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  1. Wasservogel Wellerson families collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence relating to Dorrit Wasservogel Wellerson (donor’s late wife), born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, and her parents Marcel and Klara Wasservogel. The Wasservogel family left Austria on August 20, 1939 for India. On September 1, 1939 the war broke out and they were trapped in Naples, Italy not being able to proceed. They later moved to Rome, but in 1940 they were placed in internment camp in Atripalda in Forino, Italy, not far from Naples. From October 1943 Forino was under Allied control. In July 1944 the Wasservogel family joined approxim...

  2. Barbed wire from a German POW camp

    Piece of barbed wire from the site of a German prisoner of war camp in Rzhev, Soviet Union (now Russia). The camp operated from 1941-1943 and this piece was excavated in 2014 by the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs. Rzhev was located on the Volga River along the Moscow-Riga railway. Nazi Germany launched a surprise attack on its former ally, the Soviet Union, in June 1941. Rzhev, a city of about 50,000, was taken by the Germans in October. It was the site of several fierce battles, from the Soviet offensive in January 8, 1942, until March 22, 1943, during the German retreat from Rus...

  3. Selected records of the Steam Brewery in Skierniewice Browar Parowy w Skierniewicach (Sygn. 922)

    Books of recipients, debtors, incomes and expenditures of the Steam Brewery in Skierniewice, owned by Polish businessman, Władysław Strakacz. The brewery’s clientele included many Jews.

  4. Selected records of the City Mszczonów Akta miasta Mszczonowa (Sygn. 31)

    Selected records of the population of city Mszczonów in Poland: registration cards of private businesses, correspondence with the Tax Office and the Main Office of the District Blonski; documents of civil status, and registration of churches of different faiths in the city.

  5. Philomena K. Malin collection

    Envelope sent by Philomena K. Malin to her family in Genoa, Wisconsin containing three black and white photographic prints which depicts victims of the Nordhausen concentration camp immediately following liberation; photographs captioned on verso; dated April 1945.

  6. Selected records of the commune Szymanów Akta gminy Szymanów (Sygn. 54)

    Records related to control of the movement of population of the municipality Szymanów, 1945-1946.

  7. Questionnaires, related to Ktav-Heter and Agunot, post-Holocaust Hungary

    Nine questionnaires recording testimonies of men and women whose spouses were killed during the Holocaust, and who were seeking to record documentation of such, in order to obtain a writ of permission (Ktav Heter) to remarry. Stamped and signed by rabbis in various locations in Hungary, approximately 1946-1952.

  8. Paul Hirschfeld collection

    Collection of eight photographic postcards documenting the reburial of Holocaust victims and forced confrontation by local residents; inscribed "Naila, Nov. 1945" in black ink on verso; some also stamped as enlargements by photographer. The postcards were brought back to the United States after the war by Paul Hirschfeld (donor's father), who had fled Vienna in June 1938 and returned to Europe as a member of the US Army and OSS investigator.

  9. Morris B. Parloff papers

    Correspondence, scrapbook pages, and documents, related to the service of Morris B. Parloff in the Counter Intelligence Corps of the U.S. Army, from 1942-1945, including his service in occupied Germany in 1944-1945, and his training in counter intelligence at Camp Ritchie, Maryland. Includes some original correspondence sent from Parloff to his wife, Gloria, during the time he served in the Army, primarily from 1944, as well as a later (circa 2001), typescript compilation of all correspondence Mrs. Parloff received from her husband, for much of which the originals are no longer extant. Also...

  10. Kathleen M. Dorry collection

    Postcard: black and white photograph of Adolf Hitler saluting as he is walking up steps with three other men, soldiers in a row in front of them saluting back, crowds and Nazi flags on poles behind them; captioned across bottom “Appell der Politischen Leiter”; Nürnberg, Germany; not dated; in German.

  11. Berl Grosser postcards

    Consists of a collection of handwritten and typed postcards and letters sent to Bernhard (Bernard/Berl) Grosser, originally of Kamionki Wielkie, Poland, but who was living in Milan, Italy. The postcards, sent from family and friends, mainly writing from Poland between 1938-1942, were used to update Mr. Grosser on their personal situation, attempts to immigrate, and discussion of relief packages. Unbeknownst to Mr. Grosser, his mother died in the late 1930s; the greetings from her on many of the postcards were included as his family attempted to shield him from this information.

  12. Invitation to a Purim festivity, General Organization of Zionists "Theodor Herzl," Shanghai, 1940

    One printed leaflet, announcing a Purim event hosted by the youth of the General Organization of Zionists, "Theodor Herzl," in Shanghai, China, on 27 March 1940. The event was to take place at the Broadway Theatre on Wayside Road, and likely included the performance of a play titled "Zion and Ourselves" by Bruno Guttentag, a synopsis of which is given on the verso of this leaflet.

  13. The Schmidt and Englander families collection

    Contains documents and correspondence regarding the experiences of the Schmidt and Englander families in Stuttgart and Konstadt, Germany and their flight from Nazi occupation.

  14. UNRRA selected records AG-018-005 : Bureau of Administration

    Records on UNRRA's organizational and procedural history, the Headquarters central files (Registry files) dealing with every aspect of UNRRA's work.

  15. Max Landwirth papers

    Correspondence, affidavits, tax returns, telegrams, photographs and other documents primarily related to the efforts of Max Landwirth (1863-1943), of Michigan City, Indiana, to assist relatives in Germany and Austria with immigration to the United States, as a result of Nazi persecution in those countries, 1938-1939.

  17. Green admission ticket for an anti-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden

    Green ticket for entrance to an anti-Nazi rally titled, Mass Demonstration Against Hitler Atrocities, held by the American Jewish Congress, B'nai Brith, and the Jewish Labor Committee in Madison Square Garden, New York City, on July 21, 1942.

  18. Lt. Col. Pinckney McElwee photograph collection

    U.S. Signal Corps photographs taken shortly after liberation at Reichenau, Dachau, and Landsberg camps; includes photographs of a survivor of a death march to Munich and of a mass grave near Waldlager 11.

  19. Pearl Laufer photograph collection

    Collection consists of one photograph of survivors of Dachau. Among those pictured is the donor's mother, Zelda Feldlaufer.

  20. Dr. Henry P. Limbacher photograph collection

    Collection of seven black and white photographs, mounted on an album page with typed captions, documenting the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. The photos were taken by Major Henry P. Limbacher, MD, who headed the medical unit at the camp following liberation, and was head of a MASH unit under General Patton.