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  1. Moshenberg family collection

    Consists of the memoir of Elka Moshenberg, who spent much of her life in Israel and wrote her memoir to memorialize her family members who perished during the Holocaust. She lists those who were killed by the Nazis, and laments that she did not insist that they join her in Israel. Also includes a videocassette and CD-ROM documenting a trip to Turka in 2003, visiting many of the places mentioned in the memoir, as well as four videocassettes depicting a 2000 trip with the donor's cousin, Aba Moshenberg. The family videotaped Mr. Moshenberg's visits to the Gross-Rosen, Gradice, Faulbrick, and ...

  2. Lilian Falk papers

    Contains four letters from girls in Children's Home in Otwock, Poland, photograph of Krystyna Reklewska [a wartime friend of Lilian Falk, donor], pre-war photograph of Lilian, post-war photograph of Lilian, post-war photograph and wartime kennkarte of rescuer Mrs. Bronislawa Hessen (Bronislawa Kaczmarczyk), war-time photograph of Lilian's mother, Dr. Rozalja Szajn, birth certificate used by Rozalja during the period in hiding, and a birth certificate used by Lilian during the period of hiding.

  3. 63rd Infantry liberation photographs

    Contains six photographs of the Dachau concentration camp, post-liberation; includes one photograph showing the sign of the 63rd Infantry Division.

  4. David Glick's trip to Europe 1936/37

    Reims, France. CU of a man with a long beard, and loose fitting clothing, holding a pigeon in his hand and feeding it, another pigeon rests on his other arm. MLS of a street in the city, a street lamp hangs from the corner of a building, and a sign above a doorway reads: "Champignons". VS, of the neighborhood, a cat running along a ledge of a building, rows of houses, three women dressed in traditional costumes with white pointed hats, a street corner with a restaurant called "Restaurant Jeanne-D'Arc," men sitting in a bar raising a glass to the camera, the owners of the bar smile and wave ...

  5. Rudas family collection

    Consists of a photograph, circa 1943, of Istvan Weltman, the donor’s cousin (fourth from left) during his forced labor near Munkacs, Hungary; a photographic portrait, circa 1934, of Bora and Imre Barna with their daughter Anna (Bora and Anna perished in Auschwitz and Imre was killed in a labor battalion); a photographic portrait of the donor’s relatives – Reiner; a photographic portrait of Suzy Barna, who at the age of 5 was killed in Auschwitz in 1944; a photographic portrait, circa 1940, of Gyorgy Kaszas, the donor’s first cousin, a jazz player, who was shot and killed in 1944, after bein...

  6. August Jacquemart collection

    Consists of six war-time photographs pertaining to Hena Evyatar and Edouard Robert. Hena Evyatar spent the war in hiding with the help of Father Edouard Robert (Eddy), a Catholic priest. The photographs were donated by the Jacquemart family, who hid Hena for a brief period of time.

  7. Book Eine darlegung wahrnehmbarer tatsachen in erfüllung der offenbarung die Gott Jesus Christus gab, um sie seinen knechten kundzuttun

    The collection consists of five books written by Jehovah's Witnesses that were among the titles of books burned by the Nazis in 1933

  8. Prolsdorfer Kramer family papers

    Contains documents, correspondence, and picture postcards pertaining to the Prolsdorfer Kramer family's lives in Gerolzholfen, Germany, and their emigration to the United States.

  9. Gertrude Gottfried family papers

    Contains information about Gertrude Gottfried's Holocaust experiences; includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs and embarkation cards for her emigration to the United States. Also includes affidavits of support, naturalization information, identification paperwork in lieu of passports, passenger tickets for the SS Marine Marlin related to the post-war immigration of Josek and Guta (later Joseph and Gertrude) Gottfried.

  10. Ehren-Chronik

    Consists of a black book illustrated with black-and-white photographs of Nazi leaders and propaganda events. It also contains forms pertaining to family genealogy and personal history, which have not been filled out. In tissue paper, book contains one triangular cloth patch and one b&w photograph of a woman feeding geese, dated 1958.

  11. Berek and Cywia Rosner collection

    Consists of documents regarding Berek and Cywia Rosner's time in the Foehrenwald Displaced Persons Camp and subsequent emigration to Canada in 1951. The majority of the documents are restitution papers filed by the Rosners and include medical reports, testimonies from fellow forced laborers, and forms as well as receipts for restitution received.

  12. Victim reburial photographs

    Photographs show the exhumation and reburial into coffins of corpses by uniformed and non-uniformed men and women. The location and date of these photographs is unknown.

  13. Henry Haas collection

    Consists of one blue booklet, entitled "The Haggadah of Passover for members of the Armed Forces of the United States," published by the New York National Jewish Welfare Board, 1943, and one photograph of a family being pulled in two carts, taken in Shanghai. Inscription in the booklet reads "In memory of the gathered Passover Seder on the way from Shanghai--USA on board S.S. "Marine Lynx", April 4th, 1947.

  14. Leon Rajninger collection

    Consists of six photographs of members of the Reininger family of Czernowitz, Romania, taken in the displaced persons camps of Hofgers, Landsberg, and Kassel, and one book, 91 pages, entitled "The Rajninger Tree of Life and the Jewish Faith," by Leon Rajninger, 2000. The book traces Mr. Rajninger's family through the war to the present day and includes family trees, photographs, copies of historical documents, stories, and maps.

  15. Wolman family collection

    Contains pre-war posed photographs of the Wolman (now Wohlman) family in Białystok. Collection also contains one enlarged photoprint of the Don Kanel's [donor] extended family, and one postcard, written in Yiddish, to the donor's family in New York City. The donor has described each photograph.

  16. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Contains seven photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp post-liberation; includes photographs of the entrance to the camp, gallows, corpses outside barracks, and burial preparations.

  17. Paul Goodman photographs

    Consists of pre-war photographs taken in Warsaw, Poland, of Pesl Goodman, Pesl Prizant, and Joshua Prizant; also contains copyprint of a portrait of the Goodman family, labeled "Maniewicz, Poland, pre-war."

  18. Norbert Vos-Obstfeld photograph

    Contains photograph of a little boy sitting on a big block with an older girl standing beside him; described as "Norbert Vos-Obstfeld 1943, in hiding in Courtrai (Belgium); Norbert with Raymonde."

  19. Jean Haas photograph

    One photograph of Jean Haas, his twin brother Pierre, and their little sister Jacqueline. They are in swimming attire and the photograph is dated as August 20, 1943. Pierre is wearing his mother's glasses. This photograph was taken while the family was living with false Aryan papers in Couzon Mont d' Or, France.

  20. Zelów photographs

    Collection contains 14 pre-war portraits of various families from the town of Zelów, near Łódź, Poland; includes portraits of the Fyle, Gliks, Szmulewicz, Kuperwasser, Granat, Zysman, Rosenblum, Bresler, and Pieniks families.