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  1. Facsimile of a 70th anniversary Stolperstein for a Jewish Italian teenager

    Facsimile of a plaque created in 2012 to honor the memory of Amelia Levi, age 17, who was deported from Saluzzo, Italy, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German occupied Poland and murdered. The plaque was created by students of the Art Institute G.Solei-Bertoni, in Saluzzo, as a Stolperstein [stumbling block] for possible placement at the site of the home where Amelia had lived. Stolpersteine were originated by Gunter Demnig as an ongoing art project to memorialize victims of National Socialism in front of their last place of residence. On January 26, 1944, Amelia was arrested by...

  2. Frieder family at their estate in Manila; children at camp; Jewish refugee family from Europe; Alice's birthday

    Alex and Corinne Frieder's children swim in the pool at their home in Manila. Louise and Edna hold up Alice. Edna poses and shows off for the camera. Edna, Louise, and Alice dance around their mother, seated in a chair. Swans in the second pond in front of the house. Edna, Louise, and other children in costume dance on the tennis courts during dance class. 01:05:35 Large outdoor dinner party at the estate in Manila. People talk and eat ice cream. 01:05:57 American children at Yosemite Camp in Baguio practice giving "Baguio" salutes to the camera. They raise an American flag, perform exercis...

  3. Frank A. Tuman papers

    Collection of papers relating to Corp. Frank A. Tuman during his service with Company L, 304th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division of the US Army during WWII. The collection includes a certificate of Merit issued to Tuman for Conspicuously meritorious and outstanding performance of military duty against an armed enemy and a Commendation issued to Tuman from Maj. Gen. Wm. R. Schmidt and Col. Wallace A. Choquette regarding the work Corp. Tuman and Pfc. Harold Levine performed in Mumsdorf, Germany regarding the reburial of victims of Nazi atrocities and the forced confrontation by the lo...

  4. Reich Commissioner for the Reunification of Austria with the German Reich Bürckel Materie Reichskommissar für die Wiedervereinigung Österreichs mit dem Deutschen Reich (Sign. AT-OeStA/AdR ZNsZ RK)

    Contains records pertaining to the aryanization and expropriation of Jewish property and assets, racial laws, police, cultural matters, finances, propaganda and media. Among the documents is a large quantity of letters from private individuals to Nazi Governor Bürckel, including mail from citizens denouncing their Jewish as well as non-Jewish neighbors.

  5. Josef Bosak photograph

    Photograph of former staff of the Zacharia Bosak metal wholesale shop, located at 6 Kupa Street in Krakow, Poland. The shop was overtaken and run by Germans.

  6. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  7. "History of Dachau Station"

    Consists of a three-page document entitled "History of Dachau Station" which explains the history of the location on which the concentration camp operated, covering pre-war (the use of the buildings), wartime (operating as a concentration camp) and post-war (use of the camp as a site for war crimes trials). The document focuses on the use of the physical buildings and space.

  8. "Krulik's Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 13 pages, entitled "Krulik's Story," by Israel (Krulik) Wilder. Wilder describes his childhood in Piotrkow, Poland, the German invasion in 1939, his family's escape to Radom, and life in the Radom ghetto. Israel Wilder got a job working forced labor at the Hortensia glass factory, where he worked until November 1944. He was deported to a series of camps, ending at Buchenwald concentration camp in December 1944, where he remained until the final weeks of the war, when he was sent to Theresienstadt, from which he was liberated. He was sent to England to recover, marrie...

  9. Harry Felzer photograph collection

    Consists of photographic negatives taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp from the collection of Harry Feltzer, who was a photographer in the United States Army. Also includes a negative of a building displaying Nazi insignia.

  10. Selected records of the Comité inter-mouvements auprès des évacués (La Cimade)

    This collection contains selected records of the Comité inter-mouvements auprès des évacués (La Cimade) (Inter-movement Committee for Assistance to Refugees) related to rescue of Jewish refugees in France.

  11. Handmade newsletter/card

    Handmade newsletter/card sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst. The card was written and illustrated by Heyne, who dated the card 1950.

