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  1. Josef and Josefine Schmitz papers

    The Josef and Josefine Schmitz papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, emigration files, photographs, and restitution files documenting their lives in Břeclav, Vienna, Brno, and Tel Aviv; their emigration from Czechoslovakia to Palestine in 1939 with their daughter Judith; and their efforts to recover their property and receive restitution after the war. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, and health certificates; school records; and identification and military papers documenting Josef, Josefine, and Judith Schmitz along with correspondence and forms documentin...

  2. Sondergericht Litzmannstadt Special Court Litzmannstadt Sąd Specjalny w Łodzi (Sygn.196)

    This collection consists of files of the Special Court in Łódź, as well as the files of the Landgericht (District Court) and Amtsgericht. Along with the court files there are also reference files of the prosecutor. The collection consists of selected files: all cases related to the resistance movement have been copied, as well as those related to political activity, religious activity and, widely considered Jewish matters. Other cases were illustrated as examples in some dozen cases. Thus, for example,. illegal trade, illegal slaughter, illegal manufacture of vodka and other crimes of econo...

  3. Selected records of the Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS) in Sarajevo Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS)

    Contains records of activities of the Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS) regional office in Sarajevo: fight against the Communist partisan and Serbian (Chetniks) resistance, daily and weekly intelligence reports about the political situation in the region, investigation of the activities of the local individuals suspected in the clandestine Communist work or contacts with Communist partisans and Chetniks, reports about attacks and killings organized by Chetniks and partisans against local supporters of the Usatsha regime, and similar reports.

  4. Bachrach and Steinhardt families collection

    Photographs and biographical materials documenting the experiences of Enny Bachrach and her husband Siegfried Steinhardt. Photographs include WWI images of Louis Bachrach, Enny’s father, in his battalion and in a field hospital, and later undated images of various family members. Biographical materials include birth certificates for Siegfried Steinhardt, Enny Bachrach, Evelina Steinhardt, and two immigration documents issued to Enny Bachrach from civil authorities in Eisenach, Germany and the Bolivian consulate in Hamburg. Also included is a Jewish wedding certificate (ketubah) for Enny and...

  5. Sobel family papers

    The Sobel family papers consist of a journal, photographs, and subject files relating to Herman, Salomea, and Judyta’s pre-war and postwar experiences in Ukraine and Poland. The collection includes a journal kept by Herman for his daughter from 1925-1937 documenting his observations of his family’s life and his memory of fighting in World War I, an English translation of the journal, originals and copies of family photographs from World War I to 1967, a copy of a postwar letter, and a newspaper clipping relating to Herman’s participation in the discovery of one of the Ringelblum Archive mil...

  6. Hashomer Hatzair in Austria (R-9-2) השומר הצעיר באוסטריה.

    Contains name lists of the Holocaust survivors (1946-1947), members of the Hashomer Hatzair in Austria (1946), materials on the 22nd Zionist Congress (1946), a notebook "Son's Rebellion " in Yiddish, correspondence with other branches, the central leadership and MAPAM organisations, circulars of Linz branch, a speech of Andrei Gromyko on May 14, 1947 on Palestine partition plan in Yiddish and Polish. Also contains reports, notes on activities of the Omer and Magen groups (gari'in) (1959-1966), issues of the magazine "Hevrateynu" (1961-1978), and brochures of Vienna branch (ken), 1981-1985.

  7. German Jewish family life prewar and postwar

    01:00:00 Roll 18. People wait to board COBRA ship in Cuxhaven, Germany in Summer 1931. Otto films as their boat passes by the German archipelago, Heligoland, and the distinctive Lange Anna. Otto smiles as he looks at the newborn twins. Otto and proud mother Hanna. 01:05:05 Roll 19. Farming. Women and children in traditional dress in Volendam, Holland. Plaut family by their car. Continuation of beach visit to Zandvoort in June 1932 from roll 15 in Film ID 4108. Hanna writes at a table. Renate cries and plays with other children on the beach. 01:09:30 Roll 20. Renate, Otto, Hanna, and others ...

  8. Louis G. Melillo photograph collection

    Photographic print: image of victims found in the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation, captioned "Bodies / Buchenwald / German"; Photographic print: image of two American soldiers seated on top of stone sign that reads "Buchenwald," appears that image was printed in reverse, captioned "Katz & me / Buchenwald / 7 June 1945"; Photographic print: image of field with large building in background, captioned "Fulda, Germany - field opposite offices"; captions handwritten on verso; in English; Taken from photo album of Louis G. Melillo who served with the US Army in Germany during W...

  9. US anti-Nazi boycott stamp with a Star of David and a Nazi wolf

    Red, white, and blue single poster stamp or sticker issued to promote a boycott of Hitler. It depicts a snarling Nazi dog barred from entering a chained gate marked brotherhood of man, guarded by an American eagle. After Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933, several organizations in the United States sponsored campaigns urging people to not buy or support Nazi related products. Among the groups calling for boycotts of Nazi Germany were the American League for the Defense of Jewish Rights, the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, and the Joint Boycott Council.

