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  1. Clara Lefkowitz Kempler papers

    The Clara Lefkowitz Kempler papers include a handmade diary created at the Sömmerda slave labor that describes a death march near the end of the war and photographs depicting Clara and Jacob Kempler with family and friends at the Landsberg am Lech and Leipheim displaced persons camps after the war. The collection also includes two post-war identification cards for Jacob Kempler, three photographs reproduced and published by Zvi-Hirsh Kadushin (George Kadish), and four postcards depicting Landsberg am Lech, Bremen, Marseille, and Holocaust victims. The handmade diary was created at the Sömme...

  2. Akta miasta Mińska Mazowieckiego

    • Files of the Town of Mińsk Mazowiecki

    Księga protokółów rady miejskiej 1937-1939 sygn. 1, Księga protokółów magistratu 1918-1922 sygn. 2, Sprawozdanie Zarządu za 1934-1939 sygn. 3, Budżety 1936/37, 1937/38 sygn. 4-5, Sprawozdania rachunkowe 1929, 1931, 1936, 1938 sygn. 6-10, Budowa wodociągu 1937-1938 sygn. 11, Księga protokółów magistratu, rady 1939-1942 sygn. 12, Księga wydatków przedsiębiorstw miejskich 1941/42 sygn. 13, Księga protokółów rady 1947-1949 sygn. 14-17, Księga protokółów Prezydium 1944-1949 sygn. 18-21, Księga inwentarzowa [wydatków] Zarządu Miejskiego 1948, 1950 sygn. 22-23 dopływ: 3401/05.04.27 rejestr kar nak...

  3. Processo de pedido de visto para Srª F. Ertag, N. Landesman, R. Flausbaum, Regaut, Srº. Regaut, Srª. Rigaut, dois filhos da Srª. Rigaut, Srº. Moffares, dois filhos da Srº. Moffares, Srª Lamarche, um filho da Srª Lamarche, Mna. Terlaak, Veeht, Srª. Veeht, três filhos de Veeht, Srº. Hannes, duas filhas da Srº. Hannes, Kurth, Srª. Kurth e Loman Edgar

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bordéus para Srª F. Ertag, de nacionalidade polaca e residente na Bélgica, com destino a Portugal. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bordéus para N. Landesman, de nacionalidade polaca e residente na Bélgica, com destino a Portugal. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bordéus para R. Flausbaum, de nacionalidade polaca e residente na Bélgica, com destino a Portugal. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bordéus para Regaut, de nacionalidade belga e residente na Bélgica, com dest...

  4. Paul P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul P., a twin, who was born in Mikulov, Czechoslovakia in 1925. He recounts attending German and Czech schools; antisemitic harassment; involvement in Zionist youth groups; moving to Brno after German occupation; his mother "forcing" his father's illegal emigration to Palestine in 1939; his departure for England and his mother and sister leaving for Yugoslavia on August 31, 1939; their return to Prague due to the outbreak of war; forced labor in coal mines; hospitalization; refusing a nun's offer to hide him; returning to Brno; deportation with his mother and sister...

  5. Ya'akov M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov M., who was born in Praga, Poland in 1929, one of six children. He recounts attending school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; fleeing with his family to a nearby forest; moving in with an aunt in Warsaw; working as a delivery boy; ghettoization; smuggling food daily, at great risk, to support his family; assistance from many Poles, including police; beatings by German soldiers; his father's death from illness in 1942; pervasive starvation and death; obtaining false papers; a Polish woman with whom he worked sending him to Piaseczno during a r...

  6. Union des Anciens Déportés Juifs de Belgique (UDJB). Collection

    This collection contains: the articles of association of the Union des Déportés Juifs et Ayants Droit de Belgique (1956) ; the 1961 membership file card system of the Union des Anciens Déportés Juifs de Belgique ; the 1979-1982 membership file card system of the Union des Anciens Déportés Juifs de Belgique ; two postcards edited by the Comité International d'Auschwitz.

  7. Warsaw and Danzig, Poland, destruction and rebuilding circa 1946

    Bombed out multi-story YMCA building in Warsaw, Poland. Several workers chip away at the concrete structure, others collect and stack bricks from the rubble. Another worker examines window frames for damage. (This footage likely dates to 1946 - see notes section for further information). MS, low angle, a man and a woman walk down a bombed out street in Warsaw, toward the camera, snow covers the ground. VS of the destruction in the city, civilians mill about the streets, with torn, threadbare clothing, there are some Polish military personnel in these shots as well. Poles board a street car,...

  8. Ben N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben N., who was born in approximately 1925 in ?a?cko, Poland, one of five children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion in 1939; fleeing east to Ustrzyki Dolne; returning home via Biecz and Gorlice; German establishment of a Judenrat; evacuation with his family to Nowy Sa?cz in late 1940; sneaking home to obtain food from non-Jewish friends; transfer to Roznow; slave labor; visiting his family; their deportation (he never saw them again); transfer to the Tarn?ow ghetto in 1942; training with a cabinet maker who postponed...

  9. The World Jewish Congress New York Office records. Series H (Alphabetical Files)

    Contains records of the World Jewish Congress, New York Office, Series H (Alphabetical Files). Records of Series H are sub-divided into four sub-series. Sub-series 1. Alphabetical Files, A-Z, 1919-1981, comprises the bulk of the series, consisting of 370 boxes. Although the materials in this sub-series span the years 1919-1981, the bulk is concentrated in the 1940s to the 1960s. Sub-series 2. Monty Jacobs International Files, 1949-1973, consists of approximately two boxes and contains alphabetically arranged international files of Monty Jacobs, Press Director and Executive Director in the 1...

