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  1. Diane Lewis papers

    The papers relate to Ella Deutsch, daughter of Moritz Deutsch and Eugenie Deutsch of Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine), who were Holocaust victims, and her filing of a claim for property confiscated from her parents by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Ella Deutsch was Diane Lewis's husband's late wife who fled to the United States during World War II.

  2. Gathering of Gombiner Jews in New York

    Gathering of Gombiner Jews in New York. VAR shots, boat trip outing. Group of Jews on "Hendrick Hudson" boat cruising the Hudson River from New York City to Albany, NY on the Hudson River Day Line. Women and men with small luggage, at harbor. In park in Albany, waving, poking fun at the camera, jumping rope, dancing. 01:06:23 Boy. Women pose for a group shot. Four women walk towards the camera. 01:07:38 Pan, Albany on the waterfront. INT, women, men, and children gathered around long table, holding cake with streamers. EXT, at leisure in garden. 01:09:43 INT, Gombiner Jews in business dress...

  3. Agro-Joint colony of Kadima

    The intertitles point out the modern features of the colony at Kadima. Men with crates of vegetables. LS Vegetable storehouse with roof sloping to the ground. LS Pan of long low dairy buildings and of livestock, people walking around cattle, horses at trough, CU of more cattle. MLS of horses and building.

  4. Drawing

  5. "Autobiography and Memoirs of Zeida Harry Barr"

    Consists of one memoir, 64 pages, entitled "Autobiography and Memoirs of Zeida Harry Barr," written by Mr. Harry Barr, originally of Maków-Mazowiecki, Poland. Mr. Barr describes his childhood and family in Maków-Mazowiecki, his immigration to Australia in 1939, his wartime and post-war life in Australia, and his work with the Jewish community. Collection includes 3 copies of the memoir.

  6. Drawing

  7. Cry...if you can a true story

    "Cry..If you Can- A True Story" by Leo Winokur Winn describes the author's family home in Łódź, Poland, his childhood and activities before World War II, his and his family's imprisonment in the Łódź ghetto, the deportation of his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, and his subsequent survival of camps and a death march.

  8. Selected records from collections of the Sabin Manuila Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records related to the fate of Roma in Romania as well as to forced labor of Jews.

  9. Name list of Jewish Holocaust victims from the Netherlands

    The collection consists of a name list of Dutch Holocaust victims, together with their date of birth, city and street address, and presumed date of death.

  10. Paryzer family photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight black and white photographs documenting the Dr. Morton Paryzer and his wife, Genia Paryzer, and their families' experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  11. Barges; European seashore

    VS, EXT. Along a canal. Barges, carrying metal drums are docked. Strings of international flags on barges. VS, EXT of rocky shoreline and the sea. CU, young girl on beach. LS, shot from above, most likely a hilltop, looking down to unidentified town and rooftops of homes below. More panning shots of trees, hills, the sea and the shoreline.

  12. Stahl-Grayower papers

    The papers consist of a letter, two certificates, a document, an identification card, and 18 photographs relating to the Stahl-Grayower family. The collection relates to Charlotte Stahl [donor], her father, who did not survive the Holocaust, and her mother and brothers who all survived numerous concentration camps in the Netherlands and Germany and the post-liberation immigration to Palestine of Charlotte and her brothers.

  13. Letters of Jewish writer Isaak Nukhimovich Kipnis from Gulag

    Consist of 62 letters written by Isaak Kipnis to his relatives from a gulag in 1952-1953 as well as appeals to the Soviet government and judicial authorities to review his case. The correspondence provides information about his imprisonment, describes circumstances of Kipnis’s arrest and attempts of his relatives to free him from the imprisonment.

  14. Saul Loeb collection

    Consists of 41 photographs taken by Saul Loeb, an officer in the United States Army and the assistant to Chaplains Morris Kertzer and Isidore Breslau in Marseille, France. The photographs, taken in the spring of 1945, depict Jews in Marseille, refugees emigrating to Palestine, scenes of Passover, and the Army chaplains. Also includes one scrapbook of photographs of Passover in Marseille, 1945. Most of the photographs are captioned. Collection also includes scrip from Theresienstadt and Łódź and scrip from the American military occupation of Germany.

  15. French market; American soldiers at bar

    VS, EXT, buildings, amphitheater, civilians, local market. VS, rubble, buildings in ruin. Sign in French at Cafe reads: "Bar Americain" American soldiers are at the bar with local civilians, mainly women. Civilians, male and female, walking through the streets of the unidentified town. People ride by on bicycles. More shots of destroyed, bombed out buildings.

  16. Records of the Regional Zionist Organization (East Galicia- Malopolska) (Fond 338, Opis 1)

    Contains bylaws, programs, appeals, meeting minutes, documents of Zionist congresses and conferences, informational dispatches of Zionist organizations worldwide, reviews of Zionist newspapers, records of activities of the local branches of this organization in Tarnopol (Ternopil) and Stanislawow (Ivano-Frankivsk), lists of Jews applying for immigration to Palestine, and membership lists of local Zionist and Jewish organizations. The bulk consists of correspondence with Zionist organizations and active Zionists worldwide.

  17. The Gardelegen atrocity....As I saw it

    A memoir entitled "The Gardelegen atrocity...As I saw it" by Robert P. Schmidt is writting in letter form describing the Gardelegen massacre from the perspective of a soldier that encountered the scene upon liberation. A notation at top indicates that text was "passed by SHAEF/ FIELD PRESS CENSORS."

  18. Ruins of Nuremberg with German civilians; Russian DPs celebrate V-E Day; strafing of German countryside

    Visual opens on a slate reading: "Crump Nurberg [sic]." German civilians carry bundles of belongings past bombed-out buildings. A boy holding a large bundle on his back poses for the camera. German civilians stand in line for water distribution -- American soldiers are visible in the shot. 01:00:37 White surrender flags in front of piles of rubble. Shots of Germans looking into the camera. Civilians carry water cans. A young boy with a whistle in his mouth poses for the camera. An American soldier carries a piece of equipment over his shoulder (tripod or surveying equipment?). 01:01:31 A sl...

  19. Michael Wertman letter

    The letter was written by 18-year-old Michael Wertman [donor's husband] in Munich, Germany, to his maternal uncle who was living in N.Y. In the letter, Wertman writes about his mother's death during the liquidation of the ghetto in Tarnogród, Poland, on November 11, 1942. He also inquires about other family members and his desire to start a new life.

  20. Records of the Baranya County Archives, Hungary

    Contains lists, reports, notifications, protocols, minutes, affidavits, certificates, requests, approvals, rejections, appeals, authorizations, powers of attorney, surveys, inventories, police and court records and official correspondence created by the respective offices of mayors; constables; prefects; district notaries; government commissioners; court, police, gendarme, and military officials; municipal finance managements; Jewish communities; Jewish Councils and other authorities of the region of Hungary called Baranya County, affecting the Jewish and Roma population, and regarding the ...