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  4. Eva and Győrgy with baby András

    Mother Eva plays with baby András. CUs, András. Baby plays with various teddy bears and toys. EXT, apartment in Szeged, Győrgy walks out holding the baby. He walks up to the camera and starts to rock the baby (repeats). András in a basket on a sidewalk. Eva picks him up, coddling him and posing. They both look happy and smile. Pető bounces baby András in his arms, both smile. Eva stands over the baby in a basket, playing with András. Film ends 02:30

  6. Oral history interview with Olga Grünwald Vèkes

  7. Oral history interview with Oscar Trief

  9. Oral history interview with Gerry Clarke

  10. Swimming in Budapest; zoo visit

    The Schiffers put coats on and children play on a grassy hillside. (01:30) Anni and János swim with Ernö at Szecheny bath/pools in Budapest in July 1934. (02:42) At a restaurant on Lake Balaton. The family takes a boat trip, views of water, horizon, sailboat. (05:11) At Szecheny bath, swimming, including János, Anni, Bözske, Alice, Gyuri, and nurse-maid Tete. (06:20) Trip to the zoo that includes elephants, camels, zebras, and other animals. János and others ride ponies and horses at the zoo. (09:20) They greet more animals, including peacocks, tigers, and bears. (10:02) Newborn Éva (János’...

  11. Marianne and Edgar Fraenkel papers

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Marianne (Theisebach) and Edgar Fraenkel, who both fled Germany for the United States in 1937 (Marianne) and 1941 (Edgar). Includes birth certificates; identification documents; safe-conduct passes and affidavits in lieu of passports issued in France; U.S. naturalization documents; U.S. army documents issued to Edgar; Red Cross letters; a Reisepass (passport) issued to Marianne in August 1933; United Kingdom immigrant registration paperwork; and other documentation of their efforts to flee Nazi Germany.

  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. Manfred and Adella Plaut collection

    Papers related to Manfred Plaut, including U.S. naturalization paperwork, identification documents, correspondence with the International Tracing Service regarding the fate of family members, and a photocopied chapter from the book "One, by one, by one : facing the Holocaust," by Judith Miller (1990). Also includes material related to Adella (Wachtenheim) Plaut, including her efforts to trace the fate of her family members.

  14. Oral history interview with Maurice Behar

  15. Siegfried and Katherine Susskind collection

    Affidavits of Identity and Nationality for Siegfried Susskind and Katherine Susskind (née Zappen), who left Germany in 1939, went to Budapest, and were then in Shanghai from 1940-1948 before immigrating to the United States. Also includes Katherine Susskind's "Acknowledgment of Filing Petition for Naturalization" and blank postcards of scenes around Hongkew, China.

  17. Sherman Carpenter letter

    The collection consists of a letter written by Sherman Carpenter who served with the 45th Infantry Division of the United States Army during World War II. He wrote the letter to his Baptist minister back home in Louisville, KY on Adolf Hitler’s stationary which he found in an empty office in a government building in Munich. In the letter, Sherman describes what he witnessed in the Dachau concentration camp.

  18. Schiffer family posing for the camera in City Park

    “Danubius Pathé Baby Budapest” A continuation of Film ID 4402, adults pose for the camera in a park. (02:02) Gyuri playfully photographs the cameraman, Ernö. Jonas and Jenny Schiffer. “Danubius Pathé Baby Budapest”

  19. Municipality of Farms 412-4/3 Gemeinde Farmsen

    Selected records of the Gemeinde Farmsen (Commune Farms), Gemeindevertreter (Municipal Representative), and Gemeindebeirat (Municipal Advisory Council) relating to farms, execution of the law for restoration of the civil service, road construction and maintenance, unemployment relief, free gymnastics and sport clubs, school medical examination (1931-1933), and a role of the public library.

  20. Architect Gutschow (Architect for the redesign of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg and the office of important mission) 322-3 Architekt Gutschow (Architekt für die Neugestaltung der Hansestadt Hamburg und Amt für kriegswichtigen Einsatz)

    Selected records relating to redesign of the hanseatic city of Hamburg. Contains correspondence, architectural plans, and legal contracts sent to the architect Konstanty Gutschow.