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  1. Postwar visionary painting commemorating the first deportation of Jews from Drancy by a Turkish Jewish woman who witnessed the event

    Mystical oil painting created by Louise Abouaf Starr in 2003 to commemorate March 27, 1942, the day she witnessed the first deportation of Jewish prisoners from Drancy via train from Paris. The colorful painting features train cars loaded with prisoners surrounded by symbolic images of angels, animals, and the Torah. On March 27, Louise, age 23, and her mother went to the station looking for her father and brother. They were warned not to go onto the platform, since German soldiers threatened to shoot unauthorized persons. They bought a ticket and snuck onto quay one and hid under a corner ...

  2. Michal Fiscman papers

    The papers consist of a postcard sent from A. Fischman [donor's father] in Radom, Poland, to Simon Fischman [donor's uncle] in Buenos Aires, Argentina; a provisional identification card for a civilian internee of Mauthausen concentration camp issued to Michal Fiszman [donor]; a German identification card issued to Michal Fiszman; a document issued by the police of Montevideo, Uruguay, certifying the identity of Michal Fiszman so he could obtain identification papers; and a passport questionnaire completed by Michal Fiszman.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Dr. Abba Silver speaks for the United Palestine Appeal

    Several takes of Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, National Chairman of the United Palestine Appeal giving a fundraising speech. The United Palestine Appeal was attempting to raise $4,500,000 to aid in the resettling of European Jews in Palestine. Dr. Silver speaks from a podium in a simple interior setting about the new hope offered by Palestine and the progress already made, including the establishment of settlements and the building of a port at Tel Aviv.

  4. Lewin family papers

    The papers consist of documents, identification cards, and photographs relating to the Lewin family and their experiences in Luxembourg during the Holocaust.

  5. Schwerin burial of Nazi victims

    (LIB 6509) Burial of Atrocity Camp Victims, Schwerin, Germany, May 7-8, 1945 MSs, CUs, German civilians digging graves in park area. CU, German uniformed policeman. LS, crowd at burial ceremony. MCUs, Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish chaplains conduct burial services. CUs, Germans view bodies. CUs, bodies in graves covered with dirt.

  6. Czech Jews on vacation

    Garden. 01:00:26 Peter Lederer with butterfly net. Lake, Robert Lederer (father) fishing. Peter picking grass. 01:02:31 Nina Lederer (with braids) walking on street reading comics. VAR CUs Lederer family and Emily (Waldstein) Bruck (Peter and Nina's grandmother) in Pacov, Czechoslovakia, walking down village street. At lake, Nina, Peter, and their grandmother on dock, walking around village. Nina and Peter skipping with an older girl. CU, flowers. Canoeing, fishing. At beach, VAR CUs family. Women knitting, blowing up beach ball. Nina and Peter eating fruit (note: Nina's handicapped left in...

  7. Pamphlet

    Booklet, Story of Belsen, that documents the liberation and post-liberation experiences of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp and the British Royal Army, published in English in 1945. The book was owned by Major Philip Sharp. Sharp was one of four British soldiers detailed to enter Bergen Belsen on April 15, 1945. Their first task was to arrest the commandant, Kramer. Sharp was tasked with counting the number of dead and arranging the daily burials of nearly 10,000 inmates. The men doing this post-liberation work were picked because they had been immunized against typhus which continued t...

  8. Dr. William J. Hagood Jr. collection

    Consists of a biography of the life of Dr. William J. Hagood, Jr., a doctor in the 335th Infantry Regiment of the 84th Division, 9th United States Army, which liberated the Ahlem-Hanover concentration camp; a short story written by Dr. Hagood in 1966, relating his experience; a booklet of cartoons presented to Dr. Hagood by Jan dirk Van Exter, a survivor whom Dr. Hagood liberated and remained friends with; and press clippings regarding the friendship between Dr. Hagood and Mr. Van Exter.

  9. Namering burial of Nazi victims

    (LIB 6745) Mass murder burial, Namering(?), Germany, May 19, 1945 SEQ: A woman and two children walking in field; woman searching in ruins, holding up bits of burned clothing and bones. CUs, woman and children. SEQ: Burial of slave laborers exhumed from mass graves. German civilians nail wooden coffins, load them on wagons, lower coffins into graves. Men and women shovel dirt over coffins in graves. MS, German woman placing wreath on rough wooden cross. LS, German children throw flowers into open grave; one of the children spits into the grave. LS, priest holds large cross while his assista...

