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  1. Jews wearing armbands in market square in Slovakia

    Shots of buildings surrounding a town square. A bearded Jewish man wearing an armband holds his hat on his head. Two Jewish women, also wearing armbands, walk toward the camera. MLS of people in the market square. Several more Jews walk past the camera. Brief shot of people in a swimming pool, then back to the market. The camera picks out several more Jews amongst the other people at the market. They all wear armbands.

  2. Filming of the 1942 Theresienstadt propaganda film

    Scenes from the filming of a 1942 film about Theresienstadt. Interior of a crowded coffehouse with a band playing on stage. Star of David badges are visible on clothing. A man sits down at a table with his young daughter and a waitress serves them coffee. The scene is repeated. Shots of the band and people in the audience. The next scene shows a man leaving the coffeehouse. A sign on the door states that entrance cards must be presented when entering and leaving the coffeehouse. An outdoor shot of a uniformed German with a camera filming two signs. Two other Germans accompany him. A close u...

  3. Walter and Martha Ellenbogen collection

    Collection consists of 18 photographs relating to the Ellenbogen and Lenzer families in Dorna, Gura Humora, Transnistria and Cyprus DP camp. Also includes four memoirs written by the donors.

  4. Selected records from collections of the Suceava branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Selected records from the local offices such as: Legion of Gendarmerie, district police, district prefectures, and mayors' offices located in many localities in Suceava County in the South Bukovina area of Romania. Topics include many aspects of Jewish communities, organizations, societies, measures against Jews, standards for qualifying for Romanian citizenship, denaturalization, and evacuation of Jews from rural areas, internment of Jews in camps, deportations of Jews to Transnistria, Jewish property, Jewish companies, Romanization,” and the fate of Jewish assets after the war. Also inclu...

  5. Nehemia Nordheim collection

    Collection consists of a photo album and loose photographs depicting Nehemia Nordheim as a baby while in hiding with Ton and Ans Rijbroek in the village of Naarden in Holland. Nehemia, who was just 13 months old in May 1943, stayed with the Rijbroek family till the end of the war. Nehemia's mother, Chelly Nordheim, and his three siblings, Moshe, Bat-Sheva, and Rivka, also survived the war. His father, Dr. David Nordheim, died in Tröbitz, Germany.

  6. Nelly Hartogs Wollman collection

    Contains nine photographs of the donor and her parents before the war in Belgium. The donor escaped from Holland to Belgium and immigrated to the United States in 1940.

  7. Literary archives of the Yiddish poet, Chaim Beider

    This collection contains correspondence and photographs related to Russian and Soviet Yiddish writers. Contains information about Russian and Soviet Yiddish artists and cultural activists, articles by and about Beider, drafts and copies of Beider's Der Freylekher Alef-beys ("The Happy Alphabet", an alphabet book for children), publications about Jewish life in Birobidzhan, manuscripts of unpublished books, and translations of operas, poems, plays, and songs into Yiddish.

  8. Ruth Kupperschlag papers

    The Ruth Kupperschlag papers consist of documents and photographs relating to Ruth and Marion Kupperschlag’s experience on a Kindertransport and life in the Netherlands and their parents Josef and Anna’s deportation to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. The collection includes letters sent to Anna’s cousin, Idel Woog, from Josef and Anna Kupperschlag, including letters sent from Theresienstadt shortly before their deportation to Auschwitz, as well as letters from Ruth to her Aunt and Uncle, prewar family photographs, typed narratives about Ruth’s experience, documentation of Josef’s military ser...

  9. Toni Susskind Weber photograph collection

    Pre-war and war time photographs pertaining to donor's experiences during WWII. Pre-war photos are of the Bnei Akiva youth group. War-time photos are from Switzerland, where Toni managed to escape together with her brother. Included is one photo of Toni's brother David in a labor camp in Switzerland. Also includes a brochure of songs sung by Bnei Akiva members prior to the war (photocopy).

  10. Heinz Sprung collection

    Consists of documents related to the pre-war, wartime, and immediate post-war experiences of Heinz Adolf Sprung, originally of Leipzig, Germany. Heinz was arrested in 1939 and was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Collection includes letters and postcards, on Sachsenhausen stationery, which Heinz sent to his mother and uncles from 1939-1942, as well as mail he received from them. In 1942, Heinz was sent to Auschwitz and worked in Buna until January 1945, when he was sent on a death march back to Germany, where he was liberated. After the war, Heinz wrote down his experiences in ...

