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  1. Judith W. Adler collection

    Consists of eighteen photographs, which depict Judith Adler's experiences in Kibbutz Tikva in Aschau am Inn, Germany; after her journey on the Exodus 1947 on board the Ocean Vigour; in Pöppendorf internment camp; and in Emden, Germany.

  2. Abraham Ackerstein collection

    Consists of two documents from the SS Marine Flasher, thirty photographs, and three small photograph albums from the displaced persons camp in Föhrenwald, Germany, relating to Abraham Ackerstein.

  3. German and Austrian Immigrants Association collection (Hitachduth Olej Germania)

    Consists of printed proclamations, notices, invitations and book printed on behalf of the German and Austrian Immigrants Association, based in Tel Aviv, between 1935-1938. Also includes a booklet, entitled "Missive to Immigrants from Western Europe," which was printed in German and Hebrew in 1938.

  4. Invasion of Poland

    Funeral in Gdansk of Gauleiter Joseph Wessel, who was shot by a "Polish gang," followed by footage of ethnic German refugees fleeing alleged persecution by the Poles. CUs of women and blond children with tear-stained faces. Extreme CU of an older man wearing glasses and an older woman in a head scarf. Burning houses supposedly set on fire by the Poles. The newsreel cuts off abruptly.

  8. Zajt Frajlich = Be Happy

    1. Jewish experience ephemera and manuscript collection

    Program for a theatrical production of the Idischer Dramatischer Krajz (Jewish Dramatic Group) at the displaced persons camp, Landsberg/Lech, undated, circa late 1940s.

  9. Documents related to Displaced Persons in Italy

    1. Holocaust era antisemitic publication collection

    Consists of letters, protocols, and reports sent to the Executive Committee of the Histadrut trade union by various aid organizations working in displaced persons camps in Italy between 1944-1947. Includes records related to a variety of aid organizations, including the HeChalutz HaEchad, the Jewish Agency, and the Union of Jewish Soldiers, and a variety of displaced persons camps, including Bari.

  10. She'erit Hapletah documents

    1. Holocaust era antisemitic publication collection

    Consists of letters, memos and reports sent to the Histadrut in Tel Aviv, including letters, a report of a conference in the American zone, report about the situation in camps, a copy of the Yidisher Invalid (a publication of a society for Jewish handicapped in the American zone in 1948), the invitation to the 1948 wedding of a Jewish couple in Munich.

  11. Oral history interview with Paul Reutlinger

  13. Robert A. Bauer papers

    Contains material, including scripts and press clippings, pertaining to Robert Bauer's activities broadcasting anti-Nazi programs from France and Normandy. Also includes personal papers regarding his entry into the United States.

  14. Berman and Donner papers

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, written in 1944 by a "Mr. Donner" describing his experiences at Jasenovac. Also enclosed is letter to USHMM from Berman, who met Donner and his family when he was in the U.S. Army in Taranto, Italy, and the Donners were refugees there. Includes photos of Donner family taken in Taranto by Berman, 1945.

  15. Lutz Haase collection

    Contains official documents concerning donor's status as a political refugee in Shanghai during the war. Collection of booklets and newspapers are published by the "Association of Former Central European Refugees from Shanghai." Also includes 27 photographs taken in the Hongkew ghetto between 1943-1948, described by the donor.

  17. Ada Sereni collection

    Contains three reports by Ada Sireni, one of the heads of Mossad LeAliyah Bet in Italy, which supported illegal immigration of Jewish refugees to Palestine in the years immediately after the war. The reports concern ships used for the transfer of weapons.

  18. Oral history interview with Greta Fischer

  19. Kenneth X. Robbins collection

    Collection contains photocopy of telegrams, maps (the Polish Children's Camp, 1942-1946 in India, Jamuagar-Balachadi, and the evacuation map from the Soviet Union to India), notes, clippings and British Library records relating to Polish Refugees in India. Documents illustrate that there were at least some Jews among the Polish refugee camp at Valivade in Kohlapur state and Balachadi in Nawanagar state.

  20. George Stein papers

    Contains one document from the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, six photographs from the Admont displaced persons camp, and three black and white Israeli army photographs.