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  1. Oral history interview with Hildegard Lee

  2. Oral history interview with Irene Austern Schopp

  3. German advance into USSR; fighting at Stalingrad (?)

    Views of Kharkiv, Ukraine city center. The buildings appear largely intact and the leaves are on the trees, indicating that it is summer, probably 1942. German soldiers travel the streets in vehicle and on foot and bicycle. View of a statue of Taras Shevchenko, which has been left standing. Nice street scenes. A German soldier walks past with a young local woman. 01:45:51 Bridge over a river, with German troops and vehicles heading in one direction and a couple of Russian peasant women heading the other. Troops in the field, which appears to be the southern steppe. German vehicles travel ov...

  4. Selected records from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and predecessors, Political and other Departments, General Correspondence before 1906, Great Britain and General (FO 83)

    Contains records from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office relating to British Protection in the Ottoman Dominions, consular jurisdiction and protection in Turkey, and foreign Jews in Palestine, 1873-1899.

  5. Their Names Can Still Be Remembered Deras namn kan ännu viskas: vittnesmål från gettot I Łódź

    Contains an English translation of a manuscript written in Sweden by Mala Maroko Freund.

  6. Simmonds family collection

    Consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs documenting the Holocaust experiences of the family of Traute Simmonds, who spent the war in hiding in France. Includes correspondence between Traute's father, Otto, a German-born physician, and brother Steffen, both of whom perished at Auschwitz, as well as a note from a railway worker who found a letter written by Otto while on the train to Auschwitz. The majority of the documents show the extensive restrictions placed on Jews living in France and the collection also includes photographs of the Simmonds family. Also includes two Simmo...

  7. "The Silent Story of Those Children"

    Consists of a memoir entitled "The Silent Story of Those Children" by Rosette Kleinmann Lissek, who was born in Paris in 1940 and survived the war in hiding in various places. Rosette's father was interned in a number of French internment camps, while Rosette, her mother, and her younger sister Jeanine (born 1942) hid in France and Belgium with the help of OSE. After the war, the family immigrated briefly to Israel, then back to Europe before leaving for Bolivia, and ultimately, to Argentina in 1951. Also includes copies of family photographs and documents. Copies of the memoir exist in Eng...

  8. Barbara Garfinkel Goldlust collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, photographs, and postcards illustrating the Garfinkel family's efforts to sponsor Juda Cichowicz, who was living in Poland. Includes correspondence from her maternal relatives in Nazi-occupied Poland.

  9. Winter 1941/Spring 1942 on the Eastern Front

    November - December 1941 Poor quality shots at first. It is now winter; snow lies on the ground. Wreckage of cars and corpses. A cow wanders past. 01:38:52 A group of Russian partisans has been hung and left on display with a sign that reads (partly illegible) "On the night of November 24th, 1941 these beasts of the Russian regiment 239 813 a. 817 mutilated and murdered German wounded." Good CUs of the dead men. Horses drag wounded soldiers on sleds through a small village. The wind whips snow all around and it looks bitterly cold. Three men walk away from the camera through deep, heavy sno...

  10. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of Martinique

    Contains selected records related to Foreign Immigration, and the records from the High Commissioner’s office related to declarations by government employees about whether they were Jewish or members of a freemason lodge. Also contains material concerning business transactions by Jews.

  11. Jake Fersztand collection

    Contains 15 photographs pertaining to Jake Fersztand's family during the the Holocaust

  12. Kurz family collection

    The Kurz family collection consists of six photographs depicting Salomon Kurz and his children: Izak, Moshe, Helen, and Abraham, all from Kosice, Czechoslovakia. Also included are eight documents relating to Izak Kurz and his father after the war in Regensburg, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Karlove Vary, Czechoslovakia, dated circa 1945-1951.They survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and other concentration camps.

  13. War victims; Flossenbuerg liberated; camp survivors and medics; women at Lenzing; burning belongings at 121st Evac Hospital; digging graves

    Removing bodies of victims from wreckage, mattresses, covering bodies with sheet. Pan up, body of victim hanging over wall. Civilians look at ruins and wipe eyes, mountain in far BG. CU American holds battered body of a girl. 03:00:56 (LIB 6355) May 4, 1945. View of concentration camp buildings. CU, sign, "Zugang zu den Krankenbaracken" with figurines. Barbed wire fence and guardtower surrounding Flossenbuerg slave labor camp. CU, bullet-marked and blood-smeared wall - the scene of executions in the camp. INTs, barracks/living quarters, dead prisoners. Steel grating over open pit, crematori...

  15. Yom Hashoah commemoration programs

    Consists of programs for the Yom Hashoah commemorations sponsored by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington in 1984, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009. The programs include poetry, statistical information about the Holocaust, song lyrics, and readings.

  16. St. Stephen's Day in Budapest

    A Catholic procession for St. Stephen's Day travels through Pest, the urban district of Budapest that lay east of the Danube River. An arrangement of troops stand at attention as the procession passes through an open square. The celebration probably takes place on August 20 when a case containing the relics of St. Stephen’s right hand is proceeded throughout the streets of Budapest.

  17. Forced labor battalion of Hungarian Jews

    George Veres and other Hungarian Jews march at a forced labor group stationed in the Jewish Boys' Orphanage. Jews were forced by the Hungarian government into these battalions prior to the German invasion. George served several periods with the forced labor battalion, beginning in September 1940 and ending in December 1944 when he escaped from the camp. This was filmed by one of George's relatives who worked in the camp office. Jewish workers unload hay from a train and stack piles of chopped wood. George (the worker closest to the barn with the log on his shoulder) smiles at the camera. Sc...

  18. Post-war French youth group correspondence

    Consists of a collection of correspondence from the directors of French youth groups (primarily HaChalutz and the Gordonia movement) written to the Jewish Agency Youth and Pioneer Department in Jerusalem from 1949-1950. Includes 1948 activity reports, requests for assistance, and copies of letters written by the Youth and Pioneer Department in response to these requests.

  19. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Consular Department: General Correspondence from 1906 (FO 369)

    Contains general correspondence from the Consular Department of the Foreign Office relating to restitution to victims of Nazi persecution and immigration of British Jews to Israel, 1949.

  20. "From Rue Vieille du Temple to Limoux"

    Consists of one memoir, 39 pages, entitled "From Rue Vieille du Temple to Limoux" by Perla Hauszwalb Nunez, who survived the Holocaust in Limoux, France. Mrs. Nunez escaped to Limoux as a teenager after the deportation of her mother and siblings during the Vel d'Hiv round-up in Paris in July 1942. Includes copies of family photographs, correspondence with people who helped her, and information about the fates of the members of the Hauszwalb family.