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  1. Ruth Wertheim papers

    The Ruth Wertheim papers consists of three letters written by Ruth Wertheim following her liberation from the labor camp Marzdorf/Riesengebirge, and addressed to friends and relatives in Detroit, Michigan, 1945-1946. Also included is a newspaper clipping listing the "Nuremberg Laws," 1935.

  2. Manfeld family photograph collection

    The collection consists of 19 photographs of the Manfeld family in Vilna, Poland, (now Vilnius, Lithuania) before World War II.

  3. Łódź becomes Litzmannstadt

    Germans build new planned city for German Volk. Łódź before and after being "rebuilt." Stroll through town, labor camps, city street. LS panorama of city. Animap highlights darkened area "Wandalen" (early history of Vandals and Germanic occupation of area). CU stone surrounding circular metal object, pull out to reveal museum (archeological?) cases of vases. "Das Gefaess Aus Biala..." label on one of the vases. Swastika carved into urn. CU of ornamental crosses and other objects, spearheads, helmets. Map of Sudetenland and Warthegau, extreme Eastern edge, points to Litzmannstadt (Łódź), arr...

  4. Mentally ill patients

    b&w scenes from 01:00:00 - 01:06:42 color scenes from 01:06:42 - 01:08:27 "AGFA 1939" Mentally ill patients of Kaufbeuren-Irsee asylum. EXT, asylum building, patients dressed in costume parading on hospital grounds, on country road. Accordion player at front. "Reigen vor dem Saalbau" HS, patients entering gates, crowding together, holding hands, dancing. Closer shots, dancing more rapidly in a circle. Man with umbrella. "In der Pflegeanstalt Irsee" Closer shots of patients parading - clowns/jester, chef, folk dress, man with cane (doctor or nurse?). Nuns at entrance of old convent area ...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Winston Churchill aboard a ship; hidden camera in Paris

    Winston Churchill and other men aboard a naval vessel. The men wear life vests. Churchill descends into the hatch at one point. He is shown getting off the ship and being received by crowds of soldiers at the port. 01:44:46 A man demonstrates how clandestine footage was filmed in occupied Paris. This appears to be a reenactment. He places a movie camera into a bicycle basket and covers it with wine bottles. The camera's lens pokes through a slat in the basket. The man rides his bike down the street.

  6. Angèle Gelbard papers

    The papers consist of 17 postcards and 8 letters written to Angèle Gelbard in Paris, France, from her family in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland.

  7. Abraham-Avrum Sperber papers

    The papers consist of a manuscript and photographs relating to the experiences of Abraham-Avrum Sperber and his family before, during, and after World War II. The hand-written manuscript was purportedly transcribed after World War II in a composition notebook from original notes kept by Abraham-Avrum Sperber while living under Nazi-occupation in Kolomyi︠a︡, Poland (now Ukraine). He describes events that occured between March 3, 1941, and July 7, 1942. The photographs depict the pre- and post-World War II life of Sperber and his family in Ukraine, Romania, and Israel.

  8. Eva Goldberg autograph album

    The autograph album belonged to Eva Goldberg Judd and contains autographs, signatures, photographs, and drawings. Inscriptions from friends and family include Anne Frank and Susanne "Sanne" Ledermann. The contents of the autograph book were collected by Eva Goldberg prior to her emigration from Germany to the United States via the Netherlands and Great Britain. According to the Anne Frank House, Otto Frank wrote the caption "July 1936" underneath the photo of Anne Frank, Eva Goldberg, and Susanne Ledermann. This photo was taken by Otto Frank, and his shadow can be seen in the lower right co...

  9. Selected Records of the NSDAP (NS 20)

    Contains documents created by or relating to the Freunde des Neuen Deutschlands, Gauleiter Rudolf Jordan, Nationalsozialistischer Dozentenbund, Welt Dienst, and records related to the organization and political development of the NSDAP.

  10. Wolman family collection

    Contains pre-war posed photographs of the Wolman (now Wohlman) family in Białystok. Collection also contains one enlarged photoprint of the Don Kanel's [donor] extended family, and one postcard, written in Yiddish, to the donor's family in New York City. The donor has described each photograph.

