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  1. 1948 Jewish organizations photographs

    Consists of four photographs from the World Jewish Congress meetings which took place in Montreux, Switzerland, in July 1948. Includes a photograph of the Israeli delegation, including Rabbi Joseph Gabrieli and Abba Eban, who later became the Israeli foreign minister. Rabbi Gabrieli is the father of the Shoshana Rosenberg, the donor. Also includes photographs taken at a post-war Mizrachi Zionist meeting held in August 1948 in Tel-Aviv. In 1949 Rabbi Gabrieli became the director of the Mizrachi organization.

  2. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of eight photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of piles of corpses, of a gallows, and of the Buchenwald memorial. Captions in English say "Dachau" but the photographs are of Buchenwald.

  3. November 1945 Dachau negatives

    Consists of 8 photographic negatives taken on November 28, 1945 in the former Dachau concentration camp. Includes negatives of various structures and signs, and includes photographs of recreated scenes in the camp. Also includes a description of each negative.

  4. Hilda Günzburg Dumire memoirs

    Consists of two untitled memoirs, one 8 pages, one 14 pages, by Hilda Günzburg Dumire, originally of Mainz, Germany. In these memoirs, she describes her childhood in Mainz and her memories of life in the area after 1933.

  5. Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Éditeurs de Musique documents

    Consists of documents related to anti-Jewish employment ordinances issued in 1941 and how they related to the staff of the Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Éditeurs de Musique in Paris, France. Includes a blank questionnaire used to determine Jewish ancestry.

  6. Joseph Haberer collection

    Group of correspondence written by family members and parents concerning attempts to emigrate from Germany. Joseph Haberer [donor] was sent on Kindertransport. Correspondence written primarily between Georgine Seckels and Berthold Haberer [donor's parents] in Germany and Jakob and Gitta Seckels [donor's maternal uncle and aunt] in California, concerning the Haberer's efforts to leave Germany; dated March 1939-September 1942; in German. Collection of photographic prints documenting members of the Haberer family and Joseph's experiences in England after his arrival via the Kindertransport. In...

  7. Print 6, Szron, trees in a hoarfrost

    Print 6 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  8. "Ancestors and Descendants"

    Consists of one CD-ROM containing the text of a book, 1736 pages, entitled "Ancestors and Descendants," by Leopold Hoenig. The book is subtitled "The Descendants of Related Jewish Families from Bassenheim, Burgbrohl, Euskirchen, Flamersheim, Gappenach, Mertloch, Merzbach, Münstermaifeld, Niederzissen, Ochtendung, Pillig, Polch, Schweinheim, Sinzig, Wierschem, and Neighboring Towns in Germany and in Meerssen, the Netherlands." Includes an extensive family tree of the families and a names index.

  9. Buchenwald liberation photograph

    Consists of one photograph, almost certainly of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation, of two piles of corpses.

  10. Stalag XI-B liberation photographs

    Consists of two photographs taken upon the liberation of the prisoners of war camp Stalag XI-B, which was located near the towns of Fallingbostel and Soltau in Germany. Includes photographs of British prisoners of war.

  11. Leizer Ran collection

    Consists of two booklets from the collection of historian and author Leizer Ran; one, a songbook entitled "Jidische Melodier af Ch. Ritterband Kobenhavn" in Yiddish, published in Vilna in 1935, and the other, entitled "Lest You Forget," a description and history of the Jewish Contemporary Documentation Centre in Paris, in English, published in 1949.

  12. Thea Lange Spiegel collection

    Consists of materials related to the experiences of Thea Lange Spiegel, originally of Danzig, Germany (Gdansk, Poland). Includes wartime letters from Thea, who went to England in 1939 on a Kindertransport, to her mother and sisters, who were interned in Mauritius after a failed attempt to emigrate to Palestine in 1940; post-war letters to Thea from her mother and sisters in Israel; two copies of "Diskretion..Ehrensache!", published by the Jakob Lange (Thea's father) publishing house. Also includes a copy of a memoir entitled "A Free World? No Concentration Camp, but Behind Prison Walls" by ...

  13. Esther Shudmak collection

    Contains photographs and oral history transcripts related to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Julius Shudmak (1913-1992) and his wife Esther Shudmak (born Eva Bittman, 1927-2020). Includes one large pre-war photograph of the Shudmak family, originally of Poland; most of the family perished in the Holocaust. Also contains copyprints of photographs of the Bittman family, originally of Rakhiv, Czechoslovakia (Rakhiv, Ukraine). The photographs include descriptions on verso provided by the donor. Also included are transcripts of oral history interviews with Julius and Esther Shudmak as par...

  14. Richard Mandelik collection

    Consists of letters to and from Richard (Rico) Mandelik, while he was imprisoned in the German auxiliary jail in Prague, Czechoslovakia from 1939-1940 and letters, on concentration camp stationery, from Sachsenhausen and Oranienburg from 1941-1942. Mr. Mandelik most likely perished in Oranienburg. The collection also includes several clandestine letters written by Mr. Mandelik in 1939 by pushing a pin through the paper to form letters, as well as pre-war photoprints of the Mandelik family, originally of Hroubovice, Czechoslovakia.

  15. Paul Reisman collection

    Collection constists of 5 photographs, 2 postcards, 1 memoir and 1 transcript documenting the experiences of Livia (Lilly) and Nicholas (Miki) Reisman [donor's parents] and their experiences during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The memoir was in two parts and the second part "After the War" arrived incomplete. The third part of the transcript "Family Histories" is listed on the custody receipt. A copy of the postcards and translations of the postcards listed on the custody receipt are in the donor file.

  16. Bozenna Gilbride collection

    Contains one copy of a drawing entitled "Hanging in Szczekow, January 14, 1942," depicting the hanging of twenty Polish men and one Jewish man in Szczekow; the names of the men are included. Also includes a partial list of names of Polish citizens sentenced to death in Auschwitz in 1942; the list includes the name, prisoner number, and birthdate of the victim.

  17. Helena Piasecka collection

    The collection contains photocopies of documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to Helena Piasecka, a Roman Catholic woman originally of Żuromin, Poland, who was imprisoned at Ravensbrück, and was a victim of medical experimentation.

  18. Kvutsat Chizek -- Book of Meetings Hashomer Hazaier, Ken Staszov, Poland

    Consists of a photocopy of a booklet assembled by Rosalie Avery documenting the participation of her mother, Sima Rosen Avery, in the Hashomer Hatzair group in Staszow, Poland in 1928-1929. The booklet includes a photograph of young women, a map of Poland, a list of members, and English translations of recorded descriptions of meetings.

  19. Kerkhoven family collection

    Consists of papers related to the wartime experiences of Dr. CLM Kerkhoven and his family, originally of the Hague in the Netherlands. Includes identification paperwork, ration stamps and ration books, a travel permit, a British propaganda leaflet addressed to the German people, Dr. Kerkhoven's request for exemption from post-war military duty, and a copy of the May 5, 1945, edition of "De Margriet", an underground paper, celebrating the end of the war.

  20. Baer family papers

    Consists of papers related to the Holocaust experiences of the Blum family, originally of Roxheim, Germany. Ernest Blum, his wife, Rosy, and daughter Helga, immigrated first to Italy, then to Cuba, and finally arrived in the United States in 1940. The collection contains immigration documentation, Ernest and Rosy's ketubah and family photographs, reparation documents, wartime letters from Germany, and post-war letters from France.