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  1. Ruth Salm Perlman collection

    Consists of materials related to the Holocaust experiences of Ruth Salm Perlman, including a 1942 postcard sent to her from her family in Germany, while she was living in Denmark; postcards from the family who had sheltered her in Denmark (Aage and Signe Davidsen), sent to her after her deportation to Theresienstadt; a typewritten memoir by Ruth Salm Perlman; a copy of a document from the Danish Red Cross, attesting to her arrest and interment during the war; and a post-war book with photographs, compiled by Aage Davidsen, and describing their wartime experiences. Also includes pre-war fami...

  2. Jewish businesses in Vienna

    Close pan of shops, in Vienna, on a sunny day. Filmed at Seitenstettengasse and Judengasse. 01:07:40 "Judengasse" street sign above shop in Vienna. Soldier with rifle on street corner at 01:07:45. Doors of a synagogue (?). Views of Judengasse from an upstairs window guarded by a soldier. 01:08:21 Local men pose for the camera, pigs roam the streets (location unknown, possibly outside Berlin).

  3. Prewar Jewish life in the Netherlands; Haamstede Airfield; Jewish orphanage

    Street scenes in the early 1930s in Rotterdam. Salomon Schaap (on far left) and Naatje Keizer Schaap (in middle), the cameraman's parents, walk together in the streets, arm in arm. Shop sign. They enter the cheese shop they owned. The family lived behind this shop. The man in the light-colored suit who follows them into the shop is Emanuel Schaap (died in Mauthausen in 1944). Maurits exits the car and gets a hair cut in barber shop. Man waves. Visit to a vegetable garden owned by a sister or aunt. Older man with a yarmulke and Naatje. They walk towards the camera. Louis Schaap, the camerama...

  4. Alfred and Hertha Friedheim collection

    Diaries kept by Alfred and Hertha Friedheim, with some loose documents inserted between pages; dated 1939-1941; in French and English. The Friedheims were passengers on board the MS St. Louis in May 1939. When the ship returned to Europe they disembarked in France, and were in the Rieucros concentration camp in Lozere, France before getting American visas. They set sail in May 1941 on board the SS Winnipeg, but were detained in Port of Spain, Trinidad after the ship was commandeered by the Dutch navy. While in Port of Spain, their US visas expired. They were successful in getting their visa...

  5. Buchenwald liberation photograph collection

    Collection of seven photographic prints taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes images of victims bodies and ashes found in the camp, inside the crematoria, and the entrance of the camp.

  6. Alter and Dora Edelman Skwarny Collection

    The collection consists of photogrpahs depicting the Skwarny and Edelman families and documents regarding Alter and Dwora Skwarny's immigration to Canada in 1948.

  7. Ladenheim family collection

    Correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Julius and Yetta Ladenheim and their children Marcel and Henry in France and the United Kingdom before, during, and after the Holocaust. Contains pre-war, wartime and postwar images including image of Marcel in hiding with Olga Masoli, who along with her sister Esther hid him in Paris and cared for him until 1948. Includes letters from Marcel to his mother and to his rescuers, Olga and Ester Masoli, around 1948 after he was removed from their home by a maternal aunt and her husband and brought to the United Kingdom. His father d...

  8. Donald Swihart collection

    Consists of photographs and a copy of a wartime document entitled "Dachau" by Tec. 3 James W. Creasman from the collection of Donald W. Swihart, a member of the 42nd Rainbow Division, who participated in the liberation of Dachau. Includes photographs of Dachau, including of the Dachau death train and of the surrender of the camp. Includes an article, "Dachau" written by Tec. 3 James W. Creasman, mimeographed, and distributed, which describes the 42nd Division's impressions of the Dachau death train.

  9. Tschenstochauer Hutfabrik A.G Częstochowa Hat and Textiles Factory Fabryka Kapeluszy i Wyrobów Włókienniczych w Częstochowie (Sygn.147)

    This collection contains selected records relating to the operation of the Hat and Textiles Factory in Częstochowa S.A: financial documents, commercial correspondence, minutes of stockholders’ meetings, commercial agreements, inventory books, payrolls, correspondence with the Labor Inspectorate, and the like. Records relate to economic life of Jews in the inter-war period and contain personal data of people who perished during the Holocaust in Częstochowa and its surroundings.

