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  1. Laufer family papers

    The collection contains photographs, correspondence, and documents relating to the exeriences of the Laufer family in Germany and the Netherlands during the Holocaust. The collection includes pre-World War II photographs of Elizabeth and Wilhelm Laufer and their daughters, Gisela, Margreet, and Deborah [donor], as well as a letter written from Elizabeth who was interned in Ravensbrück with her daughters to Wilhelm who was interned in Buchenwald, post-war documents issued to the Laufer women liberated in Bergen-Belsen, and post-war photographs of the family and three additional children bor...

  2. Hungarian Jews' applications for compensation (MOL XXIX-L-2-o)

    Applications by Jewish residents through the Budapest branch of West Germany's Allgemeine Wertverkehrs Bank AG, all dated July 1, 1966 and addressed to the "Chief Administrative Office" in Cologne. Under Article V of the Federal Restitution Law (BEG, Bundesentschaedigungsgesetz) these applicants were able to seek compensation for their loss of freedom during wartime, for having had to wear the Jewish star, for damage to their health, and the death of a spouse.

  3. Amon Goeth trial photographs

    Consists of two photographs taken during at the trial and subsequent conviction of Amon Goeth, commandant of the Płaszów concentration camps.

  4. Polish newsreel footage of the trial of Hans Biebow

    Polish newsreel footage from 1946 to 1947 of the trial of Hans Biebow. Accused war criminals getting off plane, CUs. 01:01:14 Biebow. 01:01:20 Hoess. Men climbing on back of truck. Truck enters courtyard of building where the trial takes place.

  5. "Hlas Pudy Q306" issues

    Contains photocopies of "Hlas Pudy Q306", a children's magazine written and published by eleven children, all under the age of twelve, who lived in the attic numbered Q306 in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto in Czechoslovakia. The children--editor-in-chief Mariana Kornova, Zdenek Grunhut, Hana Brockova, Jiri Kreisl, Anita Brandeisova, Tomas Sladkus, Jan Brod, Petr Abrahamovsky, Petr Fischl, Tommy Brandais, and Kitty Langendorfova--all perished in Auschwitz in the fall of 1944. In the magazine, they wrote short stories, poems, puzzles, and humorous observations about their lives and about...

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

    "Witness Stand: Diverse Clips" Red Cross ship "Crown Princess Ingrid" in port. More unloading refugees. Transport from Lubeck to Sweden. Bathing women.

  7. Ascher Family home movies: skiing in Switzerland

    Home movies of the Ascher Family, featuring daily life and vacation outings of this German-Jewish family in the 1930s. The Aschers immigrated to Palestine in 1938 and later to the United States in 1959. "Engelberg Februar 1930" Skiing in Engelberg, Switzerland. Mountains, tram, Hans Ascher and Ilse Ascher entering ski lift, Hans is waving. Aerial shots from lift. Mountain scenery. Men downhill skiing. Spectators, ski jumping competition. CUs, competitors with numbers on their chests. Scenery, slopes. 00:23:42 Ascher family having lunch on the mountain. Aerial shots of town, ice skating, rin...

  8. Provincial police reports to the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 149 PTI)

    Contains monthly police reports for more than sixty cities; Intelligence on rightists (e.g., Arrow Cross) and leftists (e.g., Social-Democrats and Communists); various nationalities (Ruthenians, Germans, Slovaks, and others); religious sects (e.g., Jehovah’s Witnesses); and Jews, including refugees from Slovakia; Secret reports on public opinion generally and among suspect groups in particular about political, military, and economic affairs.

  9. Cytrynowski family correspondence

    The Cytrynowski family correspondence collection consists of letters, postcards, and Red Cross messages to Nathan Citri from Yechiel, Genia, and Miriam Cytrynowski in Łódź, Poland and later in the Warsaw ghetto.The correspondents describe their lives, their preparations to move to Palestine, and their disappointment after plans fall through.

  10. Dias Santilhano family papers

    Contains 11 photographs illustrating the experiences of Elisabeth and Jetty Dias Santilhano during and after the Holocaust, including a photograph of Simon Dias Santilhano [donors' father] that was carried by Jetty while in concentration camps, and and post-war photographs of Elizabeth, Jetty, Louis Furth [Jetty's husband], and their son. Also includings a postcard written by David Furth in Amsterdam, Netherlands, to his son Louis in Switzerland.

