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  1. Ery Magasanik collection

    Consists of US naturalization certificates, identification documents such as Iranian passports and "Shenasnameh," or Iranian identity booklets similar to birth certificates, for the donors' parents, Michael (b. 1900) and Judith Magasanik (nee Bromberg, b. 1908) who left Bucharest in 1940 using the Iranian passports they obtained in the late 1920s as citizens of Iran. They eventually immigrated to the Miami and then settled in New York in 1942.

  2. Primo Levi correspondence

    Includes a series of handwritten and typewritten letters from Primo Levi to his cousin Anna Foa Yona between 1963 and 1986

  3. Leonard Reedy collection

    Consists of documents and photographs compiled in a multi-page document that illustrates Nazi war crimes and atrocities committed at the Helmbrechts concentration camp for forced labor and the Volary (Vondnany) death march. The evidence was brought to the United States from Germany by the donor’s father, Leonard Earl Reedy, Chief Warrant Officer in the United States Army.

  4. Court of the First Instance in Szczekociny Sąd Grodzki w Szczekocinach (Sygn. 1846)

    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.

  5. Saturday Evening Post

    Includes an issue of The Saturday Evening Post with the illustration "The Hitler Wallpaperer"by Kenneth Stuart on the cover

  6. German photograph album

    Consists of a German photo album acquired by US serviceman John Racik Jr. (b. 1925) while stationed in the region around Linz am Rhein, Germany. Included in the album are scenes of uniformed German troops at leisure and in the field. Other scenes depict family life, and show party figures such as Adolf Hitler.

  7. Leuwenkroon family collection

    The collection documents the prewar and wartime experiences of Isy Leuwenkroon (1920-2006) and his wife Lilly Lieba Brenig Leuwenkroon (b. 1926) in Belgium and France through twenty prewar family photographs, Isy and Lilly's wedding certificate, correspondence, and other documents such as permits and apartment leases. Additionally included is the couple's memoir titled "Jews Rescuing Jews During WWII: Isy and Lilly Leuwenkroon", which was written for the Library's memoir project.

  8. Cardozo family photographs

    Consists of photographs capturing the experiences of the Cardozo family before and during the war, including images such as a meal featuring David Lopes Cardozo and others wearing visible Star of David badges on their clothing, portraits of David's sons, Raphael and Max Lopes Cardozo, who perished in Terezin in 1944, and the wedding portrait of Julia Hendrika Lopes Cardozo and Yoel (Wolf) Strosberg in Antwerp, Belgium.

  9. Adler family papers

    Consists of correspondence received by the Adler family while they were residing as refugees in Switzerland. The letters, primarily addressed to the donor's parents, Camillo Adler (1905-1985) and Martha Kraus (1901-1969), were from other refugees and forced laborers from refugee and labor camps.

  10. Distenfeld family collection

    The collection consists of Joseph Distenfeld and Matilde Goldwurm’s tenaim (July 21, 1940) from Lvov, Poland (now Lʹviv, Ukraine), and ketubah (March 17, 1941). There are a range of postwar identity documents and emigration papers in Italian, English, and Hebrew, the bulk of which are from the family’s time in Milan, Italy. These include their son’s, Efraim (Fred), birth certificate There is some correspondence from their time in Italy, as well as the United States, where the family settled. Also included are some of Joseph’s education documents from pre-and-postwar.

  11. Prison in Chęciny Więzienie w Chęcinach (Sygn. 188)

    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. Oral history interview with Baruch Bobman

  13. Więzienie w Jędrzejowie (Sygn. 697) Prison in Jędrzejów

    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.

  14. Dr. Philip J. Noel Jr. photograph collection

    Consists of photographs and blank postcards taken and acquired by Dr. Philip J. Noel Jr., (COL) (RET) of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp and scenes of postwar destruction.

  15. Ludwig May reisepass

    Includes the Deutsches Reich Reisepass, or passport, of Dr. Ludwig May (1903-1973), who was a passenger aboard the MS St. Louis after his 1938 internment at Buchenwald.

  16. Marokus family collection

    The papers consist of photographs related to the Marokus family, Leon, Lajcia, Henryka, and Pola. Leon Marokus, who immigrated to the United States in 1938 from Poland, worked to bring over his wife and daughters. Also included is a leaflet picked up by Leon while in the military during WWII.

  17. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 mark

    1 mark coupon issued at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. Later that day, soldiers from the Sixth Army Armored Di...

  18. Manifesto des Juifs de Bedeau

    Consists of the document "Manifesto des Juifs de Bedeau" in French and a vintage mimeographed copy of the typed documen that is double-sided. It was written by the donor's father Sidney Chouraqui when he was leader of the resistance movement in Bedeau Internment Camp in Algeria.

  19. Music booklets

    Comprised of two music booklets "Chants Judéo-Espagnols de Tétouan à Oran/Le Trésor conserve et chanté par Henriette Azen" and "Musiques et Chansons” featuring Ladino songs and French songs and sheet music by Isaac Pougatch

  20. Selected records from the Central State Archives of the of the Autonomous Republic of Karakalpkastan related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Collection contains records related to the evacuation of civilians to the territory Autonomous Republic of Karakalpkastan during WWII. It includes correspondence of the state authorities regarding resettlement and employement of evacuated civilians, lists of the members of the Communist Party, correspondence related to search of relocated relatives.