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  1. Iteld family papers

    The collection contains correspondence, identification and immigration papers, and photographs documenting the Iteld family’s pre-war life in Brańsk, Poland, and their immigration to the United States in 1938. Included are immigration cards and documents, an autograph book, passport, and a day planner from 1938. Also included are prewar and wartime photographs documenting the Iteld and Shereshefsky families in Brańsk and the United States. Many of the photographs are annotated on the back with identifications of relatives and friends.

  2. Items of the Belgian police force. Collection

    This collection consists of: the uniform (trousers, belt, jacket and cap) worn by the Mechelen police corps in 1931-1951 (probably the Interbellum); a war-time white helmet worn by the Antwerp police corps; a black helmet worn by the Antwerp police corps from the First World War until 1942; a white helmet worn by the Deurne police corps from 1942 until the 1960s; a cap introduced by the German occupying authorities and worn by the Antwerp police corps in 1940-1944; a file with documents on the Mobile Police Brigade in Mechelen, 1943-1944.

  3. Itka Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itka Z., who was born in Ciechano?w, Poland in 1926. She recalls antisemitic harassment; German invasion on September 1, 1939; anti-Jewish measures; Germans beating her mother; transfer with her family to the Nowe Miasto ghetto in 1941; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family (she never saw them again); meaningless slave labor; shock at learning her family had been gassed; assistance from a friend from home; vowing to remain together; public hangings; a death march and train transport to Ravensbru?ck in January 1945; transfer to Malchow in February; slave...

  4. Itta Keller Ben-Haiem collection

    Collection consists of 46 photographs of Itta Keller and her family in Stary Sambor, Poland (now Staryĭ Sambir, Ukraine) before the war, in Lvov, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) during the war while in hiding, and after the war. Testimony of Tadeusz Kobylko, a Polish man, who hid Itta and her maternal aunt during the Holocaust. Letters and documents illustrating donor's family's experiences during the war in Poland.

  5. Itta Shvartsur photograph

    Black and white image of a woman, man and child standing together outside; verso, black ink inscription, "Itta Shvartsur/1959."

  6. Itta W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itta W., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1927. She recounts her family's emigration to Brussels in 1928; her brother's birth when she was five; a happy childhood; attending a music academy; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Tournai; anti-Jewish restrictions; a non-Jewish friend offering to marry her to save her from deportation; their sham marriage; hiding briefly in the Ardennes, then with her brother in her "husband's" apartment (her parents hid elsewhere); visiting her parents once; arrest; transfer to Malines in June 1943...

  7. Itzcak D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzcak D., who was born in Corfu, Greece in 1929, one of four children. He recounts his family's poverty; speaking Italian at home; his older brother's death; attending Greek and Hebrew school; visiting Athens with his father; benign Italian occupation in 1941; German invasion; fleeing briefly to Kamára; round-up of all Jews; their ship transfer to Lefkáda, Patrai, then Piraeus; imprisonment; transport by cattle cars from Athens to Birkenau; singing for extra food; a beating for smuggling food to his father; slave labor; public hangings; observing cannibalism; trans...

  8. Itzchak H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzchak H., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1929, the sixth of seven children. He recounts his family's Hasidism; attending cheder and public school; his family's Zionism; his mother' death in 1938; German invasion; ghettoization; living with his younger sister in a children's home starting in June 1940; a Zionist leader, Shalom K., giving them hope; returning with his sister to his family in October 1942; obtaining food for his family; many deaths from hunger and disease; being slapped by Mordecai Rumkowski, head of the ghetto, when asking for food for his brother;...

  9. Itzchak M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzchak M., who was born in Kelmė, Lithuania in 1932. He recalls his rabbinical ancestry; his father's position as a Jewish bank director; attending a Tarbut Yiddish school with his older sister until 1941; German invasion; fleeing as the city and their home burned; forced location to a nearby village; his father's incarceration; visiting him once (he never saw him again); placement with his sister at the end of a line for a mass shooting; Lithuanian women, including their former maid, taking about fifteen of the children; living with the maid (his sister stayed with...

  10. Itzchak S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzchak S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1915. He recounts his father's military service in World War I; attending public and Jewish schools; bar mitzvah; participating in Jewish and Zionist youth groups; antisemitic harassment; traveling to Amsterdam; his mother joining him; founding a Zionist youth group; returning to Berlin to obtain a certificate to emigrate to Palestine (his mother remained); establishing a Youth Aliyah center in Cologne; improvements during the 1936 Olympics; teaching at a Jewish school in Herrlingen; returning to Berlin; obtaining false p...

