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  1. Walter Rockler papers

    Consists of legal briefs and opinions, publications, transcripts, memorandums, correspondence and artifacts relating to Mr. Rockler's work as a prosecutor for the Office of the Chief Counsel for War Crimes in Nuremberg, Germany, and later as the Director of the Office of Special Investigations of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

  2. Selected records of of the commune Zaborów Akta gminy Zaborów (Sygn. 58)

    Contains office correspondence and German ordinances related to Jewish properties and businesses, relocations of Jews and Romanies, and statistics of the commune population.

  3. Theodor Kleinsorge papers

    The collection primarily documents the arrest of Theodor Kleinsorge, originally of Laßbruch, Germany, as a non-Jewish political enemy of the Nazis in July 1944; his deportation to the Dachau concentration camp in September 1944; and his death in Dachau in February 1945. Wartime materials include documentation about his arrest and deportation sent to Theodor’s wife, Ruth Kleinsorge; correspondence from Theodor and Ruth to Theodore’s mother Elise Kleinsorge; one letter written to Ruth from Theodor while imprisoned at Dachau; and several family photographs. Biographical material includes ident...

  4. Jewish periodicals and newspapers from the National and University Library of Croatia

    Copies of the major Jewish periodicals published in Croatia during the interwar and pre WWI period. This collection includes newspaper Jevrejski List (1934), Židov (1917-1941) and pre WWI Jewish newspaper Židovska smotra (1906-1914). These publications cover a wide range of topics such as cultural, political, and public events taking place in the Jewish communities of Croatia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and Jewish communities worldwide. In addition, these newspapers also include contemporary coverage of local and world politics.

  5. Rabunski family collection

    Contains a typed carbon copy of autobiography of Wolf Rabunski (donor's grandfather) from Kurzeniec (Kurenets), Belarus, dated 1965, in German; family photos; documents from German government, dated 1965-1970; and letters from World Jewish Congress, dated 1964.

  6. Provincial Court for Warsaw Province Sąd Wojewódzki dla Województwa Warszawskiego (Sygn. GK 318)

    This collection contains selected files of the Provincial Court for Warsaw Province for trials during the years 1945-1956. These trials refer to to the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of Nazi criminals guilty of murder and the persecution of civilians and prisoners of war as well as the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. The “Sierpniówka” was one of the world's first legislation on liability for war crimes committed during World War II. This decree also applied to soldiers of the Home A...

  7. Selected records of the Holy Ghost Public County Hospital in Rawa Mazowiecka Publiczny Szpital Powiatowy Św. Ducha w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1080)

    Records related to the registration of inpatients (ledgers of inpatients)–many Jews are among the inpatients, inhabitants of the counties. The ledgers contain personal data: first and last name of a patients and names of their parents, age, religious denomination, whereabouts, occupation, marital status, kind of illness or disease, date of admission and discharge from the hospital, who financed the treatment, number of days spent in the hospital, total costs.

  8. Lore Hillman papers

    Documents, correspondence and photographs regarding the Baumgarten family during the Holocaust.

  9. Morgenthau family visits a dude ranch; Lindbergh welcome home parade in NYC

    Quick shot of an ocean liner. Henry Jr., Henry III, Robert, and Joan Mogenthau sail model ships in their swimming pool at the farm. Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigning in a town, parade. The children and their father ice skate on a frozen pond. In a warmer season, the children drive a battery operated toy car (red bug) in the street in front of their house, and the boys let Joan drive. The family practices horseback riding while adults race horses, somewhere in the Rocky Mountains at a dude ranch. Scenes of the mountain range in Wyoming. The family visited Grand Teton Park before it was open ...

  10. Deutscher Kleinempfänger [German small radio] produced in Nazi Germany

    Deutscher Kleinempfänger [German small radio] manufactured by G. Schaub in 1938. The radio was produced to help spread Nazi propaganda. It was made to sell at a low cost, so the majority of people could afford it. It lacked shortwave reception to make it difficult to receive foreign broadcasts. The radio was nicknamed Goebbels’ Schnauze [Snout], referring to the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, who often addressed the public through radio.

  11. Selma Aufhaeuser affidavit

    Consists of one affidavit submitted to the general consul in Stuttgart, Germany, by Ludwig and Pepi Ottenheimer of New York City, in support of the visa application of Selma Aufhaeuser of Bavaria, Germany. The affidavit was notarized on April 10, 1941. The effort was ultimately unsuccessful; Selma Aufhaeuser and her husband were part of the first deportations of German Jews to Riga, and were killed upon arrival as part of the Rumbula massacre.

  12. Selected records from the State Archive of Assisi

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the community of Assisi.

  13. Bergen-Belsen photograph collection

    The collection is comprised of a small album of spiral bound photographs and loose photographs which document the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp following liberation. The black and white photographs are dated April 1945, and depict scenes around the camp, Allied troops, victims and survivors, and a British Rabbi talking with a captain. Some photos are captioned on the verso.

  14. Teofila Kotlewski sings

  15. Bernard John Sobczak collection

    Work ID card: "Werk-Ausweis Nr. 58 662" in metal frame, issued to Bernhard Sobczak, born on August 3, 1924; issued by Gerhard Feissler Werke; Kassel; November 4, 1944; Camp Lohfeldden.

  16. Jewish family and vacation life in Reichenbach

    Pan, city square with shops: "Gustav Böhm", possibly Wroclaw. Snowing. Clocktower (12:28pm). End 01:00:24 01:00:29 Side view, a woman walks towards the camera with a boy (possibly Helene Fleischer and grandchild Johannes) passing their home in the mountains. Snow. 01:01:07 INT, Else Weyl in a patterned shirt looking at a catalog. [VQ: film is scratched]. She smiles and waves for the camera. 01:01:18 INT, Eric Weyl reading a magazine in the same room, he lights a cigarette. End 01:01:28 01:01:32 Two men and a woman stand around an automobile with license plate "IK-78126 - D". The man with su...

  17. Selected records of the City of Błonie Akta miasta Błonia (Sygn.107)

    Minutes of the Municipal Council of Błonie, projects of buildings of Jews living in Błonie, certificates of the birth, death and marriage, various ordinances and circular letters of German authorities, as well as documents related to sanitary actions in the town.

  18. Pilpel family papers

    The Pilpel Family papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and documents related to the family of Franz Josef and Marion (Stern) Pilpel (later Pell), their daughter Nina, and their son Ronald, chiefly related to the family's immigration from their native Austria to India, and their subsequent immigration to the United States. Includes personal and biographical documents, correspondence between members of the Pilpel family, predominantly from the post-war era but also some pre-war correspondence, and correspondence with extended family members and friends in Australia, Israel, and the ...

  19. Demonstration; DPs inflate rafts for trip to Palestine; family life; DP protest in Bari

    Very brief shot of protest/parade in a field, probably in Italy (like Film ID 4154). DPs inflate large rafts on a beach in DP camp in Italy and carry Israeli flags. 07:05 Menachem in his carriage with a still camera. Young men participate in formal ceremony or initiation. The men on the rafts on the water preparing for trip to Palestine. 08:30 Hannah squeezes into her baby’s toy rocking horse. Pan of the DP camp in Italy, huts. Moshe with Menachem - good CUs. Friend makes faces and shows off her baby on camera (possibly Chaim Springer and his parents). More shots of Moshe and Menachem. 09:4...

  20. Poster, American Relief for Poland