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  1. Busy streets and city life of Jews and Arabs in Palestine

    Men work near a river to install metal pipe in Palestine. Water flows from the installed pipe and the men celebrate. A tall wooden pole with electric cables running from it. Panning shot of a park on a windy day. A busy city street, in which people mill about, men lead camels loaded with gear, a public bus is parked on the side of the street, the roof of a large estate is visible behind a high wall. The view from the top of a hill onto the white buildings of a port city, probably Jaffa, and the Mediterranean sea beyond. Quick shots of residents as they go about their day: three young childr...

  2. Garzynski family photographs

    Collection of photographs illustrating the Garzynski family in Poland before the war and Andrew and his older brother Stanislaw Garzynski after the war in a DP camp near Munich and in Polish Company guarding German POWs in Mulsberghoffen. Andrew and Stanislaw were both prisoners in Auschwitz in Spring 1944 when they were transferred to Leitmeritz, a sub-camp of Flossenberg.

  3. Marcel Wolf Zyto papers

    The Marcel Wolf Zyto papers include pre-war, wartime, and post-war biographical materials documenting Marcel Wolf Zyto, who survived the war living under the false name of Marcel or Pierre Benoît in France, as well as his parents and his sister. The collection also includes restitution files documenting Zyto’s efforts to receive restitution from the French, German, and Swiss governments, and subject files documenting Zyto’s autobiography, his support for a memorial plaque for Jean-Jacques Rothstein, and his search for his sister’s burial place. Jacob and Syma Zyto materials include copies a...

  4. Schiffmann and Fischer families collection

    This collection includes a letter written by Max and Bernhard Schiffmann in the Dachau concentration camp to Olga Schiffmann (Max's wife), in German, on camp letterhead; Document for the release of Max Schiffmann from Buchenwald, dated February 22, 1939; two letters from Chaim Sharfstein in Staten Island to his cousin Max Schiffmann, September and November 1939, in Yiddish; Four photographs depicting Ewa Fischer (donor's late mother-in-law) who left Vienna on the Kindertransport; negative showing the department store of brothers Schiffmann in Vienna before the war; Olga Schiffmann (b. Septe...

  5. Gauleiter speaks; parade for NSDAP convention in Bad Zwischenahn

    Title, "Vorbeimarsch vor dem Gauleiter". A parade on June 4 at 3:30pm marches past Carl Röver, the Gauleiter of Weser-Ems from 1929 until his death in 1942. He is standing in a blue Mercedes. The Nazi District Administration headquarters building is behind the Gauleiter and adorned with Nazi flags and eagle insignias. 00:03:42 A street sign points toward "Fährhaus." The parade includes World War One veterans, the Hitler Youth, mounted cavalry and soldiers from various military branches, the Deutsche Arbeitsfront, and the SS. 00:07:47 Title, "Der Gauleiter spricht". Gauleiter Carl Röver spea...

  6. Jewish orphanage; Schaap family gatherings

    Children at the Jewish orphanage in Leiden. Boys march in file and perform marching exercises in uniform. Toddlers play along with the older boys, including two black children (the product of a Jewish mother and black father). INT, family sits down for a meal. EXT, apartment building, birds flying about in the courtyard, family feeds the birds from the balcony. 03:01:58 A gathering of well-dressed family and friends, probably pre-war, including the couple seen moments earlier eating at home. The group eats a meal, plays cards, dances, and smokes. The men wear yarmulkes and there is a menora...

  7. Imre Winkler collection

    Consists of three photographs of Imre Winkler, circa 1940, while he was part of a Hungarian forced labor batallion. Includes photographs of laborers on a train and walking in the mud. Also includes a handwritten note from Winkler to his wife letting her know that he can't come home, dated January 3, 1944.

  8. "Going back to Vialas: Retracing my Family History. The Baby Must Not Cry"

    Consists of one memoir by Dr. Anny Bloch-Raymond entitled "Going back to Vialas: Retracing my Family History. The Baby Must Not Cry." In her memoir, she details her search for her own family's history and the history of Vialas, France, a predominantly Protestant village in southern France (in the departement of Lozère), whose inhabitants sheltered Jews during World War II. She describes her family's evacuation from northern France to Nîmes and life there between 1940-1944, when the family was sheltered in Vialas, and where she was born in 1944. Dr. Bloch also interviews children who were hi...

  9. "Eddie Klein: A Rescued Life"

    Consists of one memoir, approximately 70 pages, in English, entitled "Eddie Klein: A Rescued Life" by Edward Klein, originally of Sieradz, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Klein, describes his pre-war family and religious life; escape to Warsaw and then to Łódź after the German invasion; life in the Łódź ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; transfer to Sosonowiec; forced march to Mauthausen; and liberation from Gunskirchen. The memoir also includes information about his post-war life, including his 1945 legal immigration to Palestine; fighting and teaching mechanics during the War of ...

  10. Lazega family collection

    Documents, photographs, papers, correspondence documenting the experiences of Jacob and Leah Lazega, and their children Fanny (donor), Eva, and Max before, during, and after the Holocaust. The Lazega family fled their home in Brussels during the German invasion of Belgium and went to Paris temporarily. When the Germans arrived in Paris, the family fled first to Vannes and then south to Marseilles. Jacob was taken to Camp des Milles, where the family could occasionally visit and bring him food and supplies. Leah was able to help her husband escape from the camp, and he then went into hiding....

