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  1. Jeanette Orbach collection

    Consists of two post-war photographs of Jeanette Orbach, originally of Ichenhausen, Germany, and an obituary, 1971, for Mrs. Orbach, describing her pre-war emigration to the United States to escape the Holocaust.

  2. Drevich family collection

    Consists of an 101-page manuscript and twenty photographs. The manuscript, "An Auschwitz memoir," written by Arka Drevich donor's father describes his experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1942 to 1945. Photographs show the Drevich family life before and after World War II; most photographs were taken in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany between 1946 and 1948.

  3. Manes Weizman identification card

    Consists of one identification card, dated April 30, 1945, identifying Manes Weizman, originally of Pionki, Poland, as a civilian internee of Buchenwald.

  4. Shaked-Zalmonovitz family papers

    The papers consist of four photographs depicting Hava Shaked (born Eva Zalmonovitz), her parents, and her twin brother, Moritz Moshe, in Hungary during and immediately after World War II and after her immigration to Israel in 1949. A memoir written by Hava’s husband, Dov Shaked, about his experiences during the Holocaust is also included.

  5. Parke O. Yingst liberation collection

    Consists of photographs and color slides taken by Lieutenant Colonel Parke O. Yingst, a member of the Army Corps of Engineers, upon the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps. Also contains one roll of film of the Buchenwald liberation photographs. Notable is a photograph of Margaret Bourke-White taking a photograph. Collection contains duplicate copies of photographs.

  6. Anniversary of Manfred von Richthofen's death

    Ceremony commemorating the 15th anniversary of the death of Manfred von Richthofen. Opens on a portrait of von Richthofen, then a shot of his gravestone with a rose laid across it. Large crowds at the cemetery; pastor speaks a brief part of eulogy, people salute as music plays. Civilians and military in crowd. Photographers visible.

  7. Young Bobby and Edith in prewar Austria

    Robert (Bobby) Tennenbaum as a young child just learning to walk. Bobby toddles along the path of a park and climbs stairs in a park in Baden, a suburb of Vienna. His relatives, including his grandparents and uncle, stand by to catch him in case he falls. Bobby plays with cousin Edith. Lots of very cute baby shots. Bobby in the arms of his mother, Ernestine (Erna), walking across a lawn in the park. Bobby and Edith seated on a blanket with their mothers. Very nice scenes of the family playing with the children. 01:27:32 Bobby's paternal grandfather walks in a park-like setting in Sauerbrunn...

  8. Selected records of the Etz-Haim Jewish religious community in Strasbourg

    Contains records related to the Etz-Haim Jewish religious community in Strasbourg, France, including membership lists, protocols of leadership, administrative documents, correspondence with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and other organizations, financial records, and cemetery records.

  9. The Hess Family in Germany and on vacation

    IM INNERSTEN WESTFALEN. Boy in suit, VAR shots. Dog, couple playing with dog in winter. Aerial shots. FREUNDE UND BEKANNT. Young couple. CU, man writing at desk. MERAN BEISCHLECHTEM WETTEN... Trees waving in the wind. ... UND BEI GUTEN. Aerial shots, landscape, women smelling blossoms on a tree, CUs blossoms. AM MONT BLAN. Snow capped mountains, people hiking/trekking. AUF DEM GENFER SEE. Homes on waterfront, views from a boat on the sea, men playing violins. GANZ KLEIN SIEHT DER SALEV VON GENF HER AUS! Pan riverside. UEBERHOLTES AUS AROSA. In small village, pedestrians, women, cats on chai...

  10. Tennenbaum family in Nazi Vienna; departing on the Queen Mary ship

    November 1937. Robert (Bobby) Tennenbaum (donor) at age 2 in the Volksgarten park in Vienna with his mother, Ernestine (Erna). Shots of Bobby, wearing a winter coat and hat, smiling and running in the park, while his mother and grandfather look on. Closer views of Erna and grandfather. Erna wears a fur stole around her neck. Other park-goers are visible in BG. Shots of Erna and Bobby's grandfather. More scenes of Bobby with various adults, including his father Marcus. Leo Beller with his son Paul in St. Johann park. Paul poses for the camera and sits on a bench while his father combs his ha...

