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  1. "Eric Hoffman: For My Family, For My Children, For My Grandchildren"

    Consists of one typed memoir, circa 40 pages plus photographs, photocopied, and written in the spring of 1996 by Eric Hoffman, entitled "Eric Hoffman: For My Family, For My Children, For My Grandchildren." The memoir details Hoffman's life growing up in Münster, Germany; his move to Antwerp, Belgium; his voyage to Palestine in 1939; his wartime service in the British Royal Army Service Corps and his post-war life. The memoir also includes several personal photographs with, 'The Windmuller Family Chronicle,' which details the fate of 120 members of Eric's close and extended family, as well a...

  2. US War Bonds poster of three small children under the shadow of a swastika

    U.S. War Bond poster designed by Lawrence Beall Smith in 1942, after America's entry into World War II. It features three young children, apprehensive and fearful, as they are enveloped by the large, dark arm of a swastika shadow. The poster was distributed by the United StatesTreasury Department and implied that purchasing war bonds would keep the children safe from the Nazi threat. War bonds were offered by the United States Government for purchase by the public; purchasers would keep the bond and be reimbursed for its return at a later date. Purchasing bonds was considered patriotic and ...

  3. Messcher family photographs

    Consists of two photographs of the Messcher children; one photograph of Frits Messcher (b. 1936) and Martijn Messcher (b. 1934), and one photograph of Martijn holding his infant sister Martha (b. 1942). The photographs were taken in Rotterdam on April 4, 1943. In the photographs, the children are wearing the Jewish star (Magen David).

  4. Solly Border diploma

    Solly Border's diploma in chemical engineering, awarded to him from the Polytechnic University in Iași, Romania in 1957.

  5. Records of the City of Częstochowa Akta miasta Częstochowy (Sygn.1)

    This collection consists of selected records created before and during the WWII in Częstochowa, Poland by the President and executive authorities of the Town Hall (1918-1939), and by the Municipal Government (Stadtverwaltung) headed by the Municipal Starost (Stadthauptman) (1939-1944). Consists also of books listing information about the inhabitants of Częstochowa (1870-1930). The pre-war records refer to the social, cultural, economic and religious life of the Jewish community in Częstochowa, for example: sport activities, schools, charity, social welfare and hospitals. Includes a list of ...

  6. Watman and Weissblum families photograph collection

    The collection consists of pre-war photographs depicting the extended Watman and Weissblum families in Opatów, Poland. Many of the photographs are annotated on the verso in Yiddish or English.

  7. Waffen-SS recruiting poster

    Waffen-SS recruiting poster designed by Mjolnir.

  8. Devisenauskunfsstelle Tschenstochau Foreign Currency Office in Częstochowa Biuro Dewizowe w Częstochowie (Sygn.315)

    This collection contains official correspondence related to the relief for Jewish inhabitants of Czestochowa, as well as applications for the allowance of foreign currency for family members of prisoners sent to concentration camps.

  9. Gessner visits Italy

    In Pompeii, three men, two in uniform and one in a suit outside of the entrance. The building reads “ENTRATA IN POMPEI”. 01:02:53 A man in a suit (friend of Gessner) walks along the entry road to Pompeii. 01:03:01 Gessner faces the camera and takes a photo before walking up the road and waving for the his friend to follow him. The friend stands in the ruins of the basilica at Pompeii. 01:03:15 Gessner in the ruins of the basilica. 01:03:25 Sign reads “TEMPLUM APOLLINIS”, the Temple of Apollo. Gessner stands on a block next to a colonnade, bronze sculpture. The other man walks across elevate...

  10. William Buckhantz papers

    The William Buckhantz collection is an excellent resource for those studying the experiences of UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) personnel working in displaced persons camps. The collection includes extensive photographs depicting life in the Deggendorf and Ellwangen displaced persons camp. It also includes blank UNRRA forms, including blank AEF Displaced Persons forms and identity cards. Buckhantz also received letters written by displaced persons asking for his assistance; a remarkable document written and illustrated by a survivor cartoonist, Georg Feier, g...

  11. Eugene A. Stehle photograph collection

    Collection of photographic prints depicting the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps immediately following liberation. Includes images from the series taken by former Yugoslavian prisoners documenting the cremation process in Dachau, the crematorium and victims in Buchenwald, reburial, and forced confrontation; dated April- May 1945.

