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  1. Certificate of discharge

    The certificate ("Entlassungschein") issued for Kurt Gelles [donor's husband] from Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, dated December 23, 1938, stating that he was interned beginning June 1, 1938, and he was born on July 24, 1907, in Vienna, Austria, where he was arrested and released.

  2. Heinz-Egon Glass papers

    The papers consist of three letters written by Susi Cohn (later Susi Cohn Podgurski) in the United Kingdom to Heinz-Egon Glass in Shanghai. The letters describe school, her life in England, and asks Mr. Glass to tell her parents not to worry about her.

  3. Juda Wachisler registration record

    Consists of the A.E.F (Allied Expeditionary Forces) Displaced Persons Registration Record for Juda Wachisler, originally of Sztrikow, Poland. He was registered as an unaccompanied child, the only survivor of his family. Includes background information as well as a summary of his Holocaust experiences.

  4. "Alberto Cernogoraz; 1914-1946: Holocaust Survivor"

    Consists of one memoir, undated, entitled, "Alberto Cernogoraz; 1914-1946: Holocaust Survivor," by Genoveffa Cernogoraz Cook. Mrs. Cook writes about her childhood in pre-war and wartime Italy and her memories of her brother, Alberto, who was arrested in 1943 as a member of the Italian Underground and was presumed dead. After the war, however, the family learned that he had been imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. Though he recovered from his illnesses, Alberto Cernogoraz was murdered in 1946.

  5. Jewish sport organization Maccabi in Lithuania (Fond 349)

    The collection contains records relating to the activities of the Jewish sport organization, Maccabi, in Lithuania from 1920 to 1940. The collection includes minutes of board meetings, resolutions, regulations, announcements, bulletins of the Maccabi Central Board, correspondence with the local branches of the organization in Siauliai (Shavli) and Zagare, and Lithuanian government authorities ( Ministry of Education, City Council), bylaws of the organization and its branches, lists of members, donors' list, cashiers' books, financial reports etc. Files #96-354 contain personal files of memb...

  6. Registration Office in Biała Podlaska. Registration cards of Jews. Biuro Meldunkowe w Białej Podlaskiej. Karty meldunkowe ludności żydowskiej. (Sygn. 244)

    Contains 2844 registration cards of Jews in Biała Podlaska from 1930 until 1942, and from 1945-1946, indicating date of departure, death, or deportation to Mie̜dzyrzecz Podlaski on 26 September 1942. Each card contains the following personal data: name and surname, occupation, address, name of father and mother, date and place of birth, confession, identity card number, information about the children.

  7. Registration office of the city of Cze̜stochowa. Registration files of the Jewish inhabitants Biuro meldunkowe miasta Czȩstochowy. Karty rejestracyjne Ż̇ydów (Sygn.119)

    Contains 3,480 personal files. Documents are organized in alphabetical order by surname. Each file contains a photograph and application for identity card including number of the identity card, name, date and place of birth, parents’ names, occupation, address, and date of issuance. Some files include correspondence.

  8. Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Repatriation Department from USSR Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Repatriacji z ZSRR (Sygn. 303/V)

    Contains legal regulations of the repatriation process of Jews from the USSR and Germany. Also contains summaries, reports of the activity of the Department and correspondence with other departments of the Central Committee and various Jewish organizations financing the Repatriation Department. Several files contain the list of Jews repatriated from the USSR and the people who helped them.

  9. Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Department of Jewish Compatriot Association Centralny Komitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Ziomkostw (Sygn. 303/XIX)

    Contains records from regional Jewish compatriot associations in Poland and from some places currently behind the Ukraine border; organizational reports and bulletins; correspondence with foreign charity institutions; questionnaires and applications for help; and name lists of traced people. Also contains name lists of members of Jewish associations in the Warsaw district.

  10. Oster-Marcusohn family photograph collection

    Collection consisting of 46 photographs documenting the experiences of Blanchette Marcusohn [donor], Zvi Oster, and their families in Romania before World War II, during the war in Transnistria, and after the war in Cyprus and Palestine.

