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  1. Else Levy Billin collection

    Consists of papers related to the Holocaust experiences of Else Levy Billin, originally of Konz, Germany, near Trier. Includes her pre-war and wartime vaccination records, and work certificates from Theresienstadt, (Terezin) where she spent the war. Includes postcards sent from Else Levy and her mother, Gerta Levy, from Terezin to various family members. Also includes one letter, 1983, from Else Levy Billin to the mayor of Trier asking for his assistance in returning to Germany to see her hometown once more.

  2. Lucien Rosenfeld letter

    Consists of a photocopy of a letter written by Lucien Rosenfeld to his cousins on August 7, 1945 from Veregeze, France. In the letter, Mr. Rosenfeld writes that he has recently discovered the fates of his immediate family, all of whom perished in the Holocaust. He describes the circumstances surrounding the deaths of his sisters, daughter, and wife, and writes that he has given up hope that his son, nephew, and brother-in-law, will return.

  3. "Jossele"

    Consists of an English language, bound, copy, 433 pages, of "Jossele" by Princess Alexandra de Beauharnais, of Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France, written in 1948. Accompanying documentation (publishers onesheet, and handwritten letter) suggest that this copy is the Princess' own. The title and author are hand-painted on the front of the book, and the book is dedicated to Joseph Wajncweld "in affectionate memory of those days of suspense in 1943." The publishers onesheet writes that the Princess opened her home to the children of Beaulieu, and that she hid Jewish families and children seeking to esca...

  4. "Betrachtungen aus einem Konzentratzionslager Sueditaliens-unpolitisch geshen"

    Consists of a copy of a memoir, in German, 13 pages, entitled "Betrachtungen aus einem Konzentratzionslager Sueditaliens-unpolitisch geshen," by Martin Kanter, originally of Breslau, Germany. In the memoir, for which there is also an English language translation, Mr. Kanter describes his fellow inmates and the atmosphere within an unspecified internment camp (most likely Cosenza) in Southern Italy.

  5. Morris and Rosa Goldfeld naturalization papers

    Consists of the 1955 United States naturalization papers for Holocaust survivors Morris (Mozek) and Rosa (Ruzia Kurtz) Goldfeld. Both Goldfelds were originally from Poland, and are survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

  6. "A Man, Who Conquered Death"

    Consists of a Russian language original, and two copies of an English language translation, of an article entitled "A Man, Who Conquered Death," written in 2007 by Gennadiy Gelfer. In the article, Mr. Gelfer describes the wartime experiences of Mr. Naum Levin, a member of the Red Army who was captured by the Nazis and, as he was Jewish, sent to the Minsk ghetto. There he married, and he and his wife joined the anti-Nazi resistance movement and managed, with other partisans, to escape the ghetto. While hiding in the forests, the Zorin partisan group continued in their attempts to disrupt the...

  7. "Andzia"

    Consists of one typed testimony, four pages, entitled "Andzia," written by Hania Stromberg in 2007. In the testimony, Mrs. Stromberg relates the story of Andzia (last name unknown), who was the Roman Catholic nanny for the Rom family, of Warsaw, Poland. By World War II, the children were grown, and all but the youngest, Tadek and Dorota, were safe in the United States. Tadek and his family perished in the Holocaust. Dorota spent much of the war in the Warsaw ghetto and Andzia sneaked food to her, nursed her when she became ill, and ultimately helped her escape the ghetto before it was liqui...

  8. "Meditation on the Holocaust: The Unfinished Notes of a Survivor"

    Consists of one typed memoir entitled "Meditation on the Holocaust: The Unfinished Notes of a Survivor," by Michael Etkind, originally of Łódź, Poland. In the memoir, he describes the members of his immediate family, life in the Łódź ghetto, the death of his mother from typhus in 1941, the experiences of a friend named Oyzer Walfisz, his separation from his sister, Henka, and his deportation to a forced labor camp in Czestochowa in 1944. After several months, he was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp and describes his memories of his fellow prisoners. As the American army ...

  9. Selected records from the Austrian State Archives collection Abwicklungsstelle, Abteilung 6

    Contains records pertaining to the confiscation of property of declared enemies of the Nazi state, including Jewish-owned properties, as well as properties owned by political dissenters and Catholic organizations.

