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  1. Allied propaganda leaflet, "Ein Deutsches Flugblatt"

    Leaflet dropped by the RAF over Germany in July 1943. The leaflet quotes from the "Manifesto of the Munich Students" attributed to the White Rose resistance group.

  2. Bedcover recovered by the Gleiser family

    Velvet bedcover used in Pidvolochysʹk (formerly Podwołocziska), in the Tarnopol district, where more than 2,000 Jews lived before 1939. The Gleiser family lived there until they were forced into Pidvolochysk ghetto. Ita Bier Gleiser (b. 1895) escaped together with her children, Moishe (b. 1923), Genia (b. 1926), Riwa (b. 1922), and Frima (b. 1936), and hid in different places until the liberation in 1944. At that point the family returned to their hometown of Pidvolochysʹk and recovered the one item they had before the war – the bedcover. In 1945 the family reached Germany via Szczecin in P...

  3. Lista Family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Jerry Lista (born Israel Cymbalista) in displaced persons camps near Munich, Germany; his immigration to the United States in 1951; his marriage to Gyta Szmulewicz (later Judy Lista) in 1958; and Judy’s immigration to the United States. Also included is a document regarding Jerry’s leg amputation after getting shot and left for dead on a death march in 1945. Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Cymbalista and Szmulewicz families, Jerry in a DP camp, and Judy in Israel. Additionally, there is a Dachau DP identification card o...

  5. Children ski; Women repair damage in Slovakia

    Outdoors in Spišská Nová Ves. Children, including Emma and George and their friends Vitaliy and Peter, ski in the snow. 00:00:50 Women greet each other, shake hands (with Elizabeth Vasilevsky?) , and smile for the camera.One fixes her hair and looks in a handheld mirror. The two women link arms with George Vasilevsky (camera around his neck) and proceed towards the camera. CUs of the two women, snowball fight, probably at the residence of the Vasilevsky family. One writes a word in the snow with the tripod. 00:04:06 Teenage girl (Emma?) with glasses in scout uniform walks towards the camera...

  6. Private papers of Fritz Ullmann (A320)

    Personal papers of Fritz Ullmann (1902-1972). The collection consists of memorandums and correspondence relating to Jewish immigration, wartime rescue activities, the sending of relief packages into concentration camps and ghettos, and the Zionist movement.

  7. Collection of materials relating to World War II Zbiór materiałów z lat i dotyczących II wojny światowej (Sygn.271)

    Various materials relating to the World War II, including patriotic and anti-German poetry, prophecies referring to the future of Poland and Europe, an open letter to the General Gub. Dr. Hans Frank, condemning the inhuman crimes of the occupiers (1940), a list of Polish citizens saved from German concentration camps as a result of the action of Count Folke Bernadotte, provisions of German police equipment (Ordnungspolizei, ORPO), and reports of the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost., HTO (1939-1942).

  8. Selected records from the General State Archives, Greece-Archives of Serres

    Postwar records of the Special Court for theTrials of the Local Collaborators in the area of Serres (Eastern Macedonia) in the former Bulgarian Occupation Zone, according to the Law 533/1945 for the collaboration with the enemy. The collection includes registries of collaborators, investigation files, outgoing correspondences concerning investigation, court proceeding and verdicts. The reverse side of some of the papers used for these investigations and correspondence contains documents of the Bulgarian Administration (mostly empty forms, but some with text) during the occupation years (194...

  10. Naomi Handelman collection

    Album pages containing photographs and documents collected by Naomi Handelman, a Hebrew University student, who arrived in Palestine in 1947. Includes imags of Jerusalem, Haifa, Kibbutz Mishmarot, Kiryat Anavim and other locations.

  11. Photographic print, entrance to the historic court of Rabbi Gedaliah

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613747
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.880 inches (27.635 cm) | Width: 13.880 inches (35.255 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of the entrance to the historic court of Rabbi Gedaliah in the Jewish district of Lublin, ca. 1935-38.

  12. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Diplomatic Legation in Bern Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Bernie (Sygn.495)

    Reports, correspondence, publications, notes and other documents related to the condition of national minorities in Poland, Switzerland and Europe, many records refer to Polish Jews. Also included are records related to condition of refugees and internees, as well as social relief and its organization by the Polish and International Red Cross, taking care of Polish citizens in Switzerland, passport documentation, matters related to searches for individuals and determining their whereabouts, political situation in Poland, registers of prisoners of war, and plans for Jewish emigration to Pale...

  13. Selected records related to history of the Jewish communities of the Volhynia region, Ukraine

    Records of various regional administrative bodies of the Polish government related to the prewar history of the Jewish community of Volhynia region (Wołyń), Ukraine. Consist of documents relating to the socio-economic history of the Jewish communities of the region before WWII. They include lists of Jewish residents from various localities within the region, vital statistics of Jewish population (birth, marriage, and divorce registry books), lists of Jewish draftees, personal files of Jewish doctors and midwives, statistical information about Jewish property, technical certification of the ...

  14. Mania Lichtenstein collection

    Contains photographs, almost entirely of unknown postwar displaced persons camps. Many photographs are labeled on verso as images of pro-Palestine gatherings, weddings, families, and events. Two photographs included in the collection depict Janina Zawadska in Włodzimierz, Poland, a Roman Catholic woman who hid Mania Lichtenstein and another child in the winter of 1943-44. Janina gave Mania the photographs.

  15. Selected records of the Offices and institutions of Galicia District Urzędy i Instytucje Okręgu Galicja (Sygn.119)

    Files of 10 gendarmes from the Galicia District. Includes personal documents of the gendarmes.

  16. American Red Cross pin

    Pin received by Helen Weisberger during her service with the American Red Cross in World War II.

  17. Singer family collection

    Photographs and negatives documenting the lives of Ludwig Singer of Uzhhorod (Ukraine) and his wife Atalia Rosenheck of Nadwórna, Poland (Nadvirna, Ukraine). Includes depictions of family life in Nadwórna and Jerusalem, Ludwig's opera performances, and various friends and relatives. Negatives are housed separately.

  18. Oral history interview with Suzi Smeed

  19. Selected records related to the Holocaust in Serbia

    The collection contains selected records of the Administration of the City of Belgrade (Fond 1) established by the collaborationist Government of Serbia under the authority of the German authorities in April of 1941. The bulk of the selected records include dossiers, correspondence files, reports of movable and unmovable assets of Jews in Belgrade etc. all kept by the Section No 7 created specifically for the persecution of Jews and Roma (Odeljenje za Jevreje i Cigane/ Sedmo odeljenje ) and other sections of the Special Serbian police department (Odeljenje specijalne policije) of the Belgra...

  20. Phyllis Shaw collection

    Collection of photographs taken in a sanatorium in Sweden, depicting liberated Jewish women originally from Rumania and Hungary. Among them is Regina Pollak (donor's mother) born on August 10, 1925. The women were liberated from Bergen-Belsen and gave each other photographs as mementos. Includes two photographs of "Ester" with her family taken in Rumania before the mass deportations, dated February 15, 1944. Other photographs show Josef Ganz (donor's father), born February 21, 1919, who survived Mauthausen and Dachau concentration camps. Regina survived Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen c...