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  1. Jewish wedding in Holland

    Wertheimer family, CUs, jumping rope. Jewish wedding of Alfred Wertheimer (a cellist) and Marion Warner in Amsterdam, Holland on May 19, 1937. 01:04:52 Family trips: beach, Pension Belvedere, CUs girls, young women, Wertheimer family members posing in a garden. The newly married couple, Alfred and Marion.

  2. Correspondence addressed to Adolf Hitler offering him honorary citizenship to communities across Germany

    Consists of a single folder of correspondence addressed to Adolf Hitler authored by local officials throughout Germany. The content of the letter primarily concerns offers of honorary citizenship and requests for local acknowledgement and visits by Hitler.

  3. Court of the First Instance in Chmielnik Sąd Grodzki w Chmielniku (Sygn. 2152)

    Court files in civil cases and few files in criminal cases in which Jews from Chmielnik were parties: for reconstruction of birth, death, marriage certificates, for declaring ownership, for entering into possession of property, for declaring death or being declared dead, for correcting personal data, and for entering into possession of property. In addition, case repertories for the entire period containing key information on all cases decided by this court.

  4. Primary School in Wierzbnik Szkoła Podstawowa w Wierzbniku (Sygn. 2749)

    The materials relate to the school's activities, such as: reports on pedagogical conferences, administrative matters, correspondence, etc. Typical information for this type of documentation: name and surname of the child, date and place of birth; school class attended; grades in individual subjects of study. The materials (from different years) also contain school certificates.

  5. Tenth Sokol Congress 1938; Suzi's fourteenth birthday

    Kodak Safety Film logo. Continuation from RG-60.7180 (no leading title card) with scenes of the 10th Sokol Congress in Prague. Athletic meet and calisthenic performance in a gigantic stadium. Simon Guttmann and family attend the big event, seated in the stadium at 01:18:47. Performance and spectators. 01:22:16 Title card: “Středoškolské hry 1938” More stadium demonstrators and coordinated exercises. Czechoslovak flags line the stadium. 01:25:17 Guttmann family in the stands. Airplanes. Spectators clap and wave flags. 01:26:36 Title card: “Sokolský průvod 1938” Procession in Prague city stre...

  6. Files of the Sienno commune Akta Gminy Sienno (Sygn. 2816)

    Books of the minutes of meetings and resolutions of the Sienno commune (Lipsk County) council from the pre-war and post-war period contain various information about the Polish and Jewish population and their real estate. Moreover, the control of death cards for the years 1942-1945 of inhabitants of the Sienno commune. Indexes and registers of commune residents contain detailed information about individual properties and its residents, such as address, surname and first name; parents' names and mother's maiden name; date and place of birth and many more.

  7. Zborow Association in New York

    Zborov Landsmanshaften association events in New York City filmed by Nathan Okon.

  8. Prywatna Koedukacyjna Szkoła Powszechna Towarzystwa Popierania Szkolnictwa Żydowskiego i Kultury Żydowskiej „Szuł-Kult“ z żydowskim językiem nauczania w Wilnie Shul-Kult School in Wilno, Poland Žydų mokyklų ir kultūros rėmimo draugijos „Šul-Kult“ privati mišri pradžios mokykla jidiš dėstomąja kalba Vilniuje (Fond 294)

    School’s bylaws, administrative records, minutes and resolutions of the teachers' council meetings, curricula, schedule of lessons, personnel files, planning materials and activities reports, statistical data, and correspondence. It also includes a list of teachers and students, requests from parents for the admission of their children to school, graduation certificates, class registration journals and other records.

  9. Court of the First Instance in Skarżysko-Kamienna Sąd Grodzki w Skarżysku-Kamiennej (Sygn. 2944)

    Court files in civil and criminal matters in which one of the parties was a person of Jewish origin.

