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  1. Bernhard Storch photographs

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs from Bernhard Storch. Includes photographs of the Krause family of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland, many of whom perished in Treblinka. Includes several photographs of Ruth Krause, who survived the war in Siberia, including a photograph which her husband, Bernhard Storch, carried with him as a member of the First Polish Infantry Division, as well as wartime and post-war copyprints of Mr. Storch in uniform. The photographs had been sent to overseas family members, which is how they survived the war.

  2. 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.

  3. Jewish refugees celebrate Purim in the Philippines, 1940

    "A Children's Party" shows Alex and Corinne Frieder and their children at a Purim celebration on March 24, 1940 at Mariquina Hall in Manila, the land donated by President Quezon for Jewish refugees. Many of the people at the party are German and Austrian Jewish refugees who were given visas to come to the Philippines. Children dressed in costumes at outdoor party, eating cakes. 01:00:41 Adults converse. Alex Frieder, wearing a white suit, smokes a cigar. Children and adults mingle and eat. 01:01:06 Cantor Joseph Cysner with camera around his neck leads a parade of costumed children to a mak...

  4. Frieders vacation in Europe

    The Frieder family takes a vacation. The first shots show a tour of the Coliseum in Rome, family at 01:07:56, and a group of schoolboys. 01:08:27 Men and women in uniform pose and salute (fascist). Views of the Arch of Constantine, outside the Coliseum, more Italian architecture, ruins, and landscape. 01:09:48 The bronze East doors of the Florence Baptistery designed by Lorenzo Ghiberti. Pan across foggy Florence with Brunelleschi's dome in the distance. 01:10:18 Edna, Louise, and Alice and their mother Corinne feed birds outside St. Mark's Basilica in Venice. Ornate façade. 01:11:22 The Da...

  5. Prewar religious service in Gilserberg

    Men in overcoats and hats walk toward the camera on snowy street in Gilserberg, Germany. 01:41:44 Brief, dark INT of synagogue, rabbi with tallit opening ark. Family in icy streets and other street views. 01:42:51 INT, woman in kitchen. Man with Artur and Helmut in yeshiva hats lift up glasses of wine. Julie blesses the boys. More interiors. Snow-covered streets.

  6. Franz Goldberger letter

    The letter and resume are addressed to Benjamin Davis at Walton High School in Bronx, New York, from Franz Goldberger in Vienna, Austria; dated January 13, 1940. Franz wrote to Benjamin asking for assistance in receiving an affidavit of support from either the recipient or anyone else who may be of assistance, in order to emigrate from Austria. The resume includes Franz's photograph and states that he was born in Saaz, Germany on August 6, 1899.

  7. Jewish Community in Łódź Łódzka Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska (Sygn.228)

    Contains records relating to Jewish community of Łódź dwellers before War World II. Includes records of Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and houses of prayer; appointments of rabbis, religious celebrations and ritual matters; social welfare matters such as day care for children, and care of orphans; a list of children under the custody of a community; applications for allowances, holiday rations of food for the poorest; medical care: general and mental hospitals; schooling and culture: construction and management of schools, and celebration of anniversaries and state holidays. Includes also re...

  8. Jewish National Fund. Head Office in Poland, Łódź Żydowski Fundusz Narodowy. Biuro Centralne w Polsce, Łódź (Sygn. 627)

    The collection contains correspondence with the Commission of Foreign Currency of the National Polish Bank, as well as the files of the property matters, includes personal documents of Jews emigrated from Poland to Israel.

  9. Postwar economic recovery in Germany; Nuremberg trials

    Welt im Film Nr. 82 newsreel documenting German economic recovery after the end of the war. Men, women, and children are depicted as happy and hard-working citizens whose labor helps makes Germany prosperous again. 00:00:46 A snowy landscape, possibly in the Alps. People in strange costumes dance and parade in the snow. Children scream and hide from the costumed figures. Men open mask flaps and drink beer that local women bring them. 00:01:06 A woman in an industrial uniform works with machinery. Factory workers use recycled military helmets to make kitchen utensils. Punching holes in metal...

  10. United Jewish Craft Union in Warta, the Sieradz County Cech Zjednoczonych Rzemieślników Żydów w Warcie Powiatu Sieradzkiego (Sygn. 83)

    This collection contains 20 protocols and meeting minues of the United Jewish Craft Union in Warta, in Sieradz County in Poland.

