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  1. Inge Fischer Engel papers

    The Inge Fischer Engel papers consist of biographical materials, a diary and autograph book, photographic materials, and printed materials documenting the Fischer family from Vienna, the two years Inge and her sister spent in England, the family’s emigration to Trinidad, their internment in Trinidad, and their immigration to the United States. The collection also includes photographs documenting Inge’s uncle in Shanghai and the Canidrome where he worked as director, photographs of her husband’s family from Vienna, and student and employment records documenting her brother-inlaw, Otto Engel....

  2. 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.

  3. Gadomski family papers

    Contains documents and correspondence related to the family of Mieczyslaw and Wanda Gadomski, including correspondence in 1980s between Gadomski and other former internees at Ebensee.

  4. German Auxiliary Police photograph album

    Contains a photo album possibly owned by Franz Schneider, a policeman who served in the German auxiliary police force and later taught in the police school of Bohemia. Some of the photographs show an inspection by SS-Obergruppenführer and Generaloberst der Polizei Kurt Max Franz Daluege, deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, and Major General Max Ziervogel, a Luftwaffe general and the Wehrmacht chief of staff for Bohemia and Moravia. The photographs in the album include family shots with wife and daughter in 1942; border-patrol maneuvers in Königshütte in October 1942; firefighting...

  5. Marti Dotan photograph collection

    Contains photographs of the donor and family in the Netherlands. Includes portraits of Dutch children (including donor) who were on the "Exodus," as well as a kindergarten class in Jewish school.

  6. Richard Lyons photographs

    Collection of photographs documenting survivors and victims found in the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation; dated April 1945. Photographs given to Richard Lyons by his neighbor Agnes "Sue" Sullivan who herself had received them from a friend. Ms. Sullivan worked as an interpreter/translator/court reporter at the Nuremberg Trials.

  7. "My Story--the Holocaust"

    Contains of a memoir, 13 pages, entitled "My Story--The Holocaust" by Marcia Krause, originally of Łódź, Poland. In the memoir, Mrs. Krause recounts her memories of her childhood in Łódź, internment in the Łódź ghetto, and deportation to Auschwitz. From Auschwitz, Marcia, with her sole surviving family member, her sister Helen, was deported to a concentration camp near Hamburg. From Hamburg, the sisters were deported to Bergen-Belsen, where they were liberated. Also includes several articles by and about Marcia Krause and a photograph of Mrs. Krause at an unknown Holocaust memorial.

  8. Marx family collection

    Contains twenty postcards written by Adolf and Hilde Marx (donor's parents) and their daughter Ilse (donor's sister), addressed to Hilde's sister Emmy Quade in Cologne, dated 1941-1942; two postcards addressed to Emmy Quade from Theresienstadt, dated 1943; one postcard sent to Erich Marx in Brighton, England from his parents and sister in Germany, dated 1939; twelve photographs depicting the Marx family in Cologne, Germany, c. 1932-1941; a school certificate issued to Erich Marx on March 30, 1939 by the Yavne Jewish School and signed by he director, Klibansky, who arranged for Eric to leave...

  9. Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

    Street scenes of the Warsaw ghetto. Pedestrians cross a bridge over the street. Special attention is given to reverse rickshaws--bicycles with benches on the front--in which people are carted around. Jewish men have their documents examined. Some elderly men then meet in a well-decorated hall, possibly a restaurant. Jewish police, all in jackets and ties, stand at attention in two lines, then march down the street. One is shown chasing children away with a baton. A corpse is shown on a sidewalk; pedestrians pass it by. The interior of a luxurious home, with hardwood-paneled floors, floral w...

  10. Hajos family collection

    Collection of materials documenting the experiences of the Hajos family during and immediately following the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary. Collection includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs, the papers issued to Neje Hajos (donor's mother) from the Swiss embassy foreign interest representative in Budapest.

  11. Wehrmacht activity in USSR

    Amateur footage shot by a Wehrmacht soldier somewhere in the USSR. German artillery fires upon wooden houses in a Russian village. CUS (dark) of toldiers loading howitzers. 00:43:01 Nice shots of German troops advancing across a field toward the smoldering village. Camera pans across the Russian countryside as prisoners are marched into the fields. Two Soviet soldiers stand at gunpoint with their hands in the air while a German soldier checks their pockets. German troops march down a country road. Soviet POWs are marched down a muddy, wooded road. Some of them wheel bicycles. 00:44:10 A Sov...

