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  1. Harriet Bixler scrapbook

    Consists of one scrapbook, labeled "1944-46," containing clippings, photos, letters, receipts, tickets, and assorted memorabilia collected by Harriet Bixler (Mary Harriet Bixler Naughton), while working for the War Refugee Board and the Office of War Information in Turkey, 1944-1946.

  2. Levi and Frank families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, copy prints and photographs relating to the Levi and Frank families in Germany and the United States before, during, and after the Holocaust, including their immigration to the United States, correspondence with and attempts to assist family who remained in Germany, and receipt of restitution.

  3. Demonstration at DP camp

    A large group gathers outside in a field carrying hand-made flags of Israel and other countries. The demonstration begins, people march in uniform, carrying signs in Hebrew. (See brief shot of same event in RG-60.1811)

  4. Herman Wolf memoir

    Consists of a handwritten memoir in Hungarian authored by Herman Wolf (later Herman Woolf), originally of Buštino, Czechoslovakia (Bushtyno, Ukraine). The memoir discusses the occupation of Hungary, Herman’s experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oranienburg with his son John, their separation, and his liberation from Sachsenhausen. The memoir was written around late 1945 or early 1946 while Herman was recovering in a sanatorium in Liberec, Czechoslovakia (Liberec, Czech Republic). Also included is a typed, English language translation prepared by Herman’s son John Woolf in 2013.

  5. Bernard John Sobczak collection

    Work ID card: "Werk-Ausweis Nr. 58 662" in metal frame, issued to Bernhard Sobczak, born on August 3, 1924; issued by Gerhard Feissler Werke; Kassel; November 4, 1944; Camp Lohfeldden.

  6. German military training

    At a military site (possibly Berthold's school), a large gun is fired several times.

  7. B'rit Milah in displaced persons camp

    Young boys outside on a patio, waving Israeli flags, goats, and a dog. The boys play in a field (in Israel?). Man from behind inside a booth. 01:16 Hannah holds newborn Menachem. 01:26 The Rabbi performs his B’rit Milah, INTs. 02:21 A group swims in a pool, picks fruit, hikes in the desert [some dark scenes and sprocket damage]. Hannah blows bubbles outside.

  8. Prezydent Policji w Łódzi Selected records of the Police President Office in Łódź Polizeipräsident Litzmannstadt (Sygn. 891)

    The registration records of foreign nationals and personnel files of officers and other staff in the police headquarters in Łodź and a branch in Pabianice.

  9. Dachau liberation collection

    Consists of six photographs of corpses taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The photographs, one of which depicts a victim with a detached prosthetic leg, are described on the verso. Also includes a letter dated 29 June 1945 from an American soldier to his family enclosing the Dachau photographs. The American soldier, unnamed, is depicted in the seventh photograph.

  10. Selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Angers Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych w Angers (Sygn.768)

    Selected materials include protocols, speeches and transcripts of meetings I-XI of the National Council of the Republic of Poland in Angers, France in 1940. Part of speeches and presentations is related to the persecution of Polish and Jewish people in occupied Poland. One of the members and a participant in the meetings was Ignacy Schwarzbart, a prominent Polish Zionist.

  11. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Żyrardów Sąd Grodzki w Żyrardowie (Sygn. 21)

    Records of criminal cases involving offenses committed by Jews.

  12. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  13. Morgenthau family vacations in Mexico, the Alps, and Israel and at leisure at their farm in New York

    Various exterior shots in color: boat on an ocean, apple orchard on the Morgenthau farm at springtime, the pump house, trees and rivers in a forest and the flowers in front of one of the Morgenthau homes. Elinor in a car. 00:48:39 Bullfight in Mexico, around 1946. Scenes in Mexico, where Henry Jr. brought Henry III on vacation following his release from the Army. Henry Jr. and Henry III ride horses. 00:49:44 In 1938, the family vacations at a seaside resort in Cap D'Antibes on the French Riviera, then in the Alps in southern France. Villa with paintings in Switzerland. 00:51:35 Henry Jr. so...

  14. Martin C. Dean papers

    The Martin C. Dean papers consist of photocopies of case documentation prepared for Martin Dean by the German prosecuting authorities in Stuttgart, Germany, to assist him in preparing an expert witness statement for a case against Alfons Götzfrid (b. 1919 in Rastatt/Poretschje Ukraine), who served in the Security Police in Lemberg (Lviv) during World War II and who was tried in Stuttgart in 1999 on charges of accessory to murder at the Majdanek concentration camp. The files are entitled “Staatsanwaltschaft Frankenthal 9 Js 70-65 Walter Kehrer, Handakten Bd. I thru V and Sachakten Bd. I thru...

  15. Mark Liwszyc, 1915-2003, Selected Memoirs

    Consists of one typed memoir, 72 pages, entitled "Mark Liwszyc, 1915-2003, Selected Memoirs," written by Mark Liwszyc, originally of Ostrog, Poland (currently, Ostorh, Ukraine), and compiled by his daughter, Edith. The memoir is written in three sections. Section one includes the history of the Jewish community of Ostrog and Mr. Liwszyc's memories of his own childhood. Section two covers the period of 1939-1941, including the Soviet occupation of Ostrog, traveling to Lwow to continue his education, working as a teacher in the Soviet schools, the German invasion in 1941, and being forced to ...

  16. 51st Field Hospital at snowy campsite

    A snowy campsite near the mountains in winter (Belgium or Germany?). Men chop and dig at the frozen soil, while others play in the snow. Beatrice and a friend laugh.

  17. Oreffice family collection

    Contains documents and photographs relating to Admiral Paolo Maroni (donor’s great uncle), who was removed from his position in September 1938 because of the racial laws of Italy. Includes false papers belonging to Vittorio Maroni (Paolo Maroni's father), dated c. 1943; numerous petitions to the Fascist government asking for permission to hire non-Jewish help for Paolo Maroni’s elderly parents; numerous drafts and typed copies of Admiral Maroni’s CV; and newspaper clippings from Italian and American press relating to the firing of the Admiral. Also includes an Italian passport issued to Mar...

  18. Selma Aufhaeuser affidavit

    Consists of one affidavit submitted to the general consul in Stuttgart, Germany, by Ludwig and Pepi Ottenheimer of New York City, in support of the visa application of Selma Aufhaeuser of Bavaria, Germany. The affidavit was notarized on April 10, 1941. The effort was ultimately unsuccessful; Selma Aufhaeuser and her husband were part of the first deportations of German Jews to Riga, and were killed upon arrival as part of the Rumbula massacre.

  19. Eugene and Tadeusz Zuber collection

    Consists of color copies of post-war identity documents for brothers Eugeniusz (Eugene) and Tadeusz Zuber, originally of Lapy, Poland. The brothers, who were Roman Catholic, were arrested as resistance workers during the Warsaw Uprising and were imprisoned in concentration camps in Austria, including Mauthausen, Ebensee, and the Schlier subcamp. Includes copies of prisoner cards, DP cards, the ship manifest for their 1949 immigration to the United States, and a brief narrative of their experiences written by Eugene's daughter, Elizabeth Weaver.

  20. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin