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  2. Sightseeing; Skiing

    INTs, the family sits on a couch, drinking coffee. Lion sculpture, female tour-guide. The mates hold hands around a large tree (dark). They visit historic places, gardens, churches in Kolín. Scenic views of a river. Church. Cute kittens. Downed trees. 01:02:19 An elderly man (Solomon) stands in the road, possibly in Czechoslovakia near the family factory in Jihlava. 01:02:23 Outside a hotel or resort (people lounge on chairs), brief shot of Ferdinand Hausner walking towards the camera accompanied by a young man with glasses (who appears in other films). Walter in a dark sui, walks on a wood...

  7. Frances Potts papers

    The Frances Potts papers consists of a two page letter with an addressed envelope written by Frances G. Potts (later Frances M. Grubbs Etherington) of the American Red Cross. The letter is addressed to Captain and Mrs. O L. Grubbs, Jr. in Walla Walla, Washington and is written in English and dated May 3, 1945. The letter congratulates the couple on their pregnancy and describes her visits to the Ohrdruf concentration camp and the atrocities committed by the Nazis. The papers also includes a photograph of Frances Potts, a member of the American Red Cross, stationed in Europe in 1944 and 1945.

  8. Lester L. Thomas photograph collection

    Consists of four photographs depicting scenes of liberation at Dachau that are associated with the military service of Lester L. Thomas who belonged to Company B of the 1st Signal Battalion.

  9. Oral history interview with Salvator Moshe

  10. Bow tie

    Bow tie made for Joseph Feitler to be worn on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah in 1938, Vienna, Austria, which was canceled by his mother after the Anschluss.

  11. Oral history interview with Maurice Behar

  12. Anne Birnbaum collection

    Contains letters written by Annie Zwern in Frankfurt am Main to relatives in the United States before the war; a document dated June 1939 regarding the registration of a family with German police in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; and a newspaper clipping with a photograph of Blanka Zwern and her daughter Anna arriving on the S.S. Marine Marlin in New York.

  13. Schiffer family relatives in a village in Slovakia

    Goats walk through village of Gelnica, Slovakia. (00:44) Three adults (including Ernö and Laci Schiffer’s sister Lola and her husband Nathan Engel) walk on the street. (00:59) Boats in a lake. Golnic River nearby. “Danubius r.t. Budapest Pathé 9.5”

  14. Sara Nussbacher and Chaim Yeger collection

    Manuscripts in English and Hebrew documenting the experiences of Sara Nussbacher (nee Markowich) and Chaim Wolf Yeger. Includes copy of Hebrew manuscript by Tali Geva in 1989 about Chaim Yeger and the English translation by donors of that manuscript. Manuscript about Sara Nussbacher written in English by donors based on her oral history, and includes original photographs.

  16. Walter Eisenhuth photograph collection

    Consists of 16 photographs documenting scenes at Buchenwald shortly following liberation. The photographs are associated with the military service of Walter Eisenhuth, who served with an Army Engineer Maintenance Company. Includes images of piles of corpses; the burial of victims; survivors in their camp uniforms; scenes at various buildings aroud the camp site; and the hanging of a sign, in English, announcing a memorial observance for the victims of the camp.

  17. Oral history interview with Fiorella Fano

  18. Cukier and Cohen families papers

    The collection primarily consists of correspondence of brothers Max Cohen and Charles Cohen, both of whom immigrated to the United States before World War II from Poland, from their nephews Jakub Cukier and Shmul Cukier. Early letters concern Max’s attempts to help Shmul immigrate to the United States in the early 1920s. Postwar letters from Jakub inform his uncle Charles that he and his older brother served with the Polish Army, were imprisoned, and that his parents and older brother all perished in the Holocaust.

  19. Israel "Sol" Sokolik papers

    The collection consists of handwritten testimony of the wartime experiences of Israel "Sol" Sokolik, who survived the Holocaust in Slonim (Belarus) in the ghetto and as a partisan. The testimony was used at the 1973 trial of Gerhardt Erren and Lothar Schultz for war crimes committed in Slonim. Also included are two doucments in Polish and Russian.

  20. "Massenmord" airdropped leaflet

    Double-sided leaflet dropped over Germany in late 1942 following the December 17, 1942 declaration by the United Kingdom and United States stating explicitly that the German authorities were engaging in mass murder of the European Jews. The leaflet describes the deportations and mass murder already underway, and promises postwar punishment for those responsible.