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  1. Commercial for ladies stockings

    Title card: “Perlen der Ostmark | Ein Rudolf Mayer Film.” Clouds over mountain tops. Snowy mountains. People skiing. A village in the valley of a tall mountain. A boy rock-climbs. Village in the valley. Panoramic shot of a village spanning across a river. A procession of people in fancy dress. People sailing sailboats. Men drill into rocks. A crane moved the rocks. Smoke billows out of a factory. Industrial shots. A boat goes down the river between mountains. Buildings in the village in the valley. Grapes. Various shots of the Stephansplatz in Vienna, Austria. The Belvedere Palace. The Frey...

  2. Spitzer family photographs

    The Spitzer family photographs consist of seven prewar, wartime, and postwar photographs of the Spitzer family of Iași, Romania and their relatives. The photographs depict Anton and Fany Spitzer and their children, Sara, Nathan, and Lily as well as Fany’s sister and brother, Chana and Lazar Wax, and a cousin, Simcha Wax.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- de Gaulle, Leclerc and others in Chad

    General Charles de Gaulle deplanes and greets Colonel Philippe Leclerc in Fort-Lamy, Chad. The other men with de Gaulle include his Aide-de-camp, Geoffroy de Courcel and General Edward Louis Spears, the British liaison with the Free French. Leclerc is the thin man with the walking stick. De Gaulle greets a line of men and reviews a line of French colonial troops. De Gaulle and Leclerc arrive at an official building by car. LS of a plane (Martin bomber) landing. General Edgard de Larminat on the tarmac and igreeted by the governor of Chad and the mayor of Fort-Lamy. The symbol of the Free Fr...

  6. 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.

  7. Jüdische Gemeinde zu Duisburg, Beitragskarte (contribution card)

    Passbook, issued to Jay Stern, from the Jüdische Gemeinde zu Duisburg, documenting the dues paid by Stern over a period of a year and a half to a welfare organization benefiting Jews in Duisburg. Undated, circa 1930s. Document contains 17 adhesive stamps, in the amount of 1 Reichmark or 50 pfennigs, with representations on each stamp of various Jewish themes, such as festivals and holidays, and the names of patriarchs.

  8. 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...

  9. Gold family collection

    Collection of documents relating to Jacob Gold (b. 1908) and Hela Chaja Ost Gold (b. 1914) [donor's parents] who survived the Holocaust in Siberia, USSR. Includes affidavits, citizenship papers, and immigration documents, circa 1949-1956.

  10. Deportation of the last Jews of Bruchsal, October 1940

    Title onscreen: "Bruchsal Judenfrei! Die letzten Juden verlassen Bruchsal, 18 Oktober 1940" [Bruchsal free of Jews! The last Jews leave Bruchsal, October 18, 1940] A line of Jews, wearing warm clothing and carrying suitcases and bags, files past the camera, including Marcus Rosenberg and his son Leo Rosenberg and Edith [Loeb] Leuchter and her mother, Julie. They are guarded by uniformed Germans, including police. Many people in civilian clothes stand in the background, watching the deportation. Uniformed Germans follow behind the last of the Jews. The last Jews of Bruchsal were deported to ...

  11. Allied POWs in Paris

    American and British POWs are marched through the streets of Paris under German guard. French civilians watch them pass. 03:03:06 The prisoners pass by a larger crowd of civilians, some of whom kick them as they walk past. A fight breaks out but it is hard to see who is fighting. CUs of some of the POWs.

  12. Fuchs and Buchbinder families collection

    Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Sarah Fuchs and Moishe Buchbinder before, during and after the Holocaust. Prewar images of the Buchbinder family in Navaselicza, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine], post-war documents including Sarah and Moishe’s Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate), pre-war images of the Fuchs family in Irholcz, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine]. Moishe fled to the Soviet occupied territories where he was arrested and deported to a Siberian prison and later was recruited as a soldier for a Soviet-Czech unit through the end of the War. Sarah wa...

  13. "Memories and Regrets"

    Consists of one memoir, 27 pages, entitled "Memories and Regrets" by Haim Teicher, 27 pages, in Hebrew. The memoir, written in Tel Aviv on June 28, 1992, describes Mr. Teicher's Holocaust experiences, including witnessing the liquidation of the Stanislavov ghetto, the murder of his family in the Dolina ghetto, and his escape into Romania with the assistance of the driver of the local SS official.

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

    Contains records of the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate Nazi crimes within Orel region. Includes records relating the crimes committed by the Germans and their allies during WWII occupation of the Orel region.

  15. 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).

  16. Selected records from the State Archives of the Novgorod Region, Russian Federation

    Contains selected records relating to German occupation in the Novgorod region from August 1941 to January 1944. Includes records relating to the extermination of Jews, Roma, Soviet civilians, and prisoners of war; records of evacuation, and lists of population. Also contains pre-war records on liquidation of synagogues and their transformation into medical facilities.

  17. Selected records from the Central State Archives of the Republic Mordovia, Russian Federation

    Contains selected records related to evacuation of various groups of Soviet citizens and relocation to Republic of Mordovia from 1939 to 1944. Includes various lists of evacuated Jews, communists, political refugees, specialized workers and members of their families. Also includes correspondence pertaining to allocation of food, improvement of living conditions, and maintenance of orphanages etc.

  18. Selected records from the Central State Archives of St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

    Contains records of the St. Petersburg City Evacuation Commission related to the evacuation of the Soviet civilian. It includes various lists of the evacuees, correspondence of local authorities regarding evacuation, reports and plans for evacuation etc. Also contains small collection of correspondence files of the representative of the Jewish Distribution Committee ( Joint) in Petrograd ( 1923-1925) related to the assistance provided by this organization to Jewish communities in Moscow, Kiev, Odessa etc.

  19. Selected records from the Central State Archives of Historical-Political Documentation in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

    Contains records related to the partisan warfare and situation in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) region, activities of the underground regional Committee of the Communist Party. Also contains a small collection of the captured German records and publications, German flyers and posters. Includes records of the Jewish population (statistics, EvSekt︠s︡ii︠a︡ records, working plans and reports) pertaining to the history of the Jewish population of the region before WWII (1920s-1930s).

  20. Administration of KL Lublin Administracja KL Lublin

    Contains records of the KL Lublin Administration on prisoners and staff: the orders of chief officers, statistics of prisoners, reports of transports of prisoners, death notices, name-lists of transported prisoners, card files, lists of labor commands and prisoners who died in the camp, lists of prisoners hired by the German Arms Works on Lipowa St. in Lublin, documents on deliveries of Zyklon B, correspondence regarding contacts with the trade enterprise in Reich III, reports of the number of camp staff, and personal files of SS officers. Also contains card files listing goods taken from p...