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  1. Samuel Sigman papers

    The Samuel Sigman papers consist of correspondence between Samuel Sigman and his paternal aunt Brajna Izrael in Małoryta, Poland (now Malaryta, Belarus). Letters from Brajna and Leibl, Mina, and Izak Grinberg (probably grandchildren of Brajna) address Samuel Sigman as “Sioma,” are dated circa 1936-1938, and convey gratitude for money sent and Rosh Hashanah greetings. Samuel Sigman’s letters to his aunt and to the JDC document his search for his family in Soviet occupied Poland circa 1939-1940. The papers also include photographs of Leibl, Mina, and Izak Grinberg in Małoryta in August 1938 a...

  2. Harry Levitt collection

    Collections consists of seven postcards and a letter the Grudka family in Siedlce, Poland mailed to Sarah and Abraham Levitt in New York before World War II and during the Nazi occupation and one post war postcard from Bytom, Poland.

  3. Klara Süss papers

    The collection includes a journal and accounting book kept by Klara Süss. Klara began her journal in 1941 while aboard the SS Navemar, waiting to immigrate to the United States. In the journal she recounts her experiences being forced from her home and sent to Camp de Gurs, living in Marseilles, and the process of obtaining visas. The collection also includes a translation of the journal, a German passport issued to Klara, American citizenship papers issued to Klara and her husband David Süss, and the leather wallet the certificates were housed in.

  4. Alice Lonsdale collection

    Collection consists of 18 pre-war photographs from Austrian Jewish families, Loeffler [donor's immediate family] and Loeb [maternal relatives]. Depicted in the images are the Alice Loeffler, her brother Hans, and her parents, Alfred and Dora Loeffler, who did not survive; dated circa early 20th century; mainly in Vienna, Austria. Alice went on the Kindertransport to the United Kingdom in 1939.

  5. Kippah buried for safekeeping while the owner lived in hiding

    Yarmulke, a skullcap worn by observant Jewish males, buried for safekeeping with other religious items by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. It originally belonged to her husband, Bernhard, who died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. She brought it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and soon there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewish landlady who hid her in her attic. In December 1944, a few months after the li...

  6. Page listing contents of portfolio

    Portfolio tabel of contents for a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  7. Eric Sommer collection

    Collection consists of two false ID cards issued to Eric Sommer’s parents, David and Hilde Sommer, German Jews who were able to survive the Holocaust in France passing as non-Jews. The cards were issued to "Emile Schwebel" and "Henriette Schwebel" in March 1943 in La Mure and February 1943 in Sainte-Colombe-la-Campagne, France. Also included with the collection is a copy of a handwritten memoir.

  8. Fasching [Carnival] parade with antisemitic float

    Carnival in Munich. Shots of large crowds watching the parade. A group of men wearing wine barrels march down the street. One float shows a huge caricature of a man holding large letters spelling "Kolonien." Marching men hold letters spelling "KDF." Raucous carnival celebrations in Mannheim. Men on horseback hold signs reading "Ufa." Crowds cheer loudly and parade participants yell and play to the camera. One of the floats contains a caricature of a Jew brandishing a quill pen and wearing a Star of David on his chest. A sign on the float reads "Die Luegentante der Weltpresse." [The lying au...

  9. Army broadcast regarding the liberation of Dachau

    Narrator introduces himself as Jack Parker, with the Seventh Army in Germany and describes the “Dachau death camp” which he had entered the previous Monday, April 30th. Parker is a correspondent for some American radio network but does not name which one. Parker and his colleagues had been in Munich, where there was still fighting, and was on his way back to their “press camp” when they got word that Dachau had been liberated. He describes in some detail as he and four other correspondents approached and then entered the camp: the death train (Parker describes it as well as the journey from...

  10. Plastic Star of David button worn to identify a Bulgarian Jew

    Star of David button made of Bakelite that Linka Nathan, or her mother, Rebecca, were required to wear to identify them as Jews in Sliven and Sofia, Bulgaria, from 1942-1944. Her father, Jacques was issued a circular, yellow button to identify him as a veteran of World War I. Beginning in July 1940, the Bulgarian government initiated anti-Semitic legislation that prohibited Jews from holding certain jobs, living in certain areas, or marrying non-Jews. Linka's father was one of the attorneys selected to interpret the new legislation to members of the Jewish community in Sofia.

  11. Rabbi Jay Stein collection

    Collection consists of 10 liberation photographs from Buchenwald concentration camp in April, 1945, taken or reproduced by the United States Army. Also included is a photograph of Weimar, labeled on reverse as being "Platz Adolf-Hitler." Images include survivors as well as army personnel and barracks and gallows within the camp.

  12. Guta Dafner Frydenzon collection

    Collections consists of photographs and correspondence relating to donors family before and during the war, including their time in the Łódź ghetto.

  13. Jean Wise collection

    The Jean Wise collection includes an Austrian certificate of citizenship issued to Wise’s mother, Hedwig Bachrach Levendula, in 1933 and a photograph of Wise’s father, Deszo Levendula, with Hedwig Levendula and friend in Klosterneuburg, Austria, in 1931. Deszo and Hedwig Levendula fled Nazi-occupied Austria for the United States.

  14. Ruth Kupperschlag papers

    The Ruth Kupperschlag papers consist of documents and photographs relating to Ruth and Marion Kupperschlag’s experience on a Kindertransport and life in the Netherlands and their parents Josef and Anna’s deportation to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. The collection includes letters sent to Anna’s cousin, Idel Woog, from Josef and Anna Kupperschlag, including letters sent from Theresienstadt shortly before their deportation to Auschwitz, as well as letters from Ruth to her Aunt and Uncle, prewar family photographs, typed narratives about Ruth’s experience, documentation of Josef’s military ser...

  15. Basia Garfinkel Lemel photographs

    Eight original vintage photographs documenting Basia Garfinkel, Sala and Heniek Garfinkel, and Gitl Beitner before the war in Będzin and after the war in Sosnowiec and Piotrolesie, Poland.

  16. Irene Parkinson papers

    4 documents, 6 photographs, and one copy print documenting Irene Parkinson's experiences on the ship Exodus.

  17. Agnes Lugosi collection

    Consists of documents and photographs pertaining to experiences of the Biel family during the Holocaust. The documents include one Swiss Schutzpass issued to Dezso Biel, October 23, 1944, Budapest and one refugee document valid for 14 days for Dezso Biel. Twenty-eight pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the family are included; some which are described by the donor, Agnes Biel Lugosi, who was born in 1938.

  18. Hanna Yaari collection

    Collection of documents and letters between Edith and Samuel Jurovics, and their children, who were living in Berlin, Germany before the Holocaust and were then forced to disperse to England, the United States, France, Palestine and Switzerland. Samuel, who was living in New York City, passed away in 1942. Benjamin and Raphael, two of his children, immigrated to Palestine and exchanged mail between each other. Edith fled to the United Kingdom and was able to exchange correspondence. The middle child, Esra, who joined a Zionist youth organization in the Netherlands, was able to send correspo...

  19. Ernestina Ancel collection

    Collection consists of seven photographs relating to the Huttmann family in Gura Humora, Romania, and their experiences in Transnistria during the Holocaust.

  20. Isidor and Liviu Librescu collection

    Collection of documents belonging to Liviu Librescu and his father, Isidor Librescu, relating to their experiences in Romania during the Holocaust.