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  1. Frederick Bergmann memoir

    Testimony, typescript, two pages, undated, written by Frederick Bergmann, recording childhood in Fuerth, education, emigration in summer 1939, internment as enemy alien, first in England, and then in Canada for duration of war, enlistment in Canadian Army toward end of war and deployment with occupation troops in Germany.

  2. Ivano-Frankovsky Regional Museum records

    Contains statements, reports, photographs, and articles relating to the German and Hungarian occupation of Ukraine; atrocities committed against Jews and Soviet citizens in the region; statistics for executions; names of Gestapo leaders suspected of crimes; and the Tabor Smertii "death camp" at Stanislav, Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine).

  3. A memoir relating to experiences in Warsaw and as a hidden child

    Testimony, typescript, 56 pages, titled "My Story," describing childhood in Warsaw, German invasion and occupation, life in the ghetto, escape from the ghetto, and living in hiding in villages near Warsaw for duration of war.

  4. Permit for Maurits Waterman to leave Westerbork and work at the Center for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam

    Photocopy of identification card for Maurits Waterman, Westerbork camp, and related documents, 1942-1943.

  5. Peterhof destruction; Leningrad

    Titles: "The first pig iron in the country" Smelting factory and workers. CUs molten metal pouring into vats and moving along conveyor belts. LS numerous rail carts filled with pig iron. Titles "Film-reporting from the frontlines"/ "The Leningrad front" Shots of field strewn with dormant munitions. Various shots of German corpses. CU of German corpse lying atop swastika flag. War-ravaged Peterhof; the Cascade steps and Samson fountain. Contrasting shots of fountain pre-war with fountain in ruins. Various shots of civilians in Leningrad. 03:43:12 Titles: "The Advance of Leningrad Continues" ...

  6. Berkowicz family collection

    The Berkowicz family collection contains records pertaining to Joseph and Eugenie Berkowicz of Warsaw, Poland. These include identity cards, marriage and birth certificates, and items related to Joseph’s cannery business; Fabryka Konserw “Original.” Also included are photographs of the family and announcements of family member’s deaths. The Berkowicz family papers contain records relating to Joseph and Eugenie (Gene) Berkowicz. The records are primarily certificates and identification, including identity cards, marriage and birth certificates, and Gene’s fake ID under the name Irena Janisze...

  7. A memoir relating to experiences as a hidden child in Novi Sad

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript. Author was native of Vienna whose family lived in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, during the occupation, which she describes, including her life as a hidden child.

  8. Marlene Shapiro photograph collection

    The collection consists of six photographs of the Sendach family in Poland and of a group of boys in the Mizrahi organization before World War II. Some photographs have captions in Yiddish on the verso.

  9. Oral history interview with Arnold Fleischmann

  10. Dona Ashkinadze memoir

    Testimony, manuscript, two pages, undated (circa 1990s), by Dona Ashkinadze, in which she describes the Mogilyov-Podolsky ghetto and Pechora concentration camp.

  11. Rafael Fischer papers

    Original letters/diaries from Braslav (1941?), as well as later transcript of a Russian document (1944, transcript in 1990s), and document in Yiddish, unidentified, with background info on Braslav from Museum of Jewish Diaspora (1980s). Context needs to be determined.

  12. Abstract bronze statue of a concentration camp inmate made by a Czech Jewish survivor

    Small bronze statue cast from the figurine made by Vera Meisels from a bar of washing soap shortly after her liberation from Theresienstadt concentration camp in early May 1945. This figurine was cast in 2002 because the original was drying out and losing its original shape. The work is based upon Vera's memories of the concentration camp inmates called Musselmann, prisoners near death due to exhaustion, illness, starvation, or hopelessness. In August 1944, eight year old Vera, her parents, Cecilia and Zoltan, and her 12 year old sister, Aliska, fled Ruzomberok, Czechoslovakia, after the Sl...

  13. Sailing on "Ile de France"

    Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. Jacob's wife walks towards the camera on board the "Ile de France." Belle and Judith play ring toss on the upper deck. Jacob and his wife lounge in chaises. High angle shot nuns aboard boat, on deck. MS, sea, other passengers, sailors. MS, Jacob Herz poses for camera. Sailors. Brief shot of people playing shuffleboard.

  14. Horace Freeman photograph collection

    Contains 19 photographs depicting scenes from Buchenwald and Ohrdruf concentration camps after liberation. Captions are written by Horace Freeman on the verso of the photographs.

  15. Dr. Philip Solomon letter

    The three-page letter was written in Munich, Germany, and sent from Dr. Philip "Pinny" Solomon [donor's father], a physician in the U.S. Army, to his parents, Max and Dora Solomon, who lived in the United States. In the letter Pinny discusses his search for and discovery of his cousin, Jakob Ben-Zion Feinstein, who had been a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp.

  16. BDM

    BDM women with flowers at village house, EXT. 01:15:36 Automobile 01:15:38 BDM women on steps of house, gardening. Girls marching on country road, picking plums. Girls eating, performing skit, writing, eating, marching.

  17. Poles bury their war dead, Warsaw, Poland 1946

    Red Cross banner in the center of large memorial wreath- crowds of people- men women and children, this is POSTWAR footage, 1946. Polish soldiers are milling about, several military vehicles. Civilians: men, women and children, some with Red Cross armbands, a group of nurses, etc. They process to a cemetery gate, purchase candles for graves. In the BG a wooden coffin is moving past on the shoulders of some soldiers. White flags drape the gates to the cemetery. This scene cuts out before we enter the cemetery.

  18. Theater performance; balcony

    INT of a theater. People in costume rehearse a scene in which a king and queen process across the stage, followed by men holding the King's train. Two women (not seen heretofore on Film IDs 2719 or 2720 are shown sitting in the audience, no one else in audience. One of these women is shown on a balcony in the sunshine, cuddling and playing with a cat, which doesn't seem happy about the situation. A bald man in civilian clothes is shown briefly playing with the cat as well (man seen at 01:06:10 in Story 4409 and in Story 4411). Brief shot of mountain and lake.

  19. Invasion of the USSR

    German soldiers on horseback and in vehicles on a dusty road, moving east, on the march toward Schaulen (Siauliai). The camera focuses on one soldier who has his foot soaking in a bucket, riding on a horse-drawn cart. The music is upbeat and slightly comical. Three soldiers carry radio or telephone equipment between them as they walk. The music changes as the soldiers engage the enemy with automatic weapons and rifles. A few Soviet soldiers, with their hands in the air, surrender to the Germans. More fighting, surrender, burning vehicles. Close-ups of POWs, including one woman, described by...

  20. Rufa Kotlyarskaya photograph collection

    One photograph is a family portrait of the grandparents of Rufa Kotlyarskaya and their children, including her mother. The other photograph depicts a memorial to the murdered Jews in Starokonstantinov, Soviet Union (now Starokostiantyniv, Ukraine).