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  1. Max Arthur collection

    Consists of 14 photographs taken by Chicago Tribune photographer Max Arthur in Germany and Poland, as well as a letter written to family members, dated December 28th (presumably 1945) and on clipping from the Chicago Tribune of a photograph he took. Photographs include post-mortem photographs of Hermann Goering and Julius Streicher, as well as photographs of Nazi propaganda murals.

  2. Jane Ponczek photographs

    The Jane Ponczek photographs document her family before World War II in Poland. Photographs and copy prints include a wedding portrait of Holocaust victims Munisch Labiner and Sara Shajter Labiner in 1934 in Skała-Podolska, Poland; a photograph of the Shajter family in Skała-Podolska (Sara Labiner at the top left and Beila Shajter in the doorway); and a photograph of Chaim Weizmann with Holocaust survivor Jane Ponczek and other orphans in Wrocław, Poland after the war (Jane has her hand on Weizmann’s right shoulder).

  3. Berlin Olympics 1936

    A clip from Leni Riefenstahl's film "Fest der Schönheit." "Fest der Schönheit" [Festival of Beauty] was the subtitle of part two of Riefenstahl's film "Olympia" about the 1936 Berlin Olympics. An on-screen title which precedes this footage of the women's gymnastics competition indicates that this clip was distributed by a company called Degeto. The footage shows women from different nations competing on the pommel horse (in slow-motion), the balance beam and the parallel bars. Many of the shots are from below and in close-up. There are also shots of the German team carrying the Nazi flag do...

  4. Michael Librach photograph collection

    The collection consists of 14 photographs depicting Mieczyslaw Librach [donor] in Stalag XVII B, a prisoner of war camp in Traunstein, Germany.

  5. David Glick's trip to WWI battle sites in France in the late 1920s

    EXT, VS of unidentified town in France, in the vicinity of Verdun, France. Horses and carts pass by, townspeople move about the streets. Three Americans (David Glick, his wife, and an unidentified woman) standing in front of a monument and memorial to the fallen in World War I. The monument is in a town square, children are visible playing in the BG. It is difficult to make out the inscription on the monument due to the poorly shot footage, but the year inscribed on one of the stone pillars is "1918". Camera pans this pillar from top to bottom, a wreath lies at the foot of the monument. Ano...

  6. Frank family photographs

    Consists of copyprints of two photographs of the Frank and Kahn families, taken at social gatherings. One photograph depicts four young girls: Anne and Margot Frank, Gabrielle Kahn, and Ellen Weinberger; this photograph was taken in Amsterdam, around 1934. The photograph of the adults includes Otto and Edith Frank and family and friends of the Kahn family; this photograph was taken in the Kahn family's home in Mannheim, Germany, around 1933.

  7. The World Jewish Congress New York Office records. Series C (Institute of Jewish Affairs)

    The World Jewish Congress collection consists of the records of the New York Office of the organization. The Institute of Jewish Affairs, Series C, contains records of investigation of antisemitic legislation and activities, persecution of war criminals and war crimes, restitution for victims of the Holocaust, subjects relating to Jewish life and related problems such as minorities, migration, and human rights. The Institute produced reports for submission to the United Nations and other bodies.

  8. Barbara Rosenthal photographs

    Consists of photographs from the collection of Blima Lipnicka (now Barbara Rosenthal); includes photographs taken of Blima and her family in the late 1930s in Sosnowiec, Poland.

  9. Louis Papageorge photographs

    The Louis Papageorge photographs consist of ten photographs, 16 enlarged photographs, and eight negatives taken by Papageorge depicting victims of the "Abtnaundorf massacre" at the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of Buchenwald in April 1945; two street scenes in Hof, Germany, including a group of captured German troops being escorted past the office where Papageorge was stationed in May 1945; and two buildings in Leipzig identified as the city hall and justice building. Leipzig-Thekla was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established in 1943 to supply labor for the German war effort. As...

