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  1. Frida Rozen photograph collection

    Collection consists of six black and white photographs depicting the Rozenblum family (donor's husband's family) from Łódź, Poland. Chaim and Regina Rozenblum, their two daughters, Mania and Rozia and their son Menachem were deported from the Łódź ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944. Menachem, who was a student in the ghetto high school, was the only survivor of his immediate family. These photographs were returned to Menachem by his uncles in the US after the war.

  2. Ikhil Shmulevich Falikman manuscripts

    The collection includes two photocopied works by Ikhil Falikman, one an early print of a book that later became an authorized Russian publication and the second a previously unpublished manuscript in Yiddish. Accreted materials contains nine drafts articles written by Ikhil Falikman during WWII, and a copy of the letter written by Ivan Ivanovich Nekhoda, Ukraininan poet, to Ikhil Falikman in August 1943.

  3. Robert Capa photographs

    Consists of two photographs taken on July 3, 1948, in Jerusalem by famed wartime photographer Robert Capa. One photograph depicts a bulletin board covered with propaganda flyers, and the other depicts construction workers digging in dirt and rubble.

  4. Ehrenhaft family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs and correspondence relating to Oskar Ehrenhaft (donor's father) and his and his family's experiences during the time period surrounding the Holocaust.

  5. Max Brenner photographs

    The Max Brenner photographs include five Eichenbrenner family photographs, including one affixed to part of an identification card. The images depict members of the Eichenbrenner family in prewar Dęblin, Poland and as displaced persons in Italy after the Holocaust. Depicted family members include Max, Sarah, Helen, Meir, and Kraindl Eichenbrenner; Meir’s parents Aron and Rochma; his brother Idle (Haiman); his sisters Leitema and Zlata; his sister-in-law Rivka; his nephews Hank and Pinkus; and Kraindl’s sister Golda Dickstein.

  6. Sketchbook by Fips of daily prison life created while jailed as a Nazi propagandist

    Sketches created in 1945 by Philipp Rupprecht, pen name Fips, while a prisoner-of-war in the 7th Army Internee Camp #74, in Ludwigsburg, Germany. In late 1945, he presented the notebook to Army Provost Marshal William Gustin. From 1923-1945, Rupprecht was a well known antisemitic caricaturist for the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper, Der Stuermer, published by Julius Streicher. Rupprecht was arrested by the US Army in 1945, tried by a German denazification court, and sentenced to six years hard labor.

  7. "Ein Amerikaner" : Harry L. Ettlinger memoir

    Contains one memoir, 127 pages, entitled "Ein Amerikaner: Anecdotes from the Life of Harry Ettlinger," written by Harry L. Ettlinger, originally of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2002. In his memoir, Mr. Ettlinger describes his childhood in Germany, his family's immigration to the United States in 1938, his experiences as a soldier in World War II, and his post-war life. Includes copies of family photographs.

  9. Sadie Rigal Waren photograph collection

    Collection of 36 photographs pertaining to Sadie Rigal's experiences during World War II. Included in the collection are photographs of dancing scenes, dance practices, and a trip to Berlin to perform with Edith Piaf and Charles Trenet for French POWs.

  10. Nazi crimes: early gassing; corpses; camp atrocities; forced labor; Nuremberg Trial proceedings

    Part 3 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 5 & 6] Includes extra shot of nurses and Mogilev gassing. Courtroom scene, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at podium, Gen. Erwin Lahousen in witness stand. Narrator quotes Lahousen speaking about Canaris and Hans Frank describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Goering, Hitler, and other Nazi officials in a meeting. Pan, hut with thatched roof. CU pipes from a German police car bearing a license plate POL-28545 and a German police truck with license POL-51628 (as well as military unit markings: 7 ...

  11. James Sayers photographs

    The collection consists of photographs and a photograph album documenting the Ohrdruf concentration camp after liberation by the United States Army in April 1945. The photographs depict corpses awaiting burial, civilians digging graves, Allied soldiers, and trains with Russian armaments. All photographs were taken by James Sayers, a member of the Allied forces who helped liberate the camp. The photos have been removed from the album.

