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  1. Oral history interview with Lisa Granér

  2. Cemetery Administration 325-1 Friedhofsverwaltung

    Consists of the register and plans of old burial places, and personnel files of the Cemetery Administration in Hamburg.

  3. Swearing-in Engelbert Dollfuss as chancellor; Heldenplatz

    Probably the May 20, 1932 swearing-in of Engelbert Dollfuss as chancellor of Austria. 01:00:29 Title: “Reception of the Cardinal Legation.” Crowded street scenes in Vienna as people watch parade of people carrying Catholic flags. 01:01:41 Archbishop of Vienna (later Cardinal) Theodor Innitzer. Crowded street scenes continue as several groups of men and boys, wearing different types of uniforms, march down the streets of Vienna. Informal shots of men wearing elaborate uniforms and hats. 01:04:41 A photographer prepares his camera on a tripod at the far left of the frame. 01:05:31 Title: “At ...

  4. Manfred and Adella Plaut collection

    Papers related to Manfred Plaut, including U.S. naturalization paperwork, identification documents, correspondence with the International Tracing Service regarding the fate of family members, and a photocopied chapter from the book "One, by one, by one : facing the Holocaust," by Judith Miller (1990). Also includes material related to Adella (Wachtenheim) Plaut, including her efforts to trace the fate of her family members.

  5. Records of the Sephardic Jewish Community of Uruguay (Comunidad Israelita Sefaradí)

    Registers of birth, marriage and death certificates, photographs of activities, administrative material and correspondence, records relating to various events, registers of social assistance, and minutes of meetings.

  6. Oral history interview with Mario Rufo

  7. Rothschild family papers

    The Rothschild family papers include biographical material, printed material, writings, and photographs relating to Salli and Johanna Rothschild and their family before the war in Bremen, Germany, their immigration, and the relocation of their bakery to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1937. Biographical materials include a birth certificate for Jack Leiner; a birth certificate and work papers from the Office of Censorship for Ilse Rothschild; a birth certificate, German passport (Reisepass), and a certificate of naturalization for Johanna Rothschild; and a birth certificate, German passport (Re...

  9. Oral history interview with Mona Levin

  13. Oral history interview with Lili Jodelsohn

  14. Jewish refugees leave Germany for Marseilles, 1948

    Platform in train station in Germany. Jewish refugees and officials and a truck in front of the passenger railcars. CU women and children waving and looking out of a train car: “PWA Reserve Zug 72” written on the side. CU refugees wave out of the open door of a train car. Door with sign: “nicht öffnen bevor der zug balt.” 01:08:10 A few men direct trucks. A truck is loaded with luggage and people. Second truck from the back, being loaded with luggage and people, License Plates: “Marseille B de R.A” and “5988 C n 5”. Trucks full of people driving down a road on a rocky, snowy hillside, heade...

  15. David Title papers

    The collection documents David Title’s involvement with United Apter Relief, a charitable organization that operated from 1942-1952 and provided financial relief and assistance to Jewish immigrants from Opatów, Poland residing in New York, Toronto, Montreal, Palestine, and displaced persons camps. The collection primarily consists of David’s organizational files, which include case files, financial documents, correspondence, notes, newsletters, and a notebook. The case files are interfiled with other materials and include letters, photographs, and documents related to individuals the organi...

  16. Association of Jewish merchants in Wilno (Vilnius, Lithuania) (Fond 338)

    The collection contains a complete set of records of the Association of Jewish Merchants in Wilno (Vilnius, Lithuania), 1919-1940. The collection includes minutes of the meetings of the association, bylaws, applications of the members, membership lists, annual activities and financial reports and books, records and verdicts of the Arbitrary Court, lists of shop owners, and financial records of the mutual aid committee. In addition also includes various correspondence with Jewish organizations and communities in Poland and members of the association, local municipal authorities, Ministry of ...

  17. Oral history interview with Hilde Back

  18. Selected records of the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts from the State Archive in Banská Bystrica

    Consists of selected records from 15 collections concerning the persecution of Jews in Slovakia (1945-1948) and pertaining the trials and investigations of Slovaks and former Hlinka guard members tried in the court in the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts for collaborating with the German security forces. Contains files on the aryanization, deportation of Jews from Banská Bystrica in 1942, hiding of Jews, denunciation and detention of Jews, arrest of Communists, Jews and Roma, the ghetto in Lučenec, mass murder in Dolný Turček, guards in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, impris...

  19. Oral history interview with Siggi Korn

  20. UNRRA selected records AG-018-017 : Denmark Mission

    Consists of monthly reports, statistics, financial records and correspondence relating to assistance to displaced persons, repatriation cases, tracing of war victims, and welfare activities of the Danish Red Cross and other voluntary agencies.