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  1. 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...

  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Chamber of Commerce (Fond 212)

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

  5. Bulgarian Legation in Madrid (Fond 256)

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

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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...

  10. 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).

  11. Haber-Moor family papers

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

  12. 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.

  13. 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."

  14. 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).

  15. 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...

  16. 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.

  17. Abraham Getman photographs

    A collection of 83 photographs relating to the experiences of Abraham (Avram) Getman and his family during the period immediately following the Holocaust. The collection includes images of refugee camps in St. Marein and Admont in Austria and images of the donor's emigration from Austria to Israel in 1948.

  18. Ilya Yoffe papers

    The photographs depict the donor's family before World War II, Dr. Gershon Grisha Yoffe [donor's brother] who fell in action in 1941, and the donor during his military service in the Soviet Red Army during and after the war. The papers also include a letter written by Dr. Grisha Woffe two months before being killed in action, a diploma from medical school issued to Dr. Grisha Yoffe in Voronezh, Russia, and a memorial pamphlet in which the donor's brother is mentioned.

  19. Bryan locates individuals he filmed during the German siege of Warsaw

    Reel 3B Julien Bryan shows his book "Siege" to Poles in Warsaw, looking to find people he photographed in 1939, including priest Father Wlodarczyk, photographed in 1939 with a broken portrait in church ruins (Photo Archives W/S 47239). VAR CUs of Poles gathered around Bryan. Small church. Julien Bryan with a female interpreter, Christina Cekalska, in front of a sign for the National Theater. MS, Apolonia Wiktorzak, who was photographed in 1939 holding a loaf of bread, now 65 years old (Photo Archives W/S 47371). Longer view of the group crowding around Bryan and Apolonia in front of their h...

  20. Selected records of the Departmental Archives of Ariège

    Contains administrative records related to the internment camp in Le Vernet, France. Also contains records related to German war crimes committed in France and records related to Jews seeking refuge in France after 1936.