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  1. Albert and Alice Genis collection

    Consists of documents and family photographs that capture the pre- and postwar experiences of Albert and Alice Genis (formerly Genichowicz), the donor's parents. Additional documents include certificates indicating their residency of the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp from 1945 to 1951, papers related to their university studies in Munich, their ketubah, and their 1958 US Naturalization certificates after they immigrated to United States in 1951.

  2. Lepehne family papers

    Includes identification documents such as two Reisepass, or passports, for both Max Georg (Georg Israel) and Caecilie (Fran Georg) Lepehne that names their daughter, Renate Lara Lepehne, before they fled Cologne, Germany in 1939. There are also two Kennkarten, or identification cards, for both Caecilie and Renate. Also included are notarized copies of Max Georg's German Medical degree and certificate of his position as a medical doctor.

  3. Więzienie w Będzinie (Sygn. 1589) Prison in Będzin

    Personal files of prisoners of Jewish origin convicted of various crimes, e.g. theft, fraud. In addition, other materials, e.g. lists of prisoners, statistic data. Personal files contain the prisoner's personal data and characteristics, as well as an accusation and official correspondence.

  4. Ery Magasanik collection

    Consists of US naturalization certificates, identification documents such as Iranian passports and "Shenasnameh," or Iranian identity booklets similar to birth certificates, for the donors' parents, Michael (b. 1900) and Judith Magasanik (nee Bromberg, b. 1908) who left Bucharest in 1940 using the Iranian passports they obtained in the late 1920s as citizens of Iran. They eventually immigrated to the Miami and then settled in New York in 1942.

  5. Primo Levi correspondence

    Includes a series of handwritten and typewritten letters from Primo Levi to his cousin Anna Foa Yona between 1963 and 1986

  6. Leonard Reedy collection

    Consists of documents and photographs compiled in a multi-page document that illustrates Nazi war crimes and atrocities committed at the Helmbrechts concentration camp for forced labor and the Volary (Vondnany) death march. The evidence was brought to the United States from Germany by the donor’s father, Leonard Earl Reedy, Chief Warrant Officer in the United States Army.

  7. Court of the First Instance in Szczekociny Sąd Grodzki w Szczekocinach (Sygn. 1846)

    Court files in civil and criminal matters in which one of the parties was a person of Jewish origin. Post-war materials regarding real estate owned by Jews, applications for correction or reconstruction of birth, death or other documents.

  8. Saturday Evening Post

    Includes an issue of The Saturday Evening Post with the illustration "The Hitler Wallpaperer"by Kenneth Stuart on the cover

  9. German photograph album

    Consists of a German photo album acquired by US serviceman John Racik Jr. (b. 1925) while stationed in the region around Linz am Rhein, Germany. Included in the album are scenes of uniformed German troops at leisure and in the field. Other scenes depict family life, and show party figures such as Adolf Hitler.

  10. Leuwenkroon family collection

    The collection documents the prewar and wartime experiences of Isy Leuwenkroon (1920-2006) and his wife Lilly Lieba Brenig Leuwenkroon (b. 1926) in Belgium and France through twenty prewar family photographs, Isy and Lilly's wedding certificate, correspondence, and other documents such as permits and apartment leases. Additionally included is the couple's memoir titled "Jews Rescuing Jews During WWII: Isy and Lilly Leuwenkroon", which was written for the Library's memoir project.

  11. Cardozo family photographs

    Consists of photographs capturing the experiences of the Cardozo family before and during the war, including images such as a meal featuring David Lopes Cardozo and others wearing visible Star of David badges on their clothing, portraits of David's sons, Raphael and Max Lopes Cardozo, who perished in Terezin in 1944, and the wedding portrait of Julia Hendrika Lopes Cardozo and Yoel (Wolf) Strosberg in Antwerp, Belgium.

  12. Adler family papers

    Consists of correspondence received by the Adler family while they were residing as refugees in Switzerland. The letters, primarily addressed to the donor's parents, Camillo Adler (1905-1985) and Martha Kraus (1901-1969), were from other refugees and forced laborers from refugee and labor camps.

  13. Distenfeld family collection

    The collection consists of Joseph Distenfeld and Matilde Goldwurm’s tenaim (July 21, 1940) from Lvov, Poland (now Lʹviv, Ukraine), and ketubah (March 17, 1941). There are a range of postwar identity documents and emigration papers in Italian, English, and Hebrew, the bulk of which are from the family’s time in Milan, Italy. These include their son’s, Efraim (Fred), birth certificate There is some correspondence from their time in Italy, as well as the United States, where the family settled. Also included are some of Joseph’s education documents from pre-and-postwar.

  14. Prison in Chęciny Więzienie w Chęcinach (Sygn. 188)

    Personal files of prisoners of Jewish origin convicted of various crimes, e.g. theft, fraud. In addition, other materials, e.g. lists of prisoners, statistic data. Personal files contain the prisoner's personal data and characteristics, as well as an accusation and official correspondence.

  15. Oral history interview with Baruch Bobman

  16. Więzienie w Jędrzejowie (Sygn. 697) Prison in Jędrzejów

    Personal files of prisoners of Jewish origin convicted of various crimes, e.g. theft, fraud. In addition, other materials, e.g. lists of prisoners, statistic data. Personal files contain the prisoner's personal data and characteristics, as well as an accusation and official correspondence.

  17. Dr. Philip J. Noel Jr. photograph collection

    Consists of photographs and blank postcards taken and acquired by Dr. Philip J. Noel Jr., (COL) (RET) of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp and scenes of postwar destruction.

  18. Oral history interview with Abraham Munk

  19. Shapell family photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs documenting German-occupied Oświęcim, Poland, circa 1940-circa 1941, and refugees living in the Münchberg, Germany, displaced persons camp, circa 1946. The photographs of Oświęcim include depictions of buildings, Jewish men forcibly having their beards and sidelocks (peyot) cut off, street scenes, and Jews clearing snow under the presence of a German soldier. Included are undated typed captions in Polish, and English translations of the captions produced in 2013. The bulk of the photographs of Münchberg document a funeral and re-interment ceremony in 1...

  20. Oral history interview with Goldina Lefkowitz