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  1. Sources of the Rhein river

    Line drawn map showing the course of the Rhein and the major cities along its route. The first title says that the Rhein originates in the Swiss Alps. Shots of clouds and snow-covered mountains. The next title says that the snowmelt from glaciers is the source of the river. Shots of rushing water flowing down from the glaciers. Title: The water streams from all slopes (?)." More shots of rushing water and valleys. Title: "Chalets are the indication of the settlements of the anterior Rhine." Small dwellings or farm buildings, cows grazing on a hillside, long shot of a small group of dwelling...

  2. Selected records from the National Resistance Museum, including the Leibovici collection

    This collection contains the personal archive of Raymond Leibovici, a French doctor of Romanian descent, who was instrumental in creating the wartime resistance network Comite Medical de la Resistance (CMR) in the highly conservative medical milieu. Included are biographical information; publications from the Comite national des medecins (1944-1948); the Editions de minuit; clandestine publications produced by the national front from 1941 to 1944; and documents concerning the Services de Sante des FFI and the FTPF, the Military government of Paris and Military Region of Limoge. A set of rec...

  3. Linda Mattioli collection

    Contains photographic prints of images taken immediately following liberation of concentration camps, including images of victims as well as mass individual grave sites. The photographs were possibly taken by Armando Mattioli, an American soldier stationed in Europe during the Second World War, dated circa 1945.

  4. SPD party day in Leipzig 1931

    Scenes from the 36th SPD party day on May 30-31, 1931 in Leipzig. This was the last SPD party day before the Nazis took over. Demonstration through the streets of Leipzig with 150,000 SPD members from all over Germany. Parade with vehicles, signs, flags, people hanging out of windows, crowds lining the streets, marching, street vendor serving ice cream. Pan down of Volkshaus in Leipzig. Members of the SPD arrive for the meeting of the Party Day at the Volkshaus. Among them: Otto Braun (bald, arrives with two women), Arthur Crispien (bearded man on right) and Hans Vogel (bearded man on left)...

  5. German invasion of Poland and USSR

    Title: The German Invasion of Russia Autumn of 1941. American narration describes the German invasion of the USSR. Fires and other devastation in USSR; Soviet POWs. Germans attack Poland in 1939. Clips of battle footage (from German newsreels) while the narrator enumerates the countries invaded by the Nazis. German bombers attack USSR. A German soldier tears down a banner containing a portrait of Stalin. A German soldier raises a barrier at the border. German soldiers enter the USSR on bicycle, foot and on tanks. Bombs dropped on Soviet territory. Nice shot of a long line of German tanks di...

  6. "Tishkovska Saga"

    Consists of one memoir, 122 pages, in Russian, entitled "Tishkovska Saga," by Dora Malina Aizenshtein, originally of Moscow, Russia. In May 1941, Dora and her sister were left in the care of relatives in the Ukraine and spent several years under German occupation. After escaping from a small camp near Gaysin (Haisyn) and living on the run and in hiding until she was able to reunite with her family in the summer of 1944. Also includes information about Dora's mother's experiences with pogroms in the early 20th century.

  7. Sara Schieber collection

    Contains a letter written by Leon Drusine (donor's brother), a member of the US Army's 139th Evacuation Hospital, to his sister Sara (donor) in which he describes the liberation of the Ebensee concentration camp and the experiences of the camp's survivors; dated June 11, 1945.

  8. Fabian Gerson memoirs

    Consists of the memoirs of Professor Fabian Gerson, originally of Łódź, Poland. The memoirs are written in two parts. In part I, titled "The Road to Annihilation," 13 pages, Professor Gerson describes his childhood in Łódź, pre-war antisemitism, and the German invasion. In December 1939, Fabian's mother, Dora (neé Kon) and sister Franciszka moved to Czestochowa; Fabian and his father, Pinkus, escaped the ghetto to join them in October 1940. On September 22, 1942, Fabian was separated from his family during the liquidation of Czestochowa and taken to forced labor at an armament plant owned b...

  9. Large-sized site plans and drawings of the KL Auschwitz

    Collection includes five color facsimiles of plans and drawings of Auschwitz.

  10. Eisenberg and Strauss family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs, negatives, and booklets documenting the experiences of the Eisenberg and Strauss families before, during, and after the Holocaust. Oscar and Gisela Eisenberg Strauss fled Nazi Germany to the United States in 1936 after facing persecution and their inability to work due to Nazi-imposed restrictions.

  11. Froehlich family collection

    Contains letters and telegrams from Artur and Frieda Froehlich in Cologne, Germany to their daughter Lilo in New York, relating primarily to immigration efforts. Also includes letters from Martin and Hertha Noah [Frieda's brother and sister-in-law], dated 1940-1941, and an album and single photographs of the Froehlich family from WWI until c. 1938 in Cologne, Germany.