  11. Egon and Frieda Fried collection

    Consists of documentation regarding the education, emigration, and employment of Egon and Frieda Fried who emigrated first to England and then to the United States from Vienna, Austria, in 1939 to 1940. Egon Fried was an engineer, and the collection contains his diplomas from primary and secondary school, his letters seeking employment in the United States, letters of recommendation, and original blueprints and drafts he created.

  12. Regina Goldberg Lomm Halpern papers

    The papers consist of documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Regina Goldberg Lomm Halpern donor's wife and her first husband, Berek Lomm, during and after the Holocaust and her claims for restitution after World War II. Also included in the papers is a book of poems about the Holocaust, "I Cannot Forget," by Henriette Kermisch, a friend of Regina Goldberg Lomm Halpern.

  13. Holcman family papers

    The papers consist of eight photographs documenting the experiences of Roza Holcman and Liza Rozenberg Holcman during World War II. Also included in the papers is a notebook kept by Roza Holcman from 1942 to 1945 while she was interned in a Soviet labor camp and in which she wrote dates and historical facts.

  14. Selected records from the Archives of the Military History Institute for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro

    Contains documents created by the Italian occupation authorities, regarding arrests and persecution of, and reprisals against, Jews, members of antifascist movements, communists, and the general population.

  15. Edith Moses Mayer correspondence

    The Edith Moses Mayer correspondence primarily consists of postwar letters Ludwig Moses addressed from Germany to his daughter Edith and other relatives in the United States. The correspondence also includes a 1942 letter Edith wrote from Baltimore to her parents in the Gurs concentration camp in France and a 1944 letter to Edith from a maternal relative in New Jersey. Edith’s 1942 letter was returned to her, likely because it did not reach Gurs before her parents were deported to Auschwitz.

  16. Memorial to police

    Title on screen: "Ein Ehrenmal der Polizei auf dem Horst Wessel-Platz in Berlin enthuellt. Unweit dieser Stelle wurden vor drei Jahren die Polizei Hauptleute Anlauf und Lenk von Kommunisten ermordert. [The unveiling of a memorial to the police on the Horst Wessel Plazt in Berlin. Three years ago the police captains Anlauf and Lenk were murdered by communists]." A policeman stands and speaks at a flag-draped podium. He salutes at the end of his speech. The crowd salutes as the memorial is uncovered. Members of the military march past the memorial. Good shots of police in uniform, including c...

  17. Miron Ioffe photographs

    Consists of three copyprints of a tombstone and obelisk erected at the place of execution of Jews of the Gusino ghetto in the Smolensk district in Russia. The donor's immediate family, including his father, Shaya Ioffe, and mother, Leah Ioffe, was killed there.

  18. Sonja Kirschener collection

    Consists of 41 photographs, mainly pre-war, of the Kaiser family in Germany, as well as wartime and post-war photographs taken after the family fled to Shanghai, China. Also includes three copies of the Shanghai Jewish school newspaper, "The Oracle," 1947.

  19. Alejandro Landman family papers

    Consists of two memoirs, one of Alejandro (Elhanan) Landman, born in Poland in 1933. Mr. Landman reconstructed by memory his childhood diary, which relates his life in German-occupied eastern Poland between 1941-1945 (25 pages). The other memoir is of Mrs. Pepe Landman, mother of Alejandro, written from Montevideo in 1986-1987, relating the Holocaust experiences of herself and her family (67 pages). The family moved from Stanislawow to Lwow in 1941 and lived there until 1943, when they went into hiding in Buczacz. After the war, they emigrated to Uruguay. Collection also contains copies of ...

  20. Lonia Bork collection

    Contains postcards written from the Łódź ghetto, 1940-1941, to Lonia Bork's sister in Russia. Also includes letter written by Lonia from Hanover, Germany, 1945; and a small circular metal "dogtag" with "Halberstadt L.B. 1945" engraved into it. The "dogtag" belonged to Luba Gerszenowicz Horn from Aleksandrów, Poland.