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  1. Children bathe and play outdoors; Benedikt and Ella wade in a cold river; Hanna scoots around

    The two children, Thomas and Hanna, are in the wash tub, playing and splashing. Hanna gets out and is put into a little robe, which she quickly loses after the nurse empties the tub and flips it over. They play on top of the overturned wash tub. Now dressed, they are carried around by their parents. Benedikt and Ella, the parents, are at the bank of a small river, attempting to endure the cold water. They wade out further. Cut to Hanna scooting herself around on a short stool, learning how to use a potty.

  2. Sulamif Moiseevna Bogoslovskaya papers

    Contains photocopies of an autobiographical statement, employment records, personal letters, official documents, school and work identification cards, and death certificate of Sulamif Moiseevna Bogoslovskaia.

  3. Riemer family collection

    Consists of letters written by members of the Riemer family of Berlin, Germany. Includes a series of letters in the late 1920s from Werner Riemer in Berlin to his cousin, Lucille Riemer, who had immigrated to the United States. Also includes letters from 1938 from the Riemer family, who had immigrated to Tel Aviv and were seeking help for Werner, who was stuck in Germany and too old to join them on a family visa. Also includes a pre-war essay on the book of Esther written by 8-year-old Melvin Riemer.

  4. Samuel Glasberg collection

    Consists of eleven loose photographs and a modern photograph album containing photographs from the collection of Samuel Glasberg. The images consists of family photographs, taken in Belgium and Poland from 1880-1962. Includes a Keren Kayemeth Leisrael acknowledgement of a donation from Samuel Glasberg for a tree fund in memory of deceased relatives.

  5. Rolef family letters

    Consists of letters, postcards, and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the Rolef family, 1935-1947. Includes postcards sent to the United States from Theresienstadt 1943-1944. Includes weekly letters from 1939-1942.

  6. Kazimierz Wilk collection

    Contains letters which Kazimierz Wilk (donor's late husband) was able to write from his cell in the Montelupich prison in Krakow, Poland and later from the Gross Rosen concentration camp; dated November 1943 - January 1944. Includes documents relating to Mr. Wilk's education and employment as a civil engineer during and after the war.

  7. "The Kindertransport: Anne Kelemen Talks about her Life"

    Consists of one DVD of a talk given by Anne Kelemen at Oakwood School in North Hollywood, CA, in November 2006. In the talk, Ms. Kelemen discusses her experiences in pre-war Vienna and on a Kindertransport in May 1939 to England.

  8. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Loir-et-Cher

    Files concerning the internment of enemy aliens (Germans and Austrians in the camps of Francillon, Marolles, Villerbon and Villemalard) from September 1939 until June, 1940; arrests and sentences by the Germans; register of foreigners listed by country; sequestering of property belonging to the enemy; Jewish affairs including lists of Jews and Jewish businesses; internments; a prison register to indicate that Jews were held there before being sent on to Drancy; and restitution of property. The sanatorium called “Les Pins” in the town of Lamotte-Beuvron was used to intern Jews during the war.

  9. Joseph Shaykin collection related to Jewish agricultural colonies in Ukraine

    Contains records relating to the history of Jewish agricultural colonies in Ukraine before World War II. Included are tables with statistical and demographic information, maps, biographies, and testimonies gathered by Joseph Shaykin between 1960 and 1990. There are also copies of publications about the colonies.

  10. Hava Tsour memoir

    Consist of one memoir, 69 pages, written in 2001 by Hava Tsour, born Eva Sidis in Athens, Greece in August 1936. In her memoir, she describes the occupation of Greece. During the war, Eva, her parents, and siblings moved throughout Greece to escape deportation. Her father was arrested and sent to Auschwitz, but the family later heard that he was shot and killed before arrival. After the liberation of Greece, Eva, her mother, and siblings moved to Israel.

