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  1. Schützenpanzer; Russian campaign

    Schützenpanzer [armored personnel carriers]. German soldier on scouting armor, field exercise. 02:26 Soldiers on street, Krad. 03:08 Winter: patrol on foot. 03:22 HK flag, eagle, barracks "Schlieffen-Kaseme", MG shooting, (Winter), then spring: recruits. 05:47 light armored car, various shots, slipped into ditch. 10:14 Start of Russian campaign, tanks, captured Russian flag, German leaflet to Russians.

  2. Olympics 1936

    KODAK. German amateur filmmaker, Willi Wünsch. 10:00:00 Grünau, rower, commentator, Japanese. 10:05:38 Stadium, spectators close: Norwegians, Italians, Jesse Owens? run. 10:06:37 diving. 10:08:38 triple jump. 10:10:50 Diving (Slomo), swimming

  3. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Josef and Ruth Rosenberg, both of whom were from Poland, interned in the Łódź ghetto, and liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they met and later married. The collection includes identification papers, immigration documents, restitution claims paperwork, and photographs taken at Bergen-Belsen from 1945-1947 along with some pre-war family photographs. The biographical materials include identification papers and immigration documents that both reflect their status as stateless refugees. The restitution claims ...

  4. Village, shops, winter, probably prewar

    Possibly Poland, car, rural landscape from the window of a moving vehicle or train. Two boys walk through a doorway. INT, bedroom. Two boys with a man and woman. Snow-covered forest, bare trees. ECU of a boy's face. Snowy landscape with a wide open field. Houses. Dog plays in the snow, shot through a wrought-iron fence. Someone pumps water from the well in town. A man steps out of a doorway: “Amiod flaszkorx. KAWA; HERBATA; PRZEKASKI.” An elderly man with a cane exits shop door, followed by two women. The man with the cane approaches the camera. The woman with the polka dot dress (seen befo...

  5. Plesser family collection

    Contains correspondence from Mendel and Perla Pepi Plesser in Hamburg Altona, the Zbąszyń area for expelled Polish citizens, and later in Stanisławów, addressed to their children Klara (b. December 14, 1921 [donor's mother]) and Oskar (b. May 29, 1920 [donor's maternal uncle]), who had arrived in the US on August 22, 1938.

  6. Sarolta Planer Lowy collection

    Contains two documents issued to "Sarolta" Planer Lowy in Erdóbėnye, Hungary. One document details and value of personal possessions being confiscated from various people, dated 1943. The second document legally explains and justifies the dispossession of property belonging to the Jewish community in Hungary, specifcally in Erdóbėnye, based on 1939 dictate and details numerous property owners, including Sarolta (donor's grandmother).

  7. Manski family papers

    The collection documents the pre-war and wartime experiences of Samuil Manski and his family in Lida, Poland (modern day Lida, Belarus). The collection primarily contains pre-war photographs of Samuil, his extended family, and friends. Also included is Samuil’s visa obtained through Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania; postcards from Japan; and Samuil’s report cards.

  8. The Blue Card, Inc. Records

    The collection contains correspondence, minutes of meetings, brochures, news clippings, and printed material, documenting the history of The Blue Card, Inc., in particular its role as a New York-based charity that aided Jewish-German emigres who had fled Europe during the Holocaust. The collection includes minutes, by-laws and articles of incorporation from its inaugural meeting in September 1943; minutes of membership, board of directors, and executive committee meetings; newspaper and magazine clippings about the organization; correspondence, chiefly related to donations to the organizati...

  9. Berlin 1930s

    Olympic games, Berlin Palace, city views, garden exhibitions

  10. Occupation of Norway

    Western Campaign, Fieseler Storch, care for war prisoners, Luftwaffe, captured weapons

  11. Panzerregiment 8 1940/1941

    German military. Tanks. Western campaign. Relocation to Italy.

  13. Aid of Poles for the Jewish people during the Nazi occupation. Collection of files Pomoc Polaków dla ludności żydowskiej w okresie okupacji hitlerowskiej-zbiór akt (Sygn. 1521)

    Questionnaires related to aid of Poles for the Jewish people during the Nazi occupation. Questionnaires were prepared and collected by Związek Bojowników o Wolność i Demokrację (ZBoWiD) throughout Poland during the late 1960s.

  14. Poster celebrating America's diversity

    Poster illustrated by Emma Bourne for the The Council Against Intolerance in America.

  15. 750th anniversary of the town of Wadersloh in 1938

    Beautiful scenes from village life in the town, striking faces, the daily routine, hunting, agriculture, Parades, RAD, concerts, Hitler Youth with wreath to honor the dead, police, RAD camp, flag appeal. 33:20 railroad. Honoring old men by the Nazi Warrior Association, handing over of pictures

  16. Babai family collection

    Contains two photo holders used by Janos Babai (donor's father); one portrait photo of Janos Babai; one photo negative made by Janos Babai from 1943 depicting Janos Babai and his wife Katalin Kiss.

  17. Presentation by Lilly Malnik

  18. Boat tour on the Alster, 1920s

    Canoeing on the Alster

  19. Officer with family; Assault gun in the snow

    Occupied France, life in Paris, market, newspaper dated May 8, 1942: "German Submarines in the Mississippi"

  20. Russian Campaign (color film)

    Russian campaign, German soldiers, tank wrecks, winter, Officer in a warm fur coat, Earth bunker, winter landscape