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  1. Presentation by Lilly Malnik

  2. Private films; Hitler posters/propaganda

    Kodak. Private film. Germany

  3. Regions in East Prussia

    Village in Masuria, different regions East Prussia, village life, Ermlander horse, Trakehner, Stud Trakehnen, Gutswirtschaft, field work in a four-wheeler, Memel lowlands, downtown Königsberg, downtown, fish market and downtown, drive on the Pregel through Königsberg, harbor, Modern Königsberg

  4. Berger, Flescher and Tepper families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs, photo albums, passports and certificates documenting the experiences of the Berger and Flescher families during the Holocaust era. Hella Berger fled Germany to the US in 1938 with her two sisters. Sam Flescher fled Vienna after the Anschluss to Holland, and was able to get a visa to the US. He joined the US Army in 1942. His brother Henry, survived multiple concentration camps. The brothers were reunited in September 1945 when Sam returned to Europe as a member of the occupied forces. Includes Nazi propaganda publications that Lester Tep...

  5. Selected records of the Końskie Town Akta miasta Końskie (Sygn. 519)

    Minutes, correspondence, statistics, organizational files, lists of war damages, as well as records related to matters of social welfare, insurance, and the like. Files of the City Council, 1918-1939 relate to the election to the City Council, sessions of the council, budget commission, taxes, social welfare, emigration, industry, migration; included are books of permanent inhabitants. Files of the City Board, 1939-1945 refer to matters of property, finances, road and construction works (“Baudienst”) and taxes. Included are also lists of German and Jewish inhabitants who survived, announcem...

  6. County Command of the State Police in Częstochowa Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Częstochowie (Sygn. 1047)

    Situational and general reports on the activities of parties, trade unions, officers and police informers relating to political, social and labor organizations. Includes police chronicle informing about crimes committed by Jews and against Jews, as well and communists activities in Czestochowa.

  7. Ephraim Urbach collection

    Circular letters, reports, and newsletters, and related materials, collected by Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach, during the time when he served as a chaplain with the British Army, ministering in displaced persons camps in Italy, circa 1944-1947. Includes two mimeographed reports issued by the Hechalutz Ha-Echad in Bari, Italy, 1946-1947; letters sent to various institutes in Palestine requesting medical supplies, books and teaching materials for use in displaced persons camps in Italy, 1944; typescript copy of a report filed by a representative (L. Bernstein) of the Central Committee of...

  8. Castle Film newsreel: Russia Strikes Back

    Eastern front in Russia. US war against Japan.

  9. Western Campaign Albert Canal

    British and French war prisoners, command post, office

  10. Yona and Foa family memoirs

    Two unpublished memoirs, related to the Holocaust experiences of the Yona and Foa families, of Turin Italy: “A Memoir of an Immigrant who Escaped the Holocaust in 1940,” by Eva Yona Deykin, 53 pages, typescript; and“Memoires of David Yona,” by David Yona, typescript, 223 pages. The memoir by Eva Yona Deykin relates the history of the families of both of her parents, David Yona and Anna Foa, their life in Turin after their marriage in 1932, the arrest of Anna Foa's brother, Vittorio Foa, for his anti-fascist activities in 1935, and his betrayal by the writer Pettigrilli (Dino Segre), who had...

  11. Upper Silesia

    Occupation, Freikorps, Images, posters, film

  12. Soviet and Allied officers celebrate the capture of Berlin

    Celebration, capture of Berlin, Russian soldiers, American soldiers, smoking, drinking, gift exchange, violin

  13. Rabinowitz family photographs

    Collection of photographs related to the experiences of the Rabinowicz family from Gorlice, Poland, who fled to Lwów before being deported to a labor camp near Novosibirsk. After their release in 1942 they moved to Kuybyshev, then to Jambul (today Taraz) in Kazakhstan. After the war the family returned to Poland before moving to the Heidenheim displaced persons camp; eventually they immigrated to Israel in July 1949.

  14. Enslein family collection

    Contains photographs, documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Jakob Enslein and his wife, Margarete Einstein Enslei, and their two children Kurt and Hans Gerd [donor, b. 1929]. Gerd was born in Cologne, Germany, and in 1932 his parents relocated the family first to Belgium then in 1933 to France, first to Paris and then Collias, Nimes and Perigaux, before eventually fleeing through Spain and arriving in the United States in early May 1941.

  15. Bleier and Weisz families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of the Bleier family of Budapest, Hungary and the Weisz family of Baia Mare, Romania. Included are biographical papers, correspondence, immigration documents, writings, clippings, and photographs. The material primarily focuses on the wartime and post-war experiences of Zoltan Weisz and Gisela Bleier, who met and married in Baia Mare after the war. The biographical material primarily contains identification papers, genealogy research, and birth, marriage, and death certificates. Included with the biographical material are exhibition and pre...

  16. Russia campaign

    Snowy streets. Caravan of German soldiers on horseback, buggies. Unsteady camera. Various angles. Examining maps in snow. Men on horseback. Bridge

  17. Collection of documents from the period of World War II Zbiór dokumentów z okresu II wojny światowej (Sygn.1978)

    Selected records with a diverse provenance relating to Jewish inhabitants in various regions of Poland during World War II. The most significant records (card file No 14) are lists of inhabitants of individual towns and villages of the county of Hrubieszów, the district of Lublin, as well as applications of Jews to return to Międzyrzecz Podlaski in 1940 (some with photos), and a list of Jewish inhabitants of the town of Płock. Also included is private correspondence, in Polish and German, and orders of the occupier’s authorities.

  18. De Kadt children; train station; canal locks

    Quick shots of a woman walking away from the camera, baby, a man working on railroad tracks, Sonja carrying Willie in a crowd of people, a house from across a set of railroad tracks, while a train passes; 01:00:54 a road sign reads "Laag Soeren" (a village 140 km away from the de Kadt family home in Schoorl); 01:01:27 a large group of adults, including Sonja and Louis de Kadt, wait for a train, walk together on a country road in winter; a male adult pulling a stroller does an imitation of a goose-step; good CUs; hotel; 01:04:14 a group portrait including two strollers; Sonja's younger siste...

  19. Louis Bernard Katz photograph album

    Loose photograph album of wartime photographs taken by Louis Bernard Katz, a field surgeon with the United States Army. The album includes photographs of the Ebensee subcamp of the Mauthausan concentration camp, Austria shortly after liberation; refugees in Waldenberg, Germany; and German prisoners-of-war in Simbach am Inn, Germany. Other cities documented include Mühlhausen, Germany; Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany, Lauf, Germany; Attnang, Austria; and Vöcklabruck, Austria. The album is annotated.

  20. Replacement Fighter Group 50 at Ossum at Erbenheim (partly in color)

    Replacement Fighter Group 50, airfield, winter, attendance of highschool students