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  1. Erich Steinheim collection

    Consists of one document, bound in a black album entitled "Theresienstadt." The document, dated June 9, 1945 and issued by the "Mitteilungen der jüdischen Selbstverwaltung Theresienstadt," thanks Mr. Steinheim for his hard work in the Copy and Lithograph department and relays his co-workers' good wishes for the future, especially in light of their terrible experiences.

  2. Agrojoint activities in Ukraine

    Russian intertitles. Excerpt from a film about the Jewish settlements in Crimea and in Ukraine, funded by the Agro-Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee). Children in Larinow, a settlement in the Ukraine, run up the steps to a school. Children studying at their desks in a classroom and playing outside in the yard. Men ride horses down a dirt track. A woman carrying a child puts a letter into a mailbox. Men sit outside a building and read a Yiddish newspaper. The camera focuses on the sign on the building, which is in Russian and Yiddish. A group of women sit outside talking an...

  3. Frida Gefen family papers

    Correspondence regarding the Holocaust experiences of Jacob Szmulowicz who fled Lida, Lithuania (Lida, Belarus) with his son Samuel to Shanghai in 1939. His wife Liba, daughter Frida, and son Eliezer were deported to Siberia in 1940.

  4. Abraham Breski testimony

    Contains six pages of translation (pages 5 and 6 are both numbered 5) of first hand account of Abraham Breski, who was a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The account documents Breski's experiences being deported from Pruzana, Poland to the Birkenau killing center in Poland in 1943.

  5. German soldiers; various sights in Germany

    German troops and marching band parade, a crowd of German civilians follow. Streetcar, traffic, street scenes in Berlin(?). Mark Jacoby and his father Samuel take a carriage ride. Samuel and Marie kiss. Jacoby family tours garden, poses for a group shot with some kind of equipment (pushcart?). Circular pan of grounds, planting/digging with equipment.

  6. "Letter of Resignation of James G. McDonald"

    Consists of one booklet, 33 pages, entitled "Letter of Resignation of James G. McDonald," published in London in 1935. The booklet contains a copy of McDonald's letter of resignation as League of Nations high commissioner for refugees coming from Germany, as well as an annex containing an analysis of German Non-Aryan policy resulting in the refugee problem. This booklet was autographed by McDonald on June 14, 1945.

  7. Selected records from the Reichsforschungsrat (R 26 III)

    Contains records pertaining to Nazi research including racial and medical research, physics, plant genetics, livestock, aviation, pest control, malaria control in Auschwitz, and typhus control in Dachau. Also includes correspondence concerning confiscation of the Bohr Institute, Einstein, waste material from Dachau, forced labor prisoners, status of war prisoners with scientific knowledge, and the budget of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

  8. "My Grandma, Frau Masha"

    Consists of one DVD containing an interview by Yonatan Weinstein with his grandmother, Frau Masha (Masha Porozowski Klementinowski Weinstein) regarding her Holocaust experiences.

  9. Liberation of Minsk

    The Soviet regular army meets up with Jewish or Roma partisans (they are not identified as such in the narration). One of the partisans wears a bullet clip around his shoulders. A female partisan, wearing a patterned head scarf, smiles at the camera. Scenes from the liberation of Minsk on July 3, 1944. A sign in German reads, "End of the Autobahn Minsk." A cameraman films the activity. Shot of the ghetto burning. A Soviet tank rolls down the street. German POWs with their hands raised in surrender. Soldiers greet smiling townspeople. A swastika falls off a building. A Soviet soldier cuts a ...

  10. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of 22 photographs which were taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of piles of corpses stacked outside of the crematoria, photographs of buildings, and of a Hitler dummy hanged in effigy.