  12. Liebermann family correspondence

    Consists of correspondence between members of the family of Adolf and Bettina Liebermann, originally of Vienna. The correspondence, which dates between 1938-1941, covers the period in which the Liebermann's children, Hedi and Hans, were able to emigrate to Great Britain (Hedi in 1938 and Hans in 1939). Adolf and Bettina Liebermann, who escaped to Prague in 1939, were unable to join their children, and perished during the Holocaust. Much of the correspondence, which largely relates to efforts regarding emigration, has been translated. Also includes the name plate for Adolf Liebermann's impor...

  13. Eric Otto Sonneman collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to Eric Otto Sonneman, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Includes documents for application for a U.S. visa: his resume, school records, letters of recommendation for his work as a pharmacist’s apprentice and for his role as leader of the Jewish youth group Bund Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend, character references, and forms prior to his emigration to the United States in 1939. Also includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Sonneman and family, as well as testimony written by his father, Kurt Sonnemann, describing the circuitous journey th...

  14. Deligdisch family collection

    Consists of six photographs of the Deligdisch family, originally of Cernauti, Romania (present day Chernivtsi, Ukraine). Includes a photograph of Siegfried Deligdisch in a Romanian reserve military uniform; photographs of his son, Otto Deligdisch, as a young teenager; and post-war photographs of Greta Deligdisch Beer with her husband, Simon Beer, in Italy. Also includes a letter, three pages, dated May 2, 2013, from Stuart Eizenstat to Greta Beer, expressing his deep appreciation for the pivotal role she played in alerting the United States government to the issue of Jewish-owned Swiss bank...

  15. Lloyd Adler photograph collection

    Photographic prints: black and white images which document the Nordhausen concentration camp after liberation; includes images of victims, reburial and forced confrontation of atrocities; some American soldiers visible in background of photos; inscribed on verso by Sgt. Lloyd Adler; dated April 1945.

  16. Market and Jewish quarter of Krakow

    In Krakow, various adults and children in the lively Jewish quarter. A street sign in Hebrew letters is visible, men sleep sitting on the threshold of a building. A uniformed carriage driver talks to the camera. A throng of people crowd around a man dressed in a hat and coat, putting their hands out as though asking for something. Men carry heavy loads through the street on their backs. A crowded open-air street market. A younger man plays a joke on an elderly woman, covering her eyes with her kerchief. Good shots of Jews, market vendors, and children. Inside, a woman washes her hands in fr...

  17. Prosecution of Nazi criminals Stíhání nacistických válečných zločinců (325)

    Records from various archives relating to investigation on Nazi crimes. Consists of testimonies of witnesses in trials against the guards of concentration camps: Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, and Sachsenhausen. Also includes photographs of Nazi criminals and their victims, children’s photographs from Lidice, and other photographs of Nazi crimes.

  18. "See you Soon Caroline!"

    Consists of one manuscript entitled, "See you soon Caroline!" by Bernard Wilson. The manuscript is a fictionalized account of a family researching the history of a grandfather, who was born at Rivesaltes and later adopted. The manuscript highlights the work of the American Friends Service Committee in southern France, particularly the work of Irish Quaker Mary Elmes (referred to in the manuscript as Marion Oakes).

  19. Julius Hirsch family papers

    Manuscript drafts of song and poetry texts, mostly written for Jewish holidays, and used by various members of the family of Julius Hirsch, originally of Hamburg, Germany, circa 1935-1940. Some of the poetry may have been written while Hirsch was interned as an enemy alien in Great Britain in 1940-1941 at the Hutchinson camp on the Isle of Man, but much of it dates from earlier years. Collection also includes a printed sheet with lyrics and music of the "Hutchinson Camp Song," written by internees at the Hutchinson camp, 1940, as well as newspaper clippings from British newspapers, circa ea...

  20. Auschwitz concentration camp scrip 1 Reichsmark, in 2 pieces, received by an inmate

    Auschwitz scrip, valued at 1 Reichsmark, received by Morris Sobo when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp. The scrip is torn into 2 pieces. Scrip was issued in the camps as a means of improving worker productivity.