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  1. Selected records from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) Archives, Jerusalem

    Contains records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) offices in Geneva, Stockholm and Istanbul and odd files of the offices in Lisbon, Brussels and Barcelona. Most of the records consist of correspondence of various JDC offices with other international Jewish and non-Jewish organizations, and with local Jewish communities and organizations, concerning post-war rehabilitation of Holocaust survivors, emigration from Europe, restitution and heirless property. Also includes a large number of name lists of Holocaust survivors and emigrants.

  2. Herman and Dwora Flamholc papers

    The Herman and Dwora Flamholc papers consist of two photographs of Herman Flamholc, Dwora while he was a refugee in Kara-Balta, Kyrgystan; a postcard sent from Ewa Chawa Flamholc, Dwora's aunt, in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to Salek Flamholc in Chett, Siberia; a certificate that Dwora attended a Jewish school in Charkov, Ukraine; and two certificates of repatriation from the Soviet Union to Poland for Dwora and Herman Flamholc.

  3. Bracha Plotnik photograph collection

    The collection consists of pre-war photographs of Bracha Plotnik with family and friends in Bedzin, Poland, several wartime photographs, and postwar photographs from various displaced persons camps including the Weiden and Beyruth DP camps.

  4. Rabbi Eli A. Bohnen photograph collection

    The collection contains photographs and a photograph album documenting the experiences of United States Army Chaplain Rabbi Eli Bohnen in Austria and Germany from 1943-1946. The photograph album was presented to Bohnen, who worked with Jewish Holocaust survivors in the Bad Gastein displaced persons camp, Austria, by the residents upon the closing of the DP camp in 1946. The album depicts the residents, school, organizations, drama society, workshops, protests, and Rabbi Bohnen. The photographs contain wartime and post-war images of Bohnen, along with fellow soldiers and friends primarily in...

  5. Seizure of the S. S. Dromit cargo

    Consists of letters and other documents (some originals and some photocopies) relating to the seizure of foodstuffs and Jewish possessions from the S. S. Dromit in 1949. Included among the documents is a German-language "statement of witness" submitted to the British Civil Police Unit in November 1949 by Josef Rosensaft.

  6. Ursula Horn papers

    The Ursula Horn papers consist of identification papers, passports, and correspondence documenting Edgar and Gertrude Israel, their immigration from Germany to the United States with their daughter, Ursula, in 1939, and their family members who remained in Berlin and Zerbst, Germany. Biographical materials include 1939 German identification papers and passports for Edgar and Gertrude Israel. Correspondence include four letters with envelopes and an empty envelope written in December 1940 to Edgar and Gertrude Israel from relatives Gertrud Israel, Adolph and Agnes Israel, Frida Israel, and M...

  7. Weil family papers

    1. Anne Weil Wascou family collection

    The collection documents the experiences of the Weil family of Mannheim, Germany during the Holocaust. Included is wartime correspondence from Max, Elfriede, Arno, and Ilse Weil in the Rivesaltes internment camp to Anne Weil (later Anne Wascou), who immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1938 on the MS. St. Louis; wartime and post-war correspondence of Anne trying to locate and learn the fate of her family; and restitution paperwork. The photographs depict pre-war family life, Anne Weil onboard the MS. St. Louis, and a photograph album of Anne’s that depicts life in Mannheim and the Un...

  8. Axelrad family papers

    The Axelrad family papers consist of immigration correspondence and forms and an Oranienburg photo album. The correspondence and forms primarily document Felix Axelrad's liquidation of his business in Vienna in the late 1930s, emigration from Vienna to Istanbul and then to the United States, his attempt to emigrate to Australia, and his efforts to help his friends Heinrich Grünberg (b. 1894 in Vienna) and Klara Török (b. 1907 in Budapest) immigrate to the United States from Istanbul. The photo album documents life in Oranienburg and Vienna and trips to Wannsee, Werbelinsee, and Berlin. It c...

  9. Ester Ajzen Lewin family photographs

    The Ester Ajzen Lewin family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Ester Ajzen and the Ajzen family of Chełm, Poland. The collection also includes photographs of the the Lewin family of Derazhnya, Ukraine; Ester Ajzen Lewin’s husband, Abram Lewin and his brother Misha Lewin. Both served as Soviet soldiers.

  10. Kronenkreuz oval stickpin of the Inner Mission charity

    1. Archiv des Diakonischen Werkes der Evangelischen Kirche Deutschlands, Berlin collection

    Crowned cross [kronenkreuz] oval pin issued by the Central-Ausschuss fur Innere Mission [Central Committee for Inner Mission] of the Protestant Church in Germany to people who donated to their charity organization, the Inner Mission. The Nazi regime, which governed Germany from 1933-1945, limited the church's fundraising activities to an annual Volkstag der Innere Mission [National Day of Inner Mission]. The mission would collect money on the street and go door to door seeking donations on this day. The pin shows the Kronenkreuz (crowned cross), the official sign of the Inner Mission.