  11. Moses Religion in Pabianice Wyznanie Mojżeszowe w Pabianicach (Sygn. 2077)

    Contains registry documents of Jewish Community in Pabianice: birth, death and marriage certificates.

  12. Arbeitsamt in Litzmannstadt Urząd Pracy w Łodzi (Sygn. 217)

    Contains records of the Arbeitsamt (Labor Office) in Łódź, mainly regulations of general functions of labor offices, mandatory recruitment and deportation of Polish people to work in Germany, materials related to administration and official procedures, correspondence concerning military training of the Arbeitsamt clerks, a card-file of the arms plant in Łódź, police reports of Polish people who tried to avoid labor and their medical check-up, personal files of the Labor Office staff of Wieluń located in Ostrzeszów.

  13. Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle in Litzmannstadt. Aussendienststelle in Schieratz Tajna Policja Państwowa w Łodzi. Ekspozytura w Sieradzu (Sygn. 202)

    Contains records of Gestapo in Sieradz, an agency of Gestapo in Łódź Records relate to investigations of Polish resistance movement, actions against anti-German steps, participation in displacements and expropriation, interventions in the prohibited contacts between the German and Polish people (so-called "blood relations" between Germans and Poles), interference in the German national list. The Geheime Staatspolizei performed these tasks in the co-operation with the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo) and Schutzpolizei (Schupo) as well as security services.

  14. Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle in Litzmannstadt Tajna Policja Państwowa w Łodzi. Oddział w Łodzi (Sygn. 201)

    Contains mainly Gestapo investigations relating to violation of discipline of labor and prohibited blood relations between Polish and German people, as well as statistical reports of Gestapo office, a list of the staff, information about the political status and attitude of Polish population during 1942-1944, investigations concerning the illegal trespassing of the ghetto Litzmannstadt (Łódź), information about deportations of Poles to concentration camps and the labor camp at Sikawa, as well as official journals of Kripo in Łódź.

  15. Black painted metal bust of Adolf Hitler acquired by a US soldier

    Small, black painted metal bust of Adolf Hitler acquired by a United States soldier during his tour of duty in Germany during World War II and brought back with him to Baltimore.

  16. Perla Zinn Engel papers

    Photographs (7) of Perla Zinn, dating from1943-1946, including two photographs taken in Ottenhofen, Germany, in 1943, several taken in various locations in Germany, post-liberation, including Erlangen, Deggendorf, and Hochland, 1945-1946, and a photo of Mozes Zeiger, inscribed to her, dated 1946, as well as a photograph taken in a displaced persons camp, likely Foehrenwald, undated. Also includes two identification cards for Zinn, using the false name of Zofia Molinska, one issued in Poland in 1939 and the other issues at the Bleidorn displaced persons camp in Germany, 1945. Collection also...

  17. Garfinkel and Havransky family photograph collection

    Collection of photographs (44) of the Garfinkel and Havransky families from Cherkasy and Poltava in the Ukraine, dating mostly from pre-Revolutionary Russia. Mostly studio portraits of family members, taken in studios in Cherksay, Poltava, Warsaw, Elizavetgrad (Kirovohrad) and Kishinev (Chisinau).

  18. Collection of Maître Charles Haddad

    Contains the papers of Maître Charles Haddad de Paz, who was the last president of the Tunisian Jewish community. The collection consists of records related to activities of the Jewish communities in Tunisia, Marseille and Paris, France. Includes reports, newspaper clippings, correspondence with the Fédération séphardie de France, Association Israëlite Keter Thora, and other Jewish associations, also includes photographs.

  19. Jewish children in hiding with a Belgian family

    Family home movies of the de Brouwer family at their home in St Denis-Westrem, near Ghent, Belgium. The de Brouwer children take a walk in the woods and explore town with Denise. 00:22:15 Christmas 1941 at General van Maldeghem's house at 26 Boulevard General Jacques in Brussels. CUs of the children's maternal grandmother and grandfather. Denise and her mother solve a puzzle. 00:23:38 Annick (present with her children at the Christmas celebration) watches the street from a window.00:23:50 CUs of the butler Eugene in white. Various scenes from the van Maldeghems' home in Brussels; a trolley ...

  20. Harold J. Buckman photograph collection

    Photographs primarily depicting the Nordhausen concentration camp immediately following liberation, 1945. The photographs were acquired by Tec 5 Harold J. Buckman, who was a member of the US Army’s 750th Tank Battalion, 104th Infantry Division that participated in the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp on April 10, 1945.