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  1. Joffe family papers

    Consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Szymon Joffe (later Paul or Sam Jaffe), originally of Łódź, Poland. In May 1938, Mr. Joffe was able to immigrate to the United States, where he joined the American Army and spent the last months of the war as part of the American occupation of Paris, France. Includes wartime correspondence from family members who remained in Poland and perished during the Holocaust, documents related to his experiences in the American military, and extensive photos related to his wartime experiences and ...

  2. Hitler returns to Berlin in July 1940

    Camera pans over Upper Rhine. Hitler's motorcade crosses pontoon bridge eastwards; tracking shot shows children in swimsuits waving near a customs post and adults showing signs of love, loyalty and gratitude. Hitler, now aboard train, accepts flower from girl and shakes hands of HJ boy. Train journey continues past Marbach (Neckar), peasant on his plow, and stops at stations where Hitler autographs postcard portraits of himself. Camera shows Hitler in profile. Berlin prepares welcome; swastika flags fly, BDM girls spread flowers along route from Anhalter Bahnhof to Reichs Chancellery, polic...

  3. Selected records from the Prokurator Sądu Okręgowego w Kielcach (Sygn.GK 411)

    Records from trials at the district court in Kielce, 1945‒1950, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Communism propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  4. Harold Langford collection

    Contains an eight-page report of an inspection of Buchenwald concentration camp on April 16, 1945

  5. Josef Mintz correspondence

    Two letters, written by Josef Mintz (donor’s father) in Auschwitz-Birkenau, on 13 October 1940 and 27 October 1940. The letters are addressed to his wife, Dora (Dosia), and mentions his daughter Jadwiga (Jadzia). File also includes a photostat copy of the telegram sent to Mrs. Mintz from the camp authorities at Auschwitz, November 1940 (?), notifying her of her husband's death and advising her to seek further information from the local authorities in Warsaw, where the Mintz family had lived.

  6. Robert Greene collection

    Consists of postcards sent to Robert Greene of Utica, NY, by members of the Grünbaum family of Radzanów, Poland, between 1940-1941, as well as individual postcards written by Wolf Aronowicz and Aron Gottlieb, also of Radzanów. Includes a holiday card sent from the Lechfeld displaced persons camp in 1947, post-war restitution documentation and requests for information related to Mayer Greene, Myrel Grynbaum Lipscyc, Hersch Grynbaum (Grünbaum), and Faiga Grynbaum (Grünbaum).

  7. Large red Nazi garrison swastika banner signed by soldiers of the 80th Infantry

    Very large red Nazi swastika banner taken by 19 year old Paul Mercer, a US soldier, at the end of the four day battle to capture Kassel, Germany, on April 4, 1945. Paul and his unit, the 318th Machine Gun Squad, 80th Infantry Division, Third Army, faced stiff opposition at Kassel, which had a still operating Tiger Tank factory. At 12:30am, April 4, General Major Erxleben surrendered with about 400 troops. He wanted to present the garrison banner to the American commander but it could not be found. Paul had slipped behind the troops and removed the flag without anyone's noticing. The banner ...

  8. Hans Winter collection

    Consists of extensive personal papers, reports, and publications collected by Hans Winter, who worked for the Jewish Agency in Geneva and London in the 1930s and 1940s. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war personal papers and photographs, reports generated by the Jewish Agency and the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, and wartime and postwar publications related to World War II, life in Palestine (and later in Israel) and the growth of the El Al airline.

  9. Records of the Committee for Allocation of Land to Jewish Workers of the Presidium of the Council for Nationalities of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR (KOMZET) (P-7541)

    Collections consists of the records related to the activity of the KOMZET and its regional branches. It includes bylaws of the organizations, directives of the state authorities, minutes of the meetings, reports, correspondence with other Jewish and Soviet public organizations, annual plans, reference materials, various statistical information, financial and personnel records of the organization. In addition to these records, collection also includes detailed information about Jewish collective farms, their economic situation, statistical information about Jewish population and Jewish settl...

