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  1. Photographs and documents related to forced labor in the Third Reich collected by the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation

    Contains 986 files of photographs and original documents sent to the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (Foundation “Polish-German Reconciliation”) by its beneficiaries. The photos and records document the employment of forced laborers by the Third Reich, their stay in a camp or in any other place where the forced labor was performed. Includes also photographs depicting individuals during forced labor, correspondence, birth certificates, Ausweise, Arbeitskarte, occasional cards with wishes, certificates of various kinds, identification documents, tickets and other evidence related to for...

  2. Matchbook cover with a printed appeal to not buy Nazi goods

    American matchbook acquired by Max Beer, who arrived in Canada in 1949 following his birth in a displaced persons camp in Germany. The matchbook was produced by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States as part of a 1933 boycott of German imports and has the slogan “For Humanity’s Sake: Don’t Buy Nazi Goods.” In spring 1941, Max’s father, Leo Beer, escaped from the Krakow ghetto in Poland, and joined the Soviet Army. In March 1942, Max’s mother, Gitla Paris Einzenberg (later Beer), was transported from the Radom ghetto in Poland, to a forced labor camp in Poland, and then deported to ano...

  3. "Lost and Waiting to be Found"

    Consists of one memoir, 59 pages, entitled “Lost and Waiting to be Found,” written by Jackie (Jacky) Young (born Jona Spiegel), originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, Jackie, who was born in December 1941 in Vienna, Austria, but was raised by adoptive parents in England, describes slowly learning about his own past, which his parents had kept from him despite his own faint memories and hints mentioned by relatives. In the memoir, Jackie describes his visit to Theresienstadt, where he was deported as an infant; to Maly Trostinec, where his mother, Elsa Spiegel, was deported and perish...

  4. Jack Bornkind photograph collection

    The collection contains two photographs of United States Army soldier Private First Class Jack Bornkind in uniform and one of his grave.

  5. Baia Mare glass slide collection

    Collection of over 400 glass slides of portraits of Jews from Baia Mare, Romania, most taken between 1935-1940.

  6. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  7. Solomon Zynstein papers

    Consists of photographs, scrapbook pages, loose documents, and newspaper clippings mainly related to Solomon Zynstein's life and work in the Bamberg displaced persons camp, particularly his work directing Yiddish Theater in Bamberg. Includes photographs, programs, and newsclippings about performances, as well as documents related to Zynstein's work as a journalist, including brief notes on the International Military Tribunal (the Nuremberg trials).

  8. Nachman Steinhardt papers

    The collection contains six postcards sent from USSR in 1931 to Tel Aviv, addressed to Fishel Weizman, relative of letter-writer Nachman Steinhardt, who immigrated to Palestine from Częstochowa, Poland; a letter sent from "Motek," from Aruba, dated March 5, 1938; a membership card to a music enthusiasts club in Czestochowa issued to Nachman Steinhardt in December 1932; and a family portrait.

  9. Sightseeing in Germany

    EXT and INT of a church. In Dresden, the Zwinger Palace and Equestrian Statue of King John. River. Large garden and estate. City square with some traffic and pedestrians. German family walks through a park. 01:10:03 Bustling street with traffic in Berlin. Brandenburg gate. Barracks of a building under construction. 01:10:44 Pan of a building guarded by German soldiers and pedestrians walking about. MSs, the city's cathedral domes, docks and boats on the Spree River, the Berlin Zoo, an airplane taking off, the Siemens factory, a busy outdoor street market, and a courtyard with graves.

  10. Touring Germany

    Scenes of the German countryside filmed from a train. 01:00:52 Busy square in the city of Dresden with a church, market and crowds, including the Katholische Hofkirche with an ornate façade and figurative statues and a nearby tower. Along the Elbe River, a boat named "Leipzig" is docked. 01:02:02 Street scenes and a large building. 01:02:09 The Cologne cathedral with the Rhine River in the BG. Boat tour along the Rhine, Nazi flag waves from the boat, castles and architectural ruins among the cliffs. Quick view of a boat labeled "Bayonne" passing by on its way to or from France. Sights inclu...

