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  1. George Kulstad papers

    The papers consist of three hand-written receipts issued to Helen Kulstad [donor's mother] by Jewish emigrants to Shanghai, China named Fritz and Daisy Willdorf.

  2. Izabela Biezunska-Malowist false identification card

    The identification card ("Kennkarte") was issued to Izabela Biezunska-Malowist under the alias "Janina Truszcynska" by the Polish underground.

  3. Lilo Goldstone papers

    The Lilo Goldstone papers consist of five photographs of the Heldenmuth family. The photographs were taken at their home in Plettenberg, Germany; aboard the MS St. Louis; and after their arrival in England. There is also a piece of scrip issued to Alfred Heldenmuth at an English refugee center, and an obituary concerning the death of Solomon Heldenmuth in Germany.

  4. Giselle Kurz papers

    The papers consist of postcards, letters, identification cards, and other documents relating to the Holocaust in several countries in Europe.

  5. Cyla Furcayg photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photographic postcard of David Furcayg and his wife and children in Poland in 1938 and a copy print of the Furcayg family and their housekeeper in Poland in 1916 (Mayer Furcayg is in the high chair). Captions on the verso are in Yiddish and English. All of Mayer Furcayg's immediate family were deported to Treblinka death camp where they perished.

  6. Jan Dubsky letter

    The letter was written from Jan Dubsky as a child in the ghetto in Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czechoslovakia, in 1941 to his grandmother in Slovakia. recto: in pencil, rough translation, "Dear Grandma/Thank you for your letter and kisses. We are waiting to see you. Grandma come to us./Jenda"

  7. Eva Mandeau papers

    The papers consist of a document ("Voorloopig Bewijs") issued to Eve Neumann (later Eva Mandeau) by the Amsterdam Organisation; a Dutch identification card issued by the Joodsche Raad Voor Amsterdam to her mother Hertha Neumann-Moses; and a certificate of exception ("Ausnahmebescheinigung") issued to Hertha Neumann-Moses in the Netherlands.

  8. Photograph of German soldiers humiliating Jewish men

    The photograph depicts two German soldiers posing for the camera and holding the beards of two Jewish men while a third man looks on.

  9. Michal Van Dommelen papers

    The papers consist of an immigration identification card issued to Marianne Bohnstedt [donor] by the American consulate in Panama and a letter sent by the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [German Red Cross] on behalf of Dr. Joseph Norden in Hamburg, Germany, to his daughter, Bertha Bohnstedt [donor's mother], in Alliance, Ohio.

  10. Regina Niven papers

    The papers consist of three photographs of a meeting of Jewish men in Poland, including Chaim Bornstein and his father Moshe Wolf and the Chief Hassidic Rabbi of Będzin. Also included are three letters written by Sifra Forster in Sosnowiec, Poland, to her brother, Bernard Forster, in Great Britain.

  11. Henriette Kirshon papers

    Consists of a postcard from Julia Weiss [donor's sister] in Munich, Germany, to her sister, Henriette Kirshon, in Zurich, Switzerland, and a three-page letter written by Julia Weiss in Theresienstadt to her sister.

  12. Capital Stamps papers

    The papers consist of six photographs of Jewish forced laborers in Tarnów, Poland; two documents and two permits issued in the ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt), Poland; one receipt from Auschwitz; one vaccination card issued in Theresienstadt; and two ration cards issued in the Litzmannstadt and Theresienstadt ghettos.

  13. Signal Corps photograph collection

    The collection consists of 70 Signal Corps photographs of captured German prisoners of war, American troops, liberated prisoners at concentration camps, mass graves, and scenes of war damage throughout Europe. Captions in English are attached to each photograph.

  14. Dvora Rosenholz collection

    Consists of one photographic print created circa 1930.

  15. Kata Kovacevic collection

    Contains a photograph and a brief biographical sketch of Kata Kovacevic, a Serbian woman imprisoned and shot in Jasenovac concentration camp, probably in late 1942.

  16. Roman Haar collection

    The Roman Haar collection contains documents from Roman’s childhood, growing up in Poland. The photographs in the collection are mainly of Roman, but some show him posing with his father Salo, and his mother Erna, and his half-brother Joachim Fritsche. The larger photograph taken in 1943 is of Roman while he was hiding in Rzeszow, and one photograph from 1946 is of Roman, Erna, and Joachim. Another photo is from a children’s Purim holiday play put on while at Foehrenwald displaced persons (DP) camp. Also within the collection is a document ordering Roman to be separated from his mother and ...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ruins/statues in Warsaw

    LS, MS Polish sculptor Xawery Dunikowski carving clay for a monument to the Silesian insurgents. 02:25:57 CU, the number 744 tattooed on his left arm (from Auschwitz). 02:26:20 Dunikowski chiseling marble with a cigarette. 02:26:38 LS, MS Monument to the Unknown Warrior with guard parading, some ruins in BG. MS, grave covered with flowers. MS, a marble slab fixed on a pillar with the names of the great battles in which Polish soldiers took part in the West. MS, another slab with the names of the German-Russian campaign. MS, soldier parading. 02:28:03 LS, Warsaw with people, trams. LS, Russo...

  18. Zoya Goldberg collection

    Contains a photograph and a one-page memoir of the donor in which she describes her experiences in the Minsk (Soviet Union) ghetto; her deportation on June 30, 1944, to a prison in Poznań (Poland); her transfer to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in September 1944, where she was liberated by the British Army on April 15, 1945; and her postwar return to Minsk.

  19. Bar soap

    The soap was acquired by Frida Goldenberg in Austria from an unknown survivor.

  20. Prayer book

    Prayer book in Hebrew and French originally owned by Meta Poli.