  10. Sender Mines fonds

    Fonds consists of photographs, International Refugee Organization (IRO) documents, court document, correspondence, and German driver’s license relating to the life of Sender Mines. Fonds has been arranged in the following series: SM photographs series (1922–[195-]), SM IRO documents series (1949–1951), Court document series (1951), and Bund der Verfolgten des Naziregimes e.V. (BVN) correspondence series (1951).

  11. Loewy family papers

    The collection primarily documents the wartime experiences of the Paul and Margarete Loewy, their children Hans and Vera, and their extended family in Berlin, Germany. The biographical material includes birth and marriage certificates; World War I veteran documents of Friedrich Abt; passports and other identification documents; Paul Loewy’s wartime workbook (arbeitbuch); and Jüdische Kultusvereinigung documents. There are also papers documenting Max and Hedwig Lasker’s attempt to emigrate from Berlin to Uruguay. The correspondence includes postcards written from family and friends imprisone...

  12. Suitcase used by a Jewish family for their flight from Germany

    Suitcase carried by Ruth Arnoldi when her family fled Nazi Germany in October 1941 for Santo Domingo. They had to have the suitcase made to the order per government regulations. A German official supervised the packing of the suitcase, which was then sealed.

  13. George Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George Z., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1933, an only child, and raised in Będzin. He recounts living with his parents and grandparents; their affluence; German invasion in 1939; fleeing to Kielce; returning home about a week later; finding their apartment ransacked; staying home while the adults worked; forced relocation; ghettoization in Kamionka; hiding with others during round-ups; his father purchasing false papers; escaping with his parents and grandparents to Budapest; his mother dyeing his hair blond; German invasion in March 1944; escaping to Bratisla...

  14. Lothar Kahn papers

    The Lothar Kahn papers consist of biographical materials, a personal narrative, and photographs documenting Louis Hane, born Lothar Kahn, of Lollar, Germany, his marriage to Maria Dort, who was not Jewish, the forced labor he performed in Berlin during the Nazi period, and his family’s immigration to the United States in 1946. Biographical materials include a birth certificate, identification papers, a report card, employment records, registration documents, and a testimony of character documenting Louis Hane’s childhood in Giessen, his work in Berlin, and his immigration to the United Stat...

  15. Meyer family fonds

    Fonds consists of records pertaining to the life, military service and work of members of the Meyer family in Germany before 1939, records related to their attempts to leave Germany and personal objects owned by Paul Meyer in Vancouver. Records include identity and transit documents, records related to taxes and fines, diaries, photographs, publications and correspondence. The fonds has been arranged by the archivist into the following five series:Family records series (1875–1939), Correspondence series (1938–1939), Writings, publications and ephemera series (1915–1976), Photographs series ...

  16. Hana D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana D., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1931. She recounts living in Olbramovice on her paternal grandmother's farm, which her father managed; her parents' divorce; remaining with her father; not knowing she was Jewish; occasional visits with her mother; German invasion; confiscation of the farm; living with her father's sister in Prague, then with her mother; anti-Jewish laws, including expulsion from school; briefly hiding with her father's non-Jewish friends; secretly studying with other children under private teachers; her mot...

  17. Tibor K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tibor K., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1933. He recounts attending a Jewish elementary school; one aunt's emigration to Palestine; having to leave their home in 1941 due to anti-Jewish laws; moving to Hlohovec in 1942; attending school; his brother's birth in July 1944; arrival of Germans after the Slovak uprising in August; hiding with friends in Bratislava for two days, then in a friend's house in Trnávka until November; living with a Christian family in a bunker they built under their house; receiving food packages from a friend in Hlohovec; a doc...

  18. Reichskommissariat für die Ukraine and Einsatzstab Rosenberg records from the Ukraine Central State Archive

    Contains information about the German occupation of the Ukraine; the activities of the Reichskommissariat für die Ukraine; the activities of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg; control of partisan activity; police activities in the occupied territories; Reichskommissariat personnel matters; development of agriculture in Ukraine; population of Ukrainian towns and villages; railroad schedules; railroad construction; use of Soviet POWs in labor; Göring's instructions on the organization of an economic headquarters in the East; various libraries, archives and museums under the surveillance of Einsatzs...

  19. Akiva N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Akiva N., who was born in Polhora, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1922, the older of two children. He recounts his family moving to Turany when he was three; attending a Catholic school for three years; moving to Žilina; attending a Jewish school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; cordial relations with non-Jews; completing high school; working for Hashomer in Piešt̕any and Trenčin; expulsion of Jews from schools; starting a Jewish school; moving to Banská Bystrica in 1942 to teach and lead Hashomer; arranging to be smuggled to Hungary to avoid deportatio...

  20. Provincial Jewish Committee in Warsaw Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski w Warszawie (Sygn. 352)

    Contains the records of the Provincial Jewish Committee in Warsaw (Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski w Warszawie, WKŻ), which was established in September 1944 and was subordinated to the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP). Records consist of correspondence, organizational files, testimonies, statistics, personal files from the staff, financial records relating to matters of the survivors of the Holocaust.