Manuel F. Lisan papers 1902-1969

Contains a typescript of memoirs (some sections in several drafts) covering the period until 1907 and describing Lisan's youth in Russia, his journey to America, his early years in Philadelphia, and his travels throughout Pennsylvania. The memoirs also relate in some detail Lisan's Zionist activities in Russia and America and his reaction to world Jewish events. Includes also correspondence covering the years 1902-1969 dealing with Lisan's Zionist activities, as well as announcements (1909-1910) of the Maccabean Zionist Society in Philadelphia and receipts and a Land Certificate from the American Zion Commonwealth and a share certificate from the Jewish Colonial Trust.

Michaelson family papers, undated, 1892-1920, 1943-1944, 1965, 1992, 1994, 1999-2000.

The Michaelson family papers include early family correspondence, documents, and ephemera; genealogical research conducted by Ms. Appleby, Anna’s granddaughter; copies of New York City marriage certificates kept by Louis B. Michaelson, Rabbi, between 1906-1907; and Anna Michaelson’s copies of original birth records that she kept as midwife in the Lower East Side in New York City between 1892-1916.

Model of Strangriede Cemetery during World War II when it was a holding area for Jews to be deported; Hannover Cemeteries

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Jews who were held prisoner in the synagogue being taken to the police station; Baden Baden : Concentration Camps Deportations

Typed on verso: Die in der Synagoge in Baden-Baden gefangen gehaltenen Juden, werden zur Polizeidiektion gebracht. April 1938

Jakob Guggenheimer and his daughter Irene Einstein walking past antisemitic graffiti "Juden in Ulm nicht errwuenscht!" (Jews are not welcome in Ulm); Stuttgarterstrasse; Ulm/Donau Antisemitica

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Train with Jews Deported from Prague Artworks

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Mandler, Jewish Transport Leader, Beaten Up by Jews Artworks

postwar creation

Arrival of Baptized Jews Artworks

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Czech Gendarmes Throwing Away Half Cigarette Stumps for Jews to Pick Up Artworks

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Arrival of Danish Jews in Theresienbad; Czech Gendarms Throwing Away Half Cigarette Stumps; Collecting Planks for Kumbal Artworks

postwar version of F 38346

Arrival of Danish Jews in Theresienbad Artworks

postwar version of F 38346

Arrival of Dutch Jews from Westerbork Artworks

postwar version of F 38354