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  1. Wolf Hampel collection

    Collection of three notebooks written by Wolf Hampel (donors’ father) while he was receiving educational training as an electrician in Munich as a displaced person; one photographic print of Wolf Hampel boxing in the Bad Reichenhall DP camp; one document issued to him by the U.S. Army; Wolf Hampel was born in Łódź, Poland. He was sent to Auschwitz and was eventually liberated in the Dachau concentration camp.

  2. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Indre-et-Loire

    Records about the Camp-de-la-Lande-à-Monts; the Germans’ massacre of French civilians in the town of Maillé; the German administration of Jewish matters; and the Roma. Collection includes lists of Jews in Indre-et-Loire from 1939 to 1946, a 1940 census, lists of “undesirables” and “indigents” (1941–1942), and information on the internment of Jews (1940–1944).

  3. Invasion of Poland

    German planes on an airfield loaded with bombs. Shots of bombing, including a Stuka as it bombs a railway junction. The narrator tells the story of the siege of Warsaw, which started when the Germans were 31 miles outside the city. German troops load and fire artillery shells. Aerial shots of burning Warsaw. Germans enter the city on tanks and other vehicles while Polish civilians watch. Polish POWs surrender their weapons. Victory parade in Warsaw.

  4. The Austrian General Consulate in Palestine (RG 151)

    Contains passport and visa documentation, a list of Austrian Jewish war dead buried in Palestine, and various other materials on Jewish emigration to Palestine.

  5. Records of the Jewish Community of Salonika, Greece (RG 207)

    The collection contains registration books containing records of vital statistics, 1920-1939; lists of Salonika Jews, circa 1939; records of the Rabbinical Court, 1920-1938; correspondence with the Salonika Jewish Community from individuals and institutions pertaining to housing, administration of Jewish quarters, and the production and distribution of matzo; records and correspondence of the Jewish Communal Council of Salonika, the Commission of Education, Salonica-Palestine, S. A., and the Banque Union; as well miscellaneous documents relating to Jewish life in Greece, circa 1912-1936.

  6. Trzebinia photographs

    Consists of one CD containing copies of 266 photographs of Jews before and during World War II in Trzebinia, Poland. Also contains one booklet containing thumbnails of each photograph with an English caption. Many of the photographs are personal photographs of individuals who lived in the area.

  7. Destroyed building and car

    Ruins. Narration: "In the revolution the unity of the worker movement is broken. In the National Assembly vote on 19 January, the SPD emerges as the strongest party with over 37 percent. The USPD receives a disappointing 7.6 percent of the vote." Bombed building (presumably) that was part of the fighting in the lead up to this vote, which was the vote that resulted in the establishment of the Weimar Republic. Overturned car. Digging in the ruins.

  8. Eliezer Rozenfeld letters

    Consists of copies of letters, dated 1939-1941, in Hebrew and Hungarian, to Eliezer Rozenfeld, who was living in Palestine, from friends and family in Hungary. The original letters are believed to have been destroyed.

  9. Leica camera factory; return of musical instruments; survivors arrive in New York

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 56 (part) Title: Industrie im Aufbau [Reconstruction: industry]. Coal mining near Cologne. The coal is manufactured into briquettes, some of which are used to pay reparations while the rest are used by the German people and industry. People at work in the newly reopened Ernst Leitz factory, which manufactures Leica cameras. Shots of people working on microscopes with Leica lenses and 35mm Leica cameras. 02:02:05 Title: Streiflichter aus Deutschland [Spotlight on Germany ?]. Activities at a former old age home that now houses a recuperation home for those wounded in t...

  10. Edna Bojm collection

    Consists of postcards written by Nissim (Nino) and Ermosa (Mosa) Bachar [donor's father and mother] during his period of internment in Albania during World War II. Includes pre- and post-war family photographs of the donor and her family, including two photographs of Nissim Bachar in a labor camp in Albania.

  11. Roma Becher collection

    Collection of postcards and photographs documenting the experiences of Baruch Hershstyn (donor's step father). Includes postcards written by Chana Hershstyn (Baruch's wife) from the town of Kransnytav (near Lublin) to Baruch, who had been sent to Sverdovskaya Oblast for forced labor. He survived the war, but his wife and children perished.

