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  1. Family in garden

    Family shots (probably) of a man (the filmmaker?) from behind crouching before a boy and mother tearing grass. Probably at Prater garden.

  2. Denmark under occupation

    Ufa logo onscreen. View of the Royal Palace in Copenhagen. Guards march on the snow-covered courtyard. Cars arrive for a traditional New Year's reception with the king (the king is not seen). One of the cars carries a German general in the backseat. Changing of the guard, then shots of men in bowler hats walking toward the palace. A man drives a horse-drawn carriage through the courtyard.

  3. Mrs. Shulamit Fritzi Ayalon collection

    Contains photographs and documents depicting the Ganz and the Huss family in Romania before the war in Fălticeni, Romania, and after the war. Includes photographs of Fritzi and Abraham Huss in Apeldoorn, Holland during their recuperation, dated 1947-1948; photographs of Fritzi, Abraham and Roza Huss in Israel, 1948-1953; identification cards Roza and Fritzi Huss in Romania and Israel; letters to Fritzi and Abraham in Apeldoorn, Holland from their mother; and an autograph book in which friends in Holland and later in Israel wrote their wishes to Fritzi, 1947-1951.

  4. American POWs captured at the Battle of the Bulge

    Capture of American POWs at the Battle of the Bulge in December, 1944. The soldiers exit a house with their hands raised. Destroyed tanks, one of which bears the motto "America First." Sepp Dietrich at the front. A field littered with war materiel, including destroyed Sherman tanks. American POWs, some of them wounded, struggle through the mud. Germans shoot at American bombers. Children wave at a passing German tank in a "German village." General Walther Model directs his troops in various activities. A column of American POWs trudges past the camera. The camera lingers on the faces of Afr...

  5. Mussolini and Hitler

    A Castle Films showcase of news events for the year 1937 with English titles: "Europe's powder keg! Endless Spanish Rebellion is source of constant concern to all nations." "Worst London cloudburst in 27 years! Streets of British capital are flooded when rain descends in torrents!" "In the U.S., storms and floods render thousands homeless." "George VI reviews grand fleet. Newly crowned Monarch sees Britain's mighty sea force at it's best." "Texas horror! 450 perish when mysterious explosion demolishes school at New London." "U.S. Labor strikes. Industrial production halted - Workers lose mi...

  6. 100th anniversary of the German railway

    Hitler arrives at the ceremony to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Reichsbahn at the train station in Nuremberg. The narrator says there are 3,000 spectators. Nazi flags wave in the wind. Hitler walks past a train, accompanied by a large contingent of railway officials, including Julius Dorpmueller (in bowler hat). They walk across a field crisscrossed with train tracks. Hitler salutes a group of railway workers and receives cheers from a stage in front of a huge crowd. Views of new trains rolling down the tracks. 01:04:31 Dorpmueller stands beside Hitler. More views of new trains, ...

  7. Volunteers from various countries

    Danish, Spanish, and Italian volunteers leave their countries for Germany to join the "fight against Bolshevism." In Denmark the youths parade through the street while being saluted by onlookers. They carry a Danish flag and a woman in uniform hands out flowers. CU on a poster reading "Germanerne". A train full of volunteers leaves the station. Good shots of crowds of people giving Hitler salute. In Spain, a train crowded with volunteers leaves a station. A huge crowd watches the train go. The narrator notes that most of these volunteers, now member of the Blue Division, are veterans of the...

  8. Robert Guttmann identity card

    Consists of one identity card for ten-year-old Robert E.M. Guttmann, originally of Munich, Germany. Mr. Guttmann (now Guttman) and his family immigrated to England in the mid-1930s, and used this document, which includes a photograph, to immigrate to the United States in 1939. The document is covered with visa and transit stamps.

  9. Copper food bowl used in Treblinka concentration camp

    Copper bowl that was used by inmates of the Treblinka concentration and extermination camp in Poland from 1941-1944. In November 1941, the SS and the German police authorities of the Generalgouvernement in German controlled Poland established a forced labor camp for Jews, known as Treblinka. In July 1942, they set up Treblinka II, a killing center where nearly 1 million Jews were killed. Treblinka II was closed in the fall of 1943. As Soviet troops moved into the area in late July 1944, camp authorities shot the remaining prisoners and evacuated the camp. Soviet troops entered the camp in t...

