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  1. Jacques Ribons collection

    Consists of color copies of the 1940 civil records book from Strezemieszyce Wielkie, Poland, documenting the births and marriages of members of the Rybsztejn family. Also includes post-war documentation of Jakub Rybsztejn (later Jacques Ribons), including his identification card as a displaced person and menus, identity documentation, and a postcard related to his 1947 immigration to the United States on the MS Gripsholm.

  2. Advertising poster for a Yiddish newspaper

    Poster designed by Aharon Hefter advertising subscriptions to Der Emes newspaper, a Yiddish paper published in Moscow.

  3. Gordon Witte photograph collection

    Consists of an original silver "Kodak" film canister containing a wound strip of photographic negatives depicting a large Nazi rally at which Hitler was in attendance. The negatives were found by PFC Gordon E. Witte, a member of the Company D of the 335th Infantry of the United States Army while he was in Pevestorf, Germany, at the end of the war.

  4. Selected records of the Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS) in Sarajevo Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS)

    Contains records of activities of the Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS) regional office in Sarajevo: fight against the Communist partisan and Serbian (Chetniks) resistance, daily and weekly intelligence reports about the political situation in the region, investigation of the activities of the local individuals suspected in the clandestine Communist work or contacts with Communist partisans and Chetniks, reports about attacks and killings organized by Chetniks and partisans against local supporters of the Usatsha regime, and similar reports.

  5. Thomas McFarland, Jr. photograph collection

    Collection of four photographic prints depicting victims of the Nordhausen (Dora-Mittelbau) concentration camp immediately following liberation. American soldiers and German civilians are visible in some of the photographs; inscription on verso of one photograph.

  6. Karl Koch diary

    Consists of one digital file of color scans of the World War I (1917-1918) diary of Karl Koch, while he was serving as a soldier in the German military.

  7. NSDAP convention of the Ammerland district

    Aerial view of Zwischenahn Lake filmed from the water tower on the south bank. The town of Bad Zwischenahn is located south of this land-locked sea. Windy with bright sunlight and full trees in early summer. 00:00:12 Title "Bad Zwischenahn im Festschmuck" The town of Bad Zwischenahn is decorated with Nazi symbols including flags, banners, garlands, and posters for the NSDAP convention. View of a gray stone building with columns, the NSDAP headquarters of the District Leader, Johann Schneider, in the Villa Windmüller located on Peter Street (also appears in Film ID 3930). Bathouse and boat d...

  8. Jewish orphanage; Schaap family gatherings

    Children at the Jewish orphanage in Leiden. Boys march in file and perform marching exercises in uniform. Toddlers play along with the older boys, including two black children (the product of a Jewish mother and black father). INT, family sits down for a meal. EXT, apartment building, birds flying about in the courtyard, family feeds the birds from the balcony. 03:01:58 A gathering of well-dressed family and friends, probably pre-war, including the couple seen moments earlier eating at home. The group eats a meal, plays cards, dances, and smokes. The men wear yarmulkes and there is a menora...

  9. Postwar life of the Schaap family; funeral for Dr. Amir

    Men with yarmulkes exit a building. INTs, dark. Cars on a street, one with "USA" and numbers on the hood. An elder with a top-hat gets into a car. CUs, adults, one pins flower on lapel. 00:37:21 In London, pan, up and down of a stone statue. Sign advertising "Yehudi Menuhin" concert at Royal Albert Hall (maybe in June 1946). British soldiers. Lake. 00:38:48 Street traffic and sightseeing to the Parliament and Westminster and around London's cinemas (films opened in 1946). 00:40:16 Israel Legation in Amsterdam. Funeral procession for Dr. Michael Amir, the Israel envoy to the Netherlands, on ...

  11. Personal archives of Miriam Yahieli (RG-95-86) מרים יחיאלי - ארכיון אישי

    Contains interviews, memoirs, correspondence, maps, and records on the Hebrew gymnasium “Tarbut” in Rovno, commemoration sites, informaton about World War II in the Soviet Union, the Hashomer Hatzair activities in Poland, Germany and Cyprus, educational work in kibbutz Tel-Amal, and material about the activities in the Hashomer Hatzair archive Yad Ya’ari.