  10. Life in Palestine

    A woman gathers water from a tap in the side of a building. A minaret and the surrounding buildings. Police officers stand under an umbrella in the middle of a street. A group of men wearing fezzes looks out at a view from a doorway in a high wall. 01:02:43 Adjacent signs posted on the wall read "Church of Annunciation and Saint Mary's Veil" and "Puits de la Sainte-Vierge". Two people herd sheep through a narrow street. Sign reads "The Wedding Church of Cana in Galilee," and the gated entrance bears a cross. A man poses in front of the doors of the church. A woman leads five toddler-aged ch...

  11. Claude Zaidenband papers

    Collection of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of Claude Zaidenband and his family at home in Belgium and as refugees in France and Switzerland during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Documents include a poem titled "Espoir!" by Claude’s brother Henri, dated January 1945, and a letter from an association of former Jewish partisans, dated 1950, presumably responding to a request from Claude’s father Natan that he be added to their membership. One 1945 family photograph bears a 1995 inscription on the back.

  12. Jolan Moskowitz collection

    Postcard: sent to Iszak Rottstein in Tasnád, Hungary (nowTășnad, Romania) from his cousin Sali (last name illegible), in a forced labor camp at Waldsee. In the card he states that he arrived in good health, gives regards to relatives, and anticipates a reply, A stamp on recto states that the reply must be 30 words, in German, and sent through the Association of Hungarian Jews in Budapest; not dated; in German and Hungarian.

  13. Hermann Göring portrait

    Consists of one enlarged portrait of Hermann Göring, likely taken in the early 1930s. In the photograph, Göring is wearing medals from World War I.

  14. Records of the commune Wałowice County Rawski located in Niwna Akta gminy Wałowice powiatu Rawskigo z siedziba w Niwnej (Sygn.1106)

    General correspondence of the commune Wałowice, including the registration of Jewish inhabitants, regulations related to Jewish families deported from Germany and Warsaw, and statistics of local properties, farms, and household goods. Also includes registers of Polish people murdered and arrested.

  15. The Jewish quarter and cemetery in Prague

    Prague, the facade of a large clock tower. The facade of the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn. A street in Prague's Jewish quarter. The exterior of Prague's Maisel synagogue, and the surrounding street activity. A street sign reads "Jidelna Hirsch Bilkova 19," or "Hirsch Cafeteria". The old Jewish cemetery, CU of a gravestone shows engraving in Hebrew script.

  16. Weinberg family correspondence

    Two postcards sent from Lotte and Bernhard Weinberg of Vienna, Austria in May and November 1938 to their cousins Max, Paul and Sophia Steinberg in Chicago, Il. Among other topics, Lotte and Bernard sought help in obtaining a visa for their daughter Regina.

  17. US propaganda poster reminding Americans of the urgent need to support the war

    Propaganda poster A-25 designed by Ben Shahn for the US War Production Drive to promote popular support for World War II. The colorful lithograph has an image of men with their hands raised in the air. The poster protests the oppression of worker's by the Vichy government in unoccupied France, and warns, one worker to another, of even more terrible things to come. The workers stand before a broadside of the Official Vichy Decree which forced French workers to perform any work which served the interest of the nation. The US government originally supported this regime, established in 1940 und...

  18. Antisemitic propaganda leaflet dropped by German aircraft along a Soviet front

    This 1944 leaflet was directed at the Soviet Red Army soldiers and officers on the Finnish front, possibly near Narva in the northern region. The Red Army had lifted the siege of Leningrad in January 1944, and Soviet forces were advancing toward the Finnish Bay by May 1944.

  19. Henry Weil testimony

    Consists of one testimony, four pages, written by Henry Weil in 1995 (and revised in 2001.) In the testimony, Weil describes his experiences in the Polish Army, in Kraków, Lwow, the Wolbrom ghetto, and the Stalowa Wola forced labor camp. After escaping forced labor and returning to Kraków, he was sent to Płaszów where he worked for the Schindler Emaillewaren Fabrik. When Płaszów was liquidated and the men temporarily sent to Gross-Rosen prior to the factory's move to Brünnlitz, Weil changed places with his brother Wovek in order to save him. Wovek began to work for Schindler, while Henry sp...

  20. Kokocinski, Rozenberg and Rusak families collection

    Collection of correspondence and related documentation; from Rubin Kokocinski to his brother Markus Kokocinski [later Marcus Cook (donor's grandfather)]; Frymcia Kokocinski, Rubin's daughter in law to her uncle in the US; from Fiszel Rozenberg (Marcus Cook's brother in law) and Heniek Rozenberg (his nephew); the letters were written in Polish and Yiddish, dated 1946-1954.