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  1. Oral history interview with Juliana Weiss

  2. Selected records of the Swedish Jewish community

    This collection consists of about 125,000 registration cards from various collections of the Swedish Jewish Community, including: registers of individuals who were rescued in 1945; registers of payments, loans, financial assistance, and scholarships; registers of refugees in Sweden; card registers of refugee children; registers of deported Jews; registers of emigrants; and registers of records for restitution.

  4. Oral history interview with Vasilis Platidis

  5. 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...

  6. Prewar leisure activities in Szeged

    Kodak Safety Film logo. Title card: “Most Ugrik A Majom A Vizbe - és más bohóságok”. More titles in Hungarian throughout the reel, some humorous, some identifying individual people, presumably appearing in the following sequences. Man plays tennis. He sits in a dimly lit room, speaking. Large sports field, spectators gather in the stands. Man dives in water. 01:55 Pető checks the water temperature. Reverse shots. Filming from behind the steering wheel in a moving vehicle. Nice close shots of seated spectators. Soccer team. Men boating and fishing. Farmers moving bales of hay with horse-draw...

  7. Delegation for Commerce, Shipping and Trade II 371-8 II Deputation für Handel, Schiffahrt und Gewerbe II

    Selected records of the Deputation für Handel, Schiffahrt und Gewerbe (Delegation for Commerce, Shipping and Trade) relating to overall management of trade and shipping. Consists of files of rental and purchase of land, installation of shipyards, communications with the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, business operations of emigrants and agents (1903-1937), a concession of the HH-America line and the Norddt.Lloyd and other transatlantic shipping companies, statistical reports from the Reich Migration Office (1918-1939), monthly reports of the Reichskommissare for the emigration in Hamburg and ...

  8. 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.

  9. Oral history interview with Harry Schaire

  10. Friends in Budapest City Park

    “Danubius Pathé Baby Budapest” Schiffer family and relatives walk through the park and pose for the camera. Gyuri Pinter lights cigarette, Alice and Erzsébet in funny hats. Gyuri at left (01:45) kisses his wife Alice (Ernö’s youngest sister). Ernö briefly appears at the right (01:58) (he must have handed the camera over to Gyuri). “Danubius Pathé Baby Budapest”

  11. 1948 JDC Country Directors’ Conference

    The second JDC Country Directors’ Conference (April 5-11, 1948) in Paris. Attendees from the United States, nineteen European countries, North Africa, Cyprus, and the Middle East met to analyze relief, resettlement, and reconstruction operations for some 1,000,000 Holocaust survivors in Europe. Among those present were Dr. Joseph Schwartz, Chairman of the European Executive Council for JDC; JDC official and US Army Brigadier General Morris Troper; Laura Margolis, Country Director for France; Edward Warburg, JDC Chairman; Rabbi Jonah D. Wise, National Chairman of UJA; and Moses A. Leavitt, J...

  12. Gara family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Otto and Agnes Gara, both of whom survived the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary. The bulk of the collection consists of identification documents and papers related to Otto and Agnes’s immigration to the United States in 1956. Other material includes birth and marriage certificates, education papers, and prewar, wartime, and postwar family photographs.

  13. "Sunday's Child"

    Contains a manuscript entitled "Sunday's Child," by Lili R. Andrieux.

  14. Paris sights and the Folies Bergere

    Paris street with crowds of pedestrians moving on the sidewalk. Cars drive along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Pans left on the crowded sidewalk. One woman speaks to two men in the street. An American soldier enters and exits a public restroom, smiling at the camera. WS of the Arc de Triomphe. 01:01:13 Julius Blatt walks towards the Arc de Triomphe as the camera pans left, tilts up, pans left and tilts back down to focus on Julius again. Julius walks across the busy street, looking at the camera as bikers and cars go past. Julius lights a cigarette with the Eiffel Tower in the background. ...

  15. Oral history interview with Franca Marcelli

  16. Archives of the Directorate of Reserves and Veterans Affairs of the Hellenic Ministry of National Defense

    The collection contains military reports related to activities of the Greek partisans and criminal activities of occupying forces during WWII.

  17. Franz Gerhard Back papers

    The Franz Gerhard Back papers include documents, correspondence, report cards. university records, baptismal certificates, and immigration papers documenting Frank Back, his parents, Anton and Wilhelmine (Minna) Back, and his grandparents, Ignatz and Julie Sommer and Ignatz and Katharina Back.

  18. UNRRA selected records AG-018-018 : Dodecanese Islands Mission

    Consists of the UNRRA Central Registry Files and Subject Files relating to relief and rehabilitation, welfare inquires, and displaced persons and refugees on the Dodecanese and Rhodes area.

  19. Photograph of a mass grave at Gardelegen

    The collection consists of a photograph depicting a mass grave of prisoners executed by being burned alive in a barn near Gardelegen, Germany. The bodies were exhumed by German civilians and reburied. The verso includes an original inscription by Harold Earl Rossiter, Sr. (1915-1984), reflecting on the sights he witnessed and the forced confrontation of local Germans tasked to inter the bodies of victims.

  20. Oral history interview with Auro Vincenzino