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  1. Dinner reception at Pető home; snowstorm and hunting

    WIth titles in Hungarian. “I.RÉSZ” with picture of a violin and a lever-action rifle. “AMI NEM MINDENKINEK SIKERÜL”. “A78-IK SZÜLETÉSNAP” An older woman looks at the camera, smiles, and talks. “ACSALÁD” CU, 3 playing cards - a jack, a king, and (what looks to be) a joker. INT, Laszlo Pető in the middle of two men playing cards, with 1 man standing in the BG. “ÖSSZES AOLU SŬLI ULSIMO” They play cards. Women, including older sister of Gyorgy, Rózsa Pető, and Zseni Krausz, sit at a table, eating and talking. 01:48 “II. RÉSZ” “AMI NEM MINDENKINEK SIKERÜL” “A33-IK SZÜLETÉSNAP” “MEGÉRTE, MEGÍRTA…...

  2. Zoller collection

    Contains a copy print image of donor's father eating a meal with family shortly after arriving in Los Angeles.

  3. Chad Anderson photograph collection

    The Chad Anderson collection consists of photographs taken by the donor's grandfather, Bernhardt Wilhelm Fahje, of the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp. The photographs include images of the corpses of victims, United States soldiers among the victims, the burial of camp victims by German civilians, exterior of buildings and fences at the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  4. Friedrich and Paula Haas papers

    Consists of documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Friedrich and Paula (nee Klawir) Haas, who were born in Vienna and fled to Ireland before immigrating to the United States. Includes materials related to their affidavits of support prepared by Lawrence Schnadig of Chicago, IL, who was not related to them. The collection also illustrates Friedrich's imprisonment in Buchenwald and Dachau after the Kristallnacht pogroms, including letters from the camps.

  5. Sasha Kaufman letter

    Contains a letter, possibly a form letter, with envelope, signed by Sasha Kaufman in the Landsberg DP camp, addressed to UN Secretary General Trygve Lie. The letter appeals to the United Nations to help open Palestine to Jewish refugees who had suffered in Nazi concentration camps.

  6. Touring Bremen and Berlin; parades

    Group outing (of the amateur film club?) in Germany. Outdoor sculpture (Monument to the March Dead), statue in Weimar, CUs of the group, wreath at base of statue, drinking fountain. 01:01:42 Man in suit delivers speech (microphone on stand), girls in white dresses beside him, boys with flags. Scenic shot. Dining outdoors. Brief sequence of a man with a movie camera (01:02:14). Church. “Restaurant Cafe Kugel” Small group marches in the street with flags. Gathered near Kolonialdenkmal statue of elephant in Bremen. Harbor at Bremerhaven. The tour group gathers to board a small boat. Shots of t...

  7. Ralph Steinhart papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ralph Steinhart, originally of Hannover, Germany, including his pre-war life in Germany and his immigration to the United States in 1941. Included are a United States alien registration card issued to Rolf Steinhart, 1942; a plastic case to hold the registration card; Ralph’s certificate of naturalization,1950; and pre-war family photographs.

  8. Oral history interview with Maria Laurino

  9. Jewish refugees leave Germany for Marseilles, 1948

    Platform in train station in Germany. Jewish refugees and officials and a truck in front of the passenger railcars. CU women and children waving and looking out of a train car: “PWA Reserve Zug 72” written on the side. CU refugees wave out of the open door of a train car. Door with sign: “nicht öffnen bevor der zug balt.” 01:08:10 A few men direct trucks. A truck is loaded with luggage and people. Second truck from the back, being loaded with luggage and people, License Plates: “Marseille B de R.A” and “5988 C n 5”. Trucks full of people driving down a road on a rocky, snowy hillside, heade...

  10. Charles Roman papers

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Charles Roman during the Holocaust.

  11. Samuel Joseph Monturo papers

    The collection documents Samuel Joseph Monturo’s service with the United States Army, including his separation and discharge papers, two photocopies of photographs depicting Monturo in uniform, and a personalized leather document holder embossed with “War Service Record” and Monturo’s name. Also included is a document “Wartime Trials Nurnberg, Germany Nov 20, 1945” which lists the twenty one defendants, and a brief synopsis of their backgrounds.

  12. Oral history interview with Alan Harrison

  13. Schubach family collection

    Documents, passport, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the emigration of Pauline Schubach [nee Pfeiffer], her husband, Gustav, and their children, Robert and Inge, in 1939. These materials also document their sponsorship by William Stein, Pauline’s maternal uncle, and Pauline’s efforts to try and obtain visas for her parents, Bernhard and Lina, in Rudesheim, Germany. Her parents were in Rudesheim until Bernhard’s death in 1941, and Lina’s movement to the Jewish old age home in Frankfurt. [Lina was deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp on May 15, 1942, and then to Auschwitz...

  14. Gutmann family Bible containing inscribed death dates and pressed flowers mesudar bi-shelemut ha-sidur u-meduyaḳ be-takhlit ha-diyuḳ

    Gutmann family Bible, Sidur Safah berurah, with family death dates recorded on the endsheets and dried flowers (b) pressed between two pages. The Bible was published by J. Lehrberger & Comp.‏ in Rödelheim, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1886. The Bible and flowers are part of a collection documenting the experiences of Herbert Gutmann and the Gutmann family in Germany and their immigration to the United Kingdom and the United States before and during WWII.

  15. Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski research materials

    Collection of photos (contemporary and copy prints), map reproductions (photocopies), newspaper reproductions (photocopies), and correspondence related to the town of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Poland. Material contains information related to the town’s Jewish community as well as where Jews were hidden during WWII and the Holocaust.

  16. Werner Jakubowski papers

    The Werner Jakubowski papers primarily consist of correspondence between Werner Jakubowski while he was a refugee in France and his brother Stephan Jakubowski in New York City. Werner’s letters are from Gurs or from Meillon par Assat, in the Basses Pyrenees. The correspondence describes Werner’s family situation in France and documents efforts by family and friends to transfer funds to them from New York and to aid their immigration to the US.

  17. French resistance leaflets

    Leaflets, newspapers, and documents from resistance organizations in the south of France.

  18. Oral history interview with Leon Schagrin

  19. Hans Wijsman photographs

    The collection consists of three prewar photographs depicting Hans Wijsman of Bloemendaal, the Netherlands in his military uniform. He is pictured with his father and other unidentified individuals. Hans was a Dutch prisoner in Buchenwald from 1943-1945.

  20. Take a Punch game board

    Take a Punch game encouraging people to buy US Defense bonds and stamps; in red, white, and blue with a caricature of Hitler next to a swastika in the left corner. In the right corner is a large 2 cent symbol. It includes instructions on how to play the game.