  11. Territorial collection-Holland (RG-116-Holland)

    Records reflect primarily the activities of the Amsterdam Judenrat with its various departments, and the Jewish interaction with the German and Dutch authorities, the daily life and living conditions of the Jews in Holland under the Nazi occupation, some documents relate to Jewish life in Netherlands prior to, and subsequent to the Holocaust. Included are records of the Joodsche Raad (Judenrat), the Nazi-appointed Jewish councils in Amsterdam, the Hague and Rotterdam; reports about anti-Jewish laws; weekly and monthly reports about deportations, 1942-1943; communications with internees in t...

  12. Nachum Bone personal archives (RG-95-79) נחום בונה - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Nachum Bone (1913-2012) contains his identity documents, memoirs, correspondence, research papers and articles on the Jewish community of Pińsk including papers on the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Pińsk and names lists of members of the community. Includes also papers and reports as the Hashomer Hatzair emissary to Poland in 1946-1947 .

  13. Komárno (Komárom) County III Komárňanská župa III

    Hungarian anti-Jewish measures and regulations carried out in Komárno (Komárom) County by the Office of the Main Chief of the Country and the Office of the Deputy Chief, including the expropriation of Jewish businesses and properties, the internment of Jews, reports on Jewish forced labor battalions, investigations of Jews, a census of Jewish workers in the county, and other records. Also features confidential correspondence received from the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior in Budapest and decisions concerning the Central Office of Autonomous Orthodox Jewish Religious Communities.

  14. Dr. George Mandl papers

    This collection relates to a dentist and physician who, due to property laws in Hungary and increased anti-Semitism in Vienna, pursued his profession in Italy. After the passage of Italian racial laws in 1938, he left a successful practice in Italy and, in 1941, gained entry to the United States, where he reestablished himself as a traditional family doctor in Bethel, Connecticut. The collection includes documents from various aspects of Dr. George Mandl’s career between 1908-1977, including family records from Miskolc, educational records from Miskolc and the University of Vienna Medical S...

  15. Moskovits Archive: Court cases against Dierig Holding Company Archivo Moskovits: Prozess gegen Firma Dierig Holding

    Legal cases and correspondence related to the trial against Dierig Holding AG company that used forced and slave labor during Nazi era. It consist of lawsuits of Holocaust survivors and former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps against Dierig Holding company who worked as forced labors at company's branches in Nazi Germany. The trial took place in 1999.

  16. Arthur Ben-Israel personal archive, Kibutz Beit-Alfa (RG-95-19), ארתור בן-ישראל

    Contains personal archive of Arthur Ben-Israel (1901-1986) from the kibbutz Beit Alfa including his biographical data, correspondence, testimony on the Hashomer Hatzair in Germany, records from the mission in England (1939-1945).

  17. Joseph Birnberg and Mania Nussenbaum Birnberg papers

    The collection includes documents and photographs relating to the Holocaust-era experiences of Joseph Birnberg, originally of Kołomyja, Poland (Kolomyi︠a︡, Ukraine), including his wartime work in the Ural region of Russia, his postwar work with the American Joint Distribution Committee in Salzburg, Austria, his marriage to Mania Nussenbaum, and their immigration to the United States. Also included are a small amount of documents and photographs related to Mania, originally of Zborów, Poland (Zboriv, Ukraine), in the New Palestine DP camp in Salzburg. Biographical materials include documents...

  18. Mirski family papers

    Collection of documents, photographs, drawings, writings, newspaper clippings relating to Klara and Michal Mirski (donor's grandparents). Klara Mirski was born in 1901 as Chaja Fichman and grew up in Warsaw; she was a teacher. Michal was born in 1905 in Kowel as Mosze Tabacznik; he was a teacher and principal in Jewish schools before the war. Due to his Communist activity, he was incarcerated in Bereza Kartuska concentration camp. Michal and Klara married on June 4, 1926 in Skidel. Their daughter Maja was born in 1927. They managed to flee Warsaw in September 1939 to Kowel and in June 1941 ...

  19. Selected records from the collection Polish Welfare Committee in Częstochowa Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy Oddział w Częstochowie (Sygn.15)

    This collection contains files of the Polish Social Welfare Committee (Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy) in Częstochowa during the Nazi occupation, includes mainly records related to social welfare rendered to the poor, orphaned children, refugees, and individuals deported from the USSR during 1939-1940, or who left Warsaw after the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Apart from the above, some file fragments refer to matters of the Jewish community.

  20. Rabbi Eliezer Silver letter

    One handwritten letter, in Hebrew, from Rabbi Eliezer Silver, writing in his capacity as president of Va'ad Hatzalah, to Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog, in Palestine, in spring 1946. In his letter, he describes news he has received about the destitute condition of many of the newly arrived Jewish refugees in Palestine, and proposes various actions in order to provide humanitarian aid for them, including the sending of funds to support such work. He also discusses negative rumors that had been spread about Va'ad Hatzalah's work there, and asks Herzog to intervene on their behalf.