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  1. Kaplan family photographs

    Consists of six photographs of the Kaplan family in pre-war Dombrowica, Poland, and of Rubin Kaplan in the Leipheim displaced persons camp after the war. Includes a photograph of the rabbi of Dombrowica with a description of how he was killed at the hands of the Nazis.

  2. Selected records of Jewish Communities of former Yugoslavia during the interwar and postwar period,

    This collection contains various records that include minutes of board meetings, registry books of members of the Jewish communities, financial records, records of the Burial Society (Hevra Kadisha), vital statistics, correspondence with the local authorities and other records of the following Jewish communities of the former Yugoslavia: Skopje in Macedonia; Belgrade, Novi Sad and Vrsac in Serbia; Osijek in Croatia. Also includes several major Jewish newspapers published in the prewar Yugoslavia - Jevrejskij Glas (Jewish Voice), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina ( 1928-1931), Herald of the S...

  3. Otto Kundert collection

    Identification card issued to Otto R. Kundert (donor's father), War Crimes Duty Officer for the 7708 War Crimes Group of the United States in Germany; two (2) photographic prints - black and white images identified on verso by Otto Kundert as atrocities from Buchenwald used as evidence in war crimes trials in Germany in 1945 and 1946; both images are dated November 8, 1945, Wiesbaden, Germany, inscriptions are in English.

  4. Airship

    Views from INT airship. Aerial shots of rivers, countryside, lakes. 01:03:49 Group of boys looking out observation tower windows. More aerial views. Night scenes, lights. Car driving on highway (NJ 40 N). People gathered to greet airship landing in Lakehurst, NJ at Naval Air Center. Many wearing white caps, together holding a large metal pole. This may be one of the ten commercial transatlantic passenger flights of the LZ-129 Hindenburg Zeppelin taken in 1936. 01:06:37 Man with white cap (sailor?) waving to camera. 01:06:54 Group waving to camera, arms in the air. MS, Naval air center, INTs...

  5. "Bystanders, Victims, and Perpetrators" "A descriptive analysis of individual choices and moral responsibility in the case of an informal network of Protestants trying to rescue Jews in the surroundings of Antwerp and Louvain between 1942 and 1945"

    Consists of one manuscript, 79 pages, entitled "Bystanders, Victims, and Perpetrators: A descriptive analysis of individual choices and moral responsibility in the case of an informal network of Protestants trying to rescue Jews in the surroundings of Antwerp and Louvain between 1942 and 1945," by Jan Maes, who wrote the paper as part of a masters degree in religious sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain. In the manuscript, Maes uses original testimony and interviews with rescuers and those who were rescued, and focuses on Julia Schuyten Sluys, a rescuer, Sylvieke Reichman, a child...

  6. German soldiers return from WWI

    German soldiers return to Berlin from World War I. Different views of the soldiers marching in the streets. CU, soldier kisses a little girl. HAS, marching, a vendor hands something to the soldiers.

  7. Legal authorities beyond the area of the Federal Republic of Germany – cadre camp Sosnowitz Justizbehörden außerhalb des Gebietes der Bundesrepublik - Stammlager Sosnowitz (BA R137V)

    The collection contains registry and registration books with arrival and departure of prisoners; also contains various documents concerning food rations, rules, regulations and policies issued to camp guards. Contains information on incarcerated prisoners under Polish punishment regulations ("Polenstrafrecht") at the "Stammleger" Sosnowitz (region Kattowitz).

  8. Records of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) (previously the Academic Assistance Council (AAC))

    Contains records of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning (SPSL) relating to assistance to academics fleeing the Fascist regimes in Europe between 1933-1955. Contains also administrative and financial files, reports, minutes of meetings, correspondence with international and local refugee organizations, records assisting interned refugees, as well as a sample of personal files of scholars assisted by the Society. Includes name lists of scholars in various disciplines from many European countries.

  9. Zoltan Weinberger collection

    Consists of one newspaper article, in several pieces, from the Denver Post, dated January 30, 1952. The article, entitled, "Dachau Survivor 'Home' at Last" discusses the Holocaust experiences of Mr. Zoltan Weinberger, a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau. Mr. Weinberger, who joined the US Army after he immigrated to the United States, was hospitalized for frostbite in his feet while serving in Denver, CO. He was prone to frostbite due to his Holocaust experiences.

  10. Kasimir Knapczyk Auschwitz letter, 1941

    Consists of one letter, written by Polish prisoner Kasimir Knapczyk on February 9, 1941, while he was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp. In the letter, written on camp stationery, he thanks his family for their letter and asks for more news. Mr. Knapcyzk, who had prisoner number 709, perished in Auschwitz on August 8, 1941.

