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  1. Oral history interview with Felix van Beek

  2. Ehrenreich family papers

    Documents relating to the Ehrenreich family who fled Nazi Germany; includes a family photograph from the turn of the century, a family tree for the Levi-Berlinger-Ellinger family; two letters to Dr. Phil N. Ehrenreich about completing a family tree; naturalization certificates for Frieda and Nathan Ehrenreich from 1945; and a death certificate for Nathan Ehrenreich dated April 28, 1966.

  3. Doctor's bag

  4. Helena Bielska Himelfarb papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence, identification papers, affidavits, travel papers, photostatic copies, and a pamphlet which document the experiences of Helena Bielska Himelfarb, her husband Solomon Himelfarb (donor's parents), and her efforts to immigrate to and legally stay in the United States after WWII.

  5. Witelson and Laks families collection

    The Witelson and Laks families collection includes biographical materials related to Hela Witelson (later Helen Laks) and Richard Laks. The collection includes the Swedish marriage certificate of Hela Witelson and Richard Laks, February 23, 1949; Helen’s reissued Polish birth certificate which states her given name was Chaja Szajndla Witelson, 1998; and Richard Lak’s R.E.M.E. Record of Service card, 1947. The collection also includes a includes a photograph album and loose photographs related to the Witelson and Laks families of Poland. The photographs include pre-war and post-war photograp...

  7. Red checked dress with smocking made for a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport

    Red checked dress with smocking made for Esther Rosenfeld by her maternal aunt Friederika Lemberger in Aachen, Germany. Esther, age 2, was sent on a June 1939 Kindertransport [Children's Transport] from Germany to Great Britain. Her older sisters, Bertl, Edith, and Ruth, had gone in March. See 2012.451 for two pairs of boots also brought on her journey. Esther was placed with Dorothy and Harry Harrison and their son Alan in Norwich. Hitler's assumption of power in 1933 resulted in increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish populace in Germany. Esther's extended family got affidavits of su...

  8. Selected records from the State Archives of the Mykolaiv Region, Ukraine related to the history of Jewish communities of the Mykolaiv region before and after WWII

    Contains selected records of the Soviet and Communist Party regional bodies related to individual Jews, Jewish families, and Jewish communities of the Mykolaiv (Nikolaev) region before and aftermath of WWII. Included are statistical information about Jewish population of the region, documents about schools and special reading rooms for Jewish population, promotion of literacy and vocational training, bylaws of Jewish religious communities and inventories of synagogues, prayer houses, files on Jews who appealed for the reinstatement of their electoral rights, restitution of the nationalized ...

  9. The Schiffer family visits Mohács

    The Schiffer family visits Mohács, Erzsébet’s hometown on the Danube, in summer 1932. (00:16) Adults and children in bathing suits. They swim in a wooden structure moored to the shore of the Danube. János and his mother, Erzsébet Schiffer. (01:29) János and his cousins play in Klári and János Molnar’s yard with a toy stroller and ball. (01:53) Nurse-maid (brief). The children play outdoors. (02:42) MS, Erzsébet's mother Jenny Tornai (nee Reicher) and Klári seated at an outdoor table, smile and nod for the camera. Three children sit at a table. The family group eats a meal. The three childre...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Lidice; Terezin; Religious procession

    1150 U (03:21:12): Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Commemoration of the destruction of Lidice by Germans who killed all men of the village. LS, crowd gathered on the emplacement of Lidice which had been leveled by the Germans. Place is marked with a cross and a crown of thorns. Shots taken between the Czech and Russian emblems surmounting the respective flags. BG, the official tribune decorated with flags of the allied nations. Speeches made by dignitaries, crowd listening. LS, end of ceremony. LS, Terezin, cemetery, death camp for political prisoners in Bohemia. Women tending the tombs. FG, a roug...

  11. Book, "The Queen's English" Exercises in the Pronunciation of English

    Book by Philip Woolley, 1982 edition.

  12. Carter E. Ruby collection

    The collection consists of two US army badges, a shoulder patch, decals, correspondence, documents, publications, photographs, and a DVD relating to the experiences of Lieutenant Carter E. Ruby, U.S. Army, at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, April-May 1946.

  13. Documentation regarding the investigation of Nazi war criminals and collaborators in Ukraine, 1944-1946

    Documentation regarding the investigation of Nazi war criminals and collaborators in Ukraine, 1944-1946 Included in the collection is documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, active in the Ukraine area during 1944-1946.

  14. Nazi flag with US liberators signatures

    Nazi flag with US liberators signatures.

  15. Selected records of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare in Warsaw Ministerstwo Pracy i Opieki Społecznej w Warszawie (Sygn.402)

    Plans,reports, minutes, applications, circulars, correspondence related to assistance to war invalids, relief of daily life, training and employment, physical rehabilitation, distribution of help to war victims, distribution of gifts of Jeannette Hove from England. Includes registers and statistics of disabled war veterans organized by cities.

  16. Hena Shupak collection

    Documents and photographs illustrating the postwar experiences of Hena Shupak and her daughter, Gucia as well as Kadysh [sic] Shupak (Hena's second husband) in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camps and Israel.

  17. Gerald Kaiser family collection

    The collection consists of a knit bag and photographs relating to the experiences of Bernard, Cesia, and Jurek (Gerald) Kaiser and their family before and during the Holocaust in Kielce Ghetto, Chlewice, Lipnica labor camp, and Sosnowiec, Poland, and in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp after the war and of the Wlodek family in Lvov and Wegleszyn, Poland. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Brick rubble recovered from the Warsaw Ghetto

    Brick rubble from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. The rubble was excavated from the site of what is now the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, located among the ruins of the former Crown Artillery Barracks. The Barracks housed the ghetto post office, and at one point was the seat of the Judenrat. The monument was commemorated on April 19, 1948, and was the second monument, following a modest memorial unveiled in April 1946. On October 12, 1940, German authorities in Warsaw decreed the establishment of a 1.3-square-mile Jewish ghetto and forced over 400,000 Jews from the city and nearby towns to...

  19. Circular letters, Jewish Agency for Palestine.

    Mimeographed circular letters, distributed by various offices of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, primarily between 1936 and 1944, describing various developments and issues related to the re-settlement of European Jews in Palestine. Some of the letters are from the Central Bureau for the Settlement of German Jews, and others relate to Youth Aliyah and the resettlement of Polish Jews by way of Iran. Included are carbon copies of two letters from Henrietta Szold, addressed to communities that had welcomed youth from Germany, 1936-1937.

  20. Oral history interview with Hanne Pick