Prewar History and Jewish Life in Europe, 1897-1941 | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
The arrangement scheme for the record group was imposed during processing in the absence of an original order. Materials are arranged by subject/creator, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.
Record group is comprised of seven collections: 1. Collection of prewar photographs and artifacts; 2. Collection on minority affairs in Poland; 3. Collection of Polish interwar censuses and statistics; 4. Publications on Jews in Nazi Europe; 5. Collection of U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum films; 6. Georg Anker papers; 7. Francis Blumenbaum collection.
Czechoslovakia (Europe)
Jewish life in interwar Europe
Lwow Province Statistics
Minority Affairs in interwar Poland
Nationalism and the Theory of State
National minorities, Jewish
National minorities, Ukrainian
National Relations in interwar Poland
Polish official statistics of interwar time
Stanislawow Province Statistics
Tarnopol Province Statistics
wartime photographs
Wilno Province Statistics
Wolyn Province Statistics
Zionism, Jewish national movement
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This record group contains diverse documents illustrating general twentieth century European history and, in particular, various aspects of Jewish life in interwar Europe. Within this record group is the Georg Anker papers, which is comprised of photo albums depicting the First World War from the perspective of a German officer of Jewish descent. This collection is subdivided into photo albums depicting the various war-theaters where Georg Anker served, the photographs of which were taken in Russia, France, Latvia, Belgium, and in the regions of Eastern Europe.
Also within this record group is the interwar Polish quarterly publication, Sparwy Narodowosciowe (National Minorities Affairs); a publication by the Inter-American Jewish Conference, prepared by the Institute of Jewish Affairs in 1941; three streaming films on the prewar Jewish life in Eastern Europe, namely Czechoslovakia, Carpatho-Ruthenia, and Mukacevo; the personal collections of Masha Loen's and Dana Schwartz's family histories; and six volumes of the Polish census conducted in 1921 for the following Polish administrative units: the province of Lwów, Stanislawów, Tarnopol, Wolyn Nowgródek, and Wilno. These censuses are valuable historic sources for ethno-national, religious, economic, and socio-demographic composition for the six Polish provinces (Wojewodztwa). The Polish census of 1921 further provides unprecedented, valuable information on vernacular language, industrial, commercial, educational, gender, and other aspects of the multifaceted profile of the population.
Materials in this record group include photographs (including daguerrotypes), photo albums, official governmental publications, Polish censuses, personal recollections, postcards, maps, correspondence, and periodicals, all of which relate to multifaceted life of Jewish communities in Europe. Materials are digitized.
Documents and Files:
RG-12.01.01, Collection of daguerreotype
RG-12.01.02, Collection of daguerreotypes, Russia, late 19th, II
RG-12.01.03, Dana Schwartz Collection
RG-12.01.04, Masha Loen Collection
RG-12.01.05, Jews in Weimar Republic, Leo Baeck Institute
RG-12.01.06, A Jewish man in military uniform, Russia, 1912
RG-12.01.07, Greeting card from a Jewish soldier in Austro-Hungarian Army, 1 September 1915
RG-12.01.08, Chaim Selski in Lithuanian military uniform, 1938
RG-12.01.09, Kubaschka family photographs
RG-12.01.10, Kaunas, interwar Lithuania, Jewish soccer team
RG-12.01.11, Piotrkow-Trybunalski, a Jewish Quarter, pre-war Poland
RG-12.01.12, Warsaw, interwar time, a street scene
RG-12.01.13, Przedborz, Poland, Wooden Synagogue
RG-12.01.14, Baranow, Poland, a Hebrew School
RG-12.01.15, Cracow, a group of Jewish students after the tour
RG-12.01.16, Lancut, Poland, Wooden Synagogue
RG-12.01.17, Cracow, coeducational Jewish gymnasium, 1936-1937, female graduates
RG-12.01.18, Tarnow, Jewish soccer team
RG-12.01.19, Tarnow, a Jewish cultural society
RG-12.01.20, Poland, unknown location, at the advertisement board
RG-12.01.21, A market place in Eastern Poland, interwar period
RG-12.01.22,, Chodorow, wooden synagogue
RG-12.01.23, Moses Mendelssohn
RG-12.01.24, Theodor Herzl
RG-12.01.25, Labor Zionist march in a May Day parade, Chelm, 1932
RG-12.01.26, Delegates at the First Zionist Congress, 1897, Basel, Switzerland, public domain
RG-12.01.27, The Basel Program of the First Zionist Congress, 1897, provisioning a national home for Jews, public domain
RG-12.01.28, The Concert Hall in Basel where the First Zionist Congress took place, 1897, public domain
RG-12.01.29, Fritz Bamberger Collection. Sports event sponsored by Jewish Community Berlin 1937. Guests as spectators
RG-12.01.30, Bertha Pappenheim Collection. Friday night dinner in the Isenburger home.
