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  1. Isabel Banas photograph collection

    The collection consists of an envelope and fifteen photographs taken during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp.

  2. Theresienstadt papers

    The papers consist of documents, correspondence, and newsletters produced in Theresienstadt (Terezín), Czechoslovakia, after World War II.

  3. Hilde and Ruth Simon papers

    The papers consist of two letters sent by sisters Hilde and Ruth Simon, who had traveled from Germany to Harrogate, England on a Kindertransport in 1939, to the Mizrachi family in the United States. The Mizrachi family sponsored the sisters to immigrate to the United States in 1944. The first letter, dated 1 October 1939, thanks the Mizrachis for agreeing to sponsor them. The second letter, dated 10 April 1943, gives an update on the sisters' lives in England and expreses their continued wish to immigrate to the United States when it is possible.

  4. Photograph of a family of four in Poland

    The photograph depicts a family of four in Poland.

  5. Rose Steinhauer papers

    The papers consist of an identification card issued to Abram Kolersztajn in the ghetto in Końskie, Poland, and one post-period publication describing the atrocities committed during the Holocaust.

  6. Ray Alcaraz photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs of the liberation of a concentration camp near Munich, Germany.

  7. Miriam Patipa prayer book

    The prayer book is a thirteen-page Hungarian translation of a published Hebrew prayer book completed by Miriam Patipa while she was working as a slave laborer rebuilding an oil refinery in Gelsenkirchen concentration camp. The Hebrew prayer-book belonged to a fellow laborer at Gelsenkirchen.

  8. Dziedzic family papers

    The Rosh Hashanah postcard from the Bergen-Belsen DP camp bears a photograph of Teddy and Sarah Jay [donor's parents] and their daughter [donor] and other photographs of life in the camp. A banner near the bottom is printed with the greeting, "L'Shana Tova / T'catevu v'Tchtamu" (Happy New Year / May you be inscribed in the Book of Life). Also included are documents and photographs illustrating post war displaced persons experiences of Tejwie Dziedzic, his wife Sara Dziedzic and their daughter Michla (donor) in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp.

  9. Photograph of Avram Kanczuker's children

    The collection consists of a pre-war photograph depicting the two children of Avram Kanczuker in Zbaraż, Poland (Zbarazh, Ukraine). Both children perished during the Holocaust.

  10. Paul Mandel papers

    The papers primarily consist of Holocaust-era postcards related to the Mandel family of Łódź, Poland. Included are seven postcards written from Mirel Mandel in Łódź to her brother Barney Solomon in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1940. There is also one postcard to Barney Solomon from Estera Moszkowicz in Radom, Poland. Photograph postcards of the Mandel family depict Mirel and Abraham Mandel, their sons Mendel, Machel, and Paul, and their daughter Balcha. Also depicted is Barney Solomon and various other relatives.

  11. Agnes Papier photographs

    The collection consists of three photographs of a concentration camp immediately after liberation.

  12. Photograph of two women

    The photograph depicts a young girl with her arms around a seated woman.

  13. Lia Volfson photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs documenting the Reznikov or Reznikova family in Voznesensk, Ukraine. The first photograph depicts a large group of men and women, including Sura Reznikova, gathered around a man reading a document. The second photograph depicts Lia and Natful Reznikov. The description on the verso of both photographs states in part “…perished by Nazi in 1941.”

  14. Polish passport

    The Polish passport (Paszport) was issued to Simon Haber in Lipsk, Poland, and bears an American immigration visa.

  15. Siegfried Heinrich papers

    The papers consist of a receipt booklet for the number of eggs a farmer gave the German state and a ballot from 1934 requesting the German people to vote if they accepted Hitler's takeover as Reichspraesident after Paul von Hindenburg's death.

  16. Rena Herzog papers

    The papers consist of twelve photographs, three identification cards, and four documents relating to Rena Herzog's family before World War II in Poland, during the war in the Soviet Union, and after the war in Poland.

  17. Regina Gothelf photographs

    The collection consists of nine photographs of the Gothelf family's life before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland.

  18. Envelope

    The envelope was sent from David Aronson [donor's brother] in the United States to Tania Aronson [donor's mother] in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, in 1941 and returned.

  19. David Beitner photographs

    The photographs depict relatives and friends from David Beitner’s hometowns of Strzemieszyce Wielkie, Poland, and Sławków, Poland, before World War II and of David and his friends in the Preibitz DP camp in Germany after the war. Some of the photographs have captions in Yiddish and Polish.

  20. Larry Lubetzky photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of the "Graphic Arts Section" ("Mal und Zeichen Werkstatt") in the ghetto in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, in 1943 and a photograph of Larry Lubetzky in Kraslice, Czechoslovakia, in July 1945.