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  1. Rosenberg, Ross, and Singer family papers

    Contains photographs and documents pertaining to the family's experiences in Germany, France, and England during the Holocaust.

  2. Liesel and Harry Rosenberg correspondence

    Consists of correspondence between Liesel and Harry Rosenberg. Harry Rosenberg is referred to as "Bobby" in the correspondence.

  3. Simon Adelman photographs

    Contains photographs taken inside the Warsaw ghetto by a German soldier in 1942. The photographs were given to Simon Adelman by a German soldier when they were both students at the University of Gottingen in 1954.

  4. Marian Neuhaus Nachman family letters

    Contains correspondence with information about family attempts to obtain affidavits and come to the United States.

  5. Der Najer Moment

    Contains copies of the Yiddish-language Displaced Persons camp newspaper "Der Najer Moment."

  6. Written testimonies of St. Louis survivors

    Contains written testimonies of St. Louis survivors compiled by Terry Healy's Woodrow Wilson elementary students in Manhattan, Kansas.

  7. Hans Wiener papers

    Contains documents and newspaper articles pertaining to Hans Wiener's acitivites in Bolivia as founder and President of the Jewish sport club Macabi in Oruro (Bolivia).

  8. Schifferes family papers

    The Schifferes family papers consist of correspondence, emigration and immigration records, and subject files documenting the lives of Bertha, Liese, and Stephan Schifferes in Austria, Germany, England, and the United States and property belonging to Stephan Schifferes’ relatives, the Siebenschein family, in Vienna. Bertha Schifferes materials consist of correspondence with relatives, friends, and her son’s family; employment records; and identification papers documenting her departure from Vienna, stay in England, and immigration to the United States. Liese Schifferes materials consist of ...

  9. Ingrid Geber Willing memoir

    Contains a memoir about Ingrid Geber Willing's Holocaust experiences.

  10. Hirsch Grunstein photographs

    Contains copies of two photographs pertaining to Hirsch Grunstein's Holocaust experiences.

  11. Charna Reina Koryski correspondence

    A series of letters written in Yiddish on small white pieces of paper detailing the pre-war life of Charna Reina Koryski of Vilnus, Poland. She wrote to her widowed sister-in-law (Eva Koryski Hurwitz) of Rochester, NY about her children and the poverty and sickness the family was enduring. She thanked those in America for sending money and clothing but continued to stress the poverty they all endure. The series concludes with a letter from Rochester marked "return to sender" with a Nazi stamp. This letter, from Eva Koryski Hurwitz, Charna's expressed concern that they had not heard from the...

  12. Etti Hecht and Paula Leibowitz collection

    Collection contains 19 family photographs of the Hecht family of Romania. The photographs are both pre- and post-World War II. Collection also contains two documents relating to the 1948 emigration to Israel of Lieb Hecht and a 1959 document from the German war tracing service regarding the whereabouts of Lieb Hecht.

  13. Chateau La Hille album

    The collection consists of one bound photographic album, full of black and white photographs of children playing and of the landscape surrounding the Chateau La Hille. Each photograph has a caption written in small white print, in German. The title of the book reads" Chateau de la Hille: 1 September 1943- 23 Oktober 1944." Some pages have protective onion paper between them to preserve the photographs.

  14. French stateless identity card

    The collection consists of one small identity card from the Republic of France issued on Dec 30, 1934 to Chaya Gerszenfisz, b 1897 in Razdan, Poland. A black-and-white photograph of a woman in her late thirties is on the first interior page, and opposite this is a black-and-white photograph of three children: two girls, with a boy in the middle. The children seem to be arranged left to right by age, with the youngest girl on the left. On the third page, four children are listed as also being covered by this identity card: Zipporah, Simone, Samuel, and Joseph. The card, which proclaims on th...

  15. Leonore Gumpert correspondence

    The Leonore Gumpert correspondence consists of letters and postcards dated 1938-1942 to Leonore in America from her mother, Clara Joseph, in Kassel and Darmstadt and from her sister, Inge, in Kassel, Darmstadt, Brussels, Seyre, and Chateau de la Hille. Some correspondence from Germany includes messages from Leonore's aunt Martha and grandmother Josephine. There are also a few letters and postcards from Leonore's father, Julius, and from relatives in New York. Most of the letters and postcards describe daily life in Germany, Belgium, and France and relate efforts to immigrate. One October 19...

  16. Henny Bienenfeld-Buncel photographs

    Five black and white photoprints: four are of groups of children, mainly girls, playing, and one appears to be a family photograph, with parents and three children. The photocopies are enlarged photographs of group pictures of children playing. One of the photocopies is labelled "Villa Helvetia."

  17. Bella Birenbaum photographs

    Eighteen photographs of the family of Bella (Bertha) Birenbaum [donor], from both pre and post-war. Pre-war pictures appear to be in Bialystok, while post-war are labelled "Selvino." Photographs appear to be mostly snapshots and posed group photographs. The donor has labeled each photograph.

  18. BDM; woodshop

    Sequence of four trims: 01:14:40 BDM girls running. 01:14:52 Woodshop. 01:14:55 BDM girls. 01:14:56 Woodshop.

  19. Nuremberg Trial ticket and program

    Consists of one program and one ticket for the "War-Crime Trials; Nurnberg, Germany, November 20, 1945-." The program contains biographies of the defendants and a floorplan of the courtroom. The ticket is for Session 118, and there is an illegible black ink signature on the diagonal, and below it, a pencil signature of "Alex Sonheim." Also includes the envelope used to send this material to Mr. Sonheim's wife in the United States in 1945.

  20. Ralf Mielzynski photograph

    Collection consists of one photograph of Ralf Mielzynski as an infant and one large brown envelope, from the City Studio in Amsterdam, with half of a star of David stamped onto the back. Ralf and his parents Siegbert and Alice Mielzynski were deported from Amsterdam to the Westerbork concentration camp in January 1943. In July 1943 they were deported to the Sobibor concentration camp where they all perished.