  11. Ebensee displaced persons camp photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs taken at the displaced persons camp, and former concentration camp, of Ebensee in Ebensee, Austria. Included are photographs of displaced persons within the camp and leaving the camp, as well as photographs of camp buildings and structures.

  12. Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945

    "Witness Stand: Diverse Clips" Malmo: ambulance on a dock. Ferry station. Refugees go inland. Malmo ferry arrives. More women getting naked, bathing, getting new clothes, and getting disinfected.

  13. Helene Mayer fencing for Germany at Olympic games

    Half-Jewish athlete Helene Mayer fencing for Germany. Mayer was the only Jewish athlete who represented Germany, and she was allowed to do so only under the pressure of international opinion. She won a silver medal in the individual foil event and gave the Nazi salute from the podium. After the Olympics she returned to the United States, where she had been living. Schacherer-Elek, who won gold, and Preiss, who won bronze, were also part Jewish. Mayer is the tall blond fencer.

  14. Council of the Jewish community of Kaunas, Lithuania (Fond 1231)

    The collection consists of records of the Council of the Kaunas Jewish community in Lithuania, reflecting different aspects of the activities of the Jewish communities of Kaunas during the inter-war period and at the beginning of World War II. The collection includes correspondence with local and government authorities, the Ministry of Jewish Affairs, local Jewish communities across Lithuania regarding budget, tax collection, salaries of Jewish community officials, and their election. Also contains records related to Jewish schools; minutes of meetings; annual reports; budget proposals; car...

  15. Lithuanian children photograph

    Contains one photograph of two young boys, aged approximately nine and four years old. The photograph, taken in Kaunas, Lithuania, was given to the parents of the Shulamith Shafer [donor], Paul and Riva Singal Huz, by the uncle of the boys in the Santa Maria displaced persons camp. The uncle, remembered only as "Leibel," gave the photograph to the Huzes hoping that they could locate the boys in the United States.

  16. Pál Szegö diary

    This collection consists of a diary written by Pál Szegö, originally of Hungary, while he was in a forced labor battalion in Hungary and at the Mauthausen concentration camp from 1944-1945. Pál wrote in the margins as well as on blank pages of a pocket New Testament that he kept with him in the camps. In the diary he writes about the horrible living condition while in the forced labor battalion including the lack of food, unsanitary conditions, punishments, and frigid weather conditions while digging trenches and working in the forest. Pál continues his diary while on a tugboat to Mauthause...

  17. Correspondence from Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps

    The collection consists of 5 letters from Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps.

  18. John W. George photographs

    Consists of 26 photographs taken by and of PFC John W. George, a member of the 13th Field Artillery Observation Battalion of the United States Army; includes photographs of the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. Also includes photographs of military destruction as well as civilian and prisoner casualties encountered by the Army as they crossed Germany in the spring of 1945.

  19. Pencil portrait sketch of a German Jewish refugee

    Portrait sketch of Kurt Singer saved by his daughter, Margot. It was drawn by Clara Asscher-Pinkhof in 1942 in Amsterdam when he lived there as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Singer was a neurologist and the Director of the Berlin Opera. Soon after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he lost his position at the Opera due to a law that ousted Jewish civil servants from public positions. In May, he co-founded the Judische Kulturbund, a Jewish cultural organization. In 1938, his daughter, Margot, left for Switzerland, and in 1940, to Palestine. That October, Kurt left for a one year appointment at ...

  20. Jadwiga Dzido Hassa letter

    Contains of one letter from Gusta, a young girl in Haifa, to her friend, Jadwiga Dzido (later Hassa), in Poland, encouraging Jadwiga to come to Palestine. During the war, Jadwiga, a Polish Catholic, became a member of the Polish underground and was imprisoned from 1941-1945 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She later testified in the Nuremberg Doctors Trial. Also includes one photograph of Rozia Zylberajch, who is mentioned in the letter.