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  1. Martin Elkort photographs

    Consists of enlarged black and white photographs taken by Martin Elkort at an ORT training center in Manhattan, New York, circa 1948-1950. The photographs depict a sewing training center, and some of the trainees bear visible Auschwitz tattoos.

  2. Yitsḥaḳ Patish personal archives (RG-95-70) יצחק פטיש - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Izhak Patish (1914-2002) contains letters, articles, poetry, extracts from the diary of Ronya Margalit-Git (sister Masha) in Yiddish, songs in Yiddish, papers on Czechoslovakia Jewry, records and correspondence from his mission as an Israeli ambassador in Austria.

  3. Nachum Bone personal archives (RG-95-79) נחום בונה - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Nachum Bone (1913-2012) contains his identity documents, memoirs, correspondence, research papers and articles on the Jewish community of Pińsk including papers on the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Pińsk and names lists of members of the community. Includes also papers and reports as the Hashomer Hatzair emissary to Poland in 1946-1947 .

  4. Oral history inteview with Morris Salzberg

  5. Personal archives of Miriam Yahieli (RG-95-86) מרים יחיאלי - ארכיון אישי

    Contains interviews, memoirs, correspondence, maps, and records on the Hebrew gymnasium “Tarbut” in Rovno, commemoration sites, informaton about World War II in the Soviet Union, the Hashomer Hatzair activities in Poland, Germany and Cyprus, educational work in kibbutz Tel-Amal, and material about the activities in the Hashomer Hatzair archive Yad Ya’ari.

  6. Holocaust survivor testimonies (RG-97) עדויות בעל פה

    The collection contains 2315 testimonies of 1552 Holocaust survivors. Among them are testimonies of Yehuda Harit, Betka, Avraham Silberstein on Motek Silberg, Arthur and Naomi Ben-Israel, Mordechai Kamhi (Max Meller), Shlomo Klass, Benyamin Ben-Nahum, Yehoshua Ron, Josef Raban, Tova Mali, Avraham Stern (Kohavi), Shaike Weiner, Yurek Plonski and Miriam Yahieli.

  8. Collection of Nathan Rapoport prints and sketches (RG-94-4) נתן רפופורט

    The collection contains Nathan Rapoport prints for his monument "Scrolls of Fire," and his other skeches. The monument "Scrolls of Fire" found in the Jerusalem hills, and it commemorates Jewish history from the Holocaust until Independence. The monument was inaugurated in 1971. The sculpture is made of bronze and is eight meters high. It is in the shape of two scrolls, a gesture to the Jewish nation being the "People of the Book." One of the scrolls describes the Holocaust and the other describes independence. It tells the story of the rebirth of the nation from the Holocaust up to the Six ...

  9. Nathan Rapoport personal archives (RG-95-80) נתן רפופורט

    The collection consists of diaries, an interview with Nathan Rapoport conducted by Ellen Kurtz, his biography by Stella Corraine-Lieber, a list of his work, notebooks, newspapers clippings, articles and correspondence. Includes also photographs of the artist's works.

  10. Mordechai Shenhabi personal archives, Mishmar ha-ʻEmeḳ (Israel) (RG-95-3) מרדכי שנהבי - ארכיון אישי

    The collection contains plans, maps, records related to creation and construction of Yad Vashem, and minutes of meetings of the first Directorate of Yad Vashem (1943-1954). Additional records of Mordechai Shenhabi contain personal documents, artifacts, photographs of Kibbutz Mishmar ha-ʻEmeḳ (Israel), articles, letters, correspondence with Efraim Barzelai in Warsaw (1926-1932), correspondence with representatives of the Hashomer Hatzair in Czechoslovakia, England, Switzerland, Germany, Austria (1933-1938), correspondence with Haim Weizman (1940-1962). Also includes an interview of Mordecha...

  11. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Somme

    This collection contains reports from the police on the population, records on strikes, sentences punishing anti-patriotic or anti-governmental activities and political parties or organizations, the press, records on youth movements, propaganda, associations and clubs, the general morale of the population; and lists of Jews living in the Somme. Contains also records on the attribution of Aryan administrators for Jewish businesses and property, deportation lists of Jews, Roma and resistance fighters. There were four places where people were interned: the Camp of the Citadel of Amiens (probab...

  14. Elsie Trovillions collection

    Letter and envelope sent by Rie Wittenberg Hetteligh from Haarlem to Elsie Trovillions (donor's mother), dated July 1945. The two young women knew each other before the war, either as pen pals or personally. Rie described in her letter the long years of German occupation of Holland; confiscation of food and valuables, cold and other hardships suffered by the local population. She mentioned the murder of the majority of Dutch Jewry. Rie expressed her graditude for Americans, Canadians, and British for liberating Holland and described the shortages in postwar Holland. She told her friend that...

  16. Schiffmann and Fischer families collection

    This collection includes a letter written by Max and Bernhard Schiffmann in the Dachau concentration camp to Olga Schiffmann (Max's wife), in German, on camp letterhead; Document for the release of Max Schiffmann from Buchenwald, dated February 22, 1939; two letters from Chaim Sharfstein in Staten Island to his cousin Max Schiffmann, September and November 1939, in Yiddish; Four photographs depicting Ewa Fischer (donor's late mother-in-law) who left Vienna on the Kindertransport; negative showing the department store of brothers Schiffmann in Vienna before the war; Olga Schiffmann (b. Septe...

  17. Karl Maramorosch collection

    Collection of correspondence, primarily letters but also includes a postcard, bookplate, and photocopies of correspondence between members of the Maramarosch family.

  18. Jan Gorecki papers

    The Jan Gorecki papers consist of four identification cards documenting Jan Gorecki’s status as a stateless conscripted Polish laborer in Germany, former prisoner of war, member of the Polish Combatants Association, and member of Catholic Caritas for Poles in the British Zone. The papers also include an International Refugee Organization processing card and a World Health Organization vaccination certificate for Gorecki’s son, Stanislaw.

  19. Weiss and Ross families collection

    Collection of photographs, correspondence and documents relating to the Weiss and Ross families living in Liptovská Teplá, Slovakia. The photographs depict family life; the wedding of Alexander and Blanka Weiss in June 1937; birth of Peter in 1939; and their life till their escape into hiding. The documents include two Red Cross letters from Blanka Weiss to her father, dated October 1943 and January 1944; a Czech passport; an identification card issued to the donor by the Government of the Netherlands West Indies island of Aruba; the donor's driver's license from Aruba; and a copy of a cert...

  20. Einhorn family collection

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to Matel Feldschuh Einhorn (donor's great aunt) and her husband, Efraim Einhorn, who managed to leave Vienna in November 1939 and immigrated to the United States. Photographs depict the three Feldschuh brothers in 1924; their mother Pearl; Sabina Feldschuh Korman (donor’s grandmother) and others; documents include two passports with the red letter “J” issued to Matel and Efraim Einhorn and other documents issued to donor’s grandmother and grandfather. Includes a certificate of residence issued to Efraim Einhorn; blank picture postcards with i...