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  1. Friedman family papers

    The papers consist of letters, Red Cross forms, an American naturalization certificate, and an autograph album relating to the experiences of the Friedman family, their flight from Salzburg, Austria, to Switzerland, France, and Portugal, and their eventual immigration to the United States in 1941.

  2. Patton & Russians; Volary burial of Nazi victims

    (LIB 6688) Patton and Russians, Regensburg, Germany and Linz, Austria, May 14, 1945 MSs, Gen. George S. Patton and staff entering plane at Regensburg. MS, Gen. Patton greeted by Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker at Linz airport. MSs, CUs, Patton and Walker talking to news correspondent Doris Duke Cromwell. VAR, Patton and Russian Marshal Tolbuhkin at his heaquarters. Patton and Tolbuhkin reviewing Russian troops. MSs, Patton and Walker receiving medals from Tolbuhkin. (LIB 6689) Atrocities, Volary, Czechoslovakia, May 13, 1945 MS, CU, bodies of Jewish women in mass grave. SEQ: German civilians remo...

  3. Aron Straser photograph collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Aron Straser (born Aron Struczanski) and his family, originally from Smorgon, Poland (Smarhoń, Belarus). The collection consists of photographs depicting Aron’s father Jona Struczanski prior to his wedding in Smorgon, his family gathered around the grave of his grandparents, Aron shortly after liberation, and Aron’s future wife Gucia Widawska (later Judy Straser) shortly after liberation at Bergen-Belsen.

  4. Summary of 1935 events

    Men carrying shovels marching down a steep incline, martial music in the background. Narrator announces that 1935 brought a further lowering of unemployment. Shots of Nazi eagle, flags, Adolf Hitler in profile. Scenes of industry: interior of a factory, road building. Narrator: since the seizure of power unemployment has been reduced by more than half. Scenes of Hitler riding on the Autobahn; ships being launched (one named "Potsdam"). Inspiring music over shots of newly built buildings in Berlin. Panning low-aerial shot of the Olympic stadium under construction. Shot of sign reading "Die S...

  5. Wilder family papers

    Consists of documents and photographs pertaining to the Wilder family, originally of Będzin, Poland. Includes an identity card for Josek Wilder as an employee at Camp Leipheim, 1947; a travel authorization for Jakob and Josek Wilder; papers and documents regarding the emigration of Jakob and Josef Wilder to the United States; and a pre-war photograph of the Wilder family. Mrs. Wilder and five of her children perished, while Mr. Jakob Wilder and his son Josef survived.

  6. Ernst Hacker papers

    Contains three black and white phographs of Adele Hackler Riegler, Samuel Hacker, and Leo Hacker; three postcards from Theresienstadt; and one color photograph of a memorial dedicated to the Hacker family.

  7. Frances Oxenhandler Irwin papers

    The papers consist of one photographic print of Hinde Ivanovich, mother of Reuben Ivanovich Irwin [donor's husband], taken in Lubraniec, Poland, one interview transcript of Frances Oxenhandler Irwin's memoirs, and one memoir by Frances Irwin titled "Frances Irwin: A Memoir of Life and the Holocaust."

  8. Faun Abel Pann-Jerusalem

    Contains a special edition of "Faun" devoted to the artist, Abel Pann. His artwork portrays the mistreatment of Jews in Lithuania.

  9. Birthrate enouraged, children & mothers, twins, triplets

    Film encourages German women to have children. Film opens on an hourglass in the Glockenturm in Berlin. The narrator notes that in the five minutes that it takes the hourglass to empty, approximately fifteen children are born in Germany. However, "this is still not enough, if Germany wants to maintain its place in the world." Graphics illustrate the birth rate in Germany in the years since 1871, with a low point of 15 births per 1,000 citizens in the year 1933 and rising dramatically after the Nazis took power. Similar presentation of the marriage rates in Germany. Shots of flowering tress,...

  10. Selected records of the Argentinean Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    The collection contains documents related to Argentinean diplomatic activity in Germany and occupied Europe during World War II. The bulk of the materials relate to Poland, Germany, and France.

