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Jenkins Orphanage papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1063
Abstract A Charleston (S.C.) orphanage for African American children, founded in 1891 by Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins. The Orphan Aid Society (chartered 1892) was the governing board of the orphanage. Organized by members of the church where Reverend Jenkins was pastor, the Society furnished much of the financial support for the orphanage's efforts to provide education, training, skills, and care to orphans, half orphans, and destitute children. After Jenkins' death his widow, Mrs. Eloise C....
Dates: 1891-1991; Majority of material found in 1945-1980

Harriet McBryde Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0156
Abstract Writings, working files, diplomas, awards, recognitions, memorials, and audiovisual materials of Harriet McBryde Johnson. Materials document Johnson's disability and civil rights advocacy and activism, her career as an author and an attorney, and her participation in Charleston city and county politics. Disabled due to a congenital degenerative neuromuscular disease she came to prominence after debating Peter Singer concerning his views on disability-based infanticide and for her annual...
Dates: 1971-2010

Lawrence Layden scrapbook

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Identifier: Mss 1065-042
Abstract

The collection consists of a scrapbook compiled by Lawrence "Ed" Layden, an officer with the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. The scrapbook contains photographs of Layden at various bases during the war, reconnaissance photographs, and photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp, which Layden visited on April 17, 1945, six days after it was liberated.

Dates: 1941-1945

Levi and D'Ancona families papers

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Identifier: Mss 1159
Abstract

Collection includes assorted family records relating to the Levi and D'Ancona families as well as a small amount of materials relating to the Gruenwald/Greenwald family. Also included are the papers of Wendell Mitchell Levi Sr. and his son Dr. Wendell M. Levi Jr.

Dates: 1753-2016; Majority of material found within 1900-2016

Jerry Meyerson World War II photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1169
Abstract

This collection consists of a photograph album and loose photographs from Jerry Meyerson's service in Europe during World War II, as well as some photographs from the homefront and a few photocopies of clippings/certificates related to his father Louis A. Meyerson.

Dates: approximately 1940s

William Vincent Moore papers

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Identifier: Mss 0153
Abstract Writings, printed materials, working files, correspondence, photographs, and audiovisual materials of William Vincent Moore, Professor of Political Science at the College of Charleston from 1972 to 2009. Materials document Moore's scholarly research of American political extremism, South Carolina politics, and Southern politics. Printed materials amassed by Moore make up a significant portion of the collection and consist of newspapers, newsletters, magazines, booklets, pamphlets, direct...
Dates: 1895-2009; Majority of material found within 1940-2009

National Council of Jewish Women Charleston Section records

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Identifier: Mss 1038
Abstract

The collection consists of the records of the Charleston Section of the National Council of Jewish Women. A substantial portion of the collection documents the Charleston Section's fundraising activities, charitable and educational programs, membership events, and 100th anniversary celebration through photographs, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other materials. Also included are materials documenting its administrative and financial activities and early history.

Dates: 1906-2018

B.A. Rodrigues Ottolengui scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1053
Collection Overview The collection consists of a scrapbook (1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 35 cm.) and pieces which were removed from the scrapbook and, in some cases, photocopied. The scrapbook is inscribed: "This is 'Mama's' scrapbook and was given to me by 'Mother' and 'Papa' on the 25th of September 1874. B.A.R. Ottolengui." Given to B.A. Rodrigues Ottolengui in 1874, the scrapbook contains pseudonymous and other publications by his mother Helen Rodriguez Ottolengui in Civil War era publications as well as...
Dates: approximately 1860-approximately 1890; Majority of material found within 1860s-1879

Mike Prayzer papers

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Identifier: Mss 1065-043
Abstract

The collection consists of newspaper clippings and a videotaped interview of Mike Prayzer, a Jewish native of Bendzin, Poland, who survived imprisonment in ten concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau. Prayzer immigrated to the United States in 1949.

Dates: 1982-1995

Rosen family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1143
Collection Overview

The collection contains assorted family photographs, correspondence, clippings, newspaper photocopies, and ephemera documenting the Rosen family’s history. Of special focus is the life and work of Sylvan Lewenthal Rosen (1913-1996), former Georgetown mayor (1948-1961) and prominent local attorney. Also included are various genealogical records related to the Rosen family.

Dates: 1938-2015

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Special Collections 22
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture 2
 
