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  1. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. Oral history interview with Nikolaus Grüner

  6. Celia Persitz Brown collection

    Contains photographs and newspaper clippings (dated circa 1990s) of articles about the voyage of the MS St. Louis, as well as two photographs of unidentified passengers boarding the MS St. Louis in Hamburg, and one postwar photograph of Erich Greilsamer.

  7. Oral history interview with Oscar Trief

  8. The Archives of the World ORT Union Head Office

    Files of the headquarters of World ORT Union in Geneva, which signed an agreement in 1981 with the Central Archives to deposit the material in Jerusalem. The collection includes minutes, organization statuses, correspondence, bank statements, reports and plans, published journals, bulletins, pamphlets, printed booklets, photographs, video materials, and press clippings, and various materials related to emigration, education, welfare, administration of the Jewish communities on international scale.

  9. Health Insurance Agencies 355-4 Versicherungsbehörden

    Selected records of the Versicherungsbehörden (German Health Insurance Agencies), 1847-1954. Consist of minutes of director's meetings, records of employment of legal advisors, and for civil servant positions concerning German-Jewish community; negotiations between associations of dentists and health insurance companies about contracts and regulations, exclusion of the Jewish Hospital from the treatment of "Aryan" health insurance members, files relating of regulation for care for political prisoners in concentration camps, and compulsory insurance for guards of the concentration camps, and...

  10. RZ 105 Office of the German Under Secretary RZ 105 Büro Unterstaatssekretär 1936-1945

    Records related to diplomatic relations between Germany and foreign countries, including Italy, Japan, Poland, and the Soviet Union, concerning the "Jewish question." Consists of correspondence, telegrams, propaganda materials, articles and newspaper clippings.

  11. Family poses in blooming garden and eats a meal

    AGFA 8. János and Marika Pető with their aunt Rose, playing in the garden, flowering bushes, probably in Summer 1940. CUs as János smells the flowers. Family group sits at an outdoor restaurant, nice CUs. Film ends 01:00

  12. Anne Birnbaum collection

    Contains letters written by Annie Zwern in Frankfurt am Main to relatives in the United States before the war; a document dated June 1939 regarding the registration of a family with German police in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; and a newspaper clipping with a photograph of Blanka Zwern and her daughter Anna arriving on the S.S. Marine Marlin in New York.

  13. Oral history interview with Michael Meschke

  14. Jack Neufeld papers

    Consists of correspondence, restitution and naturalization documentation, pertaining to the experiences of Jack (Jurek) Neufeld, born 1922 in Wolbrom, Poland. The correspondence includes letters from families Schwinghammer and Preis of Eggenfelden, Germany, who Jack knew well from his time living as a displaced person in the community.

  15. Major John B. Calfee collection

    Visitors Pass authorizing bearer to enter any part of the Dachau concentration camp, issued to "Lt. Col. Hogan, Capt. Calfee, & driver."

  17. Adolf Eichmann memorandum

    Memorandum on the reorgnization of the Viennese Jewish community issued by Adolf Eichmann

  18. Reich Trustee of Labor 356-4 Reichstreuhänder der Arbeit

    Selected records of the Reichstreuhänder der Arbeit (Reich Trustee of Labor). Consists of regulations and correspondence.

  19. Oral history interview with Gerry Clarke