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  1. Majer Feliks Gorewicz collection

    Collection of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of Majer Feliks Gorewicz (donor's father) during the Holocaust and after his liberation. Majer Feliks was originally from Kielce, Poland where he owned and operated a bar and restaurant. He was imprisoned in Stalag VIIa in Moosburg and subsequently sent to the Auschwitz, Dachau, and Flossenbürg concentration camps. He was liberated by American troops in April 1945.

  2. Selected records of the sub-district of Pecica from the Arad Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the sub-district of Pecica, including records relating to various state-owned Jewish goods and goods that were confiscated by the Centrul Naţional de Românizare (CNR).

  3. Klapholc and Shoval families photograph collection

    The Klapholc and Shoval families photograph collection consists of twenty-four family photographs depicting the Klapholc family from Oświęcim, Poland and of Henryk Heniek Wasserlauf from Kraków and after the war in Wrocław.

  4. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  5. Janina Ecker collection

    Photographs (24) and identification cards (3) relating to experiences of the donor's extended family in Krakow, Poland, from World War I through occupation of Poland in World War II.

  6. Ration Coupon

  7. Matchbook advertising Gentiles only US business

    Matchbook issued for use on the east coast of the United States between 1930-1960. It is printed with an advertisement that declares that the establishment is for Gentiles only.

  8. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  9. Selected papers of Marcel Nyns

    Contains selected papers of Marcel Nyns and the Secretaires Generaux (Committee of Secretary-generals), the highest representation of the Belgian administration under German occupation. This department was responsible for education, including the implementation of excluding Jews from the educational system under German occupation. Records include correspondence, minutes, and reports relating to the faith of the Jews living in occupied Belgium, especially concerning their education.

  10. Jews hiding in a nightclub in Amsterdam

    Film without text. An older couple stands and converses. An adolescent boy comforts a young woman [this scene is clearly acted out with the characters wearing stage makeup]. An older man then opens the door, enters the room, and converses with a girl. Several people arrive and are greeted warmly. They all wear yellow stars. INTs of the apartment. The table is set. A girl knits. People lounge about; others arrive. The boy and young woman look out the window onto the street below. Women carry food trays. Women in the kitchen, clipping rations, and washing dishes. One dish falls and breaks. 01...

  11. Binem Wrzonski collection

    Contains approximately 33 postwar photographs of young Holocaust survivors, including Elie Wiesel, taken at the Ambloy children's home in France soon after the war. Also includes one disinfectant certificate from Buchenwald, in English and Russian.

  12. Palestine as a haven from persecution

    Bad quality footage at first. Scenes from World War II: planes, bombs falling, explosions, tanks, soldiers running across battlefields. Narrator describes it as "the face of war," and discusses the soldiers who fought. Images of Allied soldiers. A picture of an elderly Jewish man is shown, which the narrator describes as "more horrible still than even the face of warr," as it calls to mind the horrors of the Holocaust, the horrors of the deaths of millions, innocent and defenseless. Liberation of Nordhausen and other concentration camps. 01:04:02 Superimposed over a color map of Europe are ...

  13. Stanley Squire photograph collection

    Collection of 18 photographs documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp taken by Stanley F. Squire (donor's father-in-law) while he was a solder in the U.S. Army.

  14. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  15. Robert Gray photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken by Lt. Robert Gray, a member of the 7th United States Army, after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The photographs, which are described by Lt. Gray on the verso, depict the Dachau death train, SS guards who had been summarily executed, and corpses prior to burial.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Communist protest in New York City

    Title onscreen says that "50,000 "Reds" gathered in New York City." Police on horseback ride amongst a crowd of protesters. Demonstrators carry signs protesting unemployment. 03:23:16 Signs with caricatures of Hitler and Mussolini. Nice wide shot of the large crowd. Leaflets blow in the wind.

  17. Arieh Lewinnek collection

    Collection of glass-based negatives taken in Switzerland in 1934 of Arieh (donor), his sister, and mother when they escaped and sought refuge; after six months they returned to Berlin. Contains a Reisepass (numbered 1285) issued to Rosa Halbreich Lewinnek.

  18. Stephen Weiner collection

    Contains letters from Bella Flora Wach (donor's mother) to her parents Fajga and David Wach while all them were in hiding in Belgium during the Holocaust; dated December 1943 to June 1944.

  19. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  20. Jozef Weiler papers

    The Jozef Weiler papers include biographical material, a diary, and photographs relating to Jozef and Helena Weiler’s pre-war and wartime experiences in Poland. The collection includes a repatriation card issued to Jozef, Helena, and their son, Ryszard, for moving from Drohobycz, Poland to Wrocław, Poland, a certificate stating that Jozef arrived from Drohobycz and was sent to Boza Gora (Mszana, Poland), and pre-war photographs of Jozef and Helena taken in Drohobycz, Poland. The collection also includes a diary written by Jozef on the back of 1939 lab reports from a Galicja oil company docu...