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  1. Nehama family photograph collection

    Contains photographs depicting the Nehama family in Athens and their relatives in Salonika. Isaac Nehama joined a partisan unit and survived the Holocaust; Isaac and his father Dario Nehama, survived in hiding in Athens, but Sarah Kolonomos Nehama (donor's mother) and Nehama Norman Nehama (donor's youngest brother) were murdered in Auschwitz in August 1944; Samuel Nehama (donor's brother) survived the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

  2. 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 Kindertransport of boys arrived on July 4, 19...

  3. Borowczyk family photographs

    Consists of a copyprint image of Jozef Borowczyk, who was a Polish prisoner of war who was imprisoned in Germany from 1939 until he was killed at the end of March 1945. Also includes a photograph of Maria Borowczyk, Jozef's wife, who raised their four children. The family finally learned of Jozef's death in July 2010.

  4. Records on prisoners camps of the Reich Ministry of Justice (Reichsjustizministerium), R 3001 (R 22)

    Contains records of Reichsjustizministerium (Reich Ministry of Justice) on Emsland camps which document the fate of individual prisoners and holds biographical information and detailed reports about the conditions of camp life and slave labor. Files contain personal information; lists of prisoners of the camps; and transport lists, including name, profession, and duration of sentence. Prisoners included criminal prisoners, homosexuals, Jews and political opponents of the National Socialist regime. German soldiers who were sentenced under military laws also were deported to these camps, maki...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Popes Pius XI and XII

    Compilation of footage from the tenure of Pope Pius XI (Pius XII's predecessor) on the occasion of his death. Title onscreen: "Universal Newsreel Vatican City Impressive Scenes Mark the Passing of Beloved Pontiff." Crowds outside the Vatican. Priests and others attend to Pope Pius XI as he lies in his bed. Pius XI visits the king and queen of Italy. 02:01:23 Pope Pius XI on the balcony at the church of St. John Lateran. Pius XI blessing the Alpine Chausseur (French mountain troops), followed by footage of Pius XI being crowned pope. 02:01:58 Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (Pope Pius XII) walks to...

  6. Austrian newsreel excerpts, March 25, 1938

    Excerpts from reel 1 of Ostmark-Wochenschau Nr. 13/1938 (25. März 1938), from frames 02107 to 05331. German narration. Title card: “Eintreffen motorisierter deutscher Truppen-Abteilungen in Wien und Graz” Night motorcade with motorcycles, cars, and tanks through city streets. Nazi officials wave and smile from platform before the Heinrichhof Cafe in Vienna. CUs. Crowds watch and cheer from balcony. Salute. (01:26) Daytime motorcade in Graz. Crowds line cobbled streets, swastika flags. Sign for: "Grand Hotel Steirerhof". Cars and tanks pass. Excerpts from reel 2 of Ostmark-Wochenschau Nr. 13...

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  8. Elkhanan Elkes collection

    Consists of pre-war and post-war family photographs, correspondence, and documents related to Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, his wife Miriam, and children Joel and Sarah. The collection includes Sarah Elkes' handwritten diary, in German, from 1935-1937. Sarah’s entries describe her schooling, school friends, family, summers, and Hebrew studies. The collection also contains correspondence between the members of the family, with Avraham and Pnina Golub (later Tory), pre-war power of attorney document, a letter regarding the health of one of Dr. Elke’s patients, and photographs and a letter regarding the...

  9. Nazi rallies in Wachau region (Austria)

    Dark frames of people. “Weissenkirchen in der Wachau.” A crowd of people stand, talking and shaking hands, amongst suitcases at the side of train tracks. There are some men in uniform with Nazi armbands. A group of young men wearing white shirts and swastika armbands. A band plays. A train approaches on the tracks. CUs of the train. People hang out of the train windows, waving. CU of an older woman’s face, she sits on a bench. Pan of the town with the mountains in the BG. Villagers walking. A boat on the water. Villagers walking. A dog stands on its hind legs. A cat. A train goes by on the ...