  10. Antony Medalis photograph collection

    The collection consists of 11 photographs and one roll of 12 negatives. The images were taken on May 10, 1945, by Antony Medalis during the liberation of Ebensee concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria.

  11. Rina Rubinstein collection

    Consists of a brief history of the Holocaust experiences of Rina Rubinstein, originally of Kovno, Lithuania. She survived the war in hiding in Lithuania, though her parents, Max and Eida Judelevich Gilde, perished in the Kovno ghetto. Also includes copies of family photographs, including photographs of her parents and her rescuers, Yulia and Arejas Vitkauskene, as well as a copy of a letter written by her parents to family members telling them that they had placed Rina in hiding.

  12. Solomon Surowitz collection

    Consists of one brown placard dated 11 April 1947, Dachau, presented to Mr. Solomon Surowitz, a prosecutor at the Buchenwald trial from New York, NY; states that the group will always remember the dead of Buchenwald. Collection also contains one bound copy of "An information booklet on the Buchenwald concentration camp case: the United States of America v. Josias Prince zu Waldeck et al. : to be heard at Camp Dachau, Germany, 11 April 1947" (published in Dachau, Germany; 47 pages with signatures of participants in the back).

  13. Card index of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC /JDC)

    Contains the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee card index of the Emigration Service in Munich, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Barcelona, Spain.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- French and British soldiers arrive in England after being evacuated from Dunkirk

    Various types of ships and boats arriving at South Coast port in England, carrying English and French wounded from Dunkirk. Men wrapped in blankets wave to the camera from a small fishing boat. British soldiers wearing helmets disembark from a boat. A soldier with both his eyes bandaged is helped from a boat. The camera pans across a bedraggled group of men (French soldiers? Most of them are not in uniform). A couple of the men smile and give thumb's up signals. More shots of men arriving on ships and disembarking; wounded men are removed on stretchers.

  15. Letters and personal documents of the Jewish Soviet soldier David Khoraz from the Front

    Contains from the Solomon Golbrikh collection of the Judaica Institute in Kiev letters and personal documents of David Khoraz. During his military service, David Khoraz maintained an active correspondence with his family (parents and siblings) evacuated from Kiev to Central Asia. In his patriotic letters, David Khoraz describes his daily service and activities, including theatrical performances, lectures, news from the front line, etc.

  16. Nuremberg Trial proceedings; postwar destruction; Nazi party history & atrocities

    Summary: This is a documentary about the war crimes trial administered by the International Military Court of Justice in Nuremberg against the main Nazi war criminals from November 14, 1945 to October 1, 1946. The film documents footage of the trial from the prosecutor's opening to the verdict. The dramaturgy includes a chronological account of the founding of the National Socialist state, the unleashing of the world war, and the Nazi crimes against humanity and is accompanied with historical footage. This material is occasionally only used for illustration and does not necessarily portray ...

  18. Eva Moore papers

    The papers consist of 3 photographs, 4 postcards, 1 autograph album, and 1 card relating to the experiences of Eva Weitzmann (now Eva Moore) in a children's home in La Guette, France. She was sent to the home on a Kindertransport, and in 1941 she emigrated to the United States on the ship, "Mouzinho," as part of a children's group under the auspices of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM).

  19. Occupation prison files: Selected records from the National Archives in Prague (JAF 1007)

    Records generated by German occupational institutions (Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren) and Czech auxiliary agencies dealing with matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Includes materials from the Gestapo prison, Pankrác, personal files of prisoners at Cheb, Czechoslovakia, and in Mirov Prison (near Sumperk, Czechoslovakia), various list of persons deported from the Reichsprotektorat (1941-1945), and catalog cards of concentration camp inmates from Buchenwald, Mauthausen, and Theresienstadt. Bulk of the records contain German deportation card...

  20. Harold Rosenn photograph collection

    The collection consists of 5 photographs of concentration camp scenes after liberation, including images of victims of Nazi atrocities being excavated and reburied by German civilians, corpses laid in a row awaiting burial with burned remains of buildings in background, a survivor still wearing concentration camp uniform, and the interior of inhabited barracks.