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  1. Hermansdörfer family papers

    The Hermansdörfer family papers consist of correspondence relating to the efforts of Jennie Hermansdörfer Bieber and her daughters Sophie Acker and Dorothy Nomberg to bring the Hermansdörfer family from Łąka, Poland (Luka, Ukraine) to the United States before the Holocaust. Correspondence includes letters of support from Adra Day, Elise Gilman, and Philip Acker to the American Consulate in Warsaw; a letter from Leon Hermansdörfer to the Acker family; a rejection letter from the Consulate; and a postwar letter from a cousin in Poland indicating that none of the Hermansdörfer family survived ...

  2. Blessing of Bulgarian military recruits

    Religious procession through a town-square. Locals gather in front of a bank (with sign in Bulgarian) to watch. A military officer greets the line of armed Bulgarian soldier recruits. 01:11:10 Quick CU of priest. Bulgarian military soldiers with backpacks and weapons are blessed by a priest. 01:11:24 CU of priest reading. Locals observe the ceremony. A man leads others in song. Another view, LS, of the blessing. 01:12:24 A Bulgarian officer speaks to the recruits; a civilian dressed in a suit and glasses reads from a paper. CU, the new troops march away. 01:13:15 One by one, the soldiers ki...

  3. Russian War Relief poster

    Lithographed poster after Sergei Nikolavech Kostin issued for the Russian War Relief.

  4. Selected records of the City Sochachew Akta miasta Sochaczewa (Sygn. 90)

    Consists of various records of the Municipal Administration of Sochaczew: protocols and personal files of the candidates to the Municipal Council; files of the municipal properties; lists of owners of animals and agricultural property; applications for a job; various statistics; registration books of population of the city Sochaczew and migration control; files of Jewish properties and the Jewish religious community in Sochaczew; records related to taxes and owners of businesses; ordinances and correspondence of the Starost of the City Sochaczew, and correspondence of the Judenrat relating ...

  5. Photographs of post-war Jewish community in Dzierżoniów, Poland (Reichenbach, Silesia)

    The photograph collection consists of photographs from the post-war Jewish community of Dzierżoniów, Poland (formerly Reichenbach, Lower Silesia, Germany). The images depict a gathering in memory of the murdered Jews of Biala (circa 1946), a New Year's greeting from the committee of survivors from Biala, and various unidentified family photographs. Following the end of the war, some Jews who had survived nearby concentration camps, such as Gross-Rosen, tried to re-establish an autonomous communal settlement in Dzierżoniów, under the leadership of Jakub Egit, a Jewish soldier in the Red ...

  6. Gunther and Harry Rice correspondence

    The Gunther and Harry Rice correspondence consists of letters and postcards received by both Gunther Rice and his uncle Harry Rice, from family members living in Germany, Poland, and England. The correspondence mainly documents the efforts in trying to bring family members from Germany to the United States from 1938-1941. The correspondence collected by Gunther Rice are from his time living in Otwock, Poland and Cardiff, England, and consists mainly of letters written by his parents (Chiam and Lea Esther) and sister, Betti, while they lived in Zbaszyn and Lwow, Poland (L’viv, Ukraine). They...

  7. Miriam Raz photographs

    Contains five photographs depicting Miriam (b. April 10, 1933) and her brother Josef (b. 1935); her father Alter Zunszajn, textile merchant from Wereszczyn, Poland, and portraits of two friends: Moszek Gryff and Ryfka Kuperstok, whom Miriam befriended in Helenowek children’s home.

  8. Selected records of Grodzisk Mazowiecki commune Akta gminy Grodzisk Mazowiecki (Sygn. 19)

    Consists of the book inventory with the list of inhabitants of the Grodzisk Mazowiecki commune in Poland.

  9. Correspondence of Jewish citizens (Fond 247)

    Correspondence of Jewish families during the German occupation of the Netherlands and their deportation. This collection includes (copies of) letters that relatives and acquaintances wrote to each other, often supplemented with photographs, identification cards, diaries and other personal documents. The emphasis is on the period of the occupation, but some files of correspondence dates from the 1930s through the late 1940s

  10. Marianne Berg papers

    Pre and postwar documents and correspondence from the United States, including elementary school report cards for Marianne Berg, a reference letter, a pre-war 1939 letter with drawing from Marianne Berg, a letter from her teacher in Iowa, and a letter from her parents to Marianne.

