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  1. Isle of Man collection

    Illustration of one of the detention camps in Douglas., Isle of Man. Stenciled leaf, hand colored. dated in print "Douglas, 1940" at the bottom of the leaf is a handwritten dedication by two brothers whose surname is Gartner - former detainees at the Central Camp in Douglas; in English; dated 1940 Postcard, printed and hand colored for Chanukah, printed at the Mooragh detention camp, Ramsey, Isle of Man, 1940. On recto is an illustration of an eight branched menorah (not a hanukkiah) surrounded with rays of light, in a light blue frame with Stars of David on the corners and the caption "Lig...

  2. Ismail district prefecture and its subordinated preturas and town halls

    • Judeţul Ismail: prefecturile judeţene, subprefecturile plaselor/preturilor şi comunele subordinate
    • Примарии сел Измаильского уезда
    • Primarii sel Izmail'skogo uyezda

    Orders and directives of the Ministry of the Interior on the accounting of property left from the residents evacuated to the Eastern regions of the USSR; orders for the surveillance of religious sects; orders and directives on mobilization for labor duties; correspondence on verification of “trustworthiness” of the residents; correspondence on taxation procedures; guidelines for the restoration of nationality records; registration cards of those deported by the Soviet authorities, etc. The fund contains the following groups of items: Town hall of Giurgiulesti village (1941-1944); Town hall ...

  3. Ismail district prefecture and its subordinated preturas and town halls

    • Judeţul Ismail: prefecturile judeţene, subprefecturile plaselor/preturilor şi comunele subordinate
    • Примарии сел Измаильского уезда
    • Primarii sel Izmail'skogo uyezda

    Orders and resolutions of town halls; correspondence on sanitation; on combating epidemic diseases; reports on the mood of the local residents; orders on the procedure for the exploitation of church lands; correspondence about keeping records of the property of deceased residents; a directive from the Bessarabian governorate on the staffing and replacement of the cooperative personnel by Romanians; complaints of villagers; cases on collecting donations to help Romanian army and the public; correspondence about the administration of property left by the Soviet citizens; orders on the exploit...

  4. Ismar R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ismar R., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. He recounts his father's prosperous business; his normal childhood prior to Nazism; expulsion from public school; attending Jewish school; hiding during Kristallnacht; revocation of his father's citizenship, brief incarceration, and his death; attending an ORT school; work in a munitions factory; sabotage attempts; and hiding with his family. Mr. R. describes numerous instances of assistance from non-Jews; hiding with his mother in different places using false documents; befriending a German girl; his arrest; refusing...

  5. Israel

    Location filming of the desert landscape, cemeteries, the city of Jerusalem, and life at the seashore in Tel Aviv, Israel for SHOAH. FILM ID 3611 -- Tel Aviv. Bor de Mer. Prieres Dizengov People milling about the seaside in Tel Aviv. Camera pans out to show more people on the beach and cars parked on the grass. Two armed soldiers walk by and smile at the camera. 01:01:38 Man holds clapper indicating camera roll 85. People fishing, children look at the camera filming them. Camera pans over beach and shore. Camera focuses in on a mother talking to her young son, then out over the sea and coas...

  6. Israel "Sol" Sokolik papers

    The collection consists of handwritten testimony of the wartime experiences of Israel "Sol" Sokolik, who survived the Holocaust in Slonim (Belarus) in the ghetto and as a partisan. The testimony was used at the 1973 trial of Gerhardt Erren and Lothar Schultz for war crimes committed in Slonim. Also included are two doucments in Polish and Russian.

  7. Israel (Laszlo) Lazar collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of Israel (Laszlo) Lazar. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Israel (Miedzyrzecki) Nahari collection

    The collection consists of a set of tefillin and a tefillin pouch used by Israel Miedzyrzecki (later Nahari) before the Holocaust in Warsaw, Poland, during the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding, and after the Holocaust in Israel.