  10. Lourié & Co. factory in Vienna; Birthday celebration

    The Lourié plywood factory and daily family life in Vienna, Austria in the year 1929. "Ein Familienfilm aus dem Jahre 1929 Vienna, Part 1" "Hergestellt durch: Hans Brueckner Wien I. Operngassse 2." "Die Holzbearbeitungsfabrik LOURIE & CO. in Wien X." Lourié & Co. was founded in 1899 by Leopold Lourié. Pan of factory in the industrial neighborhood, tour of exterior, factory operations with businessmen. 01:07:56 The Lourié family celebrates the seventieth birthday of Leopold in the Dornbach neighborhood of Vienna. Garden party. Titles in German: 01:01:02 “Gegrundet 1899 Leopold Lourie...

  11. Edmund F. Franz papers

    Comprised of the signed identification card of Edmund F. Franz issued by the European Theater of Operations in 1945, indicating his status as a Special Investigator for the War Crimes Branch

  12. Oral history interview with Walter Klebe

  13. Kaufmann family papers

    German Passports and documents issued to Betti Neckarsulmer Kaufmann and her husband, Ernst Kaufmann who were Jewish and forced to flee Nazi Germany.

  14. Lourié plywood factory and daily family life in 1929

    Outtakes (3 reels) of the Lourié plywood factory and daily family life in Vienna, Austria in 1929.

  15. Primary School in Iłża Szkoła Podstawowa w Iłży (Sygn. 2744)

    The materials relate to the school's activities, such as: reports on pedagogical conferences, administrative matters, correspondence, etc. Typical information for this type of documentation: name and surname of the child, date and place of birth; school class attended; grades in individual subjects of study. The materials (from different years) also contain school certificates.

  16. Wanderer and Biheller families collection

    Consists of Wanderer family photographs, copies of the Biheller family tree, and restitution-related papers that primarily relate to the donor's mother, Ruth Wanderer Biheller (1935-2020) with some documentation capturing the Wanderer family's experience in the Aschau displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany after they survived the Holocaust in hiding in Brzeżany, Poland (currently Berez︠h︡any, Ukraine). They immigrated to the United States in 1951. Identification documents, such as an Israeli passport and Palestinian identity card, for Ruth's husband, Hans Josef Biheller (Joseph Bihelle...

  17. War damage; Himmler's greenhouse; Zeilsheim DP Camp

    Albert Scher served with the U.S. military intelligence between November 1945 and May 1946. The film of "Germany" includes coverage of war damage in Frankfurt, Air force station at Eschborn (Wiesbaden air force base), Orly airbase near Paris, Himmler’s greenhouse in Frankfurt (color), daily life in the Zeilsheim DP camp, soccer match, and children in costume for Purim. 01:09:27 to 01:18:06 - Zeilsheim sequence. Assembly center entrance sign. EXTs. Camp life, crowd of DPs. DP policeman. DPs get into car leaving for Palestine via Itay. Hand-made sign on building: "We Want to Go! We Have to Go...

  18. Estate Hugo Schühle Nachlass Hugo Schühle

    The papers are arranged in three main areas. The first includes Schühle’s personal and business papers. The second documents the rental and property management of the house at Prinzregentenplatz 16 in Munich including the apartment of Adolf Hitler. These records offer some insights into the banality of Hitler's way of life. The third document the expansion of the "Otto Schühle" company in October 1938 through the acquisition of the Aryanized company "Otto Herr & Co." in Hamburg and its roofing felt factory in Malliß (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania) from Ludwig Schwabe and Elsa Kaufmann. In ...

  19. American Jew travels to Poland

    Home movie coverage of a trip to Poland taken by Walter Wiener in 1934. Scenes cover the farewell in New York, on board the ship, arriving in England, touring through France, greeting family members in Panevesz, Poland, a synagogue sponsored by Americans, the market, meeting relatives in Kovno, Lithuania, and returning to the United States. The film includes Yiddish intertitles.

  20. "Hungarian Minority" Magyar Kisebbség [Newspapers]

    Magyar Kisebbség [Hungarian Minority], a journal published during the interwar period in Southern Transylvania expressing positions of the Hungarian elite towards the Jewish community in Transylvania .