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  1. Sardine address label

    Label with pre-printed destination address of Lager Barneveld. One of a set of four Lisbon pre-printed sardine address labels from Gremio dos Exportadores de Conservas de Peixe for registered shipping to different concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen, Lager Barneveld, and Birkenau bei Neubrunn.

  2. Prague uprising; American soldiers

    Unassembled Czech newsreel material from the May uprising in Prague. A lone tank in the Old Town Square of Prague. Shots fired, smoke. WS, another tank in the square. Both fire. Jan Hus Memorial Monument in the center of the square. German tanks. Czechs use pickaxes to dig away at the stones in the street for use in barricades. Three men emerge from a car, two in uniform. People continue working away at the sidewalk. Crowds of Czechs at Wenceslas Square. Officers, pistols in hand, lead a man out of a building with his hands raised above his head, loaded into a car. People carrying bags of g...

  3. Book

  4. Western Campaign: France

    Refugees, destroyed tanks, dinghy, military exercise with a smoke bomb, formal service, watch on the Atlantic Ocean.

  5. Return of an infantry regiment to Schwäbisch-Gmünd after the Western Campaign

    Band, infantry, group of soldiers with bicycles, cart pulled by horses, soldier in conversation with civilians including a child, rail transport, waving soldiers in and on the wagons

  6. Roza Schwartz collection

    Contains a British Zone PWX/DP registration/identity card for Roza Schwartz, and modern copy prints of corpses at concentration camps.

  7. De Kadt family life

    Sonja de Kadt feeds a bottle to the baby laying across her lap, while a dog looks on; the woman holds Willie's arm up to wave to the camera, shows her various toys, and puts her finger in her mouth to show off the first teeth; 01:01:25 Willie walks with her mother's help, and is fed; 01:04:51 an older woman, probaby best friend Kees van Wyck's wife, holding her baby daughter; mother Sonja de Kadt holds Willie in winter 1940-1941; 01:07:35 mother Sonja pushes Willie outdoors in a stroller in front of the family's home in Schoorl, Netherlands; 01:12:02 Father Louis de Kadt walks slowly toward...

  8. Nazi officials dining; January 1940 document

    People descend stairs of stone building, the Berglandschaft in the Tatra mountains, a place for high-ranking German officers during the Nazi occupation. Pan up to Nazi flag. Women and children enter through a door. Nazi officials drink beer and eat in a large dining room with patterned curtains. 01:08:39 CU, handwritten document 2749-PS signed by Heinrich Himmler dated 28 January 1940. 01:08:44 Frank and two other men (possibly Bühler to the left and Dr. Karl Lasch to the right) in civilian clothes eat dinner in same dining room. Quick shot of spire (possibly the Kressendorf castle).

  9. Oral history interview with Masha Wolpe Baras

  10. Collection of documents from Freemason's Lodges in Dresden, Hannover, and Altenburg Zbiór dokumentów lóż masońskich m. in. w Dreźnie, Hanowerze, Altenburgu (Sygn. 118)

    Correspondence related to various Masonic lodges on German and Dutch territories, visitors’ books, name lists of members of lodges, diplomas of members of the Lodge from German territory between 1780-1921, books of freemasons’ and religious songs, as well as selected works of renowned composers (Mozart, Chopin and Schumann), and studies related to freemasons.

  11. Displaced persons at Zeilsheim camp around 1947

    Quick pan of men with a flag at the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp in Germany. A young child eats an apple and stares at the camera. Posters tacked to tree trunks showing photographs of men and writing in Hebrew. 00:00:38 Outdoors, an archway decorated with a menorah, a star of David, and Hebrew/English inscriptions, including "Jewish Scout Camp". A large number of scouts -- teenaged boys and girls in uniform -- stand in rows while a white flag bearing a star of David is raised. Children and adults march behind the flag bearers. In Wiesbaden (?). A woman, possibly Lorna Adelman, with a wo...

  12. Magnus and van Oosten families papers

    The Magnus and van Oosten family papers consist of correspondence, certificates, printed material, and photographs, related to the experiences of the extended family of Sary Melles (née Magnus) during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. The collection includes correspondence from her brother, Ibertus Magnus, written shortly before and during his imprisonment by the Germans, first in Assen, the Netherlands, and then at Buchenwald, as well as a notification of his death and a death certificate. Also included is a brochure that documents the jazz band that he performe...

  13. David and Dora Ruskin collection

    Collection of materials documenting the experiences of David and Dora Ruskin (donor’s parents) and their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes a manuscript entitled “The Journey Home” by Michael Ruskin about his his parents experiences during 1939-1945 during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe, Kaunas, Lithuania and the Kovno ghetto; post-war documents from the International Red Cross; marriage certificates; copy of a certificate of incarceration; and certificates from the International Refugee Organization Displaced Persons Professional Testing Board and the Central Committee of Li...

  14. Tibor and Margit Schwartz Rückman collection

    Contains postcards, with translations, written by Tibor Rückman (b.1912) [donors’ father] and Margit Schwartz Rückman (b. 1915) [donors’ mother] between 1945 and July 1948, during the time Tibor was imprisoned in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp. Includes photographs depicting Tibor and Margit after the war.

  15. Dr. David Abraham Rosenberg collection

    Contains two stereoscopic German propaganda photographs depicting Polish Jews at forced labor and the burning of "Jewish beds" in the market place in Myslenice, Poland.

  16. Reichsautobahn; Hamburg harbor

    Reichsautobahn, Obersee / Lanke, "Memories": Color, Berlin-Lanke, Werbellinsee, b/w. 10:00:31: Reichsautobahn, evening at the Bodden. 10:01:41: Dievenow / sea. 10:02:36: Demmin. 10:02:54: Gnevsdorf. 10:03:47: Walchow. 10:04:24: Schwerin.10:05:23: Hamburg (looks like cut commercial film). 10:07:36: Hamburg: harbor tour, filmed privately

  17. Marine fellowship

    German warships, Marine day in Berlin, Naval submarine

  18. County Command of the State Police in Będzin Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Będzinie (Sygn. 1046)

    Various police reports, lists of criminals, reports of officers and police informants concerning political, social and professional organizations, security of the city, unemployment and crime.

  19. SA; Viktor Lutze

    Hitler, storm troopers, German salute, SA men marching, children and civilians eating lunch. Viktor Lutze together with representatives of the city Greven. Swastika flags

  20. Laying of the cornerstone at the De Rijp condensed milk factory owned by Dutch Jews

    Slow pan of a city on a waterway; tree-lined banks and steepled buildings; extended views of the flatlands across the water from town, including a windmill and people working in the fields; 01:01:17 detailed views of the edifices of various buildings in the town of De Rijp, and of a canal, taken from an upstairs window; 01:02:56 Slow pan of a smokestack and chimney emanating steam; surrounding houses and industrial buildings; the sign on one building reads "De Beemster" at Tuingracht 32; 01:05:09 A man drives a horse-drawn cart carrying metal milk canisters; the interior workings of the mil...