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  1. Louis Rubin photograph collection

    Contains photographs taken by Louis Rubin (donor's late husband) of Bergen Belsen and elsewhere in Germany during his military service in Europe.

  2. Fragebogen

    Fragebogen (questionnaire); completed by Jakub Wajnsztok, in Warsaw, Poland, dated 1941. The questionnaire, dated June 9, states that Jakub is a dental technician, born February 18, 1888 in Warsaw. Questionnaire bears photographs and stamped at top center “[Star of David] JUDE [Star of David]." German and Polish printed form and Polish inscriptions.

  3. Jean Nordmann papers Nachlass Jean Nordmann (1908-1986)

    Private papers of Jean Nordmann, president of the Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund, SIG (Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities). The collection consists of correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, speeches related to Nordmann's activities in the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, the Swiss Jewish Christian Community, and the Jewish Community of Freiburg. Also included are papers of Nordrmann's father, son and daughter.

  4. Ridnik family photographs

    Collection of photographs of the donor during the war in hiding, including with her mother; also includes photos of her father, who was a prisoner of war in a Stalag in Germany.

  5. American OSE Committee (RG 494)

    Records of the American OSE Committee in New York, including correspondence, reports, subject files, materials regarding immigration, OSE Executive Committee and Board of Directors meeting minutes, financial documents, records related to shipments of medical supplies for Jews in the ghettos and in the German-occupied countries during World War II, rehabilitation, emigration, and the care of Jewish refugees and orphans in the post-war period, lists of survivors of World War II, lists of Jewish doctors, lists of Polish physicists, scientists who were murdered, lists of Jewish Polish physician...

  6. Jacqueline Frenkel Lewicki papers

    Consists of a French birth certificate and period copy of an identity card issued to Jacqueline Frenkel, as well as a photograph of Jacqueline Frenkel as a child. The collection also includes a false identity document under the name 'Lucienne Geffroy' used by Ruchla Frenkel while in hiding.

  7. Foster Adams collection

    Contains a bound volume of documents, photocopies, reports, memos, transcripts, as well as loose papers and reports prepared by Foster Adams as part of The United States of America vs. Alfried Krupp court proceedings (Subsequent Nuremberg proceedings 10, known as the Krupp Case). The defendants were arraigned on November 17, 1947. The trial began December 8, 1947 and judgement was returned on July 31, 1948. Foster Adams (1899-1987) served as counsel and economic adviser for the Krupp Case. After the war he worked as the Director of Progress Reports and Statistics in the Office of the US Sec...

  8. Sightseeing in Bavaria and the Rhine district in 1937

    "Peasants in the Fields" Farmers. "Rothenburg on the Tauber" (color) Bavarian district. Medieval buildings with lush plants. "Dinkelsbuhl" Facades of businesses with flowers, hotel, local civilians, street scenes. 01:04:02 (switches to black and white) Street views in Dinkelsbuehl. CU, entryway with memorial plaque. Schoolgirls in white walk in the road. 01:04:58 "Heidelberg" (color). Scenic views of castle in Heidelberg, river, bridge, and buildings. 01:07:06 "On the Rhine" Small group of musicians play instruments on the street. HAS, Autobahn with passing truck, overpass. "Coca-Cola" refr...

  9. German passport issued to Charlotte Hartmann

    Consists of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Charlotte Hartmann of Vienna on 19 September 1938. Charlotte's son, Paul (1933-), is also registered on this same passport. Visas stamped inside the passport indicate that the Hartmanns arrived in Shanghai in 1939.

  10. Cyprus internment camp collection documents

    Contains two photographs of the Cyprus internment camp, circa 1949, titled in Hebrew "Regards from Cyprus" and "Souvenir from Cyprus." Also includes an entrance ticket marked: "Seminary for counselors in Israeli camps in Cyprus."

  11. Photographic print, manure distribution

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613478
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.940 inches (27.788 cm) | Width: 13.940 inches (35.408 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of manure distribution in Vysni Apsa, Carpathian Ruthenia, ca. 1938.

