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  1. 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.

  2. Felix and Fela Korona photographs

    Consists of family photographs from the collection of Felix and Fela Fajerman Korona. Felix Korona, originally from Wodzislaw, and Fela Fajerman Korona, originally from Zawiercie, married in Sosnowiec in 1936. In 1939, the couple escaped east and were evacuated in 1940 into the Ural Mountains. They spent the war mainly in labor camps and in prison in Siberia. They returned to Poland after the war and immigrated to Israel in 1950. Includes pre-war family photographs, including a photograph of Fela Korona's cousin, Dawid Rzepkowicz, who was a physician in the Anders Army.

  3. Dachau liberation photographs

    Consists of six photographs taken after the liberation of Dachau on 27 April 1945. The photographs, which are identified on the verso, show corpses on a train, an SS officer beaten to death after liberation, and a photograph of an American soldier holding a Nazi flag in Schwabmunchen, Germany.

  4. Temporary religious buildings during siege of Tobruk

    Australian soldiers fire a Howitzer. Pan of destroyed military vehicles in a desert. A shrapnel damaged school named for Benito Mussolini that is now being used to hold church services for Allied soldiers. The camera pans down from the minaret of a mosque to a hand-painted sign on the building that reads: "Out of Bounds Musulman Church." Camera pans around the exterior of a Catholic church with a statue of the Virgin Mary outside. Damage shown to a hospital mosque. A soldier walks into a heavily damaged building with a sign reading, "Out of Bounds Jewish Soldiers Synagogue." Panning shot of...

  5. Touring Volendam and Brussels

    Girls dressed in Dutch costume in Volendam, Netherlands. Volendam is a popular tourist attraction in the Netherlands, well known for its old fishing boats and the traditional clothing still worn by some residents. The women's costume of Volendam, with its high, pointed bonnet, is one of the most recognizable of the Dutch traditional costumes. The four friends sit outside Cafe Spaander in Volendam, probably on August 1. Signpost shows where folks gather to return to "Amsterdam". CUs, women with children. The Americans walk in gardens in Brussels, most likely on August 2, 1938, dressed the sa...

  6. Irwin Magad collection

    Consists of one postcard sent by Icek Wajntraub in Dombrowa to Hanna Sara Wajntraub, who was interned in a women's work camp in Grinberg. The postcard is dated March 18, 1942.

  7. Anti-Jewish sign in Halle

    Title: Die Gaufilmstelle Halle-Merseburg zeigt: Appell des Kreises Liebenwerda in Falkenberg 1936. Nazi flags hang from various buildings in Falkenberg. CU of a relief sculpture of an eagle clutching a swastika. Other views of the small town. Men in various types of uniforms including SA and Hitler Youth arrive at the train station. 01:31:27 Clear shot of a sign that reads: Juden kehrt! Euer Weg nach Palaestina fuehrt nicht durch diesen Ort [Jews turn around! Your way to Palestine does not lead through this area]. Two couples in civilian clothes stand directly behind and below the sign. A m...

  8. Personal archives of Esdras Moissis related to the history of the Jewish community of Larissa in Greece

    Contains Esdras Moissis’s personal archives, which include various records, correspondence, and publications related to the history of the Jewish community of Larissa.

  9. Redistribution of land in Latvia

    Redistribution of land in Latvia. A large group of Latvian civilians, many of them elderly, stand in a square decorated with swastika flags. Some of them hold signs with the German and the Latvian place names of their settlements. A German official hands out documents to the Latvians and shakes their hands. The next scene shows the same official going up to a house and greeting an old woman, and old man, and a younger man at the door. The official hands over a document, which the younger man reads to the older couple. In a different location in Latvia, pan down a church tower, then shots of...

  10. Janet Szyjewicz Markman collection

    Contains a letter of recommendation for Gerszon Markman (donor's husband) from the director of the Heidenheim DP camp; dated February 20, 1946. Gerszon Markman was secretary of the camp, and this letter was written to wish them well on their journey to Belgium. They were stopped at the Belgian border because they did not have the right papers, so they ended up travelling to the United States instead.