Subject
correspondence 13
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 11
black-and-white photographs 10
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 9
color photographs 7
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black-and-white negatives 5
memoirs 5
videocassettes 5
DVDs 4
Holocaust survivors 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 4
black-and-white slides 4
letters (correspondence) 4
scrapbooks 4
audiocassettes 3
digital images 3
newsletters 3
pamphlets 3
photo CDs 3
photographs 3
rosters 3
Holocaust survivors -- Germany 2
Holocaust survivors -- Poland 2
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Poland 2
books 2
certificates 2
diplomas 2
facsimiles (reproductions) 2
identity cards 2
magazines (periodicals) 2
military records 2
notes (documents) 2
orders (military records) 2
photograph albums 2
research notes 2
typescripts 2
33 1/3 RPM record 1
45 rpm records 1
African American children -- Institutional care -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American children -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American fire fighters -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Charities 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Ahlem (Germany) 1
Aspet (France) 1
Authors with disabilities -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
B-17 bomber 1
Biology -- Research 1
Bomber pilots -- United States 1
Burlesques 1
Będzin (Poland) 1
Canada 1
Charleston (S.C.) 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Climate -- History 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Genealogy 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Politics and government 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Social life and customs 1
Christmas shopping -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Czechoslovakia 1
Disability awareness -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Discrimination in employment -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Distinguished Flying Cross (Medal) 1
Edisto Island (S.C.) -- Genealogy 1
Education -- 19th century 1
Emigration and immigration -- Czechoslovakia 1
England 1
Ephemera 1
Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography 1
Fire fighters -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Fort Moultrie (S.C.) -- Anniversaries, etc. 1
Freed persons -- Poetry 1
Fund raising -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Germans -- Canada -- Evacuation and relocation, 1939-1943 1
Germans -- Great Britain -- Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1945 1
Gurs (France) 1
Hidden children (Holocaust) -- France 1
Holocaust survivors -- Austria -- Vienna 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives 1
Jewish actors -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Jewish artists -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Jewish authors -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France 1
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Genealogy 1
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Georgetown 1
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Sumter 1
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Sumter -- Social life and customs 1
Jewish journalists -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Jewish refugees -- United States 1
Jewish women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Charities 1
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
Kindertransports (Rescue operations) 1
Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Great Britain 1
Lawyers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Louisiana 1
Mayors -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 19th century 1
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Language
German 8
French 4
Czech 2
Hebrew 2
Dutch; Flemish 1
 
Names
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 2
College of Charleston 2
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) 2
Academy of Music (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Adams, George Alexander, 1887-1984 1
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Adams, George Smith, 1923-2018 1
Adams, Theodora Elizabeth Smith, 1888-1983 1
Ahlem (Concentration camp) 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Archambault, Sandra, 1944-2022 1
Berlinsky, Jaclyn 1
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 1
Buckley, Edward D. 1
Burges, George Detwiler, 1917-1944 1
Burges, Julius 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Washington Artillery Battalion (New Orleans, La.) 1
D'Ancona family 1
Dachau (Concentration camp) 1
DeLeon, Isabelle, 1858-1927 1
Drayton family 1
Freilich, Max, 1924- 1
Fund family 1
Fund, Claire 1
Grabin, David, 1919-2004 1
Greene, Regina Kawer, 1920-1990 1
Greene, Samuel, 1914-2013 1
Greenhill, Marsha Silver 1
Grimké family 1
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879 1
Grimké, Frederick, 1791-1863 1
Grimké, John Fauchereaud, 1752-1819 1
Grimké, John Paul, 1713-1791 1
Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 1
Grimké, Thomas Smith, 1786-1834 1
Gurs (Concentration camp) 1
Halio, Frances, 1932-2017 1
Herz, Rudolf, 1925-2011 1
Independent Order of B'nai B'rith 1
Jenkins Orphanage (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins' Orphanage Band 1
Jenkins, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1937 1
Johnson, Elizabeth Ross 1
Johnson, Harriet McBryde 1
Kerner family 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Layden, Lawrence, 1916-2011 1
Levi, Kathryn Weinberg 1
Levi, Wendell Mitchell, 1891-1976 1
Levi, Wendell Mitchell, 1927-2015 1
Levin, Nathaniel, 1816-1899 1
Levy family 1
Lewis, Jerry, 1926-2017 1
Mehrtens, W. Rieppe 1
Meyerson, Jane Pearlstine 1
Meyerson, Jerry, 1921-2015 1
Moore, Mark S. 1
Moore, William V. 1
National Council of Jewish Women. Charleston Section 1
Orphan Aid Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Ottolengui family 1
Ottolengui, Cecile, 1858-1936 1
Ottolengui, Daniel, 1836-1918 1
Ottolengui, Helen Rosalie Rodrigues, 1843-1866 1
Ottolengui, Rodrigues, 1861-1937 1
Palmetto Pigeon Plant 1
Prayzer, Mike, 1922-1995 1
Rosen (Family : Georgetown, South Carolina) 1
Rosen family 1
Rosen, Benedict 1
Rosen, Sylvan Lewenthal, 1913-1996 1
Rubin, Bernice Prayzer 1
Schiller, Hugo, 1931- 1
Sieradzki, Benjamin, 1927-2011 1
Silverman, Gail 1
Singer, Peter, 1946- 1
Smith family 1
Smith, Daniel Townsend, 1842-1929 1
Smith, Thomas Peter, 1814-1903 1
Stern, Abraham, 1929- 1
Synnestvedt, Alice Resch, 1908- 1
Syré-Herz, Ursula 1
Tott, Vernon W. 1
Townsend family 1
United States. Army Air Forces 1
United States. Army. Air Corps. Air Force, 9th 1
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 84th 1
Wolfsohn, Siegmund, 1919-2000 1
Wolfson, Janet 1
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