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  1. Refugee girls at the de Monbrison chateau in France

    Refugee girls living at a chateau owned by Count Hubert Conquere de Monbrison in Quincy-sous-Senart, located about 30 km south of Paris. De Monbrison and the Princess Irena Paley (a niece of the last Russian czar who later became Monbrison's wife) used the chateau to house refugee girls from the Russian and Spanish civil wars. In 1939 de Monbrison was approached by his children's Jewish physician, who was a member of the board of the OSE, and asked whether he would take in a group of forty German Jewish refugee children. The count agreed and the Kinderstransport of boys arrived on July 4, 1...

  2. Cardboard backed Star of David badge worn by a Jewish Romanian forced laborer

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Ancsel Feuerwerker (later Arthur Feuer) while serving in a Hungarian forced labor battalion in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania, from October 1942 to September 1944. Ancsel, his parents, 7 siblings, and many relatives lived in Craciunesti, Romania, an area of northern Transylvania ceded to Hungary, a German ally, in August 1940, as part of the second Vienna Award. In October 1942, Ancsel was conscripted into a labor battalion based in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania. Ancsel’s battalion put-up tar-covered telephone poles for 8 or 9 months, and was then moved...

  3. Alexander Shatton collection

    The Alexander Shatton collection consists of several articles written by Alexander Shatton. The collection includes an article entitled "The Journey of the Szatensztejn Family from Poland to the United States, 1939-1940," which describes the then-teenaged Alexander's journey with his family from Warsaw to Vilna, through the Soviet Union, and then the trip from Japan to Hawaii to the United States; the article was written approximately six months after the family arrived in New York City. Also includes an article entitled "Report of a Four Day Visit to Poland," written by Alexander Shatton o...

  4. Interrogation of suspected war criminal

    (LIB 6312) and (LIB 6313) Two German civilians, a man and a woman, enter a room and cremate a body, feeding the corpse into the flames. The narrator indicates that this is the crematory of the city cemetery of Hanover (Hanover-Ahlem, a subcamp of Neuengamme), where the bodies of slave laborers were cremated. The man has been doing this work [Heizer] since 1924 and will be interviewed by US Captain D.C. Nolan and an interpreter, Lieutenant A. Ackerman. An American soldier carrying a movie camera is briefly visible in the frame. After the body is cremated Nolan and Ackerman ask questions of t...

  5. Aharon Sandel photograph

    Consists of one photograph of two young children in Bogdan, Czechoslovakia. The children and their mother were deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and perished, while their father, Aharon Sandel, escaped from a labor camp and joined a partisan group. After the war, he emigrated to Israel and remarried.

  6. Konsulat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Chicago (A.59)

    Contains documents related to emigration of Jews, anti-Jewish speeches of students in Poland, newspaper clippings, memos, studies, reports, lectures, correspondence, translations, maps, and the like. Also included is a report from the review of the Jewish press in the USA, as well as publications in English, including: "The Jews in Poland: Their History, Their Tragedy, Their Future" published by The American Committee for the Relief of Jews in Poland, NY, 1936; and twenty four annual reports of the Federation of Polish Jews in America, 1932.

  7. First public NS student rally in Vienna

    Excerpt from newsreel Ostmark-Wochenschau Nr. 13/1938 (25. März 1938) about the first NS student public rally after the five-year ban. Title card: “Vienna | First National Socialist Student Rally.” Main building of the University of Vienna, with Nazi flags flying from its balconies and draped from its columns. On the steps, a large crowd of students is gathered. Nazi flag waving in the wind. Students in front of the building. Rows of students march through the larger crowd, which is enormous by now. They appear to be mostly, if not all, men. Men wearing long coats and Nazi armbands march up...

  8. Rasela Knezevic papers

    Contains photographs and photograph album, as well as a 1959 report for the US Department of Agriculture written by Rašela Levi.

  9. Selected records from the collections of the Arad branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Pretura (police unit) of Chişineu-Criş and includes records relating to: lists of registered Iron Guard, Jewish shops, Jewish enterprises, correspondence regarding Iron Guards and Jews, the situation of Jewish goods, indexes of Jewish addresses, and CNR goods (Aryanization) (Microfilm Reel 1-8). Includes records from the Legion of gendarmes Arad including various files regarding to the Iron Guard rebellion in Arad district, surveillance of religious groups, and the history of religious groups in Arad district (Microfilm Reel 9-12). Also includes records from the Je...

  10. Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Department of Registration and Statistics Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Ewidencji i Statystyki (Sygn. 303/V)

    Minutes, reports, briefs, correspondence, personnel files, and statistics on the Jewish communities throughout Poland; the central index books and registration forms for Jewish survivors in Poland (approximately 280,000 cards); portions of the Lublin, Łódź, Gliwice, and Bielsko-Biała card files; a card file created by the Warsaw committee of the CKŻP; and a file on people sent from Lvov to Poland during the population exchange with Ukraine. Accretion of records consists of two important files: #595 and 596, the so-called Lublin Registry Books-the earliest list of Polish Jews who survived th...

  11. 1938 educational film for drivers in Austria

    Short film advising drivers in Austria toswitch from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side. Narration ends with "Fellow Germans! Traffic community is part of the National Socialist people's community! Take this into account, show more discipline, more gallantry, and have more regard for others in road traffic."

  12. Franz Morawetz correspondence

    Contains correspondence primarily from Franz Morawetz (donor's grandfather) in Vienna, Austria to his family in the USA, specifically to his wife Theresa (Reserl) and their children who immigrated to Brooklyn, NY and settled in Philadelphia, PA. His letters document efforts to immigrate and his attempts at fleeing to Cuba or Japan. Franz Morawetz was deported from Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt concentration camp on July 28, 1942, then to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on May 15, 1944. He is presumed to have perished on July 11, 1944.

  14. Stefania Glat album

    Memorial album created by Mr. Bromberg and given as a memento to Stefania Mischel Glat in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, USSR on May 6, 1946.

  15. Jewish Brigade collection

    The Jewish Brigade collection consists of printed newspapers, programs, booklets, and poetry related to the Jewish Fighting Brigade between 1943-1945. Includes newspapers and booklets distributed to the regiments, poetry that was likely sent to the Brigade newspaper, and a 1943 handwritten letter written by a soldier.

  16. "Stolpersteine"

    Consists of one DVD containing a documentary, approximately 22 minutes, regarding the Stolpersteine in Berlin. The Stolpersteine, which translates to stumbling blocks, are small markers that memorialize those who previously lived at specific addresses. This DVD focuses on the Stolpersteine of Siegfried and Marie Perl, who were deported from Berlin to Theresienstandt in July 1942; Siegfried perished there in September 1943, while Marie was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. It also focuses on the memorial for Selma Heimann, who was deported in September 1942 and killed in Raasiku, Estonia. Mrs. ...

  17. Oral history interview with James Kennedy

  18. Heribert Froboese testimony

    Typescript text (37 pages) of the testimony of Father Heribert Froboese, O.F.M., a priest interned at Buchenwald, written shortly after his liberation in 1945; and a photograph of Father Froboese in the clothing of a Franciscan monk, dated August 1945. Father Froboese wrote this testimony with the hope that it could be used in the trial of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, and he gave the donor's father, Col. Aloysius McCormick, Jr., of the U.S. Army, a copy of this text after meeting him in 1945. File contains an explanatory note from the donor, dated 1984, and a brief biography of Col. McC...

  19. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  20. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.