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  1. Parade in Switzerland; Isenberg family visits Klosters

    A crowded square in Graubuenden. People in traditional costume parade through the street. Bank in BG. 01:31:29 Norbert, Artur, Helmut, and Erna walk together past outdoor tables and benches in Klosters. Sally Isenberg joins them. Erna and the boys exit a home and walk through a park with a seesaw, umbrellas, lounge chairs, giant wheels. Helmut and Norbert salute Sally as he walks over. Sally motions for the camera to follow as he leads the boys to the seesaw. Sally gets on one end of the seesaw as the boys climb on the other end. The boys do handstands and somersaults in the grass. Sally si...

  2. Memoirs. Contest: "Preserve Memory Project" Wspomnienia. Materiały konkursowe "Zachować pamięć"

    Collection of 589 Polish testimonies along with photographs, letters and other personal documents. It contains accounts of Polish victims of WWII, their experiences of German atrocities in Poland and as forced laborers in Germany. The testimonies were sent for the contest "Pomóżcie Nam Zachować Pamieć" organized by the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) and Polska Unia Ofiar Nazizmu in 2005. Contains also other WWII materials collected by the foundation: as photographs, audio and video records. The most interesting materials were published by FPNP in two volumes under a title: “Za...

  3. Sailing on the SS Normandie in 1938

    People on board the SS Normandie sailing from Le Havre, France on October 5, 1938, including Erna, leaning against the rails, reading papers. More views of ship passengers and Sally at 01:44:39.

  4. Rosendahl and Blasbalg family papers

    Correspondence, telegrams, passports, immigration and naturalization documents, birth certificates, educational records, and other documents, related to the immigration of Ernst and Jenny Rosendahl (Blasbalg) from Germany to France, and then the United States; the immigration of Mrs. Rosendahl's sister, Gerda Miller, first to Palestine and then to Britain and the United States; and attempts to help their father, Fritz Blasbalg, emigrate from Germany, and then from German-occupied Netherlands, which were ultimately unsuccessful. The files concerning Fritz Blasblag primarily contain correspon...

  5. Chana and Amatzia Tzirin papers

    The collection includes postcards sent by Chana Sara Pronska from Grajewo and by Yosef Fichman in Swiniuchy (currently Pryvitne, Ukraine) to son Arie (Leib) Fichman, in Tel Aviv, to his bride Chava Pronska, and to Chava’s mother and Chana Sara’s sister, Rachel and Mordechai Pronski in Tel Aviv as well as photographs sent by family in Poland to relatives who immigrated to Palestine. Mate and Feige Fichman, Klara Jastrzab, Rachel and Chava Jastrzab, and other unidentified relatives are included in the photographs.

  6. Snowball fight in Zurich

    Snow-covered landscape. Norbert and Isenberg family walk down snow-covered stairs at the Isenberg family home. Sally swings Norbert and kisses Erna. Snowball fight.

  7. Kenneth C. Myers photograph collection

    Consists of two original photographs and two enlarged copyprints of the same images, which were taken by Kenneth C. Myers, a mechanic with the 12th Armored Division, which participated in the liberation of Dachau. One photograph depicts the landscape of the camp and barbed wire, while the other depicts corpses on a cart.

  8. Wehrmacht Siege Game box, board, instructions, dice, and 29 tokens

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50725
    • English
    • 1941
    • a: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) b: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) c: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) d: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) e: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) f: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) g-k: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) l-q: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) r-t: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) u-v: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) w-x: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) y: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) z-ai: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)

    Belagerungs-Spiel (Siege game) Sturmangriff (Assault) board game with original box, instructions, 2 dice, and 29 playing pieces produced in Nazi Germany in 1941. This version features different divisions of the Wehrmacht, the unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany. The colorful game board has images of Army Panzers, Luftwaffe airplanes, including a Stuka dive bomber and a blimp, and paratroopers attacking and occupying a green, fertile landscape with rivers and plowed fields, with the game diagram of red and black connecting lines and intersecting dots. The siege or fortress game, a popular w...

  9. Selected records from the collections of the Olt branch of the Romanian National Archives

    This collection contains records from the following groups: 1. The Mayorship of the town of Slatina, including correspondence relating to Jews and Roma, the forced labor of Jews, and confiscation of real estate; 2. The Police of the Town of Caracal, containing records relating to the control of refugees, Poles, Jews, Bulgarians, and Germans, census of Jews, surveillance of Iron Guard, and recruitment of young Jews; 3. The Prefecture of the sub-district of Caraca,l containing name-lists of Jews in agricultural forced labor, and records relating to the liquidation of debts of Jews interned in...

