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  1. "Shakespeare Saved My Life"

    Consists of one memoir, 84 pages, entitled "Shakespeare Saved My Life," by Eva Porges Rocek. In her memoir, Eva describes her family's history, her memories of the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, the antisemitic laws and regulations, her family's deportation to Theresienstadt (Terezin) and then Auschwitz, her liberation by the Russian Army in January 1945, and her life after the war in the United States.

  2. Liliane Urtreger interview translation

    Consists of an English language translation of a French interview with Liliane (Salamea) Kiejzman Urtreger, who spent two years in Auschwitz, where she worked in the Kanada commando. She describes the Sonderkommando uprising and the evacuation of Auschwitz in 1945. After her liberation in May 1945, she returned to France. In the interview, she reflects on why it is so difficult for her to speak about her experiences.

  3. Filming feature films; Cardinal Faulhaber; Eisenhower in Germany; commemoration for victims of fascism in Berlin

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 72 Title: Filmstart in der Britischen Zone: Die beiden ersten Spielfilme [Beginning of filming in the British zone: the first two feature films]. A crowd watches as filming gets underway in Hamburg. The director describes the first scene before the action starts. The camera rolls along a track fillming the scene. The next film involves young people sailing in kayaks along the Weser river between Karlshafen and the sea. The camera, mounted on a raft, follows the boats on the river. The narrator names the stars of the film. The young stars are shown eating lunch and ta...

  4. Spring in Germany; American fertilizer for Europe's fields; Commemoration of liberation of Dachau; Reichsbahn is rebuilt

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 50 (part) Title: Fruehling in Deutschland [Spring in Germany]. A woman smiles out of her open window at a blossoming tree. People sunbathe and enjoy themselves among the ruins of Berlin. People ski down a grassy slope in Garmisch. Celebration of a religious festival in Traunstein. People at a very crowded fair/carnival in Munich, with a ferris wheel and a puppet show. Title: Fuer die Fluren Europas [For the fields of Europe]. Workers mine phosphate in Florida for use as fertilizer in the fields of Europe. Shots of the phosphate as it is processed. Title: Dachau Geden...

  5. Records of the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit, Sektion für Rasse-und Volkstumforschung (IDO)

    Administrative and research materials of the Institut for German Work in the East, Section for Race- and Nationalities Research (IDO-SRV), primarily “field data” from occupied Poland and associated analyses.

  6. Sophie Billys collection

    Consists of photograph albums, a memoir, newspaper clippings, and two reels of film related to the Holocaust experiences of Mrs. Sophie Billys, originally of Łódź, Poland. Mrs. Billys, with her husband Henryk and daughter Milanka, survived the war by posing as Polish Gentiles and assisted whomever they could to help them survive. Includes pre-war and post-war photographs, post-war certificates for Mrs. Billys' accomplishments, and two reels of film, one of a trip back to Poland and one of a family trip to Florida. Also includes Sophie's handwritten memoir, 50 pages, that describes the famil...

  7. Selected records from the Central State Archives of the Republic of Kazakhstan related to the evacuation to Kazakhstan during the Second World War II

    The collection contains copies of the archival records related to the evacuation of civilians to Kazakhstan during WWII that includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. This collection also includes records related to the special assistance given to foreign political immigrants (mostly members of the Communist Parties of the Nazi occupied countries) who were evacuated to Kazakhstan by the Soviet authorities.

  8. Artwork by communist resistance fighter Boris Taslitzky plus catalogue of Vichy exhibition on "Bolshevism"

    The collection consists of reproductions of a series of sketches and other artwork by Communist resistance fighter Boris Taslitzky after he was deported to Buchenwald, and a photo album of a 1942 Paris exhibit on “Bolshevism against Europe.”.

  9. Obersitzker family papers

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Siegfried Obersitzker (a Polish born German Jew) and his wife Charlotte Reuter Obersitzker (a German born non-Jew) who fled from Berlin with their son Horst in December 1938 to Havana, Cuba where they remained until ultimately immigrating to the United States in 1941. Included are affidavits of support for the Obersitzkers, German passports, landing permits for Havana, as well as immigration correspondence for Charlotte's mother Franziska Reuter who emigrated from Berlin to the United States in 1947.

