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  1. Sign used to identify the home of a Jew

    Small sign identifying the residence of a Jew. Signs such as this were posted in order to humiliate Jews in Germany.

  2. Robert Holczer papers

    The Robert Holczer papers include Hungarian identification and labor papers and Bor labor camp postcards documenting the experiences of Robert, Nelli, and Lajos Holczer during World War II in Hungary and Yugoslavia. Identification and labor papers include Robert’s labor card, a Swiss protective passport for Robert and Nelli, and identification cards documenting Robert’s and Nelli’s work for a medical clinic in 1944 in Budapest. Lajos Holczer’s postcards from the Bor labor camp to his wife and son document his own health and unease at being separated from them.

  3. Dorothy Shapiro collection

    Consists of American newspaper articles discussing the situation of Jews in the immediate postwar era. Includes two letters from the Vaad Hatzala rescue organization addressed to Dorothy Shapiro, dated March and April 1945, acknowledging her fundraising efforts.

  4. Warsaw ghetto scenes (before and after Uprising)

    Excerpts from Nazi film footage. Many people crossing over a footbridge into the ghetto. Homeless people sitting in the street. LSs of tenement buildings. Shots of bodies being taken off the street and loaded onto a death cart. Tanks on road. Brief shot that showing two German soldiers (SS?) standing in the middle of the street with damgaed buildings on either side. Smoke fills the street. The narration states that this is footage of the 1943 uprising and it appears quite similar to "Stroop Report" still photos. Distant shot of fires burning, then panning shot of destroyed ghetto.

  5. Edwin Chwedyk photograph

    Image of Edwin Chwedyk, created by unknown photographer, 1939, Lublin, Poland.

  6. Jews mistreated; Riga synagogue burned

    Men and policemen beating Jewish men in the street, dragging one man, punching one man. Fire in Riga synagogue (see fire through stained glass windows).

  8. The Eternal Jew Poster for an anti-semitic film

  9. Bible

    Bible printed by the Vaad Hatzala.

  10. The New York Times (New York, New York) [Newspaper]

  11. Prayer book

    Jewish prayer book carried by Goddle Chudi while umprisoned in several camps before entrusting it to Isaac Neuman in 1945 in Ebensee. It was given to Goddle by his father before the war. It was probably charred during the Nazi book burning party in Ebensee. A Tikkun is "an unpointed copy of the printed Pentateuch used for practice in reading the Scroll of the Law," in other words a printed copy of the Five Books of Moses (the Torah) used to practice Torah readings.

  12. Russian monuments destroyed

    Man smashing plaster statue with a sledgehammer. Group of men pulling down bust of statue with ropes. Man cutting into a tapestry picture of Stalin's head. Crowd cheering.

  13. Hadassah Rosensaft photograph collection

    The papers consist of one photograph of Benjamin Bimko-Preizerowicz, son of Hadassah Bimko-Rosensaft [donor] and Josef Preizerowicz, who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, on December 3, 1937 and died at Auschwitz-Birkenau on August 4, 1943. The papers also include a photograph of a group of Jewish men with raised hands that was taken in Będzin, Poland, in September 1939.

  14. Oral history interview with Henry Meyer

  15. Henry Einstein collection

    Consists of depositions, interrogations, and evidence of the Office of the United States Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Nuremberg Military Tribunals. The documents relate to alleged war criminals, information on atrocities and crimes, and the persecution of Jews, Poles, and other nationals by the Nazi regime. Also includes various legal opinions and decisions relating to several restitution and indemnification cases after the war.

  16. Edith Pick Lowy papers

    Contains a letter written by Edith Pick Lowy donor to her father while both were interned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, another letter written by Edith Pick from the Leipzig Hasag subcamp of Buchenwald to her father in the Buchenwald concentration camp in December 1944, and a photocopy of a copyrighted and unpublished memoir written by Edith Lowy titled, "My War Years: 1941-1945," which relates to her experiences and to the experiences of her family in hiding in Poland.

  17. Otto Menczer papers

    The papers consist of a letter and a postcard written by Otto Menczer from the Dachau concentration camp to his parents and brother in Vienna, Austria, and a passport issued to Otto Menczer in Vienna, Austria, after his release from the Dachau concentration camp.

  18. Der Antifaschist Stimme der Deutschen aus Dachau

    The manuscript periodical, entitled "Der Antifaschist: Stimme der Deutschen aus Dachau" was published by the Dachau Concentration Camp German Committee in 1945. The main contributor, Oskar Müller, describes the inmates' fears that the Nazis would liquidate the camp prior to the Allies' arrival. The front cover features a drawing of a man sweeping away swastikas with a broom.

  19. Harriet D. Schwartz papers

    Harriet D. Schwartz papers, spanning 1927 to 1939, consist of letters, envelopes, and photographs. Letters are written in Yiddish and German cursive, along with some English translations to family in New York City. Letters describe the difficulties of Jews living in occupied Europe. Letters also account for pleas from multiple family members requesting help with immigration to the United States; including a family arranged marriage to a cousin. Writings on the envelopes document which family member was requesting help. Photographs of the family document prewar life.

  20. Charlotte R. Hofbauer papers

    The collection consists of a passport issued to Charlotte Neumann Rapaport, partially used ration card issued to Gerti Neuman Agoston, prescription for medication written for Irma Stein Neuman, postcard requesting aid for Irma Stein, and draft of a letter requesting housing for Irma Stein Neuman.