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  1. Vosskamp family

    Title: "Familienfilm der Familie Johann Vosskamp in Duisburg-Meiderich". Second title frame includes text and a caricature of a man with a film camera, "Aufnahmen: Hans Vosskamp". Graphic of the Vosskamp family tree in 1936. The family included 8 children, 4 girls and 4 boys, as well as 24 grandchildren. Closeups of the elders introduced in title cards: Father (Johann Vosskamp) and Mother (Mathilde Schmidders) at their home, in the house and in the garden. The grandchildren enter the frame and surround the elder couple sitting in chairs. 01:02:44 Edith, the donor (b. 08/22/1929), is the lit...

  2. Fighting in North Africa and USSR

    Animated map of North Africa. German soldiers on lookout from a rocky hilltop. German planes drop bombs. German soldiers fire artillery into a valley and move across the desert in tanks. Shot of a destroyed American tank. Luftwaffe bearers of Knight's Cross and paratroopers walk along the road, smiling. British and American POWs surrender their weapons. CUs of POWs. German soldiers move down a road, passing two dead Allied soldiers. Destroyed and abandoned war materiel on the ground and in a trench. German soldiers climb on and inspect destroyed tanks. 01:13:23 Animated map showing Moscow, ...

  3. Selected records from the State Archives of Ivano- Frankivsk (formerly Stanislav) Oblast

    Contains reports and decisions from the Stanislavskaia Oblast’ State Extraordinary Commission to Investigate Crimes Committed by the German-Fascist Forces and by Their Collaborators in Ukraine. Also included is information on other activities of the Germans and their allies, details on various localities, and lists of Soviet citizens abused or killed. The collection also includes reports by local bureaus of the People’s Commissariat for State Security (NKGB).

  4. Hanna and Thomas play in the snow; Hanna and Babeta swing in a hammock

    Hanna and Thomas run along a path in the snow. Scene shifts to the summertime, with Hanna and Babeta swinging in a hammock.

  5. Baby Babeta and Lieberman family in prewar Poland; Hanna plays in the river

    Thomas stands near a baby carriage with young Babeta laying inside. Shots of baby Babeta. Numerous Lieberman family members pose for the camera with the baby sitting up in the carriage. Includes view of Grandfather Sperber (older man with a beard). The Lieberman family is now at a river, probably near Chryplin, swimming.

  6. Bauchwitz family collection

    Consists of information regarding the Holocaust experiences of siblings Peter Siegbert Bauchwitz and Rita Bauchwitz Molony, both of Halle, Germany. Includes biographical and memoir information, in German and English, about Peter Bauchwitz, copies of correspondence regarding the Jewish community of Halle, and copies of official wartime documentation and correspondence related to the Bauchwitz family (focused on father Paul Bauchwitz and on Rita Bauchwitz). Includes lists of property looted from the family. Rita and Peter were both able to immigrate to Palestine, but their parents were deport...

  7. Kurtz family and friends on European tour in the south of France, Paris, and Switzerland

    MS of Liza Kurtz, Louis and Lillian Malina and Essie Diamond smiling for the camera and admiring the landscape from Parc Municipal du Mt. Boron in Southern France in mid August 1938. Panning shot of city and harbor of Nice and distant mountains. 01:05:12 Over shoulder shot of Louis in a sunhat pointing toward the old city of Monaco from the Jardins Exotique. 01:05:19 Street scenes in a city, possibly Cannes. Louis in a suit, and African soldier with a red hat. 01:05:27 LS of Liza, Louis, Lily, and Essie feeding birds in Paris in front of the Préfecture de Police and the Hôtel-Dieu, most lik...

  8. Girls push miniature baby carriages; Hanna plays with a doll

    Children, more heavily dressed, are at some paved area with wooden beams in the background (a playground?). They play with baby carriages, racing them and attempting to chase down a preteen girl (maybe cousin Magda). Hanna plays with baby dolls indoors.

  9. Personal archives of Aleksandr (Isaak) Katsenelson, Jewish public figure, publicist and historian (Fond 9534, Opis1)

    Consists of a variety of reports, drafts of presentations and research papers related to the activities of Jewish organizations in Russia and the Soviet Union.Documents include activity reports, bylaws, newspaper articles, concert programs, catalogs of exhibits, and flyers. It also contains personal documents of Katsenelson, including his diary for the years 1909–1915, an autobiography, and letters addressed to government officials and agencies.

  10. Activation of the Volkssturm

    DW 738/1944 (October 25, 1944) Men of the Volkssturm march down the street. Posters and newspaper articles about the Volkssturm (People's Assault), which was the militia activated near the end of the war to defend Germany from the approaching Allies. The Volkssturm consisted of those males previously considered unfit for military service, including boys younger than 16 and men up to age 60. Shot of a crowded recruiting station for the Volkssturm. Men fill out paperwork and speak to recruiters. A boy staffs the station where 16-18 year olds should register. Himmler speaks about Hitler's decr...

