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  1. Meitner family photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting Arpad Meitner and Berta Mahler Meitner before the war in Budapest, Hungary.

  2. Dr. Howard Hoffman collection

    Consists of correspondence, a clipping, and copies of testimony related to Dr. Howard Hoffman. As an American soldier, he was a member of the 102nd Infantry Division and witnessed the aftermath of the Gardelegen atrocity. The collection includes a copy of Hoffman's recollections and information about his corrections to the exhibit text in 1978 at Yad Vashem which had misidentified Gardelegen as a concentration camp. Also includes text written by Hoffman's wife, Dr. Alice Hoffman, about her husband's experiences.

  3. Deportation of Jews

    Deportation at railway station in Poland (unknown location). CU, women with glasses and kerchief on the train platform. MS, families of Jews, some with bundles and armbands dressed in suits, walk towards the camera beside railway cars. SS-Schutze and tall Polish Blue policeman escorts another column by gunpoint.

  4. The Isenbergs visit family in Gilserberg

    Cows in field. Bertha and Margot Greif, Rosa, Julie, Erna, Hermine, Sophie Stern, and her sister walk down the country road. Men with horses and wagons. Pan of village and piles of wood. Women walk in the street. 01:36:46 In Gilserberg, INT, Julie in the kitchen, another washes rags. Erna leans out of the window. Street activity, mail truck drives past. 01:37:36 Young girl with a backpack poses for camera. Men with a pig. Margot and Bertha Greif, Sigmund, Rosa, Juile, Erna, and Sigmund Stern walk down stairwell of house. Pan of village streets with animals, people, houses, wood. Motorcycle ...

  5. Ehrentheil family papers

    Consists of documents, correspondence, memoirs, and research notes related to Dr. Otto Ehrentheil’s attempts to assist family and friends to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. After his family arrived in the United States from Vienna, Austria, in November 1938, Dr. Ehrentheil worked to provide financial assistance and affidavits for numerous family and friends. Includes correspondence, financial documentation, memoirs and additional information about those he assisted, and research notes related to the writing and publication of “Dear Otto,” written by Dr. Ehrentheil’s daughter, Susanne Learmonth...

  6. Selected records from the State Archive of Ferrara

    This collection contains records from the Police in Ferrara and Prefecture Cabinet Series of Ferrara relating to personal files of Jews, questionnaire on the status of Jews in the province of Ferrara, racial laws, arrests of Jews, Jewish property and Jewish schools, and discrimination against Jewish residents.

  7. German gramophone with a red painted bell and carved oak base

    Gramophone of the type used in German homes during the Nazi era, 1933-1945. Propaganda was an essential tool of the Nazi government. They understood the power of emerging technologies, such as phonographs, radio, and television, to disseminate their message into homes and workplaces. Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda encouraged the production of home listening devices at affordable prices.

  8. Ginsberg family papers

    Consists of original copies of birth certificates issued in 1941 for Helga Sara Gappe (born in 1920 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany) and for Szymon Icyk Ginsberg (born in 1911 in Dąbrowa Górnicza (Poland), Poland). Ginsberg's birth certificate consists of a handwritten Russian original and typed German translation. Also includes a small booklet issued by the Commune de Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode in Belgium recording the marriage of Ginsberg and Gappe in 1939.

  9. Oral history interview with Bela Pomeranc Friedman

  10. Wolf Bulanski papers

    Photograph album, loose photographic prints, documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Wolf Bulanski (donor's father) who was born in Telechany, Poland [present-day Belarus] in 1912. Included is an extensive photo album and loose photographs spanning the 1920s and 1930s in Poland and then later in Belgium where Wolf studied and earned a medical degree. Documents illustrate his education in Poland and Belgium, and war-time in Belgium working as a physician and surviving under the false name "Henri Joba." Also included are WWI postcards from "Oswei Bilansky" (donor's patern...

