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  1. Renée de Monbrison diary and Colette Cahen d'Anvers Moore memoir

    The collection, spanning 1939-1992, consists of one memoir and a diary chiefly documenting life in France leading to and including war. The memoir of Renée de Monbrison (September 1939 to August 1944) is a bound copy typed in French. Entries describe time spent in Biarritz, an arrest in Hossegor, plans of fleeing to England, and her attempts to save her aunt, Loulou Warshawsky, from a camp near Tours. The memoir also includes copies of letters, documents, clippings, and post-war writings. Also included in the collection is one memoir typed in English by Colette Cahen d'Anvers Moore, entitle...

  2. Sosua collection

    Collection of research materials concerning the refugee settlement of Sosua in the Dominican Republic. Includes several copies of "La Voz" [Our Voice] or Sosua, a weekly newsletter published by the Jewish community living there; also included are copies of "Sosua Berlin" and "El Boletin" a Jewish monthly newsletter.

  3. World War I warfare

    World War I warfare - soldiers, tanks, trenches.

  4. "A Family Portrait: A Jewish Family of Yannina, Greece before World War II"

    Consists of one folder containing an essay, entitled "A Family Portrait: A Jewish Family of Yannina, Greece before World War II" by Ninetta Matsa Feldman, based on an oral history interview with her paternal aunt, Rebecca Matsa Gani, which was conducted in August 1999. This essay, which includes family photographs, describes the members of the Matsas family and life in pre-war Yannina, and Jewish life in the town. Rebecca Gani moved to Egypt, and she, her brother Leon (father of Ninetta), and her brother Michael were the only members of the immediate family to survive the Holocaust.

  5. Germany Gives Up!

    Title: Universal Newsreel. Germany Gives Up! Truman, sitting behind a desk, announces German surrender. Shots of a victory parade in NYC (?). Devastated landscape, destroyed train cars, dead German soldiers, German POWs. Compilation of German footage showing Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders, Nazi rallies, German troops marching, German POWs. British soldiers in the water and climbing aboard a ship (evacuation from Dunkirk?), Hitler at the signing of the armistice with France in the railcar at Compiegne, weeping French civilians watch the Germans enter Paris (?), London during German bomb...

  6. Demonstrations in Berlin

    MS, Brandenburg gate. Various shots of the massive crowd gathered at the gate. Narration: "On the Brandenburg gate a cameraman filmed endless columns of the demonstrating revolutionary soldiers and workers of greater Berlin. Two weeks ago the sailors revolted in Kiel. A few days after that the Bavarian Republic [was founded]. In many places in the Reich workers and soldiers have seized power." 01:02:50 "Revolutionary demonstrators on Unter den Linden." MS, people parading through the gate. Spectators waving at the camera.

  7. World War I ends; armistice

    WWI soldiers (US?) march along city street with spectators cheering wildly. Marching through ruins. Firing artillery. Tanks. Troops move out of trenches, forward, bombing, smoke (warfare). 01:38:42 Von Hindenburg and other officials sign the armistice. Excerpt from Ludendorff speech in October 1918 printed on film, "The offer of peace must be transmitted immediately. The Army cannot wait another 48 hours." Officials shake hands, walk in city square. Crowds. U.S. newspaper headlines: "Armistice". Crowds cheering, holding up newspapers and waving flags. Troops shaking hands in the field. CU, ...

  8. John Heelan collection

    Consists of twelve photographs from the collection of John Hewitson of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Includes photographs of buildings and barbed wire fencing, as well as photographs of corpses found both in the buildings and on the so-called "Dachau death train."

  9. Sheva Vapne collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Sheva Latvinsky Vapne, originally of Riga, Latvia. Includes a copy of a pre-war photograph of the Latvinsky family and an English-language copy of a diary, written by Sheyna Gram (cousin of the Latvinskys) from June 22, 1941 until her death on August 8, 1941, entitled "The Anna Frank from the Latvian Little Town of Preili." Also includes copies of photographs showing a memorial in remembrance of the Jews of Preili and a print-out recording the deaths of Sheva's brothers, Leizer and Abram, who died fi...