  12. Records of the Department of Anthropology of the Natural History Museum Vienna Akten der Anthropologischen Abteilung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien

    Contains documents and photographs relating to pseudoscientific racial studies performed by Josef Wastl and team of anthropologists at the Natural History Museum Vienna, including the physical measuring and examination of Jews in Vienna and Tarnó́w, persons of unclear racial lineage in Vienna, and POWs in various Stalags. Contains also more than four-hundred original three-part portrait photographs, taken as part of the racial science examinations of stateless Jews in the soccer stadium in Vienna in 1939, and over a one thousand color slides taken of POWs as part of examinations that took ...

  13. Munich: Nazi memorials

    Cars and pedestrians pass the Feldherrnhalle memorial to the Nazis killed in the 1923 Munich putsch. Two armed men stand guard in front of two huge wreaths. There is a changing of the guard ceremony and shots of bicyclists riding by. Both the pedestrians and those on bicycles salute as they walk by. Another changing of the guard ceremony, this time at the honor temple where the dead putschists were buried. The Baker family traveled through Munich on the way to Vienna in October 1937. Helen Baker writes of the visit in a letter dated October 31, 1937: "We started out on an inspection tour, r...

  14. Shlomo Krause collection

    Consists of copies of poems written by Shlomo Krause between 1940 and 1943 about the experience of refugees. Mr. Krause, originally from Poland, immigrated to France in 1926, where he opened a Yiddish bookstore. After the German invasion, Mr. Krause went into hiding in Nice and wrote these poems. He died in 1943. Also contains information about Shlomo Krause's son Maurice's experiences during the war in Russia and information about Shlomo's nephew, Yanek, who fought in the underground in Czȩstochowa and perished in the Holocaust.

  15. Celia and Arthur Stern papers

    The Celia and Arthur Stern papers comprises mainly of identification and travel documents relating to Celia and Arthur Stern, a married Jewish couple living in Vienna, Austria during the Kristallnacht, and their subsequent immigration to the United States. Within the collection are passports, identification cards, a marriage certificate and a naturalization certificate for Chaim (Arthur) and Celia Stern. Also included report cards from when Celia was attending school in Vienna, a certificate of apprenticeship for dressmaker’s guild of Vienna, and a police document pertaining to Celia. In ad...

  16. Ausstellung "Das Wunder des Lebens" Berlin 1935 Der Glasserne Mensch

    Contains a photographic postcard with image of the "glass man" model, with caption printed at bottom: "Ausstellung" Das Wunder des Lebens/Berlin 1935/Der Glasserne Mensch." Rectangular body constructed of paper; on recto, black and white photographic image of statue of human figure standing on metal circular platform with title of statue printed across bottom; on verso, handwritten text across top in pencil.

  17. Eugene Kohan collection

    Consists of two identity cards belonging to Eugene Kohan, originally of Nowe Zamsky, Czechoslovakia. Includes a card identifying Mr. Kohan as an inmate of the Buchenwald concentration camp from May 1944 to April 1945 and a 1948 card identifying him as a professional soccer player in a German league, listing his place of residence as Heidenheim displaced persons camp.

  18. Diary of M. Zhabotinskii, a Jewish actor

    The collection includes the 85-page photocopied memoirs of M. Zhabotinskii, written between the years of 1957-1962.

  19. "The Most Telling Evidence: Four Letters from the Holocaust"

    Contains one article entitled "The Most Telling Evidence: Four Letters from the Holocaust," by Harold and Ellen Ticktin. In the article, the Ticktins present four post-war letters written to Eugenia Bursztyn Green, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Two of the letters were written in 1947, by Dr. Roman Rosenberg, who had emigrated to Australia, and describe his friendship with Eugenia's brother, Ben Bursztyn, and the circumstances surrounding Ben's death and the deaths of Eugenia's parents. The other two letters were written in 1959 by Eliza Szandorowska, a Christian who, with her family, aided ...

  20. Curt Dressler photographs

    Consists of eight wartime photographs taken at the Orphelinat Israelite de Bruxelles; those pictured include Kurt Dressler, Bessie Sturm, and Harry Sturm; also includes post-war photographs of Kurt Dressler, 1947.