  11. Vosskamp family vacations in Schieder, Germany

    Title card: "Ferienaufenthalt 1936 in Schieder/Lippe Rosenhof" [Holidays in Schieder/Lippe, 1936 Rosenhof]. A group of children and their mothers lounge about outside in lawn chairs. Several children play on a seesaw simultaneously. The children play at the pond with an older teenager. Alfred Vosskamp (the boy) walks out over the pond on a narrow plank. The children fish. Johannes Vosskamp walks out onto the plank to play with the children. More of the children at play on holiday. 01:05:16 The children gather for Ring-Around-the-Rosie, holding hands and dancing in a circle. They get into a ...

  12. Underground Archives of Bialystok Ghetto (Meresik-Tenenbaum Archives) Podziemne Archiwum Getta Białostockiego (Archiwum Mersika-Tenenbauma) (Sygn. 204)

    The collection is organized into two parts: originals, including 25 testimonies, 52 protocols of Judenrat meetings, and 434 announcements of the Judenrat; and copies, including personal papers, testimonies, diaries, correspondence, and documents found in the clothing of Jews murdered in Treblinka. Also included are the diary, letters, and other writings of Mordechaj Tenenbaum-Tamaroff; and personal documents of Hersz Cwi Mersik.

  13. Yocheved Flumenker collection

    Collection of photos of Yocheved Flumenker [donor], her husband and friends, primarily from the displaced persons camps in Stuttgart and Bad Reichenhall. Included are photos of donor’s wedding to Zvi Flumenker, photos from pre-war Lublin, and a photo from the Lublin ghetto, where the donor briefly lived before escaping with her father to live with peasants in the surrounding area. Also includes one identification card and one graduation certificate.

  14. Mr. Dario Navarra negatives

    Contains photographic negatives from La Scuolo di via Epili in Milan, Italy (1941-1942). The Jewish school was opened after racial laws forbade Jewish children from attending public schools.

  15. Belgian volunteers enlisting for Germany

    Belgian volunteers enlist to fight the Soviets on the side of the Germans. Men stand outside a building with a big sign that reads "Wallonie pour la lutte contre le Bolschevisme". They look at a poster on the building. Inside the building, men hand over their identity cards to a clerk, who records their information.

  16. Logging factory in the winter

    A man with a toothbrush mustache is drawn by a horse. It is a winter scene of a logging yard. A group of men sit around a source of steam or smoke, but no fire is visible. Horses bring in the next group of trees affixed to sleds. Grandfather Sperber (with beard). Flagpole. Children appear at 02:38:19.

  17. "Neve Diventeremo"

    Consists of one DVD produced by the Italian band "7grani," featuring Mauro, Flavio, and Fabrizio Settegrani. The DVD, entitled "Neve Diventeremo," directed by Luca Tossani, includes an oral history interview with former partisan and Buchenwald survivor Rado Zuccon, as well as a video of the band performing a tribute song, which was shot partially on the grounds of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  18. Schermeister girls in the garden, 1929

    In the garden in Snekkersten. The three Schermeister girls, Lis (donor's mother), Jeanne, and Inge, return from a trip with their governess, wearing the same dresses as the Havdalah sequence, and big summer hats. All three girls jump rope with the help of their mother and their governess.

  19. Personal archives of Maximilian Goldstein, researcher and collector of Jewish art

    Consists of personal documents of Maximilian Goldstein, including birth certificate, correspondence with relatives, friends and colleagues, catalogs of art exhibits, drafts of publications, and research papers.

  20. Children playing in prewar Vienna

    Possibly a kindergarten scene. Four little girls, posing for the camera, then running about happily. An infant is being placed into its carriage, CUs. Another baby. A few mothers with carriages gathered on a sidewalk, including Doris Lichtenthal. Children play. They begin raking sand or dirt of some kind. 01:01:08 Kids play, boys in lederhosen with hoops and sticks, girls with jump ropes. The boys try to climb the fence before giving up. Peter rides a scooter that is just a bit big for him. Peter plays with blocks (brief). A child writing, followed by a girl running behind a toy baby carria...