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  1. 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.

  2. Hungarian protective pass

    Document issued by a Hungarian ministry, attesting to having seen the names of two Budapest residents, Dr. Károly Radó and his wife, Piroska (née Ujhelyi), on a list of individuals protected by the Swedish legation; 15 November 1944.

  3. HJ in Salzburg

    Parade with music (drums and horns). Marching procession of uniformed Hitler youth in Salzburg, singing in unison. Pan to clock tower adorned with Nazi flags, time show 10:40 AM. Apartment buildings and retail shops. “Haltes Bazar” sign. Spectators watch. Filming rear of parade from a Nazi car.

  4. Thaler and Angstreich family papers

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to the Angstreich family from Gliniany, Poland (Hlyniany, Ukraine) and the Thaler family from Zborów (Zboriv, Ukraine) and Brzeżany, Poland. Documents include birth certificates and passports from Poland, and marriage documents from Palestine.

  5. Valentine and Politzer family papers

    Correspondence and documents pertaining to the extended family of Teodor Valentin and Vilma (Politzer) Valentin. Includes a memoir written by Vilma Valentin titled "Kalište Report," which details the family's experiences from 1942-1945, while in hiding in the partisan-controlled village of Kalište, Slovakia, near Banska Bystrica

  6. Brand and Lowinger families papers

    Collection of photographs depicting the Brand family in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, showing Hanna (Agi), her two brothers Richard and Erich, and her parents Etel and Moric Brand; two letters written in April and May 1944 in Ujhely, Hungary by a Viennese woman who took care of Erich Brand in the local hospital; photographs depicting the Löwinger family in the ghetto in Hajdúböszörmény, Jews at forced labor and a family photograph from before the war.

  7. Records of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee from the State Archives of the Russian Federation (GARF), Fond 8114, opis 1

    Contains records of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, JAC (Yevreysky Antifashistsky Komitet, ЕАК), including board organizational records; correspondence with Einikait (Unity) supporters; international correspondence with foreign Jewish organizations and individuals; name lists of foreign Jewish supporters of the JAC; JAC membership lists; material collected to be published in the “Black Book”; and copies of originals and edited "Einikait" newspaper articles, poems, works of prose, songs, and literary criticisms.

  8. Belsen child survivors recover at Joodse Invalide

    Jewish children recuperate at "Joodse Invalide," a hospital for Jewish disabled in Amsterdam, after liberation from Bergen-Belsen. MCU four Jewish children jumping and climbing on a bed, smiling, the boys wear kippahs. Nurse (woman in white apron uniform) puts one of the children, who had climbed out, back onto the bed. Nurse seats the children at the end of the bed, they are all clapping and smiling. She places a tin bin on the floor and undresses one boy so that he can relieve himself. Nurse pushes two children in front of the camera. One child slides towards the door and tries to open it...

  9. Bela Trebitsch collection

    Consists of copies of correspondence and poetry written by Bela Trebitsch, a Hungarian man who converted to Christianity during the war, spent most of the war in a forced labor battalion, and was deported to Bergen-Belsen in January 1945. The correspondence and poetry, written from Bergen-Belsen in 1945, describes his search for his daughter, Valeria, who had also been deported into Germany. Also includes copies of his forced labor diary and of correspondence Bela wrote to his family in Budapest after his liberation from Theresienstadt. In June 1945, while still at Theresienstadt, Bela cont...

  10. Selected police records from the Arad Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the police of the town of Arad, including records relating to new orders and name lists of the Iron Guard.

  11. 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.

  12. Sara Sternlicht identification card (Kennkarte)

    Contains an identification card (Deutsches Reich Kennkarte) issued to Sara Sternlicht (donor's mother); marked with large "J" identifying her as Jewish; black and white photograph of bearer affixed; issued November 20, 1939; Vienna, Austria.

