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  1. US anti-Nazi Germany boycott poster stamp with a swastika formed by snakes

    1. Gregg and Michelle Philipson Collection and Archive

    Poster stamp, issued and distributed in 1935 by the American Jewish Congress (AJC). Although they were not valid for postage, poster stamps could be affixed to letters and envelopes as fund-raising, propaganda, and educational tools. The AJC was founded in 1918 by Jewish-American leaders to fight for the civil rights of minorities. During the 1930s, AJC president Rabbi Stephen Wise began speaking out about the dangers of Nazism. The organization led a counter-boycott of German goods in 1933. In 1936, the AJC helped establish the World Jewish Congress (WJC), and acted as a liaison between th...

  2. "Asama Maru" photograph

    1. Malowist family collection

    Contains a group portrait of the passengers of the "Asama Maru," which sailed from Yokahama, Japan to San Francisco, California, arriving on March 6, 1941. Many of the passengers, including Irene Malowist (now Irene Malowist Rothenberg) [donor] and her parents, were European refugees.

  3. Zeilsheim DP Camp

    Life at Zeilsheim DP camp (a small German town converted into a DP center), including a protest march and Robinson family members in various settings. All footage shot in camp. Fay and Alice play in snow, houses in BG. Joseph (born in Zeilsheim on August 25, 1946) in the baby carriage. Children play near house. Children and adults march, carrying flag of Star of David, in celebration of Lag B'Omer. Robinson family, including parents Ephraim and Sarah and children Fay, Alice, and Joseph, walk past sign "Zeilsheim Assembly Center, UNRRA Team." Robinson family entertains visitors. Children pla...

  4. Catalog of works by Salvador Dali representing the Holocaust

    1. Lee and Norma Stern collection

    Catalog of works by Salvador Dali representing the Holocaust. Text by Gerson D. Cohen and letter of introduction by David Ben Gurion.

  5. Fonds Monneray (MDXXXV)

    Records related to Military Tribunal in Nuremburg, the creation of the U.N., work on humanitarian aid and human rights with international organizations, Monneray's work as a jurist, as well as books and articles, and his involvement with the Jewish community.

  6. Wanda Lomazow papers

    1. Wanda Lomazow collection

    The Wanda Lomazow papers consist of identification papers under Wanda Lomazow's married name, maiden name, and false identity; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) employment certificates in Wanda Lomazow's maiden name and false identity; travel permits for Wanda and Jacob Lomazow; the Lomazows' marriage certificate; and a photograph of Wanda Lomazow documenting Wanda Lomazow's survival of the Holocaust under a false identity, her postwar work for the UNRRA at the Wels and Bad Gastein displaced persons camps, her marriage to Jacob Lomazow, and her immigration to t...

  7. Charles Paul Kogel collection

    The Charles Paul Kogel papers include biographical materials and photographs documenting Charles Kogel from Antwerp, Belgium; his prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences in Belgium; his wartime alias in France; and his immigration to the United States in 1952 with his second wife, Sara Kahan, and their son Henry. Biographical materials include military papers, a 1942 letter on behalf of the King of Belgium, false French papers in the name of "Andre Ravaux," Charles and Sara's wedding booklet, a certificate awarding Charles a war medal, a Belgian passport, an American naturalization certifi...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Expulsion and repatriation of Germans from Sudetenland

    Expulsion of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia (3 million). US Zone. Shots of German citizens wearing armbands as identification on the streets of Usti, Sudetenland. Committee of Allied representatives meeting to decide the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. LS members over map on table: Dr. Kuchera, plenipotentiary of the Czechoslovak government; American Col. J.H. Fye, liasion offier; Lt. Col. Messick, executive officer of CAX in Berlin; a Czech doctor; and Czech Col. Monzer, from the Ministery of National Defense. MS same. CU Col. Fye, Kuchera, Messick. CU Kuchera and Fye. CU Me...

  9. Ava Schonberg photographs

    Consists of twelve original photographs and five copies of photographs of Ava Schonberg, her mother Roza, and sisters Celine and Alice, while they were living in wartime Switzerland and in post-war Belgium. Includes photographs of large school gatherings, of Ava alone and with friends, and of the post-war Tiefenbrunner children's home in Antwerp.

  10. Cila Rudashevsky papers

    1. Cila Rudashevsky collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of school children in Vilna, Poland, two song sheets from Poppendorf DP camp, a school certificate from Emden DP camp, identification cards, and certificates documenting passage on the "Exodus 1947" relating to Pola and Shoshana Rudaszewska [donor and donor's mother] and their experiences immediately following the Holocaust. Accretion: collection of photogarphs of preWWII and wartime images of Cila Rudashevsky and her family from the Soviet Union, Vilna, Uzbekistan, and the Leipheim and Emden DP camps

  11. Oral history interview with Miriam Hoffman

    1. Music study collection

    Bret Werb interviews Miriam Hoffman in 1999 about songs she collected in a notebook as a child while living in a displaced person camp in Ulm, Germany. Miriam Hoffman relates her experiences as a ten to twelve year-old child in Hindenburg-Kaserne DP Camp, Ulm, Germany: She describes: Writing or collecting about 62 songs; meeting other children in 1946 and singing with them, informally (not in a choir), in four languages: Polish, Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew; Yiddish becoming the default language between children and parents; singing a wide variety of songs that reflected the national origin...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    In town of Ness Ziona, Arabs and Jews in street, returning from work. The town represents a pure partition scheme, as the left side of road is occupied by Arabs and the right by Jews. 02:13:23 Ben Shemen settlement, a junior agricultural village near Tel Aviv for training young boys in farm work. Boys and girls folk-dancing, playing musical instruments, swimming/diving in pool, editing and printing their own newspaper. 02:15:17 Palestine Orchestra, founded in 1936 by violinist Bronislaw Huberman, in its second season. Under the direction of Issay Dobrowen, conducting the last movement of th...

