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  1. Gluszyca names list

    Consists of a list of names and personal information of 613 Polish Jews who were resettled between 1946-1950 in Gluszyca, a small town near the Czech border. Many of those listed fled, or were shipped, east into the Soviet Union at the beginning of the war.

  2. Allied Control Commission meets; Artworks return to Louvre; War damage in the Ruhr

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 21 (part) Title: Allierte Kontrolkommission [Allied Control Commission]. Marshal Zhukov stands outside the Berlin building where the first conference of the Allied Control Commission will take place. Eisenhower arrives at the conference, then the French representative, and the British representative, General Montgomery. The narrator notes that the building where the conference will take place was once the home of the Nazi People's Court (Volksgerichthof). Shot of Allied flags. The four men pose in front of the building as the narrator says that the Control Commission...

  3. Steinbach family collection

    Consists of one folder containing documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Walter Steinbach and his wife, Friederike Dicker Steinbach, both originally from Vienna, Austria, and their immediate families. Includes a large certificate acknowledging Heinrich Steinbach as a bank director, official documents they filled out prior to immigration, the passenger list for their December 1938 immigration to the United States, and wartime family correspondence.

  4. Records of the Gemilas Chesed Credit Union in Lwów, Poland (Fond 456, Opis 1)

    The collection consists of records of the Gemilas ChesedTax-Free Credit Union branch in Lwow, Poland (now L'viv, Ukraine). The union rendered financial assistance to craftsmen and small business owners and served as the central office for all of Eastern Galicia (Malopolska). Documents include financial reports prepared for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Joint) in Warsaw (a sponsor of the union), correspondence with local banks and government agencies, and the other materials. The Gemilas Chesed Tax Free credit union opened its branch in Lwow to provide financial assistanc...

  5. Dolly Reichman memoir

    Consists of the memoirs of Peroshka Perl (Dolly) Reichman, who was born on November 2, 1927 in Slanci.

  6. US Army poster for public display of war news for May 1-8, 1945

    News poster arranged for display by Tina Gioffredi Battani in the ordnance plant in Ankeny, Iowa, where she worked during World War II. She changed the posters on a regular basis as they were issued weekly by the United States Army Information branch to explain and update the public on the status of the war in Europe and Asia. This 2-sided poster, issued May 14, 1945, depicted events from the week May 1-8. One side, titled: Victory in Europe, has an image of captured German soldiers and a map pointing out Japan with an explanation of the danger posed by the escalation of their military forc...

  7. "In the Light of the Memories: The Story of Willy and Orah Bogler"

    Consists of an English-language translation of the Hebrew manuscript "In the Light of the Memories: The Story of Willy and Orah Bogler", originally written and edited by Vered Shakhaf-Golan in 2007. The manuscript describes the history of the Bogler family, originally of Cieszyn, Poland, focusing on Willy and Orah Bogler, who spent the Holocaust in Russia and later immigrated to Israel. The book was translated (save for the last two chapters) by Dalia Frieder, the niece of the Boglers, in 2008. The Hebrew book is available both in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library, and a c...

  8. Regional Palestine Bureau, Lwów branch (Fond 332, Opis1)

    The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence with immigrants residing in Eastern Galicia (Malopolska) regarding immigration to Palestine and preparation of immigration documents. These documents are organized alphabetically by surname of applicant or chronologically. The collection also includes correspondence with the Central Palestine Bureau in Warsaw and various Jewish and Zionist organizations worldwide regarding immigration, visas for immigrants, regulations and laws concerning immigration to Palestine. In addition, this collection also includes statistical information about i...

  9. East Prussia; Tannenberg Memorial; summer resort in Koenigsberg

    "Kurhaus Nikolaiken" sign along the water in East Prussia. Film is heavily scratched. Traveling in a boat, woman standing on bridge. 01:10:06 The Tannenberg Memorial in Hohenstein where Hindenburg was buried in 1934. Various shots of the complex with two large statues of soldiers, wreaths. Tourists wander around. Brief shot of HJ boys exiting doorway of memorial. 01:11:21 Painted German eagle on EXT of restaurant, civilians (tourists?) gathered around. Cemetery with gravesites, crosses. 01:12:12 Beach resort in Cranz (modern Zelenogradsk) near Königsberg. Crowds sunbathe, walk along the boa...