  12. Helen Rotenberg Goldberger manuscript

    Consists of one manuscript, 10 pages, written by Dr. David Goldberger about his wife, Helen Rotenberg Goldberger. In the text, he describes the facts he knows of his wife's early years, though she did not speak often about that period. Originally from Malecz, Poland [now Belarus], she was sent to the ghetto in Pruzhany after the German invasion of eastern Poland in 1941. Helen managed to escape the ghetto and spent the war in the forest [possibly the Pripet marshes]; after the war, she learned that the majority of her family had been killed. Helen emigrated to the United States; married an ...

  13. Belgian couples tour Germany by bicycle

    The de Brouwers and their neighbors Joseph and Yvonne de Hemptinne, take a self-guided tour through Germany in July 1936. The film begins with an introduction of each traveler on the "Voyage au Pays Rhenan, taken in July 1936 by bicycle, boat, train, and car." Yvonne de Hemptinne (acting director for the film), Denise de Brouwer (acting treasurer), Joseph de Hemptinne (acting mechanic), and Carl de Brouwer (acting cameraman) smile at the camera while on a boat. 00:01:15 On a map of Western Europe, a pointer indicates the route of the families' journey from Cologne down the Rhein River and b...

  14. Lola Goldsmith family papers

    Correspondence, travel documents, alien registration forms, naturalization papers, photographs, photo albums, prayer books, belonging to the family of Lola Goldsmith (née Hannelore Goldschmidt) and her parents, Walter and Else Goldschmidt, documenting their emigration from Hildesheim, Germany in July 1939, their stay in England from 1939 to 1947, and their immigration to the United States. Additional documents relate to the parents of Walter Goldschmidt, Albert and Marta (Ochs) Goldschmidt.

  15. Jewish family at leisure

    Pan, farm/field and manicured gardens. People on the balcony of house wave at the camera. 01:30:12 Sally Isenberg waves to camera. Train pulls into station. Group disembarks and walks along streets. INTs of train, Erna reads newspaper. 01:32:00 In city, Sigmund and Erna approach the camera. Sally takes off his hat. Traffic officer stands in the middle of a busy intersection (maybe Zurich), bikes and cars pass. Pan of city life with shops, cars, pedestrians, trees lining the street. Sigmund and Erna walk past the camera and wave. 01:32:48 View of train tracks from the train window. Signs: "F...

  16. Photographs and documents related to forced labor in the Third Reich collected by the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation

    Contains 986 files of photographs and original documents sent to the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (Foundation “Polish-German Reconciliation”) by its beneficiaries. The photos and records document the employment of forced laborers by the Third Reich, their stay in a camp or in any other place where the forced labor was performed. Includes also photographs depicting individuals during forced labor, correspondence, birth certificates, Ausweise, Arbeitskarte, occasional cards with wishes, certificates of various kinds, identification documents, tickets and other evidence related to for...

  17. Chaim Malachi collection

    Consists of three photographs taken during the war of prisoners in uniform at an unknown concentration camp. The photographs are from the collection of Hindu Davidovich Kiczales, though she is not depicted in the images.

  18. Jewish refugees celebrate Purim in the Philippines, 1940

    "A Children's Party" shows Alex and Corinne Frieder and their children at a Purim celebration on March 24, 1940 at Mariquina Hall in Manila, the land donated by President Quezon for Jewish refugees. Many of the people at the party are German and Austrian Jewish refugees who were given visas to come to the Philippines. Children dressed in costumes at outdoor party, eating cakes. 01:00:41 Adults converse. Alex Frieder, wearing a white suit, smokes a cigar. Children and adults mingle and eat. 01:01:06 Cantor Joseph Cysner with camera around his neck leads a parade of costumed children to a mak...

  19. Viktor Venouziou Archive, Jewish Community of Kavala, Greece

    Archives collected by the President of the Jewish Community of Kavala, Victor Venouziou. Contain a collection of photographs of Jewish old gravestones, an alphabetical guide to gravestones with personal data about persons who were buried in Kavala (Excel database), and a historical essay about burial places for Jews in Kavala.

  20. Eva Lips speech

    Consists of a mimeographed transcript of a speech given by Eva Lips, a German-Jewish refugee from Cologne, Germany, at Christ Church in New York City on November 14, 1936. In the speech, she describes her impression of Hitler prior to 1933, and the ways in which she and her husband, University of Leipzig anthropologist Dr. Julius Lips, were persecuted after 1933. She also describes the confiscation of their library, the burning of their books, and experiencing constant surveillance. The couple emigrated to the United States through Paris in 1934.