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  3. Jewish family in Slovakia

    Pan, fenced estate in Gelnica, Slovakia. (01:00) Lola Engel (nee Schiffer) calls on a dog outside the estate. Three people (including Ernö’s sister Lola and her husband Nathan Engel) walk along the sidewalk and wave. Pan, steeple, and other buildings in the small town. “Danubius r.t. Budapest Pathé 9.5”

  4. Oral history interview with Janina Ludawska

  5. UNRRA selected records AG-018-024 : Luxembourg Mission

    Consists of correspondence and reports of the mission. Records relate to tracing of displaced persons, settlement of non-repatriable Poles, and help to deported Jews.

  6. Doll given to a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport

    A doll given to Esther Rosenfeld as a child by Dorothy Harrison when she was in the United Kingdom. Dorothy Harrison was the mother of the family that was caring for Esther after she arrived on the Kindertransport. She received the doll for Esther from an acquaintance who brought it over to the Harrison's home once she found out that Esther was a refugee living with the family in Norwich, England.

  7. Poster

    Bergen Belsen memorial poster

  9. Sara Nussbacher and Chaim Yeger collection

    Manuscripts in English and Hebrew documenting the experiences of Sara Nussbacher (nee Markowich) and Chaim Wolf Yeger. Includes copy of Hebrew manuscript by Tali Geva in 1989 about Chaim Yeger and the English translation by donors of that manuscript. Manuscript about Sara Nussbacher written in English by donors based on her oral history, and includes original photographs.

  10. Henry (Hank) M. and Marion Rosenwald collection

    Documents, correspondence and photographs of Henry (Hank) M. Rosenwald and Marion Marx Rosenwald. Henry M. Rosenwald and his parents Paul Rosenwald and Margarete (Grete) Rosenwald were able to emigrate to the U.S. from Germany with the help of their American Rosenwald cousins. Marion Marx was also an emigre from Germany. The collection includes items from WWI through Hank's death in 2001.

  11. Health Insurance Authority 355-5 Aufsicht über Versicherungen

    Selected files of individual insurance funds (mainly health and death funds). Consists of correspondence, cash registers, and applications.

  12. Ruth Leipziger photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of large group of men, women and children, the majority of whom are in costume (perhaps for Purim); inscription on verso written by Ruth Leipziger; dated New York March 23, 1939.

  14. Centro Recordatorio del Holocausto Selected records from the Holocaust Remembrance Center, Uruguay

    Testimonies of survivors in Uruguay, publications, correspondence, lists, photographs, minutes of meetings, including meetings of the General Assembly, members registers, visitor books, and financial files.

  15. Wedding canopy (chuppah) made by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    Blue cloth with embroidered Star of David in its center with the Hebrew word "Zion" in the center and around it in Hebrew "The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride." [Jeremiah 33:11]. In the lower left, embroidered in gold is "Joint A.J.D.C. made in Palestine" in Hebrew. metal loop attached to each corner in order to spread the canopy on poles.

  17. Jewish children in Budapest; Skiing road trip; City Park

    Éva (János’s sister) plays with a shovel in City Park in summer. Excursion to the country, on a hillside. János carries the camera bag. (01:15) János, Andris Berkes, and Gyuri Quittner race each other on the park pathway and play-wrestle. Along with fathers Sandor Berkes and Emi Quittner in knickerbockers, they hike in the hills and play tag in the grass. (03:52) János, Éva, mother Erzsébet, and the nurse-maid walk along the street in Budapest. János rides a pony at the zoo. (04:30) HAS mountains and countryside. The Schiffers and relatives sit outside overlooking the mountains. (05:06) Ski...

  18. Simon Wiesenthal letter

    Consists of a letter, with envelope, addressed to James Bogle, then a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, by Simon Wiesenthal. The 2 December 1977 letter, on the letterhead of the Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime (Dokumentationszentrum des Bundes Jüdischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes) includes Wiesenthal's reflections on Martin Bormann's death in 1945 and the observation that many governments were reluctant to prosecute Nazi criminals.