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  1. Boycott of Jewish Businesses in Berlin

    The boycott of Jewish businesses in Berlin. [Rare views, not the oft-repeated scenes] Exterior scenes of Berlin streets, which, the narrator notes, are calm and orderly on the eve of the boycott. Scene opens on the "e v. Grunfeld" store; in the next scene shop names of "Rosenberg", others, are visible. Shot of "Leiser" store; heavy pedestrian traffic in the street, streetcars passing. Shot of "Kaufhaus des Westens," "Hermann Tietz" Sign in a window reads, in English and German: "Germans, defend yourself against Jewish atrocity propaganda!" People on the street, conscious of the camera. Clos...

  2. "Theresienstadt;" Gerty Spies poetry

    Consists of a photocopy of "Theresienstadt," a collection of poetry written by Gerty Spies, a survivor of the Theresienstadt ghetto. This copy was used by Ms. Spies when presenting her poetry and includes several handwritten corrections. It is inscribed to Elisabeth Schernig, 1983.

  3. Michael A. Durcan photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs taken in Ohrdruf concentration camp immediately following liberation.

  4. 10 Years -- 1926 to 1936

    "Gauhauptstadt Thueringen" named as location. Scene opens on poster illustrating 1926 to 1936. 1926 was the year of the first Reich Party Day. Narrator: Hundreds of thousands come to celebrate with Hitler and his trusted advisers. Shots of flag and banner draped city streets. Hitler arrives by car to a large outdoor venue, surrounded by crowds. Close-up of Hitler speaking about the economic situation that existed in Thueringen when he took power and how much better it is now, even though their enemies held it to be impossible. German farmers now stand on firm ground. Shots of crowd watching...

  5. Blum family papers

    Contains letters written to Richard J. Blum from Hans Wagner on March 26, 1938, and from Leo Haas on December 4, 1938. The letters describe the authors' fear of persecution of themselves and their wives because they were Jewish. Also contains a photograph of Liesel Haas.

  6. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The currency was designed by inmate Peter Kien and printed by the National Bank of Prague. Inmates received the scrip according to a 5-tiered distribution system or as payment for conscript labor arranged by the Jewish Council of Elders who administered the daily life of the ghetto for the Germans. It is unclear what, if anything, could be purchased with the scrip,...

  7. Selected records from police departments in the German occupied countries (R 70)

    This collection includes Security Service (SD) decrees and reports relating to the treatment of forced laborers; concentration camp Hertogenbosch (Netherlands); police measures against the resistance (France); police actions and raids against Jews and Roma (Slovakia); deportation to concentration camps in Poland and Czechoslovakia (Theresienstadt), including an index of names; denunciations; looting of Jewish assets; slave labor camps (Slovakia); Jewish councils (Judenräte), Gestapo function, forced resettlement of Jews, including an index of names of people executed (Poland).

  8. Rachel Ejber Birnbaum photographs

    The Rachel Ejber Birnbaum photographs document her Ejber and Rajs relatives of Włodawa, Poland in the Włodawa ghetto in 1942 and after returning home in 1945. Individuals depicted include Rachel and Isaac Ejber and Jacob, Ester, Sheindel, Hana, Gedale, and Isaac Rajs. The collection also includes an image of the Włodawa synagogue being used as a granary by the German authorities during World War II.

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- American soldiers fighting in St. Malo, France

    Fighting in an around St. Malo, France. A horse-drawn cart with several women in it rides past a street sign that has arrows pointing in the directions of Rennes and St. Malo. The scene switches to show a plane in the air over the countryside. Smoke rises from the ground. Back on the ground, an American soldier surveys the scene through binoculars. Two soldiers aim a 75mm gun at the town of St. Malo. Landscape of destroyed buildings with a plane flying overhead. More shots of the soldiers loading and firing big guns. A French civilian consults with two GIs. Views of shooting across a body o...

  10. Collections of Jewish records and old books (Fond 1568)

    Includes records of the Jewish community of Bulgaria, records related to Jewish labor detachments, Jewish public organizations, Jewish folklore, declarations of the Bulgarian Jews regarding material compensation for the damages caused by the antisemitic legislation of the Fascist government of Bulgaria, and records of the Jewish Scientific Institute.