  9. Israel - home of hope

  10. Israel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel A., who was born in Plotsk (P?ock), Poland in 1925. He relates his family's transfer to the Starachowice ghetto in 1940; the worsening conditions there in 1942; and the action of the Einsatzkommando and subsequent deportation of his parents and brother to Treblinka, while he and his older brother were driven to a factory which comprised the Starachowice concentration camp. He tells of the brutal conditions in the camp (he later testified against its gestapo head at the Frankfurt war crimes trials) where, eluding selections and mass murders, he remained until th...

  11. Israel and Ben Gurion

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: MS of a man. Negev, barracks, people eating. Ben Gurion and a man. Stills of young Ben Gurion. Interview with Ben Gurion. Plowing with horse, VS tilling, sowing, reaping, working the land. Rowboats, people on shore. Laying pipe with crane. More of interview with Ben Gurion. Camp footage, interview continues. Ben Gurion proclaims state (no sync-voiceover). Cheering crowd, children circle with flags, tank plows through building, digging trenches. Ben Gurion inspecting troops, Navy marching, Army marching, women soldiers marching. Graves. Gates of Israel op...

  12. Israel and Shalom L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel L., who was born in Subotica, Yugoslavia in 1936 and his brother Shalom L., who was born in 1940. They recall their extended family; their orthodoxy; their father's compulsory service in a Hungarian slave labor battalion; moving to Budapest with their mother and sisters; living with their maternal grandparents; forced relocation; being placed with the Kasztner group due to their grandfather's and cousin's influence; deportation from the Dohany synagogue to Bergen-Belsen via Linz; remaining with the group which received better treatment; transfer to Saint Gall, ...

  13. Israel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel B., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1925, the eldest of two children. He recalls participating in Hashomer Hatzair; his father's death in 1936; his uncles paying for him to attend a Jewish gymnasium; finding ways to help support his family, including singing in the main synagogue choir; summer vacations with his grandmother in Malech; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; his mother removing his star and sending him to her brothers in Warsaw, hoping he would survive; learning they had left; joining his grandmother and other relatives in Soviet-oc...

  14. Israel Barzilai personal archives (RG-95-15), ישראל ברזילי

    Personal archives of Israel Barzilai (1913-1970) contains letters, personal documents, reports on his mission in France during WWII, council's meetings, lectures, speeches, records related to Israeli government and Knesset elections, papers on operation "Sinai" and afterwards.

  15. Israel Beider collection

    Correspondence, poetry and writings of Israel Beider, in Hebrew and Yiddish. Handwritten or published in the Hebrew and Yiddish press in Poland before the war.

  16. Israel Berkenwald memoir

    Consists of a 5 page handwritten memoir by Israel Berkenwald, formerly of Łódź, Poland, concerning his experiences during the Holocaust and the fates of his loved ones.

  17. Israel Donner collection

    Consists of black and white photographs: 1) Israel Donner and Shimon Schipper standing on a balcony, wearing camp uniforms; 2) a group of young people standing in front of a tent with "1933 in a camp" on verso; 3) group of youths walking along a road with "Jewish sport club, Antwerp" on verso; 4) a group of young people standing behind a table-tennis table with "Jewish sport club" on verso; 5) a arge group of youths with "Jewish sport club, Antwerp" on verso; 6) portrait of the Donner family; 7) a group portrait of children.

  18. Israel Elefant papers

    The papers consist of two postcards sent to Israel Elefant in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, from a family member, Ch. Zylberberg, in Stopnica, Poland.

  19. Israel Ellen collection

    Contains materials donated by Israel Ellen. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  20. Israel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel F., who was born in the United States in 1913. He recounts his experiences as a United States soldier trained as a bacteriologist in the medical corps. He shares his recollections of liberated Weimar; the odor of the boxcars containing prisoners who had been bound for Buchenwald; the history of the camp; and the prisoners' self-liberation. He describes the condition and activities of the liberated prisoners, including some children, when he arrived three days later; and the denial of local citizens who were forced to visit Buchenwald. Mr. F. tells of the nation...