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  1. Cigarette card album

    German cigarette album, Deutschland erwacht. This album was probably received as a gift by the donor’s grandfather or great-grandfather who worked with the Frankfurt Zoological Society. All the German captions have been translated into English and pasted into the album.

  2. Ike Diamond papers

    The Ike Diamond papers include his 1934 Polish identification card, a 1946 passport entry indicating Diamond could enter Venezuela, and his 1939-1945 diary describing the outbreak of war, his confinement in the Warsaw ghetto, his escape, hiding on a farm in Otrębusy, and liberation. He appears to have begun his diary while in hiding in May 1943, so the descriptions of fall 1939 through summer 1943 are written as chapters in the past tense while entries beginning September 1, 1943 are written as diary entries in the present tense. The first half of the diary describes hardships during the in...

  3. Personal archives of Meer Bomash, member of the State Duma (Fond 9458, opis1)

    Contains letters to Meer Bomash from Russian State Duma members, civil servants, publishers, students, intelligentsia, and ordinary citizens about the establishment of Jewish educational institutions, antisemitism, compulsory military service, and the general conditions of the Jewish community of Łódź. Also included are requests for help in gaining acceptance to educational institutions, for aid obtaining transfers to different government posts or schools, for material and financial assistance on behalf of aid societies, and for the commutation of prison sentences. There are also reports, p...

  4. "Max Adler: From Germany to America, 1926-1939"

    Consists of one memoir, 6 pages, entitled "Max Adler: From Germany to America 1926-1939," by Max Adler. In the memoir, Mr. Adler describes the history of his family and the Jewish community in his hometown of Bad Mergentheim, Germany. He describes antisemitism in the 1930s, his memories of Kristallnacht, and leaving on a Kindertransport to the Netherlands in January 1939. Mr. Adler's parents were able to immigrate to the United States in May 1939, and he joined them there in February 1940.

  5. Leo Glenn photograph collection

    Photographs illustrating the post-war life of Holocaust survivor Leo Glenn who temporarily lived in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany.

  6. Ukrainian bishops with Nazi officials

    Several Ukrainian bishops cross a courtyard. Once inside they are greeted by the German Nazi official, Waldemar Magunia, who shakes their hands. One of the bishops then reads a statement into a microphone. According to the narrator, their statement affirms their strong opposition to Bolshevism. MCU of one of the bishops and then Magunia. Magunia shakes the hand of the bishop who read the statement.

  7. Corpses discovered in Lvov

    Titles on screen: KRIGET I ?STER / Tyska Trupper besätta Lemberg. Triumphal music (no commentary) as the Germans enter Lvov. They are greeted by smiling and waving Polish citizens. Women pose with German soldiers. Title on screen: GPU:s sate i Lemberg The music becomes much darker and we hear the familiar soundtrack of the women crying that is used in the German newsreels about the Lemberg massacre. There is only a brief shot of the prison where the bodies of those murdered by the departing Soviets were discovered. Title on screen: Anfallet gar vidare mot Minsk. Cheerful music plays as Germ...

  8. Poster of Schuschnigg

    March (probably very early after the Anschluss). Single shot of a sign with Chancellor Schuschnigg portrait and "JA" (etched or stencil-painted?) and partially scratched off. All the Staendestaat propaganda was removed (often by forcing Jews) after March 12.

  9. Selected records of the Consistoire Central Israélite de Belgique, Brussels

    Records concern the Jewish communities of Brussels, Antwerp, Liege, and other Belgian cities. It contains correspondence among Jewish organizations during the German occupation, as well as documents concerning pre- and postwar Jewish and refugee organizations, synagogue records, and materials related to antisemitism.

  10. Sunday School trip to Mintard, Germany

    "Sonntagschule Duisburg-Meiderich Quadtstr." Led by Fritz Fackert and Oskar Brauner. "Sommerausflug 1936 nach Mintard" [A Summer Outing to Mintard, 1936] The youngsters (along with their parents) march along to the festival area. Children and their parents relaxing and frolicking about in a grassy area: playing soccer, drinking chocolate milk, and being sociable.

