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  1. Farajn fun Jidisze Literatn un Żurnalistn in Pojln Association of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Poland Związek Literatów i Dziennikarzy Żydowskich w Polsce (Sygn. 368)

    Minutes, reports, programs, correspondence, personal files of members and staff of the Association, as well as candidates applying for membership. These materials contain information related to the pre-and-postwar life of individual persons. Also included are financial files, such as preliminary budgets, approved budgets and cash reports, as well as other financial documents. The last part consists of records of the Jewish Theater Council.

  2. Motel Max Jawerbaum collection

    Contains documents relating to the Holocaust experiences of Motel Max Jawerbaum (donor's uncle by marriage).

  3. Farm Work

    Sugar beet harvest. January 1940. Workers in the snow, horses, woman with skis cross-country skiing, Women and men rake hay on the field together, machine in action: grain is harvested, greenhouse, Sudeten Mountains with Schneekoppe, house rebuilding in Franzendorf/Neisse, 1937

  4. Henryk Chęciński photograph collection

    The collection contains 45 photographs taken by amateur photographer Henryk Chęciński in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, circa 1939-1940. Subjects include bombed buildings, makeshift graves, German soldiers, Polish soldiers, German soldiers marching groups of Jewish men in the street, three hanging men in front of a crowd, and people in the street.

  5. Trial and hanging of German war criminals; US Army returns home

    Home movies of trial and hanging of a German war criminal (Alfons Klein?) convicted in October 1945 by U.S. Army court of the Hadamar euthanasia murders sent to the gallows in March 1946 and footage of the embarkation and return home to New York of Army troops filmed by war correspondent Murray Young of the Overseas Press Club. "At the trial of the Hadamar ‘injection’ murderers.” Men sit in the courtroom. Dark shots of people in the courtroom. “RETRIBUTION!,” “The hanging of five German murderers of six downed American airmen” “Bruchsal Prison, south of Heidelberg” Guards set up the gallows...

  6. Central British Fund for Germany Jewry. Agreement.

    Contains a printed legal form from the Central British Fund for German Jewry, four pages, spelling out the relationship between the Central British Fund and those who would act as guarantors to bring persecuted Jews from Germany to the United Kingdom. Undated, circa 1933-1939.

  7. Frank family at Kressendorf; high-ranking official visits Wawel castle

    The Frank family eats indoors at Kressendorf winter garden. Norman and his friend Voigt pretend to sleep on the balcony. 01:19:41 HAS exterior street views, and the Wawel castle inner courtyard. [Hans Frank set up residence in Wawel after being named Governor-General of the German-occupied Polish territories in October 1939.] Procession of marching band and troops in the courtyard. 01:20:06 A high-ranking Nazi official marches out and salutes the troops. Official photographers capture the moment. 01:21:20 In color, CU of document stating "An die polnische Bevoelkerung" [To the Polish Popula...

  8. Cyprus photo album

    Album of 16 photographs from internment camps in Cyprus. Includes images presenting daily life in the camps; the dining hall; the workshops, including the amateur stone chiselers presenting the stone works they have created in the camp; and a a puppet theater. The inner side of the front binding is mounted with a photographic postcard bearing the Hebrew inscription "Souvenir from the Cyprus Exile 5709." On the front binding is a chisled stone plaque with image of the ship at sea, barbed wire, and the Hebrew inscription "Kafrisin 5708" [Cyprus 1948].

  9. Soviet war newsreel: Struggle for East Prussia and Königsberg 1944/1945

    forest, soldiers, cannons, air attacks

  10. Tadeusz Januchta letter

    One letter, dated 12 December 1943, sent by prisoner Tadeusz Januchta, from the Auschwitz concentration camp, to his wife, Zinaida, in Kielce, Poland. In the letter, Januchta reports to his wife that he had received her previous letter, had received a package the previous day, and that while packages have been arriving, she should pay attention to regulations about sending photographs, and not to send him any further money. He closes by sending Christmas and New Year's greetings to his wife and daughter.

  11. Ursula Nelson collection

    Photographs (two albums, two loose photographs) and certificate from the Deutscher Makkabikreise, 1938, both related to Ursula Kantorowicz (later Nelson), documenting her childhood in Germany and young-adult years as an emigre in England. Photograph albums include images of Nelson's parents and relatives in Germany, childhood friends, her life in Britain after emigration, including her friends and work, and her first husband, Leslie Smith.

  12. German troops

    Mountain troops

  13. CUKUNFT Socialist Organization of Youth Socjalistyczna Organizacja Młodzieży CUKUNFT (Sygn. 1347)

    Minutes of meetings, reports, questionnaires concerning Jewish youth, proclamations, and a chronicle of 1942.

  14. Ford-Eifel automobile

    Ford "Eifel" is a car manufactured by Ford Germany between 1935 and 1940. NSKK men conduct cars during off-road driving, Hitler salute from moving cars, subtitles: "The third day started with rain", car collection point, Wehrmacht soldiers, salute from car at the destination, celebration at Kynsburg, award of the winners (Werner Huth, Breslau), " Exit from Silesia ”, detailed list of the winners. Ford end titles. Pictures by Rolf-Dietrich Nath, Agfa cameraman, later PK film reporter. 10:07:30 gas station, repair Ford, Kynsburg, Lower Silesia, Wroclaw 10:11:06 Nazi women support the driver 1...

  16. Leon Buchholz collection

    Collection of documents, newspapers and correspondence concerning the Union Générale des Israélites de France [UGIF], for whom Leon Buchholz (donor's great uncle) worked during World War II. Included in the collection is almost a complete weekly newspaper series issued by the UGIF entitled "Bulletin," as well as correspondence received by the UGIF, unused stationary for the American Joint Distribution Committee, receipts of packages sent from UGIF, and reports of Viennese Jewish Community and deportees.

  17. Presentation by Lilly Malnik

  18. Selected records from the Sigtuna Foundation in Sweden

    Records from a hospital, set up in Sigtuna, Sweden, in 1945, which cared for about 1200 patients who had been released from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. The collection includes photographs of patients and nurses, administrative and organizational records, including pages from the Statement of Operations, newspaper clippings, including an article in a college magazine about the hospital, as well as materials from Marthe Rydback, who worked as a nurse at the hospital, including a copy of an emblem of the hospital, a visitor book with signatures of the patients, photographs, Christmas...

  19. Carl Schurz Tour of American professors and students through Germany in summer 1934

    REEL 5. The centennial performance of the Passion Play in Oberammergau. Villagers wear costumes and act out the story of Jesus’ Passion. EXT, crucifix on the playhouse, Nazi banner. Man pulls a cart with luggage. Schurz group takes tourist photos of the town and visit Ettal Abbey (a Benedictine Monastery). The tour continues by bus and train, the guests read, chat and nap, including Professor Schreiber, Professor Wannamaker, Mr. Gonsa, Professor Hickmann, President Schanz, Mrs. Tillman, Mrs. Wells, Professor Cargoshaw, Mrs. Fuller, Professor Marriot, Professor Washka, Dr. Betten, Professor ...

  20. Local Nazi Festivity: Waterfalls

    Civilians, German, Croatian/Bosnian Officers