  11. Louis Croy manuscript

    Consists of one untitled manuscript, 74 pages, by Louis Croy. The manuscript relates a history of the Mauthausen concentration camp and of the Mauthausen trials; the author participated in the liberation of the camp and also assisted with the interrogation of the defendants in the subsequent trials.

  12. Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Department of Jewish Culture and Propaganda Centralny Komitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). Wydzial Kultury i Propagandy (Sygn. 303/XIII, previously Sygn. 308)

    This collection contains documentation concerning the activity of the Department of Culture and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKZP) headed by Henryk Szner (beginning in 1948), then by Hersz Smolar. The documents are mainly in draft form, such as reports and texts of radio broadcasts with hand-written corrections or censorship stamps. Accretion of digital images, files 71-75, contain radio broadcasts including texts of Yiddish broadcasts in 1945 from Lublin. Note: This collection changed Sygn. number in ŻIH from Sygn. 308 to Sygn. 303/XIII.

  13. Arie Ben Menachem photograph collection

    The collection consists of 19 vintage copy prints of images taken by Mendel Grossman in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland.

  14. Stahl-Grayower papers

    The papers consist of a letter, two certificates, a document, an identification card, and 18 photographs relating to the Stahl-Grayower family. The collection relates to Charlotte Stahl [donor], her father, who did not survive the Holocaust, and her mother and brothers who all survived numerous concentration camps in the Netherlands and Germany and the post-liberation immigration to Palestine of Charlotte and her brothers.

  15. Jakov Davetsky collection

    Collection includes postcards (1940-1941) from Tsilya Zhidovetskaya to Dina Zhidovetskaya regarding the situation for Jews in Russia, family photographs, a memorial book for the victims of the Babi Yar massacre, a newspaper commemorating the 50th anniversary of Babi Yar, and identification cards identifying Anatoli Oliker as a veteran of World War II.

  16. Association for support of Jewish Palestine (Karen Hayesod). Lithuanian Branch (Fond 590)

    The collection contains correspondence files with local branches of the Karen Hayesod across Lithuania from 1920 to 1940 concerning a registration of local organizations fundraising activities for the Jewish settlements in Palestine before World War II. Also includes minutes and correspondence of Zionist organizations worldwide, local banks, Lithuanian government authorities, bylaws of the organization and its branches, a donors list, cashiers books, and financial reports.

  17. Annelies Sabatowski letters

    The Annelies Sabatowski letters were written by Annelies Sabatowski, originally of Dresden, Germany, on December 30, 1938, and March 6, 1939, to "Gisa" (Gisela "Gisa" Kleinermann, now Goldstein). In the letters, Annelies, a fifth-grade pupil at the Jewish school in Dresden, writes that classes were cancelled for a few months after Kristallnacht, and that she is hoping to be on a transport to England. Annelies and her family (with the exception of a brother, Fritz) were deported to Auschwitz and killed in 1943.

  18. Health Care Organization of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej w Polsce przy Centralnym Komitecie Żydow w Polsce (TOZ), Sygn. 324

    Contains records related to the health conditions of Poles and Jews who survived the Holocaust and repatriates returning to Poland from the Soviet Union. The majority of the documents relate to child care, and to cooperation with international organizations.The most complete records are from Łódź, Warsaw, Dzierzoniów, Wrocław, Kraków and Szczecin. Materials include name indexes.

  19. Hygiene Institute der Waffen SS-Polizei, Auschwitz

    Notebooks, protocols and files documented result of medical tests performed on Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners of the KL Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners, from April 1943 to January 1945.

  20. The World Jewish Congress London Office records (C2)

    Contains correspondence of the London Office of the World Jewish Congress with organizations from over 130 countries, international bodies including the United Nations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and Jewish organizations, including the Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population (RELICO) and the Claims Conference. Also contains legal materials, press clippings and reports of the Institute of Jewish Affairs; anti-Jewish legislation; materials of WJC Plenary Assemblies; minutes of Executive meetings; Neo-Nazi documentation; and the Aryeh Leon Kubowitzki papers, the ...