  11. Kronenkreuz crucifix stickpin of the Inner Mission charity

    1. Archiv des Diakonischen Werkes der Evangelischen Kirche Deutschlands, Berlin collection

    Crowned cross [Rosenkreiz] crucifix pin given by the Central-Ausschuss fur Innere Mission [Central Committee for Inner Mission of the Protestant Church of Germany] to people who donated to their charity organization, the Inner Mission. The Nazi regime, which governed Germany from 1933-1945, limited the church's fundraising activities to an annual Volkstag der Innere Mission [National Day of Inner Mission]. The pin shows the Kronenkreuz (crowned cross), the official sign of the Inner Mission.

  12. Ticket for a performance of the Jewish Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra acquired by an American soldier

    1. Arnold Gladstein collection

    Entrance ticket received by 18 year old Arnold Gladstein, a Jewish American soldier, for a concert by the Jewish Ex-Concentration Camp Orchestra in Furstenfeldbruck, Germany, on July 21, 1946. He was given the ticket at a Shabbat service held at the base. This orchestra had been formed at the St. Ottilien displaced persons camp near Schwabenhausen, Germany, in 1945 and relocated to Fuerstenfeldbruck in 1946. Also known as the Shearith HaPleitah Orchestra, or the survivor’s orchestra, it was founded by former members of the Kovno ghetto orchestra, and expanded as other musician/refugees, suc...

  13. Herbert F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herbert F., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1929, an only child. He recalls attending public school; antisemitic harassment; German occupation in March 1938; expulsion from school; observing violence against Jews; traveling with his parents and uncle to Cologne, Aachen, then Breda; being smuggled to Belgium; attending school in Antwerp; German invasion on May 10, 1940; his father's arrest; traveling with his mother and uncle to Toulouse; his uncle's arrest (he escaped and went to the United States); his mother placing him with a Jewish farmer in Fontenilles; his fa...

  14. Ludwig H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ludwig H., who was born in Gru?nberg, Germany in 1902. He describes moving to Breslau, then Dortmund where he spent his youth and young adulthood; anti-Semitic incidents prior to the war; arrest in 1933 by three Nazis; imprisonment with his dog; the return of his dog by the S.A. to Mr. H.'s mother; his own release after eight days with a document certifying his imprisonment; and escape with his brother to Paris, where he was allowed to remain because of the document which proved he was a victim of religious persecution. He recalls working for a banker; his marriage in...

  15. Photograph album

    The photograph album contains images from the Priory children's home in Selkirk, Scotland, for refugee children that arrived on a Kindertransport in 1939. Many of the photographs show Gunther Abrahamson, who lived in the home, and Netta Pringle, assistant matron in the Priory home, who took the majority of the pictures and assembled the album. In 1996 Netta gave the album to Gunther and he added some captions and photographs of his own. The album also includes newspaper clippings referring to sale of the Priory in 1991.

  16. Szilard Diamant papers

    The collection documents the unsuccessful efforts of Szilard and Hella Diamant to emigrate from Berlin, Germany in 1938-1939. Includes correspondence and other documents regarding his attempts to secure visas, affidavits and money through the efforts of family in the United States and the Hilfsverein Der Juden in Deutschland [Aid Association of German Jews].

  17. Henry "Hank" Mayer memoir

    Memoir, photocopy of manuscript, 13 pages, written by Henry "Hank" Mayer, of Bridgeport, CT, describing his family's experiences in their native Germany during the 1930s, including antisemitic persecution, their immigration to the United States in 1939, his service in the U.S. Army during World War II, and his post-war life in Bridgeport as the owner of a military supply business.

  18. Sylvia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia B., who was born in Lwo?w, Poland (presently L?viv, Ukraine) in 1925. She recalls moving with her family to Magerov; German occupation for two weeks; Soviet occupation; reporting for compulsory forced labor for the Soviets on June 22, 1941; German bombardment; being driven eastward by Soviet troops (she never saw her parents again), then train transport from Ternopil?; escaping from the train in Kharkiv with two friends; having to retreat with Soviets as the Germans advanced; forced labor; escaping in 1944; walking for hundreds of miles; arriving in Kiev in the...

  19. Secret and confidential records Secretos y Reservados

    This collection contains confidential reports from various Argentinean government agencies and political offices to the Argentine Ministry of the Interior, including the Ministry of Foreign Relations, various provincial Governor's offices, the national police, the Ministry of War, the Postal and Telegraph Service, the Ministry of Agriculture, and others. Also includes records pertaining to Jewish immigration (both legal and illegal) to Argentina and other Latin American countries, the Jewish colonization movement, Nazi activities in Patagonia and other parts of Argentina, and communications...

  20. Undersecretary of State for Romanization (Aryanization), Colonization, and Inventory

    Contains records from the Undersecretary of State for Romanization(Aryanization), Colonization, and Inventory relating to Aryanization in Romania. These records include: requests of refugees from Transylvania and Bessarabia to be in charge of Aryanization; lists of selling and buying shares whose owners were Jews; transfers of bonds relating to the Astra Romana Society; transfer of shares of various industrial societies; reports relating to various industrial societies; Committee on discovering Jewish goods which had been transferred to another owner to avoid being confiscated; requests and...