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  1. Oral history interview with Robert L. Behrman

  2. Records of the commune Marianów, County Rawski Akta gminy Marianów powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1104)

    Contains correspondence, registration books and names lists from the commune of Marianów: inclues a list of inhabitants receiving government grants, a list of patients with typhoid, correspondence concerning the treatment of Jewish patients and Jewish hospitals, and registration books of population of the commune Marianów.

  3. Probated wills of Julius and Walter Hollander

    Probated wills of Anne Frank's uncles, Julius and Walter Hollander.

  4. George Mandel-Mantello research collection

    Consists of documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, copies of articles and speeches, and copies of archival holdings related to the work of George Mandel-Mantello. The material was collected by Mantello and by his son, Enrico Mantello, about his wartime activities as a diplomat for the El Salvadore consulate in Geneva, Switzerland from 1942 to 1945, during which time he created false Salvadoran citizenship papers in an attempt to provide diplomatic protection for Jewish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. Also contains a photocopy of a transcription of June 6, 1979 interview of T...

  5. National Migration Fond: Series of Consular Certificates of Identity Fondo Dirección Nacional de Migraciones: Serie Certificado Consular de Identidad

    Immigration certificates issued by various Argentine consular offices abroad or the Argentine immigration authorities in Buenos Aires for entry into Argentina. The certificates include a portrait photograph of the applicant and the applicant's fingerprints. The records pertaining to Jewish applicants were selectively digitized in Buenos Aires at the Archivo Intermedio branch archive of the National Archives of Argentina. This is an ongoing project.

  6. NSDAP convention of the Ammerland district

    Aerial view of Zwischenahn Lake filmed from the water tower on the south bank. The town of Bad Zwischenahn is located south of this land-locked sea. Windy with bright sunlight and full trees in early summer. 00:00:12 Title "Bad Zwischenahn im Festschmuck" The town of Bad Zwischenahn is decorated with Nazi symbols including flags, banners, garlands, and posters for the NSDAP convention. View of a gray stone building with columns, the NSDAP headquarters of the District Leader, Johann Schneider, in the Villa Windmüller located on Peter Street (also appears in Film ID 3930). Bathouse and boat d...

  7. Sorger family photograph collection

    Collection of eight original photographs depicting the Sorger family in Obertyn, Poland. Elias Sorger (donor’s father) was a professional photographer and Golda Olga Schleimer Sorger (donor’s mother) took care of their three daughters and was an amateur photographer; Donia Rosa, b. 1922 and Ester Edzia, b. 1925, were Sulamit’s older sisters. Sulamit, the youngest, b. 1932, is the only survivor of her immediate family; her sisters were killed together on February 18, 1943 and the parents were killed together on March 3, 1943 after they were denounced. Sulamit survived hidden by several peopl...

  8. Territorial collection on France, Holocaust period (RG-116, France II)

    The collection relates to the situation of the Jews in France during German occupation. The collection pertains number of subjects including: anti-Jewish legislation enacted by the Vichy regime, general situation of the Jews in France, deportations, situation in the internment and concentration camps, religious, cultural and everyday life in the camps, the resistance movement, protests against anti-Jewish persecution, clandestine press, legal press, identification cards including the production of false identification documents as part of the resistance movement.

  9. Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp barracks

    Barracks from Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from October 1941-January 18, 1945. Barracks were primitive wooden structures with large wooden shelves for bunkbeds. There were 36 bunks per barrack; 5 to 6 prisoners were packed on a shelf to fit over 500 prisoners per barracks. Inmates wore the same ragged clothes for work and sleep. The barracks had no insulation from the cold or heat, the wooden roofs often leaked, and the straw sometimes supplied as bedding was soon filthy and wet. The only toilet facility was a single bucket, and dia...

  11. Minutes of the Commission of Spain Procès-verbaux de la Commission d'Espagne (B CR 212 PV)

    Records related to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formed the so-called Commission d'Espagne (Commission of Spain) on August 26, 1936 which directed and coordinated all of the ICRC's humanitarian activities and operations within both the Republican and Nationalist territories. The collection covers the ICRC's humanitarian activities in Spain and consists of correspondence, reports and minutes of the Commission. Contains documentation on military and civilian prisoners, visits to the internment...