  11. Gerhard (Gershon) Hoffman correspondence

    Two (2) letters written by Gerhard [Gershon] Hoffman (donor's father) from Hamburg, Germany in 1945. The first letter, originally written and sent to Herbert Mosheim in the United Kingdom in 1945, describes in great detail Gerhard's experiences during the war, beginning with the round-up of Jews in Hamburg in November 1941, and being sent with his family to the Minsk Ghetto, where he was a forced laborer from 1941 to 1943, and the mass liquidations and murders that took place. He also describes his transport to a succession of concentration camps beginning in September 1943, in Lublin, and ...

  12. Selected records from the State Archives in Łowicz

    Records created during the WWII by the German occupation authorities, and after the war by the Polish municipal authorities. Contains selected files of town Łowicz, communes (Bolimów, Kiernozia, Bielawy, Jeziorko), county in Łowicz, Prison in Łowicz, as well as the files of School Office (Schulamt) in Łowicz. Includes a rich collection of German posters and flyers, records related to anti-Jewish orders, forced labor, lists of inhabitants of Jewish origin (in Łowicz and Bolimie, from 1940), lists of children evacuated from Warsaw located in individual villages 1944, and German ordinances of ...

  13. Testimony from the ancestral homeland of the Wilner family

  14. Provincial Court in Lublin. Trial of Teodor Dak. Sąd Wojewódzki w Lublinie. Proces Teodora Dak (Sygn. 309)

    Files of the Provincial Court in Lublin, trial of Teodor Dak ("Krakus," d. 1974), for participation in "pacification" of Polish civilians 1943‒1944 while in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) near Tudorkowice, Sztychorów (now Ukraine), Hunistyń (Hrubieszów county), and Chłaniów (Krasnystaw county). Dak charged under Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka,” issued by Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego regarding Nazi criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and punishment of traitors to the Polish nation). Dak sentenced in 1972 under Article IV of the ...

  15. Oral history interview with Helen Mincberg and Ann Beckerman

  16. Robert Lee McLaughlin photograph collection

    Contains 21 photographs taken around the Dachau concentration camp shortly after liberation. The photographs were taken by U.S. Army soldier T. Chappell, and entrusted to Lee McLaughlin, another solder in Chappell's unit.

  17. Otto Papernik family papers

    Papers of Otto and Irene Papernik, including birth certificates, travel documents, immigration forms, and an unpublished memoir of Otto Papernik, describing his experiences after the annexation of Austria by Germany, his escape to Luxembourg, and after 1940, to southern France, and eventually the Dominican Republic. Collection also contains documents related to Papernik's mother, Karoline, including travel documents and her death certificate, showing that she died at Gurs in 1940.

  18. Kedar (Krausz) family photographs

    Contains two photographs: one showing Dr. Samuel and Dr. Lydie Krausz (donor's parents) in Nitra, 1936; the second depicting the donor's parents before their marriage in Prague, 1930.

  19. Frieders on vacation, horseback riding, playing

    People play and relax on the beach, probably in Hawaii. Morris Frieder and his girls wearing flowered leis aboard a boat. 00:00:47 Pan of a large garden in the Philippines, probably in Baguio City (see Film ID 2957 at 00:02:56 for film of the same location when the girls are younger). Peggy and a younger girl (likely her sister Sue - b. 1934) pose for the camera. Jane practices swinging a golf club. Catherine O'Connor, the governess from Indiana, helps the girls pick flowers from the garden, and Jane picks up Sue. 00:02:17 A plane lands on a dirt runway. Morris gets out and kisses Sue. The ...

  20. 60th anniversary medallion, liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora issued to US soldier / liberator

    Commemorative medallion received by Forrest J. Robinson, Sr., an American soldier who participated in the liberation of Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp on April 12, 1945. He received the medallion at the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps in 2005. Corporal Robinson, Military Police Platoon, 104th Infantry Division deployed to France in July 1944. On April 12, 1945, Forrest entered Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp near Nordhausen, Germany, the day after infantry troops from his division liberated the camp. His platoon followed the infan...