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  1. Jewish shop in Vienna

    Sign saying "Non-Aryan shop". Sign proclaiming "Herzmansky is Aryan again". [Herzmansky was one of Vienna's grand stores and the leading store for textiles; owned by Max Delfiner since 1933, Aryanized in 1938, Delfiner had to emigrate.]

  2. Selected records of the Uniumea Generală a Industrialşilor din Romania (UGIR)

    This collection contains one 1941 file primarily on “Romanianization” of the staff of enterprises.

  3. Oscar Mackour collection

    Contains documents concerning the Schlome family and their experiences in Berlin and the United Kingdom; includes information about Oscar Mackour's experiences leaving Berlin for the UK on the Kindertransport, and his mother's experiences fleeing later in 1939.

  4. Barbara de Groot collection

    Contains correspondence from the Brenner family, Barbara de Groot's paternal extended family, in Mława, Poland; Tarnów, Poland; and Paris, France, to Sol Brenner (Barbara's father) in New York. A majority of the family did not survive.

  5. Dachau liberation photographs

    Consists of six small copy prints depicting the liberation of Dachau. The images, which are fuzzy and were mass produced, are labeled on the verso "Dachau, Germany, '45-'46." The photographs were taken in April 1945.

  6. Schermeister girls at the beach, 1928

    Lis (the donor's mother, age 6) and her sister Jeanne (age 5) take off their shoes and wade in the water at the beach. Their parents (Bernhard and Edith Cohen Schermeister) are also in the scene. Nice CUs of the two girls.

  7. Ceslovas Daukantas collection

    Consists of a copy of a letter to Congressman John F. Kennedy on 3 October 1949, from Ceslovas Daukantas regarding his brother Adolph, a displaced person living in a sanatorium during his recovery from tuberculosis. Mr. Daukantas sought Kennedy's help to have him transferred to a hospital in the American Zone. Also includes a copy of Kennedy's 14 October 1949, response in which he states that he has forwarded the information to the International Refugee Committee (IRC).

  8. Selected records of the Ministry of Propaganda, Bucharest

    Contains miscellaneous materials, including excerpts from reports and articles published abroad.

  9. Two clips from an anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda film, Jud Süß

    01:11:19 to 01:11:33 Suess and the Duke watch a ballet rehearsal from a balcony. The Duke orders his secretary to go and fetch one of the ballet dancers for him. 01:11:39 to 01:11:47 Suess and the Duke at a ball at the palace. A woman lifts the skirt of another woman to show off the second woman's legs to the Duke. Suess smiles at the girl and the Duke removes her mask and asks her why she is crying. [Suess has arranged for the young pretty girls to be separated from the others at the ball so that the Duke can have his choice. Suess himself dances with and attempts to seduce Dorothea].

  10. Don Baldwin collection

    Consists of three documents from the collection of Don Baldwin. Includes a personal letter, 2 pages, in English, dated 29 Oct.1933, from Mildred and Carl Soule. The letter, written in Berlin, describes life at Berlin University, the new anti-Jewish regulations, and their feelings on the influence of Nazi propaganda. The letter was written on the verso of a form given to students attesting to their Aryan ancestry, which the authors have translated for Mr. Baldwin. Also includes one advertisement for a lottery.

  11. Schermeister family puts on a play for the camera, 1936

    The Schermeister family play act in the yard at their vacation home in Snekkersten. Edith, the donor's grandmother, appears dressed up in an overcoat, hat, and purse. She sits on a bench and beckons one of the girls. Bernhard whispers in her ear and sits next to her on the bench. View from behind as the girls dress Bernhard in his wife's costume clothing. Bernhard shows off, juggles oranges. One of the girls (Jeanne?) is shown wearing the same outfit. She sits at a table and knits. Her sisters come into the shot and stand beside her.

  12. Bulletin of the Jewish Press Agency Żydowska Agencja Prasowa. Biuletyn (Sygn. 354)

    Contains selected issues of the Bulletin of the Żydowska Agencja Prasowa (Jewish Press Agency), published from Nov.1944 to Dec.1949. Bulletin covers mainly political aspects of Jewish life. The Bulletin was published on bad quality paper, using duplicate typescript; some issues are almost completely illegible.

  13. "Reise zum Planeten der Nazis: Langenstein-Zwieberge 1944-1945"

    Consists of one manuscript, 118 pages, in German, entitled "Reise zum Planeten der Nazis: Langenstein-Zwieberge 1944-1945" by Alberto Berti, an Italian partisan. In the memoir, he describes his experiences in the Langenstein-Zwieberg concentration camp. The final chapter, entitled "Dreitausend auf dem Todesmarch," has been translated into English. The translation is included with the text.

  14. Selected records from the collection of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society, Berlin

    Contains photocopies of 50 documents about Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), a German physician, sex researcher, and early homosexual rights advocate. It includes documents concerning allegations of homosexual behavior, and information about organizations connected with Dr. Hirschfeld, including the Institute for Sexual Knowledge, Berlin; the Magnus Hirschfeld Stiftung; and the Scientific Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftliche-humanitäres Komitee). There are also a few documents concerning Ernst Röhm.

  15. German trains receive oil from USSR

    A Soviet and a German train meet and the German train receives Soviet oil. Officials from both sides look over documents related to the transfer. A man climbs up on the top of the snow-covered train and opens a hatch. Men on the ground pass hoses up to those on top of the trains. It is snowing heavily. 01:04:52 A few seconds of another part of this newsreel (Not ordered by USHMM)

  16. Legion of Gendarmerie of Bucharest

    Contains records relating to surveillance of Jews, Zionists, Iron Guardists, Communists, Nazi organizations, and Roma; and to deportation of Roma to Transnistria and Roma deportees who returned from Transnistria. It also includes reports on antisemitism and on Jews who did not show up for forced labor.

  17. Nelson Warner photograph

    The collection consists of one black and white photograph depicting two parents with two children standing together indoors; all of them are wearing a star of David badge on their clothing; inscription on verso handwritten in black ink: "14 Juli 1942 / Fam. Schloss / mit / dem geben / Judenstern"; dated July 14, 1942; in German.

  18. Sidonia Neiman photograph collection

    Contains photographs documenting the experiences of Sidonia Weisz [donor] born in Vac, Romania (present day Hungary). She was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944, where she took on the roll of spiritual leader for a group of women, many of whom are depicted in post-liberation images. Among the people photographed are Leah Weisz, Suri Green, Miriam Weisz, Liebel Koopchick, Idy Green, Rivka Green, Goldi Freund, Loisunnok Fritzlatoil, Ruchy Forcash, and Chaiy Forcash. The group was transferred transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they were eventually liberated. Include...

  19. Selected records related to A.C. Cuza and the National Christian Party

    Contains records relating to A. C. Cuza, a leading anti-Semite in Romania and the leader of the National Christian Party (PNC) which was in power December 1937 to February 1938. Also contains records relating to Istrate Micescu, the Justice Minister of the PNC administration.

  20. Corpses after Russian massacre; bodies; Jews beaten

    "Agfa 1941" Overturned train. Exhumation of victims of the NKVD in Brygidki prison in Lviv in the summer of 1941. Laying out the bodies of officers and soldiers. Crowd gathered around bodies. (VQ, very soft, dark) Women poking at bodies which are being laid out in the courtyard, sweeping them clean? Woman running after and beating a man in the crowd. Soldiers pull her back and comfort her. Woman keening. A Ukrainian militiaman, recognizable by his armband, beating a Jewish man in Brygidki prison in Lviv. This was during the "prison action" of the Lviv pogrom of 1941. Many bodies laid out in...