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  1. Janika's Sunday (May 1940)

    Kodak safety film logo. Hungarian titles throughout. Title card with drawing of a child on a rocking horse “Ez a kis film abba a boldog világla visz” “vissza bennünket, amikor még nem vultak… Title card with sketch of an angry man with his hands over his ears and “sem gondjaink”. Stylized picture of a man sitting next to a woman with “sem szenvedélyeink” “a történet nem kitalált mese, hanem megtörtént valúság. Címe” “Janika vasárnapja” “a főszerepben:” János smiles at the camera. “Fotografálta és összevágta: Pető György.” “Történik:” “1940” (trick shots) “Május 26 Vasárnap” Small clock indi...

  2. Oral history interview with Maurice Levis

  3. The Furman family visits London en route to relatives in Poland

    The ocean. A man on a ship deck walks towards the camera several times, a big smile on his face. Ocean waves. A child runs around on the ship deck. A woman runs with her. They continue playing, holding hands. Small waves in the ocean. A ship with two funnels moves past, its deck crowded with people. Another large liner. A seagull flies. A man struggles with a large rod. People walk through city streets in London, officers, buses, and officers on horseback for annual The Lord Mayor's Show on November 9 to introduce the city to it's new Lord Mayor. The filmmaker stands opposite The Royal Cour...

  4. Senate Commission for the Affairs of Religious Associations 363-3 Senatskommission für die Angelegenheiten der Religionsverbände

    Selected records of the Senatskommission für die Angelegenheiten der Religionsverbände (Senate Commission for the Affairs of Religious Associations) related to administration and burial places in Hamburg area. Includes individual acts of the relationship between church and state, such as property, personal, personnel, legal and construction issues, etc. Consists mainly of materials on relations between the Christian non-Lutheran and Jewish communities, and boycotts against Jews.

  5. "Equality" Egyenlőség [Newspapers]

    A Jewish weekly newspaper issued in Budapest, Hungary, 1882-1938.

  7. Markheim, Feldman, Orzech, and Silberspitz families papers

    The collection documents the pre-war and post-war lives of the Markheim family of Kraków and Bochnia, Poland and relatives in the Feldman, Orzech, and Silberspitz families. Documents include post-war identification papers of Maurice and Michael Markheim as well as restitution paperwork. Photographs include pre-war and post-war depictions of family members in Poland, DP camps, and Israel. Documents of Maurice Markheim include Bindermichl and Regensburg DP camp identification papers, including a card identifying him as a former prisoner of Mauthausen, a driver’s license, copies of his birth c...

  11. Jewish family in Slovakia

    Pan, fenced estate in Gelnica, Slovakia. (01:00) Lola Engel (nee Schiffer) calls on a dog outside the estate. Three people (including Ernö’s sister Lola and her husband Nathan Engel) walk along the sidewalk and wave. Pan, steeple, and other buildings in the small town. “Danubius r.t. Budapest Pathé 9.5”

  12. Oral history interview with Janina Ludawska

  13. UNRRA selected records AG-018-024 : Luxembourg Mission

    Consists of correspondence and reports of the mission. Records relate to tracing of displaced persons, settlement of non-repatriable Poles, and help to deported Jews.

  14. Doll given to a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport

    A doll given to Esther Rosenfeld as a child by Dorothy Harrison when she was in the United Kingdom. Dorothy Harrison was the mother of the family that was caring for Esther after she arrived on the Kindertransport. She received the doll for Esther from an acquaintance who brought it over to the Harrison's home once she found out that Esther was a refugee living with the family in Norwich, England.

  15. Poster

    Bergen Belsen memorial poster

  17. Sara Nussbacher and Chaim Yeger collection

    Manuscripts in English and Hebrew documenting the experiences of Sara Nussbacher (nee Markowich) and Chaim Wolf Yeger. Includes copy of Hebrew manuscript by Tali Geva in 1989 about Chaim Yeger and the English translation by donors of that manuscript. Manuscript about Sara Nussbacher written in English by donors based on her oral history, and includes original photographs.

  18. Henry (Hank) M. and Marion Rosenwald collection

    Documents, correspondence and photographs of Henry (Hank) M. Rosenwald and Marion Marx Rosenwald. Henry M. Rosenwald and his parents Paul Rosenwald and Margarete (Grete) Rosenwald were able to emigrate to the U.S. from Germany with the help of their American Rosenwald cousins. Marion Marx was also an emigre from Germany. The collection includes items from WWI through Hank's death in 2001.

  19. Health Insurance Authority 355-5 Aufsicht über Versicherungen

    Selected files of individual insurance funds (mainly health and death funds). Consists of correspondence, cash registers, and applications.

  20. Ruth Leipziger photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of large group of men, women and children, the majority of whom are in costume (perhaps for Purim); inscription on verso written by Ruth Leipziger; dated New York March 23, 1939.