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  1. Oral testimony of William Fertig

  2. Edgar R. Hoffman photograph collection

    Consists of four photographs depicting scenes associated with the discovery of the Gardelegen Massacre by U.S. forces in April 1945. The photographs belonged to Edgar R. Hoffmann, a Technician Fifth Grade who served with the 464th Ordnance Evacuation Company. Hoffmann was in service in Europe between May 1944 and November 1945. Original inscriptions are included on the reverse of three of the four photographs.

  3. Postcard commemorating the 20th anniversary of a Jewish family’s emigration from Austria

    Postcard commissioned in 1958 commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Aliyah of a group of German Jews arranged by the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary organization in Palestine, with the assistance of leaders of the Revisionist Organization in Vienna. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria and created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. The postcard depicts the route a group of Austrian Jews took to escape the country. The journey began in the town of Arnoldstein, located on the border of Austria and Italy. The town was a frequent waypoint for German and Austrian Jews attemptin...

  4. Selected records from the State Archives in Radom Wybrane materiały z Archiwum Państwowego w Radomiu

    Selected records of the various units of municipal offices in Radom city and its district, the Radom District Court, School Inspectorate, Association of Polish Teachers, and the banks and credit unions. Included is also the private collection of documents of Lejbuś, Judek Perl. Records of the municipal offices in Radom city and district consists of correspondence, German announcements, statistics of people from Polish territories incorporated into the Reich including the number of displaced Jews, records on the forced work of Polish population, cases of Polish POWs, lists of people murdered...

  5. Carson P. Pate collection

    Contains 19 photographic postcards and postcards preserved by Carson P. Pate (donor's father ), who served with the 30th Signal Corps and the 30th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army.

  6. Admor letter

    Contains a letter written by a prominent Admor near the end of WWII; a notation on the back of the letter states (in translation) "Erev Shabbos Kodesh, Vayakhel, in the morning 8:00, Tel Aviv." The author describes the deaths of his forefathers, family members, and friends, and his troubles during the Holocaust including the many attempts on his life and times he was saved from certain death. The back of the letter features a prayer in his hand. The letter reads (in translation): "Baruch Hash-m who took us out of the hands of murderers and the netherworld of destruction of the death camps ....

  8. Kirschbaum Family collection

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the experiences of Chaim (born in Przemysl, Poland) and his wife Kreindl Kirschbaum (born in Jaroslav, Poland) and their children Anna, Lily, Joseph and Celia who all lived in Vienna, Austria, fled to Switzerland in 1939, and then forced to France where they were eventually sent to internment camps. Celia and Joseph were able to immigrate to the United States in 1940. The remaining family, according to documents included, state that Chaim died in a Paris hospital, too weak to tarvel, and his wife and two daughters were deported from Be...

  9. Rudy and Hilde Miller collection

    Correspondence and documents of Hilde and Rudy Miller and their lawyer Hans Strauss concerning reparations for materials and business dispossessed of them for being Jewish. Correspondence discusses, in particular, Rudy’s loss of business after the Nazis instigated a boycott on Jewish businesses and forced the Millers, who did not know each other, to flee. Both Rudy (born Windmueller) and Hilde (born Mueller) had to flee and leave behind their immediate families who did not survive. Included in collection is a photograph attached to an identity card fragment for Emma Windmueller, Rudy’s moth...

  10. Tenenwurzel family photographs

    The Tenenwurzel family photographs consists of photographs of Emanuel Tanay, Betty Tenenwurzel, Bunim Tenewurzel, Ruth Tenenwurzel, and a paternal aunt named Ruth (Olga), and a paternal grandfather’s family. The photographs were taken in Germany; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Miechów, Poland. The image of Ruth Tenenwurzel was taken in Germany immediately following the start of World War II.

