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  1. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Loir-et-Cher

    Files concerning the internment of enemy aliens (Germans and Austrians in the camps of Francillon, Marolles, Villerbon and Villemalard) from September 1939 until June, 1940; arrests and sentences by the Germans; register of foreigners listed by country; sequestering of property belonging to the enemy; Jewish affairs including lists of Jews and Jewish businesses; internments; a prison register to indicate that Jews were held there before being sent on to Drancy; and restitution of property. The sanatorium called “Les Pins” in the town of Lamotte-Beuvron was used to intern Jews during the war.

  2. Selected records of the Ministry of Propaganda, Bucharest

    Contains miscellaneous materials, including excerpts from reports and articles published abroad.

  4. Gittler family correspondence

    Letters written between 1938 and 1941 by members of the Gittler family of Breslau, Germany. The majority of the letters were written by Wilhelm and Gertrud Gittler and their son, Franz Gittler, and were sent to Ilse Gittler Muller (daughter of Wilhelm and Gertrud), who, with her husband Hans (later changed to Harold), had immigrated to the United States in 1938. The letters describe family matters and immigration attempts. Franz Gittler was sent to England on a Kindertransport and survived the war, but Wilhelm and Gertrud Gittler perished in the Holocaust.

  5. Berger family collection

    Consists of copies of family correspondence (1920-1948) regarding the family of David Ignatz Berger, originally of Vienna, Austria. Mr. Berger immigrated to the United States in 1914 and converted from Judaism to Presbyterianism, becoming a minister. The family correspondence describes attempts to immigrate through Italy, Mr. Berger's affidavits of support, and visa issues. Also includes copies of restitution documents submitted by Cynthia Berger in the names of members of the Berger family.

  6. Fondotiile Culturale Regale Selected records of the Romanian Royal Cultural Foundation

    Contains various state organizations’ correspondence concerning cultural matters such as purging libraries of books written by Jews, and the disposition of Jewish property.

  7. Selected Hungarian records from the Hungarian State Archive, Budapest

    Consists primarily of correspondence between the Hungarian Embassy in Bucharest and the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Budapest. Included are summaries of Romanian radio broadcasts; reports on atrocities in Romania against Hungarians before 1941; and a situation report on the Romanian armed forces. Other topics include protests of Romanian Jews against having to wear the yellow star, Romanian court cases against Hungarians, and personnel changes in the Romanian government.

  8. Selected records from collections of the Ministry of Interior, Administration of the State (Administratio de Stat)

    This collection covers topics such as the “Jewish religion,” converted Jews, internment of Jews in camps, deportation of Jews to Transnistria, Jews accused of communism, the Jews of Czernovitz (Cernăuţi), and repatriation of deported Jews.

  9. Selected records of the Uniumea Generală a Industrialşilor din Romania (UGIR)

    This collection contains one 1941 file primarily on “Romanianization” of the staff of enterprises.

  10. Legion of Gendarmerie of Bucharest

    Contains records relating to surveillance of Jews, Zionists, Iron Guardists, Communists, Nazi organizations, and Roma; and to deportation of Roma to Transnistria and Roma deportees who returned from Transnistria. It also includes reports on antisemitism and on Jews who did not show up for forced labor.

  11. Prisoners of War Kriegsgefangene

    The collection Kriegsgefangene consists of several war-time prisoner lists of which two lists were reproduced by the USHMM: 1. Stammlager XVII B Gneixendorf/Sterbebuch/AdR/DWM/08 ("Gfg. Lgr. Gneixendorf, Totenbuch 2.8.43-26.4.45"). This list contains prisoners of war of various nationalities, including Americans, who died in the POW camp Gneixendorf between August 2, 1943 and April 26, 1945. The list of the dead includes Americans, Belgians, French, Italians, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Slovaks, Yugoslavs, and other nationalities. 2.The second list includes more than 2,000 prisoners from va...

  12. Americans travel to Europe on Nieuw Amsterdam ship

    Title card reading: "Our Trip To Holland, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, France and England 1938". Liza Kurtz, Louis and Lillian Malina, and Essie Diamond on deck of Nieuw Amsterdam ship at sea. Napping and relaxing on deck. Lillian reads the NYTimes magazine dated July 24 about Henry Ford receiving a birthday award from Hitler. The ship departed the port in Hoboken, NJ at 12:40pm on Saturday July 23, 1938. HAS, crowds of people on board a ferry in Boulogne, France or Amsterdam, Netherlands, some waving. The Nieuw Amsterdam stopped first in Plymouth, England on July 30, then in Boulogne, and...

  13. Records of the regional headquarters of the Jewish Youth Organization "Hanoar Hazioni" (Fond 337, opis 1)

    The collection contains correspondence of the Jewish Youth Organization " Hanoar Hazioni” in Warsaw with the Zionist organizations in Poland and worldwide. Records relate to the activities of the branches of the organization throughout Eastern Galicia (arranged alphabetically by locality, Russian alphabet). Contains financial, membership records, including various lists of members, representatives, questionnaires, and lists of young Jews making "aliyah" to Palestine.

  14. Wanda Schmidt collection

    Consists of nine post-war Serbian and Croatian posters commemorating liberation and depicting propaganda surrounding Josip Broz Tito and wartime military achievements. Also includes six wartime aviation magazines, entitled "Croatian Wings" which contain German and Croatian propaganda, and commemorative Olympic books for the 1932 (Los Angeles) and 1936 (Berlin) Olympics.

  15. Selected individual files of children under the care of Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE)

    Contains files of people who had been under OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) care in France during the occupation, and who in 2003 were living in the United States. Included is documentation on their Holocaust-era biographies, subsequent correspondence on emigration to the U.S., and information on non-Jewish families that hid children.

  16. "Whereabouts Unknown: Living an Artful Life in a Ruthless World"

    Consists of one screenplay, entitled "Whereabouts Unknown: Living an Artful Life in a Ruthless World" by Susan Kaim Talley and Daniel Vovak. The semi-fictional screenplay tells the story of the Kaim family. It begins with the death of Hans Kaim as he was beginning to research the whereabouts of art looted from his uncle, Emil Kaim, in Germany in the late 1930s. After Hans' death, his family carried on his search. Includes copies of documents which support the historical validity of the story.

  17. Averbukh family letters

    This collection contains photocopies of the personal letters, newspaper clippings, and postcards of Deborah (Nina) Iakovleva Averbukh, who survived the early German occupation of Kharkov in 1941.

  18. Sulamif Moiseevna Bogoslovskaya papers

    Contains photocopies of an autobiographical statement, employment records, personal letters, official documents, school and work identification cards, and death certificate of Sulamif Moiseevna Bogoslovskaia.

  19. Weinstein family papers

    Contains photocopies of personal letters, a report card, and school compositions of Vladimir Weinstein from an orphanage for gifted children in postwar Kiev. Also included is a photocopy of an unsigned, untitled drawing and a (later) undated clipping about Vladimir’s brother and renowned painter Mikhail. While their father fought in the war, the Weinsteins were evacuated to the Urals with their mother, who died shortly afterwards.

  20. Boris Samoilovich Duberstein papers

    This collection contains nine photocopied documents including an autobiographical statement, personal letters, official documents, and an application form.