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  1. Firma Paul I. Landmann collection

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war documentation, photographs, printing samples, and correspondence regarding the printing firm of Paul I. Landmann, which was located in Mannheim-Neckarau, Germany.

  2. Sophie Kimelman-Rosen papers

    The collection consists of false-identity documents used by Sophie Kimelman during the Holocaust. Included is a false certificate of Aryan status issued in 1939 to Zofia Nowak and a false baptism certificate issued to Sofia Irena Nowak in 1936 in Kosów, Poland.

  3. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers

    The Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers include biographical material and photographs relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Wiera Baksztanska, Stanisław Sierpinski, and their families in Poland and Russia. The collection includes false identity papers and documents Wiera obtained while living in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding as well as correspondence and writings relating to Stanisław’s work as a physician in the Polish underground. Biographical material includes a false identity card (Kennkarte) for Wiera under the name of Zofia Weronika Wojtuńska, certificates statin...

  4. Deborah Gaynes photographs

    Consists of photographs of the extended family of Chaim Ariyah and Esther Chasen, originally of Grodno, Poland. The family moved to Vilna after World War I. Most of the members of the family were killed in Ponar during the Holocaust. Also includes photographs taken upon the liberation of the Landsberg-Kaufering IV concentration camp, taken by Albert Gaynes, a member of the 12th Armored Division as well as a folder of photocopies of letters written by Mr. Gaynes about his experiences liberating the camp.

  5. Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen at a religious ceremony & procession through the town of Lette

    A religious ceremony (a Firmung, or Firmelung, is a confirmation) in the town of Lette, attended by Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, Archbisop of Münster. German intertitles describe the action. Citizens of the town of Lette, including women and children standing along the roadside and a number of uniformed men on horseback, line the road at the border between Coesfeld and Lette. 10:02:20 The bishop arrives in a horse-drawn carriage and is greeted by the most important of the town's citizens. Men on bicylces, then men on horseback, ride through the streets, which are decorated with fla...

  6. Emanuel Ascarelli memoir

    Consists of one memoir, in Hebrew, written by Emanuel Ascarelli (1919-1999), originally of Bologna, Italy. In the memoir, Emanuel describes his family history and his experiences in the Jewish Brigade.

  7. Fritz Wetzel collection

    Consists of items collected and saved by PFC Fritz Wetzel, a member of the 483rd Medical Collection Company, during World War II. Included are a set of German cigarette cards featuring Hitler and German propaganda, photographs taken after the liberation of Paris, and US Army magazines. Notable are a pocket guide to Germany distributed to US troops and a pass, permission slip, and customs form allowing PFC Wetzel to possess and retain captured German military equipment. Also includes nine photographs taken the liberation of an unknown camp, perhaps Gardelegen, and a July 1945 copy of the Bel...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Protests in London demanding Chamberlain's resignation

    Anti-Chamberlain graffiti on walls and sidewalks in London: "Demand Re-election;" "No Pact with Fascist Italy;" "Chamberlain Must Go!" among others. Interior shots of people preparing for a protest. A woman helps two men put on sandwich boards which read: "Chamberlain Must Go!" "No Surrender to Hitler or Mussolini" and "Mussolini, Hitler Shall Not Dictate to Britain!" Staged shots of a man writing anti-Chamberlain graffiti on a brick wall. He runs away as a policeman approaches. Another man serves as a lookout for the graffiti writer. A man affixes small stickers which read "Let the People ...

  9. Renata de Gara Cafiero collection

    Contains documents regarding the removal of Paul De Gara from public service as a non-Aryan as of April 7, 1933. Also includes a certificate of good conduct used by Dr. De Gara to enter the United States in 1939. Collection also contains a memoir written by Adele Cantor entitled "Tears and Joys of a War-time Deportee" (London, 1946, 32 pages) regarding her childhood in Berlin, Germany; experiences in the camps of Gurs, Douadic, and Chateau Le Roc; liberation; and emigration to England in 1946.

  10. Alice M. Berney papers

    The papers consist of eight photographs from the children's home belonging to the Rothschild estates, "Chateau de La Guette," in France, one photograph depicting a group of girls at the École Hôtelière de Clermont Ferrand in France, and two medical certificates issued by the Comité Israélite pour les Enfants for siblings Alice and Herbert Menkes.

  11. Office of the German commandant of the Kerch harbor (Fond p 1465)

    Contains records of the German commandant of the Kerch harbor, including orders, public announcements, information regarding Jewish populations, and lists of Jews and Jewish property.

  12. "Euxin: A Brave Voyage to Freedom" memoir

    Memoir tells the story of Lilly Shalit (nee Roth, ex-Abramovici) who tried to escape Romania in 1942 on the sailing boat "Euxin" with her husband, sister, and brother-in-law. The journey took them six months, as they travelled through the Black Sea and the Bosphorus towards Palestine. Turkish authorities would not let them land in Izmir, and they spent two months on the ship in the Bay of Izmir before the British consulate obtained visas for them to Cyprus. Although they wished to go to Palestine, they accepted the visas and spent Sep. 1942-April 1944 in Cyprus, until they were allowed to l...

  13. Postcard

    The postcard bears a black and white image of the ship, "Mousinho." Rita Grusd sailed on the "Mousinho" to the United States in 1941 from Lisbon, Portugal, after living in several children's homes in France. "Companhia Colonial de Navegacao" is written across the top.

  14. Carmen Marchesani liberation collection

    Consists of two photographs taken upon the liberation of the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp. Also includes a copy of a letter written by Carmen Marchesani to his sister describing his experiences upon the liberation of the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp.

  15. Berthold and Else Sinai papers

    The papers consist of official documents, correspondence, and passports relating to Berthold and Else Sinai Fred Ward Sinay's parents and their experiences fleeing from Nazi-occupied Austria and their subsequent emigration to the United States. Included in the collection are reissuances of birth certificates, German "Deutsches Reich" passports issued under Nazi occupation, and a postcard from Berthold in Dachau concentration camp to Else in Vienna, Austria.

  16. Michael and Hilde Prooth collection

    Consists of post-war correspondence and forms related to the restitution claims of Michael and Hilde Prooth, including information regarding Michael Prooth's experiences in the Wulzburg concentration camp and Hilde Prooth's experiences in the Theresienstadt ghetto.

  17. Selected records from the Reichskreditkassen collection (R 29)

    Contains documents related to the operations of the Reichskreditkassen (German central bank) in the occupied territories.

  18. Non-Aggression Pact -- von Ribbentrop to Moscow

    Newspapers with headlines about the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which was signed by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in Moscow on August 23, 1939. Nighttime shots of von Ribbentrop at the airfield preparing to leave Germany for Moscow.

  19. Maurice Lisiak photograph collection

    The collection consists of 2 photographs: a portrait of Maurice Lisiak, a survivor who was interned in Blechammer, posing in a concentration camp uniform, dated 1945 and an image of a group of men, some dressed in Nazi uniforms and others dressed in civilian clothing, labled "Wloclawek 1941 After the liquidation de the Jewish ghetto."

  20. Porges family papers

    The collection consists of documents and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of the Porges family of Vienna, Austria. Includes pre-war family photographs, identification documents, and paperwork related to immigration to the United States in 1946.