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  1. Records of the Central Jewish Immigration Society (JEAS), Lwów branch

    Contains bylaws and other normative documents, meeting minutes, informational bulletins, and correspondence with immigration authorities. The collection consists mainly of applications and registration cards of Jews seeking to leave Eastern Galicia during the interwar period.

  2. Records of the Jewish Cooperative Bank in Poland, Lwów branch

    Contains records related to the financing of the Jewish cooperatives and ofJewish craftsmen. The collection also includes various financial records (accounting and registry books, accounting reports etc), annual reports, audits, minutes of the board meetings, etc.

  3. Riemer family collection

    Consists of letters written by members of the Riemer family of Berlin, Germany. Includes a series of letters in the late 1920s from Werner Riemer in Berlin to his cousin, Lucille Riemer, who had immigrated to the United States. Also includes letters from 1938 from the Riemer family, who had immigrated to Tel Aviv and were seeking help for Werner, who was stuck in Germany and too old to join them on a family visa. Also includes a pre-war essay on the book of Esther written by 8-year-old Melvin Riemer.

  4. Gesundheitskammer in Generalgouvernement Izba Zdrowia w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie (Sygn. 251)

    Contains questionnaires filled out by Jewish medical professionals in the Generalgouvernement when they registered with local Gesundheitskammern (health departments). The four-page questionnaires contain information about and photographs of individuals and their families.

  5. Bulletin of the Jewish Press Agency Żydowska Agencja Prasowa. Biuletyn (Sygn. 354)

    Contains selected issues of the Bulletin of the Żydowska Agencja Prasowa (Jewish Press Agency), published from Nov.1944 to Dec.1949. Bulletin covers mainly political aspects of Jewish life. The Bulletin was published on bad quality paper, using duplicate typescript; some issues are almost completely illegible.

  6. Jewish Council in Modliborzyce Rada Żydowska w Modliborzycach (Judenrat) (Sygn. 256)

    Documents of the Jewish Council in Modliborzyce (administrative district of Janów Lubelski), including alphabetical name list for January through September 1942.

  7. Underground Archives of Bialystok Ghetto (Meresik-Tenenbaum Archives) Podziemne Archiwum Getta Białostockiego (Archiwum Mersika-Tenenbauma) (Sygn. 204)

    The collection is organized into two parts: originals, including 25 testimonies, 52 protocols of Judenrat meetings, and 434 announcements of the Judenrat; and copies, including personal papers, testimonies, diaries, correspondence, and documents found in the clothing of Jews murdered in Treblinka. Also included are the diary, letters, and other writings of Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamaroff; and personal documents of Hersz Cwi Mersik.

  8. Robert Guttmann identity card

    Consists of one identity card for ten-year-old Robert E.M. Guttmann, originally of Munich, Germany. Mr. Guttmann (now Guttman) and his family immigrated to England in the mid-1930s, and used this document, which includes a photograph, to immigrate to the United States in 1939. The document is covered with visa and transit stamps.

  9. Jewish Committee in Warsaw. Registration Cards for Jewish Holocaust Survivors Komitet Żydowski w Warszawie. Karty rejestracyjne Żydów ocalałych z Zagłady sporządzone w Warszawie (Sygn. 303/V)

    Consists of 31,175 registration cards of Jewish survivors in Warsaw after the war. The cards contain full name, date of birth, parents’ names, mother’s maiden name, pre-1939 address, places of residence during the war, postwar name changes, occupation, registration date, and address. Some include source of livelihood. Only15,270 survivors listed a Warsaw address.

  10. Correspondence of the Lichtenstein and Kohn families

    The collection contains letters, telegrams and Red Cross inquiry forms written in the German, Slovakian and Hungarian languages, a 1940 Slovakian certificate and an ID card with photographs attached.

  11. Clayton Shedivetz letter

    Consists of one letter, four double-sided pages, written by Clayton Lee Shedivetz, a member of the United States Army, on 14 June 1945. In the letter, Mr. Shedivetz describes taking a tour, with a former inmate guiding him, of the Buchenwald concentration camp; the history of the camp, and what he witnessed there. He urges his wife to keep the letter because he felt the visit was very important.

