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  1. Roman Kawalek collection

    Consists of correspondence, forms, newspaper clippings, certificates, and report cards related to the experiences of Dr. Roman Kawalek. Originally of Zborów, Poland, Dr. Kawalek received his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1938. He emigrated to the United States in 1940 after a brief period in England and joined the United States Army. He participated in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Contains papers regarding Dr. Kawalek's education, including his framed medical school diploma, and his immigration experiences and in the Army.

  2. The World Jewish Congress Paris Office records

    Contains correspondence, reports, and other materials related to the work of the Paris Office of the World Jewish Congress, including correspondence with a variety of organizations including including non-governmental (NGOs), governmental, and Jewish groups. Also contains reports and other records related to the following subjects: the search for missing Jews; liberated Jews; restitution and compensation claims; situation of Jews during the war; and Jewish affairs in France and North Africa. The bulk of materials in this collection are from 1945-1954.

  3. Doernberg family papers

    The papers consist of two passports and two identification cards relating to the Doernberg family's flight from Eschwege, Germany, to Portugal. The collection includes German passports ("Reisepass"), German identification cards ("Kennkarte"), and Portuguese identification papers (Bilhete de Identidade) for Hedwig and Carl Doernberg, David Doernberg's paternal grandparents, who fled from Germany to Portugal in 1939, arriving in the United States in 1941.

  4. Michael Wertman letter

    The letter was written by 18-year-old Michael Wertman [donor's husband] in Munich, Germany, to his maternal uncle who was living in N.Y. In the letter, Wertman writes about his mother's death during the liquidation of the ghetto in Tarnogród, Poland, on November 11, 1942. He also inquires about other family members and his desire to start a new life.

  5. Selected War Crimes Trial Records from the Rastatt Zone in French Zone of Occupation in Germany

    Contains various transcripts and minutes from war crimes trials in Rastatt, Germany, a zone under French control after the war.

  6. Mühldorf photographs

    Consists of 20 photographs taken after the liberation of the Mühldorf labor camp. These photographs were taken by United States Army officer Ivo E. Sciarra, who was involved in war crimes intelligence gathering. The photographs depict survivors of the camp as well as bodies which were removed from mass graves in preparation for reburial.

  7. George Schwab photograph collection

    The George Schwab photograph collection consists of twenty photographs relating to the experiences of George Schwab during the Holocaust. Seventeen photographs are images from Blankensee displaced persons camp near Hamburg, Germany; images on board the "Marine Perch" to the United States; and images from Bremen and Berlin, Germany. Three photographs depict images from Rīga, Latvia.

  8. Letters 1938 to 1945 The Grunwalds' journey from oppression to freedom

    Consists of a book, written and edited by Susanne Sommer, entitled "Letters 1938 to 1945: The Grunwalds' Journey from Oppression to Freedom." The book mainly consists of copies and transcriptions of the correspondence between Max and Marga Grunwald of Berlin, Germany, and Paul and Jean Lewinson, of Arlington, Virginia. The Lewinsons were the American sponsors of the Grunwald family who traveled from Germany to the Philippines where they remained for two years before arriving in the United States in 1941. Also includes copies of correspondence between the Grunwalds and other family members.

  9. Maccabi athletes in Antwerp

    Jewish athletes at the Maccabi Games in Antwerp, Belgium in July 1930. Title: "In Antwerpen feiert man die Weltausstellung." Street scenes in Antwerp, fountain, "France" building. CUs, civilians in local costume, on small train, joking in front of the camera, on boat, boats on the bay, 4 men kneeling in back seat of automobile driving through city street, tram in BG. Cameraman filiming himself in a mirror. VAR MCUs pedestrians, Maccabi athletes parading on city streets, motorbikes, spectators/crowd being pushed back, marching band, boys with flags parading, spectators, athletes pass by salu...

