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  1. Horovice documentation

    Consists of one folder containing photocopies of town histories, in Czech, for the region of Horovice and surrounding towns. Includes histories of the Jews of Horovice, Kdyne, and Klatovy, including information on the Holocaust experiences of the Jews of these towns.

  2. Zygielbaum family collection

    Contains a certificate issued to Ruven Zygielbaum allowing him to immigrate to Palestine, issued in Italy on October 31, 1945; a photograph portrait of Rivka Zygielbaum, daughter of Szmul Artur Zygielbaum, who was murdered in the Warsaw ghetto; a photograph of an unidentified boy; correspondence relating to naming a street in Petach-Tikva, Israel and a park in Cote St. Luc, Canada in memory of Arthur Zygielbaum; and a photograph depicting Holocaust Memorial Day in Johannesburg, South Africa, where Ruven Zygielbaum was the Yiddish speaker during the ceremony, dated c. 1970.

  3. "The Nursing Log of our Son, 1942-1946"

    Consists of one notebook entitled "The Nursing Log of our Son, 1942-1946-[1948]", by Mrs. Imre Sugár. Mr. and Mrs. Imre Sugár's son, Peter, was born on July 26, 1942, while his father was serving in a Hungarian labor battalion on the Eastern front, where he would perish in 1943. Mrs. Sugár kept this journal hoping for the return of her husband, and planned to give him a full account of the first months of Peter's life. The journal contains data about the difficulties the small family was facing during the Holocaust, the siege of Budapest, and the aftermath of the war.

  4. Samuel and Franka Baral papers

    The Samuel and Franka Baral papers consist of biographical information, correspondence, immigration documents, and testimony relating to Samuel Baral and Franka Baral’s experiences fleeing Kraków, internment in a ghetto, going into hiding, and immigrating to Palestine and Australia. The collection includes a certificate of naturalization and a certificate of registration for Australia issued to Franka and travel documents for Samuel to return home as well as a letter from Samuel’s mother, Juda, to the German Compensation Collection Agency and a copy of Jakob Baral’s birth certificate. The c...

  5. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Department of Emigration Centralny Komitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). Wydzial Emigracji (Sygn.303/XIV)

    Circulars, communiqués, and other publications; correspondence with American and Polish Jewish organizations and Polish governmental agencies; name lists of persons applying for passports, registration certificates, and records of financial assistance to emigrés; personal letters regarding emigration to Palestine/Israel; photographs and various miscellanea.

  6. United States Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations (USDOJ-OSI), Denaturalization Cases Transcripts and Decisions

    Consists of paper copies of transcripts of more than 40 denaturalization and removal cases that OSI and/or, in some instances, other components of the Department of Justice, litigated to trial, as well as the transcripts of hearings in the two contested extradition matters in which OSI participated. These transcripts are uncorrected stenographic transcripts. The OSI decisions consist of copies of published and unpublished decisions relating to the final dispositions of OSI’s denaturalization, removal and extradition matters, as well as interim decisions and orders on a variety of important ...

  7. Hitler at window

    NSDAP marchers (may or may not be part of the rest of the sequence), holding swastika flag. Munich 1923. Hitler looks out the window at a parade of members of the Vereinigten Vaterlandisches Vereine Bayerns [very approximately, Union of Bavarian Fatherland Organizations], a group of right wing nationalist organizations who had banded together. Crowded streets with paraders and spectators.

  9. Selected records from the Archives départementales du Pas-de-Calais

    Documents on the expropriation of Jewish-owned property in the Pas-de-Calais; information on Jews living in the area, their businesses, the wearing of the Jewish star, and the confiscation of radios belonging to Jews.

  10. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Yonne

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35836
    • English
    • 1921-1947
    • 15,255 digital images, JPEG 5 microfilm reels, 16 mm 1 microfilm reel, 35 mm 2 CD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in. 25 pages of photocopies,

    This collection contains records of the internment and forced labor of Roma in the rural area of the Yonne; the former Saint-Maurice-aux-Riches-Hommes train station, used to intern refugees from the Spanish Civil War and subsequently Roma; the internment in Saint-Denis-lès-Sens of Jews, Roma, and foreigners expelled from coastal "zones interdites"; the internment in Vaudeurs of "subversives" and black-marketeers; the use of the jail in Auxerre as way-station for Jews being sent to Drancy; and the internment in the Caserne Goué military barracks in Auxerre of accused Nazi collaborators after...

