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  1. Orbach family papers

    The collection primarily consists of Holocaust-era photographs of the Orbach family, originally of Częstochowa, Poland. Includes depictions of Elias and Dobra Orbach, their sons Heniek (in the center) and Cadok. The photograph of Cadok (on the left) was taken in France shortly after he was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp. Also included is Zeev Orbach’s Association des Anciens Prisonniers Hitleriens Israel card which lists him as a prisoner of the Tschenstochau (Częstochowa) and Buchenwald camps.

  2. Sightseeing in Berlin and German-occupied Paris

    Side street. German officer stands next to a car: “M30 Pf4 4 To.” He kneels beside the car and talks to a mechanic working underneath it. He climbs up to the driver’s seat. River. People ride bikes. The Schlossbrücke bridge in Mitte, Berlin, with the Berliner Dom in the BG. The Pont d'Iéna bridge across the River Seine in Paris, and the Eiffel tower. Large building with a dome. Other Paris buildings. The Luxor Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde, with the L'église de la Madeleine in the BG shot from the Pont de la Concorde. The Arc de Triomphe on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Corner of Rue...

  3. Louis Lex, Jr. collection

    Contains a black-and-white photographic print of a pile of corpses in the newly-liberated Dachau concentration camp, kept in an envelope from Rays Photo Service, La Crosse, Wisconsin; no inscription on verso. The image was part of a series taken by the Yugoslav Prisoner Committee and widely distributed to American soldiers; dated May 4, 1945. Acquired by Private Louis Lex, Jr. (donor’s father) who served in the US Army during WWII as a member of the 66th Black Panther Division, 264th Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Company L.

  4. Collection of materials for the history of the Jewish population in Łódź Zbiór materiałów do dziejów ludności żydowskiej w Łodzi (Sygn.205)

    This collection contains records relating to the history of the Jewish population in Łódź between 1939-1945. Includes bulletins, lists of various economic investments, a city administration telephone directory and correspondence, a collection of documents related to the creation of the ghetto, information leaflets (NSDP), court files in civil cases, correspondence of the Police (Gestapo. Geheime Staatspolitzei Litzmannstadt), lists of displaced people to Germany, Himmler directives, military messages from Hitler's headquarters, statistical summaries on the Łódź real estate, name lists of te...

  5. Rosenzweig family collection

    Telephone directory, dated November 1939, of immigrants in Shanghai, China. Alphabetical directory containing the names of each Shanghai resident, their original city [such as Vienna, Austria], their profession and their Shanghai address. Also included are the names of the Shanghai Jewish committee. Used by Nuta and Dina Rosenzweig [donor’s paternal grandparents] who fled with their son from Frankfurt, Germany in winter 1938-39 for Shanghai after Nuta was arrested and imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp.

  6. Command of the uniformed Government police in Brno Velitelství uniformované vládní policie v Brně (B 327)

    Administrative matters, including anti-Jewish and anti-Roma measures; directives and orders; records pertaining to forced laborers, partisans, prisoners-of-war, the deportation of Jews, and other relevant records.

  7. Arrow Cross execution photographs

    Consists of 34 photographs depicting the executions of Arrow Cross leaders. Included are images of Ferenc Szálasi's execution on 12 March 1946 alongside Gábor Vajna, Károly Beregfy, and József Gera.

  8. Naomi Waldman collection

    Contains four photographs depicting young people, including Holocaust survivors, in Anvers and Brussels, Belgium, dated 1944-1945; all captioned on verso, some with personal inscriptions.

  9. Emil Engl collection

    Contains a Deutsches Reich Reisepass issued to Emil Engl (donor's father); marked with red "J" stamped on first page; issued in Vienna, Debruary 27, 1939. Emil fled Vienna and immigrated to Palestine in 1939, where he joined the Haganah.

  10. Judenrat in Wilno Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Wilno (Sygn. 269)

    Records of the Judenrat in Wilno. Contains private documents of Szlam Prener: a proof of payment, a registration certificate, and a request to pay the tax applicable to the Jewish population in Vilnius.

