Out of the Archives: A Jewish Chaplain in Post-Liberation Dachau
by Rachel C. Miller, Senior Project Archivist, Center for Jewish History
One month after the liberation of Dachau, Army Chaplain Max Braude wrote this spirited letter to his wife, Eunice, recounting his day of relief work with 700 women survivors. Eunice Braude passed her husband’s letter on to Philip S. Bernstein, who was then the…
The American Jewish Historical Society meets the U.S. War Department’s Military Intelligence Branch
by Michael D. Montalbano, Institutional / Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History
Although propaganda existed in a variety of forms prior to the 20th century, its scale and use of the technology during World War I was unprecedented. To counteract the intended effects of propaganda, governments established various defenses, the main…
Out of the Archives: From Labor to Justice
by Rachel C. Miller, Senior Project Archivist, Center for Jewish History
The quotidian cross-out on this letterhead represents a pivotal moment in U.S. immigration history, when, following the outbreak of war in Europe, the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration deemed immigration a security concern over an economic one and transferred the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from…
From the partners’ collections: “Let my people go!”
Description: Full color painting of Soviet Jewish exodus
Creator: Emor (?)
Medium: Poster, colored
Date: undated
Call Number: I-181.018
Collection: National Conference on Soviet Jewry Records
Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=250089
Repository: American Jewish Historical Society
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