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  1. Nat Soffer photographs

    Consists of four photographs taken at a one year anniversary of the liberation of Dautmergen subcamp of Natzweiler; images show survivors in uniforms and a commemorative wreath.

  2. Cigarette lighter crafted from a bullet shell casing by a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp

    Cigarette lighter fabricated by Laszlo Weisz while he was imprisoned in a forced labor camp in Russia. He was a master watchmaker and bartered his services to obtain provisions while in the camps. Weisz was 29 years old and living with his wife and 5 year old son, Peter, in his hometown of Kunszentmarton, Hungary, when he was conscripted into a forced labor battalion in June of 1942. He was transferred to several labor units in Hungary, Poland, and the Soviet Union. At the end of the war in late 1944-1945, he was in a labor camp in Dnepropetrovsk in the Soviet Union. He returned to Hungary ...

  3. Doris Mirman collection

    Photographs, writings, and poetry illustrating the experiences of Doris (Dveira Szapiro) Mirman before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes pre-war photographs of the donor's families in Krewo, Poland (present day Belarus) as well as post-war images of donor's husband, Elliot (Ilya), whom she met in Israel. The collection includes a poem written immediately following Doris' liberation from a series of Lithuanian and German concentration camps, by the group of girls with whom Doris was in slave labor.

  4. Levéltári gyűjtemények Magyar Országos Levéltárból átkerült iratok Joint Magyarországi Képviselete iratai Records related to Hungarian Jewish communities

    The collection consists of written recollections, protocols of the Magyarországi Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottsága, DEGOB (National Committee Taking Care of Hungarian Jewish Deportees), an index to the DEGOB protocols, documents of the Central Council of the Hungarian Jews, records related to the registration of the Jewish communities, documents of the countryside ghettos, Holocaust-related name lists, lists of victims, prisoner registry cards, casualty cards, documents related to labor service, deportation of Hungarian Jews, rescue, resistance, inventories of the confiscated...

  5. Collection of documents of Anti-Jewish Laws and Decrees of Hungary

    This collection consists of the texts of Hungary's anti-Jewish laws and decrees from 1938 to 1944 that appeared in official serial publications. Records are derived from five periodicals: Magyar Törvenytár, Magyaroszági Rendeletek Tára, Budapesti Közlöny, and Csendörségi.

  6. Hungarian-Italian Bank, Secretariat (MOL Z 77)

    Records relating to the implementation of anti-Jewish laws, reports about Jewish employees, name lists, files of office of personnel; exemption issues, records of laborers liked or had disappeared, cases regarding employees, drafted into the army and/or labor companies, post-war compensation issues, re-admittances, and retirements, etc.

  7. Hungarian-Italian Bank. Personnel Department (MOL Z 83)

    Contains selected records of the Hungarian Italian Bank, Personnel Department. Includes files relating to Jewish employees and implementation of Jewish law, bank statements, name list of employees, reports, correspondence of rural branches, and miscellaneous regulations.

  8. Savings and Credits Institute for the Economy, Co. (MOL Z 89)

    This collection contains selected records of the Savings and Credits Institute for the Economy, Co. related to the Jewish community of Pest : registration documents, statistical data, admissions booklet of credit unions for year 1944; tax returns, annual payroll for employees in 1940, insurance policies, correspondence and requests for assistance; statements of the Jewish emigration group; a contract 1940 between the Hungarian government and the Jewish Agency for Palestine of the possibility of emigration, proposals from the Hungarian Jews of the Probation Office for the loans; committee mi...

  9. Selected records of the Hungarian Saving Bank's Central Mortgage Bank (MOL Z 105)

    Contains records related to the implementation of any-Jewish laws. Includes circulars, reports, correspondence, bank statements and income records of Jewish employees at the bank.

  10. First Home Saving Bank of Pest City (MOL Z 100)

    This collection contains aryanization records of the Hungarian First Savings Bank, Secretarial. Includes correspondence, minutes, bank statements, list of Jewish debts, and inventories of Jewish estates.

  11. Papers of László Endre (MOL K 557)

    The collection contains files documenting Endre’s activities during the year 1944, during the period when he was appointed state secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, in the government of Andor Jaross, as well as the period covering his removal from that post in September 1944, and his reinstatement to the government in October 1944, as part of the ultra-fascist regime of Ferenc Szalasi and his Arrow Cross party. Most of the documentation in this collection was created between April through August, 1944, a period of time when Endre was most active in implementing the roundups and depor...

  12. Records of the Arrow-Cross Party, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Hungary (MOL K 775)

    Executive Office documents on a variety of subjects, some classified "confidential": evacuations, closure of organizations close to the prime minister, personnel issues, procurements, arms, the nobility, legal aliens, repatriation, culture, air raids, the fire control service, passports, the police, Jews, refugees, and others.

  13. Documents related to the history of the so-called Hungarian Jewish Gold Train

    Records generated by the Hungarian, German, Austrian, USA, and French individuals and authorities. Contains memorandums, telegrams, inventories and reports related to the stolen valuables from Hungarian Jews during the WWII, and transported out from Hungary in 1944 by the so-called Hungarian Gold Train.

  14. Helen Kulka Fanta collection

    The Helen Kulka Fanta collection contains material related to Helen Kulka Fanta, a Jewish secretary from Prague who was deported to Theresienstadt by the German authorities in 1942. She was later imprisoned at Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen before being liberated in 1945. The collection consists primarily of identification forms, references, and other forms of verification documenting Helen Kulka as a refugee and concentration camp survivor. A diary written during her time at Bergen-Belsen is included as well. Other material includes poems collected and written, notes, and music s...

  15. Frank Osborn papers

    Collection consisting of correspondence, photographs, and documents surrounding the Oschitzki and Hermann families in Germany and Shanghai, China where donor's parents (who were Jewish) fled to escape persecution during the Holocaust.

  16. Print 1, Swierk w Sloncu w Goscieradzu, depicts spruce trees

    Print 2 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  17. Sign for Dachau concentration camp acquired by a US soldier

    Sign lettered Dachau taken by James Vasilopoulos, a US soldier, upon his arrival at Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, the day of its liberation by American troops. He took the sign from the main gate and detached it by sliding it out of a slot. He and another infantryman were point men for their company and opened one of the gates at Dachau. It was not locked. He said once they were inside the "pandemonium and happiness of the prisoners was beyond description." Vasilopoulos, 25, was a member of K Company, 157th Infantry Regimnetm, 45th Infantry Division, 3rd Battalion, a Thunderb...

  18. George Lubinski collection

    Collection consists of documents and postcards concerning Charlotte Wertheimer, the donor's grandmother; two postcards written from Drancy transit camp to her children in Paris, just before her transport to Auschwitz, dated 1942. Includes postwar documents confirming that "Charlotte Friedl Wertheirmer" of "Troppau, Silesia" was a resident of Paris and was interned in Drancy from October 5-November 10, 1942, and that she died in Auschwitz the 16th of November 1942.

  19. Photographs of Jews in Lithuania

    Consists of 42 photographs identified as "Ghetto in Kainer, August 42," likely in Lithuania. Includes images of Jews wearing badges in the shape of Stars of David.

  20. Agnes Vertes collection

    Collection of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to the Weisz family [donor's husband's family] in Hungary before and during the Holocaust. Includes correspondence between Imre Weisz [donor's husband's father] and his wife, Dora, and son Miklos [donor's husband], while he was in a forced labor battlion from which he did not return and was presumed killed in 1943. Also included are safe conduct passes issued by the Swiss government for Miklos, Dora, and her mother, as well as documents concerning efforts of relatives in Cleveland, Ohio, to apply for affidavits of support for...