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  1. Collection of documents

    Contains an identity card ("Kennkarte"), a yellow card marked on front with "J," issued to Chana Bajla Filozof, born in Łódź, Poland, on January 15, 1922; photograph of bearer affixed. Includes an "Arbeitsausweis" (worker identification card), an employment certificate of "Organisation Todt," dated circa 1944, issued to Carlo Michelutti, born 23 May 1888. Also includes an official letter printed on the stationery of "Der Oberste Kommissar in der Operationszone 'Adriatisches Küstenland'" (the commissioner of the operation zone of the Adriatic Coast), Trieste, dated April 28, 1945, regarding ...

  2. Oral history interview with Morris Pelta

  3. Oral history interview with Harry Schaire

  4. Selected records from the State District Archive Pelhřimov

    Administrative records from various towns and districts in Bohemia and Moravia concerning anti-Jewish regulations and the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets. Includes name lists and registers of local Jews. Consists of selected records from 16 collections of the State District Archive Pelhrimov (Státní okresní archiv Pelhřimov) : District office Humpolec (Okresní úřad Humpolec) (1799) 1855-1945 (1951); District office Kamenice nad Lipou (Okresní úřad Kamenice nad Lipou) (1808) 1855-1943 (1953); District office Pelhrimov I (Okresní úřad Pelhřimov I) 1850 -1945 (1956); District sch...

  6. Irene Reiner collection

    The Irene Reiner collection illustrates the experiences of Irén (Irene) Mondschein Reiner surrounding the war. It includes her passport, original photographs, identification cards, translated correspondence, and original certificates. A hardcover Hungarian passport issued to Irén Reiner in 1946 also includes the name of her son, Robert. A stamped Jewish identification card with an original portrait photo of Irene, issued in 1944, indicates that as a registered nurse, the holder must wear a yellow star and can travel between a set number of hours during the day in Budapest. Documents relatin...

  7. Housing and Settlement Office 353-3 Wohnwirtschafts- und Siedlungsamt

    Selected records relating to residential housing estates and construction projects for individual settlers in Hamburg, 1940. The entire collection contains general files on organizational and personnel matters, and on the overall planning and on individual projects. The largest part of the records are the settlement files to small, outskirts, group, unemployed, SA, state, factory and residential housing estates and construction projects of individual settlers in Hamburg (before and after the Greater Hamburg Act) and for places outside of Hamburg: Ahrensburg, Buchholz/Kreis Harburg, Bünnings...

  8. 1934 Vienna street scenes; perfomer's dressing room

    Vienna car repair shop. Franz Hausner with camera. CUs, couple - man in tan hat with monocle and woman with flower hat. Reflection in a shop window of 3 of the friends, CUs. Wiener Staatsoper (opera house in Vienna). "Sirk-Ecke" sign, a popular place for bourgeois people to meet [Karl Kraus wrote about this corner in his "The Last Days of Mankind"] in Vienna. Newspaper stand on busy street corner. Camera follows a man, others tip their hat to him. City street with airlines “Luftverkehr” “Air France” Looking into a shop window: “STEYR. Sonderschau. Verkaufshallen Schwarzenberg Platz 18. 1. M...

  9. Selected records of the Moreshet Archives (Givʻat Ḥavivah, Israel)

    Consists of three group of records: 1. Testimonies and Memoirs (RG A): contains texts written by survivors, or interviewers, as well as audio and video recordings of interviews; 2. Personal Collections (RG C): contains approximately one-hundred collections of private archives and personal estates that have been entrusted to the Moreshet Archive over the years. The private archives and estates consist of a wide variety of materials, such as letters, photographs, manuscripts, and works of art; 3. Documents, Letters, and Journals (RG D.1): contains official government documents, personal docum...

  10. Sightseeing; Skiing

    INTs, the family sits on a couch, drinking coffee. Lion sculpture, female tour-guide. The mates hold hands around a large tree (dark). They visit historic places, gardens, churches in Kolín. Scenic views of a river. Church. Cute kittens. Downed trees. 01:02:19 An elderly man (Solomon) stands in the road, possibly in Czechoslovakia near the family factory in Jihlava. 01:02:23 Outside a hotel or resort (people lounge on chairs), brief shot of Ferdinand Hausner walking towards the camera accompanied by a young man with glasses (who appears in other films). Walter in a dark sui, walks on a wood...

  11. Oral history interview with Wicia Mutto

  12. Soltz family photographs

    Contains pre-war photographs of Eishyshok [Eišiškės, Eisiskes; Lithuania].

  13. Ludmila Obolensky-Flam collection

    Collection of photographs and photographic postcards, some bearing inscriptions, depicting friends of Ludmila Obolensky-Flam who were massacred in 1941 in Riga, Latvia.

  14. Archives of the Directorate of Reserves and Veterans Affairs of the Hellenic Ministry of National Defense

    The collection contains military reports related to activities of the Greek partisans and criminal activities of occupying forces during WWII.

  15. Ella Menke Leeser letter

    Copy of a 5 page typewritten letter describing the experiences of the Leeser family, originally from Germany, while in hiding during the Holocaust in the Netherlands. The letter was authored in June 1945 by Ella Menke Leeser and her daughter Yonny and sent to relatives in Argentina. The letter contains information about the various Dutch aid givers and unique circumstances in which Ella and her two children, George and Yonny, were able to survive.

  16. Newlyweds visit Venice, Bitola, and London

    HAS, Julian and Esther Aresty on a trip to Bitola, probably in Summer 1936 after their wedding on June 18, 1936. The couple was living in Chicago at the time. They stand near the railing of a ship’s deck. Waves pass. People play shuffleboard, talk, and pose for photographs on the deck. A passing ship on the horizon line. Very brief shot of men playing a game on the ship. Pan of the sea and land on the horizon, shots of people on deck. 01:48 HAS, pan of tiled rooftops, Cathedral spire, gardens with a large fountain. Esther stands on terraced steps, waving to the camera. Julian in the country...

  17. Oral history interview with Josef Frischer

  18. Oral history interview with Sulamed Lev

  19. Records of the Jerusalem Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    This collection consists of records relating to relief initiatives overseen by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Jerusalem Office (JDC) in the aftermath of World War II in the Yishuv/Israel and internationally. Includes records of the JDC’s partnerships with Jewish communities worldwide, such as those in Australia and South Africa, to send essential supplies to recipients in Palestine, later Israel, and to detainees in the British internment camps on Cyprus; records of shipments of food packages to European survivors, especially to the Soviet Far East, through Teheran and Is...

  20. Werner Jakubowski papers

    The Werner Jakubowski papers primarily consist of correspondence between Werner Jakubowski while he was a refugee in France and his brother Stephan Jakubowski in New York City. Werner’s letters are from Gurs or from Meillon par Assat, in the Basses Pyrenees. The correspondence describes Werner’s family situation in France and documents efforts by family and friends to transfer funds to them from New York and to aid their immigration to the US.