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  1. Personal papers of Francisco Wichter Archivo personal de Francisco Wichter

    Papers of Francisco Wichter (born Faivel Wichter), Holocaust survivor. The collection consists of Wichter's correspondence, documents, newspaper clippings, certificates, and photographs related to his post-war experiences. He survived several ghettos, concentration and forced labor camps, including Bełżyce, Poniatowo, Budzyń, Mielec, and Wieliczka, and was chosen to work for Oskar Schindler's factory complex in Brünnlitz. After the war, Wichter and his wife settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The collection includes photographs and documents depicting Wichter's activities as a member and o...

  2. Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung collection

    Five issues of the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, a weekly illustrated magazine that was published in Berlin, Germany from 1892 to 1945; issues in this collection: Number 49, 5 December 1940 Number 28, 10 July 1941 Number 29, 17 July 1941 Number 30, 24 July 1941 Number 32, 7 August 1941

  3. Bernat family photographs

    Consists of photographs of Andre Bernat and Magda (née Szemere) Bernat and their son Istvan (Stephen) while the family was living in a displaced persons camp in Bamberg, Germany. Included is a photo of the Bernats at the time of their wedding in 1946 as well as photos of the Bernats among friends and family. Among surviving relatives depicted are Andre's sister, Ibolya Weiss (later Violet White), and Magda's grandmother Julia Kainer Neufeld.

  4. Photograph album of German-occupied Poland

    Consists of a photograph album depicting German-occupied Poland, primarily Warsaw. The album was likely compiled and captioned by Jakob Lechner, an Austrian SS Hauptsturmführer who served as a Kriminal-Kommissar in Warsaw. While many photographs are attributed to propaganda photographer Mieczysław Bil-Bilażewski, personal snapshots are included. The album features events celebrating German occupiers, the reception of the Japanese delegation at Malkinia, and propaganda photography of the Warsaw ghetto. Among the figures depicted are Governor-General Hans Frank, Governor of Krakow Otto Wächte...

  5. Anti-Semitic & Anti-Communist Poster

    Jews Hiding Under a Table; printed for the "Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition" in Belgrade. Image of Joseph Stalin inviting Churchill and Roosevelt to sit at the table under which Jews are hiding reading a book titled "a plan to bolshevize England and America."

  6. Stefania Hecht collection

    Collection consists of one typescript memoir, 16 pages, written circa 2015, describing the experiences of Stefania Hecht (nee Kohn), originally of Șomcuta Mare, Romania, during her childhood in Romania, the Hungarian occupation of Transylvania, the subsequent German occupation and deportation of Jews to Auschwitz, and her experiences at that camp, as well as her life following World War II. In addition, the collection contains selected photographs of the Kohn and Hecht families, the text of a speech given by her cousin, Mendel (Menachem) Abraham, at the dedication of a Jewish cemetery in Ti...

  7. Boy celebrates birthday; bathes; visits park

    1937-1938. Color - INT, family at home, neatly set table. Boy with his mother. Nazi flags hanging from windows. The young boy and his grandmother look down from the open window. Apt. 87. CUs of guests. Boy celebrates his fourth birthday. Gifts, toy train set, box of chocolates. He smiles at the camera. Food. Two men play chess. B/W - boy takes a bath and mother combs hair. The family greets women at the train station. Park. Toy store: “Döring.” Apartment. The boy walks outside eating a banana. He plays in a sandbox.

  8. Lester Macharzyuski collection

    Contains correspondence written from various concentration camps and POW camps; photo reproductions (cigarette cards), mass produced by the NSDAP of pro-Nazi propaganda; a copy of the "Chicago Daily News" newspaper, October 31, 1939, with the article "Duce Removes Pro-Nazis."

  9. Collection of selected posters and proclamations Zbiór afiszów i plakatów (Sygn. 808)

    Posters, ordinances and proclamations issued and disseminated in Poland, dating from the inter-war period, the German occupation and the Communist regime. There are proclamations, ordinances, and posters related to Jews, including those of the establishment of the ghetto in Końskie, as well as the proclamation of 1946 condemning the Kielce pogrom.

  10. Nazi Germany; evacuation of German children from urban areas; sports; Hitler

    With German titles. Various cuts. 1944. Christmas 1941. Food stamps. Evacuation of German children from urban areas. Saar status referendum, 1935. Relay race. Rudolf Hess. Adolf Hitler

  11. German Warships

    Warships, torpedo launch, radio control unit, naval mines, anti aircraft missile, sports festival, Goering in Kiel

  12. Funeral; German workers; Hitler Youth

    Contination of RG-60.5395. Funeral. Training camp. CUs of German workers in uniform. Marching in city. Hitler Youth.

  13. Domenic Cuozzo photograph collection

    Photographs taken by the donor's uncle, Domenic A. Cuozzo, member of the 502D Army Engineer Camouflage Battalion, shortly after the liberation of Buchenwald. Includes photographs of victims at Leipzig-Thekla.

  14. Joseph Starkman collection

    Contains two certificates issued to Sonia Starkman and to Josef Starkman testifying that each served in a Belorussian Partisan unit from June 18, 1942 until July 20, 1944; two temporary certificates issued to Sonia Starkman and to Josef Starkman awarding them medals for fighting as partisans against Germany during the “Patriotic War,” dated: June 22, 1944, in Russian; a “Deutsche Kennkarte” issued to Joseph and Sonja Starkmann, issued in Passau, Germany, dated October 2, 1951; two identity cards issued by Civilian Services attached to Polish Forces entering U.K. issued to Jozef and Zofia Gr...

  15. Huguette Frank papers

    The collection primarily contains documents, correspondence, and photographs that document the wartime experiences of Huguette Salomon Frank of Paris, France in Marseille, France; Drancy transit camp; Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp; Ravensbrück concentration camp; and one of the Bunzlau subcamps of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Included are some photographs and documents relating to the pre-war lives of the Salomon family, and Huguette’s post-war life with her husband Werner Frank.

  16. Russia in Winter; German soldiers

    German soldiers in Russia. Winter. Guns. Tanks (color). Kuban. Mud. River crossing. Withdrawal 1943/1944.

  17. Russian campaign

    Russian campaign, June-July 1941. Lithuania, Lithuanian para-military organizations. Russia.

  18. Private films of DAF activities

    Contination of RG-60.5394

  19. Boelke squadron (color film) Russian Campaign

    Russian campaign, Boelcke Squadron

  20. Potsdamer Platz in the Autumn of 1994

    Autumn 1994 filming in Berlin for HJ-Film: Potsdamer Platz, former command post of Artur Axmann