  13. Selected records from the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS)

    Records relating to the surveillance of Iron Guardists, 1945-1959; Protestant churches, 1920-1945; Freemasons; Jewish organizations, 1924-1952; and Zionists.The emigration of Jews to Palestine, 1941-1943; other files on Jewish emigration, 1939-1944, wartime surveillance of ethnic Germans, wartime occupation of Northern Transylvania. Seven files (CNSAS 11-1) documentation of Communist secret police surveillance of people connected to wartime crimes in Vasiliorka-Tulcin and in Mostovi, Berezovka, and Transnistria. Includes lists of officers in the Romanian Army before and after 1944, lists of...

  14. Selected records from the State Archives of the Bryansk Region, Russian Federation

    Contains selected records related to the partisan warfare and the local administration during and after WWII of the Bryansk region. Includes documents of the local administration established by the Nazis during WWII and by the Soviet Union after WWII . The records of the Soviet administration pertain to investigation of crimes committed by the Nazis during the occupation. Includes also a small collection of records related to the history of the Jewish population before WWII (1917-1941).

  15. Nazi flag acquired by an American soldier

    Nazi flag acquired by 23 year old Edward J. Paukovits, Sr. , a US soldier, around April 28-30, 1945, in Ulm, Germany. His unit was stationed in Goppingen, and, while passing through Ulm on the way to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Paukovits saw the huge flag still flying atop a building. He had the driver stop the jeep. The flag was anchored to the finial, so Paukovits climbed the pole and took down the flag. Paukovits was assigned to the 815th Quartermaster Battalion. He and his unit were deployed overseas in Africa, Italy, France, Germany, and Austria. He served in the US Army from November 1942...

  16. Neef addresses crowd in Vienna

    Silent. Neef arrives by plane in Vienna. He delivers a speech to a crowd in Vienna on April 7, 1938 at 5:00PM from the Rathaus.

  17. Matus collection

    Contains two typewritten reports written by Sadie Rurka (Hofstein) about the state of Amsterdam Jewry in June 1945 and about the “Noddorp” emergency village for children near Rotterdam, Holland. Sadie Rurka served as a welfare officer in the Jewish Relief Unit. Also includes a report written by Dr. Fritz Leo about the conditions in the sick-bay in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen before the liberation; the report was confirmed by eight physicians, former inmates, among them Dr. Ada Bimko (Hadassah Rosensaft). Also incldues a report written by Bertha Weingreen, welfare officer in the Jew...

  18. Hans Pfeiffer papers Nachlass Hans Pfeiffer (1910-1998)

    Contains records relating to Hans Pfeiffer’s activities on behalf of the Eidgenössische Zentralleitung der Heime und Lager (Swiss Central Administration of Asylums and Camps), 1942-1949. The collection includes a complete set of Pfeiffer’s weekly reports from July 1944 to August 1947 as a regional inspector of asylums and camps in Tessin and other Swiss regions. Also contains records pertaining to the Tatgemeinschaft der Schweizer Jugend (Action Community of Swiss Youth), 1938-1997; Zentralleitung der Arbeitslager (Central Administration of Work Camps), 1940-1949; the camp administration in...

  19. Hitler Marches into Purkersdorf; Field Exercises; Fundraising Campaign

    NSKK, part I. Caravan arrives in Purkersdorf, Austria. Driving through main street, passing retail shops and government. Well-dressed female onlookers and local men in uniforms. Official Nazi motorcade through streets: cars, trucks, tanks. Streets lined with people. Handmade “Adolf Hitler Platz“ sign. Rally in city center. NSKK, part II. Rural landscape, sheep grazing in field in Austria. Nazis in uniform. A group studies paperwork in field. Nazis in camoflauge train civilians how to load and shoot guns, march, crawl through grassy fields, hide in ditches, survey, study maps, etc. Airplanes...

  20. Salomon Berenholc papers

    The Salomon Berenholc papers concern Salomon Berenholc, a young French Jew who was arrested with his family after fleeing France and illegally crossing the border into Spain in 1942. After a brief internment in a Spanish prison, the family was released and ultimately immigrated to the United States in 1943 by way of Lisbon, Portugal. These papers are comprised of a diary Salomon kept during his efforts to flee France between 1942 and 1943 and documents from the post-war era regarding his and his brother, Victor’s education. The diary details their journey and the conditions of Salomon's cel...