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Displaying items 22,001 to 22,020 of 22,191
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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Broadside

    Broadside announcing a strike of University of New Hampshire students against war, Friday, April 12.

  2. Sandra Abbott photographs

    Photographs: Palestine/Israel and the Israeli War of Independance, portrait of donor's great grandfather; digital copies of photos of the Tek and Hebron yeshivot.

  3. Pin

    Pin: “Home Mission Board / Keep home fires burning” with image of fireplace; from “T. Theo. Lovelace / 4834 Vincennes Ave. / Chicago”

  4. Pin

    Pin, “American First / Home Mission Board” with central image of map of United States; from “T. Theo. Lovelace / 4834 Vincennes Ave. / Chicago”

  5. Broadside

    Broadside, “No A.E.F. Day / November 11th” for Armistice Day Rally “Keep Out Of War”

  6. Dr. Douglas M. Kelley papers

    The collection documents Dr. Douglas M. Kelley’s role as a United States Army psychiatrist examining 22 high-ranking Nazi defendants awaiting trial in the Nuremberg War Trials. Included are case files for each defendant; war trial documents, memorandums, and clippings; Rorschach test results; Nazi Rorschach research papers and correspondence; and manuscript drafts of his book 22 Cells in Nuremberg. Nuremberg War Trials papers include administrative documents and memorandums, a diary and ledger with handwritten notes by Kelley, clippings regarding the trial defendants, and copy prints of pho...

  7. Files of the Kurzelów commune Akta gminy Kurzelów (Sygn. 3180)

    Various materials concerning the inhabitants of the commune from the 1920s and 1930s (including the Jewish population), such as statistics, certificates, purchase and sale files of the real estate, lists of craftsmen, population records, lists of births, files of the Jewish Religious Community (including contributions from members of municipalities).

  8. Private Sofia Gurewicz Yiddish Gymnasium in Vilnius Gimnazjum Żydowskie Zofja Gurewicz w Wilnie (Fond 198)

    The collection contains administrative documents, minutes of the meetings of the pedagogical council, records of the examination commission, teacher’s reports correspondence related to admission of students, personal files of students, lists of admitted students, registration books of graduation certificates, student’s behavioral conduct and progress report cards, statistical information about students and other related documentation. Copies of graduation certificate files and students' personal files are listed according to the surnames of individuals in alphabetical order.

  9. Hermann and Charlotte Sperling collection

    Correspondence of donor's grandparents Hermann and Charlotte Sperling (later Spalding) and children Irene and Dorothea (donor's mother).

  10. Private co-educational H. Epsztejn Humanistic Gymnasium in Vilnius Koedukacyjne Humanistyczne Gimnazjum Żydowskie z językiem wykładowym polskim w Wilnie (Fond 199)

    The collection contains minutes of the gymnasium’s examination committee, high school and primary school students' behavior and progress report cards, primary school students' registration book, student applications for admission to high school and primary school, students' personal files, academic certificates and other related documentation. Personal files, applications for admission to school, and educational certificate files arranged according to the surnames of students in alphabetical order. Most of the student’s personal files also include photos of students.

  11. Oral testimony of William C. Goins, Jr.

  12. County Health Fund in Ostrowiec Powiatowa Kasa Chorych w Ostrowcu (Sygn. 3178)

    Personal files of doctors and dentists of Jewish origin employed in the Health Fund.

  13. Hans Wijsman photographs

    The collection consists of three prewar photographs depicting Hans Wijsman of Bloemendaal, the Netherlands in his military uniform. He is pictured with his father and other unidentified individuals. Hans was a Dutch prisoner in Buchenwald from 1943-1945.

  14. Pieces of a wrought iron railing from a stairwell

    Pieces of a wrought iron railing from a stairwell, along with modern wooden handrails, from a home in Sighetu-Marmatiei, Romania. The home was owned by a Jewish family before their deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The pieces of the railing feature a design with Star of David patterns.

  15. Dachau Trials photograph album pages

    Two-sided photo album page (loose) with 4 photographs taken during the Dachau Trials (1945-1947).The pages are annotated in English. Includes depictions of camp building exteriors, an unidentified woman in a jeep, and the ceiling lights of a courtroom. There are annotations for other photographs missing from the pages.

  16. Oral history interview with Angela Schneider

  17. Cukier and Cohen families papers

    The collection primarily consists of correspondence of brothers Max Cohen and Charles Cohen, both of whom immigrated to the United States before World War II from Poland, from their nephews Jakub Cukier and Shmul Cukier. Early letters concern Max’s attempts to help Shmul immigrate to the United States in the early 1920s. Postwar letters from Jakub inform his uncle Charles that he and his older brother served with the Polish Army, were imprisoned, and that his parents and older brother all perished in the Holocaust.

  18. Oral history interview with Irving Lebo

  19. Oral history interview with Marisa Brugna

  20. Oral history interview with Benedetto Amat