  11. Bodies of victims photograph

    Consists of a photograph taken of a pile of bodies of victims at an unidentified concentration camp. The photograph shows the legs and torsos of the victims, who have been stacked in a pile.

  12. Joseph Shein collection

    Contains one copyprint of a poem, written in Yiddish, entitled "The shtetl is burning," by Mordechai Gebertig; photograph of the common grave, in Czȩstochowa, Poland, commemorating the deaths of Jewish resistance fighters in March 1943; photograph of message written on a wall by a resistance fighter in Czȩstochowa immediately before his death; one book regarding the Czȩstochowa ghetto, written by Liber Brenner; and one bound copy of "The story of our family," by Yitzhak Shein.

  13. Reichsbischof Mueller's investiture

    Title on screen: "Feierliche Einfuehrung des Reichsbischofs Mueller im Dom zu Berlin in Anwesendheit saemtlicher Bischoefe des Landeskirchen. Begeisterte Begruessung durch Abordunungen aus dem Reich. [Investiture of Reich Bishop Ludwig Mueller, in the presence of all the other bishops. Joyful greetings from delegates from throughout the Reich.]" View of the Berlin Cathedral Four lines of clergy exiting the church. Shots of spectators, close-up of Mueller. Dark shot of Mueller, others, entering the church while giving the Nazi salute. Large crowds waiting outside. Mueller and others exit the...

  14. Ernest Wachtel collection

    The Ernest Wachtel collection consists of 37 photographs depicting Ernest Wachtel, a Jewish Austrian refugee, and his experiences in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. The photographs also include liberation photographs of the Dachau concentration camp which include images of victims’ corpses, camp survivors, a building, and survivors viewed behind a barbed wire fence. There is also a set of group photographs which likely include the three survivors from the Dachau concentration cared for by Ernest, and other soldiers. The collection also includes articles regarding Ernes...

  15. Adam Schatz correspondence

    Consists of letter, dated Jul. 27, 1938, to Mr. Drew from Adam Schatz, Vienna, requesting his help in securing an affidavit for immigration to the United States.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Rabbi evacuating sacred objects from synagogue in France

    French artillery troops, on horseback and on foot, pass through a village. Local residents, mostly women and children, watch them pass. Close-ups of the spectators and the soldiers. The scene switches to show a train coming up to an outdoor platform. General Maurice Gamelin, commander of the General Staff of the French army, walks along the platform with a group of French officers. He drives off in a motorcade, observed by civilians. He is shown meeting with British General John Gort, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force at the British General Headquarters in France. They p...

  17. Capt. Guthrie J. Smith liberation collection

    The collection consists of 15 photographs, taken by Capt. Guthrie J. Smith, of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, as well as photographs of his fellow soldiers in the United States Army. Also included is a copy of his memoir, entitled "Dachau Concentration Camp," by Capt. Smith, in which he details a brief history of the camp and his experiences in the United States Army and as a liberator. The memoir contains copies of documents and photographs.

  18. Auschwitz/Dachau prisoner correspondence

    Consists of four letters written home by prisoners on concentration camp stationery; three are from Dachau, those of Aleksy Bryniyszkiewicz, Soideusr Augustyniak, and Bonifacius Gozdricki, and one from Auschwitz, that of Georg Gusikiewicz.

  19. Selected records of the SS-und Polizeigerichtsbarkeit (NS 7)

    Contains records related to various SS orders, decrees, and regulations concerning Jews. Includes the jurisdiction of the Wehrmacht court; former Jewish dwellings in Odessa; death sentences in various locations and situations; partisan war in Croatia and death sentences for suspected partisans there; criminal statistics comparing the SS and the Wehrmacht; treatment of SS men assigned to KL Buchenwald who were alcoholics; and records of local courts.

  20. Morris Gold photographs

    Consists of 15 photographs depicting pre-war Jewish life in Oz̊arów, Poland; includes one oversized photograph commemorating the Jews of Oz̊arów.