  11. Doris Anne Brooks collection

    Collection consists of documents, photocopies, and passports relating to the family of Sigismund Salo Rund, originally of Berlin, Germany.

  12. Youth Organization (Lwow Branch) (Hehaluta Haklal-Zioni), Fond 455, Opis 1

    The collection contains records related to cooperation with other Zionist organizations worldwide, records related to activities of the local branches of the organization and regional Zionist organizations across Eastern Galicia, including vocational and agricultural training for the Zionist youth immigrating to Palestine. This collection also includes a list of the members of the organization who completed agricultural and professional training before their immigration to Palestine.

  13. Dachau photograph

    Consists of one photograph of a pile of corpses, captioned "This was taken at Dachow [sic] concentration camp right after we took it from the Germans. This was the last part of April, 45." Also includes one envelope with the photographic negative.

  14. WWI activities; excerpts from Hollywood feature films

    Intertitle: "America enters the fight for democracy!" General Pershing and officers meet. Map of France with animation. 01:03:30 Excerpts from two Hollywood feature films: "Sergeant York" (1941) and "Wings" (1925). Dramatized footage of troops fighting in WWI (some in slow motion). Newspaper headlines of NY Telegram: "War Ends"

  15. Helga Trauherz collection

    Contains a German passport issued to Helga Trauherz stamped with red letter "J" issued in October 1938, Berlin, Germany; and seven photographs depicting Helga in Paris, where she survived the Holocaust by posing as a non-Jewish woman with the help of false papers. Helga married Hanan Katz (donor's cousin), after the war.

  16. Staff Sgt. Bernard Kemper collection

    Consists of 51 photographs taken by Staff Sgt. Bernard Kemper, a member of the United States Army, upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of reburial, of German citizens forced to tour the camp, and of corpses prior to reburial. The photos are described as having been taken in Leipzig at the “Tigler” concentration camp, though the images are of Buchenwald, near Leipzig. Also includes copies of Bernard Kempner’s honorable discharge and separation record.

  17. "Angel on my Shoulder"

    Consists of one memoir entitled “Angel on my Shoulder” by Miriam Schlezinger, born in Poruba, but later moved to Poroskov, Slovakia. During the war, Mrs. Schlezinger first lived with a Gentile family in Uzhorod, and then with a family in Nirethose, Hungary, before moving into a ghetto in occupied Poland, which was liquidated in 1944. She and her sisters were deported to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944, where her sister Hannah later perished. Miriam and her sister Surah were sent on a death march in January 1945 to Buchenwald and from there, were put on a train to Bergen-Belsen, where they w...

  18. Nazi red flag with a swastika with a price tag found by a US soldier in an abandoned German store

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn36423
    • English
    • a: Height: 46.625 inches (118.428 cm) | Width: 30.750 inches (78.105 cm) b: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)

    German flag with a swastika flag with a price tag found by a US Army soldier in an abandoned department store in Germany near the end of World War II in May 1945. The price tag was for the Kaufhof Department Store, part of a Jewish owned chain of stores founded by Leonard Tietz, whose family had pioneered the department store concept in Germany in the 1880s. The stores were Aryanized in 1933 when the Nazi government forced the family to sell their shares at a reduced value to non-Jewish government approved buyers.

  19. "Only a Goat Walks Backwards: The Life of Fanny Eichenblat"

    Consists of one memoir, 101 pages, entitled "Only a Goat Walks Backwards: The Life of Fanny Eichenblat,",as told to Dr. Alan David Kaye and Dr. Brian Horowitz. Fania Eichenblat was born in a town near Lublin, Poland, in 1938. In the memoir, she reflects upon her life as a Holocaust survivor and how her father arranged for the family to hide in a dirt hole under a stable for 2 1/2 years. In the spring of 1944, her brother and father were killed while trying to find food and the family was forced to leave their hiding place to find a new one in a hay barn. They were liberated by the Soviet Ar...

  20. Kalman Linkimer diary

    The Kalman Linkimer diary was kept by Kalman Linkimer from 1944-1945 while in hiding with ten other Jews in the cellar of Robert and Johanna Seduls’ home in Liepāja, Latvia. Kalman began his diary in 1941, but he had to leave it behind when he escaped from the Liepāja ghetto. After he went into hiding at the Seduls’ home, he began a second diary from 1944-1945 and recounts his experiences recorded in his first diary as well as his daily routine and experiences. His last entry is dated 20 February 1945.