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  1. James and Hedy Reeds collection

    Consists of two large original pre-war portraits, one each of Esther Laub Neumann and of Markus Neumann, the parents of Hedy Neumann Reeds. The Neumanns perished in the Holocaust. Also includes copies of 35 pre-war photographs, some on album pages, of the Neumann family in Poland, and one copy of a photograph of James Reeds, who was part of the "Monuments Men," who investigated and discovered Nazi-looted art. In the photograph, Dr. Reeds is seen examining a discovered painting. He received a 2007 National Humanities Medal as a member of that group.

  2. Dratcu (Dratwa) family collection

    Consists of the family history of the Dratcu (Dratwa) family, originally of Hotin (Chotyn), Romania, written by Dr. Luiz Dratcu in 2005. In the history, Dr. Dratcu describes his family's experiences on a forced march from Hotin into Russia and how his father, David, and uncle, Ephraim, managed to escape from the march. They were imprisoned in the Popowitz labor camp in Transnistria, but Ephraim managed to escape to Palestine. David was liberated by the Soviet Army, which he then joined for the remainder of the war. After the war, the family reunited, and by 1952, were all living in Brazil. ...

  3. Invasion of Poland

    An American female narrator speaks over German newsreel footage showing the bombardment of the port of Danzig by the German ship Schleswig-Holstein. Polish and German officers confer as the Polish garrison surrenders. German soldiers hand out cigarettes to Polish POWs. German infantry advance on foot into Polish territory, accompanied by horse-drawn artillery. German troops advance across a field, under cover of artillery fire. Large numbers of Polish POWs marching and then eating in a large enclosure. Some look suspiciously at the camera. Polish refugees (probably Volksdeutsch) receive sou...

  5. George Pratt Wooters photograph collection

    Contains 11 black and white photographs taken by George Pratt Wooters (donor's husband), US Army Private First Class, who was stationed in Germany during WWII. The photos document exhumed corpses from a mass grave near Nammering, Germany that was discovered by US troops on April 28, 1945; American officers in the area forced imprisoned SS POWs housed nearby to exhume corpses and lay them out on either side of the ravine above the mass grave.

  6. "My Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 98 pages, entitled "My Story," by Margaret Elias Lawrence, who was born in Munich, Germany, in 1917. She was raised in Königsberg, Germany, where her father, Leo Elias, owned a small store. She recalls her childhood, the increasing antisemitism after 1933, Kristallnacht, and her immigration to England in February 1939, to work as household help. She married fellow refugee Hans George Lewinneck (Harold George Lawrence) in January 1940, and in February 1945, Margaret gave birth to a son, Peter. In 1948, the family immigrated to Argentina, and then to the United States ...

  7. Records of the Ahavat Chesed Credit Union in Lwów, Poland (Fond 498, Opis1)

    The bulk of this collection consists of the applications of the members of the union for loans and financial assistance. The credit union was established for the purpose of providing financial assistance to working Jewish intelligentsia and members of their families. The trade union in Lwow, Poland (now L'viv, Ukraine) served as the central office for the whole of Eastern Galicia (Malopolska) .

  8. Agro-joint colonies in the Crimea

    The location of the first scene may be Pervomaysk, which Pauline Baerwald Falk, Myron S. Falk Jr., and Evelyn Morrissey visited on June 7. Pervomaysk was the location of an Agro-Joint sponsored colony of Jewish farmers. A group of young children and their minders pose for the camera and play in the open air. One child holds up a book. CU of a child looking into the camera. Two horses tow a wagon piled high with hay. Houses are visible in the background. LS of several people standing in front of a house. The camera pans down to a young boy who smiles at the camera. CU of the hands of a young...

  9. Jacob and Rita Litman papers, including Samuel Golfard diary

    The collection includes biographical material, restitution files, and photographs primarily documenting Jacob and Rita Litman’s experiences at the displaced persons camp at Bayerisch Gmain, Germany, from 1946 to 1949, their immigration to the United States, and efforts to obtain restitutions as well as extensive post-war correspondence from Tadeusz Jankiewicz, who helped Jacob escape, and other Poles who knew and helped Jacob during the war. The collection also includes the diary of Samuel Golfard, which was written during Samuel's internment as a Jewish forced laborer in and around Przemys...