  11. Vacationing on Lake Traun, Gmunden, Austria

    Outside, a sign reads "Schloss Pension: Freisitz Roith" (a famous historic hotel on the Traunsee [Lake Traun] in Gmunden, Austria). Scenes of an estate at the end of a long scenic road, where children run about and peer over a railing to the view of Lake Traun with mountains surrounding it. They run back into the house. 01:05:11 Eva Schur stands on a man-made pathway, watching swans on the lake in front of her. Motorboats pass by. 01:05:30 Girls play with dolls, boys swim, mother crochets. A rowboat with everyone aboard, along with a new woman in glasses. The boat is landed and chained by t...

  12. Edwarda Powidzki collection

    Correspondence, photographs, and writings that illustrate the experiences of Edwarda Stopczynska (donor), a non-Jewish Pole, during the Holocaust in Poland. The collection includes letters sent from Edwarda and her maternal uncle, Stefan Dembski, who was arrested with Edwarda and interrogated in Auschwitz for their political activities, to their mother and sister, Stanisława Chentkowska, in Ząbkowice, Poland. Also includes a 1943 calendar clandestinely taken and inscribed by Edwarda; documents issued to Stanisława and post-war to Edwarda; notes written by and to Edwarda from people interned...

  13. "Poppy Remembering 1939-1945"

    Consists of one memoir, entitled "Poppy Remembering 1939-1945," about the experiences of Sol Roth, written, transcribed, and edited by their daughter, Marion Amsellem. Mr. Roth's memoir describes his experiences in the Polish army, life in the Łódź ghetto, arrest as a thief (for which he was innocent), and deportation to various labor camps. In 1942, he was deported from the Polomones camp to Riga and various camps nearby, and in 1944, was deported from Riga to Stutthof before being liberated by the Russians in early 1945. He lost his wife and son in the Holocaust.

  14. Germans and Ukrainians at an agricultural fair in the Ukraine

    CU of sign indicating the town of Radomyschl (German spelling for Radomysl or Radomyshl, Ukraine). German officials and Ukrainian civilians inspecting tractors and other equipment at a German agricultural show in the Ukraine. Ukrainians look at models with German and Russian labels. A row of different sized sheaves of grain. Small swastika flags decorate the exhibit. CU on bees on a honeycomb. A young boy inspects fish in tanks. 01:19:57 Horses gallop across a field at a stud farm in Italy. The horses drink from a large trough. Footage cuts off abruptly. (Not ordered by USHMM)

  15. "Broken Birds"

    Consists of one manuscript, in paper copy and on CD, entitled "Broken Birds," by Jeannette Katzir. In the manuscript, she describes the Holocaust experiences of her parents, Channa Perschowski Poltzer, originally of Baranavichy, Poland, and Nathan Polczer (Poltzer), originally of Uzhgorod, Czechoslovakia. Channa spent the war as a partisan in the Polish forests, while Nathan was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and transferred to different camps before being liberated in Germany in 1945. They both immigrated to New York, where they met and married in 1950. The majority of the manuscript is ded...

  16. Volksdeutsch return to Germany from USSR

    Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsch) return to Germany from the Soviet Union. Long line of horse-drawn carts traveling through heavy snow. The narration states that this is the largest emigration in modern times and that 135,00 ethnic Germans will arrive in Germany from Eastern Europe. Nazi officers greet refugees as they cross a bridge in their carts. These Volkdeutsch are from Volynia in Western Russia. Shot of a banner which reads "Grossdeutschland grüßt Euch [Greater Germany greets you]." Panning shot of many covered wagons with horses in a field. Shots of individual refugees wearing furs. The...

  17. Jerome Reisberg collection

    Contains photographs of post-liberation Nordhausen and Dachau concentration camps acquired by Capt. Jerome L. Reisberg, DDS of the US Army.

  18. Lieberman family babies in prewar Poland

    Two babies, Thomas and Hanna, in a playpen. Nurse. Hanna's parents, Ella and Benedikt, play with her as she tries to drink out of a mug. They pose for the camera. New people surround Hanna, including Ella. A woman named Helena dressed as a nurse helps out, assists Hanna to walk. Multiple shots of the Lieberman family holding Hanna.

  19. "Growing Up in Nazi Germany"

    Consists of one memoir, 58 pages, entitled "Growing Up in Nazi Germany" by Luitgard N. Wundheiler, who was not Jewish. In the memoir, written like a novel, Mrs. Wundheiler ("Lou" in the memoir) describes her memories of Hitler and the Nazi party during her childhood in the 1930s. She describes her family's mixed reaction to antisemitism, loyalty oaths, and Kristallnacht, as well as her own anti-Nazi sentiment. As the war progressed, she describes her experiences in the Arbeitsdienst and the death of her brother in the invasion of France. In 1941, she went to school in Switzerland, where she...

  20. Elena Osipovna Malakhovshaya collection

    Contains photocopies of official documents, personal letters, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Elena Osipovna Malakhovshaia. Malakhovshaia was born in 1934 as Rosaliia Osipovna Laikhter. She lived through the German bombing of the port of Odessa and the ensuing widespread conflagration. Members of her family hid in the catacombs beneath the city. Malakhovshaia spent part of 1941 in the Slobodka Ghetto. She survived the war, became an artist, and later emigrated to Israel.