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  1. The National Land Mortgage Bank (MOL Z 133, etc.)

    Documents relating to loans to individuals, and postwar restitution cases the Financial Office, the Office of Estates (1942‒1945); Wartime Land Acquisitions (1942‒1945), the Clug, branch of the Bank (1941‒1947); the Office of Labor and Wages (1936‒1947), and the Secretariat (1936‒1947).

  2. Records of Hungarian Finance Minister Reményi-Schneller (MOL K 280)

    Contains files of the Hungarian Finance Minister Reményi-Schneller, most of the documents are semi-official: letters requesting patronage, jobs, benefits, tax write-off , etc.; the letter from John Sebastian, 1939, proposing to collect and publish regulations and restrictions for Jews; newspaper clippings; miscellaneous records on the "Jewish questions."

  3. Brzeziny ghetto: snow; synagogue; hanging

    Film taken by a German, possibly Propaganda Kompanie 689. Sign: "Wohngebiet der Juden! Das Betreten ist unbefugten verboten...." [Jewish residential area! No unauthorized admittance...] CU, sign with a star marking, pan down to street view. Crowds in the cold snowy streets of the Brzeziny ghetto. Jews walking, bundled up, with yellow stars. Children in FG. VAR shots, street scenes, snowing, children in the windows of wooden homes, Jewish homeowners, filming through a fence. CUs, children with yellow star marking "Jude," elder, baby. Walking up a stairwell. Men pushing ice in the river. Peop...

  4. Hanna Schepps collection

    Collection of four photographs: image depicting Anna Kohane (donor) at age two in Uzbekistan; a studio portrait of Anna and Leon Kohane in Bielsko, Poland in 1946; an identification photo of Leon Kohane, c. 1946; image of Leon Arie Kohane and his small dog on the balcony of the family apartment in Bielsko, c. 1949.

  5. Rivka Feigen collection

    Contains a photographic print showing members of Judiska Ungdom in Jewish Youth Club in Malmö, Sweden; dated 1942.

  6. Forced labor battalion of Hungarian Jews

    George Veres and other Hungarian Jews march at a forced labor group stationed in the Jewish Boys' Orphanage. Jews were forced by the Hungarian government into these battalions prior to the German invasion. George served several periods with the forced labor battalion, beginning in September 1940 and ending in December 1944 when he escaped from the camp. This was filmed by one of George's relatives who worked in the camp office. Jewish workers unload hay from a train and stack piles of chopped wood. George (the worker closest to the barn with the log on his shoulder) smiles at the camera. Sc...

  7. Estate of Fela Maltz photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the Finkelstajn family before the war and in a displaced persons camp.

  8. POW camp (Stalag IXB) near Bad Orb with American and Allied prisoners

    (LIB 5064) Unloading rations from a jeep. Liberated Allied prisoners, of Bad Orb POW camp, CU one with a turban scarf. Carrying boxes of rations. CU, two liberated men. Walking with wheelbarrow, white crosses for deceased along a barracks in the BG. Entering barracks in BG while men sit on a stone wall and read US newspaper with headline "Yanks invaded Ryukyu..." HAS men and liberating officers. Barracks 35. Climbing up to watchtower, removing flag and dropping it. Opening aluminum can with a dog tag necklace. Distributing cigarettes. Men with blankets over shoulders. Various shots of liber...

  9. Unused bookplate with a Star of David rose tree belonging to a Dutch Jewish pharmacist

    Bookplate made for Ephraim Izaak Levie (Eil) Rosenbaum, a pharmacist in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the 1930s. Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940 and, by 1942, deportations of Jews to concentration camps were frequent. In March 1943, Eil decided that his family needed to go into hiding. He sent his wife, Johanna, and son, Max, to Neede and his two year old daughter, Betty, to live with a Protestant family, Berthe and Jan Hageman, in Eibergen. In April 1943, Johanna and ten week old Max were betrayed by a Dutch Nazi and deported and killed in Sobibor extermination camp. In late Apri...

  10. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Administration Office: Chief Clerk's Department and successors: Records (FO 366)

    Contains general correspondence from the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Administration Office, Chief Clerk’s Department relating to the employment of local Jews in British Middle East missions, 1945. These records consist of accounts and internal affairs of the Foreign Office, the Messengers, and the Diplomatic and Consular Services.