  11. Literary archives of Matvey Talalaievsḱyi

    Collection includes a biography of Matvey Talalaevskiy (up to 1946) in Ukrainian; the libretto of a musical comedy written in 1937; and a play "Cantonists," 1938. It also includes poetry, reports and essays written by M. Talalaevskiy and Z. Katz, pieces that were published in the newspaper "Stalinskoe Znamya" (including an article about Auschwitz and Jewish children hidden during the war in the Western Ukraine); poetry in Yiddish, 1930-1940; and letters sent by Talalaevskiy to his wife and daughter from the front, 1941-1942.

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- American soldiers in France; wounded German POWs

    American soldiers drive tanks through a town on their way to Avranches, in Normandy. A long line of American military vehicles is greeted by a few civilians on the roadside. Scenes of Americans passing columns of German POWs on dusty roads, with destroyed buildings visible. The POWs walk with their hands clasped behind their heads. German prisoners receive medical care (a plasma IV) from American medics. German wounded are loaded into the back of an ambulance. A couple of German soldiers stand with Americans next to the ambulance. One of the Germans wears a red cross armband. More interacti...

  13. Sol Goldberg collection

    Consists of a post-war photograph of Sol and Fryda Kleinwachs Goldberg [donor]; photographs of Jews being humiliated in the town square of an unknown Polish town and found by the donor in the Ebensee concentration camp after liberation; one letter to Sol Goldberg from Roman Englander recounting Mr. Englander's remembrance of the death of Poldek Goldberg, the donor's brother; and one short article by Sol Goldberg about Poldek Goldberg.

  14. Atrocities - reburial of slave laborers

    Reel 3: German civilians carrying coffins down cobblestone streets in Nuremberg which are lined with civilians, some of whom remove their hats as the dead pass. MS German civilians put down coffins in street for a short rest before continuing to the cemetery. Buildings in BG. MS various scenes of the procession entering the cemetery. At the cemetery the dead are again laid out in a line and the civilians crowd amongst the tombstones to listen to speakers recount the weight of the dead. A priest concludes the services and then the Germans walk by the dead. MS Lids are placed on coffins and t...

  15. Singing on Horst Wessel Platz

    A huge crowd gathered on Horst Wessel Platz in Berlin sings folk songs. The narrator says that the event, and others like it, was organized by a Berlin radio station. The camera focuses on a choir of Hitler Youth and League of German Girls members singing. The crowd then whistles the tune.

  16. Selected records of the Archives of the Jewish community of Strasbourg

    The collection includes protocols of meetings, general correspondence, reports, administrative files, correspondence of the general secretaries, correspondence with rabbis, members, lists of members, documents related to the readmission of new members, religious life and education, wartime refugees, the cemetery, the temple, the slaughter house, construction of memorials and synagogues, compensation for Alsace-Lorraine, financial reports, insurance, budgets, aid for small Jewish communities, partnerships with synagogues in the United States, activities, holidays, a letter to Philippe Pétai...

  17. 63rd Infantry liberation photographs

    Contains six photographs of the Dachau concentration camp, post-liberation; includes one photograph showing the sign of the 63rd Infantry Division.

  18. Selected records from Hauptamt für Erzieher/Reichswaltung des Nationalsozialistischen Lehrerbundes (NSLB) (NS 12)

    Contains selected records from the Hauptamt für Erzieher/Reichswaltung des Nationalsozialistischen Lehrerbundes (NSLB) (Reichs Administration of the National Socialist Teachers Union) - including materials related to the education of teachers; correspondence between the leaders and departments of the NSLB; correspondence between the NSLB and publishers, authors, etc., concerning various books, brochures, tracts, newspapers, plays, and other published materials, some of which concern Jews; activity reports; memoranda; reports; individual problem cases; "idea papers;" records relating to the...

  19. Helena Storch Jacobs collection

    Consists of 26 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Storch family, originally of Kalisz, Poland. The photographs were taken at the Vilna Jewish Teacher's Seminary, of Yiddish theatre performances, and of the family and friends of Heniek, Genia, and Helena Storch. The collection also includes a memoir, "A Short History of the Life of my Parents," by Helena Storch Jacobs, an identification card from 1926 for Genia Kac, and a CD-ROM containing scanned copies of many other photographs.

  20. Renata Gejler Avinoam photographs

    Consists of photographs from the collection of Renata Gejler Avinoam [donor]; includes photograph of donor with aunt, described as "Białystock, 1934," donor with another girl in Saratov, Russia, 1944, and donor with large group of children, described as "Warsaw, 1946." The Gejler family was originally from Warsaw and Białystock, but escaped to Russia in 1939.