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  1. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 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.

  2. Fruma Broude Gurevich letter

    Consists of a one-page typewritten letter sent by Dr. Fruma Broude (b. 1899, Fruma Broude Gurevich or Gurvich) from Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania) in which she explains what happened, who was killed, children who were placed in hiding that she was trying to locate, how she survived, and what their needs are. Also includes a blank envelope with the return address for Dr. M.J. Kardon (donor's father) in Philadelphia.

  3. Oral history interview with Jack Jacobs

  4. Collection of insurgent and underground press Zbiór prasy powstańczej i konspiracyjnej

    Contains an underground press collection of 1283 titles (the biggest collection in Poland) from all pre-war Poland territory and published by all underground organizations.

  5. Grycz family postcard

    The final postcard sent by Samuel and Chana Grycz from Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland, in December 1940, to their son, Alex Gritz, in Brooklyn, NY. The Polish-language message asks how everyone there is doing, and mentions that Chana was not feeling well. Alex and his siblings, Sophie, Aron, Shifra, and Rhue, has all immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. Samuel and Chana were killed during the Holocaust.

  6. Salpeter family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, claim forms, documentation, banking statements, and receipts for payments to file paperwork illustrating the experiences of Claire (Klara) Salpeter Greenwald and her attempt to gain reparations from the German government in the 1950s and 1960s and Swiss banks in the 1990s and 2000s. The claims relate to her parents and sisters, including efforts to claim losses for her father's business as well as life insurance policies related to each individual. The paperwork dealing with claims against Germany is in German and English, and often involves the Un...

  7. Stephen J. Schweitzer diary

    The Stephen J. Schweitzer diary is a small pocket diary Schweitzer maintained secretly and hid in his socks while he was a POW in Stalag IXB and as a forced laborer in the Berga forced labor camp. The diary contains brief entries describing events and conditions in the camps, the moods of his fellow prisoners, and his thoughts of his family.

  8. Provincial Land Office in Kielce Wojewódzki Urząd Ziemski w Kielcach (Sygn. 188)

    Information on agricultural land and its owners, including Jews.

  9. Servator family correspondence

    Primarily consists of envelopes and letters written between members of the Servator family in 1945. Includes correspondence between Morris and Helen Servator and Cpl. Emanuel Sevator regarding their cousin Ida Szymkowicz, her husband Joseph, and their son Maurice, in addition to a note and photo of Ida and Maurice. Also includes a letter from Ida Szymkowicz to David Servator regarding Emanuel's visit.

  10. Gedenket der Hungernden

    Consists of a donation card from the Shanghai Ghetto printed on behalf of the "Gedenket der Hungernden", or "Remember the Hungry", charitable organization of the Jewish community in Shanghai during WWII. One side has mimeographed text appealing to members of Shanghai's Jewish community, in German. The verso has a small printed donation form to fill out (in German), and the address of the organization (in English). Also includes an imprinted Chinese mailing stamp of Sun-Yat Sen and additional Chinese text in green.

  11. Więzienie w Olkuszu (Sygn. 698) Prison in Olkusz

    Personal files of prisoners of Jewish origin convicted of various crimes, e.g. theft, fraud. In addition, other materials, e.g. lists of prisoners, statistic data. Personal files contain the prisoner's personal data and characteristics, as well as an accusation and official correspondence.

  12. Wehrmacht War Diary

    Consists of a war diary kept between October 1939 through February 1942 by an unnamed German soldier in the 10th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) who was stationed in Gießen and Regensburg. The entries capture the invasion of Poland, the 1940 French Campaign, and the 1941 Russian campaign, including personal impressions, reflections, and support of the regime.

  13. Reichstag election campaign materials

    Consists of two bound collections of printed campaign materials relating to the September 14, 1930 and July 31, 1932 Reichstag elections in Germany. The materials include clippings from newspapers and magazines as well as some illustrated advertisements, small propaganda pieces, and political cartoons. Both volumes are labeled "Material Reichstagswahl" with their corresponding dates.

  14. Lucy Lipiner papers

    The Lucy Lipiner papers includes mounted photographs with captions indicating they depict the brewery where the Sucha ghetto was located and the deportation of Jews from Sucha to Auschwitz in 1942; a photocopy of a list of people in Sucha who made charitable donations, including Lipiner’s grandmother Frymet Mandelbaum; a photocopy of a detailed typewritten account in Polish of what happened to the Jews and Polish Partisan sin Sucha and the surrounding area during the war; and two lists of students who attended Jewish religious classes in the Austro-Hungarian school system in 1909-1910 and 1...

  15. Branch of the Temporary State Board for the Jędrzejów county in Jędrzejów Sąd Grodzki w Jędrzejowie (Sygn. 1699)

    Court files in civil and criminal matters in which one of the parties was a person of Jewish origin. Post-war materials regarding real estate owned by Jews, applications for correction or reconstruction of birth, death or other documents.

  16. Zelig Wasser diary

    Consists primarily of handwritten diary pages that were kept by Sidney "Zelig" Wasser, a survivor from Kielce, Poland, while he was living in hiding in the woods after his escape from Henryków Arbeitslager, a forced labor camp, in May 1944. The diary pages were hidden in glass bottles and a majority were recovered after the war. The collection also includes correspondence, an illustrated map of Henryków with an identification key, Wasser's various translations of the diary and transcriptions of notes in both English and Polish, and a timeline capturing his experiences from when war broke ou...

  17. Sygn. 511, County Starosty in Końskie Sygn. 511, Starostwo Powiatowe Koneckie

    Situation reports of the Starosty containing information on, inter alia, the state of public safety, public assemblies, legal and illegal political organizations.

  18. District Court of the Land Sąd Okręgowy Ziemski (Sygn. 105)

    Official correspondence regarding land for the expansion of Jewish cemeteries in the towns Nowa Słupia, Kępa Nagnajewska and Szydłów.

  19. Eric D. Meier collection

    Includes the typewritten testimony of Holocaust survivor Eric D. Meier

  20. Sąd Grodzki w Końskich (Sygn. 704) Court of the First Instance in Końskie

    Files of civil cases from the period of World War II of people of Jewish origin (inheritance and division of property).