  11. Fred Manasse collection

    The collection primarily consists of photographs depicting the Holocaust-era experiences of Manfred Manasse (Fred), originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, including pre-war and wartime photographs of his parents Alfred and Trude Manasse and his sister Miriam, all of whom perished in the Holocaust. Other photographs include depictions of Fred and his brother Gustav in an orphanage in Lisbon, Portugal waiting to immigrate to the United States, having previously fled Germany on a Kindertransport. Documents include Fred’s immigration visa, affidavit in lieu of passport, and alien registratio...

  12. Selected records from collections of the National Archives, Hague

    Contains selections of records from a great variety of collections, and concerns topics such as: Jews within the diamond trade in Amsterdam, Jewish education, deportation of Jews, refugee camps in Rotterdam, Jewish orphans, camp Westerbork, records from the consulates in New York and Geneva, economic measures against Jews, looted Jewish property, looting of Jewish farm land, a large number of records from the "Rijksvreemdelingendienst" (the Dutch police for foreigners), the latter for the most part concerning Jewish refugees from Germany.

  13. John Kaufmann album "Deutschland, England, Australien"

    Album entitled "Deutschland, England, Australien" created by John Kaufmann (born Hans Werner Kaufmann), originally of Heidelberg, Germany. The album includes writings, drawings, and photographs chronicling his family and his Holocaust experiences as a German refugee who fled to England in August 1939, was sent to Australia in July 1940 aboard the HMT Dunera as an enemy alien, and interned in the Hay internment camp in New South Wales.

  14. Reports and investigative materials compiled by the Military Commissions of the Red (Soviet) Army related to the crimes committed by the Nazis and their collaborators on the occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during WWII

    The collection consists of the investigative materials, reports and statements compiled by the military commissions of the Red (Soviet) Army established for the investigation of the crimes committed by the Nazis and their collaborators on the occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during WWII.

  15. Lou Dunst 80th Birthday Celebration videocassette

    Consists of one videocassette of footage of the 80th birthday celebration of Lou Dunst, held in San Diego, CA on March 5, 2006. At the party, Mr. Dunst, a Holocaust survivor, was reunited with a liberator of the Ebensee concentration camp, Robert Persinger, who liberated Mr. Dunst and his brother Irving in May 1945. Mr. Dunst was also presented with the gift of a memorial Torah scroll. Also includes clippings of the television news accounts of the party.

  16. Uri Hanauer identity cards

    Consists of one Kennkarte and one Czech repatriation office identity card, both issued to Uri Hanauer, born on February 6, 1940 in Berlin, Germany. Mr. Hanauer was liberated from Theresienstadt (Terezin) with his mother at the age of five.

  17. Selected records of the Reichsamt für das Landvolk (NS 35)

    Contains correspondence with other party agencies and departments, documents concerning “Regime-destructive actions” of the rural population in the Rheinland and the march Brandenburg (the so-called “Rheinische bzw. Märkische Bauernbriefe 1937-1938”), and reports on agricultural policy in Austria.

  18. Records of the Arrow-Cross Party, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Hungary (MOL K 775)

    Executive Office documents on a variety of subjects, some classified "confidential": evacuations, closure of organizations close to the prime minister, personnel issues, procurements, arms, the nobility, legal aliens, repatriation, culture, air raids, the fire control service, passports, the police, Jews, refugees, and others.

  19. Walka Wiery Gran z Cieniami

    Consists of a Polish translation of an affidavit given in Tel Aviv in 1971 regarding Polish singer Wiera Gran. In the affidavit, the unidentified claimant accuses Ms. Gran of collaborating with the Gestapo responsible for the Warsaw ghetto.

  20. Badge with a yellow Star of David on a black circle worn by a Romanian Jewish woman

    Star of David badge that 20 year-old Simona Weissmann was forced to wear in Piatra Neamt, Romania from 1941-1945. In November 1940, the fascist government of Romania of General Antonescu joined the Axis Alliance. They immediately put in place polices to persecute Jews, such as the requirement that Jews wear a Star of David badge2 on their clothing at all times. The antisemitic regime also supported increasingly violent attacks and pogroms against the Jewish population.