  11. Sara Weber Schwimmer memoir

    Consists of a bound copy of a memoir, handwritten by Sara Weber Schwimmer, originally of Czechoslovakia. The memoir, addressed to her children and grandchildren, describes her childhood, memories of her siblings, and her memories of chores and recipes. She describes how various countries occupied her area, and her memories of moving to Budapest. She spent most of the war in Budapest, and remembers life in Hungary in 1944, enduring antisemitic persecution. She was ordered to perform forced labor and describes witnessing a mass shooting. She was then turned over to the Germans and deported, f...

  12. Children bathe in the yard of their home in prewar Poland

    Hanna, Thomas, and Lisa Kunard bathe in a large wash tub, splashing about. The tub is emptied and rolled around the yard with Hanna's mother Ella and an older girl.

  13. Lieberman family hiking in the Carpathians and at a farm

    The Lieberman family is walking along a mountain path, hiking in the Carpathian Mountains, near their vacation home in Jaremcze. Scenic view of the rolling hills of the area. They crawl under a wire fence. 02:09:34 Quick view of a man with a necktie holding a U.S. flag.

  14. Liberation of Belgium

    Footage shot by Belgian cameramen. British troops are welcomed by crowds in the streets of Antwerp. A group of people wave to the cameraman from a balcony hung with a Belgian flag. HAS of people running down the street. A fire burns in a building that had been used by the Germans. Firemen attempt to put out the fire. More shots of happy Belgian citizens greeting British troops. Angry people surround collaborators. People on bicycles watch as German soldiers are marched down the street. Firemen spray water into a burning building. A woman pats a dog on a British tank. German soldiers march d...

  15. Selected records of the Organization for the Relief and Rehabilitation of Greek Jews (Ο.Π.Α.Ι.Ε.)

    Consists of several thematically arranged sections. Included are property restitution files, correspondence, inheritance documentation, files on individuals, and the like.

  16. Chaim Kaplan diary

    The Chaim Kaplan diary consists, in its entirety, of a diary that Kaplan maintained in Hebrew, from 1933 to 1942. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum obtained three original volumes of this diary in 2009, consisting of: Book 3, dating from April 4, 1935 to August 4, 1936 (pages 1-390); Book 7, consisting of entries from August 30, 1939 to December 23, 1939 (pages 53-280); and other fragments, dating from May 7, 1942 to July 2, 1942, paginated from 230-309. While earlier entries focus on personal matters and events, Kaplan made a conscious choice to chronicle Jewish life and external...

  17. "A Trip to Bessarabia (A Return to the Past)"

    Consists of a 27-page narrative entitled "A Trip to Bessarabia (A Return to the Past)" by Eugénie Bérézin, as well as large color photographs of present-day Bessarabia, including the Moldova and Kishinev (now Chișinău) areas, taken by Sophie Bergogne. The narrative describes the history of Jewish life in the region (depicted in the photographs) and descriptions of the images.

  18. Garibaldi receives the Knight's Cross

    General Italo Gariboldi, Commander of the Italian 8th Army, shakes hands with Hitler and with Wilhelm Keitel. Hitler awards Gariboldi the Knight's Cross. Hitler welcomes King Boris of Bulgaria to the Berghof. The king's car arrives and Hitler accompanies him into the Berghof.

  19. Drucker family papers

    Consists of correspondence sent to Max Sukman in Chicago, IL, primarily from the Drucker family, his wife Adele's family, in Berlin, Tarnów, Poland, and Ljubljana. Also includes five envelopes. Letters: Ascher Jonas Drucker in Berlin, on June 26, 1938 Israel Drucker in Tarnow, July 14, 1938 Ascher Jonas Drucker in Berlin, on October 24, 1938 Israel Drucker in Tarnow, January 7, 1939 Ascher Jonas Drucker in Berlin, on January 21, 1939 Mina Mandel ? in Tarnow, December 27, 1940 Ester Drucker in Berlin, on June 6, 1941 Postcard: Ruth Drucker in Lubljana, Italy (today Slovenia), September 4, 1941

  20. Peter Ornstein memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 30 pages, "Peter's Story: Surviving Auschwitz and a Death March," by Dr. Peter Ornstein, originally of Vienna, Austria. In his memoir, he describes wartime Vienna, being entrusted to neighbors as his mother and future stepfather had immigrated to China (with the intention that Peter and his two sisters would follow), and in 1939, to a convent when it became too dangerous. In 1942, they were relocated to a building used to collect potential deportees, but were released because their paternity (and thus degree of Jewishness) was questioned. In February 1944, Peter was ...