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  1. Palestine Office of the Jewish Agency, Trieste (L48)

    Contains records of the Palestine Office of the Jewish Agency, Trieste, and a branch of the Jewish Agency’s Aliyah department. The Palestine Office was involved in distributing Aliyah certificates, financial matters, transferring immigrants’ luggage and property to Israel and documenting information regarding Jewish property from Italy which was stolen by the Nazis during the Second World War. The collection also contains correspondence with other Jewish Agency offices in Italy and various name lists of immigrants, hospitalization records before immigration, correspondence and agreements wi...

  2. Association of Immigrants from Poland, Tel Aviv (J20)

    Contains records of the Association of Immigrants from Poland that was active in Israel, 1942-1961. Includes meeting protocols, various name lists, questionnaires, and newspaper clippings relating to assistance to Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors by giving out loans, finding work, and reuniting families after the war. In addition, the organization created name lists of Holocaust survivors still remaining in Europe, and of those who immigrated to Palestine/Israel.

  3. Avraham Polack collection

    The Avraham Polack papers contain letters relating to the Polack family in Haifa, Israel, and in particular Avraham Polack’s imprisonment with other Irgun and Lehi members in several British detention camps in Africa from 1944-1947. The letters provide detailed descriptions of his daily life within the camps and reflect Polack’s concern for his family. Other letters relate to Avraham’s continuing education while imprisoned as well as notifications and receipts for packages and educational materials that were sent to Avraham Polack during his imprisonment. The papers also contain the corresp...

  4. "All Paths Lead to Rome"

    Consists of one handwritten poem, three pages, entitled "All Paths Lead to Rome" by Yitzchak Yitzchak, which was the pseudonym of Yitzchak Ben Shaul, who wrote this poem in Bari, Italy, in late 1944. The poem was written for the Jewish Brigade troupe of music and entertainment in Italy.

  5. Manfred Greiffenhagen lyrics

    Consists of typescript texts of seven poems and song lyrics written by Manfred Greiffenhagen while he was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, plus one text attributed to Leo Strauss. The typed texts are entitled "Marsch der Kadermaedel," "Die Juden on Bergen-Belsen," "Transport," "Die Ochsen," "Ich singe tief..," "Es War Einmal," and "Kasernenlied." Also includes a poem entitled "Als ob-," which was written by Leo Strauss. Some of the lyrics list that music has been written by Martin Roman.

  6. German and Austrian Immigrants Association collection (Hitachduth Olej Germania)

    Consists of printed proclamations, notices, invitations and book printed on behalf of the German and Austrian Immigrants Association, based in Tel Aviv, between 1935-1938. Also includes a booklet, entitled "Missive to Immigrants from Western Europe," which was printed in German and Hebrew in 1938.

  7. Theresienstadt notebook

    Contains one notebook, handwritten in pencil by an unknown author, written in the Theresienstadt concentration camp between 1942-1943. The notebook, consisting of 21 pages, contains quotations from popular authors, philosophers, artists, and others, including Jack London, Guy de Maupassant, John Steinbeck, Margaret Mitchell, Leonardo da Vinci, Dostoyevski, and Buddha. The name "Dita" is written on the inside front cover of the notebook.

  8. Agudat Yisrael collection

    The Agudat Yisrael collection consists of correspondence, telegrams, and names lists related to rescue attempts by the World Agudat Yisrael organization and various Swiss Jewish organizations to save the Jews of Hungary and Czechoslovakia between 1939-1944. Includes letters by Dr. Ya'akov Griffel and Ludwig Kastner, who worked with Turkish transit visas, a request for transit visas to Palestine for a list of rabbis, and a names list (with addresses) titled "from Theresienstadt to Slovakia until the end of June1944."

  9. Jewish Brigade collection

    The Jewish Brigade collection consists of printed newspapers, programs, booklets, and poetry related to the Jewish Fighting Brigade between 1943-1945. Includes newspapers and booklets distributed to the regiments, poetry that was likely sent to the Brigade newspaper, and a 1943 handwritten letter written by a soldier.

  10. Râmnicu Sărat Jewish community collection

    Consists of documents related to the Jewish community of Râmnicu Sărat, Romania, including a printed pamphlet of community regulations, synagogue documents, letters by Rabbi Dr. Menachem Shafram, tax documents, and correspondence by local Jewish business owners.

