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  1. Linda Ryngiermacher Fishman photographs

    Consists of two copyprints: one of Frieda Ringermacher with friends, and one of Rajzel Rose Ringermacher Fox. Both women perished in the Holocaust, Rajzel with her three-year-old son Welwale in Treblinka in 1942 . They were from Skarżysko, Cze̜stochowa, Poland.

  2. Sophie Fritz photographs

    Contains photographs: one of three sisters, described as "Yeva, Sonja, and Liza," and one of three women and an elderly man, described as "Slova Nudelman and third husband, Sonja Cygelman Tzigelman and Rachel Nudelman Cygelman. This photograph has three generations in it, as Rachel is Slova's daughter and Sonja's mother. Only Yeva and Liza survived the war.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees returning to Vannes, France

    Various shots of destruction in the town of Vannes, France. American soldiers drive past civilians on the sides of the road. Women and children are shown doing washing at a reservoir of some kind. French civilians speak to American troops; a group of them wave to the camera. More scenes of American soldiers, studying maps at an outdoor table, posing for the camera. The streets are decorated with banners and garlands. A group of men carry an effigy of Hitler. and demonstrate cutting off its head. More smiling civilians on the streets, which look to be in good shape -- according to the dope s...

  4. Paul Goodman photographs

    Consists of pre-war photographs taken in Warsaw, Poland, of Pesl Goodman, Pesl Prizant, and Joshua Prizant; also contains copyprint of a portrait of the Goodman family, labeled "Maniewicz, Poland, pre-war."

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Downing Street, Hore-Belisha

    Politicians enter and exit 10 Downing Street and the houses of Parliament in late August 1939 as Germany threatened to invade Poland. Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Secretary of War, is one of those shown. People protest with signs reading "Churchill." Police attempt to control crowds of people. Placards advertising The Evening Standard newspaper tell of the crisis: one placard reads, "Americans told to leave Britain" and another "Britons told to leave Germany." Politicians arrive at Parliament in cars.

  6. "Tears of Remembrance"

    Consists of a manuscript, 46 pages, containing a brief narration/introduction by Stuart Robinson, entitled "Tears of Remembrance," followed by scanned photographs and maps, and affidavits with translations. The manuscript relates the experiences of residents of Grünberg, Poland, focusing on Mr. Florian Drzymala, who witnessed the executions of forty-one Jewish women during a death march that came through the town in January 1945. Also contains VHS videotape of an August 1999 meeting with Mr. Drzymala, in which he relates his experiences.

  7. Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

    Street, Warsaw ghetto inhabitants, men with armbands. Pan up to "Fotografia" facade. CU, police officer with Ordnungspolizei armband, directing traffic, smiling (seems staged). Group, woman with tickets, wicker basket. Pan up, EXT of tram building. Open doors. Group of ghetto inhabitants on open cart, awaiting transport. CU, old man with crutch, boy. 01:43:15 CU, Star of David armband. INT, shop with piles of garbage/hay, empty bottles, jam, man purchases laboratory tube at counter. 01:44:05 Two children sit huddled together on sidewalk. German officer standing on street. Crowds walking abo...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- VE Day in London

    Huge crowds in Parliament Square in London. Flags of the victorious nations fly from the Office of Works building. Shots of the people in the crowd, some of whom hold British flags. Police attempt to keep back the crowds, which surge to surround a vehicle carrying American soldiers. They are followed by a parade and a double-decker bus trying to get through the crowd. People climb up on the railings outside the House of Commons. The crowd listens to Churchill declare the unconditional surrender of Germany. His speech is intelligible in parts, but the sound is bad. After the speech the crowd...

  9. Ernst Thaelmann postcard

    Pre-printed postcard addressed to Ernst Thaelmann, Berlin, Germany. Postcard proclaims that the undersigned person demands a public trial, medical care, and the release of Ernst Thaelmann and all others from fascist jails and concentration camps.

  10. Jakubowicz family portrait

    Contains a photographic portrait of the Jakubowicz family taken circa 1929 in Wielun, Poland. Standing in the back row, from left are: Chaja-Ita; Ester Szykman; Victor; Pola; Juda Idel and Mania. Sitting in the front row from left are: Chana Stawski Jakubowicz, holding Tuwia in her lap; Rachel Holtz Jakubowicz; and Herszl, Awram Zysman and Kalman Jakubowicz.