  12. Family; ritual circumcision; children at play

    EXT, family with five adults and three children, presumably in front of their residence (#165). Good shots. They dress in furs and walk through a central park/garden. 03:13:13 Small boat at sea taking the Schaap family to England in 1939 and the passengers. 03:13:36 Well-dressed people gather in the city streets of Rotterdam and enter a building. The Chief Rabbi of Rotterdam, Yissachar-Berhard Davids, in a top-hat with Naatje Keizer Schaap with a white lace scarf. INTs, rabbi preparing for ritual bris ceremony of Chaim (Herman) Eljakim Vleeschhouwer (a cousin, b. June 5, 1935). Additional g...

  13. Grunberg and Muller families collection

    Collection of photographs and documents relating to the Grünberg family from Krakow, Poland: Ziuta (b. October 11, 1927), daughter of Zygmunt ( b. Feb. 1, 1896), an architect, and Berta Miller (b. Nov. 7, 1898). Ziuta’s older brother, Roman (b. October 12, 1922) was sent by his father to a boarding school in London, on April 20, 1939. Zygmunt Grünberg was forced to become the chief architect and engineer of the Płaszów concentration camp. The family was deported to Auschwitz and Zygmunt was transferred to Flossenbürg and murdered there in the stone quarry on April 23, 1945. Ziuta and her mo...

  14. Heeres-Abnahmestelle b.d. Firma Hasag Eisen-und Metallwerke G.m.b.H Apparatebau Tschenstochau Military Collection Center Hasag Hardware Ltd Facilities Construction in Częstochowa Wojskowy Punkt Odbioru Firmy Hasag Zakłady Metalowe Sp. z o.o. Budowa Urządzeń Częstochowa (Sygn. 192/2)

    Contains records relating to the production and organization of the Hasag ammunition factory located in the labor camps at the Hasag Facility in Częstochowa. Including are ordinances, circular letters, reports and protocols of inspection, as well as general correspondence. There were thousands of Jews among the forced laborers from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

  15. Komárno (Komárom) County III Komárňanská župa III

    Hungarian anti-Jewish measures and regulations carried out in Komárno (Komárom) County by the Office of the Main Chief of the Country and the Office of the Deputy Chief, including the expropriation of Jewish businesses and properties, the internment of Jews, reports on Jewish forced labor battalions, investigations of Jews, a census of Jewish workers in the county, and other records. Also features confidential correspondence received from the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior in Budapest and decisions concerning the Central Office of Autonomous Orthodox Jewish Religious Communities.

  16. Nazi Party rally stereograph depicting Hitler and the Nazi Leadership

    Stereoscopic photograph card, Reichsparteitag der Ehre, image 53, depicting Hitler and the Nazi Party leadership saluting a large crowd at a Nazi Party rally.

  17. William A. Spiegler collection related to Josiah E. DuBois, Jr.

    This collection contains material collected by the late historian William A. Spiegler, who was preparing to write a biography of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. Though much of the collection consists of copies from various archival sources and publications, it is an excellent resource for historians studying DuBois and his work with the War Refugee Board and on the I.G. Farben trial. The collection includes original and copied drafts, with handwritten changes, corrections, and notes, of “The Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government in the Murder of the Jews,” “Personal Report to...

  18. Irvin Boring testimony

    Consists of two essays (2 pages and 5 pages) written by Irvin Boring, a scout with the 26th Infantry Division, describing his experiences discovering and liberating a small concentration camp for women in the area of Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg, Germany, and his experiences discovering the site of a mass grave, possibly the victims who could not continue during a death march.

  19. Busy streets and city life of Jews and Arabs in Palestine

    Men work near a river to install metal pipe in Palestine. Water flows from the installed pipe and the men celebrate. A tall wooden pole with electric cables running from it. Panning shot of a park on a windy day. A busy city street, in which people mill about, men lead camels loaded with gear, a public bus is parked on the side of the street, the roof of a large estate is visible behind a high wall. The view from the top of a hill onto the white buildings of a port city, probably Jaffa, and the Mediterranean sea beyond. Quick shots of residents as they go about their day: three young childr...

  20. Clotilde Nicoli collection

    Consists of photographs and photographic negatives taken in Germany, circa 1945. Includes photographs of graves of German and Allied soldiers, aerial images, photographs taken after the liberation of Dachau, and photographs of military destruction. Includes an original envelope marked "Germany 1942" (though these photographs were likely taken in 1945). The photographs were sent to Clotilde Nicoli.