  11. Zyskind Talisman family collection

    Manuscript: titled "Stolen Years," handwritten by Sara Plager Zyskind, in Hebrew, published in Israel in 1977 and in English in 1981; two Manuscripts: titled "Struggle," typed, written by Sara Plager Zyskind in Hebrew, published in Israel in 1985 and in English in 1989; 38 photographs including images of the Zyskind family in Brzeziny Poland before the war, Plager family in Łódź before the war, images of Sara and Eliezer in Łódź immediately after the war, in Germany in a DP camp and in Israel 1948-1955; membership card issued to Itzhak Finkelkraut from the He’chalutz Zionist organization, W...

  13. Guderian's forces in and around Smolensk

    Heinz Guderian's 29th Infantry Division in and around the city of Smolensk during the German capture of Smolensk in July 1941. Dark shots with flames in the distance. Good nighttime shots of German soldiers rushing past the camera as Smolensk burns. Flames everywhere and smoke billows into the sky. 01:24:08 Now daytime: soldiers walk about the city. Posters affixed to a pole: an advertisement for Igor Yuzhin's circus "Segodnja i Ezhednevno" [Today and Everyday]. Another poster features a caricature of Napoleon fleeing with caption "Tak Bylo." [This is how it was] followed by a caricature of...

  14. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Library and the Research Department: General Correspondence from 1906 (FO 370)

    Contains general correspondence from the Library and Research Department of the Foreign Office relating to various matters including: legislation in Great Britain relating to Jews in 1939, inquiries on locations of archival collections, and resolutions and decisions from the Third Plenary Assembly of the World Jewish Congress London, 1953.

  15. Jews are Not Welcome sign

    Two signs read: "Bederkesa: Kreis Wesermunde, Reg.-Bez. Stade" and "Juden sind in Bederkesa unerwuenscht!" [Jews are not welcome in Bederkesa!] Shots of a river and a bucolic German town. Bederkesa is located in Lower Saxony in northwest Germany.

  16. Kenneth L. Schwartz collection

    Contains correspondence addressed to Jakob Schwarz in the United Kingdom from his mother, Taube Schwarz, in Vienna, Austria, including numerous Red Cross letters, and correspondence to Jakob from his brother Norbert in Vienna, before Norbert's emigration from Vienna. Includes report cards for Jakob in Viennese Jewish Torah School.

  17. Weil and Oppenheimer family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of the Weil and Oppenheimer families from Landau in der Pfalz and Koblenz, Germany. Isidor and Auguste Weil were deported to Gurs internment camp where Isidor died on January 6, 1941; their three sons: Heinz, Louis, and Ernst were able to reach the US with the help of a distant relative and their mother arrived in the US in 1941.

  18. Marx family collection

    Contains twenty postcards written by Adolf and Hilde Marx (donor's parents) and their daughter Ilse (donor's sister), addressed to Hilde's sister Emmy Quade in Cologne, dated 1941-1942; two postcards addressed to Emmy Quade from Theresienstadt, dated 1943; one postcard sent to Erich Marx in Brighton, England from his parents and sister in Germany, dated 1939; twelve photographs depicting the Marx family in Cologne, Germany, c. 1932-1941; a school certificate issued to Erich Marx on March 30, 1939 by the Yavne Jewish School and signed by he director, Klibansky, who arranged for Eric to leave...

  19. Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

    Street scenes of the Warsaw ghetto. Pedestrians cross a bridge over the street. Special attention is given to reverse rickshaws--bicycles with benches on the front--in which people are carted around. Jewish men have their documents examined. Some elderly men then meet in a well-decorated hall, possibly a restaurant. Jewish police, all in jackets and ties, stand at attention in two lines, then march down the street. One is shown chasing children away with a baton. A corpse is shown on a sidewalk; pedestrians pass it by. The interior of a luxurious home, with hardwood-paneled floors, floral w...

  20. Hajos family collection

    Collection of materials documenting the experiences of the Hajos family during and immediately following the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary. Collection includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs, the papers issued to Neje Hajos (donor's mother) from the Swiss embassy foreign interest representative in Budapest.