  10. Demonstration by Jews in NYC; Nazi propaganda contrasts with their boycott of Jewish shops

    This is most likely footage from a protest by Jewish war veterans that took place in New York City on March 23, 1933. Men marching down the street: some appear to be wearing military uniforms and they carry a US flag. They pass a group of Orthodox men or rabbis, who doff their hats in respect as the parade passes by.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Scenes from occupied Norway, including Quisling with Nazi officers

    Various scenes in occupied Norway, including: German soldiers load a gun in a bunker located on a Norwegian coast. Exterior of the bunker. Vidkun Quisling, accompanied by several high-ranking Nazi officers, reviewing German or Norwegian troops on a snowy day. Among the German officers are Reichskomissar Josef Terboven and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. The Karl Johans Gate in Oslo with the Norwegian Parliament, Stortinget, at left and Oslo Grand Hotel on the right. INT of the cellar bar at the Grand Hotel where civilians and German officers drink and fraternize. The camera pans down a large port...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- French refugees, German prisoners, bombing of Paris

    The French army in action: tanks, soldiers shooting, dead horses by the side of the road. German prisoners behind barbed wire. Close-ups of individuals as they are questioned and registered by their French captors. Scenes of destroyed buildings shot from a moving vehicle; French soldiers attempt to shoot down a plane. Refugees traveling along a road. Women and children are helped from a truck. One woman is carried on a stretcher. Paris being bombed. Burning buildings, dead cows in a field. Badly destroyed houses, shops and cars. People pick their way through the rubble; a woman runs past a ...

  13. Bill Einreinhofer collection of Shanghai Jewish community materials

    The Bill Einreinhofer collection of Shanghai Jewish community materials includes a transcript of an oral history interview with Mr. Wang Fa Liang, who grew up in the Shanghai Jewish ghetto and describes his memories; present-day photographs of the former Jewish ghetto in Shanghai; and a booklet entitled "Xintiandi in Shanghai's Shikumen Long-tangs," which describes the history of the restoration of Shanghai.

  14. Kloster-Indersdorf displaced persons camp photograph collection

    Consists of six photographs of young men at the Kloster-Indersdorf displaced persons camp, holding chalk boards with their names on them. Pictured are Hil Kadyziewicz, Tibor Munkacsy, Mosche Birnbaum, Julius Wiess, Chaim Geller, and one unknown young man. Also includes one photograph of people standing outside the children's home for Jewish orphans in Dumbarton, Scotland, taken in 1945.

  15. The World Jewish Congress Geneva Office records

    Contains correspondence of the Geneva Office of the World Jewish Congress with organizations from Switzerland and from other countries and with the International Red Cross and the United Nations; papers and speeches of the head of the Geneva Office, Gerhart Riegner; wartime reports of the Relief Committee for the War-Stricken Jewish Population (RELICO); chronological files related to accounts, restitution and rehabilitation; minutes of the Geneva WJC meetings; and various periodicals and printed materials.

  16. German News Agency Selected records from the collection "Deutsche Nachrichtenbüro" (R 34)

    Contains records related to rejection of the non-Aryan members of the Berlin Sports Club; reports from abroad (Spain, Switzerland, Italy); e.g., Jewish Security Police, Soviet cruelties in the east; documents about school attendance of Jewish Mischlinge; reports about movies, operas, dramas, books, and music; folk sport and sport education; antisemitic comments; reports about Jewish editors and actors.

  17. Mauthausen Ausweis

    Consists of one Ausweis identity card issued to Arthur Rosenthal, originally of Miskolc, Hungary. Mr. Rosenthal is a former prisoner in Mauthausen, and the Ausweis, dated Jun. 24, 1945, identifies him as a civilian internee of Mauthausen.

  18. Moosburg POW camp; bridge at Remagen; destruction of Cologne

    Liberated allied prisoners of war in the former Moosburg POW camp Stalag 7a, which housed prisoners from many countries. American pilots cook and serve food outdoors. They eat and smile at the camera. Two men wearing white shirts are shot from a low angle. Pan across former POWs sunning themselves, with barracks in the background. Nice view through barbed wire of former prisoners with rows of white tents in the background. Men shaving in the outdoors using a mirror mounted on a tent pole; a man pours gasoline into a bowl and washes a pair of pants. A group of men pose around a sign that rea...

  19. Bourstin family collection

    Consists of post-war photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of Rachel Bourstin. Includes post-war photographs of Rachel and her family, including recent photographs with a survivor group, "Les Fils et Filles des Deportes Juifs de France," and photographs of family members who perished.

  20. Emil Oettinger papers

    The Emil Oettinger papers consist primarily of correspondence and photographs documenting the family of Emil Oettinger from Hamburg, Germany, and his plans to emigrate with his wife Käthe in 1939. The collection also includes biographical materials documenting their parents as well as emigration and immigration files including some of the records they needed to prepare in order to emigrate. Biographical material include announcements and poems documenting the wedding of Martin and Bertel Cohn and of Emil and Käthe Oettinger; notices, memory cards, and a mourning album documenting the deaths...