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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Gara family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Otto and Agnes Gara, both of whom survived the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary. The bulk of the collection consists of identification documents and papers related to Otto and Agnes’s immigration to the United States in 1956. Other material includes birth and marriage certificates, education papers, and prewar, wartime, and postwar family photographs.

  2. Kreishauptmannshaft Mińsk [Mazowiecki] Starostwo Powiatowe w Mińsku Mazowieckim (Sygn. 1056)

    Personal questionnaires of resettled people from Wartheland to Minsk Mazowiecki county, include the following information: name, previous residence, year of birth, date of resettlement, current address.

  3. Mala Zimetbaum papers

    Contains postcards and photographs

  4. Andrew Romay collection

    Hungarian documents including identification documents and certificates, school records and diplomas, awards, and correspondence relating to Andrew Romay (Andor Friedmann). Citizenship papers from Andrew's father, Jenö Friedmann, and a marriage certificate for Marietta Puder Romay's parents, Andrew's in-laws. A class photo from Miskolc, Hungary is also included.

  5. US anti-Nazi boycott stamp with a Star of David and a Nazi wolf

    Poster stamp encouraging the boycott of Nazi products, issued in the United States during the boycott movement between May 1933 and October 1941. Unlike many others issued during the boycott, this stamp makes a distinction between Nazis and Germany as a whole. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. The Nazi’s increasing targeting of Jews led the small, but militant, Jewish War Veterans of the United States (JWV) to hold a parade in New York City and launch the first boycott of German goods in the United States on March 23. Oth...

  6. World War II Selected Records from the French National Archives: 72 AJ Seconde Guerre Mondiale

    The collection includes selected records from the Archives of the Second World War History Committee and private papers. Records include the memoirs of Colonel de Milleret, an organization chart of the German services in France, a lexicon of French resistance, personal narratives, reports, and printed materials. The records document the confiscation of illicit profits, the establishment of German troops in France during the Second World War, and the French resistance. The collection also includes records documenting Professor Duvoir’s participation in the International Commission of Forensi...

  7. Court of the First Instance in Starachowice Sąd Grodzki w Starachowicach (Sygn. 3051)

    Civil cases repertories for the entire period containing key information on all cases decided by this court. In many cases, Jews from Starachowice were parties to court proceedings.

  8. Oral history interview with Franca Marcelli

  9. Edith Simon Babich papers

    The collection contains photographs and copyprints of Edith Simon Babich, her parents Karl and Selma Simon, and her sister Ilse Simon aboard the MS St. Louis during its voyage to Havana, Cuba, in 1939. Some of the photographs are annotated on the verso. Also included is a personal narrative written by Edith’s husband Reuben Babich describing the Holocaust experiences of the Simon, Frank, and Lazarus families of Cloppenburg, Germany; a Red Cross letter documenting the fates Karl, Selma, and Ilse; and two prewar postcards related to the MS St. Louis.

  10. Oral history interview with Francesca Granata

  11. Primary School no 5 in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski Szkoła Podstawowa nr 5 w Ostrowcu Świętokrzyskim (Sygn. 2909)

    The materials relate to the school's activities, such as: reports on pedagogical conferences, administrative matters, correspondence, etc. Typical information for this type of documentation: name and surname of the child, date and place of birth; school class attended; grades in individual subjects of study. The materials (from different years) also contain school certificates.

  12. Selected Records of the Board of Surveillance and Final Disposition of Enemy Property Selected Records of Junta de Vigilancia y Disposición Final de la Propiedad Enemgia (Sección 46)

    Selected documents relating to the expropriation of German businesses and property from individuals when Argentina declared war on Germany in 1945, included in the files are restitution claims, including from Jewish survivors which contain personal histories.

  13. Private L. Gurewicz co-educational seventh grade school with the Yiddish as the language of instruction in Vilnius Prywatna 7 klasowa koedukacyjna szkoła powszechna im. L. Gurwicza z żydowskim językiem nauczania w Wilnie (Fond 607)

    The collection contains activity reports prepared by teachers' commission for organizing extracurricular activities, teachers’ lesson plans, and pedagogical diaries and other school related documentation. Teacher’s diaries arranged alphabetically according to surname.

  14. Oral history interview with Lidia Demarin

  15. Archive of the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations (DAIA)

    The collection includes foundational materials, records, photographs of institutional activity, committees, campaigns, complaints, archives of the United Restitution Office, assemblies and public activities, files, work folders, and surveys on anti-Semitism in the form of reports and newspaper clippings. It covers action against Nazism from 1935, as well as different expressions of anti-Semitism in Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s, the military dictatorship, the attack on the Israeli embassy, the AMIA attack, and new expressions of anti-Semitism. Over time, DAIA became the political represe...

  16. Oral history interview with Luisa Congiu

  17. Oral history interview with Harold Thomas

  19. Private Dr. Jacob Czarno private 6th grade co-educational primary school in Polish and Hebrew in Vilnius Prywatna 6-klasowa Koedukacyjna Szkoła Powszechna z polskim i hebrajskim językiem nauczania im. Dr. J. Czarny w Wilnie (Fond 1100)

    The collection contains administrative documentation that includes minutes of the meetings of the pedagogical council, examination records, personal files of students, various lists of schools’ students and teachers, copies of graduation certificates, progress reports, class diaries with information about student’s attendance and grades, statistical information about students and other documents. Students' personal files arranged according to the surnames of individuals, in alphabetical order.

  20. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg