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  1. "We Came to America: Memories of a Refugee Child"

    Consists of one memoir, 81 pages with appendices, entitled "We Came to America: Memories of a Refugee Child" by Marlies Wolf Plotnik, written in 2005. In the memoir, Mrs. Plotnik describes her childhood in Darmstadt, Germany, her memories of Kristallnacht, her family history, her family's immigration to the United States through England in 1939,and her life in the United States. Includes copies of photographs, documents, and family trees.

  2. Selected records from the Foreign Office: Consulate and Legation, Greece (formerly Ottoman Empire): General Correspondence (FO 286)

    Contains general correspondence and reports from the British Consulate and Legation in Greece relating to telegrams and resolutions from the Jewish communities including Salonica and Corfu expressing gratitude for the British mandate in Palestine, 1922, and relating to illegal immigration into Palestine, 1946.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Colmar offensive; Maginot Line; Liberation of Vittel Internment Camp

    Two French soldiers studying map in field in Colmar Offensive, smoke behind. CU men on ground looking through binoculars, firing machine guns, throwing grenades, explosions, running through smoke. French troops in village with damaged buildings. Captured German prisoners of war, being marching off. Tanks and jeep on narrow village street, body, soldiers running. U.S. tank passes, soldier gives V-sign. Armored vehicles. French advance along houses. 01:03:18 Silhouetted Gen. Montsabert and another study snowy battlefield from hilltop observation platform at the Maginot Line. They study a map ...

  4. Commission in Oświęcim to Investigate the German-Nazi Crimes Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Oświęcimu

    Contains records of the Commission in Oświęcim to Investigate the Nazi Crimes commited in Nazi camps. Records include files of investigations of German crimes and administrative files from KL Auschwitz, KL Dachau, and Nazi camps on the territory of France. Contains witnesses’ testimonies, protocols of investigation of witnesses, minutes and photographic documentation.

  5. Anna Berkovitz papers

    Papers consist of 19 photographs and documents relating to the experiences of the Weiszhausz and Friedman families before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  6. "Report of Robert H. Jackson, United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials"

    Consists of a bound copy of the "Report of Robert H. Jackson, United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials", published in London in 1945. The book has a handwritten inscription from Justice Jackson to Sidney S. Alderman, who served as a prosecutor at Nuremberg. The book includes some of Alderman's handwritten notes, annotations, and underlining in the text.

  7. Notice restricting opening of Jewish store

    Notice restricting the opening of a Jewish shop in Berlin, Germany.

  8. Sketchbook of drawings created postwar by a former Polish soldier, POW, and refugee

    Notebook of color sketches created by Benedykt Filipiak postwar about his experiences in Poland and Germany during the war and in Germany and the United States after the war. Benedykt, 15, was a Polish Catholic youth attending the Polish Officer Cadet College when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He went into active service, was captured, and sent to Stalag XIB. He escaped and joined the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa.) as a resistance fighter. From August-October 1944, he fought in the Warsaw Uprising and was captured by the Germans during the failed battle to liberate Warsaw....

  9. Ehrenreich family papers

    Documents relating to the Ehrenreich family who fled Nazi Germany; includes a family photograph from the turn of the century, a family tree for the Levi-Berlinger-Ellinger family; two letters to Dr. Phil N. Ehrenreich about completing a family tree; naturalization certificates for Frieda and Nathan Ehrenreich from 1945; and a death certificate for Nathan Ehrenreich dated April 28, 1966.

  10. Children play

    Children playing on the porch with adults lounging. Dr. Max Schur and Dr. Helen Schur, parents, seated in chairs behind the children.

  11. Selected records from the Archives of the Department of the Calvados

    This collection was created by picking relevant documents from collections deposited at the archives by several local administrative divisions, and from the pre-war “M” series related to foreigners and immigration. The most relevant documents concern lists of Jewish inhabitants, card files made from gathering names and correspondence in relation to this, as well as files concerning the Aryanisation of property and businesses. The Aryanisation files deal almost exclusively with businesses and real estate and not with investments in businesses or shares of stock. The procedure for each file i...

