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  1. Claudia Leder Bookspan collection

    Collection of documents relating to Lore Felsenthal (donor's mother) and Toni Stein (donor's grandmother); their flight from Germany through Belgium; their imprisonment in the Gurs concentration camp; and their arrival to the US in June 1941. Also includes documents and photographs relating to Eugenia Leder Mayer (donor's paternal aunt), who was deported from Italy to Theresienstadt in 1943 and did not survive.

  2. Lieberman family relaxes on the terrace in prewar Poland; Hanna and Thomas bathe

    The family is in the yard. Hanna and Thomas run around unclothed. High angle shots looking down at the porch, where the family eats. Includes Thomas, Benedikt, Heinrich, Hanna, and Magda. CUs, Emanuel (with glasses) and Nelly. The children bathing in the wash tub with Benedikt.

  3. Volkssturm defends territory

    Map of the Eastern Front, indicating Warsaw, Breslau, Kattowitz, Litzmannstadt, and other locations. German soldiers on the Eastern Front in deep blowing snow. Low aerial shot of German soldiers in East Prussia. German and Soviet ships in battle on the Baltic Sea. Scenes from the defense of Breslau: CU of a notice from the City Commandant, Krause, ordering all men, women, and children over the age of ten to help in the defense of the city. A man puts up a poster which encourages people to use antitank weapons (Panzerfaust) against the enemy. Shot of men holding antitank weapons. CU of armba...

  4. "Les déportés de France internés su l'île d'Aurigny"

    Consists of one manuscript, entitled "Les déportés de France internés sur l'île d'Aurigny", a master's thesis by Benoît Luc. The manuscript contains information about the Aurigny/Alderney internment camp for Jews, Spaniards, and resistance fighters located on the Channel Islands.

  5. Mathieu Muller collection

    Documents and correspondence related to the experiences of donor's father, the attorney Matthieu Muller, President of the Agudat Yisrael in France. Many of the documents relate to his rescue work together with George Mandel-Mantello in Geneva, Switzerland during the war. Also includes one photograph of Jews lined up in front of the Immigration Office of the Swiss Legation, Budapest, seeking protection. Verso is stamped "Schweizerische Gesandtschaft Budapest."

  6. Sia Hertsberg photographs

    Consists of 22 photographs of the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Sia Izrailewitsch Hertsberg, originally of Riga, Latvia. Includes photographs of Sia as a child with her parents and younger sister, Margo, photographs of pre-war life in Riga, photographs of Jewish women convalescing at a hospital in Koloma after their liberation from Stutthof, and photographs of Sia Hertsberg's post-war life and family.

  7. Selected records of the Central Board of Jewish Communities (KIS) Athens, Greece

    Consists mainly of files of correspondence between various Greek Jewish communities, with Greek governmental authorities concerning the restitution of the property of Greek Jews, and with international Jewish organizations concerning remembrance. Also included is correspondence with various other, but primarily German, organizations and authorities concerning reparations.

  8. Anna Mednik collection

    Contains a letter, dated August 17, 1941, written by Shmul Munia Taborinsky (Anna Mednik’s great grandfather) who in June 1941, after the German invasion of the USSR, volunteered to serve in the Soviet Army at the age of 57. In his letter he described his duties in the transport company and expressed his deep feelings of love for his wife Berta and children: Ida, Sonia and Lisa, all residing in Leningrad. The collection also contains a photograph of Ida (born May 29, 1929 ) and Sofiya Taborinsky (Anna Mednik's grandmother and great aunt), taken in early June 1941 in Leningrad, a few months ...

  9. Nuremberg Military Tribunal booklets

    Consists of the booklets issued for Nuremberg Military Tribunals no. 7 (the "Hostages Trial", or "The United States vs. Wilhelm List, et. al.") and Military Tribunal no. 9 (the "Einsatzgruppen Trial" or "The United States vs. Otto Ohlendorf, et. al"). The booklets list the defendants and the charges against them. These documents were originally the properly of Michale Hauptman (Michael Wakefield), who received them from his father, Kurt Hauptman.

  10. Personal archives of Lazar Motylev, Jewish public figure and politician (Fond 9535, Opis1)

    Contains reports and drafts of presentations and research papers related to the activities of various Jewish cultural and political organizations in Russia and the Soviet Union. It also includes documents, meeting minutes, and bylaws, as well as newspapers, concert programs, catalogs of exhibits, and flyers.

