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  1. Jewish societies in Lithuania (Fond 1140)

    Correspondence and other records of various Jewish Zionist and public organizations active in Lithuania before WWII.

  2. Jewish soldiers in Palestine perform military exercises

    Palestinian troops wearing helmets and carrying bayonets rush up a hill through an arch in a stone structure (IWM identifies it as an old city castle). LS of troops aiming their rifles from the top of the stone wall. Two soldiers stand sentry beside a Star of David flag atop the stone wall (battlement?). Jewish soldiers, smiling, talking, smoking, one gives the camera a thumbs up. A soldier operates a field phone with a board of international codes hanging on the wall. Soldiers perform various military exercises. Captured German soldiers under guard of the Palestinian troops cross a desert ...

  3. Jewish songbook

    The songbook is entitled, "Quaderno di Osser, David," and is a compilation created by David Osser (donor's father) in Italy of songs sung in displaced persons camps.

  4. Jewish sport organization Maccabi in Lithuania (Fond 349)

    The collection contains records relating to the activities of the Jewish sport organization, Maccabi, in Lithuania from 1920 to 1940. The collection includes minutes of board meetings, resolutions, regulations, announcements, bulletins of the Maccabi Central Board, correspondence with the local branches of the organization in Siauliai (Shavli) and Zagare, and Lithuanian government authorities ( Ministry of Education, City Council), bylaws of the organization and its branches, lists of members, donors' list, cashiers' books, financial reports etc. Files #96-354 contain personal files of memb...

  5. Jewish survivors in Yugoslavia photographs

    Collection of photographs depicting groups of Jewish Holocaust survivors in Yugoslavia after World War II. Includes images of survivors standing near empty rail cars that had transported Jews to the camps, as well as photos taken on the train tracks; also includes large group photo of refugees with a flag reading "Lochamei Ha Ghetaot' in Hebrew characters

  6. Jewish theatre in England: Theatre programmes and other papers

    Collection of theatre programmes advertising productions on a Jewish theme by British Jewish players and theatre groups, some of which are for Jewish causes. Included are 2 photographs depicting the actors in theatrical poses. 

  7. Jewish Trade Unions in Lithuania (Fond 1141)

    The collection contains statues, correspondence files, membership lists, circular letters, minutes of the board meetings, applications for membership of the trade unions, professional, cultural , emigration and health organizations active in the prewar Lithuania: Artisan Union “ Ezras Paolim” in Telsiai, Lithuanian Jewish Coop Enterprises Association, ORT, “Education and Work”, Jewish Teachers Association “Hamore”, OZE, Jewish Refugee Support Committee and Jewish Theater and Art Support Association etc.

  8. The Jewish Transcript (Seattle, Washington) [Newspaper]

  9. Jewish Union for resistance and mutual aid Fonds David Diamant/Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et l'entr'aide (UJRE)

    This collection contains information about David Diamant (David Erlich), a Communist who remained in Paris during World War II, took part in the Resistance, and after the war worked with the UJRE helping Jewish refugees from Poland. It includes documents concerning Jewish immigrants in the Communist Party; documents of Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War; the final letters of Jewish resistance fighters before their execution; postwar personal files on Polish Jews requesting aid; files on children in Communist-sponsored orphanages (Comité central de l'enfance); books from lending libr...

  10. Jewish war orphans Holland: copy official documents

    This collection consists of case papers relating to the fate of Dutch Jewish foster children whose parents died during the Holocaust. Eleven cases are represented here, out of a total of 1363.

  11. Jewish war veterans, parade, protest

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 130, Part 2. Release date, 03/23/1933. Jewish War Veterans parade in New York City to protest Nazi persecution of German Jews. The men are nicely dressed and some wear American flag pins in their lapels or carry American flags. There is a large crowd both watching and marching. Aerial view of two groups marching. MS of people watching the parade. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:17:33 Washington, DC "Ban on beer lifted as President signs bill legalizing brew" 01:18:47 Chicago, IL "Windy City shivers as sleet and freeze greet gentle Spring" 01:19:28 Pal...

  12. Jewish wedding in German-occupied Netherlands

    Marriage of Dutch Jews Collette de Zwarte and Gerrit Schellevis in the Synagogue Rapenbargerstradt in Amsterdam.

  13. Jewish wedding in German-occupied Netherlands, wearing stars

    Marriage of Dutch Jews Jim de Zwarte and Rosa Wertheim in the Nieuwe Synagoge [New Synagogue] in Amsterdam, 1942. The couple is wearing star of david badges.

  14. Jewish wedding in Holland

    Wertheimer family, CUs, jumping rope. Jewish wedding of Alfred Wertheimer (a cellist) and Marion Warner in Amsterdam, Holland on May 19, 1937. 01:04:52 Family trips: beach, Pension Belvedere, CUs girls, young women, Wertheimer family members posing in a garden. The newly married couple, Alfred and Marion.

  15. Jewish wedding in Sofia

    The Jewish wedding of Aharon Mevorach and Lutzy Pincas in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1935 (probably in May). The couple arrives at the Central Synagogue of Sofia, poses, and greets guests. They move toward the exit of the synagogue where a carriage waits to transport the newly married couple to their home. Aharon's brother, Dr. Leon Mevorach, filmed the event. Family members shown include: Baruch and Dudah Mevorach; Dr. Daniel Pincas and Dora Pincas (nee Mevorach); Stefie (wife of Dr. Leon Mevorach who films the wedding) and their son Baruch (called Bubie), with a white beret; Baron Mevorah, the yo...

  16. Jewish wedding of Holocaust survivors in Salonika, March 1953

    Color. Ocean. Boats. Waves wash over rocks. More boats on the horizon. INT, an older woman clasping a necklace around the neck of a younger woman in white, the bride, a Holocaust survivor from Kastoria, Lena Elias. A little girl sits next to her. They are all fancily dressed. More women, including Kastoria Holocaust survivor Berry Nahmia, join them and tend to Lena, fixing her hair, attaching her veil, arranging it over her face, adjusting her train, etc. Lena paces, smiling. Low-lit shot of Lena sitting surrounded by two young children and other family members. The groom, a Jewish Holocaus...

  18. Jewish Women's Association Zürich Archive Israelitischer Frauenverein Zürich Archiv

    Records of the Israeli Women's Association (Israelitische Frauenverein Zürich, IFZ): Statutes, minutes of the Board of Directors and the General Assembly, minutes of the meetings of the Children's home in Heiden, reference files handwritten by the association's presidents: Berty Guggenheim-Wyler, Sonja Weintraub, Myrthe Dreyfuss, correspondence and people dossiers relating to the care for children’s home, refugees, the poor, child and youth welfare, debt recovery of the Kinderheims Wartheim in Heiden, newspaper and magazine articles on the IFZ and Kinderheim Wartheim, photos, and delivery n...

  19. Jewish Workers and the Masses Handbill urging Jews and workers to remain and build a Socialist Poland

    Handbill issued by the Bund, the Jewish Workers Party in Poland (Ogólny Zydowski Zwiazek Robotniczy] urging Jewish workers and to remain in Poland and to build the future with the Socialist government in opposition to reactionary forces who might otherwise gain power.

  20. Jewish workers demonstration

    Title in Ukrainian reads: "Proskurov ( now Khmel'nyts'ki). Jewish workers have organized an anti-Passover demonstration." Jewish workers organize an anti-Passover demonstration. VS of large crowds of workers, both men and women, gathered in the streets of the town of Proskurov ( now Khmel'nytski), Ukraine for a street demonstration.