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  1. Private papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (A440)

    Personal papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (1904-1992). The collection consists of articles, notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscript and narrations of Eva Michaelis-Stern concerning her work for the Youth Aliyah in Germany and England; correspondence between Eva Michaelis-Stern and various people, mainly private; agreement between Michaelis-Stern and war veterans organization; newspaper articles, pictures and letters, notes, various booklets, guides and printed material from the Keren Hayesod, the Central Zionist Archives and the Council for Social Services and Voluntarism, inclu...

  2. Prayer book

    Prayer book given to David Bajer, 25, on a 1947 trip to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He went inside a synagogue and the rabbi gave him a set of tefillin to use and to keep and David picked up this prayer book as well. David was the only survivor from a very devout family from Kozienice, Poland. Although he lost faith in Judaism during the Holocaust, he kept this siddur with him as a talisman for seventy years. He decided to donate the book to the Museum, but brought the book to the Museum for three weeks in a row before he finally had the courage to donate it on May 31, 2017. Kozienice was occup...

  3. Gestapo Brno (B 340)

    Investigative and arrest files as well administrative records of the Gestapo Brno. The investigative and arrest files concern mostly Czech individuals arrested on a variety of charges such as making anti-German remarks, listening to foreign radio broadcasts, sabotage, malingering, anti-social behavior, possession of arms, miscegenation, and other charges. The records also contain documentation pertaining to Gestapo actions against Czech resistance groups and Jews, the disbandment of Czech organizations, the confiscation of properties and assets, and situation reports including from Czech in...

  4. Elisabeth Eidenbenz papers Nachlass Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011)

    Private papers of Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011), a teacher, nurse, and aid worker for refugees in the camps of Argelès-sur-Mer, Saint Cyprien, and Rivesaltes, France and in other places. The collection consists of private personal documents, correspondence and photographs of Elisabeth Eidenbenz and her family; reports, press articles, correspondence, and photographs relating to activities of Elisabeth Eidenbenz to rescue children of Spanish Republicans, Jewish refugees and Romanies fleeing the Nazi invasion. Elisabeth Eidenbenz was a founder of the Mothers of Elne-a maternal hospital at E...

  5. Notice to ghetto residents to turn over all jewelry

    Notice to residents of Łódź Ghetto that they must turn in all their jewelry. It was issued by Mordechai Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat [Jewish Council] that administered the Ghetto for the German occupation authorities..Łódź was occupied by Germany a week after the September 1, 1939, invasion of Poland. It was renamed Litzmannstadt and, in February 1940, the Jewish population, about 160,000 people, was confined to a small sealed off ghetto. Due to the severe overcrowding and scarce food, disease and starvation were common. In January 1942, mass deportations to Chelmno killing center be...

  6. Jordan family collection

    Collection of photographs relating to the Jordan family from Miskolc, Hungary. Gyula Itzhak Jordan (b. Nov. 30, 1895) and his wife Aranka Zeisler Jordan (b. January 29, 1904), parents of Judit, (b. June 13, 1929). The Jordan family moved to Budapest in 1932, where Judit attended Scottish missionary Burgerschule, but in September 1943 she was transferred to a Jewish Gymnasium. In March 1944, with German invasion of Hungary, Jewish children were not allowed to attend school. The Jordan family had to move to a building marked with a Star of David. Gyula worked in the basement of the building, ...

  7. Magnus and van Oosten families papers

    The Magnus and van Oosten family papers consist of correspondence, certificates, printed material, and photographs, related to the experiences of the extended family of Sary Melles (née Magnus) during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. The collection includes correspondence from her brother, Ibertus Magnus, written shortly before and during his imprisonment by the Germans, first in Assen, the Netherlands, and then at Buchenwald, as well as a notification of his death and a death certificate. Also included is a brochure that documents the jazz band that he performe...

  8. Helen and Willie Abraham photograph collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Helen Abraham (born Hencia Wagner) of Dąbrowica Mała, Leżajsk, Poland in the Ainring displaced persons camp and Willie Abraham of Vel'ky Rakovec, Czechoslovakia (present day Velykyi Rakovets, Zakarpat'ska Oblast, Ukraine) in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp. Included are photographs of Helen at Ainring and the munitions factory in Menden, Germany where she worked under a false identity; a letter written to Helen from her brother David Wagner in 1943 while he was in hiding before he was discovered and murdered by the Gestapo; photogr...

  9. Deportation of Dresden Jews to Hellerberg

    Text: "Zusammenlegung der letzten Juden in Dresden in das Lager am Hellerberg am 23./24. November 1942.""[Last Jews in Dresden into the camp at Hellerberg on 23/24 November 1942] Text: "Abholen des Gepäcks” [Pick up the luggage]. Street sign "Sporer-Gasse". House number 2, full garbage cans, windows with curtains 10:00:48 Entrance to the house, men in civilian clothes, Gestapo, furnishings are being loaded onto a truck, Jews with star of David carry the tables, chairs, bookshelves, sewing machines (a woman with an umbrella walks through the picture). 10:01:41 Suitcases with inscriptions loa...

  10. The Court of Appeal in Warsaw Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie (Sygn. 1602)

    Collection consists of records of criminal cases related to collaboration with the German authorities and the police, which were tried in post-war Poland. Cases relate to criminal activities against Jews and Poles such as participation in the roundups, pacifications, deportations and executions, denunciations of Jews, collaboration with the Gestapo, blackmailing Jews, requisitioning of property, surveillance and other crimes.