  13. American OSE Committee (RG 494)

    Records of the American OSE Committee in New York, including correspondence, reports, subject files, materials regarding immigration, OSE Executive Committee and Board of Directors meeting minutes, financial documents, records related to shipments of medical supplies for Jews in the ghettos and in the German-occupied countries during World War II, rehabilitation, emigration, and the care of Jewish refugees and orphans in the post-war period, lists of survivors of World War II, lists of Jewish doctors, lists of Polish physicists, scientists who were murdered, lists of Jewish Polish physician...

  14. Ernst and Hildegard Israel papers

    1. Ernst and Hildegard Israel collection

    The Ernst and Hildegard Israel papers include Ernst’s and Hildegard‘s1943 Shanghai marriage certificate, a 1939 refugee identification card issued to Hildegard Ksinski (Israel) in Shanghai, a 1938 German passport for Ernst Israel, a 1934 invoice on the back of stationery from the Shanghai button factory Ernst managed, and a photograph of Hildegard’s brother, Alfons Cohn, with the Ward Home Kitchen staff in Shanghai.

  15. Jakob Altaras papers

    The Jakob Altaras papers consist of one copy print of a photograph of Jakob Altaras with a group of Jewish refugee children in Split, Croatia just before their departure for Italy in April 1943, two copy prints of a photograph identified as a synagogue in Laubach in 1936, and one copybook that appears to contain copies of business letters written by Max Stein and H. Hirsch Nachfolger in Ruppertsberg (near Laubach) between 1900 and 1920.

  16. Organization of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    Includes title of the film and intertitles. From opening credits of the film (Foreword): "American Jews at the outbreak of the World War in 1914, organized the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to aid the Jewish masses overseas suffering from war, pogroms, famine and pestilence. The following episodes depict the activities in Russia only." Brief shots of Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald, to whose memory the film is dedicated. Stills of other JDC officials and footage of the members of the JDC relief unit sailing for Russia. Dr. Rosen, organizer of Agro-Joint. Scenes of th...

  17. Orphans of Buchenwald; Ex-Prisoners Coming Home

    (LIB 7016) Orphans of Buchenwald, Buchenwald, Germany, June 19, 1945. LS, large crowd at Buchenwald outdoors on hillside. UNRRA official (woman) handing out papers. 03:23:16 01:46:51 Lilly Engelman (from Hungary and previously at Auschwitz) with the bandage on her face, prepares to board the train to Switzerland. Her sisters, Renee and Piri, appear later in this footage. Children at Buchenwald concentration camp are divided into small groups by UNRRA personnel. MS, American military truck taking the orphans to railroad cars. CUs, climbing off truck with belongings/luggage. US soldiers prese...

  18. Sonnenmark family correspondence

    Correspondence between members of the family of Robert Sonnenmark, of Prossnitz, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Prostějov, Czech Republic). Most of the letters are from Robert, while he was imprisoned at Buchenwald, addressed to his wife, Marta and daughter, Miriam in Prossnitz, and dated from October 1939 to March 1940. Many of these letters were forwarded by Marta to her father and brother in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, who added their own comments in the margins and forwarded them to Peter Sonnenmark, the son of Marta and Robert, who was living in Palestine. Other correspondence in...

  19. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note

    1. Michael W. Barnes collection

    Westerbork voucher, value 10 cents, acquired by Michael W. Barnes. This scrip was issued in Westerbork transit camp beginning February 15, 1944. Inmates were not allowed to have currency, which was confiscated. The vouchers [gutschein] were distributed as an incentive for doing work. Netherlands was occupied by Germany in May 1940. The camp, in northeast Holland, was originally set up by the Dutch in 1939 to intern Jewish refugees. In July 1942, the German security police and the SS turned it into a transit camp to hold prisoners before deporting them to concentration camps in the east, whe...

  20. Allied Military Authority currency, 1 mark, for use in Germany, acquired by a German Jewish survivor

    1. Gerhard and Ursula Naumann Maschkowski collection

    Allied Military Authority currency, 1 mark, for use in Germany, acquired by Gerhard Maschkowski, presumably while living in Deggendorf displaced persons camp after the war. Gerhard lived with his parents Arthur and Herta, and brother Siegfried in Elbing, Germany. From 1933, the country was governed by a Nazi dictatorship that persecuted Jews. Siegfried left for Palestine in 1939 and Gerhard was sent to agricultural school. Soon after arrival, Gerhard and the others were sent to Jessenmühle labor camp. In 1941, they were transferred to Neuendorf labor camp. In April 1943, he was deported to ...