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  1. The Archives of the Jewish Community of Ecuador

    Contains records of various Jewish communities and Jewish organizations in Ecuador. Includes records of the laws and constitution of Ecuador mainly dealing with immigration regulations, minutes and reports of the Board of Directors, correspondence with and between community members and Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress and other organizations, lists of community members, commemoration books, circulars, photographs of various festivities, reports and invitations from the B'nai B'rith Lodges in Asuncion, Bogota, Caracas, Havana, La Paz, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Pa...

  2. Star of David badge with the letter J. acquired by a US pilot

    Star of David badge acquired by Ben Grobman, a US Army glider pilot, in Belgium.

  3. Lloyd Adler photograph collection

    Photographic prints: black and white images which document the Nordhausen concentration camp after liberation; includes images of victims, reburial and forced confrontation of atrocities; some American soldiers visible in background of photos; inscribed on verso by Sgt. Lloyd Adler; dated April 1945.

  4. Arnold Lissance family papers

    Typescript copy and translations of the memoirs of Moses Lissiansky (1872-1943), describing his life in pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Russia, originally written in Austria in the 1930s, as well as translations and summaries of correspondence that his son, Arnold Lissance, had received from his family in Austria after his own immigration to the United States in the 1930s. Also contains documents produced at the Nuremberg Trials and collected by Lissance during his time working as a translator at the trials, including materials related to the Ministries Trial (Case XI), as well as mimeo...

  5. The Demjanjuk Trial (Series 31.0/23) The hearings in the District Court of Jerusalem

    Correspondence, minutes of meetings and court hearings, judicial inquiries, evidences based primarily on survivor identifications, from the File 373/86 State of Israel, against John (Ivan) Demjanjuk. The trial opened in Jerusalem on February 16, 1987, before a special tribunal comprising Israeli Supreme Court Judge Dov Levin and Jerusalem District Court Judges Zvi Tal and Dalia Dorner. The Israeli court convicted Demjanjuk on April 25, 1988, and sentenced him to death. John (Iwan) Demjanjuk was the defendant in four different court proceedings relating to crimes that he committed while serv...

  6. Prosecution of Nazi criminals Stíhání nacistických válečných zločinců (325)

    Records from various archives relating to investigation on Nazi crimes. Consists of testimonies of witnesses in trials against the guards of concentration camps: Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, and Sachsenhausen. Also includes photographs of Nazi criminals and their victims, children’s photographs from Lidice, and other photographs of Nazi crimes.

  7. Zaifman family photograph

    Framed portrait of the Zaifman family from Łódź, Poland. Sigmond Zaifman is standing in the rear to the right of his sister. Inscriped on verso of the frame: "Zaifman family from Łódź, Poland/Victims of the Holocaust's 'ethnic cleansing'/Ziggy Zaifman, right rear, survived."

  8. Ration card

    Ration card issued to Helene Wiesenberg, March 1945.

  9. Ruth Fischel correspondence

    Consists of one folder of correspondence between Ruth Fischel in Melbourne, Australia, and her distant relatives, Hermine Schwartz of Philadelphia, PA, and Annette Asher, of Atlanta, GA. In the letters, dated between 1947-1949, Ruth explained her family's Holocaust experiences, including the death of relatives in the Holocaust, her escape with her husband to Shanghai, life in wartime Shanghai, and receiving confirmation, in 1948, that her children had also been killed in the Holocaust. The letters also detail the Fischels' immigration to the United States in 1949.

  10. Carl Lutz commemorative material

    Consists of a first-issue commemorative stamp and envelope, issued on September 29, 1999, featuring Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz. Also includes a post-war photographic print portrait of Lutz, and a printed program for a ceremony at George Washington University, dated March 3, 2014, at which Lutz was posthumously honored with the University's President's Medal for his work in Budapest in 1944.

  11. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  13. Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 100 kronen note, issued in German occupied Czechoslovakia

    Occupation currency note, valued at 100 kronen, issued in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1940. Germany occupied these Czech provinces in March 1939, and created the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as part of the Greater German Reich. The Czech garrison town of Theresienstadt (Terezin) was located within the Protectorate near the extended German border.

  14. Records of the City of Częstochowa Akta miasta Częstochowy (Sygn.1)

    This collection consists of selected records created before and during the WWII in Częstochowa, Poland by the President and executive authorities of the Town Hall (1918-1939), and by the Municipal Government (Stadtverwaltung) headed by the Municipal Starost (Stadthauptman) (1939-1944). Consists also of books listing information about the inhabitants of Częstochowa (1870-1930). The pre-war records refer to the social, cultural, economic and religious life of the Jewish community in Częstochowa, for example: sport activities, schools, charity, social welfare and hospitals. Includes a list of ...

  15. Municipal Government and Municipal Council in Częstochowa Zarząd Miejski i Miejska Rada Narodowa w Częstochowie (Sygn. 2)

    Contains situation reports, correspondence, and reports relating to the Kielce pogrom of July 4, 1946, as well as attempts to organize anti-Jewish riots in Częstochowa where two persons were shot. The majority of materials includes situation reports, materials of the Jewish Committee of 1945, records relating to the establishment of the Religious (Mosaic) Association, lists of Polish and Jewish children in orphanages (1940-1947), correspondence related to mass graves and war crimes and restitution of estate property and enterprises.

  16. Selected records of the district of Grodzkie Częstochowskie Starostwo Grodzkie Częstochowskie (Sygn.3)

    This collection contains selected records, correspondence, reports, registers and minutes related to activities of the World Socialist Union of Jewish Workers-Po'alei Zion ("Poale-Sjon") in Częstochowa, the matters of foreigners, such as public order and registers, the Jewish religious community, including correspondence, minutes of the community sessions, financial reports, fees for ritual slaughter and ritual baths, a list of community members, and payments of membership fees in 1938. There are also files of Jewish craft guilds operating in Częstochowa: tinsmiths and roofers, tailors, fur...

  17. Dr. John Karabin collection

    Consists of photographs and glass slides of images taken by Dr. John Karabin, a member of the United States Army attached to the 91st/93rd Evacuation Hospital who participated in the liberation of Dachau. The images depict the Dachau hospital, corpses, the Dachau death train, and the area surrounding the camp.

  18. German Army procurement documents

    Collection of German Army procurement invoices; used by the Wehrmacht to track shipment of various parts to Cambrai, France; all stamped in upper right corner "Dienststelle Feldpostnummer L 08 723, Luftgaupostamt, Bruessel" (Brussels).

  19. Print

    Large envelope for a folio of a set of reproductions of eight lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  20. Whip

    William Weinberg, a member of Company B, 15th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Division, took the whip in April 1945 from a German man who was presumably a Dachau concentration camp guard.