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  1. Herta Leeds papers

    The papers consist of a telegram written to the Lichtblau Triangle Shoe Company in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., from a Jewish family ("Mutti Pings Familie Friedman") in Europe and an envelope from Cesia Kaufler-Morawetz in Vienna, Austria, to Herta Leeds in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

  2. Frieda Lederer photograph collection

    The photographs depict Frieda Lederer in Mukacheve, Hungary (now Ukraine), before World War II, as a refugee with the Lowengart family in Göteborg, Sweden, and as an employee with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Munich, Germany, after the war.

  3. Michael Kaplan photograph collection

    The photographs depict Esther and Eli Kaplan and other residents of Eišiškės (Eishyshok), Lithuania, before World War II.

  4. Lilka Elbaum papers

    The papers consist of 325 photographs and copyprints as well as certificates and identification cards from the ghetto in Biała Rawska, Poland, and Skierniewice, Poland.

  5. Zina Gasko photographs

    The collection consists of photographs of Zina Gasko, her brother, Jefim, and her aunts and cousins in Krzemieniec, Poland, before World War II.

  6. Herman and Dwora Flamholc papers

    The Herman and Dwora Flamholc papers consist of two photographs of Herman Flamholc, Dwora while he was a refugee in Kara-Balta, Kyrgystan; a postcard sent from Ewa Chawa Flamholc, Dwora's aunt, in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to Salek Flamholc in Chett, Siberia; a certificate that Dwora attended a Jewish school in Charkov, Ukraine; and two certificates of repatriation from the Soviet Union to Poland for Dwora and Herman Flamholc.

  7. Janina Birenstam papers

    The papers consist of photographs of Janina Birenstam as a teacher at a boarding school for Polish and Polish-Jewish children in Ili, Kazakhstan, during World War II, certificates from her days as a student at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, before the war, and letters of recommendation from the director of the Polish school in Kazakhstan, Edward Kofler.

  8. Rywek Żytnik photograph collection

    The Rywek Żytnik photograph collection consist of photographs of the Żytnik family in Sawin, Poland, and the surrounding area before and during the Holocaust as well as a photograph of a memorial to Jews killed by the Germans in Dashev, Ukraine, from 1941 to 1942.

  9. Róża Zyto papers

    The papers consist of photographs, identification cards, a diploma, and a report card relating to the Plac family in Poland before and after the Holocaust and in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust.

  10. Jane Thomsen photographs

    The collection consists of nine photographs of the Zalcman family in Siedlce, Poland.

  11. Aveda Ayalon photograph collection

    The collection primarily consists of photographs depicting Aveda Ayalon's family in Chełm and Warsaw, Poland, before, during, and after the Holocaust. Included are photographs of Aveda’s uncle, Szmuel Artur Zygielbojm (1895-1943) a member of the National Council of the Polish Government-in-Exile.

  12. Mark Stern papers

    The Mark Stern papers consist of letters and postcards from Jacob, Erna, Tosia, and Manek Stern [donor's father, mother, sister, and donor] in Poland and Italy to Leon Stern [donor's brother] in Palestine. Topics range from everyday life (school, work, family business, health, and weather) to life after liberation, conditions in an United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) camp, finding work, disappointment, attempts to immigrate to the United States, happiness, and starting a new life.

  13. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers

    The Dingfelder and Wolff families papers contains photographs of the Dingfelder family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the MS St. Louis, a photograph of Rudi Dingfelder after liberation in 1945, as well as a studio photograph of Aline and Arthur Wolff, circa 1920s, and an undated tourist postcard of the MS St. Louis. Correspondence in the papers includes a typewritten letter written by Rudi Dingfelder in English regarding his wartime experiences imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp, Buchenwald concentration camp, and other slave labor camps, August 12, 1945; ...

  14. Arthur Keenan photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, after liberation.

  15. Agathe Ehrenfried papers

    The papers consist of a Nazi Party membership book ("Mitgliedsbuch") issued to Dr. Walther Brunk on Nov. 4, 1936, in Berlin, Germany, and two receipts ("N.S. Bolkswohlfahrt") issued for contributions in the amount of RM 4.50 in 1943 and inserted into the membership book

  16. Selected records from the collection LIV, Morocco and Tunisia

    Contains records pertaining to the application of anti-Jewish legislation enacted in Morocco and Tunisia.

  17. Selected records from collection LIII, Algeria

    Contains records pertaining to the application of anti-Jewish legislation enacted in Algeria.

  18. Selected records from collection CCVII, Belgium, Ministry of Reconstruction

    Contains records pertaining to Belgian forced labor in Germany, particularly Belgian-Jewish forced labor, and the repatriation of Belgian nationals after the war.

  19. Selected records from collection CCVIII, Belgium, Ministry of Reconstruction

    This collection contains information on internment camps in France and Belgium during World War II, including information on the fate of Jewish children.

  20. Selected records from collection DXXXIII, correspondence sent to Drancy

    This collection contains postcards sent to Drancy by French prisoners of war in German POW camps. (Many Jewish soldiers in the French army were interned as POWs.)