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  1. Association of Jewish engineers in Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) (Fond 326)

    This collection contains minutes of the meetings of the Association of Jewish Engineers in Wilno ( Vilnius), Poland and its board, lists of members and engineers according to their professional qualifications, applications for the membership and copies of their professional diplomas (1932-1939), statistical data, annual reports about association activities, correspondence with other Jewish organizations (ORT, OSE) and branches of the Association in Poland ( Kraków, Lwów), bylaws, financial documentation, and questionnaires of unemployed members of the Assosiation (1940).

  2. Oral history interview with Juliana Weiss

  3. Jewish children prepare to embark on the SS Mouzinho, 1941

    Jewish refugee children, many from internment camps in unoccupied France, gather in Portugal to embark on the SS Mouzinho for the United States. The voyage, including hundreds of Jewish refugees, was arranged by the JDC, with assistance from the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM), HICEM, OSE, and the American Friends Service Committee. 01:00:03 At a children’s colony in São Pedro do Estoril, Portugal, LS of a road before the “Colónia Balnear Infantil Do Seculo” building. Beach. Men and women direct a large group of young refugees (children and teenagers) to li...

  4. Comunidad Israelita Húngara del Uruguay Records of the Hungarian Jewish Community of Uruguay

    The Statut of the community, minutes of the Board of Directors, registration of donations, accounting books, registration of letters, alphabetical index of partners, cemetery registers, real estate, and dead persons index.

  5. Etta Teich collection

    Contains a Hebrew School report card issued to Etta Teich while a student in the Eschwege displaced persons camp.

  6. Office of Welfare Institutions I 351-12 I Amt für Wohlfahrtsanstalten I

    Selected records of the Amt für Wohlfahrtsanstalten (Office of Welfare Institutions), mostly files related to Jewish inmates, 1901-1940. Consists of correspondence, files and registers of Jewish inmates.

  7. Jürgen Stroop statement

    The Jürgen Stroop statement consists of a 14-page handwritten statement prepared by Jürgen Stroop, an SS-Gruppenführer who led the effort to repress the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943. The statement, dated 26 April 1946 in Wiesbaden, Germany, includes details about the preparation and military action to suppress the uprising.

  9. Oral history interview with Judith Beker Meisel

  10. Oral history interview with Salvator Moshe

  11. Irving Fink photograph collection

    The collection includes three photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and a photograph of US soldiers in Domazlice, Czechoslovakia. Irving Fink, who served in the United States Army, brought the photographs home with him after the war.

  12. Schiffer family life before the Holocaust

    Scenes may include Laci Czukor, Gyuri Brody (friend of Erzsébet’s with two daughters) and Sanyi Berkes and his son Andris (cousin of Ernö’s). Éva Schiffer holds her crib and walks around in her room. (01:33) János sits in his bed. (02:36) János learns how to ice skate, and skates with his father. The skating rink in City Park crowded with people, spectators from the bridge. (05:01) János and Erzsébet enter the gate to 33 Pasareti ut. (possibly the home of a great-aunt after grandfather died). CUs, women in courtyard, looking at photographs/letter with János. (06:15) János and his mother pic...

  13. Oral history interview with Leon Weintraub

  14. Alexander Bachur law office 621-1/82 Alexander Bachur

    Office records of the Jewish lawyer, Dr. Alexander Bachur. Contains only client files.

  15. Oral history interview with Gabriella Kassius

  17. Oral history interview with Eva Lecerof

  18. Oral history interview with Max Eisen

  19. Philip and Ruth Markowicz collection

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to and documenting Philip and Ruth Markowicz and their and their families experiences after the Holocaust. Includes several identity cards issued to Fajwel Markowicz, formerly held in Gross Rosen, after the war. Also includes an envelope of photographs documenting the Nordhausen concentration camp after liberation.

  20. Harold and Pirry Roth papers

    Consists of a scrapbook, correspondence, clippings, restitution documents, IDs, naturalization documents, and other original materials pertaining to Pirry and Harold Roth, formerly of Uzhhorod and later of the United States. Pirry and Harold married in 1939 before Harold immigrated to the United States with his parents. Pirry was to later follow but her plans to emigrate from Europe were disrupted by the war. Pirry survived deportation to Auschwitz and was liberated at Plön in 1945. After her liberation she was reunited with Harold who had been serving in the US Army. The couple married for...