  11. British Pathé Newsreel -- Austrian and German refugees take part in an Americanization program at a Quaker camp

    RKO-Pathe News. Titles read: "HAVEN - QUAKERS ESTABLISH NY REFUGEE FARM". At West Park American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), several shots of Austrian and German refugees of various ages sitting on steps and chairs outside a building and learning about the American way of life in 'Americanization Classes'. Adults and children work together in picking fruit and vegetables in fields on the Quaker camp. Commentator says the program is designed to re-establish the refugees socially and spiritually. Several shots of young people diving into a lake and swimming about.

  12. British Pathé (Unissued/Unused) -- Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann confesses to his role in the Holocaust

    Various shots inside the courtroom in Jerusalem, where a tape-recorder is being played. This is playing back the confession of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Shots of Eichmann, the judges, etc. Note: The confession is heard in German and then translated by the voice-over. He downplays his role in the Holocaust but admits his guilt and offers to be hanged in public as a deterrent to others. He had fled from Germany to Argentina after the war.

  13. Wendy Ramirez photograph collection

    Set of boxed images with type-written and corresponding printed list of images, all stamped with corresponding number on reverse. Images depict United States Armed Forces.

  14. Ruth Pizyc Berlinger collection

    Contains a memoir (photocopy of an original held by Yad Vashem) written by Miriam Pizyc Flint (donor's sister) regarding the Warsaw ghetto uprising; a letter and envelope written to Ruth in Sweden after the war by Casimier Bieberstein (later Casimir Biebers) in Canada, in English; letter in Polish written to Ruth from a friend dated June 19, 1946; family photographs and copy print of Ruth with her husband and friends in Stockholm after the war; and a glass negative with image of Ruth and her pet dog taken in pre-war Warsaw, circa 1936-1937.

  15. Judenrat in Kobierzyn Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Kobierzyn (Sygn.259)

    Records of the Judenrat in Kobierzyn, Poland. Consists of blank banking forms of the Staatliche Irrenanstalt in Kobierzyn (State Mental Institution) used as the proof of payments for particular people. Name of people are handwritten on the top of the forms: Salomea Gdańska, Estera Goldbrrim vel Spitzberg, Rozalia Mendel, Paula Messner, Antonina Mink vel Adler, Szwajer Munk, Filip Rieger, Chaja Schwarz, Laja Szwajcer, Siegbert Tichlauer, Elsa Wechsberg.

  16. Karl Otto Herz memoir

    Contains an unpublished manuscript entitled "Auschwitz: ein Tatsachenroman" by Karl Otto Herz (typescript; approximately 500 unnumbered pages; forward dated 31 December 1945 in Linz). Given to the family of Walter Vogel (donor's husband), probably by the author.

  17. Selected records of the Office of War Damages at the Presidium of the Council of Ministers in Warsaw Biuro Odszkodowań Wojennych przy Prezydium Rady Ministrów w Warszawie (Sygn. 291)

    Orders, circulars, correspondence, statements, registers, correspondence diaries, letters regarding losses and war damages in Poland during World War II, destruction of state-owned buildings, industrial objects, forestry and agriculture, as well as material losses of private citizens, and biological losses of population. Included are also materials regarding revindication and compensation of war damages, and war damages in other European countries.

  18. Police headquarters in Brno Policejní ředitelství Brno (B 26)

    Records pertaining to anti-Jewish measures, the treatment and deportation of Jews and Roma, the aryanization and expropriation of Jewish properties and assets, lists of Jews and foreigners including prisoners at the Gestapo headquarters on Orlí street, and other relevant records

  19. Inspector of the uniformed Protectorate police in Moravia Inspektor uniformované protektorátní policie na Moravě (B 300)

    Includes daily orders and reports from 1943 to 1945; records pertaining to the fight against partisans and paratroopers including lists of anti-partisan volunteers; arrest records; records pertaining to American, British, French, Italian and Russian POWs, forced laborers, black market profiteers, the use of convicts for the removal of unexploded ordinance, the setting up of detention camps, and other relevant records pertaining to the daily activities of the uniformed police and gendarmerie in the Protectorate under German control.

  20. Oral history interview with Jakab Vag