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  1. Nazi rally photographs

    Consists of a collection of black and white professional photographs taken at an unidentified Nazi rally (possibly more than one rally). Includes images of parades, ceremonies with speeches, a cookout, and laying memorial wreaths. Most of the images are dated in May 1937, and some of the participants came from Gelnhausen and the Rhön district, and the events may have taken place in Fulda.

  2. Alfons Van San photographs

    Consists of four photographs from the collection of Alfons Van San, who was hidden at the Chateau de Beloeil children's home in Belgium during World War II. The photographs depict groups of boys, including a photograph of a female scout leader with her troop of boys gathered behind her.

  3. Hulda Cassel correspondence collection

    Contains five letters written by Holocaust survivor Hulda Cassel after her liberation from Theresienstadt. She wrote the letters from a refugee camp in Switzerland to her family in Manila between July and December 1945.

  4. Plaut family papers

    Correspondence, affidavits, receipts, business cards, and other related documents, related to the efforts of members of the Plaut family, including Seymour and Estelle Plaut of New York City, Ralph Plaut, of Miami Beach, Florida, Edward Plaut, of Jamaice, NY, and Rutherford Plaut, of Norwich, Connecticut, to help their relatives emigrate from Frankfurt, Germany, between 1938 and 1943. Initially efforts were centered on obtaining visas for Ricka Schaumberg, Karoline Weinberg, and Hannchen Stern, all listed as cousins of the Plauts. Following the deaths of Schaumberg and Weinberg in 1940 and ...

  5. Shalom Cholawski personal archives (RG-95-82) שלום חולבסקי, ארכיון אישי

    Consists of correspondence, articles and drafts related to Cholawsky's research on history of Belorussian Jews during the Holocaust, partisans movement in Belarus, Jewish underground and the Jewish uprising in the ghetto of Nieswicz, including testimonies recorded by residents of the Nieswicz ghetto. Also includes documentations on Holavsky's work as a teacher in the kibbutz ʻEin Hashofet and his activities in United Workers Party (MAPAM), and his testimony at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.

  6. National Investigatory Commission Decree-Law 479/55. Commission 2: Administrative irregularities alleged against the deposed President Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Decreto-Ley 479/55. Comisión 2: Irregularidades administrativas imputadas al Presidente depuesto

    The collection consists of official materials related to the investigation of Peron regime during his second presidency.

  7. "If Not for Him..."

    Consists of one memoir entitled "If Not For Him..." written by Jakob Yovel (Volovelski, now Yaakov Yovel), originally of Pruzhani, Poland (now Belarus). The memoir, originally written in Hebrew in 1945-1946, when Mr. Yovel was a teenager, documents the friendship between Mr. Yovel and Kalman Grossman, their deportation, and their experiences together in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Melk concentration camps. Includes photographs of the original Hebrew text as well as an English language translation of the same.

  8. "Fliegen und Siegen"

    Consists of a set of stereoscopic prints entitled "Fliegen und Siegen" produced by the Raumbild-Verlag Otto Schönstein K.G., which depict scenes, planes, and military officials related to the Luftwaffe. The set includes images 2-100.

  9. Beat the Jew Nazi propaganda handbill encouraging desertion from the Red Army

    Nazi propaganda flier distributed during the German Army's invasion of Soviet controlled Ukraine, beginning in June 1941. Cartoons show Soviet soldiers being shot, beating civilians, and surrendering while the text explains that the Soviet position is hopeless and encourages soldiers to desert the Red Army.

  10. Strafanstalt in Schieratz Prison in Sieradz Zakład karny w Sieradzu (Sygn. 200)

    This collection contains a selection of 507 cases of personal files of Jewish prisoners, who were sentenced for various “crimes” committed during the occupation, and were imprisoned in the prison in Sieradz. Typical reasons for sentencing Jews to prison were: illegally crossing the country border, illegal trade and craft manufacture, illegal slaughter, hiding goods, smuggling into the ghetto, trading foreign currency, and other crimes of economic character, leaving their whereabouts, bribery, falsification of documents, theft, receiving of stolen goods, and beggary. The files contain the fo...