  12. Lejbke fohrt kejn Amerika

    Phonograph record 2: Syreno Electro. The disc was recorded in Berlin in 1932 and originally issued on the German Semer label. Date of Polish reissue to be determined. Side A: Lejbke fohrt kejn Amerika (Leybke fort keyn amerike), part 1. "Folk song." Pinkas Lavender, voice; Max Janowski, piano. Side B: Lejbke fohrt kejn Amerika (Leybke fort keyn amerike), part 2. "Folk song." Pinkas Lavender, voice; Max Janowski, piano. Pinkas Lavender (aka Pinchus Lawenda) (1898-1976), Polish-born actor and singer; active in interwar Germany; residing the US after 1928. Max Janowski (1912-1991), composer, c...

  13. Records of Jewish communities and institutions of Peru Legajos de Comunidades e Instituciones Judías del Perú

    Records from the Jewish community in Lima and several Jewish institutions in Peru, including the "Asociación de Sociedades Israelitas del Perú," "Colectividad Israelita del Perú," the German-Jewish community in Peru "La Asociación Judía de 1870," "Unión Israelita del Perú," "Colegio León Pinelo," "Hanoar Hatzioní," "Asociación Fraternal Israelita de Lima," and others. Includes correspondents, name lists, circulars, financial records, list of members of the Sephardic Charity Society, list of students of the Colegio León Pinelo, Lima, photographs of students, bulletins, publications and perio...

  14. Jacob and Frida Lewinter papers

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the postwar lives of Jacob and Frida Lewinter and their children Sophia and Milka in Saint Petersburg, Wrocław, Poland, and Israel. Biographical materials include photocopies of identification papers, genealogical materials, and financial documents. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters to Jacob and Frida from their daughter Sophia and her then-husband Arthur Segal. Photographs and albums include portraits and travel photographs of the family in Russia, Poland, and Israel.

  15. Anne Haas Jacobson Papers

    Contains a letter received by Harry Haas (donors' grandfather and father) in 1939, sent by Viennese Jewish woman named Rosalie Haas and her Protestant husband Robert, who were trying to flee Nazi Austria.

  16. Selected records from the State Regional Archives in Burgas related to the history of the Jewish community of Burgas

    Registration records and correspondence of the Jewish-owned commercial companies from the Burgas Regional Court, and records of the branch of the Bulgarian People's bank in Karnobat pertaining to the application of the discriminatory "Law for the Defense of the Nation", Article 26 that restricted personal or capital participation of Jews in the economic activities in Bulgaria during WWII.

  17. Selected records of the town Starachowice Akta miasta Starachowice (Sygn. 2684) : Wybrane materialy

    Minutes of sessions and resolutions of the Municipal Council of Wierzbnik (a part of Starachowice) related to a number of matters affecting the inhabitants of the town, including documents related to control of migration, correspondence and other documents related to trade, craft and industry. Also included are materials from the German occupation consisting of official orders, announcements and correspondence, including a document from 1940 (File 46) which refer to Jews, and a list of Jews with compulsory employment (948 people).

  18. Selected records of the Polish Committee of National Liberation Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (Sygn. 185) : Wybrane materialy

    Selected records of the Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN), including: A list of the members of the PKWN, and others, who left Moscow for Chełm in 1944, reports of the PKWN delegates of the Department for Jewish Affairs regarding the security of the so-called liberated areas and the organization of Jewish communities, correspondence with the Central Jewish Committee, newsletters of the Jewish Press Agency, 1944, records of the Department of Justice discussing matters of the restitution of property to Jewish survivors, records on the war crime trials, articles written by staff of...

  19. Selected records of the town Włoszczowa Akta miasta Włoszczowa (Sygn. 1809) : Wybrane materialy

    Correspondence concerning schooling and out of school education, emigration and re-emigration of refugees, minutes of sessions of the Municipal Government and Municipal Council, budgets and reports, population books of permanent inhabitants of town of Włoszczowa, and the list of people murdered by the Germans in Włoszczowa and Krasocin, 1941-1942. The list includes 105 people.

  20. Humanitarian Federation "Brotherhood B'nai B'rith" in Warsaw (Sygn. 674)

    Founding documents of the "Brotherhood of B'nei B'rith," in Warsaw, Poland, as well as the minutes of sessions of the board and members, briefs of the operation and financial records, correspondence, registers of membership, reports and notes referring to the organization and operation of the federation.