  11. Roger S. Heidenheim collection

    Consists of an anonymous account, dated 18 April 1945, Weimar, Germany offering first hand observations of atrocities at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Also includes 30 edited negatives and 30 prints of the 166th Signal Corps unit and their documentation for disbursement of German concentration camps directly after liberation. The photos document the conditions of survivors, mass graves, and corpses of victims persecuted by the Nazis in German concentration camps; dated April 1945.

  12. Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) records

    Contains originals and photocopies of reports, meeting minutes, publications, correspondence, documents, newspaper articles, announcements, programs, obituaries, oral history transcripts, a bibliography, and photographs pertaining to the founding of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), its evolving mission, objectives, and leadership. The records also pertain to the organization's projects, leadership, and offices in the United States and abroad during and after World War II. Other records relate specifically to the international medical missions of the UUSC.

  13. Lorenzen family collection

    Contains documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Hans and Berta Lorenzen and their daughters Ruth [donor] and Anne Marie, a Jewish family who remained in Feudenheim and Mannheim, Germany through the Nazi era. Hans Lorenzen converted to Judaism; his wife and daughters evaded deportation, and Berta labored in a brush factory while Hans continued to work for Daimler-Benz until 1946, when the family immigrated to the United States.

  14. David Joseph Brill collection

    Collection of materials relating to David Joseph Brill (donor's father). Includes photographs taken in Erlangen, Germany, when David returned there in 1935 to convince his parents to immigrate; photographs taken in 1980 of David with the Bittners, a couple who assisted his parents after their arrest following Kristallnacht; a copy of a newspaper article about David's 1980 return trip to Erlangen; a letter from Alex Bauer to David Joseph Brill about Erlangen following the publication of the article, dated February 8, 1981; and a photographic print of a letter sent by Hans Weber, a hairdresse...

  15. Red Cross Tracing Service in action; Berlin receives aid; UN meeting in New York

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 78 Title: Suchdienst fuer Kinder und Eltern [Tracing service for children and parents]. Women in nurse uniforms and civilian clothing work in a busy office. Two nurses look through boxes of alphabetized cards. The narrator explains that the Red Cross is attempting to reunite parents and children torn apart by the war. Several people work at a large table, looking through boxes of cards. The main bureaus of the tracing service are in Munich and Hamburg. The next scenes show orphaned children living in a children's home that was formerly an SS Lebensborn center. Variou...

  16. Occupation and liberation of Rome

    Narrated by Ed Herlihy. Title: Universal Newsreel First Pictures of Rome's Capture. German newsreel footage showing Allied prisoners being marched through the streets of Rome during the German occupation. The narrator notes that the ". . . Italians watch quietly. Note the absence of any demonstration." Shots of Kesselring and fighting around Rome. American tanks enter and liberate Rome to cheering crowds: "Now the attitude of the Italian people has changed." People cheer the soldiers and wave American and Italian flags. American General Mark Clark enters the city in a Jeep. American, Italia...

  17. Pressburger family collection

    Contains ten photographs of Pressburger family in Bratislava, Luhacevic and Prague before the war and after liberation. Includes an identification card issued to Alexander Pressburger (donor's father) in Bratislava on July 18, 1945. Alexander Pressburger served as a chairman of a Jewish council in the slave labor camp Sered in Slovakia.

  18. Olympics -- Berlin 1936

    Title: "The Games Begin." Scenes show various events interspersed with crowd scenes. In most cases there is a title after the event that names the winners and gives their times. The games begin with a warm up (or a first heat?) sprint, won by a man name Borchmeyer. Tilly Fleischer throws the javelin, winning the first gold medal for Germany. Hitler and Hermann Goering congratulate the athletes on the podium. 01:13:38 Jesse Owens wins the 100 m sprint in 10.3 seconds. Slow motion of the women's 100 m sprint, won by the American Stephens. The footage of the two men's and women's races is repe...

  19. Donald Deane collection

    Consists of photographs documenting the Nordhausen concentration camp after liberation; taken by Donald Deane, while serving in the US Army during WWII, as a member of the 663rd Engineer Topographic Company; captions typed in English on verso. Sent by Deane to T.E. Rose (donor's grandfather), who was Deane's employer at the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries and Game.

  20. Esther Cohen Matsa memoir

    Consists of the memoir, untitled, of Esther Cohen Matsa, originally of Delvino, Albania. In the memoir, originally written in Greek and translated by Ninetta Matsa Feldman (the author's daughter), the author describes her childhood, the family's life in Ioannina (Yannina or Janina) in Greece and in Delvino, her experience at a boarding school in Corfu, work in her father's fabric store, her marriage to Leon Matsas and the births of their two children. The family moved to Agrinio, Greece, and the author leaves out much discussion of the early days of the war, when her husband was drafted in ...