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  1. Hashem Ykom Wiktor Brilliant collection

    Consists of one set of copies and one CD-ROM containing a Powerpoint of scanned images, of pre-war and wartime correspondence from Hashem Ykom Wiktor Brilliant (the Levy), originally of Jaroslaw, Poland, and his sons, Edmond, Karol, Maximilian, and Yohanan, between Poland and Palestine. Also includes information about the family history.

  2. Eric Frisch collection

    Collection of materials relating to Eric Frisch (donor's father) who was a torch runner in the 1936 Olympic Torch Run and was a coach of the Austrian women's track team at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. Eric Frisch was a Jewish athlete in Austria and a well known and respected runner. He was asked to oversee the runners in the fourth stage of the torch relay through Austria, was the final runner of that group. He fled Europe in November 1938 and immigrated to the United States. Includes several newspaper articles: "Track Star Jesse Owens, U.S. Hero In Berlin Olympics, Dies of Cancer" by Bob...

  3. "I was in Oswiecim"

    Consists of a photocopy of one typed memoir, 13 pages, entitled "I was in Oświęcim," by Erna Low. In the memoir, written as she was traveling to the United States after the war, Mrs. Low describes her arrest and deportation in 1944, first to Drancy and then to Auschwitz with her husband and daughter. All three survived the initial selection. Mrs. Low describes living and working conditions, her memory of music in the camp, and her memories of the hanging of Roza Robota and the other women who smuggled powder for the attempted Sonderkommando uprising. She describes the death march to Raven...

  4. Eva Ostwalt papers

    The Eva Ostwalt papers contains documents and photographs relating to the personal life of Eva Ostwalt, a Jewish woman who was eventually imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp during World War II. The photographs mainly consist of her family members, with many of Eva herself from both pre-war and her later years. The documents primarily relate to her time post-World War II, and include hospital notes, travel certificates, and identification materials. Other documents include correspondence, documentation concerning reparations, and other various affidavits and written statements. Al...

  5. Inge Laband Strauss collection

    Consists of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the families of Inge Laband Strauss and Bruno Strauss. Includes a letter written in the Deggendorf displaced persons camp in 1945 by Inge's first cousin, Ilse Berger Pfingst, regarding her Holocaust experiences, including her deportation from Breslau to Theresienstadt (Terezin), to Auschwitz, to forced labor in a munitions factory near Oderan, Germany, and her liberation from Theresienstadt. Also includes pre-war documents regarding Herbert Laband's difficulty working in the mid-1930s due to antisemitism, as well as the emigratio...

  6. Moses Kirschner collection

    Certificate: laminated, issued to Moses Kirschner (donor's father) by the International Information Office Dachau; states that he was "detained in Dachau" from July 15, 1944 until April 29, 1945, and was assigned prisoner number 81204; photograph of bear attached; issued May 14, 1946.

  7. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Collection of photographs documenting the Nordhausen concentration camp immediately following liberation; dated April 1945. Acquired by Captain Donald Shonk Morris, a medical officer with Company D, 329th Medical Battalion, 104th US Infantry Division, who liberated Nordhausen on April 12, 1945.

  8. Records of various financial institutions (MOL Z)

    The collection contains records of Aryanization of various Hungarian financial institutions following the first anti-Jewish law in 1938, (various record groups MOL Z). Since the collection contains personal files, some records were created prior to 1938.

  9. World War I warfare

    Title: "1914/1918" World War I warfare. Troops in trenches. Horses and carriages. Cemetery with wooden cross-shaped grave markers.

  10. Joshua Cohen collection

    Notes pertaining to course on "Emergency Medicine and Surgery & First Aid" written by Dr. Joshua Cohen [donor] in France, where he was stationed before embarking on the "Exodus 1947" as the ship's doctor.

  11. "Into the No Man's Land"

    Consists of one memoir, 133 pages, entitled "Into the No Man's Land," by Irene Miller, originally of Warsaw, Poland. In the memoir, she recalls her Holocaust experiences when, as a child, she and her family escaped from Warsaw and were told that they would be taken over the border into the Soviet Union. In reality, their possessions were stolen and they were abandoned in no man's land on the border with other Jews who were unable to enter the Soviet Union. Irene, her father Srulik Miller, and sister Halina were able to escape into the Soviet Union, but her mother, Bella Miller, had to pose ...

  12. KPD demonstration

    Drummers, low-angle with flags, women marching and holding sign, "Hinweg mit der Paragraph 218." This is a KPD demonstration regarding unemployment. Striking Paragraph 218, which punished women for having abortions, was a main plank in the KPD platform. Narration: "both leftists and Nazis were victims of unemployment; KPD was subordinate to Stalin." Other signs: "...Neukoellns" ; "Ruhrgebiet." Large crowd scene. Narration: "SPD are the main enemies of the KPD."

  13. Weiner family collection

    Contains pre-war photographic images of the Weiner family (donor's immediate family) in Veľké Ripňany, Czechoslovakia (present day Slovakia); and pre-war photographs of the Flaschner family (donor’s husband’s immediate family) in Austria. Also included are post-war photos of Isabella Wiener at the Feldafing DP camp in Germany. The pre-war Weiner family photos were entrusted to non-Jewish neighbors by Malvina Weiner (donor's mother) right before her deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942 where she perished; Isabella survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Płaszów concentration c...

  14. "My European Childhood"

    Consists of one memoir, 92 pages, entitled "My European Childhood," by Adam Zygmunt Szumer, originally of Nieglowice, Poland. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Nieglowice and Jaslo, where his parents worked for a small oil refinery. At the time of the German invasion of Poland, the family temporarily relocated to Stanislawow in eastern Poland, before moving to Drohobycz in late 1939. In 1942, Adam acquired Aryan papers and temporarily went into hiding with two Polish Catholic sisters, but was returned to his parents after a traveling mishap. He describes the Drohobycz ghetto and ...

  15. "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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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.

  20. 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...