  11. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note, acquired by a former inmate

    Westerbork scrip issued in 1944 and acquired by Ruth Franken, who was imprisoned at the transit camp when she was 5 years old from 1942 to 1943. While at the camp, inmates were compelled to work, and a special currency was issued to incentivize work output, but the money had no real monetary value outside the camp. Westerbork was established by the Dutch government in October 1939 for Jewish refugees who had crossed the border illegally following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. After Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, the German authorities began using Westerbork as...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- World War I scenes; Orient Express; Austrian troops in Berlin; Toscanini in Salzburg

    World War I-era scenes: German soldiers riding horseback. British troops on the battlefield, sheltering from enemy fire, then running across the field. Quick scenes of Kaiser Wilhelm II, in a group of military men, descending a staircase and reviewing a parade of German soldiers. Women, men and children gathered on a balcony for what appears to be a wedding. This is the wedding of Archduke Charles I of Austria to Princess Zita of Parma in October 1911. The last scene shows Franz Joseph I of Austria (Habsburg) in the company of another man on a field. They have evidently been hunting: severa...

  13. Photograph of Gilbert Hirsch's mother and grandparents

    The photograph depicts Gilbert Hirsch's grandparents and mother in Paris, France. Gilbert Hirsch's parents perished in Auschwitz, and he emigrated to Argentina with his grandparents.

  14. Selected records related to Jewish immigration and settlement in Argentina

    Contains records pertaining to the immigration and settlement of Jews in Argentina before, during, and immediately after World War II.

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Food delivery to liberated Paris

    Scenes in liberated Paris. Jubilant crowds carrying an American and a British soldier on their shoulders. Tanks and trucks crowded with people through the streets. British and French flags. Germans are driven through the crowd in jeeps. People jeer as they pass by. Brief shot of high-ranking German officers. The dope sheet indicates that they are at the train station being shipped to an internment camp. 01:21:50 Trucks carrying food supplies arrive in Paris. Crowds surround the trucks and people wave to the camera. Soldiers unload big bags of flour or sugar while the crowd cheers. Signs and...

  16. Atrocities - reburial of slave laborers

    Reel 1: MCU German civilians, carrying shovels on their shoulders. CU German civilians digging graves. CU German civilians putting dead slave labor victims into graves. LS German civilians covering up graves. MS Civilians putting the dead into a pile.

  17. Defeat of Norway; arresting resisters; defeat of Denmark; Hitler's birthday in Copenhagen and Berlin

    German troops in a snow-covered Norwegian harbor. A German soldier receives a light for his cigarette from a smiling Norwegian civilian. Mountain troops [Gebirgsjaeger] unload munitions from a ship. A truck carrying German troops heads into the "inner part of the country" in pursuit of Norwegian resisters, who have been influenced by English propaganda (according to the narration). Shot of bus damaged by Norwegians who were then captured by the Germans. Norwegian prisoners of war being arrested, searched, and having their weapons confiscated while a light snow falls. The Germans are very po...

  18. Walter Reed photograph collection

    The collection consists of 160 photographs and copyprints depicting children and workers doing chores and playing at a children's home in Belgium and children's homes in Seyre, France, and at Chateau de La Hille during the Holocaust.

  19. Selected records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 149 BM res.)

    This collection includes documents relating mainly to matters as: Communists movements; maters of neighboring states; the Hungarian Nationalists Party movements; Arrow Cross Party activities; Passport and naturalization issues; minority affairs; press affairs; parties and associations affairs; banning Jewish affairs meetings, and “Hungarista movements”. Contains signed and anonymous denunciations; decisions to grant or deny petitions; orders imposing police surveillance, round-ups, arrests, internment, deportations, mobilization, or the confiscation of property; instructions, monthly report...

  20. "Surviving the Holocaust and New Life in America"

    Consists of a memoir, 9 pages, by Edward Gruzin, entitled "Surviving the Holocaust and New Life in America." In the memoir, Mr. Gruzin describes his memories of his childhood in pre-war Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, his wartime experiences in the Kovno Ghetto and in the Landsberg-Kaufering concentration camp, his post-war experiences regarding liberation, and his emigration to the United States in 1949.