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  1. Elsie Trovillions collection

    Letter and envelope sent by Rie Wittenberg Hetteligh from Haarlem to Elsie Trovillions (donor's mother), dated July 1945. The two young women knew each other before the war, either as pen pals or personally. Rie described in her letter the long years of German occupation of Holland; confiscation of food and valuables, cold and other hardships suffered by the local population. She mentioned the murder of the majority of Dutch Jewry. Rie expressed her graditude for Americans, Canadians, and British for liberating Holland and described the shortages in postwar Holland. She told her friend that...

  2. Ben Zion Kalb papers

    The Ben Zion Kalb papers consist of a diary, photographs, and documents related to the rescue work of Ben Zion Kalb (later Colb) who helped refugees cross the border between Hungary and Slovakia as part of the Slovak Working Group. The collection includes lists of names of those he assisted, photographs of Kalb with people he rescued, and correspondence with Itzak Zuckerman and Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl as well as a partial typed copy of the Vrba-Wetzler report. The diary was kept by Ben Zion from September 4, 1944 to January 1945.

  3. S.L. Shneiderman papers

    Contains writings and research notes of S.L. Shneiderman (Samuel Lajb Shneiderman) for a book with the working title "Jews in Communist Poland." The writings and notes regard Jews in the Soviet Union who wanted to serve in the Polish Army of General Władysław Anders (often referred to as Anders' Army) and the reasons why they were denied. Also includes a typed manuscript sent to Shneiderman by Dr. Salomon Leder in Israel in the late 1950s titled "Memoirs of a Young Political Prisoner in the USSR" (in Polish, 278 pages).

  4. Kulka family photographs

    Consists of 20 formal portraits photographs of the Kulka family of Kolomyja, Poland (now Kolomyi︠a︡, Ukraine). The photographs were taken between 1916-1932 and were exchanged as a remembrance among family members.

  5. Abe Bortz photographs

    Consists of three photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, depicting a pile of corpses under memorial wreathes, and soldiers examining the camp gallows. Also includes a portrait of the photographer, Abe Bortz, a member of the 503 Quartermaster Car Company, First Army.

  6. Synagogue in Moscow, Jews praying

    A crowd of people gather for the High Holidays. A woman places something into a man’s palm. The crowd continues to move around. Men and women exit the Moscow Choral Synagogue en masse. A group of men stand together listening to something. Men and women exit the synagogue. Four men and one woman stand still, looking at the camera. A young boy smiles at the camera, and then a bearded man. People keep walking past, some look up and smile at the camera. Others just glance. Some stop and stare. Men exit, some wearing prayer shawls. Stained glass eight-point star above the doorway. Four women and...

  7. Israel Beider collection

    Correspondence, poetry and writings of Israel Beider, in Hebrew and Yiddish. Handwritten or published in the Hebrew and Yiddish press in Poland before the war.

  8. City Government in Sarajevo. Office of management of Jewish Real Estate Gradsko poglavarstvo Sarajevo. Ured za uprvu źidovskim nekretninama (Fond UZN-13)

    The collection contains records concerning confiscation of Jewish properties in Sarajevo in 1942 in favor of Independent State of Croatia (NDH). The documents include information regarding the owners including their names, addresses and property description.

  9. Armando and Mathilde Starkand papers

    Consists of a birth certificate, identity cards, naturalization certificates, and passports for Armando and Mathilde (née Sucher) Starkand. The collection includes pre-war German and Argentinian identity documents, and post-war documents in the United States.

  10. The Brust family on winter holiday before the Holocaust

    “Kékestetõ 1940. Február 12~23-ig”. People holding skis walk across a snow covered ground. Ski lodge and the surrounding snowy area. A car is parked. Another drives past. The branches of trees are weighed down with snow. 01:01:04 A man faces the camera and smiles. People on the snow covered road get their skis down from the top of the van parked in front of the building. A man (Elek) walks through a snowy path, and his wife Lilly and daughter Eva skate around a cleared path of ice. The lodge. Eva skates up to the camera, hair in braids. ECU of her smile, with gaps from two missing front tee...

  11. Pola Spitzer collection

    Consists of copyprints of photographs, copies of postwar and wartime correspondence, original and copies of wartime personal documents, and typed family histories, related to the Holocaust experiences of Pessa Fogelman (Pessia Fogielman, Pessy Fogielman, now Pola Spitzer). In 1943, Pola was secretly taken by Natalia Pisula, a Polish Catholic woman, from the ghetto in Radomsko. Pola later received false papers under the name "Pelagia Pisula" and was sent to Germany as a forced laborer at a munitions factory in Güstrow. Includes her false papers, essays written about Pola Spitzer's experience...

  12. W. Douglas Schellig photographs

    Consists of 17 enlarged black and white photographs taken by W. Douglas Schellig on the grounds of the former Dachau concentration camp in 1965. The photographs depict the memorials and sculptures on the camp grounds, the museum, and the architecture of the camp.

  13. Martin Steinberger papers

    Consists of original and copies of documents and translations related to Martin Steinberger, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Includes his educational documents, including training in woodwork at the trade school of the Jewish congregation, and, after his emigration, wartime employment recommendations for his work in England and Wales. Also includes a handwritten transcript of a 1996 interview with Mr. Steinberger.

  14. Marcel Hodak passport

    Consists of one French passport issued to Marcel Hodak, who was born on August 25, 1937 in Paris. The passport, which includes a photograph, was issued in June 1946.

  15. Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter papers

    The collection contains German military documents relating to the military careers of non-Jewish Germans Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter. Also included are financial documents relating to the forced sale of Jewish assets in Frankfurt, Germany, postcards, as well as photographs of Wilhelm Stahl and family, Walter Lewalter, and Warsaw, Poland. The biographical materials in this collection are organized into two subseries of materials relating to Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter. Materials relating to Wilhelm Stahl include a military identification booklet, 1910-1919; a passport “Wehrpaß,” ...

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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.