  12. Jewish quarter in Poland

    Street scenes, dark, people gathered, automobile. Interior shots of a restaurant (probably Owsianka) in a Jewish quarter in Nasielsk, Poland, many people looking inside the window in clear view. Several wonderful street scenes of people, especially children, in the Jewish quarter grinning and vying for the camera's attention. A sign above a shop indicates a grocery, "Spozywczy". Some people have been identified, including: Shmuel Tyk and Faiga Milchberg at 01:11:25, Chaim Talmud and Shmuel Tyk at 01:11:56, Simcha Rotstein and Avrum Kubel at 01:12:04, Yitzhak Borts at 01:12:09, Srebro at 01:...

  13. William Weeg family papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence and photographs that document the experiences of the Weeg family in India, England, and the United States.

  14. Selected records of the Fonds Vanikoff from the French National Archives

    Records from the personal collection of Maurice Vanikoff (1886-1961), who in the 1930s was active in defense of rights of political refugees and victims of antisemitism, active in similar cause in Casablanca 1940-1943, and continued as an activist in France after the war. Includes government decrees concerning political refugees (1938-1939) and various associations and groups involved with their cause and antisemitism; reports on the situation of Jews in France before the war (1936-1939), under Vichy, as well as in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia (1940-1944); documents of the Center of Politic...

  15. Holocaust survivor indemnification case files a.k.a. Moskovits Office Expedientes personales: indemnizaciones a sobrevivientes del Holocausto/Estudio Moskovits

    Contains hundreds individual compensation and reparation claim files for Holocaust survivors living in South America, all of whom were clients of the legal office of Mr. José Moskovits, a Holocaust survivor and attorney in Buenos Aires. The claim files feature testimonies and affidavits by the survivors, legal documents and correspondence.

  16. Edmond Phillips collection

    Consists of one letter, 9 pages, written by Edmond Phillips on June 12, 1945, describing his experiences touring the Mauthausen concentration camp. In the letter, he quotes excerpts from the confession of an unnamed SS officer, likely Commandant Franz Ziereis.

  17. Memorial to Kiev School No. 77 collection

    Contains personal letters, official documents, biographical and autobiographical statements, poems, application forms, school transcripts, and newspaper clippings from both students and teachers of Kiev School Number 77. Some of the documents pertain to students who graduated from the school in either 1939 or 1940, and concern their civil and military service to the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Items regarding the teachers mainly concern arrests made during the 1937-1938 Stalinist Purges. Series I contains the documents from four main students of School No. 77 in Kiev: Pavel Yu...

  18. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of Lot-et-Garrone

    Contains records from various divisions of the Prefect’s Office, particularly the bureau of the police dealing with foreigners, the tax office, and the division of the police “Renseignements généraux” devoted to internment camps. Includes pre-war records on resident aliens in France, including internees; foreigners of various nationalities; wartime arrests; repressive practices of the Vichy government; regulations, proclamations, instructions and the like; many lists of Jews residing in department of the Lot-et-Garonne and the Gironde containing much biographical data; information on convoy...

  19. Clayton Shedivetz letter

    Consists of one letter, four double-sided pages, written by Clayton Lee Shedivetz, a member of the United States Army, on 14 June 1945. In the letter, Mr. Shedivetz describes taking a tour, with a former inmate guiding him, of the Buchenwald concentration camp; the history of the camp, and what he witnessed there. He urges his wife to keep the letter because he felt the visit was very important.

  20. Franz Wiener collection

    Consists of a collection of documents and photographs related to Franz Wiener, originally of Prague, Czechoslovakia, and his attempts to assist his cousin, Dr. Hans Bergmann and his wife Maria, to immigrate to Cuba or to the United States. Also includes post-war correspondence which implies that Dr. Bergmann and his wife survived the war.