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  1. Martin Elkort photographs

    Consists of enlarged black and white photographs taken by Martin Elkort at an ORT training center in Manhattan, New York, circa 1948-1950. The photographs depict a sewing training center, and some of the trainees bear visible Auschwitz tattoos.

  2. Building a synagogue in Rotterdam; celebrating Hannukah

    Street sign, "Walenburger Weg." In Rotterdam. INT, wood workshop. Building a synagogue in the late 1930s close enough to the Schaap family home so the elder Salomon Schaap could walk there; the synagogue was not destroyed during WWII. 06:22:07 Star of David on door. Men carry wood into doorway. Menorah in INT of workshop/store. Hebrew letters on tiles Men unload materials for work on synagogue. 06:26:08 INT, crowd of religious Jews. Cantor sings. Men in top-hats and tuxedoes. Bride and groom under pieces of cloth. Light candles. Wedding. Bride and groom smile and shake hands. Little boy lig...

  3. Lustig family papers

    Two (2) photo albums of the Lustig family (donor's maternal family), documenting their life in Augsburg, Germany with family and friends between the years 1919-1931; collection of photographs (56) of the Lustig family in Germany and US before and after the war. Correspondence between Ludwig Lustig and different people in Chicago, IL regarding immigration visa to the US, c. 1938-1939; Passenger list: for the U.S.S. Vandyck which sailed from Liverpool, UK to New York on September 1, 1939 and includes the names of the Lustig family; Passport issued to Ludwig Grunbaum which has been marked with...

  4. Selected records from the collection of the District Court in Piotrków. Regional Branch in Częstochowa Sąd Okręgowy w Piotrkowie. Wydział Zamiejscowy w Częstochowie (Sygn. 44)

    Contains records related to the history of Częstochowa and its industries, and social and economic activities at this time. Includes files relating to mortgages, estate property, allocation of property, alimonies, indemnities, draft debts, cancellations of draft agreements, and the cancellation of notary acts. Also included are files of civil cases such as the clarification of certificates of marital status, adoptions of children, death certificates, auctions of estate property, and concessions of the rights of the poor. Includes commercial registration files which contain the date of the e...

  5. Baruch Yehieli personal archives (RG-95-54) ברוך יחיאלי - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Baruch Yehieli (1915-1998) contains correspondence, articles, documents on the kibbutz Nir David (Tel Amal) and the kibbutz "Lohamei Hageta'ot" (Ghetto Fighters ), manuscripts and materials for the book "Akiva" and discussions after its publishing.

  6. Children

    A crowd of young children look at the camera. CU of one boy smiling. A man looks out through a window. Two men in a doorway observe. Another shot of the children lined up for the camera.

  7. Marsh Stanley Marshall photograph collection

    Photographic prints: Six images of the Ohrdruf concentration camp after its liberation and inscribed on verso. Images taken by Marsh Stanley Marshall, a member of the US Army.

  8. Postwar wedding of Jewish survivors; ritual circumcision of their newborn

    Title, "Onze Trouw-Film" [Our Wedding Film]. City streets. At the Roxy Theater. Maurits Schaap and Rebecca (Bep) Bedak, soon to be married, meet and start toward City Hall in August 1945. Title, "Aankomst op het staduis" City Hall (The Hague). Street signs and the general location. There is no filming inside City Hall itself for the signing of the marriage license. The couple exits the building holding the marriage contract. In Rotterdam, Bep wears diamond jewelry just below her neck. The family prepares for the wedding ceremony in a synagogue in Rotterdam. Bep dresses in a gown and veil. 0...

  9. Lübschütz and Urman families papers

    The Lübschütz and Urman families papers consist of documents and correspondence of the Lübschütz and Urman families, formerly of Schönebeck, Germany and Vienna, Austria, and later of the United States. Included is a certificate awarding Julius Lübschütz the Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer (Honor Cross); a Kinderausweis (child identity document) issued to Jutta Lübschütz (later Judy Urman); a copy of a document issued by the Japanese Consulate-General permitting Jutta Lübschütz entry to Shanghai; a postwar postcard from the Red Cross informing the Lübschütz family that Ruth Lübschütz Nathan was ...

  10. Personal archives of Ya'akov Hazan (RG-95-30) יעקב חזן, ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Yaakov Hazan (1899-1992) contains his personal documents, correspondence, publications in various newspapers and magazines on Zionism, the HeHalutz and Labor Movement.