  10. Records of the Mayor of Budapest (BFL IV. 1402-1429)

    Collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, applications, decisions, letters of denunciation, and other documents. Topics include the military, commerce, public health, and transport; the Jewish community and Zionist organizations; citizenship and residence questions; appointments, dismissals, and retirements; disciplinary actions; charitable work; and the confiscation and redistribution of Jewish property.

  11. John and Sophie Lambert collection

    Consists of photographs and documents from the lives of Hans and Sofie Schneider Lemberger (John and Sophie Lambert), who immigrated from Vienna to the United States in December 1939. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs, diplomas, birth and marriage certificates, report cards, "Reisepasses," and letters regarding attempts to help family immigrate and regarding the fate of family members.

  12. Times Square

    Times Square in New York city. Traffic, pedestrians. Criterion building. Neon signs: Chevrolet, Whelan, Nedick's, Coca-Cola, Palace Theater, Hotel Astor. Marquee: "Pat Franco, Give Me Your Heart" Football poster: "Sunday, October 18, Giants vs. Cardinals"

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Prewar Hungarian Jewish Life in Ruthenia

    EXT synagogue in Ungvar (Uzhgorod), a town in Ruthenia with a large Jewish population. Ungvar was transferred from Romania to Hungary in November 1938. Star of David, detail on synagogue. Men and women and young boy walking in courtyard of synagogue, Hebrew writing on walls of building. Munkacs (? It is not exactly clear when the location changes). MCU, travelling shot of an older man in profile, long white beard and hat, walking toward screen left. MS, woman wearing a scarf on her head, in peasant dress, walks through wooden gate toward camera, smiling, with a chicken or goose in her hands...

  14. Photographs of Jews in Lithuania

    Consists of 42 photographs identified as "Ghetto in Kainer, August 42," likely in Lithuania. Includes images of Jews wearing badges in the shape of Stars of David.

  15. Rozenberg family collection

    Contains three documents, one original and two negative prints of a marriage certificate of donors' uncle, Aron Rosenberg [sic] and Chaja Kantonist; issued to them in Stuttgart, Germany; dated February 19, 1946. Aaron Rozenberg (donors' uncle and great uncle) and Chaja Kantonist were both survivors of Auschwitz, who were married after the Holocaust. Aaron's first wife and six children were killed at Auschwitz upon their arrival. After the war he immigrated to Argentina, where his sisters lived. They had previously settled there in 1935.

  16. Helen Enisman collection

    The Helen Enisman photograph collection consists of photographs of the Eisman family in Łódź, Poland. The photographs include Gita and Jacob Terkeltaub (Helen’s grandparents); Chana Enisman (Helen’s grandmother); Jacob Enisman; and Helen’s aunt, uncle, father, and grandmother, and at her grandfather’s grave in Łódź, Poland.

  17. Kreishauptman Radom-Land Starosta Powiatowy w Radomiu (Sygn. 208)

    Contains selected records of the German office, Kreishauptmann Radom-Land (Chief of the Radom District), which existed in the years 1939-1945. Almost all files in this collection were organized together from fragments and documents are not complete. Records concern extermination activities, germanization of names of Polish streets and offices, confiscation of Polish books from schools, forced labor, deportations to Germany, and underground resistant activities.

  18. Eli Rozycki collection

    Consists of photographs and documents related to the post-war experiences and life of Eli Rozycki, originally of Krakow, Poland. Eli, a survivor of the Krakow, Plaszów, Jerozolimska, Pionki, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Flossenbürg concentration camps, lived in Passau, Germany until his immigration to the United States in 1949. Includes photographs of life in Passau, his identity cards, his naturalization papers, and photographs of his life in the United States. Also includes one German/English dictionary, designed for auto mechanics, which was distributed after the war to aid communication bet...

  19. Claire Keeman collection

    Contains documents, photographs, and identification cards relating to the Shipper family before and during World War II. Includes letters written by Osias Shipper asking for help, dated 1937-1939; false identity documents; a school diploma; passports; a family photograph; a portraits of the donor's parents, who were murdered in Auschwitz; and two documents relating to the Shipper family before the war.

  20. 1943 Gurs photograph

    Consists of one photograph taken in the Gurs internment camp in May 1943. The photograph depicts two women, each holding a toddler, and is captioned "Wally, Heiner, Trude, und Suzy in Gurs." It is believed that "Trude" is Trude Frank, a cousin of Lore Rosen [donor] who survived the war and "disappeared" in East Germany shortly thereafter.