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1. Diary of M. Zhabotinskii, a Jewish actor
Document | Accession Number: 2006.342 | RG Number: RG-31.054
Date:
inclusive: 1959-1962
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Diary of M. Zhabotinskii, a Jewish actor…
2. Die Optimisten
2012.143.5 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.143.5
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 April
…Booklet containing information about planned variety and theatrical perfomances of "Die Optimisten," a group of German Jewish emigre actors and…
3. Towarzystwo Popierania Żydowskiej Sztuki Scenicznej w Wilnie (Fond 296)
Document | Accession Number: 2021.21.1 | RG Number: RG-26.072
Date:
bulk: 1919-1941
inclusive: 1913-1941
Alternate Title:
Society for the Support of Jewish Performing Arts in Vilnius
…, exhibitions, published theatrical works, sponsored professional development of Jewish actors, and many other related activities.…
4. Spuścizna Jonasa Turkowa (Sygn. 364)
Document | Accession Number: 2012.276 | RG Number: RG-15.243
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1946
Alternate Title:
Jonas Turkow collection
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…This collection contains personal papers of Jonas (Jonasz, Janusz) Turkow (1898-1988), an actor and theater director who was born in Warsaw. The…
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 …, Janusz) Turkow (1898‐1988), an actor and theater director who was born in Warsaw, Poland. Languages: Polish, Russian, German, and Portuguese…
5. Olga Nadich Galerstein collection
Document | Accession Number: 2021.131.1
…). At the time she was studying acting at the Actors Laboratory Theatre in Hollywood, headed by Roman Bohnen (1901-1949), who was in the cast of the…
6. Alexander Granach photograph in Horodenka
Document | Accession Number: 2011.427.4
Date:
creation: 1938
… Horodenka in 1938. In the center of the photo, actor Alexander Granach is pictured.…
7. Ms. Nancy Mendelsohn collection
Document | Accession Number: 2009.194.1
…; and their friend Abraham Wolowczyk. Includes plays, articles, and announcements illustrating the post-war participation of Abraham Wolowczyk as an actor…
8. Selected records from the collection "Deutsche Nachrichtenbüro" (R 34)
Document | Accession Number: 2004.559 | RG Number: RG-68.047M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1945
Alternate Title:
German News Agency
…, and music; folk sport and sport education; antisemitic comments; reports about Jewish editors and actors.…
9. Russek family photograph
Document | Accession Number: 2003.55.1
Date:
1949 March 03
…Image is of Herman Yablokoff (donor's uncle), a prominent actor in Yiddish theater, holding Michael Russek [donor's son] upon the arrival of the…
10. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
… children. In the late 1940s, Norbert appeared as a witness during the Nuremberg trials and at the trial against Nazi sympathizer film director and actor Veit…
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 … Nazi sympathizer film director and actor Veit Harlan. In 1951, Norbert Wollheim successfully sued I.G. Farben, arguing that the manufacturer should…
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11. Samuel Sobel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.460.1
… actors and directors, and receipt to retrieve cards.…
12. Károly Verebes papers
Document | Accession Number: 2007.346.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1972
bulk: 1941-1944
…Károly Verebes (1920-1987) was a Hungarian actor who worked in forced-labor battalions during World War II. He was married to Hungarian actress Eva…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection consists of the memoir of Károly Verebes (1920-1987), a Hungarian actor who worked…
13. Heinz Greifenhagen guest book
Document | Accession Number: 2023.66.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1939
… family, including Manfred Greifenhagen (1896-1945). Other loved ones and friends, such as the actor Kurt Gerron (1897-1944) and the artist Fritz Kuttner…
14. Notebook from American Joint Distribution Committee in Italy, containing handwritten text of Sholem Aleichem play
2012.143.9 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2012.143.9
Date:
undated: circa 1945-1949
… of Michael Greenstein, director and actor of the Yiddish theatre, 1915-2004, and Dr. Miriam Greenstein, 1916-2000."…
15. Records of the Moscow State Jewish Theatre School (MGETU) (Fond 2308)
Document | Accession Number: 2005.406 | RG Number: RG-22.012M
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… studies, photos of performances, biographies and photos of actors, personal files of employees, personal files of students, newspaper clippings related to…
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 … trained 66 students. In addition to preparing actors, a department of drama study was incorporated into the structure of the school. This department was…
16. Records of the Moscow State Jewish Theatre (GOSET) (Fond 2307 and Fond 2308)
Document | Accession Number: 2005.405 | RG Number: RG-22.011M
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…, administration, plays, notes (with comments of censors) and the personal archives of Aleksey Granovskiy, Solomon Mikhoels, and other actors and writers. Also…
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 … existence, some of the greatest Jewish writers, actors and artists of the 20th century have worked at the Theater, including Marc Chagall, Isaac Babel, Peretz…
17. Memoir of Mark Josevich Sirota
Document | Accession Number: 2006.344 | RG Number: RG-31.051
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Mark Sirota was born in 1901 in Zhitomir, Ukraine. He was an actor in a traveling Jewish theatrical group and deputy Director of a local Jewish…
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 … memoir of Mark Sirota, a renowned Ukrainian Jewish actor and theatre director. The memoir, completed in 1970, only covers the author's life from 1901 to…
18. Herman Yablokoff papers
1989.58.152 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1989.58.152
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1964
…Herman Yablokoff (1903-1981) was born in Grodno (then Russian Poland, now Belarus). He became a singer and actor at a young age, immigrated to the…
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 … note / Administrative history Herman Yablokoff (1903‐1981) was born in Grodno (then Russian Poland, now Belarus). He became a singer and actor at a…
19. Eli Wallach collection
Document | Accession Number: 2007.118.1
Date:
1945
… Army, spending five years in the medical corps and was ultimately promoted to the rank of captain. After he was discharged, he became a prominent actor…
20. Fran Prager photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2007.252.1
Date:
circa 1920-1929
… and imprisoned. His extensive photo archive survives, including photographs of German political and religious figures, as well as actors, painters, and…