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  1. Jaslo, Poland massacre site footage

    Contains one videocassette of footage shot in Jaslo, Poland, by George Lerner in 1994. The footage is of the site of a massacre which occurred in 1942 when the Nazis shot the Jews of the town.

  2. Fern/Gartenberg family photographs

    Consists of 40 pre-war photographs of the children and grandchildren of Mordechai Fern and Hinda Gartenberg. Seven of their eight children perished during the Holocaust. The surviving daughter, Frania Gartenberg, survived with her husband, Adolph Sperling and son Joseph. Also includes one letter written from Adolph Sperling to Frania Gartenberg in 1916, while he was fighting in World War I.

  3. Germans surrender, infantry mop-up around Leipzig; Gardelegen barn atrocity

    (B 1138) Leipzig, Germany, 04/23/1945 Slate reads "Roll 1 Madru." U.S. infantry mop-up around Leipzig. German children run down a street. A wounded German boy receives help from an American medic. Wounded American soldier. Sherman tanks roll through the streets. US soldiers on the street, filmed from the tank. American troops fire from behind the cover of tanks. 01:22:03 German civilians wave white handkerchiefs in surrender. CU of smiling Germans. More street fighting, civilians waving white flags. A crowd of civilians waving white flags. 01:26:08 CU of crouching American soldier and captu...

  4. Moorish Dancer 3, The Astute Allach white porcelain figurine of a medieval costumed dancer

    Allach porcelain jester figurine acquired by Adelia W. and Davis O. Morris when they lived in Munich, Germany, as part of the US Army occupation force from 1950-1953. One evening, a man came to their door with the figurine, offering it in trade. He gave it to the Morris's in exchange for a bag of coffee. This is model three of five figures in the Jester series, known as Zaddelrock or Moriskentanzer III, the Astute, produced in 1941. Allach Porcelain and the artist Richard Förster were commissioned by the city of Munich in 1937 to reproduce scaled-down figures of a 1480 Gothic sculpture crea...

  5. Kuemmel family collection

    Group of correspondence written by Werner Kuemmel (donor's brother): two letters sent from a prison in Frankfurt and the others sent from Auschwitz concentration camp. The collection consists of 7 laminated sheets. Hilde and her brother were born to a Jewish mother and a Christian father. Hilde was sent to forced labor. Werner Kuemmel and Johanna Leopold Kuemmel (donor's mother) were arrested and deported to Auschwitz. From there, Werner was sent on a death march to Bergen-Belsen. He did not survive and Johanna perished in Auschwitz.

  6. Oscar Wasyng collection

    Consists of one photograph of Oscar Wasyng's family in Sighet, Romania; one "Amicale des Milices Patriotiques;" four post-liberation photographs of Nazi collaborators; seven identification cards for members of the "Front de L'Independance;" four wartime receipts for money donated to the resistance movement; and one letter regarding Emile Dehin from the Front de L'Independance.

  7. Heilbronn and Wertheim families papers

    The Heilbronn and Wertheim families papers consist of correspondence to German Jewish immigrants Hugo and Else Heilbronn in Pennsylvania from their Heilbronn and Wertheim family members in Germany, England, Belgium, and Rhodesia and French concentration camps at Gurs and Les Milles; correspondence arranging aid for relatives in Germany and France; and a 2005 newspaper article in which Ruth Gottlieb, daughter of Hugo and Else Heilbronn, describes her family’s experiences of Nazi persecution in Germany and immigrating to the United States in 1939. Ruth Gottlieb’s article describes her very ea...

  8. Selected records of the Oberstes Parteigericht der NSDAP (NS 36)

    The Oberstes Parteigericht der NSDAP (OPG) was founded on January 1, 1934 to handle cases concerning behavior that could harm the reputation of the NSDAP. It was responsible for trials of political importance and for appeals against decisions of district party tribunals. This collection includes transcripts of trials for excesses against Jews, such as murder or sexual assault during Kristallnacht; for abuses by SA leaders in concentration camps; and of a German "race-scientist" accused of having had a relationship with a half-Jewish woman. It also includes guidelines for the nomination of p...

  9. Iosif Kats memoir

    Contains one handwritten memoir, untitled, 10 pages, about Iosif Kats' Holocaust experiences. Mr. Kats was born in Voronovitsa in Vinnitskaya Oblast in the Ukraine in 1922. After the Geramns occupied Voronovitsa on August 19, 1941, Mr. Kats and his family were forced into a ghetto. On November 12, 1941, the Jews were taken from the ghetto to be shot; luckily, Mr. Kats and his father were able to escape. From 1941 to July 1943, Mr. Kats hid in various areas. He was arrested and sent to a work came in Nikolayev from July 1943-March 1944. In March 1944, he went to Murafa, where he reunited wit...

