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  1. Romanian identity certificates

    Contains an identity card issued by the "District Office for the Jews of Chernovtsy (Czernowitz)" with a yellow Star of David on it, issued to Hermine Euzer; dated 1942; photograph missing. Also includes a certificate of registration of the Jewish community of Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), made according to a state law from 1942.

  2. Collection of Egon Michael Zweig and family Sammlung Egon Michael Zweig und familie (P 149)

    Genealogical documents, correspondence, photographs, published materials, records related to the political activities in Zionist movements, and claims of the Zweig family related to losses in WWII. Included are also records related to the Jewish organizations and Israeli religious community Vienna (Austria) and Olomouc (Czech Republic) and other organizations, also miscellaneous materials like: a map of the district Talpioth in Jerusalem with marking of all plots, publications in German newspaper, a bulletin of the Mitteilungsblatt des Heimatverbandes Olmütz und Mittelmähren (Homeland Assoc...

  3. Cecilia Horink papers

    Personal collection of correspondence mainly postcards and other documents sent from Poland during WWII to the family in Argentina.

  4. Lazowski family papers

    The Lazowski family papers consist of photographs documenting Philip Lazowski’s postwar years in Austria, primarily in the Bad Gastein displaced persons camp; photographs documenting Ruth Lazowski’s postwar years in Italy, primarily in Santa Maria di Leuca and Rome; and the letter Philip Lazowski wrote in 1953 to Miriam Rabinowitz, whom he credited with saving his life during a selection in the Zhetel ghetto, after discovering she lived in Hartford, CT. Philip Lazowski’s photographs depict him with other child Holocaust survivors in Austria from 1945- 1947. One copy print depicts his mother...

  5. Yolanda Engel collection

    Contains photographs documenting the experiences of the Helen and Ezra Lebovics and their children Yolanda and Harry [born in Verece, Hungary] and Bela [born in Budapest]. Ezra performed forced labor and when Bela only was 2, Helen was deported in 1944 to Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp. The children were reunited with Ezra in January 1945 and in 1946, Helen, who had survived, came back to Budapest where the family tried to rebuild their lives.

  6. Miklosh Stern collection

    The Miklosh Stern papers consists of several hundred case files with testimonies, questionnaires, correspondence, physician notes, and other materials concerning restitution claims of Holocaust survivors, from the estate of attorney Miklosh (Mordechai) Stern, Israel, dated 1960s-1970s. Files contain documents reflecting correspondence with law and health authorities conducted while handling claims for compensation by Holocaust survivors according to the "Victims of Nazi Persecution Act 1957." Many of the files contain first and second hand testimonies about the lives of Mr. Stern's clients’...

  7. Chief of the Civil Administration in Brno Šéf civilní správy Brno (B 276)

    Administrative records of the Chief of the Civil Administration in Brno (Chef der Zivilverwaltung in Brünn) from the period of March 15, 1939 to April 15, 1939. Includes reports and correspondence relating to Aryanization of Jewish owned property in Ivančice, Moravská Ostrava, and in other rural area. of Brno.

  8. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Denmark during the German occupation (Group 84.G.11-67)

    Selected records consist of the case files concerning police and court of law, crimes against the German occupying power, Danes deported because of religion, ethnicity, political conviction, and activity in the resistance movement, assassination in various cities in Jutland and cities at Fyn, 1944, as well as records relating to entry and exit permits for Danish citizens with Jewish descent and internment of American citizens.

  9. World Union OSE-Paris Union Mondiale OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants)

    Contains administration files of the OSE Main Office Paris. Records relate mainly to the organization activities after World War II, and include: memorandums, correspondence, financial statements and budgets, lists of children treated by the OSE in Belgium, 1945-46, publications and pamphlets from other organizations, OSE newsletters, and audit reports from various countries.