  11. Selected records related to the history of the Jewish communities of the Lʹviv region

    The collection includes records of the history of Jews and the Jewish communities in the region of L'viv before World War II. Most of the collection contains records of the Council of the Jewish Community, the Board of Trustees of the School District in L'viv, regional schools, the publishing houses and literary magazines. Included are correspondence with local and government authorities, and other documents of the Jewish Community relating to Jewish businesses (the Soap Factory and other), probate court cases, decrees of inheritance, Jewish organizations (e.g. Serce Żydowskie, Agudas Jesch...

  12. Viktor Venouziou Archive, Jewish Community of Kavala, Greece

    Archives collected by the President of the Jewish Community of Kavala, Victor Venouziou. Contain a collection of photographs of Jewish old gravestones, an alphabetical guide to gravestones with personal data about persons who were buried in Kavala (Excel database), and a historical essay about burial places for Jews in Kavala.

  13. 1935 Inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth

    Inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth (of the United States). The Commonwealth was created by the Tydings-McDuffie Act, which was passed by Congress in 1934. When Manuel L. Quezon was elected president in September 1935, he became the first Filipino to head a government of the Philippines. The Commonwealth Government was inaugurated on the morning of November 15, 1935, in ceremonies held on the steps of the Legislative Building in Manila. The event was attended by a crowd of around 300,000 people. 01:18:03 American flag. Large crowd (mostly Filipino) seated for the ceremony. High-leve...

  14. Sztorchan family photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting members of the Sztorchan family including pre-war in Sosnowiec, Poland and a post-war portrait.

  15. Szapiro family photographs

    Consists of photographs (45) from the collection of Leib Szapiro, originally of Pruz︠h︡any, Poland (now Belarus), and his wife, Jenta Dobes Szapiro, originally of Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). Consists of pre-war photographs of Leib and Jenta's extended families, and life in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, including photographs of Jewish life in the camp. Includes a 1947 certificate of identity in lieu of a passport for the couple and copies of the American naturalization papers.

  16. Weisz and Suryáni family papers

    Photographs, correspondence, diploma, and related documents pertaining to experiences of Ilona (Lili) Weisz and her husband, Imre Suranyi, of Sarkad, Hungary, from approximately 1935 to 1950. Included is a Certificate of Doctor of Philosophy issued to Imre Suryani in Budapest, 1959; photographs that belonged to Lili Weisz Suryani who survived Auschwitz, included is portrait of her daughter Agnes who perished at Auschwitz; letters written to the donor's mother Olga.

  17. Tea party at Frieder estate

    Back in Manila, views of the dining area outdoors near the tennis courts at the Frieder family estate. Servants prepare for a tea party. 00:06:25 Peggy and Jane eat at one of the white-clothed tables. Morris walks down the stairs. 00:06:50 Jane plays with her father Morris. 00:07:01 Peggy and Jane in the pool at the house in Manila with their mother. The girls swing.

  18. Helen Rotenberg Goldberger manuscript

    Consists of one manuscript, 10 pages, written by Dr. David Goldberger about his wife, Helen Rotenberg Goldberger. In the text, he describes the facts he knows of his wife's early years, though she did not speak often about that period. Originally from Malecz, Poland [now Belarus], she was sent to the ghetto in Pruzhany after the German invasion of eastern Poland in 1941. Helen managed to escape the ghetto and spent the war in the forest [possibly the Pripet marshes]; after the war, she learned that the majority of her family had been killed. Helen emigrated to the United States; married an ...

  19. Carl and Robert Gamer papers

    This collection is clearly delineated into two parts, each potentially very valuable for future scholarship. The Dr. Carl Gamer papers cover the coursework, research, and writing of his 1940 doctoral dissertation at the University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana, “Freedom of Religion in Germany: A Study of Theory and Practice Under the National Socialist Regime, with Special Attention to Free Churches of American and English Origin.” The term "free churches" referred to the non-established churches that historically had been either churches stemming from the Reformation but (in the early 19th ...

  20. Mozis family collection

    Correspondence to Marthé and Silvio Mozis (donor’s parents) in France, from Marthé’s uncle Julius Kauffman and aunt [married to Marthé’s maternal uncle Nestor] Charlotte Kauffman. Correspondence dates 1941 and then 1945-1947. The 1941 letters ask that Marthé consider moving her family to the United States and implores her not to return to Paris. The postwar letters express happiness that Marthé’s immediate family [husband Silvio and children Claude and Nicole] are safe, unknown information about Marthé’s parents, Rosa and Francois Kauffman as well as other friends and family. In English and...