  10. Survivors at Lansdorf POW camp

    A sign in German points the way to the Russian section of the Lansdorf POW camp in Silesia. The prisoners were forced laborers in Germany. Shots of the barbed wire fences surrounding the camp. Russian soldiers remove survivors on stretchers from a barrack. Close-up on one of the emaciated men. Camp survivors, some of them wounded, file slowly past the camera toward the infirmary where nurses wait for them.

  11. Mikhoels at the 20th anniversary of the Moscow State Jewish Theater

    Solomon Mikhoels speaks at the Moscow State Jewish Theater in celebration of the theater's 20th anniversary. He says that it is unheard of for a Jewish theater to last for 20 years. There is a brief shot of Mikhoels sitting with the writer Peretz Markish.

  12. Records of the Jewish School in Utena, Lithuania (Fond 790)

    The collection contains lists of students who attended school, minutes of the meetings of the Teachers Council, applications for admission, duplicates of the graduation diplomas, registers of students and correspondence with the Ministry of Education of Lithuania.

  13. Zehava Bendor papers

    Collection of photographs, identification cards, correspondence, and other documents relating to the experiences of the Dars and Bernstein families during the Holocaust.

  14. Russian orphans return to the USSR

    A Soviet soldier raises a border gate to allow a medical van to pass though. The van contains the orphans of Ostarbeiters [forced laborers from the East] who are being repatriated to the Soviet Union. The children are lifted out of the van by a nurse and Soviet soldiers. Shots of the children and nurses in front of a building featuring a large portrait of Stalin. The children are led into the building, where they receive bundles containing food and toys. Portrait of Stalin on the building. The last shot shows two soldiers holding orphans in front of another portrait of Stalin.

  15. "Jew on the Run: Marion's Story"

    Consists of one binder, entitled "Jew on the Run: Marion's Story," written by Melysa Wilson as part of an Adopt-a-Survivor project. Ms. Wilson interviewed Marion Lewin, originally Malka Pasternak of Wyzsogród, Poland, and describes her experiences posing as a non-Jew and escaping imprisonment. Malka, one of nine children, lost her parents and five siblings in the Holocaust.

  16. David and Aviva Ben Heled papers

    Contains 33 photographs documenting Alida Rudelsheim (Aviva Ben Heled) and her family before World War II, her life in hiding during the war, and her wedding after the war. Also includes photographs documenting David Van Gelder [David Ben Heled] and his family before and during the war in the Netherlands, and a false identification card issued to, but never used by, Alida Joonker [Aviva Ben Heled].

  17. Aladár Szegedy-Maszák papers

    The collection consists of the personal papers of Aladár Szegedy-Maszák, a high ranking Hungarian diplomat and foreign ministry official during the Holocaust era. Includes correspondence and memoirs relevant to the Second World War and its immediate aftermath, with special emphasis on Hungary’s role, its efforts to leave the war and to avoid Soviet occupation. The collection also contains biographical information on Aladár, family correspondence, subject files, copies of his Voice of America commentaries, and phonographs.

  18. Goldmeier family records

    Consists of copies of legal documents used by the Nazis to confiscate and force the Goldmeiers to sell the buildings and other property owned by Isidor Goldmeier in Frankfurt, Germany, in the 1930s. Also contains a copy of a Nazi brochure which identified the Jews of Frankfurt in 1935. Includes copies of correspondence between Ralph Gomar and the current owners of the real estate, which the Nazis confiscated from his family. Please see also 2014.101.1, the John and Dorothy Goldmeier papers, for related family material.

  19. Boycott of Jewish shops

    Pedestrians walk by a store with a large "JUDE" and a Star of David painted on the window. The name on the store is Roth. Close-ups of other "JUDE" graffiti, including a marked display window of Dr. Becker´s pharmacy located on Linke Wienzeile 20 in Vienna´s 6th district (Dr. J. Becker died in May 1938 in Vienna.) One of the street signs indicates that the store is near the Naschmarkt. 01:14:16 A woman wipes a store window, perhaps attempting to remove graffiti. A close-up on the store window shows a sign (in soft-focus) which reads "Nicht arisches Geschaeft [Non-Aryan business]." A shot of...

  20. Ethnic groups of the Soviet Union

    Russian intertitle. Excerpt from a film showing the everyday life of different ethnic groups in the Soviet Union including Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Kalmyks, Ukrainians, Finns, Karelians, Kirghiz, Turks, Tajiks, Jews, Byelorussians, Bashkirs, Armenians, peoples of the Caucasus, Germans and Buryats. Brief shot of a group of Jews outdoors. A man reads a Yiddish newspaper. Jewish men use scythes in a field. An elderly Jewish man in profile.