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  1. Refugees in France

    Paramount Newsreel, Issue 74, Released May 1941 “Preview of Despair” Voice: Gilbert Martyn "First authentic films of refugee camps in conquered France - the first real hint of what's going on throughout a Europe in Nazi chains." Refugees work in unidentified internment camp; French flag; man digging with one arm. Wounded refugees. Women walk into women’s barracks (probably Rivesaltes). INT of barracks, fixes bunks, luggage on shelf, scrubs clothes. INT, wounded men in hospital (matches photo from Récébédou), nurses. “1938” Refugees trek over mountain in snow, warm a boy’s feet at fire (acco...

  2. Czechoslovakia; refugees; protests in London

    Paramount Newsreel, Issue 16, Released September 1938. Title: "Filtering through rigorous censorships, these first pictures bring realization of Europe's extreme peril." Elevated view the city of Liberec, Czechoslovakia. “LIBEREC. REICHENBERG” sign. Streetcar and townspeople travel about the city’s Main Street. Czech Policemen, mounted on horses, patrol the streets. Six Czech troops stand guard at the border. CU of a Czech soldier wearing his kevlar. A Czech military official points to something afar while speaking to his subordinates. 00:24 PAN of the city of Eger. CU sign for the city of ...

  3. Oral testimony of Clara Robzyk

  4. Proclamations regarding boycott of German products and the Transfer Agreements

    Contains seven proclamations regarding the boycott of German products and the Transfer Agreements, printed in Palestine; undated, likely 1930s. Includes propaganda and publicity handbills regarding the ban which the Yishuv imposed on German products. The proclamations are (in translation): "Begone German products!", advertisement for Velux razor blades made in Switzerland which "declared that it will protect all Jews"; a blank form addressed to the survey committee "regarding the Transfer and the boycott of German products"; "Until when will the Yishuv support Hitler?" proclamation calling ...

  5. Medical forms from Aliyat Hanoar

    Contains seventeen forms, both typed and handwritten, with medical examinations results, issued by Jüdische Jugendhilfe [Assistance for Jewish Youth], for would-be immigrants to Palestine, in Vienna, Berlin, Zurich, Freiburg, Tachov (Czechoslovakia) and other locations. Jüdische Jugendhilfe [Assistance for Jewish youth] was the official title of "Aliyat HaNo'ar" organization in Germany, meant to mask its Zionist goals. The organization was founded in 1933 by Recha Freier, and acted to unite Jewish youth movements, to give their members professional training and to obtain immigration certifi...

  6. Broadside against owners of Jewish business in Poland

    Wlasciele firmy Bracia Mund agenci hitlerowscy zmarli śmiercią cywilną dla Społeczeństwa żydowskiego, a broadside denouncing the owners of a Jewish business ("Mund Brothers"), blaming them for cooperation with the Nazis following their participation in a trade show in Leipzig. No note of printer, publisher or date, [Poland, 1930s]. Polish. A broadside denouncing the owners of "Mund Brothers", a Jewish business in Lvov. The notice was printed following their participation in a trade show in Leipzig and blames them for cooperation with the Nazis, "in the most difficult time for the Jewish peo...

  7. Paper Israeli flag

    Paper Israeli flag: gift from the Jewish Brigade to Belgian children. [Belgium?, ca. 1945].Single leaf, printed on both sides (hand-printed, not professional). Printed on one side are a Star of David between two light-blue stripes and the verse "The redeemed of the L-d shall return, and come with singing unto Zion" (Isiah, 51, 11). Printed on the other side are a Star of David between two light-blue stripes with the inscription "Gift from the Jewish Fighting Force [Jewish Brigade] to the children of Belgium."

  8. Refugees from Yugoslavia arrive in Italy

    Paramount Newsreel, Issue 51, Released February 1944 “Italy: Yugoslav Patriots Rescued!” Voice: Bob Harris Yugoslav civilians rescued and transported to Allied territory in Italy for rehabilitation. Signal Corps film of refugees from Yugoslavia getting off boat in Italy, some with large bundles. Animated map. Barracks and tents, line of refugees walking. Soldier checks papers. Walking past barracks. Col. Macfarland, US Army Chief of the “dis-placed persons commission” talks to a group. US soldiers unload truck with American food, ham. The refugees eat soup, bread. Yugoslav soldiers from “Ti...