  12. "Bergemolo: Before and Thereafter; The Way it Was"

    Consists of one memoir, 32 pages, entitled "Bergemolo: Before and Thereafter; The Way it Was" by Ernst Breuer. In the memoir, which begins in 1942, Mr. Breuer describes his work in the French and Italian undergrounds, his experiences in several French internment camps, and hiding with his sister and friends in Italy. He went to the United States as part of a group of refugees who were housed at Fort Ontario, and describes his post-war life.

  13. "The Wisconsin Light"

    Consists of 27 issues of "The Wisconsin Light," a monthly (and later bi-weekly) newspaper that discussed gay and lesbian issues. These issues, dated from September 1988-November 1989, include articles by Dr. Terry Boughner in which he described the experiences of and interviewed homosexual Holocaust survivors.

  14. Der Stadthauptmann der Stadt Krakau Starosta miasta Krakowa (Sygn. 228)

    Contains records from the Stadthauptmann in Kraków (Generalgouvernement), including questionnaires, identification and registration cards, lists of deported Jews, registry records of the Jewish community (birth certificates), documents relating to confiscation of Jewish property, documents belonging to Jewish firms from Kraków , leaflets, and other documents related to Jewish life in Kraków during the occupation.

  15. Legacies and papers of Chaim Finkelsztejn (Sygn. S/346)

    Contains personal documents of Chaim Finkelsztejn; correspondence, both official and personal from 1939 to 2001; reports, notes, projects, and papers (including a short biography of Chaim Finkelszejn); books, brochures, newspapers, newspaper clippings; invoices, tickets, stamps, and notes; and photographs.

  16. Announcements and orders Obwieszczenia i zarządzenia władz okupacynych (Sygn. 241)

    Contains announcements and orders of Stadthauptmann, Kreishauptmann, SS-und Polizeiführer, Geheime Staatspolizei, the Älteste der Juden (Elder of the Jewish Council) of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto (Łódź Ghetto), and other offices. Most concern registration of property, identity papers, establishment of ghettos, and population transfers. Announcements refer to the entire Generalgouvernement as well as to Berlin, Częstochowa, Dębica, Falenica, Łódź, Kraków, Lublin, Lwów , Ostrów Mazowiecka, Otwock, Piotrków Trybunalski, Płock, Przemyśl, Radom, Rzeszów, Sanok, Skierniewice, Sokołów, Tarnów, Tomas...

  17. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Savoie

    Records concerning “Jewish affairs,” including lists of Jews who had their identity papers stamped with “Jew” and expropriations of private property; antisemitic legislation and its application in this Department; exit visas requested by Jews; surveillance of foreigners, especially Germans and citizens of the Reich; the attitude of Jews residing in the spas and resorts of the Savoie; complaints concerning the Jewish proprietor of a spa (“établissement thermal”); Jews under “house arrest” (“assignés à residence”); centers where Jews are interned; and Jewish students in the school system.

  18. Anne Kelemen collection

    Consists of an autobiographical sketch of the early life of Anne Kelemen (Anne Kelemen Robitscher), originally of Vienna, Austria. She describes the lives of her extended family, including her parents, who perished at Belzec in 1942. Ms. Kelemen was sent to England on a Kindertransport in May 1939, and reunited with her sister, who was in England working as a domestic. She became a Zionist and tried to immigrate illegally to Palestine in 1946, with a group of concentration camp survivors. They were turned back within sight of Haifa and were sent to Cyprus, where she remained until 1948, whe...

  19. "Boats in the Night"

  20. "Growing Up in Nazi Germany"

    Consists of one memoir, 58 pages, entitled "Growing Up in Nazi Germany" by Luitgard N. Wundheiler, who was not Jewish. In the memoir, written like a novel, Mrs. Wundheiler ("Lou" in the memoir) describes her memories of Hitler and the Nazi party during her childhood in the 1930s. She describes her family's mixed reaction to antisemitism, loyalty oaths, and Kristallnacht, as well as her own anti-Nazi sentiment. As the war progressed, she describes her experiences in the Arbeitsdienst and the death of her brother in the invasion of France. In 1941, she went to school in Switzerland, where she...