  10. Amateur shots: Austrians welcome Hitler in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau and Austrian family life

    Private film of a Nazi rally during Hitler’s journey from Linz to Vienna. Outdoor shots of a large home with painted swastikas and several Nazi flags. Tanks drive down a street. Nazi soldiers walking down the street. Hitler gives the Nazi salute from his car driving down the street with many onlookers on the sidewalks. Austrians shake hands and kiss cheeks. Nazi flags hanging from buildings. Trucks and tanks with swastikas on them driving down the street. Cut to women tending to plants in a greenhouse. INTs in a house, focusing on a cat. The women walk the cat on a leash. They hold and dote...

  11. Avraham Polack collection

    The Avraham Polack papers contain letters relating to the Polack family in Haifa, Israel, and in particular Avraham Polack’s imprisonment with other Irgun and Lehi members in several British detention camps in Africa from 1944-1947. The letters provide detailed descriptions of his daily life within the camps and reflect Polack’s concern for his family. Other letters relate to Avraham’s continuing education while imprisoned as well as notifications and receipts for packages and educational materials that were sent to Avraham Polack during his imprisonment. The papers also contain the corresp...

  12. Records of the Jewish Democratic Committee Association of Widows and War Orphans (IOVR)

    Consists of interviews conducted by the Jewish Democratic Committee’s Association of Widows and War Orphans (IOVR) with the Holocaust survivors after the war.

  13. Jeanette Meyer collection

    Includes a "Deutsches Reiche Reisepass" issued to Jeanette Klugmann (donor) on November 25, 1938, in Nuernberg-Fuerth, Germany. Black and white photograph of bearer affixed on page two; stamped with red "J" on front page; includes visas for France and the United States.

  14. Records of Hungarian banks and insurance companies (MOL Z)

    Selected records of Hungarian banks and insurance companies: how they implemented anti-Jewish regulations during the Horthy regime, personnel practices, confiscation of assets, responses to claims of Jewish customers. Postwar files focus on claims filed by customers whose assets were seized or employees who had lost their jobs.

  15. Lowenbein family photographs

    Contains three photographs (2 copies and one original) dated 1946, showing Hana Lowenbein (donor) and her mother, Piri Lowenbein. Hana Lowenbein was born in Freiburg, a subcamp of Flossenbürg.

  17. "Shari's Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 52 pages, entitled "Shari's Story" by Charlotte Wiesner Kuna, originally of Michalovce, Czechoslovakia. In the memoir, she describes pre-war family life in Michalovce, the beginning of anti-Jewish restrictions, and the fate of many friends and family members in Michalovce. In 1944, Charlotte (known as Shari or Shandele) and her sister received identity papers with Aryan names and moved around frequently to escape the Gestapo. They were imprisoned by the Gestapo in the spring of 1945, escaped after five weeks, hiding until they were liberated. She reunited with surviv...

  18. Nazi Rallies in Vienna

    The streets are packed with marchers and spectators. Nazi rally with horns, statue. A large group of women in white uniforms marches down the street. Signs: “Sudentenland” Speech. Nazi flags flying. “Deutschland” sign. Crowd raises arms in “Heil Hitler” stance following speaker. Traffic jam, honking horns. Crowd gathers, smiling, singing, saluting Hitler. A man is visibly shoved by German for not raising his arm to salute Hitler. Germans march in the street, smiling, rowdy crowd. Nazi rally in stadium with flag ceremony, marching band, speech in German, huge crowd. Streets filled with Nazi ...

  19. Selected records from the collection of the Sub-district of Ineu from the Arad branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the sub-district of Ineu, including records related to the confiscation of Jewish goods, lists of deported Jews, an inventory of churches and religious groups that were permitted or prohibited, and name lists of members of Baptist, Adventists, and Unitarian churches.

  20. Simon Slivka collection

    The Simon Slivka collection consists of one document, 3 pages, in Polish, written on February 12, 1937, unsigned. The document talks about the author's philosophy on life and reflections on training for hachshara. Also includes a photograph of a young man.