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  1. Max Levi memoir

    Consists of two photocopies of photographs and one copy of Max Levi's handwritten memoir, in German, with an English translation. The memoir details his experiences in Germany from April 30, 1933 until December 8, 1938, including the loss of his business and wealth; the family's experiences on Kristallnacht, when Max's business and apartment were destroyed and he was injured; and their arrival in New York on December 15, 1938.

  2. Edwin Dutkiewicz papers

    The Edwin Dutkiewicz papers consists of biographical material, a diary, and photographs relating to Edwin’s time as a forced laborer in Finland and Norway with Organisation Todt during World War II and his life in Norway as a displaced person after the war. Biographical material includes a Polish passport, fragments of Edwin’s identification card issued by Organisation Todt, which he tore up after the war, and a postcard from the displaced persons camp at Bodø. Edwin’s diary, which he began in 1941, describes his pre-war life and childhood in Poland, his experiences as a forced laborer, lif...

  3. Thomas McFarland, Jr. photograph collection

    Collection of four photographic prints depicting victims of the Nordhausen (Dora-Mittelbau) concentration camp immediately following liberation. American soldiers and German civilians are visible in some of the photographs; inscription on verso of one photograph.

  4. Collection of Nathan Rapoport prints and sketches (RG-94-4) נתן רפופורט

    The collection contains Nathan Rapoport prints for his monument "Scrolls of Fire," and his other skeches. The monument "Scrolls of Fire" found in the Jerusalem hills, and it commemorates Jewish history from the Holocaust until Independence. The monument was inaugurated in 1971. The sculpture is made of bronze and is eight meters high. It is in the shape of two scrolls, a gesture to the Jewish nation being the "People of the Book." One of the scrolls describes the Holocaust and the other describes independence. It tells the story of the rebirth of the nation from the Holocaust up to the Six ...

  5. Records of the commune Stara Wies County Rawski Akta gminy Stara Wieś powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1107)

    The collection contains vital records of the region of Biała Rawska, name lists of fireman in various communes, correspondence, reports, police announcements and orders regulating contacts with Jewish people, and medical orders for Jews and Roma to delouse them for prevention of infectious diseases.

  6. "Minerwa" Metal Factory in Częstochowa Zakłady Wyrobów Metalowych "Minerwa" w Częstochowie (Sygn.192/9)

    Contains records relating to opening balance of the "Minerwa" Metal factory in Częstochowa for Jan. 29, 1945. Included are records about the factory equipment, as well as records concerning the trial to regain the property by the heirs of the former owners.

  7. Arnold Lissance family papers

    Typescript copy and translations of the memoirs of Moses Lissiansky (1872-1943), describing his life in pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Russia, originally written in Austria in the 1930s, as well as translations and summaries of correspondence that his son, Arnold Lissance, had received from his family in Austria after his own immigration to the United States in the 1930s. Also contains documents produced at the Nuremberg Trials and collected by Lissance during his time working as a translator at the trials, including materials related to the Ministries Trial (Case XI), as well as mimeo...

  8. Yitsḥaḳ Patish personal archives (RG-95-70) יצחק פטיש - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Izhak Patish (1914-2002) contains letters, articles, poetry, extracts from the diary of Ronya Margalit-Git (sister Masha) in Yiddish, songs in Yiddish, papers on Czechoslovakia Jewry, records and correspondence from his mission as an Israeli ambassador in Austria.

  9. Gordon Witte photograph collection

    Consists of an original silver "Kodak" film canister containing a wound strip of photographic negatives depicting a large Nazi rally at which Hitler was in attendance. The negatives were found by PFC Gordon E. Witte, a member of the Company D of the 335th Infantry of the United States Army while he was in Pevestorf, Germany, at the end of the war.

  10. Clotilde Nicoli collection

    Consists of photographs and photographic negatives taken in Germany, circa 1945. Includes photographs of graves of German and Allied soldiers, aerial images, photographs taken after the liberation of Dachau, and photographs of military destruction. Includes an original envelope marked "Germany 1942" (though these photographs were likely taken in 1945). The photographs were sent to Clotilde Nicoli.

  11. Hashomer Hatzair in Cyprus (RG-19-2) השומר הצעיר בקפריסין

    Contains memoirs and other documents of the Jewish refugees and survivors on their stay in Cyprus in 1947. Also includes various publications, correspondence (1947), names lists of kibbutz members, the issue of Hashomer Hatzair journal "Ba Girush" (1947), published in Cyprus, the "exodus" story of "Ma'apilim" (illigal emigrants to Palestine) written by Yehushua Ratman in Yiddish.

  12. German Army procurement documents

    Collection of German Army procurement invoices; used by the Wehrmacht to track shipment of various parts to Cambrai, France; all stamped in upper right corner "Dienststelle Feldpostnummer L 08 723, Luftgaupostamt, Bruessel" (Brussels).

  13. Prayer book

    Small Jewish prayer book carried by Bernard Diczek during his escape from German occupied Poland during World War II.

  14. Joseph Palaszewski photographs

    Consists of a collection of copyprints taken by Joseph Palaszewski after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The images, which depict corpses; the Buchenwald memorial; and groups of some of the national groups among the prisoners, include extensive captions.

  15. Parakowski family collection

    Photographs, documents, and correspondence from before, during and after WWII relating to the experiences of Jadwiga Wolinska (b. October 6, 1919 in Blizyn) and her husband Bronislaw Parakowski (b. October 29, 1914 in Niedrzwica Duza), both Roman Catholics who were taken to Germany as forced laborers in Leipzig, she in the HASAG factory and he in the Mansfeld machine works. Bronislaw had previously been posted in Sarny as a member of the KOP (Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza [Border Defense Corps]), captured near Tarnów, taken to Łódź and then Stalag IV-G (Oschatz) and later Wilhelmsdorf Thuringia...

  16. Leonard and Edith Ehrlich research papers

    The Leonard and Edith Ehrlich research papers consist of correspondence, copied documents, interview transcripts, trial transcripts, notes, typescript texts, and other similar materials compiled during the research and writing of a book to be titled “Choices Under Duress of the Holocaust,” an examination of the leadership of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Congregation of Vienna, or IKG) and the Jewish Council of Theresienstadt, and in particular the roles of Benjamin Murmelstein and Josef Löwenherz, in response to Nazi persecution of the Jewish community following the annexat...

  17. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of three photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by an American soldier. The photographs include an image of newly liberated prisoners sitting on the ground, and two images of a pile of corpses.

  18. Nammering photograph collection

    Consists of seven photographs of the reburial of corpses near Nammering, Germany. The victims had been in the Buchenwald concentration camp and were murdered in April 1945. Two of the photographs have writing on the back that reads "Czechoslovakia May 1945."

  19. Nina Gitler poem

    Consists of one typed poem, dated February 1942, entitled "Kadysz," written by Nina Gitler in the Warsaw Ghetto. In the poem, Gitler, who was sixteen-years-old, complains of hearing that American Jews are saying Kaddish for the Jews of Europe, though they are still alive and suffering. The poem was collected and identified by Simon Weber, the long-serving editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, and was published in the Forward.

  20. Elisabeth Steinhardt Welvaars collection

    Contains a Dutch passport issued to Elisabeth Steinhardt Welvaars donor's great aunt), and loose photographs and three photo albums illustrating the pre-war and postwar life of Elisabeth Steinhardt. The photographs primarily consist of vacation images from travels through Italy, Switzerland, France, London, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, and include postwar photographs of South America, particularly Bolivia, where Elisabeth's immediate family immigrated. Elisabeth, who survived the Holocaust in the Netherlands, ultimately immigrated to Argentina after WWII.