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  1. Julius Neumark photograph collection

    The collection consists of five black and white photographs relating to the experiences of Julius Neumark during the Holocaust. Included are a photo of Julius's parents before World War II; a photo of Julius as a child; and three photos of his rescuers, Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Bieliajev.

  2. German Panzer convoy moves through Russia; bomb destruction

    Reel 1: 00:14:34 German military convoy moving through Russian countryside. Several shots of burning buildings. CU of a bombed tank in a hole. Reel 2: 00:15:43 German Panzer convoy moving into a town. Several shots from different angles of a group of Russian soldiers under German guard. Local Russian townspeople gathering in city square. Russian peasants loading belongings onto wagons. German soldiers taking cover. Burning building. CU of Russian local. German soldiers running down a road, fighting, shooting next to buildings. Men standing next to a truck looking up into the air, presumably...

  4. Records of the Central Agency for the Custody of Jewish Property (YDIP) Greece

    Contains records of the Central Agency for the Custody of Jewish Property (Υπηρεσία Διαχείρισης Ισραηλιτικών Περιουσιών, YDIP) Greece, an agency which regulated the expropriation of Jewish shops and businesses in Greece during the war. Contains case files for individual shops as well as regulatory guidelines and operations procedures for the agency. Accretion of a microilm reel #18 (Part B) contains additional postwar materials discovered at the later date. Consist of records relating to general matters pertaining to the employees of YDIP, official correspondence of the administration, prot...

  5. Frankfurt radio station at a Hitler Youth camp

    A clip from a film about the government-run Frankfurt radio station. The "radio wagon" traveling down the streets of Frankfurt, then down a dirt road. The vehicle arrives at a Hitler Youth camp and records the boys at various activitities, including exercise, eating and singing. Good shots of the youth, including one of a young boy holding a shield with an SS symbol on it.

  6. Recycling of Polish books into Nazi-approved books; anti-Semitic propaganda

    A woman's hands are shown tearing apart books and placing the pages in a basket. Most of the titles are in Polish, but one is "Bismarck" by Emil Ludwig. In an obviously staged scene, three Jews are shown shaking their heads, presumably in dismay at the destruction of the books. One of them wears an armband. More shots of the hands tearing pages, then the interior of a paper recycling facility, with huge piles of book pages. Workers throw the pages into a large receptacle, where they are ground into a powder by large stone wheels. The rest of the recycling process is shown. The end products ...

  8. Anna Majewska Woźniakowska collection

    Consists of one memoir, entitled "69/71 Mokotowska Street, 1934-1944," by Anna Majewska Woźniakowska, originally of Warsaw, Poland. The memoir describes her memories of her childhood home and friends, and her memories of the German occupation and resulting deportations. Also includes a hand-drawn map of the area. This collection is dedicated to the memory of Ms. Woźniakowska's childhood friend Jankielek.

  9. Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien - Wiener Bestand Archive of the Jewish Community Vienna-Vienna component collection

    Contains the Holocaust related archival records of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community Vienna), including material predating the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938, and post war records related to social welfare cases and personal inquiries from survivors worldwide received by the Jewish Community Vienna, Cataloging is in process (Sept. 2020)

  10. German Revolution of 1918-1919

    This is an excerpt from a film about German film history which was produced in 1942. Berlin during the revolution of 1918-1919. Intertitles describe the scenes. Armed men, members of the "Republican protection troops," patrol in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Men stand beside big bundles of shot-up rolls of newspapers that they have erected as barricades. A car loaded with armed men drives off down the street.

  11. Sam Rafel visits his hometown of Gombin in 1937

    1937 trip to Gombin, Poland (123 km northwest of Warsaw) filmed by Sam Rafel at the request of Nathan Zolna Solomon, who had emigrated from Gombin to Newark NJ and provided Sam Rafel with the camera. The first shot is a grainy, dark interior shot of a crowd of people. This might be the crowd that assembled for Sam Rafel's 1937 visit. He wrote, "the affair took place in the Firemen's Hall, in the presence of three thousand people, virtually the whole Jewish population of Gombin." The quality is much improved in the next scenes, which are street portraits, where Rafel posed people in groups a...

  13. German military and police units in W. Ukraine. Lvov occupied by Germans. Men under guard, Jews put on truck by police units.

    Reel 1: 00:05:14 Western Ukraine. Some scenes could be Lvov. German tanks move through a field; charred landscape. 00:06:02 Large groups of Ukrainian civilians look suspiciously at the camera. Small town; German tanks in the streets. Young girls hand flowers to Germans. Tanks crest a hill top, move through a village with thatched-roofed homes. A deep anti-tank trench. 00:08:05 Various shots in a damaged city; burned automobiles, corpses/dead horses lie in the streets. Camera pans across a wide landscape with a village and river, smoke in the distance. Inside and outside views of a church th...

  14. Hella and Heinz Wartski memoirs

    Consists of one memoir, 77 pages, split into two parts. Part I, entitled, "Auschwitz and Freudenthal," was written by Hella Wartski, originally of Uszhorod-Ungvàr, Hungary. She writes about her life in Hungary, her 1994 deportation to Auschwitz, and her transfer to Freudenthal, where she was liberated in 1945. Mrs. Wartski and two of her sisters were the only survivors of her family. Part II of the memoir is entitled "Surviving the Holocaust," by Heinz Wartski, originally of Danzig. He describes the antisemitism of the 1930s and his family's escape to Italy, where they remained until liber...

  15. Podbierski family photographs

    Consists of four photographs of pre-war Jewish life; photographs are of the family of Jenny Podbierski, who immigrated to the United States in 1905 from Wilczyn, Poland. The photographs were taken between 1924 and 1937.

  16. Feldafing reports

    Consists of one report, 8 pages, entitled "Notes on Feldafing," by Gershon Gelbart, dated 11 January 1946. Includes information on the physical and social environment of the Feldafing displaced persons camp. Also includes an article published in an August 1945 issue of "Stars and Stripes: Southern Germany edition" entitled "Life Begins Anew for Feldafing DPs," by Howard Byrne.

  17. "Kehilot Salish"

    Consists of one book, 76 pages, entitled "Kehilot Salish." The book contains a description of the Jewish community of Salish (a.k.a. Nagyszolos, Hungary or Vinogradov, Ukraine), and its destruction in the Holocaust.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Allied troops in the French territory of New Caledonia

    Men unload barrels from an American ship in the port of New Caledonia, a French territory in the South Pacific. An American soldier patrols the area. 01:23:00 An American camp in New Caledonia. Soldiers march through the countryside and then dig communication trenches. The March of Time story cards indicate that these are American troops but their helmets look British. 01:25:29 A training exercise in New Caledonia. An American soldier is overwhelmed by an Australian commando, who steals his uniform and then, with some confederates, blows ups a bridge. The commandos hack through the jungle w...

  19. Fogel, Mermelstein, and Klarman families photograph collection

    The collection consists of six photographs of the Fogel family, the Mermelstein family, and the Klarman family and their life in Botragy, Batyu (Vuzlove, Ukraine), and Szuszko, Czechoslovakia before the Holocaust. The photographs picture both Holocaust victims and survivors. There is also a photograph taken of sisters Irene and Serena Fogel upon their arrival in New York in 1947.