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  1. Nazi propaganda: anti-Polish

    This feature film opens in the German village of Emilienthal in the Polish district of Luzk in March 1939 as Polish authorities close a German school to turn it into a military police post. The teacher Maria Thomas constantly complains to the Polish mayor. Other Germans are angry about higher taxes for ethnic Germans and growing expropriations of land and houses. Maria's husband refuses to sing the Polish anthem and he is beaten up by Polish thugs who are said to thrive for the 'annihilation of...German pigs'. He dies because the police and the hospitals refuse to help Germans at all. Maria...

  2. Boris Vaysbrod memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, five pages, by Vaysbrod (Weisbrod), of Brooklyn, NY, written in Russian, describing his experiences during German occupation in Lugansk, Ukraine, and elsewhere.

  3. Ruth Oppenheim memoirs

    The Ruth Oppenheim memoirs contains a two memoirs. One entitled "The Sewing Kit," relating to experiences in Nazi Germany prior her family's immigration to the United States in 1940, and an article entitled "Kristallnacht: How It Was," which recalls her experience during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938.

  4. Invasion of France by Germans

    CU, vehicle passing though wrecked town around bomb craters; destroyed buildings in BG. CU, German soldier driving pigs into barnyard. German troops marching through French village, in open country. Farmers cutting hay with scythes. German soldier feeding hay to horses. Soldier leaning against horse, sleeping. CU, German troops sleeping alongside road, in trucks and motorcycles. CU, plates being filled with food from large copper kettle. CU, tanks passing through large concentration of artillery guns. Shot of trees and forest showing truck hauling section of pontoon bridge onto trailer. Cou...

  5. Personal history of Edith Strauss

    Testimony, 5 pages, typescript. Titled "Personal History of Edith Strauss," about childhood in Vienna, changes after Anschluss, immigration to U.S.

  6. Memoir

    Testimony, 3 pages, photocopy of manuscript, about experiences in occupied Greece.

  7. Terese Stark memoir

    A memoir relating to experiences in the Buchenwald concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  9. Pollak family collection

    Oversize, color photographic prints of diaries and papers of Otto and Helga Pollak, father and daughter imprisoned at Theresienstadt. First two folders appear to contain diaries kept by Otto Pollak at Theresienstadt in 1943-1944, includes comments about Helga, statistics about transports from Theresienstadt and number of those still living, and related matters. Other folders contain reproductions of Red Cross correspondence between Frieda Pollak (Helga's mother) in England, and Otto and Helga in Theresienstadt, as well as post-war correspondence between mother and daughter. Also contains pr...

  10. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  11. Wolf Lewkowicz collection

    Contains an introduction to the collection and other information about the Lewkowicz, Lewin, and Zissman families; approximately 178 letters and post cards written by Wolf Lewkowicz and his family to Sol J. Zissman, Lewkowicz's nephew, of Chicago, Ill., from 1922 to 1939, containing information about Lewkowicz family matters and information about the situation for Jews in Poland at that time; and 13 sound recordings, made from circa 1955 to 1965, of Sol Zissman reading the letters in Yiddish. Letter 179, written by Aaron Chmielnicki Carmi in 1945, describes Wolf Lewkowicz's last days before...

  12. Postcard

    Postcard circa 1943 from unidentified person in Sosnowitz to Chaja Cara Bartkowski, an inmate in Landshut.

  13. Oral history interview with Sophie Johl Tobias

  14. Jack Arnel photograph collection

    Contains photographs of General Eisenhower visiting the Feldafing displaced persons camp.

  15. Oral history interview with Alina Kerson

  16. Gerda and Sylva Löwenstein papers

    The Gerda and Sylva Löwenstein papers consist of identification papers documenting Gerda Levy in Berlin before the war; a birth certificate, photographs, and student records documenting Sylva Löwenstein in Berlin before the war; and a diary and poetry written by Sylva Löwenstein while imprisoned in concentration camps during the Holocaust and at the Deggendorf displaced persons camp after the war. Gerda Löwenstein materials include her German identification card and the children’s identification card she used to leave Germany and enter the United Kingdom on a 1939 Kindertransport. Sylva Löw...

  17. Oral history interview with Edith Turner

  18. Anniversary of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia republics; collective farm; Kalinin front

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "49"/ "Moscow"/ "July 1943"/ "Directed by I. Setkinoy"/ "The third anniversary of the Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian Soviet Republics" Coverage shots of commemorative event. Title: "The Lieutenant Colonel of the Latvian Red Army, Ballodis, has declared..." MS of Ballodis at podium listing Soviet Republics. Shots of crowd clapping. Titles: "People of collective-farm community"/ "Marta Plieva" Panning ELS and various shots of village nestled amidst vast mountain range. MS of Marta walking with villagers. CU signing in book. ELS of goat herd and shots of shepherds...

  19. Papers relating to experiences in the Olgopol ghetto

    Testimony, handwritten, 6 pages. Regarding family experiences in occupied Ukraine.

  20. A memoir relating to experiences in Hungary and the U.S

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript, of Marika (Marianne) Spizz, born in Hungary in 1947 to survivor parents. Describes her experience as child of survivors in U.S. (Bellmore, NY).