  10. Oral history interview with Robert O. Cleary

  11. Braf family papers

    Collection of pre-war and post-war photographs of Kosice and Bratislava; 2 Identity cards: “Flüchtlingausweis/Livret pour réfugiés” issued to Alexandre and Helen Braf; dated October 13, 1944; Berne, Switzerland. Itzhak Braf and his parents were on the Kasztner train from Hungary; 1 Registration card (repatriation) for Ernest Braf; dated September 5, 1945.

  12. Shoshana Benes photographs

    Consists of nine photographs from the collection of Shoshana Marin Benes (originally Rajsla Meryn), originally of Bedzin, Poland. The photographs depict life before the Holocaust, life in the Bedzin ghetto, and include two studio portraits of Rajsla Meryn wearing the Magen David. Also includes photographs of teenagers taken in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp.

  13. Linkuva photographs

    Consists of eight photographs of pre-war Jewish life in Linkuva, Lithuania. Includes photographs of homes, the marketplace, the post office, and a horse-drawn wagon.

  14. Leon Matsas memoirs

    Consists of the unfinished handwritten memoirs of Leon Matsas, entitled "Survival I," "Survival II," and Survival III." The memoirs are originally written in Greek and have been translated by Mr. Matsas' daughter, Ninetta Matsa Feldman. In the memoirs, Mr. Matsas, a banker, describes pre-war antisemitism and the fear of a German invasion. In 1940, he transferred with his family from Preveza to Agrinion, and after the war began, to Ioannina (Janina or Yanina). He describes life in the Greek Army, into which he was drafted to fight against the Italians in Albania; as well as the Army's retrea...

  15. Rabbi Armin Frieder papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Rabbi Armin Frieder and his family in Nové Mesto, Czechoslovakia (now Nové Mesto, Slovakia). Included are biographical materials of Armin including his passport and death certificate, his son Gideon’s report cards, and his sister Gittel’s school exercise book. The bulk of the collection consists of Armin’s writings and sermons, many of which were written during the Holocaust. The photographs include pre-war and wartime depictions of the Frieder family. There also some photographs related to Gideon’s wife Dalia’s family, the Boglers, ...

  16. German emperor William II and family; German troops

    "Reel 1" Intertitles in English. "The Crown Prince of Germany with some of his family" Walking towards the camera. 01:04:55 Brothers and sons of German Emperor William II (left to right): HIH (Seine Kaiserliche Hoheit, His Imperial Highness) Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi"), HIH Crown Prince Wilhelm, HIH Prince Eitel Friedrich, with their wives. 01:05:11 HM German Emperor William II gets into the carriage, wearing the uniform of his body hussars. 01:05:17 German troops parade before German Emperor William II. He is talking with (very likely) German Duke Ernst-August of Brunswick-Lueneburg. 01...

  17. Slomowitz family collection

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the families of Asher Zelig Slomowitz, originally of Vulchovce, Czechoslovakia, and Sara (Shirley) Rosenfeld Slomowitz, originally of Tocovo, in Transcarpathia. Both are Auschwitz survivors who met after the war in the Gabersee displaced persons camp and immigrated to the United States, where they married. Includes a copy of a wartime postcard, in Hungarian and Yiddish, addressed to a member of the Steiner family, and photographs of the couple at Gabersee.

  18. Hoover in Berlin; German agriculture; International Tracing Service

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 48 (part) Title: Hoover in Berlin. Herbert Hoover's plane arrives in Berlin. The ex-president is leading the American efforts to fight the world hunger crisis. Hoover gets off the plane, greets American army officers, gets into a car, and leaves the tarmac. 01:34:15 Title: Landwirtschaft im Aufbau [Reconstruction: agriculture]. Factory scenes show fertilizer being produced, farm implements being forged, threshing machine being built, among other things. The last scenes show farmers plowing in the fields with horse-drawn equipment. 01:37:05 Title: 10 Millionen Mensche...

  19. Betty Trebitsch passport

    Contains a Deutsches Reich Reisepass issued to Betty “Sara” Trebitsch; stamped with red ink J on first page; includes American immigration visa issued in October 1939; passport issued August 26, 1939, Breslau, Germany.

  20. Nela Warsagier Stanik memoir

    Memoir written by Nela Warsagier Stanik (donor's mother) about her flight from Lvov in June 1941 and years in the USSR in Kazgarkishvak in Uzbekistan. In 1943 Nela was summoned to Moscow to assist in organizing the Polish Army. She became disillusioned with Communism in 1949 and immigrated to Israel in 1968. Includes photographs depicting Nela Warsagier Stanik with her baby daughter Olga in Lvov in 1941 and Moscow in 1945.