  10. "Positive Experiences Within a Severely Traumatic Framework as Perceived and Narrated by Holocaust Concentration Camp Survivors"

    Consists of one doctoral dissertation, entitled "Positive Experiences Within a Severely Traumatic Framework as Perceived and Narrated by Holocaust Concentration Camp Survivors," by Dr. Anthony Bellen for his PhD in Criminology at Bar-Ilan University in September 2004.

  11. Freudenthal family papers

    Collection includes writings by Rabbi Joseph Freudenthal of Worms, Germany, and documents relating to the Freudenthal family and their relatives during the Holocaust in Bergen Belsen, Theresienstadt, Izbica, and Amsterdam.

  12. Benjamin Vogel collection

    Contains two photographs; the first is a portrait taken November 27, 1945, of Benjamin Fogel, born on May 9, 1945 in Belyye Vody, Kazakhstan; the second is a group photograph of workers in a sewing shop in Belyye Vody, dated circa July 1945. In the group photo, Rywka Regina Fogel holds up her newborn son Benjamin, while her husband Jakub is seated behind them. Jakuband Regina Vogel fled Poland in 1939 and were deported to a labor camp and later to Kazakhstan, where Jakub worked in a tailoring cooperative.

  13. Roman Sompolinski collection

    Consists of eight photographs taken of Roman Sompolinski and his family in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp between 1945-1949. Includes a photograph of Roman Sompolinski in front of the memorial sign erected by the British Army after the liberation of the camp, a photograph of his marriage to Masza Kuropatwa Sompolinski, and photographs of their daughter, Sara Sompolinski, who was born in the camp in 1947.

  14. John Scott collection

    Consists of documents, correspondence, loose photographs, photograph albums, and film related to the wartime and post-war experiences of John Scott. Includes correspondence, documents, and photographs related to his work with the Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) and his experiences stationed in Frankfurt, Germany in 1962-1963 as a member of the intelligence service.

  15. Herbert Klaber collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the donor's early life in Borken, Germany, and later experiences in the Netherlands, where his parents sent him for school and to avoid persecution in the late 1930s, and where he eventually physically went into hiding to avoid deportation. Includes the last letter of his parents Max and Regina Klaber, stating that they are being sent to "Theresin" [sic]; also included are a Dutch Jewish identification card issued to Herbert as well as his report cards, which he buried while he was in hiding.

  16. Records of the Hanotiah Organization (Association of Jewish Landowners), Lwów Branch, Poland (Fond 500)

    The bulk of the collection consists of the correspondence files with the Central office of the organization in Warsaw regarding contracts and payments for land.

  17. Veszprém Megyei Érseki Levéltár, Veszprém Holocaust-era records from the Archives of the Lutheran Church in Hungary

    Contains two group of the Lutheran church records: I. Records (1938‒1943) regarding education, administrative and registration materials related to problems stemming from anti-Jewish legislation, statistics and memoranda the Church had to submit annually. II. Records (1944) related to conversions, requests to provide services in ghettos and camps, statements by district Church offices regarding persecution of the Jews, documentation of personal matters, other materials.

  18. "Die Geschichte von Walter und Irmgard Stern"

    Contains one article entitled "Die Geschichte von Walter und Irmgard Stern," by Gerhard Heckelmann. In this article, Mr. Heckelmann describes making contact with the family of Walter and Irmgard Stern, who were originally from Mensfelden, Germany, part of a small Jewish community consisting of the villages of Dauborn, Heringen, Kirberg and Mensfelden. The article describes the Sterns' Holocaust experiences.

  19. "The Jews of Denmark"

    Consists of sixteen pages of post-war handwritten text entitled "The Jews of Denmark." The text, which was discovered in a book entitled "Physical and mental stress and consequential development of atherosclerosis within the Jewish population of Denmark" within the USHMM Library, is signed "R. Edelmann," possibly historian Rafael Edelmann.

  20. Blum family collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the Blum family from Berlin. Richard Blum, a high fashion tailor, was arrested on Kristallnacht and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. Includes an example of Richard's business cards; Betty Blum's German passport; various identification documents related to immigration efforts; and photographs taken aboard the MS St. Louis. Richard and Betty left Germany on the MS St. Louis in May 1939 and disembarked in Belgium when the ship returned to Europe. They were briefly imprisoned in the Gurs internment camp in France, and survived the war ...