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  1. Sarina and Jacques Colonomos photograph

    Photographic postcard: black and white image of studio portrait of woman wearing print blouse under dark jacket next to man wearing dark suit with polka dot tie; inscribed in red ink on verso "Souvenir / affectouzo al caro / oncle Ely de / Sarinai Jacov Colonomos" and "Skopje 1946" in dark ink in lower left corner. Pictured are Sarina Colonomos (donor's maternal aunt) and with her husband Jacques.

  2. Dachau liberation photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of concentration camp survivors in striped prisoner uniforms unloading corpses from a wagon behind the crematorium at the Dachau concentration camp; the bodies were later interred in mass graves by German civilians from Dachau; no inscription on verso.

  4. Gabriel Chaim Zvi Pappenheim papers

    The Gabriel Chaim Zvi Pappenheim papers include correspondence, forms, name lists of immigration candidates, and notes documenting Pappenheim’s work with Agudat Israel to obtain immigration permits to Palestine for the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust. Correspondence includes letters from Jacob Griffel (representative of the Rescue Committee in Turkey) and Julius Steinfeld (representative of the Rescue Committee of the Association of Rabbis in the United States) among others and document efforts undertaken in Jerusalem, Istanbul, Ankara, New York, and Switzerland. Forms consist of Jewish...

  5. Torah Novaelle collection

    Contains a notebook of Torah novaelle, 32 pages, written by a student of the Mir yeshiva, who was exiled to Shanghai, China during World War II; dated February 18, 1943 to December 20, 1945. Includes a novaelle on various topics connected to the weekly Torah portion; a "dictionary" leaf of useful terms for exiles to Shanghai translated from Yiddish to English; and a list of students including Pinchas Hirschprong, Moshe Mendelbaum, Avraham Eiger, Anshil Weinhaus and others.

  6. Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam collection

    Contains a letter signed by Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam (1905-1994), the first Admor of Sanz-Klausenberg, is addressed to Admor Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam, the "Shefa Chaim" of Klausenberg. Includes questions and observations about various subjects including Shefa Chaim's request from the Argentinian government regarding Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann in which he expressed his opinion that it is preferable to leave him in Israel to be judged and not extradite him to Argentina; the Admor of Stropkov said that he doesn't understand why the Shefa Chaim involved himself in the affair.

  7. Henry Green papers

    The collection consists of Holocaust survivor Henry Green's (born Heniek Gruenbaum, nicknamed Chaim) Declaration of Intention (1951) and naturalization certificate (1956); pre-war family photographs of his family including his parents, Fishl and Sara Gruenbaum, brother Joseph, and sister; post-war photographs of Henry; and a personal narrative by his cousin Henry S. Newman entitled "Budzyn (and the "Show of Shows")."

  8. Organization of survivors of the Nazi persecution (She'erit Hapleita) Asociación de Sobrevivientes de la Persecución Nazi en la Argentina. Archivo de Sherit Hapleitá

    Organizational records and publications from the Sheerit Hapleita in Argentina held in Sheerit Hapleita office at Paso Street. The records include correspondence, photographs, office files, press releases, and printed material; project folders related to campaigns, memorialization events and other activities of Holocaust survivors in Argentina.

  9. Drawing

    Postcard with self-portrait in frame and text by donor's father, Janos Gombosi

  10. Der Stadthauptmann der Stadt Krakau Starosta miasta Krakowa (Sygn. 33)

    Selected files of the „Der Stadthauptmann der Stadt Krakau” (Starosta Miasta krakowa; City Governor in Kraków), consist of various records like: resolutions and circular letters of the Chief offices of the Kraków district and the government of GG, circular letters of the Starosta of City of Kraków, correspondence, resolutions and announcements of the City Governor in Kraków, including the ones published in the Kraków press and on posters („Amtliche Veröffentlichungen durch Presse und Plakatierung”), police registration cards of Poles and Jews containing many detailed personal data, various ...

  12. Hess family collection

    Collection of correspondence between Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Studios, and Oscar Hess (donor’s maternal grandfather), dated 1938, in English. Carl Laemmle helped save many German Jews by providing them with the necessary affidavit of support. Oscar Hess and his wife, Irene, were in Switzerland when they contacted Laemmle for assistance.

  13. Nuremberg Trials photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs depicting the International Military Tribunal courtroom in Nuremberg, Germany. Several images depict defendants, including Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess.

  14. Georg F. Duckwitz private collection (Group 5344)

    Papers of Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, an attaché for Nazi Germany in occupied Denmark. This collection consists of papers relating to the action against the Jews in Denmark, 1943, records of Duckwitz's conversation with Hans Kirchhoff, a Danish historian in 1968, as well as a travel reports, private letters and correspondence, and calendar, 1943-1944. Note: Records are restricted until 2048, access only by the permission of the Danish National Archives. Access is granted by application and must go through the Danish Data Protection Agency since the material contains personal information.

  16. Baranovichi diary

    Handwritten notebook which belonged to a Jewish man from Baranavichy, dated 1941-1945. Records the wandering of the writer through Europe until his arrival in Palestine. Describes the author's impressions of outbreak of the war, the occupation of Baranavichy by the Germans, three roundups ("aktions") in the ghetto, the names of victims, fleeing to the forest, his journey to Italy and eventual arrival in Palestine. The last comment in the notebook is dated 17.11.1945, and it reads (in transliteration): "dukhgefarn [trip through]: Netanya, Kfar Saba, Kibutz Ramat Hakovesh, Ra'anana, Tel-Aviv ...

  17. Selected records of the Voivodship Office in Łódź Urząd Wojewódzki Łódzki (Sygn. 804) : Wybrane materiały

    Statistical data, correspondence, minutes, registration of war damages, records of the population, records related to the property of Jewish communities, and so-called productivisation of the Jewish population after the war, lists and other materials concerning associations and unions, lists of the mass graves of war victims, and loss or granting of Polish citizenship, documents regarding civil status and the help for the victims of prisons and Nazi camps, as well as other materials.

  18. Buessing factory; parade in Braunschweig

    People in front of a sign: “Barenberger Hof Goethe Haus.” Ethel with a shawl sitting on the grass next to Hans. They paddle in a canoe. He waves. INT, men in white coats study a metal cylinder. Board with measuring tools. Another man looks through the cylinder. Procession through the streets, led by a man with a sign: “BUESSING NAG.” Buessing was a German bus and truck manufacturer in Braunschweig. Military band marches, followed by others. A man carries a large swastika flag; hand raised in salute in FG. Concessions with signs advertising “Waffel; Butter.” Men in suits stand side-by-side, ...

  19. Donations for European Jewry collection

    Three documents concerning donations for European Jewry, during World War II and later. Palestine, dated 1943-1948. Includes a donation card for child refugees, printed on behalf of the Civil Guard, Tel-Aviv, Hanukkah, [1943]; a printed letter to school children in Tel-Aviv, calling them to assist in collection of clothes and donations for Jewish refugees in Russia; a printed card on behalf of "HaMifal leAliyat Yalday Israel," Keren HaYessod, national council in Palestine, showing a print by Aryeh Alweil under the title (in Hebrew), "We shall take them out from slavery to freedom and from d...

  20. British Pathé (Unissued/Unused) -- Refugees are given clothing and food

    Titles read: "ALLIES FEED AND CLOTHE REFUGEES FROM WAR ZONES". Refugees (probably from Eastern Europe) carry bundles on their backs and heads walk to and from a building guarded by soldiers (unknown location). CUs of refugee adults and children outside the building. INT, women and children are given clothing. Refugees sit at long tables and eat. General view of refugees milling about outside the building.