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  1. Berlin, 1936

    Traffic, bus with Persil advertisement, traffic conductor, automobiles, street scenes in Berlin. Buildings decorated for 1936 Summer Olympics. Nazi banners with swastikas. Traffic. Multiple country flags erected for Olympics. MS, Reichstag.

  2. Surrender of General Elster; US infantry in France, Belgium, Maastricht, Netherlands.

    General Major Botho Elster studies a map with a French Lieutenant Colonel. Accompanied by other high-ranking officers, Elster bids farewell to some of his troops in a wooded area. He salutes, speaks to the men, and shakes their hands. On September 16, 1944, on the Loire bridge in Beaugency, France, Elster capitulated and handed over 19,500 men to the French. He did so without permission from his superiors, for which he was sentenced to death in absentia by a Nazi court. 01:01:37 US infantry patrols in France. Soldiers walk along devastated, empty streets. A tank rolls down the street. A med...

  3. Esther Menaker photograph collection

    Collection of 11 photographic images depicting the donor's life after liberation, including her work in the Rosenheim displaced persons camp; her wedding to Ephraim Menaker, who she met on the ship "Exodus"; and a portrait of her parents taken after their release in 1953 from a Russian prison.

  4. Mina Colton photograph collection

    Three photographs. One taken approximately 1936 of five school girls who attended Hochstein Gymnasium in Łódź, including from left, Mina Reiss Colton, Bronka Rheingold, Marysia Sheinberg, Mira Poznanska and Bela Ginzburg. One group portrait of women released from Ravensbrück concentration camp and brought to Sweden for recuperation taken in Annaberg, May 1945. One group photo of donor's brother Natek, aunt Ruth Goldman and her two daughters in the Cyprus detention camp in 1946.

  5. The assistance center for racially-persecuted persons, sponsored by the Evangelical Association in Stuttgart Records of the "Hilfsstelle für rassisch Verfolgte bei der Evangelischen Gesellschaft Stuttgart" (K 13)

    Contains correspondence, questionnaires, newspaper articles, essays, photographs, and research material on the fate of so-called "Judenchristen" (persons of Christian faith regarded as Jews under the Nuremberg laws, also known as "non-Aryan Christians"), Roma, and other non-Jewish victims. The records pertain to factual and individual-related information concerning emigration, food parcels, restitution, NS persecution, theological arguments, and public relations. Includes an index of people who received any kind of help or assistance by the "Hilfestelle." Some of the names in the index are ...

  6. Stamp wallet and 119 postage stamps, issued by Nazi Germany

    Set 1: 1 stamp wallet and 23 postage stamps. a. Wallet is brown cardstock. All printing is black ink, except where noted. Manufactured by: ELBE FILE & BINDER CO., Inc., of Fall River, Massachusetts. Front states: STAMP WALLET; at top, Perforation Gauge. At bottom: Property of / Al Perrin, written in script with blue pen. Back has advertisement for manufacturer. Inside is perforation gauge on left, with shallow pockets on right. Dimensions: 5.44 x 3.44 inches b. Stamps with the right side profile of Adolf Hitler’s head. Stamps are uncanceled. All stamps have: DEUTSCHES REICH printed at t...

  7. Shmaruk-Tsybulnik collection

    The collection includes photocopied letters sent primarily between Isaac Shmaruk and his wife, Sulamif Tsybulnik. Other correspondence of note includes reciprocal letters from friends, family, and the Kiev Film Studio. The letters from Isaac Shmaruk discuss his life in the Red Army, his time spent in Germany, and efforts to contact family and friends throughout the Soviet Union. The letters from Sulamif Tsybulnik discuss her daily life in Ashkhabad, news from family and friends, her work with the Kiev Film Studio, and her brief stay in a Crimean sanitarium throughout a brief illness.

  8. Department of Finance of the State of Upper Austria Finanzlandesdirektion Oberösterreich

    Contains records pertaining to aryanisation, expropriation, and restitution of properties of Jewish and non-Jewish individuals and institutions.

  9. Reuven Taibel memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 4 pages, regarding the Holocaust experiences of Reuven Taibel, originally of Vilkemeer, Lithuania. During the German invasion on June 22, 1941, Reuven and his father were separated from his mother and siblings while attempting to flee east. His mother and siblings were taken to the Paryuena forest, shot, and buried in a mass grave. Reuven and his father escaped to Kusnotchik, where his father joined the Lithuanian army and Reuven lived in a children's home. His father remarried in 1944, and after the war ended, Reuven's new stepmother found Reuven in a children's hom...

