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  1. Photograph of four Gedolim

    Consists of one pre-war photograph taken in Békèscsaba, Hungary, of four gedolim, wise men and leaders of the Orthodox community. Elsa Schwartz [donor] identifies the men as (from left to right): Rebbe Ratz Feld, Rebbe Shulem Lezer, Tvi Elimelech-Gabay, and Rebbe Shulem Lezer Halberstam.

  2. "Ted Arie Doron's Autobiography"

    Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, entitled "Ted Arie Doron's Autobiography, written in 2004 by Ted Arie Doron (born Tibor Weisz), originally of Budapest, Hungary. In the memoir, Mr. Doron describes life in Budapest before 1944, his experiences as a young child in the Budapest ghetto, including the deportation and death of his father in Bergen-Belsen, life in post-war Communist Hungary. He later emigrated, first to Israel, then to Canada, and finally to the United States.

  3. Singer 13 sewing machine with a fiddle base used by a tailor in a sealed ghetto

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522553
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Depth: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) b: Height: 2.875 inches (7.302 cm) | Width: 25.625 inches (65.088 cm) | Depth: 18.875 inches (47.943 cm)

    Singer sewing machine with wooden table top used by Smil Wagner, a tailor from Suceava, (S. Bukovina) Romania. In 1941-1942, Smil and the other Jews of his town were deported to the Shargorod (Sharhorod) ghetto in Romanian occupied Ukraine. Smil was allowed to bring his sewing machine. He made and repaired garments for the local Ukrainian population in exchange for food. Smil was able to leave the ghetto after the region was retaken by the Soviet Union in 1944.

  4. Annelies Sabatowski letters

    The Annelies Sabatowski letters were written by Annelies Sabatowski, originally of Dresden, Germany, on December 30, 1938, and March 6, 1939, to "Gisa" (Gisela "Gisa" Kleinermann, now Goldstein). In the letters, Annelies, a fifth-grade pupil at the Jewish school in Dresden, writes that classes were cancelled for a few months after Kristallnacht, and that she is hoping to be on a transport to England. Annelies and her family (with the exception of a brother, Fritz) were deported to Auschwitz and killed in 1943.

  5. Dunson family at Christian mission; church choir; U.S. soldier

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. Screen image is mostly decomposition, but behind the emulsion loss and water damage there is an intermittent image of a group of adults in black robes- seems to be a church choir. Various people, friends, family, filing out of building, standing on street corner, talking, etc. VS, soldier and woman (also in military-type uniform) loading items and getting into a car with others. VS, little girls playing outside of a house.

  6. Mendel Grossman photograph collection

    The collection contains photographs primarily taken by Mendel Grossman in Łódź, Poland prior to and during the war. The prewar photographs document the Grossman family, including Mendel’s sister Rozka, and his parents Shmuel and Chana. His wartime photographs document daily life in the Łódź ghetto, and including street scenes, deportations, and activities of the Zionist youth group Noʻar ha-Tsiyoni. Many of his wartime photographs feature his extended family, including his nephew Jankush Freitag. Postwar photographs document Rozka Grossman and her husband Moshe Zilbersztajn's (Zilbar) f...

  7. Barbie Trial -- Day 6 -- Barbie's knowledge of the Final Solution; an expert testifies

    16:21 Prosecutor Iannucci reminds the court that Barbie had been a member of the SD since 1935 and of the Nazi party since 1937; Dachau was inaugurated in March 1933; argues that Barbie cannot have been a member of the organization, for whom the concentration camps were an arm of government, without knowing they existed; gives history relating to the Reichstag Fire (February 1933) and the subsequent decimation of personal freedoms by the Nazi party, as well as the inauguration of Dachau just one month later. 16:27 Nordmann remarks that Barbie's formal education, and therefore his ideologica...

  8. Selected records from the Archives Départementales du Finistère

    Contains information on the systematic persecution of Jews and Freemasons in the area in and around Finistère. Also contains information concerning the expropriation of Jewish property in the same region.

  9. Chaim Ben Cyjon Cale photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Chaim Ben Cyjon Cale donor in Łódź, Poland, before World War II and a photograph of Holocaust survivors, Cale among them, at the Bad Nauheim displaced persons camp in Germany after the war.

  10. Selected records from the Archives départementales du Rhone

    This collection contains wartime records from various governmental organizations. Topics include relations among the occupation troops, the police, the camp d'internement dans le Rhône, the Service régional de la Police judiciaire, and the Prison de Montluc. Also included is a photo-essay on the Struthof concentration camp, as well as documents of a local historical commission on the history of World War II.

  11. Barbie Trial -- Day 4 -- Political activities in Bolivia

    13:39 President Cerdini asks for the accused, who refuses to appear at the trial, to be introduced. 14:57 The witness Gustavo Sanchez discusses the political situation in Bolivia from 1951 to 1969. 15:03 Sanchez tells of the collaboration between Barbie and Bolivian President General René Barrientos. 15:09 Sanchez discusses the shipping company founded by Barbie.

  12. Allen A. Cramer collection

    Consists of one memoir on CD-ROM entitled "A Half-Century Later," by Allen A. Cramer, a member of the 11th Armored Division and a liberator of the Gusen concentration camp. In the memoir, he describes his memories of the liberation and of his experiences guarding the camp. Also includes photographs taken by PFC Cramer of the Gusen concentration camp, including an episode of "Camp Justice," handwritten and V-Mail, regarding the liberation, sent to his parents and to Natalie Broder, who later became his wife. Also includes one piece of counterfeit English money produced by the Germans.

  13. Wertheimer family papers

    The papers consist of documents and photographs relating to Samuel and Frajdla Wertheimer and their families in Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland; Warsaw, Poland; and Nowy Sącz, Poland.

  14. [Newspaper]

    A 2-sided Hebrew newspaper published on August. 1, 1941, in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland.

  16. Oral history interview with Esther Fabian

  18. Riva Furman photograph collection

    The collection consists of two black and white photographs: an image of four children; verso: faded blue ink inscriptions, "Riva/Bekker" [donor] handwritten in black ink; dated 1947; Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ, Ukraine, and an image of a baby seated on chair, boy standing next to chair with one hand on baby's back, purple ink inscription, "Riva/Bekker" [donor], handwritten in black ink; dated June 1937; Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ, Ukraine. The photographer is unknown.

  19. Ann Curiel papers

    Consists of documents related to Vilma Avolia (b. 1921, later Wilma D'Urbino) and her mother, Fortunata D'Urbino (b. 1893), who survived the war as Jewish women in Italy. Includes a 1941 identity card identifying Vilma as a resident of the Comune di Catanzaro, a 1944 copy of Fortunata's birth certificate, a 1945 refugee and ration card for Fortunata (with photograph) and a document listing her as a resident of the Prato displaced persons camp in 1945.

  20. [Newspaper]