  10. Selected records from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) Archives, Jerusalem

    Contains records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) offices in Geneva, Stockholm and Istanbul and odd files of the offices in Lisbon, Brussels and Barcelona. Most of the records consist of correspondence of various JDC offices with other international Jewish and non-Jewish organizations, and with local Jewish communities and organizations, concerning post-war rehabilitation of Holocaust survivors, emigration from Europe, restitution and heirless property. Also includes a large number of name lists of Holocaust survivors and emigrants.

  11. Card files of confiscated Jewish properties from the District of Lublin Kartoteka skonfiskowanych nieruchomosci żydowkich z Dystryktu Lubelskiego (Sygn. 243)

    Contains card files organized in alphabetical order by geographical place name. They contain the following information: date of confiscation; address and description of the property; and name of the Jewish owner. The properties were confiscated by the Germans and administrated by the Treuhandstelle.

  12. Records of the Jewish community and Jewish Committee in Bielsko-Biała Akta Gminy Wyznaniowej i Komitetu Żydowskiego w Bielsku-Białej (Sygn.308)

    Contains records of the Jewish community in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. Most valuable is the cemetery book with entries of all funerals since the day of the opening of the graveyard in 1949. Also contains original statutes of the Jewish organizations from Bielsko-Biała, Jewish birth registers, Jewish diaries, name lists of Jewish soldiers, name lists of Jewish survivors, lists of Jewish properties, photographs from the Jewish orphanage, photographs and a chronicle of the sport club, Maccabi, in Bielsko-Biała.

  13. Gmina Żydowska Wiedeṅ (Sygn.103)

    Contains various documents of the Jewish community in Vienna, Austria, including correspondence from 1940, relating to emigration from Vienna and help rendered by Jewish philanthropic organizations. Also contains lists of emigrants and their letters of thanks addressed to the Jewish community.

  14. Selected records from the departmental archives of the Meuse, France

    This collection contains information pertaining to the arrest and deportation of Jews in the Meuse prefecture, as well as material related to the expropriation and sale of Jewish property. It also contains information on Freemasons, political dissidents, and others. Documents include police records, card files, and lists made in the prefect's office during the German occupation of France; Gendarmerie reports from the prefecture and cabinet; and a list of political deportees from the subprefecture of Verdun.

  15. "Memories": Ester Grintal memoir

    In “Memories,” a memoir written by Ester Grintal, she describes her childhood in Poland, her experiences in labor and concentration camps, and her postwar immigration to Israel.

  16. "Roosevelt and Co.: Krieg-Lüge-Verbrechen" collection

    Consists of one book, entitled "Roosevelt and Co.: Krieg--Lüge-Verbrechen," by Georg Buderose, published in Germany in 1942. The book consists of anti-American propaganda photographs and statements regarding President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his advisers, and his policies. Also includes one short note dated 1945 from "Dick" stating that he found this book in a warehouse near Buchenwald.

  17. Name list of Jewish Holocaust victims from the Netherlands

    The collection consists of a name list of Dutch Holocaust victims, together with their date of birth, city and street address, and presumed date of death.

  18. Berell Guldes letter

    Contains one letter, written in Yiddish and dated July 9, 1941 from "Shifra" in Philadelphia to her sister, Berell Guldes, in Poland. In the letter, Shifra writes that she hopes Berell is alive and implores her to write a few words to her sister. Also includes envelope. The letter was censored by the Germans but returned to the United States, as Ms. Guldes could not be located for delivery.

  19. COHASCO collection

    Collection includes post-war refugee tracing forms; propaganda leaflets; the final, 1949, issue of the camp newspaper in Cyprus (where Jews wishing to immigrate to Palestine were detained); letters sent by internees at Camp Du Vernet, France, in 1940; a letter written and signed by David Zvi Pinkas, a signer of the Israel's Declaration of Independence; a 1911 antisemitic broadside published by Theodore Fritsch; a 1947 circular listing the aims of the first Zionist Congress after the Holocaust; a copy of the 1943 "Proclamation of the Children," proclaiming that children in Jerusalem ask the ...