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  1. Artie Kaufman photograph collection

    Contains three photographic prints depicting the Dachau death train soon after liberation; captioned on verso in English.

  2. David Marcus photographic negatives

    Consists of original photographic negatives of images from the collection of David Marcus, a member of the Frankfurt GI Council. Includes images taken at Kibbutz Buchenwald, in Austria, and in Munich and Lindenfeld, Germany.

  3. Elevator ascends the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Exposition

    The 1900 Paris Exposition filmed from the new elevator in the Eiffel Tower showing the ascent of the elevator and an aerial shot of the Champs de Mars and the exposition. The tops of pavilions, the iron structure of the Eiffel Tower. Entire buildings can be seen. Lanterns inside the Eiffel Tower. The tops of buildings, people walking along the Champs de Mars. Aerial shot of the busy Champs de Mars.

  4. Abstract contemporary painting

  5. Association of Former Residents of Glębokie photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting relatives and organizations in Glębokie, Poland (today: Glubokoe, Belarus) before the war and after the war when the survivors returned to memorialize their families murdered by the local residents and by the Germans. Collection of newspapers published in Glębokie in 1936-1938 (transferred to USHMM Library). Albums documenting Jewish life in Glębokie after the war and in Israel; manuscripts; correspondence and documentation of the activities of the Association of Former Residents of Glębokie.

  7. "Gleams of Memory"

    Consists of one memoir, 191 pages, entitled "Gleams of Memory," by Michael Treister, originally of Vitebsk in Byelorussia. In the memoir, he describes pre-war life, the bombing during the 1941 German invasion, and the establishment of the Minsk ghetto. He was in the ghetto from 1941-1943; in July 1943 the ghetto in Minsk transitioned into a concentration camp on Shirokaya street, where prisoners were incrementally killed with mobile gas vans. After a month, Treister was able to leave the camp due to a paperwork technicality and joined a partisan unit, acting as a guide to help people escape...

  8. Frydman and Nachberg families collection

    Contains two false Kennkarten used by Moshe and Bella Frydman during the Holocaust; photographs depicting the Frydman and Nachberg families in Krasnik and Janów Lubelski before the war, during the war in the Krasnik ghetto, in Warsaw while hiding on false papers on the Aryan side, in the Budzyn slave labor camp, and after the war in Poland and Germany and on their way to the United States; documents pertaining to the life of Bella and Moshe Frydman while they were DPs in Germany and their efforts to immigrate to the US. Also contains photographs depicting the Frydman and Nachberg families i...

  9. Lawrence Miceli photograph collection

    Collection of four photographic prints depicting the Dachau death train with captions by PFC Lawrence A. Miceli of the US Army.

  10. Panorama of the moving boardwalk at the Paris Exposition

    Panoramic footage of the new moving platform installed on the boardwalk at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Children stand making playful gestures. One boy rubs a piece of paper on his forehead and hat. Some people walk on the platform, others stand still, others move off the boardwalk. Boy pulls a man off. A man hops on, takes his hat off, and smiles. Woman gets on the platform and smiles at the children. Man gets off the platform and cuffs a boy on the side of the head. CUs, people on the platform.

  11. Frantisek Vohryzek family papers

    Consists of original documents, correspondence, and copyprints related to Frantisek Benno Vohryzek, originally of Hrdlovka, Czechoslovakia. Includes documents related to Vohryzek's emigration to Ecuador in 1939, his life in Ecuador, emigration to the United States in 1944, and related to learning that his parents and sister perished during the Holocaust. The Frantisek Vohryzek papers document the experience of a Czech refugee immigrating to Ecuador in early 1939. The collection includes his emigration and identity papers for the immigration, correspondence with his parents and sister remain...

  12. Selected records from the State Archives of Fermo

    This collection contains records and correspondence relating to concentration camps for prisoners of war, 1915-1919.

  13. Collection of memoirs, testimonies and questionnaires of the former prisoners Zbiór pamiętników, relacji i ankiet byłych więźniów (Sygn. VII)

    Contains hundreds of memoirs, diaries, and other written accounts created by former prisoners of Majdanek and nearby camps. Most of these accounts were collected as the result of five projects organized by the State Museum of Majdanek from 1965 to 1980. The projects sought to document how the camps and prisons in the Lublin region operated, the help rendered to victims, children, and the history of the camp of KL Majdanek. Some diaries have been published, and some are just copies obtained from other archives.

  14. Champs de Mars at the Paris Exposition

    The Champs de Mars in Paris during the 1900 Paris Exposition. Women stroll with parasols. People walk. Two women stroll with umbrellas. Stone wall. Large crowd. Building. Base of the Eiffel Tower. Building. People stroll with parasols.

  15. Elihu H. Rickel papers

    The bulk of this collection relates to Commander Elihu Rickel’s time in China, and in particular Tianjin, in 1945-1946, while serving as a chaplain with the U.S. Marine Corps. While there, he sought to raise awareness about the condition of the Jewish community in Tianjin, which was comprised primarily of Jews who had fled Europe in the late 1930s. The second series of documents in this collection contains, in part, a report that Rickel wrote about the community, a letter he sent to Rabbi Stephen Wise, and a journalistic account of Rickel’s ministry among the Jewish community. By this time,...

  16. Hans Vogel diary

    Consists of one spiral-bound diary, handwritten in German with illustrations and insertions, written by Hans Vogel, originally of Cologne, Germany. The diary, which covers the period of July 24, 1940 to August 9, 1941, describes the Vogel family's life in exile in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France and concludes on the day the family arrived from Europe in New York City in August 1941.

  17. Map

    Foldout map of Berlin acquired by Max Kolpas, a soldier in the 298th Combat Engineers, United States Army. The map also shows the surrounding areas and identifies important Nazi buildings and other locations. It is missing adjoining sheets. The map was created by the Geographic Section, General Staff, British War Office. Kolpas landed at Omaha Beach during D-Day, June 6, 1944, and was a member of one of the first units to enter Berlin in July 1945.

  18. Oral history interview with Hela Gersten

  19. Materials collected by the Foundation of Polish-German Reconciliation (FPNP) concerning forced labor in III Reich Materialy zebrane przez Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) dotyczące pracy przymusowej w III Rzeszy

    The collection contains various records collected by the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation (FPNP) during the project related to the payment of indemnities to Polish citizens for their forced labor on the territories of the Third Reich. Records include questionnaires, accounts, memoirs, diaries, interviews, correspondence, press cuttings; some photographs or other related documents are attached to the forced laborers files.

  20. Harvard football game

    In United States, houses in neighborhood. Women and children in front of house. Men rowing on the Charles River, flag. Harvard University marching band on a sports field. Men play American football, sign: "Harvard 14, Visitors 13." Marching band plays in the stands. Car driving on highway past trees and power lines. Aerial pan. Car drives up a snowy road. A group of young people exit the vehicle and walk towards the camera.