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  1. Franka and Salomon Szoten collection

    Consists of 12 photographs of individuals and groups of Holocaust survivors, some of which were taken at the Landsberg concentration camp in 1945-1946. Many of the photographs depict survivors wearing components of their concentration camp uniforms. Also includes photographs of American soldiers with displaced persons and an image of American soldier Frank Tauber posing with Nazi iconography. Also includes a French/English/German language booklet published in France in 1944 and a wedding announcement for the joint wedding of Franka Litman to Salomon Schotten and Adele Litman to Izak Tirk, w...

  2. Jacqueline Bernadet collection

    Consists of photographs taken of the forced reburial of corpses in Germany (possibly in Lüneburg) in the spring of 1945. Also includes color copies related to the wartime and post-war experiences of Jacqueline Bernadet, who was a member of the French Resistance, including a photograph, her portrait and French passport, and documentation related to her work with the Allied occupying forces in France.

  3. Preskovsky family papers

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to Chana Tykocka Preskowski (donor’s mother) who together with her two small daughters, Bella (b. 1933) and Lea (b. 1935) travelled in the spring of 1939 from Tel Aviv to Grajewo, Poland to visit her parents, Mordechai and Ryvka Tykocki. With the German invasion of Poland and the Soviet annexation of Eastern Poland, Chana and her daughters were unable to leave. Jacob Preskovsky, Chana’s husband and the father of the two girls, was a Palestinian citizen, and he managed to arrange for “Emergency Certificates” for his wife and children. They rea...

  4. Philip and Marta Beckman collection

    Contains photographs and documents concerning the Holocaust experiences of Philip Beckman and Marta Roth Beckman. Consists of photographs and documents about Philip Beckman and Marta Roth Beckman. Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Malka Roth Beckman [donor's wife] and Rafael (Rafal) Beckman [donor] after their liberation from concentration camps as displaced persons in Italy, specifically, Cesaria Santa Maria de Leuca and Bari. Malka, born 1929 in Sighet, Romania, was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and transferred eventually to camps in Germany where she wa...

  5. Jewish children in hiding with a Belgian family

    Family home movies of the de Brouwer family at their home in St Denis-Westrem, near Ghent, Belgium. The de Brouwer children take a walk in the woods and explore town with Denise. 00:22:15 Christmas 1941 at General van Maldeghem's house at 26 Boulevard General Jacques in Brussels. CUs of the children's maternal grandmother and grandfather. Denise and her mother solve a puzzle. 00:23:38 Annick (present with her children at the Christmas celebration) watches the street from a window.00:23:50 CUs of the butler Eugene in white. Various scenes from the van Maldeghems' home in Brussels; a trolley ...

  6. Anna Hershey collection

    Consists of photographs and documents from the collection of Anna Hershey. Includes documents and photographs related to her mother, who was one of four sisters from Łódź: Dina, Pola, Ruta, and Bela (the donor's mother). This portion of the collection includes copies of Dina Tazlowiczowa's diploma's from the Warsaw Conservatory of Music, a photograph of Pola taken in the Łódź ghetto, and a pre-war photograph of Ruta and Dina. Of the sisters, only Bela and Ruta survived the war. The collection also contains material related to Anna's husband, Gecel Herszlikowicz (later George Hershey), origi...

  7. Rosalyn Brisbois photograph collection

    Consists of 18 enlarged black and white copies of photographs taken by the US Signal Corps of the aftermath of the liberation of various concentration camps, including Buchenwald, Ohrdruf, Linz, Nordhausen, Schwarzenfeld, and of the site of an atrocity at Landwehr.

  8. Frieder family in Manila

    Jane Frieder swims in a pool, probably in Manila (note servant in white and plant vegetation in next shot), while Peggy floats in an inner tube. Jane practices diving. Scenes of life in the Philippines. 00:03:34 Housekeeper wearing white walks Peggy down the stairs. Jane and Peggy pose for the camera outside in the garden of their family estate. 00:03:56 Jane and Peggy swim in a pool, large cargo ships are visible in the distance. 00:04:42 INT, dark shots of a nanny helping the girls with their meal. 00:05:22 Jane and Peggy pose in white linen outfits at the Frieder family's Manila villa. 0...

  9. Kahn and Oppenheimer families papers

    Documents related to the extended family of Julius Kahn, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Includes an employee identification book ("Arbeitsbuch") used by an employee of his book manufacturing company, and receipts for taxes paid by member of the Oppenheimer family (donor's maternal grandmother's family) in Frankfurt, 1938-1939.

