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  1. Research files of a Swedish author Staffan Thorsell relating to Nazi war crimes in Poland

    Research files of a Swedish author, Staffan Thorsell, who wrote the book "the Warsaw Swedes." The records relate to the work of Swedish businessmen based in Warsaw, including: Sven Norrman, who was head of the Swedish engineering company ASEA in Warsaw. Norman and a group of Swedes worked for corporations that would later become Swedish Match and Ericsson. Norman took thousands of the photos in the Warsaw Ghetto and smuggled out documents detailing the murder of 700,000 Jews by Germans, inlcuding 2,000 photo negatives of German war crimes in Poland, including photographs he took himself in ...

  2. Oral history interview with Tauba Katzenstein

  3. 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.

  4. Lieber and Löw families papers

    The Lieber and Löw families papers document the prewar experiences of George Lieber, originally of Vienna, Austra, and his family in Vienna, and Brussels, Belgium; the family’s wartime emigration from Europe to Lourenço Marques (Maputo, Mozambique) in 1941; and immigrations to the United States in 1945-1947. The bulk of the collection consists of biographical material, including identification papers, immigration records, and a small amount of correspondence; and photographs, including prints and annotated photograph albums. Series 1. Biographical material primarily consists of identificati...

  5. Oral history interview with Siggi Korn

  6. Oral history interview with Peter Kadar

  7. Advertisement for Pető lottery shop

    Hungarian titles throughout. Lottery prize winners selected. INTs, men seated at a table, talking. “A huzás vezetője engedélyt ad a huzás megkezdésére.” Man in a suit removes tag from a wheel. “Összekeverik a szerencsekerékben levő számokat.” Spinning wheel. “Kezdődik…A húzásnál két árvalány segédkezik.” Two girls make the pulls and pass the papers to the men at the table. “Minden számot és nyereményt hangosan kikiáltanak.” Men review the notes and prepare to announce the winners. Seated crowd. “A napilapok tudósítói lázasan úják a 'gyorslistát'.” Women (newspaper correspondents) record the...

  9. General Hospital Bermbek 352-8/5 Allgemeines Krankenhaus Barmbek

    Selected records of the Allgemeines Krankenhaus Barmbek (General Hospital Barmbek) relating to the hospital administration, medical practices and care of civilians, education of nurses, and employment of Jewish medical staff, Consists of regulations, orders, statistics of medical procedures, registers, guidelines for the hospital library, and orders of medical books.

  10. Oral history interview with Nelia Poliak

  11. Anti-Nazi caricature, discouraging revealing information, published by Palestine Government

    Anti-Nazi cartoon published in Palestine in the early 1940s, with a quote attributed to the book of Proverbs from the Hebrew Bible. The quote is erroneously attributed to Proverbs 21. verse 24 but it is actually Proverbs 21:23. Posters urging the public to be discrete about what information they reveal in conversations with strangers were common during World War II. Both the United States’ Security of War Information Campaign (also known as the Hush-Hush Campaign), and Britain’s Careless Talk Series were created to deliver similar messages. Following World War I, The League of Nations award...

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. Zemský prezident Brno, správa z příkazu Říše (B 252) Landespräsident Brünn-Reichsauftragsverwaltung (B 252)

    Contains records relating to the Germanization and liquidation of the Czech nation, settlement of Germans on Czech soil, restriction of the Czech school system and cultural life, support for the German school system and curricula, support of German theaters, cultural societies and various German organizations and information about various German and Czech offices, top officials, teachers and youth movements, professors as well as nomination of German governmental commissars in Czech cities and towns, and support of Moravian Slovaks. Includes also important records about the partisan movemen...

  16. Swearing-in Engelbert Dollfuss as chancellor; Heldenplatz

    Probably the May 20, 1932 swearing-in of Engelbert Dollfuss as chancellor of Austria. 01:00:29 Title: “Reception of the Cardinal Legation.” Crowded street scenes in Vienna as people watch parade of people carrying Catholic flags. 01:01:41 Archbishop of Vienna (later Cardinal) Theodor Innitzer. Crowded street scenes continue as several groups of men and boys, wearing different types of uniforms, march down the streets of Vienna. Informal shots of men wearing elaborate uniforms and hats. 01:04:41 A photographer prepares his camera on a tripod at the far left of the frame. 01:05:31 Title: “At ...

  18. UNRRA selected records AG-018-033 : India Mission

    Consist of general files relating to displaced persons.

  20. Vienna

    Title: “Neue Nachrichten No. 3” with WH logo. “Salzburg zur Festspielzeit” “Die Wasserspiele in Hellbrunn” “Mitglied des Klubs der Kino-Amateure Österreichs” CU of a young woman leaning over a railing (this shot was also used in Jonnys Gang film). “Pilger aus dem Burgenland” People standing by the doorway “Glaspalast” (possibly the Franz-Josef-Bahnhof terminus railway station in Vienna). Camera follows a man walking out of the door, passing chairs lining the building exterior. Film ends. Note: This is a roll of trims by Walter Hausner; the handmade titles do not seem to be related to the im...