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  1. Tadeusz Sarnecki and Ewa Sarnecka papers

    The Tadeusz Sarnecki and Ewa Sarnecka papers include false identification and labor papers for Tadeusz Sarnecki and Ewa Sarnecka under the aliases Kazimierz Hutecki and Regina Cybulska and a book of poetry titled Z Otchłani published by Tadeusz Sarnecki under the alias Jan Wajdelota including contributions by Sarnecki, Mieczysław Jastrun, Michał Borwicz, Czesław Miłosz, and Jan Kott.

  2. Selected records from the State Archive of Venice

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the community of Venice.

  3. Ajlkichen and Fleichaker families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Ajlkichen family of Brussels, Belgium, including the efforts of Kiwa Ajlkichen and his wife, Tcharna Fleichaker, to hide their children Roza and François, and the deportation of their daughter, Dora, in 1942 and her murder at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Documents include identification papers, a Polish passport, correspondence, a family book, a personal narrative describing Roza’s experiences, and material related to the family’s effort to learn the fate of Dora. Photographs include prewar family photographs of the Ajlkiche...

  4. Selected records of commune Helenów Akta gminy Helenów (Sygn 59)

    Consists of correspondence of the Department of Municipal Economy, the lists of companies, properties and their owners, records of population in commune Helenów including a register of Romanies in 1949, and a register of properties in Podkowa Leśna.

  5. Selected records of Grodzisk Mazowiecki commune Akta gminy Grodzisk Mazowiecki (Sygn. 19)

    Consists of the book inventory with the list of inhabitants of the Grodzisk Mazowiecki commune in Poland.

  6. Selected records of the commune in Guzów Akta gminy Guzów (Sygn.5)

    Book inventory of the municipality Guzów in Poland: Contains the inventory of property and financial spending of commune Guzów, 1928-1936.

  7. Selected records of commune Radzików Akta gminy Radzików (Sygn. 85)

    Consists of correspondence, lists of war graves, cemeteries and abandoned property.

  8. Selected records of of the commune Zaborów Akta gminy Zaborów (Sygn. 58)

    Contains office correspondence and German ordinances related to Jewish properties and businesses, relocations of Jews and Romanies, and statistics of the commune population.

  9. Selected records of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki Akta gminy Żyrardów-Wiskitki (Sygn. 3)

    Consists of selected records of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki, Poland, e.g. registers of foreigners; files on inhabitants of Teklinów, Feliksów, Henryków, Kozłowice, Ruda Guzowska and Wiskitki; a list of 937 Jews from Wiskitki, 1937-1940; various correspondence of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki; registers of homeowners; birth and death certificates; records of the "Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy" in Wiskitki, 1941-1942; records of Jewish community in Wiskitki; records of Judenrat and registers of Jews permitted to travel, 1940; correspondence relating to Jewish Holocaust survivors, reco...

  10. Haber family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Haber family of Vienna, Austria including Fritz Haber (Fred), who emigrated from Vienna, Austria with Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus, an American couple who negotiated the American immigration of fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Vienna in May, 1939. Included are photographs and clippings of Fritz and the other children documenting their trip on board the SS President Harding and arrival to the United States; identification papers of Fritz’s parents Joseph and Grete Haber; education and employment papers of Joseph; documents of...

  11. Four Freedoms postal cover

    Envelope, first-day issue of envelope and stamps commemorating the "Four Freedoms." "Freedom of Speech and Religion, Freedom from Want and Fear" hand-cancelled on February 12, 1943. Envelope bears silk-screened imagery and four stamps in upper right corner bearing repeated statement "Freedom of Speech and Religion…" as well as postage-sized photograph of the Statue of Liberty and world flags and statement "The United Nations Fight For Freedom," addressed to Jack Middleton in Hubbard, Ohio.

  12. Londner family collection

    Collection of documents, identification cards, and correspondence relating to Gedalia Londner (b. 1912 in Bedzin, Poland) and his wife Maria Mania Silbiger (b. 1918 in Oświęcim, Poland). The collection includes correspondence regarding reparations; a certificate stating that Mr. Londner was a Polish citizen; a certificate stating that Mr. Londner was a political refugee; a Ketubah of their wedding, dated March 12, 1948; a German ID issued to Maria Silbiger (later Londner) dated February 1947; and a UN certificate for Mr. Londner.

  13. Rosa Wicygster collection

    Contains postcards written by Rosa Wincygster (donor's paternal grandmother) in Busko Zdroj and Warsaw, Poland to her husband, Chaim Hermann Wincygster (later Winchester) who managed to escape from German occupied Poland, first to Italy and later to Tangier, Morocco. Rosa Wincygster stayed in Poland with her youngest son Benjamin (b. 1926) while her daughter Gusta survived in the USSR and her son Marek, who studied textile engineering in Belgium, managed to reach England in 1940. Rosa and Benjamin Wincygster were most probably deported from the Busko Zdroj ghetto to the Treblinka death camp...

  14. 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.

  16. Oral history interview with Abraham Veder

  17. Life (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    Consists of one "Life" magazine, dated October 19, 1942, containing a poem entitled "The Murder of Lidice" by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

  18. Rabbi David Eliach collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the "Teheran Children," a group of approximately seventy observant children out of a group of 861 Jewish orphans, who were placed in the "Motza" children's agricultural colony under the leadership of David Eliach.

  19. Terkeltaub and Erlich families collection

    Contains documents, photographs and correspondence illustrating the Turkeltaub and Erlich families in Łódź, Poland before the war; the Łódź Ghetto during the war; and the Fohrenwald displaced persons camp. Most documents concern Marila and Suche Erlich (donor's parents).

  20. Sendzischew and Mottes family papers

    The Sendzischew and Mottes family papers primarily contain biographical papers, restitution claims, and photographs of Holocaust survivors David and Sala Sendzischew of Sosnowiec, Poland. The biographical papers are chiefly identification papers, marriage certificates, and immigration and naturalization documents. Also included is a testimonial statement from Sala, and letter to her from a soldier who helped her during the war. The photographs include family members and friends of the Sendzischew and Mottes families; David, Sala, and Israel Jacob Sendzischew; a photograph album of the famil...