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  1. Photographs of Jewish Refugees in Cyprus

    Consists of one photograph album containing 44 photographic prints of Jewish refugees in British camps in Cyprus. The photographs show the arrival and internment of the refugees, as well as daily life and organized protests of the internment. The album was presented to the American Jewish Committee by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus in September 2007.

  2. Avraham Abba Frieder collection

    Consists of a CD-ROM containing scanned images of the diary (both handwritten and typed with photographic and document inserts) of Rabbi Avraham Abba Frieder, originally of Prievidza, Czechoslovakia.

  3. Marx family collection

    Contains nine postcards, dated July18-23, 1942, written by Salli, Eva, Helma and Alfred Israel (donor’s paternal great uncles), to their governess Sibilla Klaus, a non-Jewish woman, during their last journey from Cologne, Germany to Minsk where they were murdered in Maly Trostinetz upon arrival. The first postcard was sent from Cologne and the rest were sent on route: Berlin, Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Warsaw, Brest Litovsk at the Russian border, and after arriving in Minsk. Includes an envelope in which Albert Marx (donor’s father) kept these postcards, bearing an inscription: “The last regards...

  4. Embroidered white pillowcase used in hiding in Poland

    Pillowcase that belonged to Helena Amkraut Lusthaus, embroidered with the initial's of her maiden name. She used the pillowcase while she and her daughter, Elzbieta, lived in hiding under assumed identities as Catholics in Milanowek in German occupied Poland. When the war began in 1939, Helena and Elzbieta were living in Tarnow in German-occupied Poland with Helena's mother, Sophie Lieberman Schiff. On June 11, 1942, the Germans came to the house searching for Jews to deport to the concentration camps. Four year old Elizabeth hid, but her grandmother was taken by the Germans and shipped to ...

  5. Pinta family collection

    Contains two photographs, one partial identity card issued to donor's father after liberation, and one modern copy print regarding the experiences of the Pinta family.

  6. Olympics -- Berlin 1936

    Further scenes of the 1936 Olympics. The action moves to the harbor in Kiel for a sailing race. Panning shots of the boats and flags of several nations. Intertitles introduce the German sailors as they arrive on the dock. German sailors win the gold and the bronze medals. Next are men's and women's swimming and diving events. Goering and Hess are present in the stands. Next events: water polo, field hockey, soccer, gymnastics (synchronized exercises of large numbers of athletes, first men, then women), pommel horse, vault, high bar, horseback riding events. Closing ceremonies, performed in ...

  7. Samuel Behar papers

    Two documents including a Turkish passport issued to the Behar family. The Behar family held Turkish citizenship while living in the Netherlands. They were deported to Westerbork transit camp and later to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in September 1944. In March 1945 the Behar family and 50 other Turkish Jews were released from the camp and shipped to Istanbul, Turkey. The collection also includes a food ration book issued to the Behar family in Holland in 1946 upon their return.

  8. Salaspils concentration camp collection

    Consists of information about the Salaspils concentration camp in Latvia. Includes documents written by Margers Vestermanis, a museum director; a summary of testimony by prisoner Joseph Gertner; and copies of photographs and artwork.

  9. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Lozère

    Contains documents pertaining to the Rieucros camp and other camps in the Lozère used to house persons including foreigners, Jews, prostitutes, refugees, and Communists. Includes internee files and information pertaining to the operation of the camps.

  10. Battle of Britain

    Title: Yesterday's Big Story. Footage from the Battle of Britain, which began August 8, 1940, with pro-British, pro-Churchill narration. Stukas bomb supply convoys but are in turn shot down by shore batteries. Fires caused by bombs rage in London. Children are evacuated from London. Civilians reinforce buildings with sandbags. Panning aerial shot of the Great Fire of London, sometime between September and November, 1940. Churchill tours the devastation. Cheering Londoners. Also on this newsreel (beginning at 01:34:08): Title: Decathalon Record: UCLA Champ Sets Mark in 10 Events. Chinese ath...

  11. Morris Koen photograph

    Contains a photographic print image of Morris Koen [donor] serving in the Greek military during the Greek civil war; image dated March 9, 1949 on reverse and labeled in Greek. Morris Koen was born in 1925 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Upon the Nazi occupation of Thessaloniki, he joined the resistance and remained with them throughout the war. HIs parent and two siblings perished in Birkenau.

  12. Alois J. Liethen collection

    Consists of 35mm negative film and positive prints taken by Alois J. Liethen after the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps and at the residence of Fritz Sauckel in Weimar. Mr. Liethen acted as a translator for General Eisenhower on his 12 April 1945, tour of Ohrdruf; the collection includes images of Eisenhower. Some photographs are captioned. Also includes two CDs, one containing scanned images of the photographs and the other containing scanned images of a letter written by Alois Liethen on 13 April 1945.

  13. Gardelegen photographs

    Consists of 11 photographs taken of the Gardelegen atrocity, including photographs of corpses carried on stretchers in preparation for burial. Also includes one letter, dated July 28, 1945, written by Daniel J. McCue, Jr. in Bad Aibling, Germany, to his father, Daniel J. McCue, Sr. In the letter, McCue writes that he is enclosing photographs taken "at a concentration camp..snapped by one of our boys." The photographs are marked "Dachau" on the verso, but depict Gardelegen.

  15. Dora Fischbein Cohn photographs

    Consists of 21 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Dora Fischbein and her family. Dora Fischbein was born in 1936 and spent most of the war hiding as Haneczka Holowiecka with the Koszarski family. Her parents, Osias and Feiga were able to visit her in hiding a few times, and after liberation the family was reunited and emigrated to Venezuela in 1949.

  16. Unger family visits their Jewish relatives in a Polish village

    A young boy, Sy Unger, wrestles and kicks a dog in a field. Kalman Unger (man with a long beard) walks throughout the village. CU of the brick house the Ungers live in, a source of pride in a town where most houses are made of mud. Camera pans over the small town of Niebylec, Poland. Cows are led past the camera. A small boy (cousin) slides down a little hill barefoot. Kalman's second wife walks by the camera in a kerchief. A well dressed man pumps water from a well. People sit together on a bench. Sy performs tricks with an umbrella for the camera. A child rocks on a swing in a park in the...

  17. Rose Schwartz photographs

    Consists of 12 post-war photographs of Holocaust survivors at the 1949 exhumation and rebural of victims killed by Nazis in Kozienice, Poland and at a 1954 memorial event for Kozienice survivors in Wrocław, Poland. The photographer's identity is unknown.

  18. Austrian Consulate General in Berlin Österreichisches Generalkonsulat Berlin, Gesandtschaft

    Records from the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives) located in Vienna, Austria, pertaining to the Austrian Generalkonsulat in Berlin (Gesandtschaft, Berlin).

  19. Charles E. Pollak collection

    Contains documents relating to the Rosenberg family of Vienna, Austria. Includes a German passport stamped with the red letter "J," issued to Margarette Rosenberg in October 1938; correspondence written by Sofie and Karl Rosenberg in Vienna to their daughters Gertrude Rosenberg Pollak and Margarete Rosenberg Roberts in the United States, dated 1941; and family photographs from Vienna, dated 1920s and 1930s.

  20. Margaret Bourke White photograph

    1 Gelatin Silver Print: photograph by Margaret Bourke White. Photograph depicts charred remains inside Buchenwald crematorium oven, on display for German civilians forced to view Nazi atrocities found by American forces after they liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp.