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This collection contains records relating to the history of the Jewish population in Łódź between 1939-1945. Includes bulletins, lists of various economic investments, a city administration telephone directory and correspondence, a collection of documents related to the creation of the ghetto, information leaflets (NSDP), court files in civil cases, correspondence of the Police (Gestapo. Geheime Staatspolitzei ...

Insert to special edition of Illustrierter Beobachter, spring 1940 with maps of Europe and the Middle East. Political cartoon on cover shows African soldier with a flag "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" attached to his rifle and a French military leader and a man with Jewish-type caricature in the background with the caption "Frankreichs Schuld."

Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was born to Jewish parents, Solomon and Eugenia Szyk in Łódź, Poland, which at the time was part of the Russian Empire. He had his first public art exhibition at age 15, and then went to Paris, France, for formal art training at the Academie Julian. He visited Palestine in 1914 with a group of Polish-Jewish artists and studied Muslim art. Upon his return, he was conscripted ...

Multi-colored image of a woman standing at the open door of a building holding a dish with children standing in front of her; inside the building are a man and woman seated at a table

The collection consists of documents and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of the Porges family of Vienna, Austria. Includes pre-war family photographs, identification documents, and paperwork related to immigration to the United States in 1946.

Liberated allied prisoners of war in the former Moosburg POW camp Stalag 7a, which housed prisoners from many countries. American pilots cook and serve food outdoors. They eat and smile at the camera. Two men wearing white shirts are shot from a low angle. Pan across former POWs sunning themselves, with barracks in the background. Nice view through barbed wire of former prisoners with rows of white ...

Street scenes in the early 1930s in Rotterdam. Salomon Schaap (on far left) and Naatje Keizer Schaap (in middle), the cameraman's parents, walk together in the streets, arm in arm. Shop sign. They enter the cheese shop they owned. The family lived behind this shop. The man in the light-colored suit who follows them into the shop is Emanuel Schaap (died in Mauthausen in 1944). Maurits exits the car ...

Bombed out multi-story YMCA building in Warsaw, Poland. Several workers chip away at the concrete structure, others collect and stack bricks from the rubble. Another worker examines window frames for damage. (This footage likely dates to 1946 - see notes section for further information). MS, low angle, a man and a woman walk down a bombed out street in Warsaw, toward the camera, snow covers the ground. ...