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  1. Illa Sherman photographs

    Collection consists of 20 prewar and wartime photographs of Illa Sherman and her family. Illa Sherman survived the Holocaust in hiding and in a convent in the Warsaw environs.

  2. Twentieth Century Fox version, Reel 4: European Pact; Invasion of Poland and West and USSR; visit to a camp near Minsk; war

    Reel 4 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. Most of this reel consists of German newsreel footage with the familiar German narrator, with an English voiceover. No title. Hitler speaks to the Reichstag. He addresses Roosevelt and says that any rumors of intentions by Germany to attack the US are crude lies. He addresses the British government about rearmament and the policy of encirclement which eliminates the conditions for a naval treaty. Title: "Signing of European Pact 21 May 1939." Italy's foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano...

  3. Visiting family and sights in Budapest

    In Budapest, street scenes, Kornhauser family (Marie's family) walking past shops, posing for camera. LS, city across Danube. Policeman on horse. More shots of the Kornhauser family.

  4. Janine Bland photograph collection

    Contains two August 1942 photographs depict a group of Jewish children, including Janine Bland, hiding in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France at the "Tante Soly" pension, which belonged to the Seches family. Also includes four photographs depicting the "Tante Soly" pension around 1942.

  5. Selected records of the Hauptamt für Beamte/ Reichsbund der deutschen Beamten (NS 40)

    Contains records pertaining to the operation of the Hauptamt für Beamte/ Reichsbund der deutschen Beamten and the organization and operation of the Nazi civil service.

  6. Oral testimony of Karl Neustadt

  7. Chaim Gildin collection

    The collection includes a photocopy of a 2002 publication on a series of Ukrainian Jewish writers, including Chaim Gildin: Gildin, Chaim. circa 1937. “Autobiography,” in Repressed Jewish Writers of Ukraine, 5-6. Kiev: 2002. The collection also includes a photocopy of Chaim Gildin's 1945 NKVD file.

  8. Chateau La Hille photograph

    Consists of a photograph taken at the Chateau La Hille children's home. The photograph was probably taken in 1940 and depicts young adults eating at a table outdoors.

  9. Beniek Klugman photograph

    Consists of portrait of Beniek Klugman, son of Shabtai Klugman and Leosia Rozen Klugman.

  10. Le Havre harbor and on board Normandie ship to the U.S.

    Title: "Havre. Homeward Bound on the 'Normandie'." Le Havre harbor. HAS. Capsized hulk of the French Lines' ship PARIS, which burned and rolled over at Le Havre in April 1939. View of another ship, possibly the French Lines' ship CHAMPLAIN docked in Le Havre, seen from the deck of 'Normandie.' On deck, people on red chaise lounge chairs, man in swimming pool behind. Good view of the Statue of Liberty.

  11. "My Escape and Survival during the Nazi Occupation of Yugoslavia"

    Consists of memoir, 48 pages, entitled "My Escape and Survival during the Nazi Occupation of Yugoslavia," by Henrietta Mayer-Juhn. In the memoir, she describes her experiences during the years 1939-1942 regarding her family's escape from Yugoslavia, including her memories of her husband's arrest, deportation and of learning of his death in the Jasenovac concentration camp in 1942. She and her daughter, Brankica, went into hiding, escaping the deportations through which she lost the rest of her family.

  12. I.B. Bunn photograph collection

    Collection includes a photograph of two survivors from Holland and a photograph of American soldiers near Lake Attersee. The photographs were taken by I.B. Bunn, a member of Company B, 305th Medical Battalion, 80th Infantry Division, immediately following the liberation of Ebensee concentration camp in Austria.

  13. Dwojra Frendlich Klajnman identification card

    One identification card (Arbeitskarte) number 72407 issued to Dwojra Frendlich Klajnman [donor's mother], in the Łódź ghetto. Dwojra Klajnman died on March 22, 1944 in the ghetto.

  14. "A Story of Misery, Miracles, and Love"

    Consists of one memoir, 2006, entitled "A Story of Misery, Miracles, and Love: In the words of Beatrice Sarkany," by Beatrice Sarkany, originally of Sibiu, Transylvania. In her memoir, Mrs. Sarkany describes her memories of the Hungarian occupation, of the Nagyvarad ghetto, and of her deportation to Auschwitz. After a number of months in Auschwitz, she was transferred to the Gorlitz camp in Germany, where she was liberated by the Russian Army in May 1945. Includes copies of photographs.

  15. Handmade wooden hanukiah with Hebrew inscription made by Kindertransport refugees

    8-branched Hanukkah menorah with central holder for the 9th candle made for Louis Judah and Etty Cohen by 3 male student refugees at the Whittingehame Farm School in East Lothian, Scotland. One evening, the students requested that Mr. Cohen and his family come to the school and, in a heartfelt ceremony, presented the handcrafted menorah to the couple to thank them for what they had done for them. Judah and Etty were governors of the school, and members of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation which established the school in 1939. Its mission was to care for German and Austrian Jewish children a...

  16. Warsaw street scenes; Pilsudski Square

    Warsaw street scene at Pilsudski Square. Men unfurl Polish flags around statue.

  17. "From Flossenbürg to Freedom" and "The Backer/Bächer Families: Settling in New Lands"

    Consists of a written account, in Czech and translated into English, entitled "From Flossenbürg to Freedom", written by Boleslav Kubáček, originally of Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia). Mr. Kubáček, a Catholic married to a Jewish woman who had converted to Catholicism, was arrested in October 1944 for his participation in the resistance movement and was deported to Flossenbürg in January 1945. From Flossenbürg, he was sent to Plattling, and on April 24, 1945, was sent on a death march, and was liberated in Lohnstamf, Germany on May 4, 1945. Also includes a copy of "The Backer/Bäch...

  18. Schipkau commemoration collection

    Consists of photographs and copyprints of the April 18, 2005 dedication of a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, specifically the victims of the "Lost Transport" in Schipkau, Germany. The "Lost Transport" carried Jews from Bergen-Belsen in the direction of Theresienstadt from April 10-25, 1945. This transport never arrived at Terezin, and the few survivors were discovered and liberated by the Red Army in the yard of a coal factory near Tröbitz on April 25, 1945. During the transport, the dead were buried along the train tracks at each stop, the train was frequently the target of bomb...

  19. Halina Jaworski-Klon collection

    The collection consists of two documents of Karol Gecman (later Karol Jaworski) in Kuybyshev, USSR (now Samara, Russia). The first is a 1943 Russian translation of Karol's diploma from a Jewish Gymnasium in Lubin, Poland in May 1933. The second is a 1946 repatriation document allowing Karol to return to Poland.

  20. Tourist sights in Brussels

    Jacoby family tours Brussels: street scenes, EXT buildings, stone monument, street, statue, Cinquantenaire Arch, lion statues, street scenes, train station.