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  1. Guggenheim and Smali families papers

    The Guggenheim and Smali families papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, photographs, and a receipt documenting the Guggenheim family from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the Smali family from Merkinė, Lithuania. Correspondence includes a letter written by Malka Pugacka Smali from a Cyprus detention camp in 1947 describing a scene she witnessed in the Kovno ghetto in 1942 in which a little girl’s grandmother suggested miracles were still possible. The memoirs were written by Malka Pugacka Smali between the 1950s and 1980s and describe life in Lithuania, the Kovno ghetto, and her immigra...

  2. Red Army; German prisoners of war

    04:28 Locals and military in Humpolec (a town southeast of Prague in Czechoslovakia), some in windows, line stairway. Women at the top of the stairs with bouquets before men in suits and girls in traditional costume. The Red Army rolls through town, people welcome them, excitedly waving to the soldiers in the cars driving by. Military trucks and tanks on a dirt road. Soldiers on horseback. A dead man lies on the street. Wreckage of military truck. A large group of soldiers sits on the ground at a camp of German prisoners. Newly captured men walk with their hands up; Czech pick at debris in ...

  3. Ruth Reed family papers

    The collection primarily contains pre-war photographs of Ruth Reed (née Feldman) and her family in Katowice, Poland, along with post-war identification papers, correspondence, photographs, and restitution claims paperwork. Also included are wartime photographs of her paternal relatives in the Noher family who moved to Wellington, New Zealand prior to the war. The biographical materials include a small amount of documents related to members of the Noher and Bromberger families, a family tree, Hans Noher’s death certificate, post-war identification papers of Ruth Reed, handwritten notes regar...

  4. Joseph Pavia photograph collection

    Photographs of the Landsberg concentration camp immediately after liberation, from the donor's father, Lt. Joseph Pavia, who served in the12th Armored Division.

  5. Jewish Colonization Association (JCA)-Argentina Office-Individual Files

    Contains over 7,000 personal files, mostly of settlers in colonies of the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) in Argentina. The files generally contain lease or purchase contracts between JCA and individual settlers (or between JCA and institutions, such as Jewish cooperatives or government agencies) and occasionally partnership agreements between several colonists and JCA. The files often contain detailed plans of farms or of fields.

  6. Ohrdruf and Vlocklamarkt liberation photographs

    Photographic prints: collection of black and white images depicting American soldiers, survivors, and victims in the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany and Vocklamarkt, a subcamp of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austrria; some photos captioned on verso; dated circa April-May 1945; in English

  7. Berlin, Horsemen of the SS Campaign, 1939

    Polish Campaign, war prisoners. Hans Frank. Roma wagon.

  8. UNRRA selected records AG-018-035 : Philippine Mission

    Selected files of the Philippine Mission: Correspondence, telegrams, UNRA registration cards, questionnaires, interviews, affidavits for refugees, and UNRRA agreements and polices related to displaced persons desiring repatriation: Displaced Persons-Chinese in Rabaul 1944-1949, as well as Displaced Persons, European, 1944-1949. Some files relate to Jewish refugees after the war, and the repatriation of Austrian and German Displaced Persons in the Philippines. Including are addresses of tracing bureaus in Europe and description of the tracing programs of the major organizations: National Tra...

  9. Personal case files from the Australian Jewish Welfare Society, Sydney

    Personal case files of Jewish refugees who immigrated to Australia between 1937-1960s. Records include photos, emigration questionnaires, registration cards, requests for landing permits, personal documents, correspondence with Joint & HIAS, some information about personal experiences during the war, and family search requests.

  10. Traveling on the Autobahn; Russian volunteers; Hitler Youth

    Drive in 1936 via Salzburg to the Black Sea, impressions from the Balkan Reichsautobahnbrücke and Munich border. 00:21:53 Sea, France, soldiers, Paris, Eiffel Tower, Atlantic coast, port. Red Cross column. 00:40:50 Excavator loads railroad cars, motive: Westwallbau, Organization Todt. 00:57:40 rail transport. 00:58:17 Freiburg. 01:08:35 Winter: Postman on skis with packages. 10:14:00 Bridge for Reichsautobahn. 01:16:14 Nuremberg: Nazi Party Rally Grounds. 01:17:44 Target practice with carbines. 01:20:45 Railway, driver's cab, tracks, electric locomotive, other locomotives. 01:25:52 Red Cros...

