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  1. Keuter family papers

    The Keuter family papers consist of letters written by Albert and Barend Klaas Keuter from the Oranje Hotel prison in Scheveningen, Netherlands, and smuggled to their family describing their arrests, conditions in prison, hunger, and solitude. The papers also include wartime records documenting restrictions on Dutch civilians under the Nazi occupation and the family’s concerns for Albert and Barend; and postwar correspondence to Elizabeth Keuter conveying information about what happened to Albert and Barend in the Vught, Sachsenhausen, and Bergen Belsen concentration camps. Most of the docu...

  2. North African campaign, Erwin Rommel

    Deployment of soldiers to Africa, soldiers on train, Ruins, Italy? Accommodation in Naples, soldiers on ships, entrance to the port of Tripoli, Libya, camel rides, swimming in the Mediterranean, swastika flag, camp life, military cemetery, baking pancakes, desert, Officer Corps, commander's bus, Award of the Knight's Cross to Winrich Behr

  3. Rail Zeppelin

    Rail Zeppelin, Entry and movement through the Ruhr area, 1931. With German title cards.

  4. Records of the Stockholm Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    Records of AJJDC’s Stockholm office during the years 1941-1967. The majority of the materials focus on the Stockholm office’s activities during World War II and in the postwar period from 1944-1949. Included are records of the AJJDC’s collaborations with other organizations to assist survivors, such as its work with the Red Cross on the White Buses. This project, headed by Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish diplomat and then-president of the Swedish Red Cross, provided packages and medical care to survivors in concentration camps, as well as bringing concentration camp inmates to safety in S...

  6. Life in German-occupied Paris; Wehrmacht

    A Saturday in Paris, drive along the Seine, Wehrmacht art exhibition

  7. Selected records of the city Ruda Pabianicka Akta Miasta Ruda Pabianicka (Sygn. 223)

    Minutes, resolutions, regulations, statistics, indexes of inhabitants, correspondence and ordinances of the town of Ruda Pabianicka (today a district of the city Łódź). Contains records of the local slaughter house and artisan guilds related to trade and craft of the 1930s. Majority of records consist of statistics of the town dwellers, books of permanent inhabitants and their properties, indexes and books of control of migration. Extensive lists of Jewish people of 1939-1940 are located in the File 434a.

  8. Oral history interview with Herbert Meyer

  9. America Trip 1930

    German intertitles. Trip to America made by Karl May, Frau Klara May, Dr. Just, Herr und Frau Lieberknecht.

  10. Henry Krystal papers

    Case files of Dr. Henry Krystal, a psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor based in Southfield, Michigan, who treated other Holocaust survivors who lived in the Detroit region, circa 1960s to 1990s. The files, arranged alphabetically by patient name, contain evaluations, descriptions of patients' ailments, and the descriptions of their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes reports filed by Krystal in support of patients' restitution claims with the West German government.

  11. Prague uprising, April-May 1945

    “Václav Kostelecký. Květnová revoluce 1945.” AGFA logo. Picture reportage from Prague at the end of WW2 filmed by Vaclav Kostelecky from April 30 to May 16, 1945. View of the Prague Castle from a hillside. Mr. Kostelecky inspects a camera. Prague Castle and the top of the Church of Saint Nicholas. Intertitle: “30. duben 1945” April 30, 1945 Prague Castle and a building, perhaps the former headquarters of the Wehrmacht (?). Czech police officer speaks with a German soldier. Street. Car. The Royal Castle. Pan, Prague rooftops, cloudy, the Nazi flag hanging on the castle. A military truck with...

  12. Rubel family papers

    The Rubel family papers consist of letters and postcards exchanged between Ferdinand and Else Rubel, originally of Steinbach am Donnersberg, Germany, who had immigrated to the United States, and loved ones in Nazi-occupied Europe. The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to Ferdinand and Else Rubel in New York by friends and family members imprisoned in the Gurs, Rivesaltes, and Noé internment camps. The letters and postcards relay gratitude for letters, packages, and money transfers; describe the poverty and illness in the camps and worries about relatives selected for labor detail; and...

  13. Anschluss in Vienna and Scharding, Austria

    Military parade for the Nazi annexation of Austria in March 1938. Cars drive through, people line the streets on either side. Large crowds stand outside the Austrian Parliament Building in Vienna. A Nazi flag hangs behind the crowd. A man holds a sign that reads “Mot. Truppen: 16 km.” German half-track cars drive through the street, towing artillery parts at the back. More crowd shots and cars driving through, each packed with soldiers. People sit on top of buildings and stand in trees to get a better view. The infantry marches in formation. Some ride through on horseback and others ride in...

  14. Goering's birthday

    Hermann Goering; Emmy Sonnemann; Edda Goering; Hitler. Goering's birthday

  15. Adolf Hitler visiting the Bayreuth Festival in 1933

    Hitler, Festival, SS Attendants, policeman, visitors, girl, cherry tree

  16. Star of David badge printed with Jude, German for Jew

  17. Great Britain and Iceland in 1937

    Statue of Queen of England, guards marcing through England, British guards marching, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, street performers, speakers and spectators, socialism, ferris wheel, tourists on beach, graveyard, farmer with horse

  18. Chava Elovik collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence documenting Jozef and Paulina Sciezynski (Stieglitz) [donor’s parents], their children, Mira, Ewa (donor), and Dan, extended family and friends in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Soviet Union, Iran and Palestine. Ewa Elovik survived as one of the “Tehran Children.”

  19. Educational film on the development of rocket, technology, Opel 2 rocket, Opel-Sander-rocket 3

    Text panel: "Valier believed in a steady transition from aircraft to spaceship.": Rockets, rocket car, rocket tests, missile flight

  20. Friedel Tykoschinski collection

    Contains a letter and recommendations, dated October 1, 1938, written by Friedel Tykoschinski (b. September 26, 1914 in Trier, Germany) who moved in 1926 together with her parents Hersch Hermann (b. 1887) and Rosa (b. 1885), and younger brother Erwin to Berlin. She asked Mrs. Cohen (donor's mother) to send her a secondary affidavit, supporting that of Friedel's uncle in New York. Friedel and Erwin managed to reach safe haven in London, England, but their parents were deported from Berlin on October 24, 1941 to the Łódź ghetto where they both died.