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  1. Meeting of the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee, 1944

    A meeting of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee at the Kolonny zal [Columnar Hall] in the House of Unions, possibly on July 26, 1944. The meeting was meant to raise funds for the Soviet war effort. Members of the committee and military officers sit on the stage beneath a huge portrait of Stalin. Long shot of Solomon Mikhoels as he reads a speech (mute). Pan across the other men on the stage. Participants, in high spirits, sign a petition: David Bergelson signs at 01:07:08, Mikhoels signs at 01:07:33, Abraham Sutzkever signs at 01:07:52 and Ilya Ehrenburg signs at 01:07:58 At a meeting on Jul...

  2. Selected files from the collection: Amtsgericht Mitte, Berlin (A Rep. 341-02)

    Contains records relating to 52 criminal cases (selected out of over 6,000 similar cases from the Amtsgericht of Berlin-Mitte). Includes records of persons arrested for refusal to work; "pro-Jewish behavior;" enticement; receiving stolen goods; and breach of work contract.

  3. "Dachau Concentration Camp: A Memoir"

    “Dachau Concentration Camp: A Memoir” is 29 page memoir written by Felix Klein, originally of Vienna, Austria. From 1938-1939, Klein was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp and Buchenwald concentration camp. Afterwards, he spent a year in England before immigrating to the United States in 1940. The memoir, found in Klein's personal papers after his death in 1994, describes his experiences in Dachau in the summer and fall of 1938.

  4. Hermann Horst collection

    Consists of more than 100 photographs and documents found by Stanley S. Weithhorn on a deceased German soldier, presumably named Hermann Horst, in 1944. Mr. Weithorn was a member of the 84th Infantry Division of the United States Army. The collection includes photos of Mr. Horst and his friends, family, and girl friend; military installations; Hitler; architecture; and of a 1941 hanging; as well as Mr. Horst's identification paperwork and Hitler Youth membership paperwork.

  5. "Israel Meyer and Mollie Lesin: From Birth in Lithuania to a New Life in America"

    Consists of one book containing a printed copy of a PowerPoint presentation prepared by Dr. Benjamin Lesin entitled "Israel Meyer and Mollie Lesin: From Birth in Lithuania to a New Life in America." The presentation contains family history, photographs, and documents regarding the family of Rabbi Israel Meyer Lesin and his wife, Malke (Mollie) Glatt Lesin, originally of Naumiestis, Lithuania. Rabbi Lesin and Malke Glatt left Lithuania in 1939 and traveled to Switzerland, where they married and Rabbi Lesin worked at a yeshiva as they tried to obtain visas to emigrate to the United States. Fi...

  6. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (Heidelberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Front page from Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, with the headline: "12 Todesurteile in Nuernberg" or 12 death sentences in Nuremberg. The other side details the roll each Nazi-party member played and the crimes for which they were either convicted or absolved.

  7. Alexander Zeidel photograph collection

    Collection of ten photographs documenting the Zeidel family in pre-war Kovno. The photographs include images of family, children dressed for Purim, the Board of Teachers from the Real Gymnasium Ha'Ivrei B'Kovno, and the board of the Kinderhaus in Kovno.

  8. Nachomowitz family collection

    Contains copies of documents and photographs related to the experiences of the Nachomowitz (Nachmanovic, Nakhumovich) family, originally of Polangen, Lithuania. Includes information on the fates of the children of Aaron and Feige Nakhumovich and focuses on the families of (Yenta) Meri Nachomowitz Brutzkus, who, with her immediate family, perished in the Holocaust, and the family of her sister, Belle Nachomowitz Fine, who immigrated to the United States in 1922. These documents were collected by Polly Fine [donor] while doing genealogical research.

  9. Soviet partisans behind enemy lines

    Snowy scenes of a town liberated and controlled by partisans behind enemy lines. A partisan with a rifle checks the papers of two women. Interior scenes of people working at a printing press producing leaflets or a newspaper. Partisans listen to radio communications. Men and women build a barbed wire fence and other fortifications. Women and children are evacuated from the town by plane. A female partisan camerawomen shoots footage of other partisans in the woods. The record indicates that she was killed shortly after this film was shot.

  10. Schott family collection

    Consists of correspondence, documents, identity papers, and records related to the restitution claims of members of the Schott family, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. The majority of the collection relates to the claims of William Schott and to the life of his post-war wife, Charlotte Radspieler Schott. Mr. Schott immigrated to the United States before the war, but lost his mother and sister in the Holocaust, suffered damage to his professional development, and lost property in Germany.

  11. Portrait of a US soldier by George Byfield, a former camp inmate, after liberation

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518627
    • English
    • overall: Height: 22.125 inches (56.198 cm) | Width: 17.125 inches (43.498 cm) pictorial area: Height: 18.500 inches (46.99 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm)

    Framed watercolor portrait made for Captain William Adams Bridgforth, United States 7th Army, by Gyorgy Beifeld (George Byfield), in Dachau concentration camp after liberation in exchange for a pack of cigarettes. Byfield had been an prisoner at the camp, which was liberated by the United States 7th Army on April 19, 1945. Byfield had been deported from Budapest to a concentration camp following the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944.

  12. Oral history interview with Sam Wolf

  13. Jews in Livny with Soviet soldiers

    Two Soviet soldiers converse with a group of local Jews in the town of Livny, 1942. One Jew shows the two soldiers an armband with "Jude" written on it. Close-up on the armband.

  14. Jews of Uzbekistan

    A brief shot of a group of Jewish men wearing fur hats in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

  15. Rubin Wagner photographs

    Consists of pre-war photographs of the family of Rubin Wajner (now Wagner), originally of Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) and post-war photographs taken in the Heidenheim displaced persons camp. Many of the copyprints are duplicates of the photographs.

  16. Selected records from the Dr. Boris Tschlénoff collection

    Contains documents collected by, and pertaining to, Dr. Benzion Boris Arkadevitch Tschlénoff, a Ukrainian-Jewish doctor employed by OSE Geneva. Dr. Tschlénoff's life's work was dedicated to the care of tubercular Jewish patients and to the care and rescue of Jews suffering under Nazi occupation.

  18. Youth of the Netherlands! Waffen-SS recruitment text only poster that urges Dutch youth to help the Germans fight the Russians

    Waffen-SS recruitment poster issued in August 1941 in German controlled Netherlands asking young Dutch men to join the German Army in order to defend against the Jewish Bolshevik threat. Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941. This was their biggest military operation of the war and there was an increased need for soldiers throughout the Germany Army.

  19. Natan Shafir collection

    The collection contains a photocopy of a published book of Natan Shafir's letters, saved by his son. These letters span the brief period of July 1941 to May of 1942, and were sent by Natan Shafir to his family living in Chkalov. The collection also contains photocopies of the actual letters, telegrams, and postcards, some of which display Soviet war art. There are also three photocopies of newspaper clippings.

  20. Aerial views of war-damaged Germany along the Rhine from U.S. Air Force plane

    Aerial views of Germany and Belgium from USAF airplane. Snow-capped mountains. INT plane with male pilot (US soldier) chewing gum, controls. CU passenger (US soldier & presumably the cameraman). More aerial views, including Liege, Belgium, the city of Cologne, Rhine River, smokestacks, farmland, railroad tracks, the Cologne Cathedral, and castles along the Rhine. 01:07:48 Passenger deplanes and pilot waves to camera as he gets back into the plane. Airport (USAF base?), MSs large airplane. Brief shot of an interchange with two US soldiers, civilians in BG. Small airplane takes off.