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Consists of family documents related to the Wollman (Wolman) family, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Includes the pre-war passport of Robert (Sam) Wolman, who emigrated to the United States in 1924, as well as correspondence with the family who remained in Poland. Includes written vignettes about life in the United States and in Poland, as well as correspondence from the late 1930s about getting aid ...

Photographs illustrating the pre-war lives of the Gerstman family and extended relatives in Stanislawow, Poland [present day Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine] and Kalusz, Poland [present-day Ukraine]. Also included are images of Maja Gerstman [donor] in hiding during the second world war with Katerina Diachenko in Ukraine as well as post-war images and identification documents of Maja in Poland and Israel, ...

Consists of photographs of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp as well as photographs of the repatriation of survivors. The photographs were taken by William B. Duff, a member of the medical detachment of the 117th Infantry division. Also includes Mr. Duff's medic's armband, as well as a copy of the July 10, 1945 issue of "Army Talks," which discusses Buchenwald, and clippings regarding ...

This collection contains materials from 83 families throughout the world originating from Ostrava, including: family photographs, as well as images of pre-war Ostrava, including synagogues and businesses, personal papers such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, school records, newspaper clippings, business advertisements, letters, as well as memoirs, genealogy charts, and testimonies documenting ...

The Collection of Statutes includes the statutes of a host of various associations, such as burial societies or pensioners clubs, for the years 1941 to 1944. It includes the statutes of Jewish associations operating in Hungary at this time as well. The collection is of special importance for the study of the process of anti-Semitic discrimination and exclusion, on the one hand, with question such as ...

The fonds contains various civil, penal, as well as business-related (property) files of the County Court in Levoča. These documents cover the period before the Holocaust and are relevant for the research of relations between Jews and non-Jews in the area. Files of the third manipulating period of the fonds (1924-1949) cover various conflicts in the area as well as the employment of Jews and their ...

Excerpts of well-known propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos." Documentary footage depicts the life of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt [Terezin] in Czechoslovakia as harmonious and joyful. They wear yellow stars on their civilian clothing but are euphemistically called residents ["Bewohner"] instead ...

Contains only those records of the district self administration that were continued in the financial division after 1945. The records pertain mostly to the confiscation of Upper Austrian cloisters and monasteries, properties owned by the Schwarzenberg family, as well as other "Aryanization" or expropriation cases. The administration of the real properties is partly documented until the 1950s. The collection ...

Contains a postcard, dated December 17, 1939 sent by Symcha, Zhenya and Luba Bergman (donor’s paternal grandfather and aunts) in Krasnystaw, Poland, addressed to H. Bergman (Hershel Harry Bergman, donor’s father) in Brooklyn, NY; the text reads (in translation), “Dear Son, How are things with you? How do you feel? We are feeling well; the whole family is well! Your brother Jankel is in the POW camp ...

Recorded interviews, notes, photographs, correspondence, copied documents, and other research material compiled, collected, or created by Bernard Robinson, the donor’s father, as well as Amalia Robins, the donor's mother, in the course of their extensive research on the topic of women who were imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, and were forced on death marches toward the end of that war. ...