  12. Petzal family collection

    Contains a Red Cross letter sent by Grete Werner in Palestine to her sister Lotti Bieber in Piaski, Poland, dated August 27, 1942, and returned with annotation: "Address moved away"; a letter written by Hilde Petzal in Piaski, probably in 1940, describing the terrible conditions the family was in after their deportation from Stettin in February 1940; letters written by the Petzal family in Piaski to their cousins in Washington, DC, dated c. 1940; letters written by Ingeborge Petzal in Germany to her brother Horst in Palestine, dated c. 1939; an identification certificate issued to Ingeborg ...

  13. "Czechoslovak Calvary"

    Consists of a photocopy of an album of newspaper clippings collected and prepared by William P. Zachar. Mr. Zachar was living in Philadelphia in 1938 and collected clippings from local papers regarding the buildup to and invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Mr. Zachar titled his album "Czechoslovak Calvary."

  14. Olympics -- Berlin 1936

    Part Two. The Olympic flame arrives at the regatta course at Gruenau. The first event is the 10,000 meter kayak race followed by rowing (in the rain - shots of crowd with umbrellas). Hitler greets the head of the international rowing organization and watches the race. Hitler and Goering cheer from the stands as Germany wins. Shot of the German victors sitting in their boat and giving a Hitler salute. Start of another rowing race, close-ups of Nazi dignitaries in the stands.

  15. Erika Samel Neumann collection

    Contains a "Fremdenpass" issued to Erika Samel (donor), with large red ink "J" stamped on inside front cover; photograph of child (bearer) attached on page 3; nationality listed as "stateless." Erika was born on October 22, 1932 in Vienna; in 1939, Erika left Vienna for Havana, Cuba, where she lived until 1941.

  16. "We Are Here"

    Consists of one DVD, entitled "We Are Here", written and produced by Harrison Heller. The documentary tells the story of Helen Bronstein and Harry Shabas, who participated in a Jewish partisan group from 1942-1945 and later married. Helen Bronstein, who is interviewed on the documentary along with her sister, Dorothy, was originally from Drohiczyn, Poland, and survived in various hiding places until joining the partisan group. Also interviewed is Boris Kotler, who, like Harry, was originally from Siemiatycze, Poland, and who recounts the story of the formation of the partisan group. Harry a...

  17. Selected Records from the Departmental Archives of the Charente-Maritime

    Contains a variety of documents pertaining to the wartime experience in the Charente-Maritime including, but not limited to, the preservation of law and order, expropriation of Jewish property and businesses, suppression of Freemasonry, operation and placement of anti-aircraft batteries, operations of internment camps at La Palice and Saintes, German propaganda, resistance activities, refugees, civilian evacuations, war crimes, liberation, and the internment of Spanish, Jewish and Roma.

  18. Jewish Registry of Antwerp

    Contains a name list of an estimated 11, 250 names of the Antwerp Jewish Community.

  19. Ginz family collection

    Contains twenty photographs depicting Otto Ginz, his wife Marie Mancinka, and their two children, Petr, born 1928, and Eva (Chava), born 1930. Includes a postcard sent to Otto Ginz in Prague from Theresienstadt from his friend Freudenfeld, who write about meeting Petr there, c. 1942; and three documents issued to Eva Ginz in Theresienstadt in March 1945.

  20. Allach gold-ringed porcelain vase with presentation box found in the Reichstag, Berlin

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35878
    • English
    • 1945
    • a: Height: 14.620 inches (37.135 cm) | Diameter: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) b: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Depth: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm)

    Allach presentation vase, model # 500, found by Colonel Ronald M. Hubbs in an office in the Reichstag in Berlin following the capture of the city in May 1945 at the end of World War II. The Allach porcelain factory was one of the SS's (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) first industrial enterprises, under the direct control of Heinrich Himmler. The factories were sub-camps of Dachau concentration camp, with camp inmates supplying the forced labor. Although the Reichstag was not used for Parliament sessions after the infamous 1933 fire, it was used for ceremonies. Himmler was believed to h...