  10. Selected records of the NS-Volkswohlfahrt (NS 37)

    Contains selected records of the NS-Volkswohlfahrt, the Nazi social welfare institution charged with propagating health care issues and family aid to those deemed racially pure. Primarily contains files of financial/real estate properties of the NSV outside of Germany.

  11. Working group for genealogical research Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sippenforschung

    Contains records pertaining to the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sippenforschung. Mainly contains correspondence, questionnaires, and manuals relating to genealogical research in Upper Austria and Lower Austria.

  12. Post-war Milan photograph

    Consists of one photograph taken in the synagogue in via Unione in Milan, Italy, in 1945. At the time the photograph was taken, the building was being used to house refugees.

  13. Indyk family letters

    Contains letters and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences and post-war life of Eva Indyk, originally of Poland. Eva's older sister, Telma (Tillie), had immigrated to the United States as a teenager, and tried to convince her parents to allow her siblings to join her in America before the war. After the war, Tillie found out that only Eva had survived and had been in Auschwitz. The collection contains letters from Eva to Tillie, in which she dreamed of reuniting with her sister in the United States. Eva was unable to obtain the proper visas and eventually immigrated to Israel, whe...

  14. Samuel Sack letter

    The Samuel Sack letter consists of one typewritten letter, sent from Samuel Sack, a member of the XV Corps of the American Army, Sydney Dutton (later Sydney Bortner). The letter was written by Sack in Salzburg, Austria on May 26, 1945 and describes his wartime experiences in the spring of 1945. The letter describes battles in which his battalion participated and Sack’s experiences as a liberator of the Dachau concentration camp as part of the Seventh Army. The letter was written on the stationery of the regional leader of the Nazi Party of Salzburg (der Gauleiter und Reichsstatthalter in Sa...

  15. Krystyna Linden photograph collection

    The Krystyna Linden photograph collection contains photographs of the Lindenbaum and Kuniegis families, circa 1925-1947. The majority of the collection contain photographs of Krystyna Linden (born Lindenbaum, 1942- ) as a hidden Jewish child in Poland and with her adopted parents, Sara and Bernard Kuniegis, directly following the war. The photographs of the Lindenbaum and Kuniegis families taken before the war including photographs of Jerzy Edward Kuniegis, a portrait of three Lindenbaum siblings, Sara, Dawid, and Wella, circa 1925; and the Lindenbaum family celebrating Purim in the Warsaw ...

  16. "While the World Watched"

    Consists of one audio CD entitled "While the World Watched," created by the Library of Congress as part of the Veterans History Project. On the CD, veterans describe their experiences as concentration camp liberators and as witnesses to the Nuremberg war crimes trials. The program is narrated by former United States Senator Max Cleland.

  17. Photograph reproduction of dedication to Rezso Kasztner

    Framed photographic reproduction of dedication to Rezso (Rudolph) Kasztner [donor's father]. The original document was written in May 1945 in Switzerland on behalf of those rescued on the Kasztner train, and signed by Yitzhak Klein and Dr. Deszoe Hermann. The original document hung in the family's apartment in Tel Aviv, and was used as evidence during Rezso Kasztner's trial in 1954-55. The location of the original document is unknown. (2006.415.1a- photograph) (2006.415.1b- frame).

  18. War Crimes Commission: Concentration Camps

    There are breaks between reels. The film begins with titles and affidavits attesting to the authenticity of the film material to follow. A quote from Robert Jackson is followed by affidavits from George Stevens and E. R. Kellogg. Both affidavits are shown on the screen as they are read aloud. An animated maps shows the locations of the largest prison and concentration camps in Germany and occupied Europe. 01:04:27 Title on screen: "Leipzig Concentration Camp" [Leipzig-Thekla, a sub-camp of Buchenwald]. Long shots of the camp while the narrator tells of the political prisoners who were burne...

  19. Ruth Lisak Call photographs

    Consists of two photographs of Ruth Lisak as a child, posing with her parents in a park in Brussels, Belgium. Her father, Maurice Lisak, perished in Auschwitz, and her mother, Esther Lisak, in Bergen-Belsen. Ruth survived the war as a hidden child in a convent in Belgium.

  20. Mauthausen liberation photographs

    Contains 11 photographs of the Mauthausen concentration camp post-liberation. Photographs include depictions of survivors and victims.