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Letter written by the Holocaust survivor Bernard Wis in Newark, New Jersey to the New York Forverts editorial board on his new home in the United States on behalf of the planning committee of a Jewish immigrants organization in Newark, New Jersey, 23 March 1950 The letter was sent in response to the Forverts newspaper writing competition where Holocaust survivors wrote about their new home in the United States, My New Home America.

File Number : 22.35

Type of Material : Letter

Language : Yiddish

Letter from the Allied Screening Commission requesting permits to travel by British War Department transport for Ulisse Finzi and Matilde Bassani in order to return to S. Marino after their stay in Rome following their participation in Commission activities

File Number : 114

Type of Material : Letter

Language : English

O.20 - Max Lowenthal Collection: Documentation and correspondence regarding cultural reconstruction in the US Occupation Zone in Germany, July 1946-November 1946

O.20 - Max Lowenthal Collection: Documentation and correspondence regarding cultural reconstruction in the US Occupation Zone in Germany, July 1946-November 1946 The file contains: Pages 2-3: Letter from the Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, addressed to Max Lowenthal, regarding a memorandum by their Chairman, Professor Jerome Michael, 02 November 1946; Pages 4-6: Letter from Rabbi Stephen Wise, President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), addressed to Max Lowenthal, regarding the cooperation between the Commission on European Jewish Cultural Reconstruction and the WJC, 07...

File Number : 1

Type of Material : Draft, Letter, Laws and Decrees, Official Documentation

Translation of Dziomek Erlbaum's memoirs about his experiences in Borysław, the Borysław ghetto, the Borysław camp, and the forests in 1941–1944

Translation of Dziomek Erlbaum's memoirs about his experiences in Borysław, the Borysław ghetto, the Borysław camp, and the forests in 1941–1944 - English translation of memoirs written by Dziomek Erlbaum in the Bad Reichenhall displaced-persons camp in October 1947 for the CHC (Central Historical Commission), produced by Kelly DeMartini: Oppression of Jews as soon as the Germans enter Borysław on July1, 1941; Ukrainian pogroms against Jewish townspeople in early July 1941; forced labor; witness put to work in the petroleum industry; mass murder of Jews in the forest adjacent to Borysław in late November...

File Number : 12477

Type of Material : Memoirs

To be translated

File Number : 991

Type of Material : Personal Documents, Letter, Certification, Diploma

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Eduard Ödön Posner regarding his experiences in the Oradea Mare Ghetto, in Auschwitz, in the camps in Germany, and in hiding

Memoirs of Eduard Ödön Posner regarding his experiences in the Oradea Mare Ghetto, in Auschwitz, in the camps in Germany, and in hiding - memoirs and statement of Eduard Ödön Posner, born in Bucharest on 6 May 1927, regarding his experiences in the Holocaust (the memoirs were written on 15 May 2012): Eduard's family: the death of his father and sister before the war; move from Bucharest to Oradea Mare in 1937; Transylvania re-annexed to Hungary in 1940; anti-Jewish legislation in Oradea Mare; confiscation of property; transfer to forced labor; deportation to the Oradea Mare Ghetto in April 1944;...

File Number : 10919

Type of Material : Declaration, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, Romanian

Documents related to Alfred Fredi Cohen, born in Trikala, Greece in 1909, and his family members, and to Greek Jewry during the Holocaust period and the struggle against antisemitism, 1941-1991 Included among the documents: - Story of the rescue of members of the Cohen family; three of the sons escaped to Egypt, where they made connections with the Greek Government in Exile; their mother Rachel, her daughter Thilda and one son did not succeed in arriving to Egypt, but they found shelter in the palace of Princess Alice (who was later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations); - Copies of interviews...

File Number : 473

Type of Material : Manifesto, Survey Report, Letter, Research Article

Language : Hebrew, French, English, Greek

Documentation on the murder of psychiatric patients by the Germans in Vinnitsa, 1941–1942

Documentation on the murder of psychiatric patients by the Germans in Vinnitsa, 1941–1942 - Excerpts from reports on an exhumation performed by the Commission for the Investigation of [World War II] War Crimes in Vininitsa.

File Number : 151

Type of Material : Investigation Reports

Language : Russian

Memoirs of Holocaust survivor Joseph Juszko Indig Itai, born in Virovitica, Yugoslavia in 1917, and additional documents related to the hiding of a group of Jewish children in Villa Emma in Nonantola, Italy, dated, 1941-1996 Letters sent by Juszko Indig from Lesno Brdo to Nathan Schwalb in Geneva, Switzerland during 03/08-28/11/1941; letters and a report sent by Juszko Indig from Nonantola to the Rescue Committee in Kushta, February 1943; letters sent by Juszko Indig from Lesno Brdo to Dr. Lichtheim in Geneva, 08/07/1941, 05/08/1941 and 25/12/1941; collection of telegrams regarding the need to deport the...

File Number : 9569

Type of Material : Survey Report, Identity Card, List, Letter, Article, Article, Memoirs

Language : Hebrew, German, Serbian-Croatian

Documents pertaining to research by Dina Porat in 1978 concerning the activity of the Al-Domi group, which sought to instigate worldwide action in view of the destruction of European Jewry, covering the years 1936–1978 The documents are arranged in four parts. Part 1: original text and specification of sources for a study that Dina Porat, of the Tel Aviv University Department of Jewish History, submitted for the completion of her doctoral degree. The sources include: - letter from members of the provisional committee of the Al-Domi group, Y. Yatziv, Dr. Landau, and Prof. F. Schneerson, to the Rescue...

File Number : 329

Type of Material : Letter, Survey Report, Manuscript, Article, Speech, Project, Research Article

Language : Hebrew, English, German

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