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The Records of HIAS (I-363) are officially live!
The Records of HIAS (I-363) are officially live!
AJHS and CJH Archivists are happy to announce that the finding aid for the records of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) I-363 is online and ready to use!
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A Somber Trove of Family Letters
by Kevin Schlottmann, Archival Services Manager, Center for Jewish History
The Leo Baeck Institute’s Milli Frank correspondence (AR 6686) contains dozens of letters and postcards sent to Milli Frank in Brooklyn, New York, between 1937 and 1944, by her parents, aunts and uncles in Germany. Later, some of these relatives wrote to her from the concentration camps…