  11. Selected records from the National Archives of Estonia in Tartu, Estonia related to the history of the Jewish communities of Estonia

    Schools records, correspondence, various regulations and reports related to the activities of the Jews in Estonia from 1890s-1941. The bulk of the collection consists of personal records of Jewish students who attended Jewish elementary schools in Tartu (Dept), regulations and instructions of the Ministry of Education, the Jewish Cultural Board and other organizations on the school and extracurricular activities, educational tentative plans, and personal files of the Jewish university students, and appointments of lecturers of the Tartu University in Estonia during the interwar period.

  12. District Court in Radom Sąd Okręgowy w Radomiu (Sygn.448)

    This collection contains documents of civil and criminal cases investigated by the court, as well as a registry of economic enterprises and cooperatives. The given survey included only a category of files resulting from applications to acknowledge the death of individuals submitted by other persons. They concern, almost always, people who died during the German occupation (collected from their homes by the Germans, taken away to forced labor, taken away to concentration camps, etc), who did not return home, as well as people murdered on the spot, whose death certificates had not been issued...

  13. Sadowski family collection

    Photographs depicting Ania Sadowski (born Ania Zilbiger, later Ania Drimer) and her parents Adolf Zilbiger (later Adam Sadowski) and Ernestine Berglas, originally of Krakow, Poland, in a labor camp in Kharitonov, Archangelsk district, Soviet Union, circa 1944, and in Kharkiv, Ukraine, circa 1944-circa 1947.

  14. Dachau liberation collection

    Consists of six photographs of corpses taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The photographs, one of which depicts a victim with a detached prosthetic leg, are described on the verso. Also includes a letter dated 29 June 1945 from an American soldier to his family enclosing the Dachau photographs. The American soldier, unnamed, is depicted in the seventh photograph.

  15. Man speaks to the crowd of DPs protesting in Italy

    HAS, pan, of man speaking to a crowd, “UNRRA Camp“ sign [possibly a protest in Bari, see more on Film ID 4155].

  16. American nurses in Belgium

    Complex of brick buildings with the 51st Field Hospital, probably shot in December 1944 or January 1945 (perhaps in Huy, Belgium or Lierneaux, Belgium). 01:18:44 Beatrice poses with her camera by a guard station decorated with the Belgian flag motif. Medical trucks are parked outside and covered with snow. Men carry the sick and wounded on stretchers. 01:19:09 Beatrice poses with a friend. The men and women of the 51st Field Hospital play in the snow and walk around camp. 01:20:19 Beatrice and another nurse make a snowman and have a snowball fight.

  17. Londner family collection

    Collection of documents, identification cards, and correspondence relating to Gedalia Londner (b. 1912 in Bedzin, Poland) and his wife Maria Mania Silbiger (b. 1918 in Oświęcim, Poland). The collection includes correspondence regarding reparations; a certificate stating that Mr. Londner was a Polish citizen; a certificate stating that Mr. Londner was a political refugee; a Ketubah of their wedding, dated March 12, 1948; a German ID issued to Maria Silbiger (later Londner) dated February 1947; and a UN certificate for Mr. Londner.

  18. Trunk brought to the United States by an Austrian-Jewish refugee

    Trunk brought to New York in January, 1940 by Bertha Lifschutz when she immigrated to the Untited States. Bertha's son Fred had come to the United States the previous year as part of the "50 children" transport led by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus.

  19. 51st Field Hospital at camp, visiting ruins, and advancing into Belgium or Germany

    Two women sunbathe while other personnel of the 51st Field Hospital relax at camp, either in Belgium or Germany in early fall 1944 [The 51st Field Hospital entered Belgium on September 9 and Roetgen, Germany on September 16]. Beatrice digs a hole, perhaps a latrine (probably not a foxhole since there is no combat). A soldier plays a violin and sings by the hole. 01:15:21 51st Field Hospital personnel pose for the camera. Ruins of buildings in the countryside. Pan across the landscape and the remains of buildings, including one still smoldering and an untouched church. Some civilians in BG a...

  20. Contemporary painting by a Holocaust survivor

    Painting created by Jiri Konta in 2007. Dr. Konta was a political prisoner in Mauthausen concentration camp from 1943-1945 and liberated there. The painting depicts a prisoner in concentration camp uniform carrying a large stone covering his face.