  12. Supreme National Tribunal Sprawy organizacyjne Najwyższego Trybunału Narodowego (NTN), (Sygn.196)

    This collection contains selected records relating to the general organization of the Supreme National Tribunal (NTN), including are lists of completed cases, official correspondence of the NTN Secretariat, reports, minutes, and the logbook of correspondence.

  13. Ketubah from Deggendorf displaced persons camp

    One ketubah, recording the wedding of Moshe Wasserman and Rachel Landa, at the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, 20 October 1945. Text in Hebrew, with ink stamp from "Jewish Committee, D.P. Camp 7, Deggendorf." The groom is listed as being the son of Meir Wasserman, and the bride as being the daughter of Mordechai Landa, with witnesses Mendel Gorski and Meir Blumshtayn present, and Rabbi Refael ben Yehudah Halevi officiating.

  14. Records of the commune Gortatowice County Rawski Akta gminy Gortatowice powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1102)

    General correspondence of the commune Gortatowice, includes registration of teachers, intelligentsia, firemen, Jewish inhabitants, orders of relocation of Jewish families to Nowe Miasto, and the order to Polish inhabitants prohibiting them from helping Jewish people, with the threat of punishment by death for doing so. Also includes statistics about local properties, farms, agricultural property and household goods.

  15. Postwar life of the Schaap family; funeral for Dr. Amir

    Men with yarmulkes exit a building. INTs, dark. Cars on a street, one with "USA" and numbers on the hood. An elder with a top-hat gets into a car. CUs, adults, one pins flower on lapel. 00:37:21 In London, pan, up and down of a stone statue. Sign advertising "Yehudi Menuhin" concert at Royal Albert Hall (maybe in June 1946). British soldiers. Lake. 00:38:48 Street traffic and sightseeing to the Parliament and Westminster and around London's cinemas (films opened in 1946). 00:40:16 Israel Legation in Amsterdam. Funeral procession for Dr. Michael Amir, the Israel envoy to the Netherlands, on ...

  16. Michelle King collection

    Consists of four wartime postcards: three color postcards of artwork depicting (respectively) the Bureau of Printing and Engraving; Pennsylvania Avenue; and "New Government Buildings on Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues Triangle;" and one photographic postcard of the newly erected Pentagon. Also includes one ration book holder advertising Imperial Dairy Products, containing four original wartime ration books, circa May 1942.

  17. Woodblock print depicting Jewish internees at High Holiday services

    Woodblock print depicting Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services in the synagogue in the Central Promenade Camp on the Isle of Man.

  18. Gideon Poraz Posner collection

    The collection consists of pre-war and post-war depictions of the Posner family, including Salomon Posner and his wife Sabina Posner, and their daughter Ester Tusia Posner, both of whom perished during the Holocaust. Also includes photographs of Salomon's son Gideon (b. 1948) and his second wife Janka Raduszycka.

  19. Hashomer Hatzair in Romania (R-5-2) השומר הצעיר ברומניה

    Circulars, minutes of meetings, work plans of the central leadership, reports from the meetings of the chief council in Kishinev and Czernowitz in 1927, reports on activities in different brunches, newspapers and magazines published in Romania 1927-1940, including "Mantvivea" and "Iovelua", testimonies and memoirs of the Ha Shomer Hatzair activities in various "kenim" (branches) in Romania, names lists of the members of central leadership and those who had made Aliya in 1938.

  20. Doba-Necha Cukierman collection

    Consists of original and photocopied wartime documents, dated April 1942 to December 1943, between Doba Necha (Zajfsztajn) Cukierman and her friends and family, including correspondence conducted under false names. Includes correspondence from Doba-Necha's brother Boruch, letters to the Prokop family who took over Doba's husband Szyja's fruit business, and between Doba (using her false name Zofia) and Szyja (using his false name Janek). Also included is a pamphlet and photograph of the Głusk Jewish Cemetery, where Doba's parents were murdered and a drawing created by Doba-Necha of the barn ...