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Language of Description: English

  1. Hanna Khajezadeh papers

    The papers consist of two fliers advertizing a Nazi propaganda board game called, "Juden raus" ("Jews out!"), manufactured by Rudolf Fabricius. "Juden raus" was a sort of amalgam of Monopoly and Halma created by the Nazis as propaganda. The objective was to collect as many Jews as you could and get them off the board. The pieces were little pawns wearing pointed medieval Jewish hats; the players moved them by rolling dice. The child winning was the one whose Jews scurried out, 'off to Palestine!,' through the gates of a walled city.

  2. Inge Schiffman papers

    The papers consist of newspaper clippings about a ship, "Navemar," that transported Jewish refugees from Spain to the United States during the Holocaust, one vaccination record, one receipt, one medical certificate, and one passport ("Reisepass").

  3. Blam and Selinger family papers

    The Blam and Selinger family papers consists primarily of correspondence in the form of postcards from Golda and Hersch Blam to their family, presumably their daughter, Machcia in Sambor. One postcard in the collection is from Toni (?) Selinger to Machcia. The postcards were written during a five month period between June and October of 1942, a time period when most of the Jews from the Drohobycz ghetto were transported to the Belzec extermination camp. Most of the postcards relate family news and concerns for each other’s health and wellbeing. Mention of food shortages and a lack of adequa...

  4. Dachau concentration camp "Prämienschein"

    The receipt ("Prämienschein") was issued to a prisoner (victim) in Dachau concentration camp. A number of camps within the German Reich issued very similar notes known as 'Praemienschein' or premium notes. Scrip from some camps are of the same design except for the camp name. This shows the influence of the concentration camp authority in regards to note design. Premium notes were authorized by the 'Service Regulations for the Granting of favors to inmates.' The notes were supossed to be used for cigarettes and other canteen purchases, to fund inmate savings accounts, and even pay for brot...

  5. Yessoula Cohen identification card

    The identification card was issued to Yessoula Cohen, Henry Levis's uncle.

  6. SHAEF newspaper announcing Hitler's Death

    Numerous headlines printed on newspaper, same information repeated in four languages. Headlines include "HITLER IS DEAD/DOENITZ PROCLAIMED HIS SUCCESSOR..."; "THE WEEK/IN REVIEW"; "MAY DAY, 1945"; "THE FIRST 2,500,000"; "BRANDENBURG AND STRALSUND/FALL TO THE RED ARMY"; "HORTHY IN U.S./CUSTODY"; "RADIO"

  7. Lydia Golston papers

    The papers consist of a Polish passport with a visa allowing residence in Canada for the duration of World War II issued by the Polish embassy in Japan to Lidia Barbara Fruchs [donor] and a permit allowing temporary residence in Japan issued to Lidia Barbara Fruchs.

  8. Henry Gordon papers

    The papers consist of two letters, one written by Henry Gordon to his father and one written to his parents on May 7, 1945. Henry Gordon sent the letter dated May 7 to his father at his father's office, leaving the decision of whether his father would relay information about the death of his mother's family in the Holocaust.

  9. Abram Katmanowies letter to Trygve Lie

    The mass-produced form letter is addressed to "Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations" from Abram Katmanowies, a displaced person in Wasseralfingen, Germany. The letter asks the Secretary General to present before the meeting of the United Nations that said inmate is living "among my enemies - the murderers of my family" 21 months after liberation and to grant him permission to leave the United States occupation zone in Germany for Palestine.

  10. Anna Tabor papers

    The papers consist of letters and postcards written by concentration camp inmates to people in Paris, France, and New York. Three of the postcards are photocopies sent from a father to his son.

  11. Alice Fahrer papers

    The papers consist of two studio portraits of Joseph Ornstein, one taken in 1898 and one (a copy print) printed in 1951, and a postcard send by Joseph Ornstein from Theresienstadt concentration camp to Karoline Zisdka in Vienna, Austria.

  12. Eva Shmoys papers

    The papers consist of two postcards sent between Martin Jahoda, a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp, and his wife, Elisabeth (Else) Jahoda in Vienna, Austria, in 1938 and two photographs of Martin and Else Jahoda in 1937.

  13. Lothar Kahn papers

    The Lothar Kahn papers consist of biographical materials, a personal narrative, and photographs documenting Louis Hane, born Lothar Kahn, of Lollar, Germany, his marriage to Maria Dort, who was not Jewish, the forced labor he performed in Berlin during the Nazi period, and his family’s immigration to the United States in 1946. Biographical materials include a birth certificate, identification papers, a report card, employment records, registration documents, and a testimony of character documenting Louis Hane’s childhood in Giessen, his work in Berlin, and his immigration to the United Stat...

  14. Ida Nathan papers

    The papers consist of two passes issued to Jacob Weisman [donor's uncle] in Auschwitz concentration camp.

  15. Benjamin Sokol papers

    The papers consist of a leaflet issued by the Information-Education Section of the 13th Armored Division of the U.S. Army entitled, "Facts on Germany: Food," an advertisement for a German post office savings book, two maps of Europe, and correspondence, including a letter from Roger Kaufmann thanking Benjamin Sokol for taking care of his son in a concentration camp in Germany after liberation.

  16. Louis Russ papers

    The papers consist of two letters from Jews in Vienna, Austria, Anna Stein and Georg Doctor, seeking affidavits of support so that they can immigrate to the United States as well as an accompanying envelope and a photograph of Anna Stein. The letters are addressed to Samuel Doctor [donor's maternal grandfather] in the Bronx, N.Y.

  17. Frandi Meryl Lipton photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of the crematorium at Dachau concentration camp at liberation and a photograph of the kennel at Dachau at liberation.

  18. Carolyn Nast Dashef papers

    The papers consist of 13 photographic postcards depicting scenes from various cities in Europe and the United States and discussing Hitler's rise to power in Germany and the persecution of European Jews.

  19. Linda Marcus papers

    The papers consist of a letter from the Committee for the Defence of the Rights of Jews in Central and Eastern Europe in Paris, France, to the French Minister of the Interior on behalf of Lowy Isak Weitzner and an announcement ("In Neerland Roumt Israël") signed by O. Cahen.

  20. Roman Freulich photographs

    Consists of copyprints and film negatives taken by Roman Freulich in Łódź, Poland, in February-March, 1938. Includes photos of members of his family, as Freulich made the trip in part to encourage family members to immigrate to the United States. Also includes images of street scenes in Łódź, and two images taken in Warsaw.