  12. W.B. Curtis, III collection

    Photo album: containing photographs primarily taken by William Bostwick Curtis, III (donor's stepfather) documenting the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp; images show victims, newly liberated prisoners, rockets and munitions built at the factory, American soldiers at work and rest, as well as general scenery; dated 1945

  13. Frieda Loewy collection

    Scrapbook: created by Frieda Bedriska Loewy (donor's aunt) in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Czech Republic during her internment. Scrapbook begins with the date December 22, 1942 and concludes with documentation and drawings indicating Frieda's movement before war's end to Sweden.

  14. Donald A. Perera collection

    Collection of two Red Cross letters written between Olga Pincherle (donor's paternal aunt) and her brother and his wife, Lionello and Carolyn Perera, in New York City; dated 1942; sent between New York, NY and Gorizia, Italy.

  15. Guderian's forces in Warsaw and the USSR

    1941/1942 footage shot by a member of Heinz Guderian's 29th infantry division, before it left Warsaw for the Soviet Union, and during the invasion of the USSR. A group of women and small children, likely Polish peasants, walk across a field. A German soldier walks a motorcycle across a small stream but it gets stuck in the mud. Cut to the central train station in Warsaw with signs in German and Polish. Civilians and German soldiers stand in front of the station. German military cemetery with many rows of neatly kept graves. Soldiers visit graves; each is marked by an Iron Cross. The names o...

  16. SS training at shooting range at Hebertshausen, near Dachau

    Onscreen title reads: "Das Kleinkaliberschiessen" [small caliber shooting]. Several SS men train at a shooting range, built specially for the SS in 1937, at Hebertshausen, near Dachau. The men confer, shoot at targets, and inspect their weapons. Approximately four thousand Soviet prisoners of war were shot at this location between 1941 and the end of the war.

  17. Text only flier advertising the sale of three antisemitic books

    Text only circular advertising three antisemitic books published by Hammer-Verlag in Leipzig, Germany, in 1936: “Guidebook for the Jewish Question” by Theodor Fritsch, “The International Jew” by Henry Ford, and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” It has an excerpt from a November 28, 1930, letter from Hitler to Fritsch that describes Fritsch’s book as essential for the Nazi movement. The publishing house, Hammer-Verlag, was founded by Fritsch (1852-1933) in Leipzig in 1902. His son, also Theodor Fritsch (1895-1946), was a bookseller and Nazi Party member. He inherited the publishing hous...

  18. Dachau prisoners at home of baker; candlesticks made in Allach

    This footage was shot by a baker who supplied bread to Dachau concentration camp. See Stories 1282, 1283, and 1284 for related footage. The family (and others?) of the baker gathered around the family dining table, eating and celebrating a first communion. One of the girls is dressed in white with a headband of white flowers. There are two candlesticks on the table, holding lit candles. The candlesticks were made by prisoners in Allach, a subcamp of Dachau, where there was a porcelain manufacturing factory. Several views of people eating; all of them are women and girls, except for one very...

  19. Desecrated section of a Torah scroll used as postal package wrapping

    Section of a desecrated Torah scroll used to wrap a parcel and addressed in multiple locations to the Schmid family in Munich, Germany. It was posted between 1941-1944.

  20. Strafing; VE day in Paris; American airmen at Moosburg prison camp; Red Cross food packages

    Airplanes parked. Plane taxis away from parking area, passes camera. CU, red nose, parked planes. Strafing train, German town. MCU, German ranking officers climb aboard plane. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg's plane taking off. Nose of aircraft in FG, formation flies overhead. Strafing on road, strafing parked aircraft. (4/19/45 366 FG 391st SQ RAFAEL) German officers awaiting air evacuation to England. They board plane. GIs standing around as they watch German officers climb in plane. Door of plane is closed. Crowd of Parisians as they parade through the streets for VE-Day in Paris. CU, Eternal Light...