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  1. Selected records from the Inspectoratul de Jandarmi Chisinau

    Includes correspondence between the General Inspectorate in Bucharest and the Inspectorate in Chisinau (Kishenev), Moldavia.

  2. "Following in our Father's Footsteps"

    Consists of one oral history interview, 2 hours, with Martin Kastner, on DVD, entitled "Following in our Father's Footsteps." In the interview, which was conducted on September 3, 2007 by Louise Bobrow, Mr. Kastner describes his pre-war life in a small town in Romania near Sighet. In 1943, he and his family were put into a ghetto (their home was located in the ghetto area, so they were allowed to stay there.) They were later forced into a larger ghetto and in spring 1944 were taken by truck to the train station where they were deported to Auschwitz. Martin and his father, Wolf, survived the...

  3. Samuel Halber collection

    Documents and correspondence concerning Samuel Halber (donor’s father). Born June 22, 1914 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he fled Nazi-occupied Europe in 1941 through Spain and Portugal were he applied for a US visa, ultimately arriving in New York City in 1941. He was drafted into the United States Army and was a Military Intelligence Interpreter, translating German, Dutch, and French in England until 1945, when he was assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) and supervised the denazification of German railroads in the US Zone.

  4. "Ruthie's Story"

    Consists of one memoir, entitled "Ruthie's Story," written by Ruth Meta Samson Bamdas, originally of Germany, about her Holocaust experiences. She describes her childhood in Germany and her training in Switzerland as a baby nurse. When she returned to Germany, she was told to report to the Gestapo, was warned to leave the area, and went to the Polish border. She and her aunt were able to obtain visas in 1937 or 1938 for England where she got a job. In 1945, she immigrated to the United States and reunited with her mother. Includes copies of family photographs.

  5. Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) [Newspaper]

  6. "Beshert: It was Meant to Be"

    Consists of one memoir, 212 pages, entitled "Beshert: It was Meant to Be", written in 1975 by Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc and translated into English in 2007 by her daughter, Suzanna Eibuszyc. Part one of the memoir is entitled "At the Mercy of Our Luck" and covers April 1917-November 1939, when the family lived in Warsaw, and the second part of the memoir is entitled "The Troubles I've Seen" and covers November 1939-March 1946, when the family was forced to flee to southwestern Russia and Uzbekistan. Ms. Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc and her sister and brother, who were also unmarried, spent the war ...

  7. Dr. Zilla Cahn collection

    Consists of research notes and reference material collected by Dr. Zilla Cahn regarding the role of intellectuals in post-war France. Dr. Cahn, who passed away before publishing a book on the topic, explored the idea that French intellectuals worked to conceal the moral culpability of their actions during World War II; she collected, indexed, and cross-referenced a great deal of information related to this topic.

  8. C.H. Booth Library collection

    Consists of postcards produced in Nazi Germany, depicting the 1936 Olympics; photographs of Nazi officials (including Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels); mining operations in the Erz mountains; and of miscellaneous individuals and German pastoral scenes. Also includes clippings related to Nazi Germany from Reader's Digest magazine (dated 1938-1939), a stationery set featuring German propaganda portraits of prominent Nazi figures, and a November 12, 1933 issue of "Unser Reich."

  9. Veszprém Megyei Érseki Levéltár, Veszprém Records of the Holocaust in Veszprém County, Hungary

    Documents from varied archival records: Name lists of Jews in ghetto and camp (Komakut) in Veszprém (1944); and in city of Pápa (1944). Selections from: general records of prefect, 1945‒1946; administrative records of deputy prefect, 1945‒1946; records of Veszprém mayors’ office, 1939‒1946, including certifications of voting rights, enforcement of anti-Jewish laws, appropriation of property of Jews, and dealing with Jews who survived and returned; lists of Veszprém homeowners for 1926 and 1940. Records of other towns and districts: confidential papers of Dezső Sulyok, the mayor of Pápa, 19...

  10. Black family collection

    Consists of a postcards of pre-war Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, which were sent by Benzion Joseph Black to Ruth (Rachel) Saiger Black around 1909. Also includes numerous studio portraits of the Black family as well as other Jewish youth in Kovno between 1900-1912.

