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  1. Alicia Altmueller collection

    The Alicia Altmueller collection consists of three letters written in August 1947 by three survivors requesting assistance (warm clothing, shoes, physical support) from Mr. J. Garfinkel, Kiever Independent Unterstuzung Verein (KIUV). The three survivors wrote KIUV on behalf of themselves, family and friends from Campo Adriatico IRO, Milan DP. The IRO supported camp was also referred to as Transit Camp Bari, located in Apulia. Names in the letters are as follows: Miriam Kegen along with unnamed husband and daughter, Aron Bakalchuk and Lucy Bakalchuk, Girsch Goberman and Sonia Goberman (née T...

  2. Spiritual resistance prayers from Amsterdam

    Contains two documents with prayers about what was happening, written in Amsterdam circa 1942-1943, written as a form of spiritual resistance.

  3. Shmul and Szajndla Borensztajn collection

    Collection of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to Shmul Borensztajn, from Warsaw, and Szajndla Lojwasser Borensztajn, from Izbica (donor's grandparents), who fled German-occupied Poland to Soviet territory with their children, Zygmunt, Jakob, Hershel, and Fela, along with Shmul’s parents, Sender and Chava Borensztajn. Zygmunt joined the Mir Yeshiva and reached Shanghai; Jakob was sent by the Soviets to Archangelsk, where he died. The rest of the Borensztajn family were deported to a forced labor camp in Siberia. Shmul and Szaindla were married in the camp with a ketubah, ...

  4. Herbert Kline papers

    Correspondence, documents, and photographs, related to the work of American documentary filmmaker Herbert Kline, and in particular his work on films documenting political crises in Europe in the late 1930s and early 1940s, in particular the film "Crisis," which treated the subject of Czechoslovakia during the Sudeten crisis of 1938. Includes scripts, correspondence with film companies, letters of reference, news clippings, and other materials related to the production and distribution of "Crisis," as well as material related to a film about the Spanish Civil War, "Heart of Spain" and a subs...

  5. Film compiled by German showing Leipzig before and after WW2

    Intertitle: “W.L Film 70.” “Leipzig in Frieden u. Krieg.” “Von Walther Lenger Leipzig.” “Walter Lenger zeigt seinen GroR-Film: Leipzig in Frieden, Krieg. Und Wiederaufbau.” Walter Lenger loads a film reel. “Streiflichter.” The woman and man who were eating a seaside lunch in Film 37 in front of the tower with the fire burning at the top. Split screen shots of buildings in Leipzig. Words on the train station read, “BAYRISCHER BAHNHOF.” Troops march through the streets. Men in canoes. One hangs from the rafters of a bridge. 10:42:22 Intertitle: “Leipziger Messe.” A building reads, “AUSSTELLUN...

  6. Nameplate for fishing boat Stjernen used to rescue Jewish refugees

    Nameplate: for fishing vessal STJERNEN [The Star] that was pressed into service to move Jewish refugees from Denmark to Sweden over a route established between the Danish isle of Moen and southern Sweden. Some years after the war, the boat was laid up and dismantled for scrap. Because of its historic role in 1943, the nameplate was saved.

  8. Hanff Family Papers

    Contains passports, a marriage license, and other documents concerning the experiences of Kurt Hanff and Frieda Hirschfeld Hanff, who were married in 1936 in Berlin, before fleeing to Shanghai, China and eventually to the United States.

  9. Selected records from National Archives of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan related to evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Records related to the evacuation of civilians to Kyrgyzstan during WWII. It includes information about resettlement, employment, food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities to the evacuees and refugees resettled in Kyrgyzstan during WWII. This collection also includes lists of evacuees, statistical reports, correspondence, lists of evacuated communists, lists of evacuated Polish citizens and documents related to the repatriation of Polish refugees to Poland after WWII.

  10. Schmidt family collection

    Contains a letter of recommendation written by Prof. Gustav Embden for Dr. Gerhard Schmidt, dated 1929; a letter written by Joseph Sepp Grunbaum, Dr. Gerhard Schmidt's brother-in-law, in which he described his ordeal in the Dachau concentration camp after Kristallnacht, dated April 26, 1939; a letter from Dr. Gerhard Schmidt to Edith Strauss Horkheimer proposing marriage to her, dated December 20, 1938; correspondence between Dr. Gerhard Schmidt and different German Jewish scientists regarding finding employment in the United States; copies of documents certified by Nazi authorities 1939; a...

  11. UNRRA selected records AG-018-008 : European Regional Office (ERO). Registry Files

    Selected records of the UNRRA European Regional Office (ERO), Registry Files relating to: legal matters affecting UNRRA Missions, assistance to displaced persons and prisoners of war, relations with allied governments (Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, Middle East, Egypt, Ethiopia, Brazil, China, Iran, Austria); mission reports from particular countries, Relief Services Conferences, Londin,1946; allegations against UNRRA administration; UNRRA Program of Op...

  12. Hayat family papers

    The Hayat family papers comprise a birth certificate, residence certificate, driver's license, identification card, two food ration cards and three clothing ration cards.

  13. Day of the Wehrmacht

    (from the Bundesarchiv)

  14. Albert Perlin letter

    Contains a letter written by Albert Perlin (donor's maternal grandfather) during WWII to his daughter, Rosalie Perling Podol, and her husband Elliott (donor's parents).

  15. Masaryk narrates montage about the suffering of Czechoslovakia during WWII

    THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN DOCUMENTARY UNIT PRESENTS A LETTER FROM PRAGUE No.1 A special newsreel produced by: JIRI WEISS, edited by: FRANTISEK SADEK, music by: VILEM TAUSKY This film was shot for an anti-Nazi exhibition in London. Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk sitting at his desk speaking to the camera. He says that he has been writing letters to his friends abroad, and that they are worried about certain problems. He says these friends are worried about our serving justice to the Germans and the transferral of the Czech population. He wishes the Germans could see what they left in their wake, so ...

  16. Amateur film of the liberation of Prague; Germans forced to breakdown barricades

    Montage of scenes from the liberation of Prague in May 1945, made up of footage shot by Bohumil Veselý in the area of ​​his residence. Most of the footage filmed near the intersection of streets and Vodickova School. Title of film. Another: “Ve 13. roce Hitlerovy vlády a v 7. roce našeho, protektorátu přišel konečně.” “KVETEN” and the number 5. “Dopoledne.” Morning. People in a Prague street. A man holds a white flag out of a window. A woman smiles. People outside of “ANTONIN KMENT.” Trolley car. Two people wave Czech flags out of a window. German soldiers on the street. People outside “Tsc...

  17. Private film recordings of a glider group

    With German title cards. "Wir lernen fliegen". "Ein Segelflieger-Film der Fliegerortsgruppe Greven e.V. des deutschen Luftsportverbandes". ["We learn to fly". "A glider pilot film of the Greven e.V. group of pilots of the German Air Sports Association".]

  18. BDM (League of German Girls)

    League of German Girls, artillery, rescued ship wreck

  19. Herman and Celine Mandelbaum correspondence

    Correspondence from Herman and Celine Mandelbaum, originally from Vienna, and sent to their daughter in the United States, Rosa Mandelbaum, between March and November 1941, following their deportation to the Modliborzyce ghetto in Poland.

  20. Russian campaign 1942 Tank forces 7./Pz.6

    Tank forces 7./Pz.6, Russian campaign