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  1. Sport at Messerschmitt factory; Luftwaffe

    AGFA 1940. Company group marches in step in Regensburg at the Messerschmitt aircraft factories. In the outdoor swimming pool with diving platform. Company group marches in column on sports field. Physical exercises. Outdoor pool: young woman with swimming cap swims. Teenagers take a shower. Jump off the one-meter board. "Kraft durch Freude" [Strength through Joy]. 06:00 Luftwaffe officer (black and white)

  2. Jewish Communities in Hamburg Jüdische Gemeinden Hamburg (522-1)

    Files for the administration and organization of the municipalities of the Jewish communities in Hamburg, the Religious Association ("Religionsverband") and the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany ( "Reichsvereinigung"), as well as personal files of its members. Files contain information on daily life and the treatment of Jews in Germany before and during the Nazi era (including deportations, administration of Jewish assets and correspondences). This collection contains mixed collections of original documents and reproductions which reside half at the Hamburg State Archive and half at ...

  3. Island East Prussia; The Elk’s East Prussian shelter

    Elks, the Marienburg Grobtes Monument, the Munsterwalder bridge, train travel over the Baltic Sea, Cherry County, Bishop of Ermland, fishing village, snow and cold in East Prussia

  4. Collection of underground prints and anti-Hitler flyers Zbiór podziemnych druków i antyhitlerowskich ulotek (Sygn. 128)

    Collection of various German prints (27) and Polish anti-Hitler flyers (84) published and distributed during the war.

  5. Western Campaign

    Soldiers, medals, marching through snow, swastika, soldiers' graves, train, coast guard, pistol shooting drills, military band

  6. Anton Mason collection

    Collection of copy prints documenting family and friends of Anton Meisner (later Mason) [donor's late husband] before the war in Sighet, Romania, and after the war in Paris, France.

  7. German soldiers

  8. Russian campaign Ukraine, 1942-1944

    Partisan strongholds

  9. Einstein in Caputh and Oberwesel

    Horse-drawn cart piled high with logs moves down the street. Couple in a horse-drawn wagon. CU, sign: “KINDER LANDHEIM CAPUTH, Gertrud Feiertag.” Bavarian home decorated with flower boxes. Women pose for camera. Albert Einstein, clad in pajamas, stands with a woman on the front porch of his summer house in Caputh, Germany. She ushers two younger ladies into the shot. They hold notebooks in their arms. View from the second story of the Einstein house of the surrounding property, homes, and gardens. Woman tends to crops. An older woman carries a basket full of goods on her back. Dining at a r...

  10. "My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant"

    "My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant" by Dr. Rudolph (Rudy Keimowitz) is a 19 page manuscript. The manuscript includes information about Henry Keimowitz's childhood in Hungary, time in the Hungarian Army during World War I, capture and imprisonment by the Harlem Hellfighters during the Battle of Verdun, experience as a POW in France, and his illegal immigration to the United States as a stowaway around 1922. He married and started a family in the United States, and, during World War II, was investigated as an enemy al...

  11. Romanian photograph collection

    Photographs include Jewish hostages shot in the Soborului Vechi park/garden in Balti, Romania; a Zeppelin; a non-Jewish burial, and an unidentified building in Romania, undated.

  12. Blanket

    Blanket entrusted to Jewish community of Budapest by woman who walked in with it and wanted to give it to Syrian refugees, claiming it was worn by her mother after liberation from the camps during WWII. On September 11, 2015, the Bálint House (the Jewish Community Center of Budapest) was fundraising, collecting blankets and tents for Syrian refugees. An elderly person arrived in the afternoon who brought in blankets, includings this blanket which they said it was difficult to part with because their mother was given this blanket during WWII.

  13. Fritzi and Elizabeth Zinger correspondence

    Correspondence, consisting of four letters and a postcard, the majority sent by sisters Fritzi and Elisabeth Zinger, originally of Vienna, following their immigration from Austria to the United States as two of the"50 children" sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, of Philadelphia. The correspondence, dating from June and July 1939, is chiefly from the two sisters, sent to their parents, who were still in Vienna, and were sent from the children's home Brith Sholomville, in Pennsylvania.

  14. Jewish Legions gramophone record

    Jewish Legions gramophone record with recording of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and John H. Patterson on the subject of Jewish battalions; New York. John Patterson (1867-1947) commander of the "Zion Mule Corps" and later commander of the "38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers" was a lifelong supporter of the Zionist Movement. After his military service he maintained friendships with his battalion colleagues, including Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who became his close friend. In 1940, while Jabotinsky was in the United States on a mission of the New Zionist Organization, Patterson was there as well, and they took ...

  15. Landesgericht Klagenfurt : NS-Verfahren

    Postwar court records of Nazi-related cases in the state court of Klagenfurt, Austria for the years 1970 to 1973. The collection includes the case against Ernst Lerch and Helmut Pohl for the murder of 2 million Jews under Aktion Reinhardt, which was dismissed in 1976. Includes also cases of Rudolf Payker and Gerhard Rupp who took part at the execution of 2 members of Gebirgsjaegerregiments 143 in May 1945 in Norway.

  16. Glass family photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of Wanda, Marian and Andrzej Glass seated together indoors with bookshelf and window behind them; handwritten inscription on verso; taken in New York after their journey from Poland; dated May 5, 1941; in Polish

  17. Sara and Shlomo Peled collection

    Contains a ketubah [Jewish marriage contract] of Sara Peled and Shlomo (Salomon) Feld Peled in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp, dated June 30, 1946.

  18. German-American Bund

    German-American Bund (DAB) at Camp Bergwald, New Jersey, in 1939-1940 in color and black and white.

  19. Jidiszer D.P. Lager in Schwäbish Hall

    Contains a book entitled "Jidiszer D.P. Lager in Schwäbish Hall," containing photographs of various aspects of camp life in the Schwäbisch Hall displaced persons camp, with transliterated Yiddish captions.

  20. Kuehne and Mehl families photo album

    Contains a photograph album that belonged to Oskar and Adele Kuehne and their daughter Herta (later Harriet Mehl-Rottenberg), and Michael and Esther Mehl and their children Isadore and Walter, who all fled Nazi-occupied Vienna, Austria. Herta and Isadore married in the United States.