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  1. Agnes Gavish collection

    Contains a birth certificate for the donor's husband.

  2. French, Yugoslavian and Greek campaigns

    R.2 Members of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler consult a map then move into Vichy, France. Tanks and soldiers in the streets. French colonial POWs, some wearing turbans. Fighting at the airport in Clermont-Ferrand, which was taken in a few hours. French army officers speak to members of the Leibstandarte. The Germans inspect the planes on the field. They march into Clermont-Ferrand to put down the last resistance. They knock on doors and inspect peoples' papers in the streets. Panning shot of a large crowd of French POWs, which the narrator describes as a "whole infantry regiment who laid...

  3. Invasion of Poland

    German soldiers lift the barrier between Germany and Poland as they invade the country. The narrator says: "So one eliminates borders that the hate-apostles of Versailles imagine can separate the German people from the German Reich." More shots of the barrier being pushed aside. Motorcycles with sidecars carrying German soldiers speed toward the camera and turn off the road. This is accompanied by fast-paced music and the sounds of gunfire. Soldiers sheltering behind trees, riding by on horseback, setting up a howitzer. Wide shot of a large field filled with tanks and trucks. A tank bearing...

  4. Records of the city administration in Przemyśl (Fond 602 opis 1)

    Contains records of the city administration established by the Nazi authorities during the German occupation of Przemyśl. Among them are orders and directives, reports, and minutes of meetings.

  5. Nazi decorated Vienna

    Opera House with swastikas. Shell headquarters with swastikas (Schubertring). Other street corner, Café Schwarzenberg, re-branded as "Café Deutschland".

  6. Schermeister girls play in the garden, 1928

    All three Schermeister girls play on the lawn of their vacation home in Snekkersten. The two older girls, Lis (donor's mother) and Jeanne, carry parasols and the youngest, Inge (age 3), rides in and pushes a baby carriage. Their mother and father (Edith Cohen Schermeister and Bernhard Schermeister) play with them.

  7. Judith Scharf Hartman collection

    Contains pre-war photographs and pre-war and wartime letters written by donor’s parents to their children in Palestine. Includes certificates sent by the British Red Cross to Palestine and a letter from donor’s sister Lili in Bergen Belsen. Judith Scharf survived the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Weisskirchen where she worked in an arms factory.

  8. Daniel Petriccione collection

    Consists of two photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes one photograph of a crematorium oven and one photograph of what appears to be a stone block with the word "Buchenwald" carved into it.

  9. Hanna and Benedikt play in the river, prewar Poland

    Hanna and her father walk around a beach. She plays in the water. He stands around. They sit together next to what appear to be small railroad tracks. Pan up to a large flagpole (flag with circle in the middle).

  10. Simon and Francesca Krausz collection

    Consists of the English-language translations of letters written between 1929 - 1944 by Simon and Francesca Krausz of Pecs, Hungary, to their son, Laszlo Krausz, a musician and conductor living in Switzerland. The letters, originally written in Hungarian, describe life in Hungary and the Krausz's experiences during the war until they were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. The original letters are housed in the Laszlo and Susan Krausz collection at Case Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland.

  11. Edith Hamberg Tarcov papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Edith Hamberg (Tarcov), originally of Hannover, Germany, including her immigration to the United States, correspondence with her parents Minna and Sally Hamberg who remained in Hannover until their deportation to Riga in December 1941, restitution paperwork, photographs, and an unpublished novel manuscript based on her life. Biographical materials include family trees, immigration documents, restitution papers, Edith’s German passport, and a family book. The immigration documents include copies of the affidavits by her relative Milto...

  12. Denise Layani collection

    Contains two identification photos of Josef Roger Cheraki (donor's father) in forced labor in Algeria.

  13. Marsha Stein Sirman collection

    Includes 67 photographs of life in the Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp. Photographs include the birth of Marsha Stein Sirman in a hospital, Glyn-Hughes, in Bergen Belsen. The images depict Marsha by herself, Marsha with her parents, Chana Szulc Stein and Icek Stein, and a German doctor, Dr. Ötker, who helped with Chana's delivery. Other photographs include the wedding of Sala Katzberg Rotrand and Moniek Rotrand. Sala Katzberg Rotrand was the niece of Chana Szulc Stein. There is also a post-war photograph of Moniek Rotrand in a hospital bed in Bergen Belsen with Sala Rotrand, Icek Stein...

  14. Brian Coleman collection

    Consists of correspondence related to Brian Coleman's project as a high school student to contact and correspond with Holocaust survivors about their experiences. Includes of letters written to Brian by survivors describing their Holocaust experiences, as well as articles and photographs he received and collected.

  15. Anti-Bolshevist rally in Riga

    Column of civilians march down the street carrying a swastika flag and a Latvian flag. Crowds in the street. Two signs indicate distances to St. Petersburg and Reval. CU anti-Bolshevist leaflets are handed out. HAS of a huge crowd gathered to protest against Bolshevism. The camera cuts between a speaker on a podium to the crowd.

  16. Records pertaining to Alexander Freud

    Contains documents pertaining to the emigration from Nazi-annexed Austria of Alexander Freud (1866-1943), Sigmund Freud's younger brother, and the expropriation of his property and assets.

  17. Jacob Wolf collection

    Consists of one document, 4 pages, handwritten by Jacob (Jake) Wolf on May 27, 1992. In the document, Mr. Wolf writes about his experiences as a German speaking American soldier during World War II, including his memories of the liberation of Buchenwald.

  18. World War II era Ukrainian newspapers from the Ivano-Frankivsk State Archive

    Contains the collection of Ukrainian newspapers published in German occupied Ukraine during the Second World War. Most of the newspapers were published in Ukrainian, however, some were published in German or even Hungarian. The collection contains the following newspapers: “Ukrainskoye Slovo,” “Stanislavskye Slovo,” “Samostima Ukraina,” “Rogatins’kye Slovo,” “Krakauer Zeitung,” “Ostanni Visti,” “Kalus’kii Golos,” “L’vivskii Visti,” “Nasha Sila,” “Ukrains’skii Visnik,” “Do Zbroi!,” “Ternopil’skii Golos,” “Do Peremogi,”, “Nashi D’ni,” “Ukrainskii Dobrovolets,” “Achrichtenblatt der Gruppe Puch...

  19. Selected Records of the David Diamant Collection from the Departmental Archives of the Seine‐Saint‐Denis,1906‐1986

    David Diamant (David Erlich 1904-1994) was a Polish-born French Communist resistance fighter and President of the Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et Entraide, who ran the Marxist Library of Paris, part of the French Communist Party, for many years. This was originally a heteroclite collection of press clippings, newspapers and magazines, documentation, original manuscripts in many languages (handwritten or typed,) and unidentified photos and microfilms in Yiddish which Mr. Diamant seemed to be keeping for his own use. There were also many boxes containing the membership forms of the Orga...

  20. Jewish Council in Modliborzyce Rada Żydowska w Modliborzycach (Judenrat) (Sygn. 256)

    Documents of the Jewish Council in Modliborzyce (administrative district of Janów Lubelski), including alphabetical name list for January through September 1942.