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  1. Caroline and William Schneider photographs

    Contains photographic prints documenting the lives of Caroline (Lilly) Davidovics (donor) and her huband William Schneider, who were married immediately following the Holocaust in Romania. Includes pre and post-war images including those of their marriage and war-time images of William in a forced-labor battalion; dated 1926-1957.

  2. Sara Szrojt papers

    The Sara Szrojt papers are comprised of documents and photographs collected by Sara during her incarceration in a Soviet forced labor camp and in the years before and after. The documents consist primarily of postcards from Sara’s mother and father written in 1941 shortly before they went into hiding in Lublin. Also among the documents is a marriage certificate for Chana and Jankiel, reissued in 1946. The photographs depict the Szrojt family and friends before and after the war in Lublin and images of a Jewish cooperative of upholsterers and curtain-makers in Wrocław, Poland c. 1950. Some o...

  3. Ingeborg Price collection

    The collection consists of a printed leaflet containing a wartime poem, "La Terrible Epreuve"; a leaflet with an image of Marshal Petain on a horse, with a handwritten message to a child, addressed to Therese Majewski and counseling her to work hard, persevere, and be loyal; a broadside containing a mock testament from Adolf Hitler; and a copy of a French newspaper ("La liberte du centre"), announcing the surrender of the German army, May 1945.

  4. Hannah Starman research collection

    Consists of photocopies of original documents collected from various archives in Slovenia, Serbia, Hungary, Austria, and Italy, pertaining to Jewish life in Slovenia from the mid-19th century to the late 20th century. Incudes copies of birth and death certificates; community membership lists; individual, community and industrial property listings; deportation lists; documents related to the aliyah of Slovenian Jews and the subsequent confiscation of their property; individual files pertaining to expropriation of Jewish properties by the Nazis and later by the Communist regime; documents per...

  5. Reports of Eichmann trial (NSG)

    Contains 29 reports written by Dietrich Zeug, a German Prosecutor who was a member of the West German observer team at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Zeug worked at the Zentrale Stelle Ludwigsburg and was tasked with looking for evidence that could be of relevance for its work.

  6. 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...

  7. Rabinowitsch family papers

    The collection includes identification cards belonging to Gabriel Rabinowitsch, Fryda Nadel Rabinowitsch, and Leib Nadel, in Russian, issued 1946-1948, and the handwritten journal kept by Gabriel Rabinowitsch while in hiding near the Vilnius (Vilna) ghetto between November 1943 and June 1944. In the journal, he describes his wartime experiences, including the German invasion of Vilnius, forced labor, deportations, and his escape into hiding in November 1943. He describes life in hiding and hearing of the Soviet offensive. Also included is an English language translation of the diary.

  8. Gottschalk family correspondence

    The Gottschalk family correspondence consists of correspondence from the Gottschalk family of Libau (Liepaja), Latvia, in the period before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes correspondence to Agnes Arnsdorff, who had immigrated to Palestine from her family from 1937-1941, and after 1944. Most of the family was murdered by the Einsatzgruppen in December 1941.

  9. 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...

  10. Hitler Youth

    Brief shot of Karl Doenitz follwed by a one man torpedo in the water. A man wearing a Ritterkreuz gets out of a small submarine. Scenes from the Pacific: Japanese pilots in the cockpit (staged); bombing ships; conference with Allied soldiers somewhere in the Pacific. Narration is Japanese. 03:05:47 CUs of German soldiers in battle. Good CUs of faces. Overhead shot of a large group of Hitler Youth boys who have volunteered for the war effort [Kriegsfreiwilliger]. The leader of the ceremony announces that 70% of the boys from the class of 1928 have enlisted. Deutsche Wochenschau eagle on screen.

  11. 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.

  12. Simone Brand Birndorf photographic collection

    The Simone Brand Birndorf photograph collection consists of black and white photographic prints of members of the Brand family of Łódź, Poland, taken before and after World War II.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Rotenberg family collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the Rotenberg family in Jauer, Germany and in Tientsin, China in the years 1930-1948. Collection of documents relating to Haim Szmul Rotenberg, cantor and shochet (ritual slaughterer for kashrut), his wife Rosa Deborah Pollak Rotenberg, and their two sons, Bernhard and Wolfgang, and their efforts to emigrate from Germany in 1938-1939; school certificates from Jewish school in Tientsin, China. Correspondence: letters and postcards from members of the Rotenberg and Pollak families residing in Poland, dated 1939-1941.

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. 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.

  19. 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...

  20. Vogel and Baer family correspondence

    The Vogel and Baer family consists of Berta (Bertha) Baer Vogel of Untergrombach, Germany, her ex-husband Albert Vogel, their children, Inga and Ellen, and extended family. The daughter of a Jewish ironmonger, Berta lived in Karlsruhe, Germany with her family until her and Albert separated in 1930 and she immigrated to Basel, Switzerland. The Vogel and Baer family correspondence comprises letters primarily from Inga, who was a student in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to her Berta, Ellen, and her grandparents in Basel, Switzerland between 1938 and 1941. The letters detail her studies, life in the...