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  1. Gusen liberation photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs taken after the liberation of the Gusen concentration camp. The photographs depict the burial of corpses in mass graves, the burning of barracks, a soldier standing in front of the sign for the Gusen cemetery, and the painted corpse of former commandant Franz Ziereis impaled on a barbed wire fence.

  2. Arditti family photographs

    The Arditti family photographs consist of 62 family photographs mounted on photograph album pages. The images depict members of the Arditti family, a Turkish Jewish family from Smyrna, who emigrated from Turkey to France in 1920. Identified family members include Jacques Arditti, his parents, his brother and sister, his sister’s son, Jean-Pierre Franck, and his wife, Jacqueline Guiard. Photographs also depict Leon and Nelly Jaffe and their children, Albert and Liliane, who were relatives on Jacques’ mother’s side. Most of the photographs were taken in France, in Joinville-le-Pont, Deauville...

  3. Michael Lowenthal collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence illustrating Alfred and Herta Gotthilf Levy and their son Heinz. Included are receipts and correspondence between Alfred Levy and his colleague Andreas van Mierlo, who sent packages to the family in Vught, s'Hertogenbosch, and Westerbork concentration camps between 1943-1945; post-war correspondence concerning Heinz, who survived, mainly to the van Mierlo family from Klara Gotthilf, Heinz's maternal grandmother in Switzerland; and accounting, through an attorney of possessions left in Edem, the Netherlands upon the family's deportatio...

  4. Burial for Dollfuss in Vienna

    Various scenes of the burial for Engelbert Dollfuss on July 28, 1934 in Vienna. Parade was filmed at the corner of Kärntner Strasse and Kärntner Ring/Opernring in between the Opera house and Hotel Bristol. Wreath-covered vehicles. Crowds line the streets. Regiments of uniformed Austrian men march in unison. Cars drive slowly in the parade, including one with the top down. A decorated officer on horseback motions forward aggressively with a sword. A few quick shots of onlookers.

  5. Walter Kamlet papers

    Consists of original pre-war, wartime, and post-war documents, restitution paperwork, and photographs related to the life and Holocaust experiences of Walter Kamlet, originally of Berlin, Germany. The collection includes information regarding Kamlet's life as a teenager at the Château de la Hille children's home run by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), as well as a large number of photographs of the other children in the home, and documents regarding his escape into Switzerland in April 1944. Also includes documents about Kamlet's parents, Benno and Mila Kamlet, who survived the Holo...

  6. Selected records from the collection Court of the First Instance in Częstochowa Sąd Grodzki w Częstochowie (Sygn. 45)

    Contains selected records of the Civil and Criminal Departments of the Sąd Grodzki w Częstochowie. The records relate to various cases: estates (e.g. cases concerning portioning out family property), payments of rent and expulsion from apartments, cases concerning dues of different kinds, drafts, and the like. There are files of writ cases and tutelary cases in the Civil Department (e.g. applications for guardianship of a minor). In the Criminal Department, there are files concerning theft, assault and battery, defamation, ignoring regulations concerning health, evasion of paying alimonies,...

  7. Gessner returns to ruins in Egypt

    Men rowing a boat along a river. A young boy stands on rocks, looking at the camera. Other boys float along in small boats. Some swim through the water. People on the banks of the river walk past, looking at the camera. A boy jumps from a wall into the water and swims towards the boat. 01:07:19 A man looks at the Aswan Dam from ground level. Water forcefully runs through the dam. Gessner’s friend on top of the dam points outwards. Another boy jumps into water. Young children use hand paddles to move their small boats along in a line formation through the water. 01:08:17 Gessner? rides a don...

  8. Silent Heroes Entschädigungsamt Berlin. Unbesungene Helden (B Rep. 078)

    Contains a unique set of records documenting the cases of non-Jewish Germans who helped Jews hide. The collection contains unique stories of hiding of Jews in the West Berlin area through testimonies from helpers and survivors, including investigation if the information could be verified. The collection is a result of an early attempt and initiative of the Berlin senate between 1958-1966 to honor helpers in the Berlin area, on instigation of the Berlin Minister of Interior, Joachim Lippschitz. 1500 files were created which precedes Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations Initiative. It giv...