  11. Remains of Lidice in June 1942

    Lidice, June 10-24, 1942. This film was made by Czech filmmakers for the newsreel "Aktualita" and discovered in a secret German archive in Prague in 1945. It documents the immediate aftermath of the Lidice tragedy, where 173 men were murdered and the town was set on fire by members of the Gestapo from Kladno and Prague. Section 6 of the RAD was summoned to remove all external evidence of this Nazi crime and was housed in nearby barracks. SS officers and the leader of the Kladno Gestapo, Wiesmann, can be seen in the footage. Two Czech filmmakers were already in Lidice on June 10, 1942. The m...

  12. John (Hans) Buchsbaum papers

    Correspondence, documents, photographs, and typescript memoir, of John (Hans) Buchsbaum (1910-1988), originally of Ostrava, Czech Republic, relating primarily to his experiences following his immigration to first Britain, and then the United States in 1939-1941, and to the experiences of his family in Europe during the Holocaust. Includes correspondence from his mother, Clara Buchsbaum, his sister and brother-in-law, Gretel and Hugo Spitzer, and his uncle, Norbert Babad, 1939-1941. Also included are pre-war family photographs, correspondence with tracing services following the war seeking t...

  13. Huguette Frank papers

    The collection primarily contains documents, correspondence, and photographs that document the wartime experiences of Huguette Salomon Frank of Paris, France in Marseille, France; Drancy transit camp; Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp; Ravensbrück concentration camp; and one of the Bunzlau subcamps of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Included are some photographs and documents relating to the pre-war lives of the Salomon family, and Huguette’s post-war life with her husband Werner Frank.

  14. Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres papers

    The collection contains correspondence, identification papers, photographs, testimonies, and restitution claims documenting the experiences of Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres in Poland, Lithuania, and Italy during the Holocaust, and their post-war experiences in Italy prior to immigrating to Canada. Included are papers regarding their time as displaced persons in Bari, Italy; and their work with the Joint Distribution Committee; their immigration to Canada; testimonies; and restitution claims. The restitution papers also reflect Regina's attempts to reclaim funds from a Swiss bank that her f...

  15. Tajna Policja Państwowa. Oddział w Sieradzu Selected records of the Secret State Police. Branch in Sieradz Geheime Staatspolizei. Aussendienststelle Schieratz (Sygn. GK 707),

    This collection contains instructions, correspondence, minutes and reports on searching for escaped prisoners of war, deserters and criminals (events of "special importance”). The records relate to religious matters and persecution of Jews, anti-German offences, the transport of detainees to concentration camps, hostile attitudes towards Germans, avoidance of work, refusals to sign Volksliste, sabotage, assaults, the resistance movement, passport matters and prisoners of war.

  16. Roth family papers

    Consists of photographs and documents related to the Roth family, originally of Kraków, Poland. Includes photographs depicting life in the Liebenau and Vittel internment camps (including of poet Yitzhak Katzenelson in Vittel) and biographical materials. The bulk of the collection documents the family's immigration to the United States in 1944, attempts to prove that Chaskiel Roth was born in the United States, repayment for their voyage, and the threat of deportation after the war.

  17. Selected records from State Archives in Warsaw and its branches in Otwock, Mława, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Pułtusk and State Archives in Płock

    Contains selected records from the State Archives in Warsaw and its branches: The training materials for police officers concerning the Jewish Youth organization, 1939-1943; Resolutions of the City Council, 1915-1919; Correspondence and the lists of registered associations, circulars, announcement.; Records of Jewish organizations and Judenrat (Jewish councils); Books of tenants in various regions of Otwock and other places; The questionnaires about the course of the war activities in the municipality in 1939-1945. Lists of population loss, 1946; Opening protocols of mass graves of Poles mu...

  18. Selected records of the Auxiliary Police. Battalion No 202 Kraków Schutzmannschaft Bataillon 202 Kraków (Sygn.GK 658)

    This collection contains personnel files of Polish police officers assigned to the Auxiliary Police Battalion No 202 P in Kraków and serving in the practice camp in Kochanówka near Debica.

  19. Theodor Kleinsorge papers

    The collection primarily documents the arrest of Theodor Kleinsorge, originally of Laßbruch, Germany, as a non-Jewish political enemy of the Nazis in July 1944; his deportation to the Dachau concentration camp in September 1944; and his death in Dachau in February 1945. Wartime materials include documentation about his arrest and deportation sent to Theodor’s wife, Ruth Kleinsorge; correspondence from Theodor and Ruth to Theodore’s mother Elise Kleinsorge; one letter written to Ruth from Theodor while imprisoned at Dachau; and several family photographs. Biographical material includes ident...

  20. Selected records of the city Żyrardów Akta miasta Żyrardowa (Sygn. 2)

    This collection contains selected records of the city Żyrardów in Poland, e.g. registers of permanent inhabitants and houses, birth certificates, circular letters and other documents issued by the German authorities (1940-1943); witness testimonies relating to the crimes committed by the Gestapo and gendarmerie; documents relating to the changing of surnames, social welfare in the wartime including a list of victims, and documents of the WWII Committee of the Exhumation of those Murdered by the Nazis.