  11. 1945 program commemorating the Holocaust

    Consists of a program for a memorial service held on 20 Adar 1945 (March 5, 1945) in Jerusalem at Churvah Synagogue. The service included the reciting of Kaddish, the designation of the week following the 23rd of Adar as a week of mourning for the victims of the Holocaust, asking the community to open their arms to refugees, and the expression of concern for the children who survived the war hiding in Catholic monasteries.

  12. Literary archives of the Yiddish poet, Chaim Beider

    This collection contains correspondence and photographs related to Russian and Soviet Yiddish writers. Contains information about Russian and Soviet Yiddish artists and cultural activists, articles by and about Beider, drafts and copies of Beider's Der Freylekher Alef-beys ("The Happy Alphabet", an alphabet book for children), publications about Jewish life in Birobidzhan, manuscripts of unpublished books, and translations of operas, poems, plays, and songs into Yiddish.

  13. Selected records of governor of Radom district Gubernator dystryktu Radomskiego = Der gouverneur des distrikts Radom (Sygn. 209)

    The collection contains records relating to local economy, especially the merger of village lands (about 60% of the records), and to office's internal organization and its staff (about 40% of the records). There are some records relating to extermination activity, deportations, camps and the like. Also includes 3,016 personal files of primary school teachers from the Radom district area, but no Jews are represented in these files.

  14. The World Jewish Congress New York Office records. Series F (Organization Department)

    Contains records relating to activities of the Organization Department: fundraising (until May, 1946); producing reports on WJC activities for affiliates and on the situation of Jewish communities world wide; organizing commemorations (notably for anniversaries of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising) and celebrations; preparing for plenary assemblies and conferences; and maintaining relations with other Jewish organizations. Included in the series is correspondence with or about communities; records concerning commemorations, conferences, and affiliation; together with mimeographed materials (“stenc...

  15. Soviet POWs, Jews among them, with antisemitic commentary

    A German soldier draws a cartoon of Stalin for use in the "Frontzeitung" [front newspaper]. Shot of a printing press producing copies of the newspaper. Troops dispense newspapers to their eager colleagues. The local population also received German-produced newspapers. Locals stand in a long line to receive Russian-language newspapers. Soviet prisoners of war cross a bridge over the Dniepr river in an "endless" column. Some of the men wear rags and appear very bedraggled. The narrator describes them as a particular (or peculiar?) selection of Jews. A view of the column from a low-flying plan...

  16. Jews and other POWs in Greece

    German troops in the port of Piraeus. Arms for the Germans are unloaded from ships. Aerial shot of POWs in a camp with 10,000 prisoners. CUs of prisoners, described by the narrator as "helpers" from all over the world that the English have impressed into service, and who are now happy that the war is over for them. CU on Indians, Arabs, and a native New Zealander. More shots of the men, focusing on various racial "types." Serbian troops, then prisoners who are identified as Jews who have emigrated and are now volunteers in the English army.

  17. Ilana Offenberger collection

    Consists of photographs: two photographs are posed, family photographs of the Pisker family, labelled "Pisker family from Znaim, Czechoslovakia, August 16, 1931"; one photograph is of a couple, labelled "Bertha and Henry Offenberger"; and the fourth is of a bridge destroyed in post-war Vienna.

  18. Set of tefillin buried for safekeeping while the owner lived in hiding

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35052
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm)

    Tefillin pair buried for safekeeping by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. They were used by her husband Bernhard who died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. Tefillin are small boxes that contain prayers that are attached to leather straps and worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Johanna brought the tefillin with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and by 1942 there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewi...

  19. Farm and villagers in the Banat region

    Color. Scenes showing life on a farm in the Banat region. On the farm lives Paula (first shown in a pink dress) and her family. Paula seems to have been Kessel's girlfriend (?). Paula smiles at the camera and plays with her young brother. Shot of Paula's mother reading a Nazi newspaper called Volksruf. Paula and members of her family clown for the camera. 01:20:53 Kessel plays with Paula's younger brother. Shots of other villagers.

  20. Yakov and Tosia Klinger collection

    Collection consists of a letter from Yakov and Tosia Klinger in the Warsaw ghetto to Yakov's sister, Rozia Piotrkowski; the letter was written shortly before the Klingers and their young son, Sunio, were deported to Treblinka in 1942, where they were murdered. Also includes an original photographic print of Yakov and original modern writings by Michael Koenig, the nephew (by marriage) of Yakov Klinger.