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  1. The Striker, March 1937, 15th year 1937 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Issue of Der Stürmer, a viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Julius Streicher, an early Nazi Party member, from 1923-1945 in Germany. The newspaper's slogan was "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" [The Jews are our misfortune]. The paper thrived on scandal, and preferred sensational stories of Jews committing disgusting, evil acts. It was also infamous for its antisemitic cartoons and staff cartoonist Fips. Streicher was arrested by the US Army in May 1945. He was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed per the ruling that his repeated articles...

  2. Charles Abramson collection

    Consists of a black and white image of fourteen children and two adults standing and seated together outside; verso: handwritten in blue ink “April 1944/Bari – Italy/Jewish children/saved by members/of the Jewish/Brigade – 8th Army”; dated April 1944; Bari, Italy.

  3. Ora Nahir collection

    Consist of an emigration certificate issued to Erich Nachheiser (donor’s husband) in lieu of a passport that shows the many stops on his way to Palestine; certificate dated 18 August 1940 in Kladova, Yugoslavia. Also includes a photograph album documenting the year-and-a-half journey of Ehud Nahir from Vienna to Palestine, dated 25 Nov.1939 – 30 March 1941.

  4. POWs and German advance in Ukraine

    A German soldier is decorated with the Balkenkreuz. 00:15:55 German soldiers oversee POWs in the countryside. A massive line of (Soviet?) POWs march up hill. LS, the POWs rest at a campsite. 00:16:21 Large body of water, bridge, maritime vehicles docked. 00:16:38 Two German planes in an open field. A soldier talks to the cameraman from inside the plane. 00:16:56 Aerial shots of the river and a city from aboard the plane. AGFA 1941 logo.

  5. Eugene Berger collection

    Consists of two identity cards and two photographs. One card is for the Diplaced Persons Assembly Center 578, Lampertheim, has Eugene Berger's photograph on it, and is signed by the Director of the UNRRA. The second card is for securing rations and has Mr. Berger's right thumb print on the card. Both are dated 1946. The two photographs are of post-war Buchenwald. The photographic print of the Weimar civilians looking at the gallow has dittoed information on the back and is from "Photo-France A.E.P." The photograph of the bodies at the camp has very faint dittoed information on it.

  6. Lola Byron collection

    The Lola Byron consists of family photographs depicting the Papierbuch family before the war in Kielce, Poland and in DP camps in Germany after the war; documents relating to donor’s mother life and property in Poland and to the family’s stay in DP camps and their subsequent immigration to the United States..

  7. Margaret Lowe collection

    Consists of instructions, dated 8 Aor. 1939, issued for Gretl Pappenheimer [donor] to the "Movement for the Care of Children from Germany" in London by the "Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland"; two copies of a "Fuehrungszeugnis," or certificate of good conduct, issued on 4 February 1939, for Kurt Lowenstein [donor's husband] by the Chief of Police of Düsseldorf, Germany; letter of reference, dated 17 February 1942, together with an envelope, issued for Kurt Lowenstein by C. Mayou & Sons in Birmingham, England; booklet, "Soldier's Service/and/Pay Book" issued to Kurt Lowe [sic], i...

  8. Cyprus photo album

    Album of 16 photographs from internment camps in Cyprus. Includes images presenting daily life in the camps; the dining hall; the workshops, including the amateur stone chiselers presenting the stone works they have created in the camp; and a a puppet theater. The inner side of the front binding is mounted with a photographic postcard bearing the Hebrew inscription "Souvenir from the Cyprus Exile 5709." On the front binding is a chisled stone plaque with image of the ship at sea, barbed wire, and the Hebrew inscription "Kafrisin 5708" [Cyprus 1948].

  9. John R. Crowe photograph collection

    The John Crowe photograph collection consists of eleven photographic prints of Dachau concentration camp after liberation, 1945. The photographs were taken by Corporal J. Robert Crowe.

  10. Roza Dvortsis photograph collection

    Three photographs of Roza Dvortsis in Chechelnik, Ukraine, circa 1936-1949.

  11. Mirka Knaster collection

    The Mirka Knaster collection consists of forty photographs of the Knaster family (Baruch, Cyla, and Mirka Knaster) in displaced persons camps, including Santa Caterina, and Bari, Italy. The Jewish marriage certificate (Ketubah) for Cyla and Baruch Knaster.

  12. Hanka Ehrlich collection

    Consists of two photographs. One an Image of Hanka Granek, the donor, with her friend Moniek Taitelbaum, who perished in Auschwitz; the photograph was taken in Bystra, Poland in summer 1939 during their last vacation before the war. The second image was taken in 1940 in the Bedzin ghetto, Poland, of Rachela Pszerowska Ingster seated at a desk, a Star of David on her dress. Rachela, who perished in Auschwitz, was the sister-in-law of Szewa Ingster.

  13. Eskil Eriksson collection

    Consists of two copyprints of images taken after the liberation of a concentration camp, most likely Dachau; on image shows fencing, barracks, watch tower and moat surrounding the camp; and the other shows a pile of corpses being loaded onto a truck by survivors.

  14. Wolf Finkelman collection

    Consists of photographs, identification cards, certificates and other documents relating to Wolf Finkelman's internment in Mauthausen and his time in the Bindermichl displaced persons camps and his emigration to the United States in 1946.

  15. Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection

    The Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection consists of six photographs relating to the family of Gertrude Fischbach (née Heller). Pictured in the photographs are the parents of Gertrude Fischbach Moritz Heller (b. December 30, 1876) and Friede Heller (b. May 25, 1880), and her parents-in-law Jonas Fischbach (b. October 17, 1885) and Amalie Fischbach (née Dull, b. September 29, 1884). The photographs were taken in Klagenfurt, Austria in 1938; London, England, circa 1939; and 1943-1944 after their arrival in the United States. All pictured were passengers on the MS St. Louis and eventually immi...

  16. Leah Rosenfield collection

    The collection conisists of scrip from the Łódź ghetto.

  17. Naomi Dallob papers

    Consists of five photographs and three documents: 1) image of group of men standing in front of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) building;; 2) image of crowd of men and women gathered on a plaza, some in the background holding flags; 3) image of a building; 4) image of women helping children walk down stairs located outdoors; 5) image of two men and one woman posing in front of an exhibit display, attached to ithe mage with adhesive is typed text; 6) greeting card: photographic image of steet with portrait of man at upper left corner and hebrew text at upper right cor...

  18. Wlodek Richter collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting members of the Baksht and Richter families before the war in Kremenchug, Russia (Kremenchuk, Ukraine); during and after the war in Krasnoarmeysk, Russia; and after the war in Daugavpils, Latvia, and Kaliningrad, Russia. Also included is Genia Baksht’s 1941 high school diploma from her school in Kremenchug.

  19. Correspondence regarding radios confiscated from Jews in Herzfelde, 1939-1940

    Correspondence regarding radios confiscated from Jews in Herzfelde, 1939-1940

  20. Jerry Gotkin collection

    Consists of a letter; written by Peretz Shkolnik, donor’s mother’s cousin, who survived the Holocaust in hiding near Jody, Lithuania, his hometown. In the letter, written in a displaced persons camp in Cremona, Italy, Mr. Shkolnik relates his experiences during the war.