  10. Judenrat in Przemyśl Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Przemyśl (Sygn.264)

    Records of the Judenrat in Przemyśl. It contains the IDs of Dawid Haupt (born in 1891) and his family: Alicja (born 1894) and Izabela (born 1921)

  11. "Autobiographies of Hyman and Molly Lader"

    Consists of one typed manuscript, 65 pages with photographs, entitled "Autobiographies of Hyman and Molly Lader," which was put together by the Laders' children in 2001. The manuscript, based on oral and written testimonies of the Laders, is split into two parts. Hyman Lader (born Chaim Lajdor) describes his childhood and family life in Łódź; the immigration of the rest of his family to the United States; working as a professional musician; his escape to the Soviet Union, where he married; his experiences in the Red Army; and post-war immigration with his family to Israel, Canada, and event...

  12. Diary of Nelly Epstein

    The diary of Nelly Epstein includes entries, drawings, clippings, and maps written from January 1, 1935 - January 18, 1943. Nelly began the diary with entries about friends, family, and activities, such as travel, theater, and life in general in Vienna. In the later years, Nelly documented her journey with her husband Emil (Aryeh) Katscher and other young Zionists fleeing on vessels down the Danube River, across the Black Sea, through the Gallipoli Peninsula to the Aegean, and the Mediterranean Sea, and finally landing in Haifa, Palestine. The diary includes illustrations of their journey. ...

  13. Selected records of the Voivodship Office in Vilnius Urząd Wojewódzki w Wilnie (Sygn. 1182)

    Monthly and weekly reports from the legal socio-political movement and national minorities, guidelines on communist actions among Jewish students; the study of the socio-political department "Jewish political and religious organizations in the voivodship. Vilnius" (1938); letter from the Directorate and District State Railway in Vilnius on the protection of objects in connection with 1 May (1933).

  14. The Pilberg family collection

    Collection of documents of the Pilberg family relating to immigration from Poland to Argentina. Includes photographs, passports, certifications and letters.

  15. Watercolor created in Theresienstadt

    Artwork: 'Mizrach' artwork, watercolor created by Hilde Zadikow in Theresienstadt concentration camp. The artist was born in 1890 in Prague, Czechoslovakia and deported to Terezin with her husband Arnold (who died there) and daughter Marianne. While there, Hilde created this Mizrach [a work of art placed on a wall facing Jerusalem] in 1943. Hebrew translates to "The Lord shall grant strength to His people; the Lord shall bless His people with peace" and "For You light my lamp; the Lord, my G-d, does light my darkness." Dictated to her by Leo Baeck. Hilde and Marianne survived and immigrated...

  16. District Authority Velké Meziříčí Okresní úřad Velké Meziříčí

    Administrative records of Velké Meziříčí, a town in the Vysočina region, including anti-Jewish measures and decrees and the aryanization and expropriation of Jewish properties and assets. Records pertaining to the emigration of Jews. Post-war records pertaining to the restitution and confiscation of expropriated Jewish properties.

  17. Barban family papers

    Consists of Reisepass passports issued to Andreas, Heinrich, and Olga (née Margulies) Barban of Leipzig, Germany prior to their immigration to Shanghai. Also included is the Reisepass of Bronislawa (Betty) Berljawsky, later Barban, formerly of Vienna, Austria. Original notes found within the passports of Heinrich and Olga discouraging the inclusion of the names "Israel" and "Sara" in future identity documents are also evident.

  18. Selected records of the Rent Office Urząd Rent w Łodzi (Sygn. 214) : Wybrane materiały

    Files on the granting and the payments of pensions to German invalids and to families of fallen soldiers. The Jews listed on the lists are mostly the veterans of World War I (or their families), staying in the Łódź ghetto.

  19. Oral history interview with Helen Laks

  20. Judenrat in Wola Wereszczyńska Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Wola Wereszczyńska (Sygn.270)

    Records of the Judenrat in Wola Wereszczyńska. It contains two work ID cards issued for Ch. Orzech from Andrzejów and Jankiel Szczupak from Wola Werszczanska. Includes information about dates of employment in Judenrat Wola Wrzeszczanska and on a private farm in Dębiec (region Chelm).