  11. Crematorium tag from Dachau concentration camp

    Crematorium tag from Dachau concentration camp in Germany. The tag was picked up by an American soldier on a tour of the camp in the spring of 1945, after the camp’s liberation. A numbered tag was placed with each corpse to be able to identify the ashes after cremation. The numbers on the tags did not correspond to prisoner numbers. Produced in large quantities, not all the tags were used. Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the Nazi government in 1933, originally for political prisoners. Over time, other groups were interned at Dachau, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma, ...

  12. Helena Bielska Himelfarb papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence, identification papers, affidavits, travel papers, photostatic copies, and a pamphlet which document the experiences of Helena Bielska Himelfarb, her husband Solomon Himelfarb (donor's parents), and her efforts to immigrate to and legally stay in the United States after WWII.

  13. Thomas Ketterman photographs

    Consists of eleven photographs, taken after the liberation of Dachau, which were mass printed and widely distributed, as well as one photograph described as the path to the Eagle’s Nest. The versos of these photographs include descriptions written by Thomas Ketterman, a member of the 136th AAA Gun battalion during World War II.

  14. Clarence M. Sullivan, Jr. collection

    Collection of 12 photographic prints documenting the Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation. Images include photos of the Dachau death train and other scenes found in the camp; dated April-May 1945. Collection also contains one newspaper clipping from "The Field Dispatch" published for the 20th Armored Division, dated 29 May 1945, and containing an article lauding the 27th Tank Battalion for their recent performance; and a roster of the 27th Tank Battalion of the 20th Armored Division. Materials were brought home from the war by Clarence M. Sullivan, Jr., of Milwaukee, W...

  15. Selected records of the district of Częstochowa II Starostwo Powiatowe Częstochowskie II (Sygn.318)

    This collection contains selected files from the County administration of Częstochowa from 1945-1950, including the town of Częstochowa, as well as towns and rural communes incorporated in the County of Częstochowa, a part of the Province of Kielce. Selected files contain such materials as: situational reports (1946-1947), correspondence concerning people of other ethnic origins, matters of citizenship, information about graveyards (1946), registration of artisans, wartime graves, lists of civilians murdered, arrested and sent from the county to forced labor during the German occupation, as...

  16. "Sara's Story"

    Consists of typed testimony of the Holocaust experiences of Sara Weingram, as written by Sondra Greenberg. The testimony describes Sara's childhood in Pułtusk, Poland, the German invasion, and her family's forced evacuation east to Russia. The family was briefly split, but reunited near Orsha, in Belarus. After the German invasion in June 1941, Sara was separated from her family during a German bombing raid and found an orphanage. She eventually found her family in Magnitogorsk, where the family suffered from illness and hunger. After the war, Sara married her boyfriend, lived in the Milan ...

  17. Oral history interview with Morton Mattel

  18. Bronner and Kirshenbaum families collection

    Collection of photographs of the Kirshenbaum and Bronner families from Bedzin, Poland, in the Bayreuth DP camp in Germany; photos show their friends and family. Includes a marriage certificate for Sala and Moniek Bronner, a notarized statement of Sala Kirschenbaum, and birth certificates of Sala and Moniek Bronner

  19. Paper Wholesale Company in Częstochowa Ltd. Hurtownia Papieru w Częstochowie Spółka z.o.o. (Sygn.152)

    This collection contains records of the Paper Wholesale Company in Czestochowa including financial books of departments, related to: bookkeeping, sales and employment. The founders of the company were: Leopold Kohn, Józef Markusfeld, Juliusz Schleicher, Gustaw Heyman, Alfred Kohn, Antoni Markusfeld and Stanisław Markusfeld. Initial capital amounted to 35,000 Polish zlotys divided into 100 shares of 350 zlotys each. There were many Jews among the staff and customers of this company who were later victims of the Holocaust.

  20. Nahum Sharon (Strachman) personal archives (RG-95-17), נחום שרון (שטרכמן) - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archive of Nachum Sharon (1912-1976) contains records on the Hashomer Hatzair in Poland, biographical data and description of his hometown Luck (Ukraine), speeches, articles, papers related to his leadership in MAPAM party (United Workers’ Party, Israel) and the Histadrut (General Organization of Workers), issues of the magazine "Al Hamishmar", articles on "German problem"-restitutions from Germany (1951), records from his mission in Cuba (1959-1962) and association of friends Israel-Cuba, the manuscript on Emanuel Ringelblum, the reproduction of his book "Summer 42" (in Hebrew).