  11. Fania Finkelsztajn Rajber photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs of Markus and Fania Finkelsztajn Rajber of Rzeszowl, Poland and their immediate families. The Rajbers emigrated to the Soviet Union and spent the war there. Fania's immediate family were all deported and perished.

  12. Laufer and Zwarenstein family papers

    The papers consist of documents, postcards, letters, and a memoir written by Ignatz Willem Laufer in 1983 relating to the experiences of the Laufer and Zwarenstein families during World War II.

  13. Selected records from the Reichstuberkuloseausschuss (R 96 II)

    Contains documents created by the Reichstuberkuloseausschuss (RTA) pertaining to the research, treatment, and containment of tuberculosis in Nazi Germany.

  14. Hans Reens papers

    The papers contain 13 photographs depicting Hans Reens as a child in hiding with the van Vlijmen family in Hilversum, Netherlands; three photographs depicting Franciscus and Henderica van Vlijmen at a ceremony honoring them as Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem; a photographic postcard depicting the summerhouse in Eerbeck, Netherlands, where Hans was caught by the Germans in August 1944; a letter written by Josef and Susanna Reens in Westerbork transit camp to the van Vlijmen family in which they refer to Hans in code as the "small dog"; a letter written on the letterhead of the Reen...

  15. Jean Haas photograph

    One photograph of Jean Haas, his twin brother Pierre, and their little sister Jacqueline. They are in swimming attire and the photograph is dated as August 20, 1943. Pierre is wearing his mother's glasses. This photograph was taken while the family was living with false Aryan papers in Couzon Mont d' Or, France.

  16. Hilda Hrabovecká autograph album

    The autograph album was created and carried by Hilda Hrabovecká at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Camp inmates contributed autographs, drawings, addresses, and "well-wishings " for the post World War II period to the album.

  17. Stutthof trial and inspection of the camp

    Opening titles in Polish. The defendants in the Stutthof trial enter the dock. The judges enter and are seated. The camera focuses on each defendant as he or she is named, including Commandant Johann Pauls, Kapo Josef Reiter, Kapo Waclaw Kozlowski, Jan Breit, and Kapo Tadeusz Kopczynski. There are several female defendants, including Gerda Steinhoff, Jenny Barkmann, Elisabeth Becker, Ewa Paradies, Wanda Klaff, and Erna Beilhardt. A female witness comes forward to point out one of the women defendants. Several of the defendants are shown speaking animatedly, presumably in their own defense. ...

  18. SHAEF photographs

    Consists of 58 photographs taken upon the liberation of various concentration camps (including Dachau, Buchenwald, Nordhausen, Kaufering IV, Dora-Mittelbau, Bergen-Belsen, and photographs of the Gardelegen massacre). Also includes wartime photographs of mass arrests of Jews in Amsterdam and photographs taken upon the liberation of that city as well as photographs taken after a massacre of Belgian civilians by the Nazis in 1945. The photographs have been thoroughly described on cards which have been fixed to the back of each photograph. The photographs have been approved by SHAEF (Supreme He...

  19. Antisemitic cartoon workers were required to post in a factory in German occupied Ukraine

    Antisemitic flier that a Russian woman was ordered by the German occupying authorities to post in a Messerschmitt airplane factory where she worked assembling bombs in the Ukraine region of the Soviet Union. Removal of a posted flier was a serious offense with punitive consequences. The bulletin features a caricature of a fat, richly dressed Jewish man as the "the true and only goal of the Bolshevik "World Revolution." The woman who posted the flier saved a copy because she did not want the world to forget the "difficulties." She kept it hidden behind a wooden picture frame and took it with...

  20. August Jacquemart collection

    Consists of six war-time photographs pertaining to Hena Evyatar and Edouard Robert. Hena Evyatar spent the war in hiding with the help of Father Edouard Robert (Eddy), a Catholic priest. The photographs were donated by the Jacquemart family, who hid Hena for a brief period of time.