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  1. Joseph Kempenich prayer books

    Contains six Hebrew prayer books, published in 1901, belonging to Joseph Kempenich. Mr. Kempenich gave the books to his family, whom he was planning to join in the United States, for safe-keeping when they emigrated in 1938. Unable to escape, Mr. Kempenich was deported to Theresienstadt and perished in the Minsk ghetto. Also includes the Yom Kippur programs for the synagogue in Trier, Germany, from 1928-1936.

  2. Chester Aaron papers

    The collection consists of seven photographs taken by Chester Aaron while serving in the United States Army depicting the liberation of Dachau concentration camp and two programs for musical performances for the American troops.

  3. Dachau liberation photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Includes photographs of the railcars which held victims as well as carts used to transport the bodies of victims for reburial. The photographs are from the collection of Grant Balch, a liberator of Dachau.

  4. Halina Gozdzik Milich photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs depicting Halina Gozdzik Milich and her relatives before World War II in Łódź, Poland, and after liberation.

  5. Roman Morrow photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs documenting Roman Morrow and his family's experiences in Kraków, Poland, during the Holocaust. Includes images of Roman Morrow's Maccabi soccer team, members of a Zionist organization, his brother, Steven Morrow, in the Polish Army, Montelupich prison in Kraków, forced labor in the swamps of Pychowiec, a funeral procession, and Roman Morrow in the Kraków ghetto wearing a Star of David armband.

  6. Arnold Kronfeld papers

    The papers consist of correspondence, visa applications, affidavits and other materials that belonged to Herbert E. Kronfeld [donor's father] and that document his efforts to assist his maternal aunt, Bertha Dyckhoff, and her daughter, Hildegard Dyckoff, in immigrating from Berlin, Germany, to the United States. Included in the collection is correspondence from Judges Mitchell May and Algeron I. Nova, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Senator James M. Mead, and United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

  7. May-Reich family papers

    The papers consist of 32 photographs and documents relating to the experiences of the May and Reich families during the Holocaust.

  8. Levin and Kulmanas families' papers

    The papers consist of a birth certificate for "Abram Levin" [donor's husband] issued by the Rabbinate of Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania); a photograph of a family wedding with an inscription in Yiddish; and a Red Cross document about the fate of members of the Kulmanas family.

  9. My Story of Life in Italy During the Holocaust

    Consists of one memoir, 15 pages, entitled "My Story of Life in Italy During the Holocaust," by Liliana Briefel, originally of Naples, Italy. The daughter of a Jewish father and a Christian-born mother, Liliana's mother and father arranged for Liliana and her siblings to be baptized as Catholics (and for their baptisms to predate1938) in order to protect them from anti-Jewish measures. In the memoir, she also describes the events surrounding the arrival of Allied troops. Also contains one videocassette of a Yom Hashoah service in which Ms. Briefel presented her story.

  10. Reska and Vera Katz letter

    The letter was written to Rose Levinson in Chicago, Ill., by her niece, Reska Katz, and Reska's daughter, Vera Katz, in a displaced persons camp in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia. They write of family members who survived and those who perished and ask for sweets and vitamins for Vera and clothing.

  11. Israeli Holocaust commemoration stamps

    Consists of one set of six commemorative stamps and a envelope stamped "day of issue," issued in Israel to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II and to honor the Jews who fought against the Nazi regime, whether as partisans or as soldiers in the Allied forces.

  12. Oral history interview with Arnold Weiss

  13. The Barber of Goerlitz

    Consists of one memoir, 71 pages, entitled "The Barber of Goerlitz," by Dr. Kasriel K. Eilender, M.D., originally of Suwałki, Poland. In the memoir, Dr. Eilender describes his childhood in Suwałki, the Soviet and German occupations of the area, his Holocaust experiences in the Derecyn-Slonim ghetto and in the Mogilev, Blizyn, Płaszów, Gross-Rosen, and Langenbielau concentration camps. After his liberation, he reunited with American relatives; with their help, he emigrated to the United States after the war and attended medical school.

  14. Julius Levine letter

    Consists of one letter, dated March 13,1935, from Julius Levine in Paris to a family member in the United States. In the letter, Levine describes his impressions of Germany, including his feelings of uneasiness there, and his sense that Germany is preparing for war.

  15. Selected records of the Romanian Ministry of Justice

    Contains records related to the Iron Guard, reviews of citizenship, seizures of Jewish property, decrees concerning servants of Jews and trade with Jews, status of foreign Jews, and the return of Jewish goods.

  16. Records of the Central Agency for the Custody of Jewish Property (YDIP) Greece

    Contains records of the Central Agency for the Custody of Jewish Property (Υπηρεσία Διαχείρισης Ισραηλιτικών Περιουσιών, YDIP) Greece, an agency which regulated the expropriation of Jewish shops and businesses in Greece during the war. Contains case files for individual shops as well as regulatory guidelines and operations procedures for the agency. Accretion of a microilm reel #18 (Part B) contains additional postwar materials discovered at the later date. Consist of records relating to general matters pertaining to the employees of YDIP, official correspondence of the administration, prot...

  17. Selected records from the collection Ministry of the Interior (Miscellaneous)

    Contains police reports from various areas of Romania, as well as letters and complaints to local police, newspaper clippings, tables, telegrams, situation reports and correspondence. Documents relate to the activities and leaders of many political parties or movementsm including: Iron Guard; Agrarian Union Party; National Christian Party; Peasant Party; Everything for the Fatherland Party; and The National Front of Rebirth. Some police reports relate to activities of student organizations and movements, including Hitler Jugend, cultural organizations, and Association of Jewish Women. Other...

  18. Selected records from the Romanian Ministry of Work, Health and Social Protection - Central Office of Romanianization (Aryanization)

    Contains records of the Central Office of Romanianization (OCR) under the Ministry of Labor, Health, and Social Welfare, concerning the “Romanianization” of personnel of various private enterprises and “doubling” the practice of retaining fired workers to teach new workers. Included also are a proposal to accelerate Romanianization, explanatory memoranda, the structure and budgetary expenses of the OCR, a draft law on the Romanianization of staff in Northern Bucovina and Bessarabia, activity reports of the OCR to the Ministry of Labor, press clippings, and requests by refugees and other eth...

  19. Selected records from the collections of the Vaslui branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains records concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions, including selected records from the mayors' offices of Vaslui and Bŕlad; the prefecture of Vaslui district; the police headquarters of Vaslui and of Bŕlad; the gendarmerie of Vaslui; the Tutova district office of the Centrala Evreilor; and the Jewish Community in Bŕlad. Also included are postwar records of the Jewish Democratic Committees of Vaslui and Bŕlad.

  20. Selected records from the collections of the Timiş branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Includes records, mostly from the war years, concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. They include selected records from the prefecture of Timiş-Torontal, the Legion of Gendarmerie of the Severin district, the regional police inspectorate and Chief of the municipal police of Timişoara, the police headquarters of Oraşului Lugoj, and the Comitetul Democratic Evreiesc Timisoara.