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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Oral history interviews of the Jay Ratafia-Brown collection

    Oral history interviews with Aron Ratafia, Bronia Ratafia, and Joseph Gottainer

  2. Perman family collection

    The collection consists of an oral history with Malka Perman, translated by her daughter, Eileen Perman Baker, and documents such as naturalization records, falsified birth certificates, family photographs, and restitution-related papers. The materials all relate to the experiences of the Perman family particularly following their escape from Poland to Siberia and then Central Asia after they were forced into the Bialystok and Warsaw ghettos.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Weiss family collection

    Oral history interviews with Sofie Doernberg and Gretel Weiss.

  5. Bespaloff family collection

    The collection consists of ceremonial objects, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Nisson Bespaloff, his associates, and his extended family in Estonia, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  6. Teaching record set

    Teaching set of six records recorded and produced as part of the revival of Jewish education in Germany after the rise of the Nazi Party. Six records, six transcripts of the talks in Hebrew, six study booklets for each of the records with the talks in phonetic transcription in Latin characters and the meaning in German; index cards for study and repitition. Initiator of the project, Asher Plevner, was impressed by the popular teaching booklet "Ivrit LeOlim" by scholar and author Rabbi Emil Cohen and turned to the owner of a records manufacturing company, Otto Sperlin, who at the time produc...

  7. Nazi party documents, correspondence and artifacts collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, and artifacts relating to several high ranking Nazi party members and likely collected as evidence by the US Army after World War II (1939-1945).

  8. Oral history interviews and family recordings of the Wajnbaum / Wine Family collection

    Oral history interviews and family recordings of the Wajnbaum / Wine Family collection, which includes interviews with Israel Weinbaum (Izrael Wajnbaum); video footage of the Wine family trip to the village of Nowy Korczyn, Poland, which features conversations with Catholic Poles who hid the donor's father Albert Weinbaum (Adash Wajnbaum) and his parents Israel Weinbaum and Leah Weinbaum (Lola Orzech); and a report about the life of Leah Orzech Weinbaum produced by her great-granddaughter Jodie Cohen.

  9. "Bible students in the Third Reich"

    S. J. Green essay discussing why and how Jehovah's Witnesses were persecuted by members of the Nazi Party; the activities and fates of other Christian sects (i.e. Roman Catholics, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists); and how individual Witnesses were able to survive. The essay also contains a summary of an interview Green had with H. Dickmann, a Witness survivor.

  10. Oral history interview with Binjamin Wilkomirski

  11. Schwarz and Mandl families papers

    The Schwarz and Mandl families papers include identification papers; birth, marriage, and death certificates; immigration and military records; restitution files; and photographs documenting the Schwarz and Mandl families of Vienna Austria before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  12. Heinz Praeger papers

    The Heinz Praeger papers include biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting Heinz Praeger, his prewar life in Germany, and his wartime years as a refugee with his wife and son in Shanghai. Biographical materials include three copies of a brief biography of Heinz Praeger by Michael Carlon describing Praeger’s childhood in Berlin, antisemitic persecution in the 1930s, his imprisonment in Dachau after Kristallnacht, his relocation to Shanghai, meeting and marrying his wife, the birth of their son, the family’s immigration to the United States, and their lives in New...

  13. Michael Honey family trees

    Six family trees created by Michael Honey: 1. Jewish Historical Clock - Branches from the Start of the Horowitz Family in Prague up the the Horowitz Dynasty in Dzikow/Tarnobrzeg Poland Giving Estimates of Birth Years for Each Generation, 1994, 19 1/4 x 13 7/8 2. The Charif-Heizelbeck Genealogy to Find Eitzikel Charif, 1995, 16 ½ x 32 3/4 3. The Levy-Benoliel-Cansino Genealogy from Gibraltar, 1995, 40 1/4 x 41 ½ 4. Jewish Historical Clock - Descendants of R. Yehuda Löw Ben Bezalel The Mahara”l of Prague Giving Estimates of Birth Years For Each Generation, 1995, 41 ⅝ x 41 5. Jewish Historical...

  14. Sephardic Songs of Monastir Kantigas de los Sefardes a Monastir

    Sephardic songs of Monastir, Macedonia. CD 1 contains forty tracks of music sung by Avram Sadikario, recorded in 2004. CD 2 contains a document with the text of the lyrics.

  15. József Essösy papers

    Collection of documents relating to József Essösy's rescue activities in Hungary. Essösy was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 2016.

  16. Henriette Bick Hahn papers

    The collection primarily consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs documenting the Holocaust experiences of Henriette Bick Hahn and her parents Karl and Emma Bick, originally of Munich, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of documents and correspondence relating to Karl’s imprisonment in Stadelheim and Dachau after Kristallnacht. The last letter in the collection written by Karl while in Dachau is dated May 5, 1940. Other material in the collection includes Karl and Emma’s marriage certificate, identification cards and naturalization certificate of Henriette, and prewa...

  17. Goldmann family papers

    The Goldmann family papers consist of correspondence, biographical records, immigration documents, school notes and records, photographs, and military documents relating to Kurt Goldmann's prewar life in Germany, immigration to the United States in 1939, experience as a student at Pennsylvania State University, service in the United States Army during WWII, and his postwar life in the United States. Also included are documents related to Kurt’s parents, Paul and Hedwig (Hede) Goldmann, and their emigration from Germany to England and the United States, as well as prewar documents relating t...

  18. Mishloach Manot… 5701

    "Mishloach Manot… 5701" (Hebrew), a handwritten booklet made for the festival of Purim and presented to the head of the Lodz Ghetto Judenrat, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. [Lodz], 1941. The booklet, presumably made by a resident of the Lodz Ghetto, contains several word plays in the spirit of Purim: the author's name (Ya'akov Brickman) encoded within a verse written on the title page; seven blessings arranged in the form of a star of David; an acrostic poem with the first letters of the lines spelling the Hebrew name "Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski". An inscription on the title page reads "From the...

  19. Weinberg family collection

    Photographs and Yiddish notes surrounding Morton Steinberg's extended family in pre-war Europe

  20. Court of the First Instance in Chmielnik Sąd Grodzki w Chmielniku (Sygn. 2152)

    Court files in civil cases and few files in criminal cases in which Jews from Chmielnik were parties: for reconstruction of birth, death, marriage certificates, for declaring ownership, for entering into possession of property, for declaring death or being declared dead, for correcting personal data, and for entering into possession of property. In addition, case repertories for the entire period containing key information on all cases decided by this court.