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  1. Ambassador George Landau collection

    Consists of one Austrian passport, issued in 1936 to Georg (now George) Walter Landau, which includes stamps, visas and an affidavit in lieu of a passport, relating to his 1938 emigration to Colombia and 1941 emigration to the United States; one photocopy of his 1920 birth certificate; and a 1938 Heimatschein.

  2. Central Office of Autonomous Orthodox Jewish Religious Communities Ústredná kancelária autonómnych ortodoxných židovských náboženských obcí /ŽNO

    Administrative and personal matters of the various orthodox Jewish communities in Slovakia created by the Central Office of Autonomous Orthodox Jewish Religious Communities. Includes letters, appeals, reports, telegrams, certificates, extracts from the register of marriages, death certificates, birth certificates, and other unsorted documents.

  3. Gavel used to close postwar Nordhausen war crimes trial

    Gavel used by Lieutenant Colonel David H. Thomas to close the Dachau and Nordhausen war crimes trials in 1947. Col. Thomas was one of seven officers designated by the Headquarters of the European Command to constitute the court for the Kurt Andrae case. He was also a lawyer for the Judge Advocate General during the Dora war crimes trials.

  4. Files of the Żarki Commune Akta urzedu gminy Żarki (Sygn.125)

    This collection contains selected records related to everyday life of the Jewish community in the Żarki commune during the inter-war and war time period during WW II. Includes minutes of meetings of individual organs of communal authority, census, files concerning trade and craft, social welfare and the matters related to forced labor during the war. Selected materials also refer to the Polish society during the war as well as materials concerning mandatory quotas and forced labor.

  5. Tallit atarah

    Tallit atarah from the collection of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Commission [JCR]. This atarah was acquired in New York City, bearing a metal tag which states "JCR" in a star of David on one side and Hebrew initials in star of David on the other. The atarah was part of a large collection of Judaic "cultural treasures" that was "heirless" after the end of World War II, identified and distributed appropriately.

  6. Buchenwald liberation photographs collection

    Collection of eight prints of photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes images of victims bodies found in the camp, a memorial erected in the camp in memory of the victims of Buchenwald, and an effigy of Hitler hanging in front of one of the barracks in the camp; some prints include inscriptions on verso. Photos brought home from the war by Sgt. Miller (first name unknown).

  7. Advertising poster for a Yiddish newspaper

    Poster designed by Aharon Hefter advertising subscriptions to Der Emes newspaper, a Yiddish paper published in Moscow.

  8. Hannah Wolpert letter

    Consists of two envelopes and one letter written by Hannah Wolpert from Kelme, Lithuania, to cousins Jean and Sophia in New Jersey, describing life in Kelme in 1931. The letter is five pages long on two pieces of paper, and the donor recovered the letter from the attic of the Wolpert family home in Palisades Junction, NJ.

  9. The Archives of the Jewish Community of Ecuador

    Contains records of various Jewish communities and Jewish organizations in Ecuador. Includes records of the laws and constitution of Ecuador mainly dealing with immigration regulations, minutes and reports of the Board of Directors, correspondence with and between community members and Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and other organizations, lists of community members, commemoration books, circulars, photographs of various festivities, reports and invitations from the B'nai B'rith Lodges in Asuncion, Bogota, Caracas, Havana, La Paz, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Pa...

  10. Haika Grosman personal archives (RG-95-69) חייקה גרוסמן, ארכיון אישי

    The collection includes personal documents, correspondence with Hashomer Hatzair leadership and personalities as Meir Ya'ari (1897-1987), the leader of Hashomer Hatzair, Kibbutz Artzi and Mapam; and Ya'akov Hazan (1899-1992),the Israeli politician and social activist; also includes documents from Grosman's activities as a Knesset member (1969-1988).

  11. Prewar and immediate postwar events in the Netherlands; anti-Jewish sign torn down

    The Allies commissioned this four part documentary from Maurits Schaap after liberation. Titles: "Zeeuwsch Vlaanderen", "Documentaire Film der Verwoesting", "Vervaardigd met Medewerking van het M.G. Te Sluiskil, Sept. 1944 - April 1945", "Opgenomen en Gemonteerd Door M.S. Schaap". Title "Er Was Eens Een Vrij Nederland". Scenes of prewar Netherlands: cathedral, horses at work, boats on the water, planes at an airport, and people at a beach. Title, "Er Was Eens Een Welvarend Zeeland". Prewar Netherlands, including streets and waterways. A clock tower and "Hotel Nieuwe Doelen." Musicians play ...

  12. Erbgesundheitsgericht Berlin (A Rep. 356)

    This collection contains materials on forced sterilization, euthanasia, and racial research. It documents the racial hygiene administration and organization prior to the implementation of the T4 program.

  13. Neil Hora papers

    This collection includes photographs of Doris and Nicole Hora as well as the donor's father, Morris Hora. Doris and Nicole were related to Morris's family and survived the Holocaust in France. Additional photographs include images of Odette and Suzanne Leon, also survivors in France; an image of Morris in immediate post-war in France; a postcard to donor's mother; and a hand-written note on a photo studio's card.

  14. Paul Janish memoir

    Memoir written by Paul Janish (born Pawel Janiszewski), who survived the Warsaw ghetto. One of just three survivors of his large family, he hid on the Aryan side of Warsaw from September 21, 1942 until the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in September 1944. Memoir consists of two notebooks, manuscript, written in 1978.

  15. Feliks Karczewski letter

    Consists of a copy of letter written by Feliks Karczweski to his mother and to Pauline from the Dachau concentration camp on 1940 September 1. The letter, written on Dachau prisoner stationary, notes that Karczewski is well and asks about the whereabouts of family and friends. Includes an English translation.

  16. Szyja Herszkopf documents

    Consists of an identity card issued by the "Ausschuss ehemaliger Konzentrations-Häftlinge, Hannover," on October 3, 1945, with photograph, stating that Szia Herszkopf is a survivor of a concentration camp, and listing his tattooed prisoner number, as well as noting his food ration allocation. Also includes a processing identity card giving medical information issued by the I.R.O. issued to Szyja Herszkopf, dated August 1948, stamped at the IRO center in Fallingbostel.

  17. Embroidered blouse worn by a concentration camp inmate after liberation

    Embroidered blouse selected and worn by Ruth Gold immediately after her liberation from Malchow concentration camp by the Soviet Army in 1945.

  18. Jan and Helena Bodakowski photographs

    Consists of three photographs Jan and Helena Cenkar Bodakowski in the Wildflecken and Schwarzenborn displaced persons camps. Includes photographs of the couple's June 6, 1946 wedding in Schwarzenborn, and a 1948 photograph of Jan Bodakowski chopping wood at Wildflecken.

  19. Protective pass issued by Royal Swedish Legation, Budapest, 26 August 1944

    One protective pass ("Schutz-Pass") issued by the Royal Swedish Legation in Budapest, for Cecilie Radó, on 26 August 1944. The pass asserts that the above-named person is protected by the Royal Swedish Legation, and has the right to travel to Sweden under the terms of repatriation authorized by the Swedish Foreign Ministry. The pass contains stamps and a signature from the staff of the legation, but is missing the photograph of Radó.

  20. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of seven photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes images of piles of corpses, of bone fragments, and of soldiers and survivors looking at the corpses.