  11. Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs

    The Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs depict Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer in Körösmező and Beregszász, Hungary (now Yasinia and Berehove, Ukraine) just before the Holocaust in Hungary and on their wedding day in August 1945.

  12. Daily flight between Moscow and Berlin

    An Aeroflot Douglas DC-3 lands at Tempelhof airport in Berlin. The German and Soviet governments have initiated daily flights between Moscow and Berlin. The plane lands on a snow-covered runway. Shot of the Russian writing on the plane's nose and a hammer and sickle graphic on its body. Passengers, including Soviet and German officials, get off the plane and stand on the tarmac.

  13. Americans travel to Europe on Nieuw Amsterdam ship

    Title card reading: "Our Trip To Holland, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, France and England 1938". Liza Kurtz, Louis and Lillian Malina, and Essie Diamond on deck of Nieuw Amsterdam ship at sea. Napping and relaxing on deck. Lillian reads the NYTimes magazine dated July 24 about Henry Ford receiving a birthday award from Hitler. The ship departed the port in Hoboken, NJ at 12:40pm on Saturday July 23, 1938. HAS, crowds of people on board a ferry in Boulogne, France or Amsterdam, Netherlands, some waving. The Nieuw Amsterdam stopped first in Plymouth, England on July 30, then in Boulogne, and...

  14. Hitler Youth at the 1933 Reich Party Day

    Hitler speaks to Hitler Youth at the 1933 Party Day rally at the Nuremberg stadium. He tells them that they are the German future: that they are "of our blood, our flesh, our spirit." CUs of Hitler and handsome Aryan boys while he speaks. Hitler leads the crowd in a chorus of "Heils."

  15. Sunday school trip

    Title card: "Sonntagschul-Ausflug 1937 / Sonntagschule Dbg. Meiderich Quadtstrasse". Handwritten slate indicating that the film was taken by Fritz Jasper. A group from a "Sunday-school" on Quadtstrasse in Duisburg Meiderich meets at the train station and goes to Bottrop, 25 km NE of Duisburg, for a day of fun. Boys on the train station platform in Oberhausen. The train pulls into the station. The large group (approx. 100 participants) run to board the train. CUs, children on the train. They arrive at Bottrop Nord train station, and debark. One child holds a rifle in a brown bag. More close ...

  16. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Eure

    Lists of German women interned as enemy aliens, registered Jews, requisitioned Jewish businesses and buildings, individuals in need of psychiatric care, arrested persons, and foreign Jews living in Evreux. Materials include a card file for French Jews, a card file for foreigners, and files on Freemasons.

  17. Hanna playing at the gate in prewar Olomouc

    Hanna in pig tails is playing on a gate with a very tall man. CUs. He climbs over the gate after she is done swinging on it. He leaps over it with relative ease.

  18. Celebrating May Day

    Crowd marching (summer attire), swastikas, acrobat on high-wire at Prater Garden (most likely). Maypole. Fireworks.

  19. Children play outdoors in prewar Poland

    Forest scene in early autumn. The kids run around. Hanna is carried on both parents' shoulders for a time. They walk along paths in Jaremcze, Thomas is carried too. They sit, and Hanna is given something to drink. Cut to the two children helping each other into long fur coats (also donated to the Museum). The children play with the wagon, Thomas pulls Hanna.

  20. City street scenes

    Very dark interior shots followed by a brief scene at the beach at Snekkersten and then street scenes in Elsinore (Helsingør), Denmark. "Spredte Traeck fra Fam. Schermeisters. Tilvaereise." [Small Notes from the Schermeister Family. Life.] The street scenes show quick cuts of alleys, people in the street on bicycles, shops, a newspaper headline announcing Von Papen as vice chancellor, and the exterior of the Hotel Øresund.