  10. Herenfeld family papers

    Correspondence: from the Herenfeld and Nisenholc families in the Warsaw ghetto to Bela Genya Yosovitz in Buffalo, NY, in Polish and in Yiddish, dated 1940 and 1941. Correspondence includes letters sent to Bela and Natan Yosovitz from David Herenfeld (brother of Bela) and from Chaim Nisenholc. Letter: addressed to Cpl. Richard Connuck (donor's father) in the US Army, from the Central Jewish Committee in Warsaw, dated March 20, 1946, notifying him that Leizer Herenfeld is not listed as a survivor; Photographs: images of of Lejzor Herenfeld in Warsaw, c. 1930 and of David Herenfeld, date unknown.

  11. Wolf and Hirschen families collection

    Contains a letter and photographs illustrating the Wolf and Hirschen families in Germany. The letter was written between June 5 and September 4, 1942 by Emma Wolf in Offenbach, Germany to her children, Lisl, Gretl and Richard, who had immigrated to the United States. Photographs primarily illustrate the extended family's pre-war life in Germany.

  12. Aichen family photograph collection

    Photographs (9), of various memebrs of the Aichen family from Stryj (now Stryi, Ukraine) and Lwow (now Lviv, Ukraine), Poland, 1927-1947.

  13. Buchenwald liberation photograph

    Consists of one photograph depicting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The photograph, which is captioned on the verso, consists of two photographic images, one printed on the top and one printed on the bottom of the photograph. One image depicts corpses piled on a cart and the other of corpses piled in a store room.

  14. Bernard Solonche collection

    Contains three photographic prints documenting corpses in one of the open railcars of the Dachau death train, taken immediately following liberation; handwritten caption written on verso of one print; dated April-May 1945. Includes a photographic print of large field of corpses; caption on verso identifies the bodies as those of American soldiers killed during the Battle of Bulge in the Ardennes in Belgium; dated 1945. These photos were sent home by US Army medic Bernard Solonche (donor’s brother), who served with the 45th Infantry Division during WWII

  15. Brüsseler Treuhandgesellschaft collection from the National Archives of Belgium

    Contains records of the Brusseler Treuhandgesellschaft. This organization was founded by the German occupiers in October 1940 as an "anonymous corporation" that seized control of enemy goods, including bank accounts and real estate. These documents provide an account of how the Jews residing in Belgium were looted by the German regime.

  16. Selected records from the Prokurator Sądu Apelacyjnego w Kielcach (Sygn. GK 375)

    Records from trials at the appellate court in Kielce, 1945‒1950, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Communism propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  17. Kaufman family collection

    Contains photographs, four notebooks (in Yiddish), identification documents, certificates, and correspondence, related to the wartime experiences in France of Kopel Kaufman, originally of Busko, Poland, and Wulf Finkielsztejn, originally of Wilno (Vilnius). Documents attest to the experiences of both men in resistance activities during the occupation of France, their imprisonment by the Germans, and Finkielsztejn's deportation from Pithiviers and his presumed death. The notebooks contain a memoir written by Kopel Charles Kaufman in 1945-1946 describing in detail his experiences in Auschwitz...

  18. Transport Print 3 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting teams of prisoners hauling construction materials uphill, while guards and dogs attack them, for use at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individual...

  19. Stephen Alexander collection

    Contains a Swiss protective passport issued to Bela Alexander, and a document from the Hungarian Jewish Committee stipulating that Istvan Alexander [donor] has the right to be outside past curfew in the Budapest ghetto.

  20. Jewish family visits relatives in London before the war

    David Cohen-Paraira and his daughter Ellis visit London in 1938 before Ellis started high school. Brief shot of Ellis and her father David. Spectators observe the changing of the guard in London. 01:07:03 Aunt Jessie (Jessica Vaugh) watering her garden. Jessie (a Scottish non-Jew) was married to David's brother Salomon. Ellis, her aunt, and her cousin, Pamela, play with a ball. 01:07:30 Ellis and Pamela wear equestrian riding clothes (Pamela rode horses as a hobby) and take tea in the garden. Uncle Salomon acts as a waiter. Quick shot of a boat. Salomon was killed during the Blitz in London.