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Contains a photograph taken of Arthur Pais in the Kovno ghetto and 25 photographs of life as a displaced person in Munich.

Miriam Weissman (born Michla Pomerantz) is the daughter of Abraham and Chaja. She was born on October 25, 1926 in Konstantyinowo, Poland. She had four older brothers and a sister. Michla lived in the ghetto in Wolkowysk, Belarus from 11/2/42-1/43, and was sent to Auschwitz. She remained in Auschwitz from January 1943 until liberation her liberation in January, 1945 at the age of nineteen. After liberation ...

Contains a collection of documents from Rabbi Benjamin Mintz (later Benjamin Minister), including notes in 1943 and 1945 regarding a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen; a Union of Czechoslovakia certificate indicating that a refugee is in Hungary; a February 1944 postcard from a refugee in Iran confirming the receipt of a food package from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the Joint); a message ...

Men and women outdoors doing calisthenics, gymnastics, various track and field events at a DP camp in Germany. Women playing tennis. Crowd of men watching a boxing match. Pan, men's soccer team. Men playing chess. 01:55:32 General Dwight D. Eisenhower arriving at Neu Freimann DP camp, touring buildings, school, warehouse, synagogue. Crowds gathering for Eisenhower. Eisenhower leaving in automobile ...

Collection of four photographs depicting gatherings in the Schliersee and Rosenheim displaced persons camps, including a memorial for the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Collection of documents of the Neumann (Nenner) family from their time in the Displaced Persons Camp in Lechfeld in Germany and their immigration to Palestine; dated 1940s-1950s. Includes a temporary exit pass from the artillery officers' course taking place in a military garrison, Bucharest, 1943; a civil marriage certificate, Bucharest, 1944; a recruitment certificate to "Va'ad leSherut Ha'Am" in ...

Consists of a large portrait, taken in the 1920s, of a young man (possibly her brother) and older woman who were family members of Malka Finkelstein, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Also includes a post-war photograph of Ida Flint, the daughter of Malka Finkelstein and Mendel Flint, with her father at the Hallerin displaced persons camp in post-war Austria.

The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was an international relief agency representing 44 nations, but largely dominated by the United States. Founded in 1943, it became part of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, and it largely shut down operations in 1947. Its purpose was to "plan, co-ordinate, administer or arrange for the administration of measures for the relief of victims ...

The collection consists of two wooden candelabra made for Paul Weber Jacobs by a displaced person.

Contains two death certificates for Elja Faiwus and two death certificates for Rochla Biednowicz, issued in the Landsberg Displaced persons camp in 1949.