  11. Thanks to Scandinavia, Inc., records

    Consists of correspondence, publications, fundraising materials, and documents related to the organization "Thanks to Scandinavia," a scholarship fund for Scandinavian students. The fund was established to honor the people of Sweden and Denmark for their heroic actions during World War II. The documents are from the collection of Mr. S. Dell Scott, a member of the group, and cover the period 1965-1975.

  12. Holocaust survivor testimonies (RG-97) עדויות בעל פה

    The collection contains 2315 testimonies of 1552 Holocaust survivors. Among them are testimonies of Yehuda Harit, Betka, Avraham Silberstein on Motek Silberg, Arthur and Naomi Ben-Israel, Mordechai Kamhi (Max Meller), Shlomo Klass, Benyamin Ben-Nahum, Yehoshua Ron, Josef Raban, Tova Mali, Avraham Stern (Kohavi), Shaike Weiner, Yurek Plonski and Miriam Yahieli.

  13. Eugene and Elizabeth Franklin collection

    Photographs, documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Eugen Friedmann (donor), born in Kravany, Czechoslovakia in 1921. Documents his family's pre-war life in Kravany, his forced labor in Slovakia, and eventual deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, and Muhldorf concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Includes a postwar identity card illustrating the experiences of Alzbeta Weiss (donor), born in Chust, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine] in 1929; card for the United Kingdom issued to Alzbeta, who survived multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz and Berge...

  14. Yehudit Charasz Berkowitz photograph collection

    Collection of nine photographs documenting the donor's stay in "Kibbutz Buchenwald," a Zionist collective started by a group of survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In July 1945 the kibbutz was moved to Geringshof, the site of the pre-war Jewish agricultural school.

  15. AFS ambulance drivers assist evacuation of survivors after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

    Large group of German SS stand in front of barracks at Belsen. According to the American Field Service (AFS) records, these SS men were transported out of the camp in AFS ambulances. A British soldier in a brown uniform smoking gestures at the group of SS. Rotated view of camp grounds with lush green trees. Camera shifts to the correct position to show a memorial sign erected in May 1945, "This is the site of the infamous Belsen Concentration Camp liberated by the British on 15 April 1945." Pan, barbed wire fence and camp ruins. Entrance gate open to dirt road and camp grounds. Brief view o...

  16. Records of the town of Kłobuck Akta miasta Kłobucka (Sygn.495)

    This collection contains minutes of the Municipal Council meetings of the town Kłobuck. Meetings were held during the year 1927, and years 1932-1939. Records relate to various matters of the town Kłobuck: budget, planning new construction of public objects, city taxes, and public regulations.

  17. Menachem Bader personal archives (RG-95-23) מנחם בדר - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Menachem Bader (1895-1985) contains documents with his biographical information, memoirs, records on the mission in Turkey and activities of the Rescue Commettee in Istanbul, articles, speeches, poems in Hebrew, Yiddish and Polish.

  18. Mordechai Shenhabi personal archives, Mishmar ha-ʻEmeḳ (Israel) (RG-95-3) מרדכי שנהבי - ארכיון אישי

    The collection contains plans, maps, records related to creation and construction of Yad Vashem, and minutes of meetings of the first Directorate of Yad Vashem (1943-1954). Additional records of Mordechai Shenhabi contain personal documents, artifacts, photographs of Kibbutz Mishmar ha-ʻEmeḳ (Israel), articles, letters, correspondence with Efraim Barzelai in Warsaw (1926-1932), correspondence with representatives of the Hashomer Hatzair in Czechoslovakia, England, Switzerland, Germany, Austria (1933-1938), correspondence with Haim Weizman (1940-1962). Also includes an interview of Mordecha...

  19. Heeres-Abnahmestelle b.d. Firma Hasag Eisen-und Metallwerke G.m.b.H Apparatebau Tschenstochau Military Collection Center Hasag Hardware Ltd Facilities Construction in Częstochowa Wojskowy Punkt Odbioru Firmy Hasag Zakłady Metalowe Sp. z o.o. Budowa Urządzeń Częstochowa (Sygn. 192/2)

    Contains records relating to the production and organization of the Hasag ammunition factory located in the labor camps at the Hasag Facility in Częstochowa. Including are ordinances, circular letters, reports and protocols of inspection, as well as general correspondence. There were thousands of Jews among the forced laborers from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

  20. Synagogue and cemetery in Gorredijk

    Synagogue in Gorredijk (razed in 1953). Hartog Beem and his wife (researchers of Dutch Jewry) get into boat in swampy river area. Cows in a field. Jewish cemetery in Gorredijk after the war. CUs headstones, overgrown. Bep Schaap, on shore, reaches out her hand to help. CUS, signs in Dutch. Homes. Church. Woman (Bep?) washes her dog outdoors in a bucket.