  11. Document collection

    Contains a registration document for Karol Heit; a Fragebogen [questionnaire] for health care provider Moszek Cukier, a dental technician in the Warsaw ghetto; and two legal documents from Tarnów regarding court cases involving repayment of debt; in German and Polish.

  12. Henry Barson collection

    Consists of 49 photographs of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen from the collection of Henry Barson, a member of the 249th Battery of the British 63rd Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, 11th Armoured Division, which liberated the camp on April 15, 1945. Includes portraits of survivors and images of the burial of bodies.

  13. Ms. Nancy Mendelsohn collection

    Contains photographic prints illustrating the post-war experiences of Arje and Gitel Rzemieniak; their daughter Nechama, born in post-war Germany; and their friend Abraham Wolowczyk. Includes plays, articles, and announcements illustrating the post-war participation of Abraham Wolowczyk as an actor with the Munich Jewish Theatre.

  14. Lieberman family at their house in Nahariya, Palestine

    Pans of the horizon (probably in Ein Sara, Palestine). A gate and fence are seen, beyond that is a large house, barns, car, and forest. CU, man. Shots of the fields, the car with steering wheel on the right hand side, profile of Emanuel (with glasses), a person on a bicycle, and people walking about the structure. Nelly points to a tree and climbs the stairs of the white Lieberman House in Nahariya. Benedikt follows.

  15. Jewish Committee in Warsaw. Registration Cards for Jewish Holocaust Survivors Komitet Żydowski w Warszawie. Karty rejestracyjne Żydów ocalałych z Zagłady sporządzone w Warszawie (Sygn. 303/V)

    Consists of 31,175 registration cards of Jewish survivors in Warsaw after the war. The cards contain full name, date of birth, parents’ names, mother’s maiden name, pre-1939 address, places of residence during the war, postwar name changes, occupation, registration date, and address. Some include source of livelihood. Only15,270 survivors listed a Warsaw address.

  16. LfQ office; SA march; track and field events

    Handwritten slates in the old German Suetterlin Schrift. "Einige Aufnahmen aus dem Wirkungskreis der LfQ" INTs of an office showing civilian workers (men and women) at their desks with papers, pens, telephone, etc. There is a map on the office wall in the BG. More views of the employees. [LfQ may stand for Landesinstitut fuer Qualifizierung, the State Institute for Qualifications] 01:03:30 "Und nun Kaempfe um das S.A. Sportabzeichen" A group of SA men marching in town on cobblestone streets. Closer shots of the men. 01:04:41 "Der Leichtathlet" A man in exercise clothing throws a ball. "Die ...

  17. Claire Welch memoir

    Consists of one CD containing a memoir of the Holocaust experiences of Claire Weinberg Welch, originally of Brake, Germany. In the memoir, Claire describes how she recently discovered that she and her family had been picked up on Kristallnacht. Claire and her mother were released within a few hours and her father was released from Sachsenhausen in December 1938. They immigrated to the United States in February 1939.

  18. Horthy opens a bridge over the Danube

    Operation of a German sawmill. Logs are made into timber and then into other wood products. (Not ordered by USHMM) 01:08:41 -- 01:09:15 Shots of a bridge over the Danube. Dark shots of Horthy as he unties a ceremonial ribbon to open the bridge, in the presence of many onlookers. Horthy shakes hands with some of the workers who built the bridge. View of an engraving on the bridge that gives the dates 1939 - 1942. Horthy and a large contingent walk across the bridge. 01:09:17 A bicycle and ski race in the French Alps. Bicycle and ski race in French Alps. Cyclists bike through the Alps, someti...

  19. Peter Mittler memoir

    Consists of the first chapter, entitled "Childhood," of the memoir of Peter Mittler, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, 27 pages, Dr. Mittler describes his memories of the Anschluss. Kristallnacht, antisemitism in Vienna, and his experiences as an eight-year-old on a Kindertransport to England, leaving 11 January 1939. He reunited with his parents in England in the spring of 1939, and describes their efforts to become Anglicized. He also records biographical narratives of his parents, Gustav and Gertrude Mittler, and of other family members, some who passed away before World War ...

  20. Girls dance outdoors in prewar Poland

    The girls dance outdoors in Jaremcze in front of an ethnic band, with drum, violin, and some kind of held piano. Brief shot of their mothers Ella and Nelly on a bench.