  11. Stefan and Grete Klinger collection

    This collection consists of documents, correspondence, telegrams, receipts, and forms related to the Holocaust experiences of Dr. Stefan and Grete Klinger, originally of Vienna, Austria. The collection includes extensive correspondence by Cecile Krall Elson, Mrs. Klinger's sister, in her attempts to sponsor the immigration of the Klingers, and documentation related to Stefan Klinger's internment in the St. Cyprien internment camp and their immigration to the United States in January 1942.

  12. Representation of Polish Jewry, Tel Aviv Reprezentacja Żydowstwa Polskiego, Tel Aviv (J25)

    This collection includes lists of Polish refugees in the Soviet Union; testimonies of survivors about the destruction of the Jewish communities in Poland; correspondence with the Polish Provisional Government regarding the actions and attitudes regarding Polish Jews in the present and future.

  13. "Surviving the Holocaust with Chutzpah"

    Consists of one memoir, written in 2000 and revised in 2006, entitled "Surviving the Holocaust with Chutzpah" by Gerhard Jitzchak Bochner, originally of Teplice, Czechoslovakia. He describes pre-war life in Teplice moving to Krakow with his sister; reuniting with his parents, whose property was seized after Kristallnacht; the German invasion and occupation in 1939, and moving with his family to Neipolomice in spring 1940 and to Wieliczka in the summer. The family was separated and Mr. Bochner remembers digging mass graves before being deported to a forced labor camp near Rzeszow. He managed...

  14. Polish Legation in Havana Poselstwo Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej w Hawanie (A. 62)

    Contains selected records from the Havana consulate of the Polish Government-in-Exile, including a list of Polish citizens (mostly of Jewish origin), 1935-1946; as well as other records relating to applications for entry visas to Cuba, primarily from Polish Jews, 1946-1947.

  15. Konsulat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Chicago (A.59)

    Contains documents related to emigration of Jews, anti-Jewish speeches of students in Poland, newspaper clippings, memos, studies, reports, lectures, correspondence, translations, maps, and the like. Also included is a report from the review of the Jewish press in the USA, as well as publications in English, including: "The Jews in Poland: Their History, Their Tragedy, Their Future" published by The American Committee for the Relief of Jews in Poland, NY, 1936; and twenty four annual reports of the Federation of Polish Jews in America, 1932.

  16. Brunner and Albin family collection

    Consists of a collection of identity cards, documents, and immigration paperwork related to Robert and Alice Albin Brunner, originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes documentation related to their 1938 immigration to Bolivia, and immigration in 1944 to the United States. Also includes one typed testimony, 5 pages, written by Peter Brunner in 2011. In the testimony, Mr. Brunner describes his parents' Holocaust experiences; this testimony was prepared to assist Mr. Brunner in obtaining Austrian citizenship. Also includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Brunner and Albin famili...

  17. Alwin Steinitz writings

    The Alwin Steinitz writings consists of four articles, in English, typed with handwritten corrections, by Alwin Steinitz, a former Swiss journalist and survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The articles, written between 1945-1947, detail Mr. Steinitz's personal experiences and memories of his imprisonment as an anti-Nazi journalist, of life in Buchenwald, of liberation, and of post-war Germany.

  18. Henry Bund collection

    Consists of documents, passports, correspondence, newspaper articles regarding the life of Dr. Heinrich Bund (later Henry Bund), originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes information about his education in Austria, emigration to the United States in 1938, pre-war, wartime, and post-war employment, and his extensive efforts to gain ownership and restitution for family property in Poland and in Vienna. Also includes information about his mother, Dorothea Bund (later Bond) and brother, Eduard Bund (later Edward Bond) both of whom also emigrated to the United States in 1938. Also includes an Engl...

  19. Alice Samson collection

    Consists of original and digital documents and photographs related to the life of Suse Lore Alice Samson (later known as Alice Samson), originally of Edesheim, Germany. Includes Alice's written testimony, copies of documents and photographs, and correspondence regarding her attempts to find out the fates of her family and restitution for lost property. Includes correspondence with the International Tracing Service, the Red Cross, and various attorneys, the latter including both personal compensation claims and the class-action suit against the French national railway, the SNCF.

  20. Oral history interview with Boris Nemko