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  1. Gerard LaBossiere collection

    Consists of 37 photographs taken by Gerard LaBossiere upon the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Mr. LaBossiere was a member of the Canadian First Army and took these photographs after taking a tour of the camp. The photographs depict the camp grounds and memorial signs and symbols erected after liberation.

  2. Records of the central committee of the HeHalutz Labor Movement in Russia

    Consists of bylaws and minutes of meetings of the Zionist youth movement HeHalutz, as well as correspondence with government officials and agencies, statistical information about HeHalutz activities, membership questionnaires, and lists of members. Also included are personal documents of Josef Trumpeldor, the movement’s founder.

  3. Solomon Benedictovich Telingater collection

    Contains the photocopied book Solomon Benedictovich Telingater: Notes About My Father, written by V. S. Telingater and published in Moscow in 2008.

  4. Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records : Records ZC

    Files collected by the former East German Ministry of State Security Service (Stasi), including Nazi prosecutions for "Rassenschande" (racial defilement), "Hochverrat" (high treason), "Verstoß gegen das Heimtückegesetz"(violation of the "treachery law) and other political infractions. Files ZC 10859-ZC 12137 contains the missing part to the record group of the Reichs Ministry of Justice at the Federal Archive Berlin. The overall number of pages of this sub-collection ZC of the "Nazi"-collections of the former Head Division [HA] IX/11 of the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) of the GDR is a...

  5. Archive of the Diamond collection

    This collection concerns the diamond trade in Belgium between 1935 and 1946. The collection traces the looting of Jewish diamond traders, organized and centralized through the so-called Devisenschütz-Kommando, which ultimately expropriated property worth an estimated 72 million Belgian francs. The collection is organized into personal and subject files.

  6. Munich putsch commemoration, 1938

    Commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the Munich putsch (beer hall putsch), which occurred on November 9, 1923. Footage of Hitler in Austria after the annexation as an illustration of the realization of the dream of Greater Germany before the narrator hearkens back to the memory of those Nazis who died in service to the movement. Close ups of parts of the Feldhernnhalle memorial and the entrance to the Buergerbraukeller, the beer hall where the putsch was launched. Julius Streicher leads a parade of uniformed men down a street. Hermann Goering and Adolf Hitler are also present. Close-ups...

  7. Register of Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, weddings, funerals in Buenos Aires Crónica Bar/Bat Mitzvá-casamientos-entierros

    This collection documents bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, and funerals at which Rabbi Hanns Harf officiated, providing a comprehensive resource for vital records of the Comunidad NCI (Nueva Comunidad Israelita)-Emanuel.

  8. Gorodetsky family letters

    Contains six photocopied personal letters from the Gorodetsky family during the Second World War. Included are five letters from S. B. Gorodetsky to his wife Zinaida (Zina), and one letter to his sister, Nina Borisovna, in Kazan.

  9. Records of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (VVN)

    Contains two main components: organizational records of the record group VVN, and materials it collected on Holocaust victims and survivors, forced laborers, war criminals, and prisoners of war. Included are reports about victims; original ID-cards (Kennkarten) of German Jews with photographs and personal information; card indexes related to camps and prisons; and two volumes of a card index entitled “Prison Card Index of Office 710” from 1935 to 1937. There are also lists of Jewish victims and material on the Gestapo in Breslau, camp personnel, the murder of people with mental disabilities...

  10. Forest, adults gathered in Palestine

    A farm building, fence, cows. The camera is very shaky. Circular pan of pine trees. 02:07:56 Possibly the Lieberman House in Nahariya, Palestine? Three men talking to each other. Woman stands in front of a car. Man in a straw hat holds a baby on top of a brick structure (a well?).

  11. Family in Olomouc; farming

    Hanna is blowing up balloons and playing with them at the garden in Olmuetz, with a few family onlookers. They move into the garden. These women are dressed nicely. They all walk in the hills (farmland?) 02:12:34 Probably Stanislawow - numerous men digging in the ground, Benno is in a white shirt. A wheelbarrow is brought to them. Child, probably Babeta (Alyssa Sperber), with the rake. Pan landscape, farm, Lieberman family. Emanuel Sperber with his wife, Nelly. Thomas Sperber drives the tractor, his father Emanuel (balding and seen from behind) walks towards the tractor.

  12. Gerede, Turkish Ambassador, at Reichs Chancellery

    A car arrives in the interior courtyard of the Reichs Chancellery and the new Turkish ambassador in Berlin, Ambassador Husrev Gerede, gets out of the car. The narration says that he will be received by Hitler but this meeting is not shown. Gerede greets two officials on the steps of the Chancellery and enters the building. Very dark interior shot of the building. Gerede emerges from the Chancellery and shakes hands with Nazi officials before departing. Shot of SS men with rifles standing at attention. Another brief shot of Gerede getting into his car.

  13. Peter grows up

    Baby Peter developing and growing up. CUs and MSs of the baby in a high chair, crib, playing peek-a-boo, crawling, playing with sister, ring a rosie in the garden, toddling, walking with father (Dr. Max Schur), picking fruit from bushes in the garden, and drinking water from a large bucket or barrel.

  14. Gittler family correspondence

    Letters written between 1938 and 1941 by members of the Gittler family of Breslau, Germany. The majority of the letters were written by Wilhelm and Gertrud Gittler and their son, Franz Gittler, and were sent to Ilse Gittler Muller (daughter of Wilhelm and Gertrud), who, with her husband Hans (later changed to Harold), had immigrated to the United States in 1938. The letters describe family matters and immigration attempts. Franz Gittler was sent to England on a Kindertransport and survived the war, but Wilhelm and Gertrud Gittler perished in the Holocaust.

  15. Selected records from the State Historical archives of the Chuvash Republic related to evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Contains records of evacuations to Chuvashia during World War II, including information on resettlement, employment, food supply, and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. The collection also includes various lists of evacuees and members of their families.

  16. Wochenschau cameramen at work

    The opening titles are superimposed over an image of a cameraman filming. Scenes of Hitler standing on the balcony on the night he became Chancellor, followed by good shots of rallies, flags, Hitler reviewing crowds, intercut with good shots of cameramen at work, sometimes in odd places or angles, such as crouched on the running board of a car. The narrator says that in the new Germany, where the state is fused with the folk, and the Fuehrer is fused with the community, the newsreel cameraman has an obligation to history. 01:55:09 Model of the Propaganda Ministry building. The narrator says...

  17. Men at a logging factory

    Men in traditional dress roll a log onto a large pile. These are all felled trees. Six men labor to get it going. They finally get it there and look at the camera. Brief glimpse of the children in dark winter coats at 02:05:36.

  18. Lieberman family at the park in prewar Olomouc

    In very grainy footage, Hanna runs about, holding a stick and clothed for warmth in a park in Olmuetz. The family walks towards the camera. Then dressed for spring, jumping off a stoop with Harriet.

  19. Hanna dances at a folk festival in Olomouc and then boards a train to return home to Poland

    A large, traditional German festival in Olmuetz with many couples dancing. Hanna dances on her own on a path with woods behind her. Hanna and her mother Ella board a PKP train with sign: "Stanislawow-Woronienka." They look out from the train window and say their goodbyes to family in the station.

  20. Registration cards issued at Jewish Committees in Łódź and Gliwice (Sygn. 303/V/428)

    Contains 8209 registration cards issued to Jewish survivors in Łódź and Gliwice by the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP).