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  1. Anatol and Alexandra Gorko collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, a newspaper, and artifacts related to Anatol and Alexandra Gorko who both survived the Holocaust and married after the war in Łódź, Poland.

  2. Bruno Einstein family collection

    The collection consists of a wardrobe trunk, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Bruno and Frieda Einstein and their son Dieter when they fled Germany for the United States in 1939.

  3. Immigration Department, Office in Istanbul.

    We note the file L15/1181, containing correspondence on the persecution of the Jews in France, Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940-1944.

  4. Annette Fry collection

    The Annette Fry collection includes photographic material, correspondence, art objects, and publications documenting Varian Fry’s work for the Emergency Rescue Committee in France, some of the artists and intellectuals he aided, and travels around Europe.

  5. Bertelsen, Aage, Private Archive

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Bertelsen, Aage, Privatarkiv
    • Danish, English
    • 1943-1964
    • 1 parcel

    Material concerning Jews transfer to Sweden in 1943 and issues after the war related to that, 1943-1964, pcl. 2.

  6. All Army officers

    must certify by word of honor of not being affiliated to a franc Masonic loge. Follow declarations of officers from all Units.

  7. Bela and Gisa Pless collection

    Documents and photographs related to Bela and Gisa Pless [donors' parents], Czechoslovakian Jews who survived Sered and Theresienstadt; also includes Bela Pless's memoir and a yellow star, as well as letters.

  8. Peter Stern memoir

    Contains a memoir written by Peter Stern about his Holocaust experiences.

  9. Edith Ostern collection

    The collection consists of a child's blouse and nightgown, and two documents relating to the experiences of Edith Tennenbaum (later Ostern) and her parents Emil and Dora before the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and their emigration to the United States.

  10. Presentation by Lilly Malnik

  11. Karl Engel deportation account

    Consists of one undated four-page account, written by Karl Engel, of a January 11, 1942 deportation of Jews from Vienna, Austria to the Riga concentration camp.

  12. Trude Schiff passport

    The passport ("Reisepass") was issued to Frau Hans Schiff [donor] in Cologne (Köln), Germany.

  13. Fritz Schnaittacher papers

    Two letters from a U.S. soldier to his wife.

  14. Leon Fierer collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, leaflets, clippings and publications relating to the experiences of Leon Fierer during his military service with the 79th Infantry Division, United States Army, in Europe during World War II.

  15. Betty Willdorff collection

    The collection consists of two spoons made of coins. There is a coin on each end with a twisted metal handle. The spoons were made of coins to be used instead of currency in the Netherlands during World War II.

  16. A memoir relating to experiences in Auschwitz, and the US after 1947

    Testimony, circa 70 pages, typescript. Most appears to be about Novak's life in U.S. after war, not about what her family experienced during it.

  17. Henriette Mandel papers

    Photocopies of family papers, in French, relating to the eligibility of donor's nephew, Robert Kreidelman, for a war-orphan pension. Also contains evidence that donor's relatives were killed at Auschwitz.

  18. Jeffrey Cymbler collection

    Collection contains one copy of the 1943 German Census of all Jews residing in Bedzin, Poland, taken by the Gestapo; list totals 22,174 names.

  19. Hersch Berman collection

    Contains ten black and white photographs and one legal document pertaining to his experiences in the Enns Displaced Persons camp.

  20. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    The collection consists of artwork created by Albert Dov Sigal, some relating to his experiences in a British detention camp in Cyprus in 1948 and others on biblical themes or Jewish culture and his life in Israel.