  12. Cpl. Joseph C. Dumps photograph

    Contains a photographic print, black-and-white image of two men speaking to group of American soldiers; inscribed in verso by Cpl. Joseph C. Dumps (donor’s father) that “These men were just telling us of the large ovens in the prison camp Dachau. In these ovens over 3000 people were burned to death.” The soldiers are with the 6th Air Disarmament Group,9th Air Force; Ebermanstadt, Germany; in English; 1945; sent by Cpl Dumps to his wife living in Baltimore, Maryland.

  13. Agro-joint colonies in the Crimea

    Refer to RG-60.4679 on Film ID 2847 for the description and better visual quality of the first seven minutes of this film footage. 01:08:02 Dr. Yefim Lubarsky, vice-president of the Agro-Joint, presents flowers to Pauline Baerwald Falk and Evelyn Morrissey. The women smile at the camera. Scene of a grassy field shot from a moving car. Scenes showing one or more of the Agro-Joint colonies visited by the Falks and Evelyn Morrissey: two oxen yoked together beside a car; LS of a young boy running down a road beside a long line of houses; a woman carries two buckets of water. The next scenes may...

  14. Olympics -- Berlin 1936

    The first title says, "Short cross-section of the 11th Olympiad Berlin." The film seems to have been produced on orders of the Reichssportfuehrers or Reich Sport Leader. Another title on the screen says, Olympic Berlin (Olympisches Berlin). Scenes of the streets of Berlin decked out in flags and other paraphernalia for the Olympics and crowds in the street. Various famous locations, including the Lustgarten and the Brandenburg Gate. Shot of the Olympic flame and flags, including the American flag. The next scenes show the Olympic village, including shots of athletes. The next title says "Th...

  15. Leon Rosenn collection

    Consists of an oral history transcript, written as a biography, of Leon Rosenn (Chaim Airyeh Rosenstrauch), originally of Kopyczince, Poland. The interview, which was conducted in February 2005 by Mr. Rosenn's niece, Caron Kuessous, describes his childhood, his memory of the Russian occupation of his hometown, and the German invasion in 1941. Mr. Rosenn survived on the run with his brother, Don, having many close escapes and living in hiding until 1944, when he joined the Red Army. In 1949, after leaving the Army, Mr. Rosenn joined his brother in the United States.

  16. Trench warfare; German surrender in WWI; captured Germans

    View of World War I warfare from the trench, smoke rising from bombings in the field. Soldiers charge forward in grassy fields. 01:18:07 "Kamerad" (slate with Donald C. Thompson inscription) German troops surrender to Americans, taken into trenches. 01:18:51 "And still they come" More enemies are captured. 01:19:22 "Removing buttons to prevent escape" Cutting suspenders out of pants. Captured men behind barbed wire enclosure. 01:19:57 "Searching German officer" U.S. military inspect a German's notebook. 01:20:20 "Germans forced to abandon ammunition" MS, weapons abandoned in a field. 01:20:...

  17. Wieslaw Dobrowolski collection

    Manuscript: written by Wieslaw Dobrowolski (birth name: Izaak Dreiman) [donor's father] in 1964 in Walbrzych, Poland. Translated into English from the original Polish "Five Years in the Crosshair" describing his experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, Lublin ghetto, Majdanek concentration camp, his many escapes and life on false papers as Wieslaw Dobrowolski.

  18. Selected records from the National Archives in Prague

    Contains records generated in the Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren (Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) by the German occupiers and by dependent Czech agencies dealing with “internal security” and “racial policy.” It also contains case files from the Comité d'Assistance aux Réfugiés (Committee for Refugee Assistance) in Paris, 1933-1940 (probably captured there, taken to Germany, and evacuated to the Protectorate), including cases for refugees from Czechoslovakia, Austria, and other countries. Many documents derive from puppet ministries and agencies, including materials on deport...

  19. Armband handstitched with a red cross and Star of David by a concentration camp inmate and nurse

    Armband worn by Annie Rose Levine while she was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp. In June 1942, Annie, her husband, Benjamin, and their 4 children were deported by the Germans from Sered, Czechoslovakia, (Slovakia) to Auschwitz. In September, Benjamin was beaten to death by camp guards for saying the Kaddish over a dead bunk mate. In 1943, Annie began working as a nurse in the camp hospital. An SS section leader made her his private nurse. One day, he asked her to get a paper from a box beneath his bed. Also in the box was her husband’s wedding ring. That day, Annie secretly stitc...

  20. Elimelech Weinmann family tree

    Consists of the family tree of Elimelech Weinmann, born in Poland most likely in the early 1800s. The family, which now has Argentinean, Israeli, and Australian branches, lost members in the Holocaust.