  10. Collection of records of the Agricultural American Joint Distribution Committee Office in Moscow, USSR Amerikanskiy agronomicheskiy ob'edineny raspredilitel'nyy komitet. Agro-Joint (Fond P-7746)

    The collection consists of contracts signed by the Agro-Joint with the Soviet government for 1924, 1927, 1933, minutes of meetings of the main and field offices, correspondence with agencies, organizations and foreign firms on the purchase and delivery to the USSR of agricultural equipment and supplies; various reports on the work of agronomists in the Jewish settlers' villages, financial plans and reports (1924-1937), statements for the payment of wages; maps, charts, drawings, posters on the activities of the Agro-Joint. Also includes personal files of the staff members of the organizatio...

  11. Solomon Zynstein papers

    Consists of photographs, scrapbook pages, loose documents, and newspaper clippings mainly related to Solomon Zynstein's life and work in the Bamberg displaced persons camp, particularly his work directing Yiddish Theater in Bamberg. Includes photographs, programs, and newsclippings about performances, as well as documents related to Zynstein's work as a journalist, including brief notes on the International Military Tribunal (the Nuremberg trials).

  12. Jewish refugees in the Dominican Republic

    Public information film about the immigration of Jewish refugees from Europe in the Dominican Republic. Jewish refugees work hard to create a prosperous home for themselves in Sosua. Everyone plays a part in the efficient and self-sustaining community that is mainly powered by physical labor. There are several scenes where settlers act as hairdressers and doctors, occupations the settlers most likely had before leaving Europe. The film opens with a pinpoint of San Domingo on a map. Scenes of a beautiful seascape. Mountains and houses dot the landscape, abundant wildlife. Houses under constr...

  13. Norman Coulson collection

    Consists of photographs, identity cards, and a clipping from the collection of Norman Coulson, a veteran of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who was put in charge of the post-liberation efforts to clean the Dachau concentration camp. Includes his Dachau occupation personnel identification card, photographs of the architecture of the camp, early copies of mass-produced images, and photographs of US personnel at the camp. Also includes a photocopy of the 2013 newspaper article about Coulson's experiences.

  14. Warsaw ghetto uprising and postwar immigration to Israel

    00:01:16 Credits on screen in Yiddish. Yiddish narration. Young men in Hashomer Hatzair uniforms march up a hill carrying torches as part of a nighttime commemoration of the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. One of the members sings to the group. 00:03:50 Footage of the Warsaw ghetto: a sign over a wooden fence warns of the danger of epidemics. A uniformed German looks into a passing car. Panning shot of the brick ghetto wall dividing the ghetto from "Aryan" Warsaw. The narrator says something about the Umschlagplatz, from which Jews were deported to death camps. Shots of Jews hurrying alon...

  15. Oral history interview with Magda Auerbach

  16. "Lost and Waiting to be Found"

    Consists of one memoir, 59 pages, entitled “Lost and Waiting to be Found,” written by Jackie (Jacky) Young (born Jona Spiegel), originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, Jackie, who was born in December 1941 in Vienna, Austria, but was raised by adoptive parents in England, describes slowly learning about his own past, which his parents had kept from him despite his own faint memories and hints mentioned by relatives. In the memoir, Jackie describes his visit to Theresienstadt, where he was deported as an infant; to Maly Trostinec, where his mother, Elsa Spiegel, was deported and perish...

  17. James Boalick collection

    Consists of three pages of typed testimony written by James G. Boalick, a member of Company B of the 45th Armored Medical Battalion of the 3rd Armored Division of the Third Army. He was a replacement on the front line in the Battle of the Bulge and, in the spring of 1945, participated in the liberation of Nordhausen, where he administered first aid to survivors. Also includes a copy of his honorable discharge and his separation record.

  18. Ralph Hansen photographs

    Consists of seven photographs of the aftermath of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The photographs, which depict emaciated survivors, corpses, and the burial of bodies, were taken by Ralph Hansen, a member of the 22nd Infantry regiment of the 4th Division of the United States Army.

  19. Collection of documents concerning Nazi Prison in the Castle of Lublin Zbiór dokumentów dotyczących hitlerowskiego więzienia na Zamku Lubelskim (Sygn. XVI)

    Contains selected records of the German prison used by the Sicherheitspolizei (SIP) and the Sicherheitsdienstes (SD) in Lublin, commonly referred to as “Castle Prison.” The Castle Prison was established in October 1939. Records includes registers of prisoners, books of out-patient-prisoners, membership and identity cards, soldier’s service books, certificates confirming the stay in prison, death certificates, smuggled letters and drawings from prisoners.

  20. Family at their home in Belgium during World War II

    In COLOR, various scenes of the de Brouwers at St. Denis-Westrem. CUs of Denise in a fur coat relaxing in the family garden; Carl poses near the apiary; Denise gathers flowers and smokes at a table decorated with flowers and tea; Madeleine, the cook's daughter, and Colette watch the Jersey cows; CUs of a local worker; CUs of Carl and Denise playing with Jean-Marie. 00:19:34 Jacques and Birgitte recite a poem.