  11. Jan Niebrzydowski papers

    Papers consist of a postcard sent by Adolf Hettich, SS-Sturmmann serving in Gusen II, a sub camp of Mauthausen, located in Sankt Georgen in Austria. This postcard was sent on March 16, 1943 to Irena Bielicki in Pabianice, Poland. The reverse side of the postcard shows the dining hall for the SS in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

  12. Ernest Culman oral history transcript

    Consists of one transcript, 33 pages, of an oral history interview of Ernest Culman, originally of Liegnitz, Germany, conducted by Dr. Steven Hochstadt of Bates College, ME, on October 18, 1997. In the interview, Mr. Culman discusses his experiences escaping Germany with his family and living in Shanghai from 1939 to 1947.

  13. Training film for German sharpshooters

    First title slate: "Oberkommando Des Heeres Chef des Ausbildungswesens im Ersatzheer Abteilung Lehrfilm in Zusammenarbeit mit Generalstab des Heeres Ausbildungsabteilung zeigt: Lehrfilm Nr. 468 hergestellt Fruehjahr 1944" "Scharfschuetze im Einsatz" [Sharpshooters in action] Next slate: "Die im Film gezeigten Entfernungen entsprechen zum Teil nicht der Wirklichkeit. Sie sind durch film technische Notwendigkeiten bedingt." [warning that some scenes in the film are recreations]. Title slate: "Die Unsichtbare Waffe" [The Invisible Weapon]. An obviously staged scene of soldiers in a forest sett...

  14. Lea Sonnenschein papers

    Transcript of an interview and a manuscript documenting the experience of Lea Sonnenschein in Amsterdam, Westerbork transit camp, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Troebitz, Leipzig, Munser, Buchenwald, and Herenveen.

  15. Łódź Ghetto photographs

    Consists of 34 photographs taken in the Łódź Ghetto, 1939-1943; includes photographs of Jews moving into the ghetto, of barbed wire fences separating roads, of various street signs regarding Jews, of Jews being inspected, and of the commercial district of the city before the establishment of the ghetto.

  16. Aviva Ben Heled photograph album

    Photograph album with brown cover and interior pages that contain pre- and post-World War II black and white photographs (some loose photographs contained inside album). The photograph album was taken with Alida Henrietta "Letty" Rudelsheim (Aviva Ben Heled) into hiding in Holland. After her deportation, the photograph album was kept hidden by the gardner who worked at the Hachshara, an agricultural training farm Rudelsheim was involved with. It was returned to her after her liberation.

  17. Isaac Berneman collection

    The Isaac Berneman collection consists of an identification card and a residence cards issued to Isaac’s father, Dawid (David) Berneman (b. Kozienice, Poland, 1913-1980), and his mother, Cecylia Berneman (b. Rajcza or Zywiec, Poland 1923-1981). The documents were issued in displaced person camps in Austria following the Holocaust and indicate that David was a Polish Jew living in New Palestine DP Camp and that Cecylia was a slave laborer in Gabersdorf, the Czech Republic. Isaac was born in Salzburg in 1947, the family immigrated to the United States in 1951, and Isaac’s brother and sister w...

  18. Sylvia Rozines papers

    The Sylvia Rozines papers primarily contain photographs of the Perelmuter family and their relatives in Łódź, Poland before the Holocaust. They also include photographs taken in the Foehrenwald and Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camps after the Holocaust and an identification card issued to Sylvia at Bad Reichenhall. Photographs depict Sylvia, her parents Izak Mendel Perelmuter and Chaya Wolfman Perelmuter, and her sister Dora Perelmuter Galek. They also depict Izak’s brothers Luzer and Haskel, their wives Andzia and Chana, Andzia and Luzer’s son Monek, and Izak’s sister Itka. Additional...

  19. Chaim Glicenstein photographs

    Consists of four pre-war photographs, from the collection of Chaim Glicenstein. of Zionist activities in Kalisz, Poland particularly of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth organization. Also includes a photograph of Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky in Poznań.

  20. Orah Hoz Elgar papers

    Papers consist of correspondence written by Orah Hoz Elgar's mother who tried to persuade her brother-in-law, Rabbi Dr. David Gunsberg, to come to Israel, photographs of Gunsberg and his family, and documents relating to Gunsberg's deportation to Jasenovac and his family's deportation of Loborgrad.