  9. Phillip Greenglass family papers

    The collection consists of letters written to Phillip Greenglass in the United States from his family in Babruĭsk, Belarus. A select few letters in Russian also include donor-provided translations. Also included are pre-war photographs of Phillip’s family in Babruĭsk and depictions of his visit with his family in Babruĭsk in 1938.

  10. Sandra Abbott photographs

    Photographs: Palestine/Israel and the Israeli War of Independance, portrait of donor's great grandfather; digital copies of photos of the Tek and Hebron yeshivot.

  11. Becker family papers

    Biographical materials and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Becker family of Budapest, Hungary. Biographical materials include Ivan Becker’s Swedish protection document issued by Raoul Wallenberg and postwar documents from the Bad Gastein displaced persons camp; identification documents of his father Dezsö Becker, grandmother Frida Becker, and sister Anna Becker; his mother Kato Becker’s handwritten Hungarian cookbook; and a family history. Photographs include depictions of World War I, family photographs, and postwar photographs from Bad Gastein. Biographical ma...

  12. Watercolor created in Theresienstadt

    Artwork: 'Mizrach' artwork, watercolor created by Hilde Zadikow in Theresienstadt concentration camp. The artist was born in 1890 in Prague, Czechoslovakia and deported to Terezin with her husband Arnold (who died there) and daughter Marianne. While there, Hilde created this Mizrach [a work of art placed on a wall facing Jerusalem] in 1943. Hebrew translates to "The Lord shall grant strength to His people; the Lord shall bless His people with peace" and "For You light my lamp; the Lord, my G-d, does light my darkness." Dictated to her by Leo Baeck. Hilde and Marianne survived and immigrated...

  13. Prayer book

    Consists of a Tefilat Yiśraʼel (Israels gebete) prayer book, published c. 1943 Basel which includes names and addresses of various contacts inscribed by the donor's father, a Holocaust survivor, while living as a displaced person in Leipheim.

  14. Oral history interview with Helen Laks

  15. Rosenkrantz family collection

    Contains approximately 40 letters written by Aharon (Arnold) Rosenkrantz and his brother David (Dovid) Rosenkrantz to their parents, Josef and Pesia, in Vienna in 1938-1939, as well as a postcard of the ship Patria, in which one of the brothers, possibly both, boarded. Includes envelopes, with stamps removed. The collection also includes two letters by a brother from a Jewish summer camp in southern Austria in 1936, diary entries from Aaron from 1947, notebooks containing stories and poems written by Aaron, as well as birth certificates and his school and his physics and science studies not...

  16. Sax family collection

    Collection of correspondence between Ervin Sax, a Jewish soldier in the British Army, who was captured by the Germans and held in Stalag VIIIB as a British POW, and his wife Gabriella in Palestine. Several letters concern the attempts by both to work with Mandate authorities to secure their house in Czechoslovakia. Several letters were facilitated through the Red Cross.

  17. Shlomo Gorner collection

    Contains papers that belonged to Shlomo Gorner, who immigrated to Palestine in 1925, and in 1927 was called to Bulgaria as a Hebrew teacher. Gorner remained in Bulgaria for 19 years until 1945. The collection includes documents from his time in Bulgaria, some with Jewish and Zionist contact, and a postcard addressed to him that was sent from the Łódź Ghetto in 1940 from A. Michelson. Collection also includes photographs, and Jewish newspapers or newspaper clippings from Bulgaria in the 1930s.

  18. Photograph of Yishuv parachutists

    A group photograph of 21 people, 12 parachutists from the Yishuv, about six months before they were parachuted into occupied Europe. The paratroopers are identified by numbers on the photograph and the names index on the back of the photograph. Photographed on April 23, 1944. The names on the back are on a sticker affixed to the back of the photo, on the back side are glue residues from an album in which the photograph was glued.

  19. Mein Kampf 2 movie poster

    An Italian poster of the Swedish documentary "Mein Kampf 2." The film, which was distributed in the world under the name "Secrets of the Nazi Criminals," deals with the Nuremberg trials and Nazi atrocities.

  20. Carson P. Pate collection

    Contains 19 photographic postcards and postcards preserved by Carson P. Pate (donor's father ), who served with the 30th Signal Corps and the 30th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army.