Pre-War Europe
I'll Tell You A Story: Memories of Pre-Holocaust Europe
From Marquette University. Oral histories fronm interviewees emigrated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin between 1946 and 1955 from across Europe, but primarily Poland and other East-Central European countries.
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"People of a Thousand Towns": The Online Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life in Prewar Eastern Europe
From YIVO. A visual record of thousands of pre-World War II Jewish communities in Poland, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. They span the late 19th century to the early 1940s.
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Roman Vishniac's Photos of European Jewish Life before the Holocaust
From the International Center for Photography. Documenting the rise of Nazi power, in Berlin street photography from 1935 to 1938.
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 1,018 hours of motion picture footage, dating primarily from the 1920s to 1948, covering Prewar Jewish and Roma/Sinti (Gypsy) life Germany in the 1920s and 1930s Nazi rise to power Persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe Nazi racial science and propaganda Internment camps Deportations of Jews to ghettos and concentration camps Refugees Resistance movements Liberation of Nazi concentration camps Displaced persons camps Postwar war crimes trials, including Nuremberg and the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann American responses to the events in Europe from 1933-1945. 9 hours of film and video programming directly related to the creation of the Museum’s Permanent Exhibition. 220 hours of outtakes from Claude Lanzmann’s film Shoah, featuring Holocaust survivor testimonies.
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The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project
From YIVO. A 7-year international project to preserve, digitize, and virtually reunite YIVO’s prewar library and archival collections located in New York City and Vilnius, Lithuania, through a dedicated web portal. The project will also digitally reconstruct the historic, private Strashun Library of Vilna, one of the great prewar libraries of Europe.
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The Freimann Collection
From the Frankfurt University Library. "The Freimann Collection comprises the literature of Science of Judaism (Wissenschaft des Judentums) in European languages and is part of the historic Judaica collection. It was the most significant Judaica collection of the European continent before World War II."
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William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection - Postcards
From the College of Charleston. Rabbi William A. Rosenthall's collection of Judaica postcards. A particular collecting focus of Rosenthall was images of synagogues located around the globe, including European synagogues destroyed by the Nazis
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Compact Memory
From Goethe University. A project of the German Research Foundation, this is a digitized, searchable collection of German Jewish newspapers, journals, and periodicals from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. You can browse by title and date of the publication and see the page images.
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YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland
From YIVO. This website presents highlights from YIVO’s archival collections on Polish Jewry before the Holocaust. It includes thousands of documents, posters, and photographs from the most significant Polish Jewish collections along with detailed finding aids, online exhibitions and media galleries, and two background essays.
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Central Judaica Database of Poland
From the Central Judaica Database of Poland. “Features artifacts and documents related to Jewish culture, scattered throughout Poland and around the world. The Database contains descriptions as well as 2D and 3D photographs of over 3000 objects from the collections of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw – our first project partner. The Database will be expanded to include the resources of other partners.”
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Jews in the Russian Army
From the Blavatnik Archive. "Photos, letters, documents and oral histories of Jews who fought in the Russian and Soviet Armies during World War I and World War II. You can explore video clips by subject, read some of the biographies, and view some of the ephemeral material."
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Centropa: Database of Jewish Memory
From Centropa. "Between 2000 and 2010, we interviewed 1,200 Jewish Holocaust survivors still living in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and the Balkans. We digitized more than 20,000 of their photographs and asked them to tell us their stories about the entire 20th century--as they lived it. "
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Refugee Family Papers
From the Wiener Library. "Explore and search the collection of refugee family papers in the Wiener Library by location. These documents have been donated to the library over the years by Jewish refugees and their families, who escaped Nazi persecution by emigrating from Germany and other Nazi-dominated countries before and during World War II."
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Jewish Life in Pre-War and Wartime Germany
From the Jewish Museum of Berlin. Photographs, arts/applied arts, ceremonial objects and objects of material culture.
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The Pinkasim Project
From the National Library of Israel. From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth, most European Jewish communities and regional councils kept their records in specially designated registers, called in Hebrew pinkassim. This site displays digitized collections of these books from all over the world.
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Atlas of Memory Maps
From the Grodzka Gate NN Theatre Center in Lublin, Poland. This site allows you to “visit” pre-war cities, towns, and shtetls in half a dozen countries through maps of them drawn from memory after the Shoah. The exhibit features a clickable gallery of dozens of maps, depicting good-sized cities such a Lublin, and also tiny villages. It also links to extensive resources about them. Most of this material is in Polish (google translate works fairly well) — but there is also an insightful essay in English by Piotr Nazaruk, who curated the exhibit along with Agnieszka Wiśniewska.
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Jewish Life in and around Bialystok, Poland
From the Museum of the Jews of Bialystok and the Region.
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Documents from Jewish Galicia and Bukhovina
From Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Organization. “Archival material from different archives in Poland and Ukraine and from the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem, as well as private documents and letters.”
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Multimedia Materials about the Greater Lublin Area
From The Teatrnn.pl Multimedia Library. Materials related to the shtetls of Eastern Europe.
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