  10. Alicia Wassertheil collection

    Identity card of Alicia Wassertheil's grandmother; collection of photographs pertaining to Ms. Wassertheil [donor] and her family in Krakow (prewar and post-war), period newspaper.

  11. Lt. Albert Montenaro collection

    Consists of five photographs taken by Lt. Albert Montenaro, a member of the 4th Armored Division, after the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Includes photographs of corpses and of a pyre in which bodies were burned before liberation.

  12. Selected records of the Archives départementales de l'Eure-et-Loir

    This collection contains documents from the prefect’s office; the administration of the Voves camps, where most persons identified as Communists were sent, often transferred from other camps; the Chartres prison; and private families and notaries. Documents include a register of Jews interned at the Chartres prison (1055W); several collections in the J Series (from private sources); the papers of the family of the deported doctor Goldberg; and records concerning compensation made to victims of spoliation by the Vichy regime and the German occupying forces.

  13. The Striker, Number 16, April 1938, 16th year 1938 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    One issue of the antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, from April 1938 with the headline: Die habsburger und die Juden.

  14. Crossing Rur River; liberation; atrocities

    Allies Overrun German Positions in Big Push. American infantry troops advance into Germany. Troops march past badly damaged buildings and footage shows some artillery fire. Long shot of Jeeps of the US 9th Army crossing the Rur river (small river in western Germany, not to be confused with the Ruhr). Troops pass through Linnich. Dead German soldiers in Juelich. German POWs march down the road. The narrator says that the enemy's casualty lists have surpassed one million on the Western front. Shot of German civilians and devastated buildings. Generals Eisenhower and Simpson inspect the area n...

  15. Uri Hirschmann papers

    The Uri Hirschmann papers include a photo album, travel pass, and Palestinian naturalization certificate documenting Hirschmann’s family in Frankfurt am Main before the war and his relocation to Palestine. Photographs depict Hirschmann’s family, their home, bar mitzvah and Purim celebrations, and Hirschmann at a Hachschara camp in Germany, and a Youth Aliyah camp and a kibbutz in Palestine.

  16. Bloch family collection

    Contains letters and postcards written by Ingrid and Hannelore Billigheimer, their parents Irma and Kurt Billigheimer, and grandmother, Marie Hochherr, from Fürth and Karlsruhe in Germany and later from Gurs and Rivesaltes internment camps in France, and from an OSE children’s home in Le Couret, dated October 29, 1939 to April 5, 1943; the last letter was written by Marie Hochherr on June 11, 1945. All the letters were addressed to Drs. Bloch in Zurich, Switzerland. Includes receipts for food packages sent by Dr. Charlotte Bloch to the Billigheimer family, and a copy photograph of a group p...

  17. Hoess and others arriving in Warsaw for trial; snapshots from Germany

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 60 Title: Vor dem Warschauer Prozess: Ankunft der Hauptangeklagten [Before the Warsaw trial: arrival of the main defendants]. Nazi defendants disembark from a plane under guard by Polish soldiers. The narrator says that they are guilty of countless crimes against justice and humanity. Some of the men are made to stand posed for the camera as they are identified: Josef Buehler, Hans Frank's deputy in Poland; Ludwig Leist, mayor of Warsaw; Jaeger, the police president of Posen, Beckmann, former head of the Krakow Gestapo; Polnikow, head of the Posen Gestapo, Daume, rep...

  18. Therese Wertheim diary

    The collection consists of a photocopy of a journal, written in German, by Therese (Tesi) Wertheim, originally of Stuttgart, Germany. The journal was written immediately post-war and describes Tesi's experiences between May 10, 1940, when the Germans invaded Enschede in the Netherlands, and April 3, 1945, when the town was liberated by the Canadians. In her journal she describes the arrest of her son, Martin, who was killed at Mauthausen in October 1941, anti-Jewish legislation, life in in the underground in Enschede, and the aerial attacks on the city. The collection also includes an Engli...

  20. Daniel Catan collection

    Consists of documents, newspapers, and handbills related to wartime and post-war France. Includes an anti-Mason, anti-war handbill entitled "Assassins!", correspondence regarding and copies of the "Lectures Francaises," "Histoire du Frontisme," and "Resurrection Nationale" publications, 1941 and 1944 copies of the newspaper "France," a 1945 document regarding the history of the "France" newspaper, and five copies, 1948-1949, of "Le Droit de Vivre" newspaper.