  11. Borokowsky, Gideon, and Reifenberg families papers

    Contains documents illustrating the experiences of Erich Reifenberg and Martha Borokowsky [donor’s parents] in Germany and their eventual immigration to the United States. Erich traveled from Germany to Holland and immigrated to Baltimore from Rotterdam in 1937, and Martha immigrated to Baltimore in 1938. Also includes documents concerning Bertha [Berti] Gideon, Martha’s cousin, who also immigrated to the United States from Germany to New York in 1939.

  12. Frankfurt -- city views

    A variety of nice quality city views of Frankfurt, including houses, the Main river, a busy café, landmarks (the opera, the university) and townspeople. 03:03:56 People buy wurst and bread from vendors, followed by a scene in a beer garden. 03:06:20 Nazi flags are visible in the street, dating this film to the Nazi period (probably early on). Interior shots of the Goethe House museum. Staging of Goethe's play "Goetz" and other works outdoors in front of the City Hall. Title: "On the way from yesterday to today." Shots of streetcars. Interiors of the art museum. Title: "The face of today." H...

  13. Maurice Wolkomir photograph collection

    Collection consists of photographs depicting an unidentified camp and prisoners, presumed to be a Prisoner of War camp holding Soviet POWs.

  14. György Bakách-Bessenyey papers (MOL P 2066)

    This collection contains the papers of György Bakách-Bessenyey (1892‒1959), Hungarian envoy to Switzerland who resigned upon the German occupation of Hungary on March 19, 1944, and who played an instrumental role drawing the attention of the West to the deportation of Hungary's Jews. His correspondence, reports, speeches, articles constitute the collection.

  15. Roman Witkowski collection

    Contains a blank "Ausweiss" identity form for right-of-movement in the town of Ostrowiec, Poland, and a photographic ID portrait of Roman Witkowski (born August 10, 1906), who resided in Ostrowiec with his wife, Irena.

  16. Kurt Hach collection

    Consists of one folder of handwritten (via fax) memories of the wartime experiences of Mr. Kurt Hach, originally of a small coastal town near Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Hach describes the story of the ships populated by prisoners, which were bombed in the harbor of Lübeck in May 1945, as it was told to him by a German naval officer who had been present. He also describes his wartime memories, including smuggling food and the aftermath of Allied air raids; as well as learning in the 1980s that his mother was Jewish.

  17. "Late Embrace"

    Consists of one DVD, entitled "Late Embrace," (28 minutes), a documentary produced by Yehudit Shenhar and Alisa Eshed in Jerusalem in December 2006. The documentary is the story of Ester Roter, who was a hidden child and the only survivor of her family. After the war, Ester immigrated to Palestine and, conflicted about her feelings towards them, did not keep in contact with the Kormarniccy family who hid her. In 2004, she returned to Głubczyce and reunited with the family; the documentary also shows members of the Kormarniccy family visiting Ester in Israel, including the ceremony at Yad Va...

  18. Adolf Hitler election speech in Eberswalde

    A crowd assembled to hear Adolf Hitler speak. They salute and cheer. Hitler stands at a flag and garland-draped podium, shot from below. Cameramen can be seen occasionally in the lower right of the screen as they film and/or photograph the speech. Occasional shots of the crowds and SA men. Hitler finishes his speech and descends from the podium. SA men hold back the crowds as Hitler's motorcade passes through them. Music plays, ending with "Deutschland ueber Alles." Shots of an orchestra playing the song while the crowd watches and salutes. Although the film is titled "Reichskanzler Adolf H...

  19. Warsaw Ghetto photographs

    Contains 28 photographs taken in the Warsaw Ghetto. Included are street scenes with white armbands prominent on many of the people depicted in the imagery.

  20. Edna Aridor collection

    Consists of three photographs of members of the Royal Army Service Corps between 1941-1943. Depicted are Shmuel Ben Zvi, who was born in the Ukraine, and Shimon Madursky, who was killed on March 15, 1943.