Weisenheim; Jewish Community Collection 1986

Clippings on visit of David Meyer in Weisenheimer synagogue in 1986.

Limburg House of Jewish Study Collection 1986

Testimony and letter of Dr. Max Hamburger about surviving Auschwitz; 1986

Wittenberg; Jewish Community Collection 1933-1945

List of Jewish residents between 1933 and 1945. Photocopy from "The Jewish Chronicle" (1935) on persecution of Jews in Wittenberg.

Volunteers and collection boxes; Juedische Winterhilfe der Juedische Gemeinde; Berlin Jewish Institutions

"3000 Buechsen werden aufgestellt"

Ebern; Jewish Community Collection

Material on Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia (Burgpreppach, Ebern, Ermershausen, Kleinsteinach, Limbach, Memmelsdorf, Schweinshaupten, Untermerzbach).

1933-1953 German Jewish Children's Aid

The records of the GJCA relate to the entire range of activities involved in receiving and placing refugee children from 1933 through the 1950s. The later materials are records of the European Jewish Children's Aid. Activities included: maintaining the reception center in New Jersey; transportation arrangements; placement in homes; issuing affidavits and passports; granting scholarships; naturalization of children; setting of GJCA policy. By-laws, minutes, reports, correspondence and certificate of incorporation. Correspondence of executive officers, mainly Cecilia Razovsky, 1930s. Correspondence between William Haber and Lotte Marcuse, 1939-40. File of Dr. Solomon Lowenstein. Minutes of meetings of the Finance Committee. Field reports, inter-office memoranda, financial and statistical reports. Correspondence with organizations and governmental agencies: Society of Friends (Quakers) in Vienna; Israelitische Kultusgemeinde of Vienna; Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland; Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies; Department of Justice; New York State Department of Social Welfare; U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; American Friends Service Committee; American Jewish Congress; B'nai Brith; National Council of Jewish Women. Correspondence with individuals: Max S. Perlman, William Rosenwald, Paul Felix Warburg. In addition to the general administrative records, there are thousands of case files.

Shanghai Collection 1924 - 1950

The collection relates to life in the ghetto and includes materials on: founding of the ghetto; relief groups such as JDC, ORT, HIAS, and SACRA (Shanghai Ashkenazic Collaborating Relief Association); political organizations such as Zionist groups, the Bund; the rabbinate; the sick and benevolent society; kitchen fund; commercial establishments; religious schools , secular schools; professional associations; art, theater and music activities; Jewish press; emigration from Shanghai after World War II. There are also manuscript histories of the Shanghai Ghetto.

Erlangen; Jewish community Collection 1891-1988

Clippings on Jewish cemetery in Erlangen.

Moenchengladbach; Jewish Community Collection 1933-1937

Report on the Jewish community in Moenchengladbach (1933-1937); letter to Walter Froehlich confirming his election to chair the Jewish community in Moenchengladbach (1936); membership card for the "Juedische Kulturbund, Moenchengladbach).

Lipperode; Jewish Community Collection 1830-1939

Community record book 1846-1939; documents; business contracts; papers of individuals.

Witten; Jewish Community Collection 1885-1988

Photocopy of handwritten "Urkunde ueber die Geschichte der juedischen Gemeinde zu Witten und den Bau ihres neuen Tempels" (1885) + typed manuscript of same. Photo of interior of Witten synagogue (1935). Press clippings and other documentations on Jewish life in Witten collected by Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (1988).

Ruelfenrod; Jewish Community Collection 1836

Photocopies of documents by Baruch Bilstein and Wolf Levi of Ruelfenrod regarding the Jewish cemetery of Ruelfenrod

Schwalenberg (Lippe); Jewish Community Collection 1700-1859

Bernhard Lowe, September 1999 (no ackn.)

Breidenbach; Jewish Community Collection

Lists of Jews in the "Breidenbach Land" from the 18th to the 20th century..

Singen; Jewish Community Collection 1990

Article about fate of Jews from Singen during Third Reich (by Reinhild Kappes); book review about Jews in Singen during Third Reich (in Suedkurier, August 1990).