI)

    Contains documents collected and assembled by Lucien Lublin concerning French resistance in general and Jewish French resistance in particular. Also contains documents related to the attitudes of the Roman Catholic Church in France in connection with Jewish persecutions.