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  1. Tova Goldszer photograph collection

    The collection primarily documents the pre-war lives of the Goldszer, Josefzohn, and Sztajner families. The photographs include depictions of Jadzia Josefzohn and Adek Brodza on their wedding day in Warsaw, Poland on 20 February 1938; David Sztajner; Tova's maternal grandmother; Feiga and Yakov Tzvi Goldszer; and Tova Goldszer at an internment camp in Cyprus in 1947.

  2. Prengler-Biderman family photograph

    A photograph of the Prengler family, taken in Munich in 1949. Pictured are Sol and Ida Prengler with their children Abraham, Herschel, Ben, and Isaac, as well as their daughter Helen Prengler Biderman, her husband Max Biderman, and their daughter Linda Biderman. The family survived the war in the Lukow, Poland ghetto.

  3. "The Fight for Survival"; Zelik Asher Karpman memoir

    One memoir, 129 pages, which relates the life of Zelik Asher Karpman, born in Biajkow, Poland. He and his family were sent to the Bialobjeg ghetto in 1941. By the summer of 1941, Zelik was the only member of his immediate family who had not been either killed or deported to a work camp. He managed to escape his forced labor within the ghetto and survived the war in various hiding places in Poland. The memoir is written in the format of an oral history.

  4. Ruth Shapiro Igdal collection

    Collection consists of one yearbook entitled "Pictorial Review; Vaad Hatzala, Germany," 1948, which describes Vaad Hatzala's multi-faceted work with refugees (in English); one compendium book of the testimonies of Lithuanian survivors, collected in 2002 (340 pages, in LIthuanian); one CD-ROM containing 580 black and white photographs taken between 1920-2003 from the private collection of Ruth Shapiro Igdal. The CD-ROM, entitled "The World I Knew" also contains an index of the photographs (in English) and a history of the experiences of the Shapiro family before and during the Holocaust.

  5. Kozienice ghetto papers

    The papers consist of documents relating to the Jewish ghetto and the Judenrat (Jewish council) in Kozienice, Poland. The documents include a full list of the inhabitants of the Kozienice ghetto, lists of Jews registered as able-bodied, a list of Jewish children born in the ghetto during the years 1939 to 1941, and other reports written by the employees of the Judenrat to the German authorities. Kozienice is a small town in the Radom district of central Poland. Approximately 5,000 Jews lived in the town before World War II. The Germans established a ghetto in Kozienice in the fall of 1940 a...

  6. Broadcasting station "Hristo Botev" (Fond 209)

    Samples of Soviet radio propaganda directed to Bulgaria from the radio station "Hristo Botev" located in the Soviet Union, which raise issues such as the persecution of Jews in Thrace and Macedonia and German crimes in Kiev, Ukraine.

  7. Ministry of Foreign and Religious Affairs (Fond 176)

    Contains selected records from Fond 176, including correspondence with Bulgarian legations/consulates abroad in many countries on topics including trade relations, reports to Sofia, Bulgaria, on economic and political conditions, Bulgarian agrarian workers abroad, Bulgarian-German relations; regulations for visas of various types, including transit visas, for non-citizens including Jews. Also includes material regarding the property of Bulgarian Jews; the location of Bulgarian citizens abroad including Jews; requests from relatives of victims of the "Sṭrumah" sinking; and the situation of ...

  8. Chamber of Commerce (Fond 212)

    Contains selected records from Fond 212, including draft correspondence regarding Jewish savings.

  9. Bulgarian Legation in Madrid (Fond 256)

    Contains selected records from Fond 256 including registries of visas and passports issued.

  10. Ministry of Internal Affairs. Administration of the Belomorie Region (Fond 662)

    Contains selected records from Fond 662k including records of local police and security matters during World War II.

  11. Ministry of Internal Affairs. Administration of towns in Thrace, 18th and 19th railway (Fond 705)

    Contains selected records concerning the railroad including directives, correspondence, and reports on personnel, maintenance, security, and incidents including violence.

  12. Dr. Bruno Kriss correspondence

    Consists of two letters written by Dr. Bruno Kriss, M.D., regarding the time he spent in the Buchenwald concentration camp from 1938 to 1939. The letters include commentary on the effect of Kristallnacht on the prisoners in Buchenwald.

  13. Norman Salsitz papers

    The collection consists of two notebooks containing songs and poems hand copied by Norman Salsitz around 1935 and hundreds of photographs of Norman Salsitz and his family taken before, during, and after World War II in and around Kolbuszowa, Poland, and including the Kolbuszowa and Rzeszów ghettos. Most of the photographs date from the 1930s and 1940s and were hidden by Salsitz when the Jewish population of the Kolbuszowa ghetto was deported to Belzec. The collection also includes photographs of educational, religious, and social groups before the war; compulsory prewar labor brigades (“sza...

  14. Hendrix family photographs

    The collection consists of three scrapbooks. One scrapbook contains photographs, correspondence, and other documents relating to Paul and Berthe Hendrix’s courtship, wedding, and honeymoon. The other two scrapbooks are baby books for Paul and Berte Hendrix's sons; one for Robert Alexander Hendrix (b. May 12, 1930) and the other for Hans Leonard Hendrix (b. January 31, 1933).

  15. Haber-Moor family papers

    Papers consist of letters and postcards between Moses Haber, Mila Moor, his sister, and other family members.

  16. Wolf Zajac letter

    The letter was written by Wolf Zajac, in Poznań, Poland, on August 28, 1939, to Lydia Zajac (now Kessler) who was in England. A translation in English is also included.

  17. Statut des Juifs français et etrangers en France occupée, France non occupée et aus colonies et pays de protectorats

    Consists of a brochure entitled "Statut des Juifs: français et etrangers en France occupée, France non occupée et aus colonies et pays de protectorats."

  18. Elinor Gabriel collection

    The collection consists of 92 slides taken by unknown photographers in Jewish DP camps in Europe and Israel after World War II. Included in the slides are images of Jewish displaced persons preparing or learning various vocations through the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT).

  19. Recovery activities sponsored by the Economic Cooperation Administration

    The Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) was a U.S. government agency set up in 1948 to administer the European recovery program (Marshall Plan). EXT man on a horse-drawn mower in a field. Men clear grass by hand with scythes. Farm building and truck. Women hoeing. CU women stop to talk. Men load hay onto a truck. Truck drives away. Courtyard with men moving large sacks. Men and women work on farm machinery and bag grain. (04:09) Slate reads “DAY 3 EXT 1 ECA.” CU root vegetables. Three horses pull a cart full of root vegetables as a man walks alongside. Truck dumpsload of root vegetabl...

  20. Louise Wegweiser Kruk papers

    The collection primarily consists of post-war photographs documenting the experiences of Louise Wegweiser Kruk, originally of Tłuste, Poland, in the Föhrenwald, Rivoli, and Turin displaced persons camps. Also included is the marriage certificate for Louise and Martin Wegweiser, whom she married in Turin in 1947; and an O.R.T. diploma for Louise received in 1949.