  10. Epstein family collection

    The Epstein family collection, circa 1920-1979, includes official documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the family’s experiences during World War II. The majority of the collection relates to Julian Epstein (1889-1943), a Jewish opera singer and jeweler, who was imprisoned in a series of French internment camps and died at the Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp in Poland. The collection includes a series of letters between Julian and his wife Margarete (1898-1988) written between 1938 and 1943. The collection also contains photographs of the Epstein family before and after ...

  11. Leopold Sobel papers

    Correspondence includes postcards and letters sent by Regina Sobol in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR to her husband Maksim Leopoldovitch Sobel (donor’s parents) in the Red Army in 1942; postcards and letters written by Maria Laks in Dniepropetrovsk to her brother-in-law, Maksim Sobel in Sumy, Ukraine, USSR; Certificates testifying that Maksimilian Sobel was awarded medals for fighting in WWII and for liberating Warsaw by the Red Army and by the Polish Army; in Russian and Polish; dated 1945; Sport Driving License issued to Major Maksimilian Sobel in Warsaw on June 15, 1948; Memoir written by Maksim...

  12. Selected records from the State Archives in Siedlce

    Records created during the WWII by the German occupation authorities, and after the war by the Polish municipal authorities. Contains files of towns (Łuków, Mińsk Mazowiecki, Siedlce, Węgrów), communes (Łuków, Tuchowicz, Dąbie, Celiny, Łysów, Skórzec, Zbuczyn, Żeliszew, Wyrozęby, Sterdyń, Chruszczewka, Korczew, Kowiesy), county (in Łuków, Węgrów, Sokołów Podlaski, Siedlce), as well as the collection of German posters of the Siedlce county. They refer to various matters, such as the registration of populations, displacements, forced labor, raising taxes and other fares, security and public o...

  13. Max Vielgut papers

    The Max Vielgut papers consists of documents and correspondence related to Max Vielgut, a musician originally from Vienna, Austria. The papers include his correspondence from pre-war Vienna, from the period after his escape to Belgium, as well as in France, where he was interned in various concentration camps, including Saint-Cyprien and Gurs.

  14. Oral history interview with George L. Rockwell

  15. Richard J. Lembach letter from Dachau

    Letter and envelope sent by PFC Richard J. Lembach who served in the Medical Corp, 1st Battalion, 47th Infantry, United States Army, and who was posted at Dachau after the liberation of that camp in 1945. In the letter, dated August 9, 1945, and addressed to Anne Lembach in Milwaukee, Lembach described what he saw in Dachau and what he heard had happened to the prisoners there.

  16. Prewar religious service in Gilserberg

    Men in overcoats and hats walk toward the camera on snowy street in Gilserberg, Germany. 01:41:44 Brief, dark INT of synagogue, rabbi with tallit opening ark. Family in icy streets and other street views. 01:42:51 INT, woman in kitchen. Man with Artur and Helmut in yeshiva hats lift up glasses of wine. Julie blesses the boys. More interiors. Snow-covered streets.

  17. George Sakheim collection

    Consists of photographs and photographic album pages from the collection of Dr. George Sakheim, depicting the images he saw and events he experienced as a simultaneous translator at the Nuremberg trials. Also includes a DVD of a speech given by Dr. Sakheim in May 2013 about his experiences.

  18. Departing US

    Aerial views of an American city from a rooftop with skyscrapers and a river partially clouded by smoke rising from rooftops. Young men pose for the camera aboard the ship "New York." Another large ocean cruiser can be seen from behind the deck rail.

  19. Nachman Steinhardt papers

    The collection contains six postcards sent from USSR in 1931 to Tel Aviv, addressed to Fishel Weizman, relative of letter-writer Nachman Steinhardt, who immigrated to Palestine from Częstochowa, Poland; a letter sent from "Motek," from Aruba, dated March 5, 1938; a membership card to a music enthusiasts club in Czestochowa issued to Nachman Steinhardt in December 1932; and a family portrait.

  20. Moses Religion in Pabianice Wyznanie Mojżeszowe w Pabianicach (Sygn. 2077)

    Contains registry documents of Jewish Community in Pabianice: birth, death and marriage certificates.