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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. Oral history interview with Wicia Mutto

  7. Soltz family photographs

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

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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...

  12. Oral history interview with Josef Frischer

  13. Oral history interview with Sulamed Lev

  14. 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...

  15. 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.

  16. Eva and Győrgy [very brief]

    Eva walks out onto a patio and looks at the camera. MS, she is on the balcony, fixing her hair. She approaches the camera, as exposure starts to increase. Cut to a brief shot of Győrgy Pető. Film ends 00:12

  17. US Army jacket with insignia

    US Army jacket with insignia that belonged to George Topas, a Polish Jewish survivor. He taught himself English while in the camps. After his liberation, an American officer asked him if he wanted to join up as an interpreter and he became a member of the Yankee Division.

  19. Meinhardi, Strahl, and Stolze families papers

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs associated with the experiences of the extended Meinhardi family (families Strahl and Stolze) under National Socialism and in postwar Germany. Also includes material related to the Meinhardi family, formerly of Germany, who immigrated to the United States at the end of the 19th century. The Meinhardis continued to correspond to their relatives in Engish throughout the period and received first hand accounts of life in Nazi Germany into the immediate postwar years.

  20. Anti-Nazi caricature, discouraging revealing information, published by Palestine Government

    Anti-Nazi cartoon published in Palestine in the early 1940s, with a quote attributed to the book of Proverbs from the Hebrew Bible. The quote is erroneously attributed to Proverbs 21. verse 24 but it is actually Proverbs 21:23. Posters urging the public to be discrete about what information they reveal in conversations with strangers were common during World War II. Both the United States’ Security of War Information Campaign (also known as the Hush-Hush Campaign), and Britain’s Careless Talk Series were created to deliver similar messages. Following World War I, The League of Nations award...