  11. Selected records of the Voivodship Office of Warsaw Urząd Wojewódzki Warszawski (Sygn. 475) : Wybrane materialy

    Selected records of the Department of Public Security (1926-1939): weekly, monthly, quarterly situation reports on the activities of political parties, social organizations, nationalities, denominations, trade unions, political organizations. Contains also records on Jewish associations (1920), exemptions from the military service of emigrants to Palestine (1926), regulation on the election of authorities of Jewish religious communes and on rabbis (1930-1931), as well a register of associations and organizations (1920-1935).

  12. Nechama Safira photograph

    Contains a photographic postcard, with inscription on verso, of Nechama Paleszek Safira, who survived the Holocaust and then immigrated to Israel (Palestine) in 1947. Nechama was born in 1915 in Kowel.

  13. British Pathé Gazette -- Lord Runciman arrives in Prague to help settle differences

    Various shots show British politician Lord Walter Runciman arriving in Prague by train, accompanied by Lady Runciman and his staff. A large crowd waits at the railway station to welcome him. Commentator explains Lord Runciman is here to try to solve the differences between the Czechs and the Sudetan Germans. Lord and Lady Runciman are seen getting into their car, followed by numerous photographers, and arriving at their hotel or residence.

  14. Municipal National Committee of Velké Meziříčí Městský národní výbor Velké Meziříčí

    Records pertaining to the post-war restitution of Jewish property.

  15. Larisch family papers

    The Larisch family papers include biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Larisch family from Vienna, Austria, their time in England and India during the Holocaust, and their immigration to the United States after World War II. Biographical materials document Kurt Larisch, his wife Ramah, his parents Moritz and Dora, and his daughter Linda. They include identification papers, birth and marriage certificates, and immigration records. Correspondence includes a 1920 letter from Kurt to his grandmother; a 1941 letter from Ernst Polaček in Derventa, Bosnia to Mori...

  16. Hilert family collection

    The Hilert family collection consists of documents, correspondence, and identification cards pertaining to the Hilert family and their postwar time experience in the Stuttgart West displaced persons camp (DP camp) in Germany and their immigration to the United States. The collection contains an affidavit from Avrom Hiller and Senator Harry Byrd and smallpox vaccination certificates. The documents pertain to Rabbi Samuel Hilert, Rose (Rosa, Raizel) Gutkind Hilert, and their son, Moses Baruch Hilert (Michael, Mike).

  17. Selected records of the World ORT Archive (WOA), London

    Records of the World ORT (formerly World ORT Union), its governing bodies and associate organizations world-wide. The archive include minutes of meetings, reports, correspondence, fund-raising and PR, research and development, administrative and financial records (1920s-1950s). Also included are pamphlets and bulletins from various countries; reports, correspondence, and photos of the Berlin ORT school transferred to Leeds (1939-1943), private papers of former students and teachers of ORT; as well as the Shapiro Collection: consisting of materials collected on ORT's history by the American ...

  18. Pete Pease photograph collection

    The Pete Pease photograph collection consists of approximately 40 photographs showing the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after its liberation in 1945. The photographs depict the corpses of victims, the interior of various barracks and camp buildings, the crematorium, gallows, the burial of victims, liberating soldiers, and camp survivors. Many of the photographs were taken by the US Army Signal Corps.

  19. Rosenkrantz family collection

    Contains approximately 40 letters written by Aharon (Arnold) Rosenkrantz and his brother David (Dovid) Rosenkrantz to their parents, Josef and Pesia, in Vienna in 1938-1939, as well as a postcard of the ship Patria, in which one of the brothers, possibly both, boarded. Includes envelopes, with stamps removed. The collection also includes two letters by a brother from a Jewish summer camp in southern Austria in 1936, diary entries from Aaron from 1947, notebooks containing stories and poems written by Aaron, as well as birth certificates and his school and his physics and science studies not...

  20. Judenrat in Nowy Sącz Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Nowy Sącz (Syg. 261)

    Records of the Judenrat in Nowy Sącz, Poland. Consists of a portrait photograph of Boruch Roth (Born June 24, 1874). The photograph was taken before deportation (according to the note in Polish on the verso of the photo.