  9. Jacob Mincer papers

    The Jacob Mincer papers consist of correspondence and identification papers documenting Mincer’s efforts to emigrate from Europe before and after the Holocaust and the efforts of his uncle, Issy Mincer, to help him from South Africa. Correspondence primarily includes letters Jacob wrote to Issy from Brno before the war and from Munich and the United States after the war as well as pre-war letters documenting Issy Mincer’s efforts to provide Jacob financial assistance through the Anglo-Palestine bank. Identification papers include Jacob’s pre-war student identification card from Brno and his...

  10. Files of the Rudnik Wielki commune Akta urzedu gminy Rudnik Wielki (Sygn. 124)

    This collection contains selected records of the commune Rudnik Wielki, related to population control of its inhabitant. Included are registration books of the permanent inhabitants of the villages: Cynków, Gniazdów, Rudnik Mały and Siedlce, and the commune Rudnik Wielki, 1923-1930. Contains also many other name indexes, registration books, lists of army recruits and other books of population control. Additionally there is also an identification document with a photo of Chana Sara Grancajger (alias Sommerstein) issued by German authorities on Dec. 15, 1941.

  11. Bergen Belsen reunion photograph

    Black and white image of large banquet dinner; banner reading “[Bergen-Belsen; in Hebrew characters] / 1945-1961 / Bergen-Belsen reunion” hanging behind dais; captioned in lower right corner “Bergen-Belsen / reunion / Hotel Delmonico May 7, 1961.”

  12. Oral history interview with Emma Lazar

  13. The Mijaczów Steel Foundry and Machine Works "Baueretz Bros." Inc. Towarzystwo Mijaczowskich Odlewni Stali i Zakładów Mechanicznych Braci Bauertz SA (Sygn.597)

    This collection contains selected records of the Mijaczów Steel Foundry and Machine Works facility in Myszków, Poland. Included are the land layouts and machinery layouts, insurance documents, and official correspondence of the steel factory.

  14. Harold Geller collection

    Consists of the original ketubah for the marriage of Aron Gola, originally of Kielce, Poland, and Anna Czerkanska (alternatively Czarlonski), originally of Smargon, Poland, who married at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, Also includes the marriage registration document which was submitted to the Central Jewish Committee of Bergen-Belsen and a copy of a 2009 letter from the International Tracing Service providing information about the Holocaust experiences of the Golas. The ketubah dates the wedding as October 19, 1945, while the registration document lists is as February 19, 1946.

  15. Dr. Ilsen About collection

    Consists of eight photographs of members of the SS in Oświęcim, Poland, in September 1939 and in Leżajsk, Poland in October 1939. Captions are written on the verso.

  16. Paul Lustig letter

    Contains a typed letter addressed to Robert C. Martin, Esq in Greensboro, PA from Paul Lustig of "Vienna, Austria, Germany"; in the letter Mr. Lustig writes about losing his job at his firm Kuffners' along with other Jewish employees, the firm being forced into non-Jewish ownership and asks Mr. Marvin for assistance with getting an affidavit for travel to the United States; laminated.

  17. Bank of Factory Owners and Merchants in Częstochowa Bank Przemysłowców i Kupców w Częstochowie (Sygn.192/7)

    This collection includes protocols of the board meetings and books of shareholders and stockholders, who were primarily Jewish merchants and factory owners.

  18. Court of the First Instance in Koziegłowy Sąd Grodzki w Koziegłowach (Sygn.587)

    This collection contains five legal cases in which one of the parties was Jewish. Cases relate to restoration of property, acknowledging the right to inheritance, and finding a person deceased.

  19. Basia and Morris Rubinstein papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Basia (née Zajaczkowska) and Morris Rubinstein, who met and were married in the Kielce ghetto in 1942, in the New Palestine DP camp in Salzburg, Austria from 1946-1951. Included are photographs of Basia in the refugee camp in Solberga, Sweden after her liberation from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, and two telegrams regarding her house in Kielce and one from her brother Leon Zajaczkowska informing her that he and her husband Morris were alive and in Italy. An accretion includes a 1939 letter from Basia’s mother Ides and sis...