RG-12.01.31, Maccabbee Football - Berlin
RG-12.01.32, Lionel Nathan de Rothschild introduced in the House of Commons, 1858, a painting by Henry Barraud, 1872, public domain
RG-12.01.33, Napoleon emancipates the Jews of France, artwork, public domain
RG-12.01.34, Anniversaries dates of the passed away, family Yortzeit book by David Munzer, Vienna, 1926
RG-12.01.35, Photograph and postcard, 14 September 1929
RG-12.01.36, Postcard from Yugoslavia to Vienna from Berta Munzer, 7 August 1929
RG-12.01.37, Moses Mendelsohn
RG-12.01.38, Moses Montefiore
RG-12.01.39, Moses Maimonides
RG-12.01.40, Biblical Moses, details
RG-12.01.41, A Zeidner and a friend
RG-12.01.42, Gabriela Lubica
RG-12.01.43, A little girl holding flowers
RG-12.01.44, Rose in a Ukrainian folk costume
RG-12.01.45, Steinitz Family, children
RG-12.01.46, Nika Fleissig, portrait, prewar
RG-12.01.47, Portrait of a young man, sitting in armchair, ca late 19th century
RG-12.01.48, A Family photograph, ca late 19th century
RG-12.01.49, A Family photograph in front of an official establishment, Germany, late 1920s
RG-12.01.50, A group gathering in front of a synagogue, late 19th century
RG-12.01.51, Shalom Aleichem in his study, late 19th century
RG-12.01.52, Theodor Herzl in his study, late 19th century
RG-12.01.53, Theodor Herzl, portrait, late 19th century
RG-12.01.54, Alfred Dreyfus receives a Knight Cross of the Legion of Honor, Paris, ca 1906
RG-12.01.55, First Zionist Congress, Basel, August 1897
RG-12.01.56, interior of a wooden synagogue, late 18th century, Lithuania
RG-12.01.57, Dana Schwartz' parents, Lusia and Ignacy Szapira, in street
RG-12.01.58, Dana Schwartz' parents, Lusia and Ignacy Szapira, 1930
RG-12.01.59, Dana Schwartz on left with two Polish girls she pretended to befriend to prove she was Polish
RG-12.02.01, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1933 (January-March), 1933 (July-August), 1934 (January-March), 1934 (April-June)
RG-12.02.02, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1936, No. 1-2; 1936, No. 4-5; 1936, No. 6; 1937, No. 1-2
RG-12.02.03, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1937, No. 6
RG-12.02.04, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1938, No. 6, 1939, No. 1-2.
RG-12.02.05, Sprawy Narodowosciowe, 1931 (October-December), 1932 (January-April)
RG-12.03.01, Census of the Wilno province without the city of Wilno, 1931
RG-12.03.02, Census of Wilno, city, 1931
RG-12.03.03, Census of the Wolyn province, 1921
RG-12.03.04, Census of the Lwow province, 1921
RG-12.03.05, Census of the Integrated Census results, Lwow province, 1921
RG-12.03.06, Census of the Bialystok province, 1921
RG-12.03.07, Census of the Nowogrodek, 1931
RG-12.03.08, Census of the Integrated Census results, Stanislawow province, 1921
RG-12.03.09, Census of the Tarnopol province, 1921
RG-12.03.10, Integrated Census result, Tarnopol province, 1921
RG-12.03.11, Ethnic Groups of Southwestern Ukraine, Statistics, 1939
RG-12.03.12, Polish towns, yearbook, Rocznik Statystyki miast Polski, R. 2, 1930
RG-12.04.01, Jews in Nazi Europe, 1933 - 1941, four parts
RG-12.04.02, Jews in Germany, history
RG-12.04.03, Nazi regime in Germany, by Rabbi Ferdinand M. Isserman
RG-12.05.01, Jewish Life in prewar Kovno, Riga, and Lvov, film
RG-12.05.02, Mukacevo, video, religious, social, and educational life. film
RG-12.05.03, Prewar Warsaw, film
RG-12.05.04, Czechoslovakia prepares to repell German agression, 1938, film
RG-12.05.05, Jewish Life in prewar Carpatho-Ruthenia, Uzhorod, film
RG-12.06.01, Georg Anker Photo Album 1 , the First World War, Eastern Front, R
RG-12.06.02, Georg Anker, Photograph, used as a postcard, the First World War, R
RG-12.06.03, Georg Anker, Photo Album 2, France, Krakow, Eastern Galicia, the First World War
RG-12.06.04, Georg Anker, Photo Album 3, Eastern Front, Galicia, Carpathians, the First World War
RG-12.06.05, Georg Anker, Photo Album 4, Eastern Front, Latvia, the First World War
RG-12.06.06, Georg Anker, Photo Album 5, Eastern, Front, Army Comraderie, the First World War
RG-12.06.07, Georg Anker, Photo Album 6, Western Front, Belgium and France, the First World War
RG-12.06.08, Georg Anker, Photo Album 7, Eastern Front, Lviv and Eastern Galica, the First World War
RG-12.07.01, Postcard of a photograph of a town street, Ukraine, early 1900s
RG-12.07.02, Photograph of a ruined synagogue, Ukraine, early 1900s
RG-12.07.03, Exhumation of Jews, killed in the Holocaust in Kozienice, Poland, 17 april 1949
RG-12.07.04, Photograph of a statue of a man slaying a wolf, near a Polish Palace
RG-12.07.05, Photograph of an airplane on the foreground of a Polish Palace
RG-12.07.06, Photograph of a Jewish cemetery
RG-12.07.07, Photograph of new Jewish tombstones at the half-ruined Jewish cemetery
RG-12.07.08, Photograph of a statue of a man slaying a wild boar at the foreground of a Polish Palace
RG-12.07.09, Photographs of Jewish individuals taken in ca 1930, Poland
Sub-Collection 1: RG-12.01, Photographs and artifacts, 1897-1941
Sub-Collection 2: RG-12.02, Minority Affairs in Poland, publications, 1897-1941
Sub-Collection 3: RG-12.03, Polish interwar Censuses and Statistics, 1921
Sub-Collection 4: RG-12.04, Jews in Nazi Europe, 1933-1941, Publications, 1933 -- 1941
Sub-Collection 5: RG-12.05, Film Collection of the USHMM Film Archive
Sub-Collection 6: RG-12.06, Georg Anker Papers, 1914 -- 1918
Sub-Collection 7: RG-12.07, Francis Blumenbaum Collection