  11. Filmed diary of a fighter squadron

    Filmed diary of a fighter squadron, “Green heart”-Squadron West / East. Aerial combat. Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant. 00:42:35 Knight cross holder General Alfred Keller, chief of Air Fleet 1 and commander East with oak leaf bearer Reinhard Seiler, commander III. JG 54. 00:42:52 General Alfred Keller. 00:42:59 Knight cross holder Reinhard Seiler. 00:45:47 Front reporter with camera. 00:55:00 Brilliant bearer Adolf Galland, Hannes Trautloff (Kommodore JG 54), oak leaf bearer Dietrich Hraback (Kommandeut // JG 54). Galland visiting JG 54. 00:55:44 Hrabak, Heinrich Krafft, Galland and Seiler (fro...

  12. Trip to Italy

    AGFA 1940. Family comes out of the house, suitcases, cars. Cathedral in Münster. Snowy mountains, Dolomites? Florence, swing over the city. Ponte Vecchino, bridge over the Arno. Tower of Palazzo Vecchio. Santa Maria Novella. Hill on Florence. Cathedral. Mount Vesuvius. Pompeii. Roman ruins. 10:03:36 Gulf of Naples, fisherman sitting at the harbor, boats ashore and in the water, talking, mending net. Little girl. Fishermen feed a net. Street scenes, overlooking the Gulf of Naples. Roman ruins. Men sit and stand in front of a church wall, noon, siesta. Donkey with cart, picturesque alley, han...

  13. Selected records of the Cooperative Credit Bank Ltd. in Kielce Bank Kredytowo-Spółdzielczy z o.o. w Kielcach (Sygn. 1547)

    Selected records of the Jewish Cooperative Credit Bank Ltd. in Kielce: minutes of sessions of members of the Supervisory Board, membership declarations, books of register, shares and funds.

  14. Ilana Lenji photograph collection

    Contains a photo of Ilana Lenji (donor) taken by photographer Thomas Veres in Budapest. Mr. Veres was Raoul Wallenberg's photographer.

  15. Selected records of the City Bodzentyn Akta miasta Bodzentyn (Sygn.126)

    Files of the communal office of Bodzentyn with information about Jews living in the commune. Included are licenses to run industries, lists of landlords (estates and lands), documents related to election to the communal council, tax rates, shares to the firefighting fund, registers of the Bodzentyn region and indexes to the population ledgers, as well as a book of communal resolutions (1910-1938) and a list of births, marriages and death in the synagogue district of Bodzentyn (1923).

  16. Hitler in Norway and Finland

    Eduard Dietl, military hospital, camouflage uniforms

  17. Frank family relaxes at Schoberhof

    In summer, the Frank children and mother Brigitte relax at their vacation home at Schoberhof. Brigitte consoles her son, Michael. Nanny reads book to the child Brigitte. Young Niklas in checkered-trim smokes a cigarette. Short scene where young women don furs on the porch with a uniformed German. These are two friends of Brigitte, including a Hungarian countess (Noell?) on the right. 02:04:47 The Frank children and others from the neighborhood wear traditional German attire and pose for the camera. Boys dress as "Cowboys and Indians" possibly for Fasching [could relate to a later scene at 0...

  18. Selected records of the Voivodeship Office in Kielce Urząd Wojewódzki Kielecki II (Sygn. 305)

    Diverse documentation from the Voivodeship Office in Kielce, records related to: identification of dead corpses of people who died during the World War II, war graves, removal of gravestones from pavements, security matters (assaults on Jews in the postwar period, including the Kielce pogrom of July 4, 1946 and other antisemitic riots), registers of war damages, changes of surnames, giving names to the children with unknown parents, the matters of Jewish religious associations, lists of graveyards and synagogues, lists of people of non-Catholic denomination in individual counties, various m...

  19. Cohn family photographs

    Photographs of donor's family from Solotvina, Transcarpathia, who perished in the Holocaust.

  20. Prague, May 1945

    A few clips from the newsreel, "KVĚTEN 1945” of liberation activities in Prague in May 1945. WS of Prague. People in streets, soldiers. Newspaper: “VUDCE PADL” with a portrait of Hitler on it. Women and children stand with piles of their stuff on the sidewalk. Military trucks. Intertitle: “5 KVĚTEN.” Man wipes words off of a shopfront window. Someone knocks a letter off of a building. Man tears down a sign in German from the side of a building.