  11. Garden; prewar Zionist youth group

    Color film of park or garden. Flowering trees. Pan up windmill. Dutch flags flying from buildings on a narrow street. Women and children, including Herman and Sarah Vleeschhouwer, play and eat outdoors. Large group gathers to hear Zionist youths with blue and white clothing sing under director, probably in 1938 or 1939 in the Netherlands. Large Zionist flags. Man speaks from podium. More flags. Kids carrying flags and wearing uniforms parade.

  12. Meir Yaari personal archive (RG-95-7) מאיר יערי, ארכיון אישי

    Meir Yaari's (1897-1987) personal archive consists of biographical data, personal documents, certificates, documents and correspondence related to Rzeszów (1921-1987), letters from Vienna (1919-1920), correspondence related to the kibbutz movement, and to kibbutz Merhavia, as well as the United Workers Party (MAPAM).

  14. Aharon Cohen personal archives (RG-95-10) אהרון כהן – ארכיון אישי

    Personal archive of Aharon Cohen (1910-1980) contains reports and correspondence with representatives of Ha Shomer Hatzair Movement in Romania in 1937-1940, also includes the personal notebook related to his mission in Romania in 1947-1948.

  15. Nathan Rapoport personal archives (RG-95-80) נתן רפופורט

    The collection consists of diaries, an interview with Nathan Rapoport conducted by Ellen Kurtz, his biography by Stella Corraine-Lieber, a list of his work, notebooks, newspapers clippings, articles and correspondence. Includes also photographs of the artist's works.

  16. Selected records from the State Archives in Osijek, Croatia

    Records related to the history of the Jewish Community of Osijek, and the Osijek region, Croatia, which includes the towns of Nasice, Donji Miholjac, Čepin, and Baranja county. This collection includes selected records from various archival collections related to the confiscation and nationalization of Jewish property (houses, shops, factories etc.), inventories of Jewish property, petitions of local Jews to free members of their families who are imprisoned in concentration camps (Djakovo, Jacenovac and other), discriminatory orders and decrees of the local municipalities related to the Jew...

  17. Breakstone family letter

    Consists of a photocopy of a typed English-language translation of a letter written to Leah Breakstone and the rest of the Breakstone family after World War II. The letter, originally written in Yiddish by a family member named ‘Toba” (who seems to be a sister of Leah), describes the fate of their family, many of whom perished in October 1941, likely at Ninth Fort in Kovno (Kaunas). The translation was completed on November 13, 1946 by Rabbi Maxi Felshin.

  18. Horringer family correspondence

    Consists of correspondence from members of the family of Ludwig and Dora Horringer Kessler of Vienna, Austria, to distant relatives, the Levy family, in the United States. The correspondence documents the desperation of the Kesslers to leave Europe and the efforts of the Levys (and their relatives) to bring the family to the United States. The correspondence dates from July 1938 to the Kesslers' arrival in New York in March 1939.

  19. Trial of Nazi SS prosecutor in 1950s

    Part of a 1955 documentary about the German trial of an official responsible for the Nazi-era persecution of high-level resistance members including Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hans Oster, Wilhelm Canaris, and others in April 1945. Nazi SS prosecutor Walter Huppenkothen was tried in West Germany in the 1950s and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. He was acquitted of murder and died in 1978.

  20. Ladislaus (Louis) and Friederike Reisz papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence and papers relating to the experiences of Ladislaus (Louis) and Friederike Reisz (donors' parents) from Vienna, Austria and their families before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes birth certificate, academic records from the University of Graz, and letters of reference and other documents related to the career of Ladislaus Reisz as an attorney in Vienna; educational records documenting the training Friederike Kohn (later Reisz) received as a pharmacist; financial records and other materials related to Heinrich and Julie Kohn, including effort...