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  1. US Army and Navy chaplains perform Passover Seder

    Members of the US Army and Navy celebrate Passover, perhaps in Hawaii (the originating unit is the 7th Hawaii). A woman identified in the NARA storycard as Mrs. Linczer lights candles. An Army and a Navy chaplain stand beside her. An overhead shot shows two sailors reading the Haggadah. More shots of the ceremony and of the wall behind the participants, on which is written, "Passover Greetings." Mrs. Linczer and a man identified as Mr. Jacobs of the Jewish Welfare Board join several officers and the chaplain in singing Kaddish. A panning shot of the crowded hall, with sailors and soldiers s...

  3. "Mom's story, dad remembers"

    Consists of a videocassette entitled "Mom's story, dad remembers," by Victor Friedmann. On the video, Mr. Friedmann tells the story of his parents, Otto and Lenka Friedmann, and their experiences during the Holocaust, including their successful attempts to evade the Nazis by escaping from Zagreb to Split, Yugoslavia (Lenka's hometown), then to Italy, and finally to the United States. The video also includes family photographs.

  4. Records of the Trieste Court of Appeals

    This collection contains various records concerning the legal discrimination against and expulsion of Jews from various professions in Trieste and the Adriatic coast during the war. It also contains postwar court records concerning the restitution of expropriated Jewish property.

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  6. Certificate of discharge

    The certificate ("Entlassungschein") issued for Kurt Gelles [donor's husband] from Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, dated December 23, 1938, stating that he was interned beginning June 1, 1938, and he was born on July 24, 1907, in Vienna, Austria, where he was arrested and released.

  7. Dina Michels collection

    Collection consisting of slides of Dina Michels family from pre-World War Germany; group of negative strips taken by Werner David who lived with Dina Michel's parents; and rolls of negatives.

  8. Reichsbahn officials receive military medals; German soldiers going home on leave

    Poor quality image. Scenes from a ceremony honoring officials of the Reichsbahn. The ceremony takes place in a large hall, filled with uniformed spectators. Reichsverkehrsminister (Reich Minister for Transporation) Dr. Julius Dorpmueller is present. The audience applauds as several men receive the military honor of the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross). The recipients named in the Bundesarchiv description are: Reichsbahn Oberinspektor Hellenthal, Direktionspraesident Grimm, Lokfuehrer Kindervater, Direktionspraesident Lammerts, Lokfuehrer Bierschenk and Direktionspraesident Dr. Godefroy. Josef G...

  9. Doernberg family papers

    The papers consist of two passports and two identification cards relating to the Doernberg family's flight from Eschwege, Germany, to Portugal. The collection includes German passports ("Reisepass"), German identification cards ("Kennkarte"), and Portuguese identification papers (Bilhete de Identidade) for Hedwig and Carl Doernberg, David Doernberg's paternal grandparents, who fled from Germany to Portugal in 1939, arriving in the United States in 1941.

  10. Factory interiors of Agro-Joint at Jankoi

    Factory interiors, generally very dark. Light comes in though windows of a long room. Dark shots in a blacksmith shop as man demonstrates the use of a trip hammer.

  11. Unused Nazi banner with a swastika found by a US soldier

    Unused Nazi banner found by an American soldier, Earl Kinne, in a boxcar near Ludwigslust, Germany, in 1945. Kinne and a fellow soldier were ordered to go to Ludwigslust, a small town in Germany, to take the townspeople to Wöbbelin, a nearby sub-camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, to witness the unburied bodies and other evidence of the atrocities that had been committed there by the Nazi government. The United States Army forced the townspeople to bury the dead. Earl found several newly manufactured Nazi flags, rolled in bundles, in a boxcar near the camp. The flags had never been u...

  12. Records of the Allied Military Government of Trieste related to restitution claims

    contains records related to restitution for personal property confiscated during the war. The records concern the Jewish community of Trieste and their processing of claims through the Allied Military Government, Property and Claims Division of the Office of the Comptroller.

  13. Népbíróságok Országos Tanácsa Selected records of Budapest People's Court

    Contains records of the Budapest People's Court (Budapesti Népbiróság). The material includes documents from the pre-trial police investigations, as well as interrogation protocols, indictments, trial transcripts, witness testimonies, judgments, and post sentencing histories.

  14. Harry David collection

    Consists of letters, articles, photographs, identity cards, and forms related to the life and experiences of Harry David, born Hans Dzialowski, originally of Berlin, Germany. Mr. David immigrated to Bolivia to escape the Nazis and worked as a news announcer for Radio Patria. In 1941, he immigrated to the United States, where he established himself as a writer and advisor for business affairs. Includes paperwork regarding his immigrations and his work with Radio Patria, as well as his identification cards and pre-war family photographs. Also includes writing samples from later in his life.

  16. Records of the Regional Shekel Commission in Lwów (Fond 336)

    The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence related to the fundraising activities of the local branches of the "shekel commissions" across of the Eastern Galicia, central offices of the Zionist organization in London, list of the delegates to the Zionist Congresses, list of voters of the delegates to the Zionist congresses etc.

  17. Striking public transportation workers

    A strike by the public transportation workers of Berlin. A group of streetcar workers stand around and talk. A police car leaves the station and arrives at the street car depot. They talk with the workers and drive away in a street car. Shots of demonstrating citizens, under watch of the police. A long line of people walking down the street.

  18. Selected records from the collection Ministry of the Interior (Miscellaneous)

    Contains police reports from various areas of Romania, as well as letters and complaints to local police, newspaper clippings, tables, telegrams, situation reports and correspondence. Documents relate to the activities and leaders of many political parties or movementsm including: Iron Guard; Agrarian Union Party; National Christian Party; Peasant Party; Everything for the Fatherland Party; and The National Front of Rebirth. Some police reports relate to activities of student organizations and movements, including Hitler Jugend, cultural organizations, and Association of Jewish Women. Other...

  19. Selected records from the General Files of the Police for Foreigners

    Contains materials related to the observation, registration, and internment of foreigners in Belgium before, during and immediately after the war and to Belgian immigration policies. Also contains information on the control of alien registration and immigration by the Belgian Police for Foreigners.

  20. Frances Hoytash Caminer photographs

    Consists of 13 photographs from the collection of Frances Hoytash Caminer. Though born in the United States, Frances and her family spent 1928-1938 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The photographs depict Frances and her family in Prague during the 1930s. Included are photographs of her uncle Otto and his son Peter, and her uncle and aunt Julius and Walda Eisner with their children, Lily, and Jirka, all of whom perished during the Holocaust.