  11. Itzchak S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzchak S., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia), in 1921, one of five children. He recounts attending Jewish and public schools; participating in Hashomer Hatzair, then Betar; increasing antisemitism in the late 1930s; working as an accountant; anti-Jewish legislation; his family's eviction; one brother's deportation to a labor camp; draft into a Jewish forced labor brigade (Sixth Battalion) in 1941; visits home and to his brother, who was incarcerated in Sered; postings to Svätý Jur, Trenčín, and Dubnitsa; twenty-one days in prison whe...

  12. Itzchak Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzchak Y., who was born in Białystok, Poland in 1926, the younger by sixteen years of two children. He recalls attending a Taḥkemoni school; his family's orthodoxy; participating in a Zionist youth group; attending summer camp in Płatkownica in 1938; antisemitic harassment by children; Soviet occupation in September 1939; German invasion in June 1941; witnessing the main synagogue set on fire with hundreds of Jews inside; ghettoization; working at several jobs; his sister, who was blond, trading possessions outside the ghetto for food; hiding with his family during ...

  13. Itzhak D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzhak D., who was born in Vilna, Russia (presently Vilnius, Lithuania) in 1916, one of five children. He recounts participating in Hashomer Hatzair with Abba Kovner; Soviet occupation; working with the writer Szmerke Kaczerginski; German invasion; anti-Jewish violence; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; forced labor in a military fuel depot outside the ghetto; selling stolen fuel to purchase food; escaping; hiding with a German guard who had befriended him in the fuel depot; sneaking back into the ghetto; hiding with his family during the liquidation; capture; t...

  14. Itzhak Giterman collection

    Contains records relating to the German occupation of France, Poland, and the Soviet Union. Subjects include activities of the Wehrmacht, the transport of Jews from France, and the establishment of German communities in the occupied territories in the East.

  15. Itzhak Karpman photograph collection

    The Itzhak Karpman collection consists of photographs of Itzhak Karpman and his work with Hashomer Hatzair, Hashomer Haleumi, and Hanoar Hatzioni, and his work in hachsharot in Poland; and his life in Palestine after emigrating there in 1936.

  16. The Itzhak Katzenelson Collection

    The collection contains the works of poet and educator Itzhak Katzenelson, based on periods in his life and crucial events from the early 20th C. through and including the Holocaust. Materials include manuscripts of plays, prose works, and poetry; his correspondence with figures in the spheres of culture, education and literature; his letters to family members; and more. Scope: The collection has four chronological divisions: (a) his pre-war writings and correspondence; (b) his Warsaw ghetto works; (c) his Vittel camp works; (d) correspondence about the fate of Katzenelson and about his wr...

  17. Itzhak Mayer papers

    The collection consists of Holocaust-era documents and photographs of Itzhack Mayer (born Peter Trebitsch) and his family in Hungary. Documents include an immigration certificate from Hungary to Israel for Itzhack’s aunt Eva Trebitsch; a receipt for services provided from Magyarországi Zsidók Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottság (DEGOB), a national relief committee for Hungarian Jewish deportees, to Itzhack’s cousin Josef Lengyel; and a proof of residence document for Itzhack’s aunt Aranka Trebitsch. Photographs include depictions of Itzhack’s aunt and uncle, Margit and Marcus Tre...

  18. Itzhak Nachmani papers

    The Itzakh Nachmani papers include two diaries Nachmani composed in 1942 and 1943 describing his family’s escape from Poland, his internment in a Soviet labor camp, his release into the Polish Army, and his service in Palestine, Egypt, and Iraq; a misdated Palestine Identity Card issued to Nachmani; and photographs depicting Nachmani and his Rumpler and Krzepicki relatives in Poland before the war and in Israel after the war as well as with fellow soldiers in Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine during the war. Itzakh Nachmani began his diaries on August 4, 1942, during his military service in Palest...

  19. Itzhak R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzhak R., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland (then Russia) in approximately 1915, one of three children. He recalls his father's prominent role as a leader in the Jewish community; his family's affluence; his three-day bar mitzvah celebration; obtaining documents to emigrate to Palestine; remaining with his family due to his father's illness; working in a bank; German invasion; fleeing with his brother to ?owicz, then Warsaw; their return home; working with the Judenrat chairman, H?ayim Rumkowski, whom he had previously known; ghettoization; working at various jobs for t...