  10. Paula Abelow collection

    The Paula Abelow collection consists primarily of photographs and correspondence with her family. Contained within the collection are correspondence from parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and family friends to Paula, her sister Alice and her brother Walter while they were living in Switzerland in 1938-1939. Also included are 4 family photo albums, as well as some loose photographs depicting the family on vacations and their travels to the United States and Mexico. Additional documents include a work permit, and photocopies of her aunt’s birth and death certificate. The Paula Abelow cont...

  11. Grave marker from the Łódź ghetto

    Grave marker of Gitla bat Shmuel Herszkowicz, who died August 4, 1940, and was buried in the Łódź ghetto cemetery in Poland. Gitla and her husband lived with her daughter and her family, Chaja and Szulem Kozienicki, and their 2 sons, Chaim and Ezra. In March 1940, they were forced into the Jewish ghetto by the Germans who had occupied Poland since September 1939. Gitla died soon after the move. Her husband died of starvation in 1941. The other family members were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where most of them perished. Her grandsons, Chaim and Ezra, both survived and were reun...

  12. Nationalsozialistische Parteistellen (Gauleitung Wien), Signature: AT-OeStA/AdR ZNsZ NS Parteistellen, 2

    Contains records pertaining to the activities of the Nazi party in Austria before and after Austria’s annexation to Nazi Germany.

  13. Judith Munk collection

    Contains five photograph prints of Judith Munk [donor] and her family before and after the war, and of her father in forced labor in Hungary, dated c. 1940-1944.

  14. Marcel Burtin testimony

    Consists of one CD-ROM containing the testimony of Marcel Burtin (born Szloma Burstyn) that was recorded in 2001, transcribed from the original French by Mr. Burtin's daughter, Joelle Leseuer, in 2008, and translated into English by Sally Case in 2008. In his testimony, Mr. Burtin, who was born in Dzierzby, Poland, describes his family's immigration to France when he was a child, and the first years of the war. In 1942, he went into hiding in the countryside near Paris before escaping to the south of France, where he lived on false identity papers. Mr. Burtin was arrested as a member of the...

  15. Howard A. Donald papers

    Contains two typescript first-hand accounts written by US Captain Jacob A. Goodheart, stationed aboard the USA Hospital Ship Algonquin, which was under the command of Major Howard A. Donald, MC. The accounts describe two separate events aboard the ship: January 16, 1945's arrival at Marseilles for the purpose of exchanging German prisoners of war with Allied prisoners of war, and beginning February 1, 1945, the ship's acceptance of displaced victims of Nazi persecution, virtually all concentration camp survivors, in need of medical assistance.

  16. Gerhard Hans Herbert Becker collection

    Consists of an “Ahnenbuch” (ancestry book) with insert used by Waffen-SS member Gerhard Hans Herbert Becker to document his family’s racial purity. A pamphlet advertising the Lebensborn program is also included. Becker fathered a child who was part of the Lebensborn program.

  17. Ziskind family correspondence, 1929-1939

    Correspondence from the Ziskind family in Krewo, Poland (today in Belarus) to Sadie Nechama Ziskind, later Alpert, in Chicago, IL. The letters are written in Yiddish, between 1929-1939. In most of the letters the Ziskind family asks for additional correspondence and some financial support. Sadie Ziskind left Krewo in 1915 just being 16 years old. She married William Alpert and they had three children: Edith, Jean, and Louis.

  18. Invasion of USSR

    Title: Universal Newsreel Nazis War on Russia. Compilation of German and Soviet footage. Sound intermittent. Germans marching on parade, tanks, airplanes in formation, paratroopers parachuting out of planes. Brief shot of von Ribbentrop speaking. Happy peasants harvest crops, probably in the Ukraine. Tanks in Red Square, Soviet planes in the air, Soviet paratroopers, Molotov and Matsuoka sign the Japanese-Soviet non-aggression pact in April, 1941. Stalin stands in the background. In Washington, DC, at the embassy of the USSR, the Soviet Ambassador (?) makes a speech to the camera. He says t...

  19. Fondo Documental Secretaría Técnica, Primera y Segunda Presidencia del Teniente General Juan Domingo Perón (1946-1955), Sección: Migraciones y Colonización

    Administrative records, declarations, testimonies, declartations, decrees, name lists pertaining to Argentine migration and colonization policies and legislation, including Jewish migration in Europe and South America after the end of the Second World War.

  20. Gilda Moss Haber photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken at the White House youth hostel in Great Chesterford, England. Most of the children living at the youth hostel came to England on Kindertransports.