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  1. Csengeri family photograph collection

    The collection consists of pre-World War II, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Csengeri family, originally of Hungary. The photographs depict twin sisters, Lea and Yehudit Csengeri, who survived experiments performed by Josef Mengele in Auschwitz. Includes photographs sent by their mother, Rosalia, to their father, Zvi, while he was in a labor camp in Ukraine.

  2. Stanisław Rogulski papers

    The Stanisław Rogulski papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Rogulski’s academic and diplomatic career until his dismissal during the antisemitic repression of the Polish 1968 political crisis. The collection also includes a handful of records documenting his stepmother Helena Molenda’s survival in hiding during the Holocaust.

  3. Wuhlfel burial of Russian POWs

    (LIB 6232) Disinterment, Reburial of Russian Prisoners of War, Wuhlfel, Germany, May 2, 1945 SEQ: Germans under supervision of the British Military Government Detachment #518 and the US 35th Inf. Div. XII Corps are assembled, briefed, and provided with picks and shovels. MSs, Russian officer speaks to German civilians through an interpreter. MSs, CUs, British officers supervise the exhumation and reburial of murdered prisoners by German civilians. MCU, MS, former Russian prisoners identify bodies. Several women are crying. CU, body of Russian woman killed by the Nazis. MSs, trucks carrying ...

  4. Herman Rothberg photograph collection

    The 33 photographs were taken in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II. Many of the photographs have captions on the verso.

  5. Namering burial of slave laborers

    (LIB 6744) Atrocities, Namering and Eging(?), Germany, May 19, 1945 SEQ: German civilians load and unload wood coffins of 800 Allied slave laborers from carts; hammering covers on coffins. MCUs, several corpses in open coffins covered with insects. SEQ: Catholic ceremony for the dead. SEQ: German civilians place coffins in huge pit.

  6. Peretz Miransky photographs

    Consists of 29 mainly pre-war photographs from the collection of Peretz Miransky, a member of "Yung Vilno", a group of young artists and writers in Vilnius, Lithuania. Each of the photographs has been described by Anne Miransky [donor].

  7. Nazi concentration camps

    Film evidence of Nazi Atrocities: Various Concentration Camps, April 1945 CUs, mutilated mangled bodies lying on ground. German civilians cart them on litters to common burial grounds, under the direction of US military police. MS, charred human torso is placed on litter. MS, Catholic chaplain conducts rites for dead at altar set up on hood of jeep. LS, American soldiers looking down into open burial pit filled with bodies. LS, CUs, charred bodies of the victims. LS, MSs, corpses in grotesque positions lying inside barbed wire enclosure. MS, CUs, cadavers stacked on trucks. INTs, crematorie...

  9. Bergen-Belsen liberation photographs

    Consists of eight photographs taken by Royal Canadian Air Force photographer Stan Brocklebank at the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in spring 1945. The photographs show various buildings in the camp as well as both filled in and open mass graves.

  10. Kitty Koretz Saunders photograph

    Consists of photograph of twins Kitty and Peter Koretz, taken in Prague, in 1939. Peter perished in Auschwitz in 1944.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Paintings from the Louvre being returned to the museum; coffin-making in France; Melun prison in France

    Large covered trucks pull up outside the Louvre, the entrance to which is guarded by armed police. Shots of large crates containing works of art as they are unloaded from the trucks. A woman checks off items against a list. 01:24:52 Hearses enter and exit the garage of "104 rue d'Aubervilliers, the building of municipal undertakers" (according to the dope sheet). Interior shots of men building coffins and coffins traveling down a conveyor belt. Completed coffins, some of which are child-size, being unloaded from a dolly. The dope sheet states that some 7,000 coffins are contained in this bu...

  12. Brunn and Ornstein family photographs and diary

    The Brunn and Ornstein family photographs and diary consists of photographs related to the families of Anna Brunn and Paul Ornstein, originally of Szendrő and Hajdúnánás, Hungary, respectively. Photographs include pre-war and wartime originals and copies of Anna and Paul and their extended family in Hungary. Some of the photographs include captions provided by the donor and several photographic postcards have writing on the back. The collection also includes a pocket calendar used as a diary and carried by Paul's father, Lajos Ornstein, while in a Hungarian labor battalion on a forced march...

  13. Marcel Jabelot photographs

    Consists of five pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the family of Marcel Jabelot (Jablonowicz); includes a 1929 photograph of Marcel at age five, as well as a portrait of his father, George Jablonowicz, taken in Nice in 1942. The family was deported to Drancy and then to Auschwitz where George perished.

  14. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of Dordogne

    Documents on the persecution of Jews in the Dordogne, including Aryanization and postwar restitution of property; internment in camps; forced labor of foreigners, clandestine passage between the Occupied and Free Zones, exclusion from professions. Included are letters of denunciation, antisemitic flyers, statistics about Jewish residents; other documents concern Freemasons, German war crimes, and postwar Jewish emigration to Israel.

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Gas mask fitting in London

    People in and around London prepare for the possibility of war. Several people look at a map posted on the side of a building. Closer shots of posters reading: "City of Westminster Air Raid Precautions, Fitting Gas Masks." Women and children gathering cut tree limbs from a street and construction of some kind, perhaps laying a sidewalk (these scenes are not described in the dope sheet). Shots of people waiting in line outside a building, then shots of people trying on gas masks and attempting to breathe through them. A child-sized mask is placed on the face of a crying toddler. More scenes ...

  16. Henry Knepler papers

    The Henry Knepler papers include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and writings documenting Henry Knepler and his relatives, their lives before the war in Vienna, where Hugo Knepler was in the music business, Henry’s travel to England via Kindertransport and subsequent internment as an enemy alien in England and Canada, his mother’s survival in Austria by hiding under a false identity, and Hugo’s escape to Monaco, eventual arrest, and transport to Auschwitz where he did not survive. Some of these materials are photocopies. Biographical materials document the lives of Henr...

  17. Mira Frenkel photograph collection

    The collection consists of 5 photographs depicting Jewish children, including Mira Frenkel (née Menzer), performing in a play while imprisoned in the Nováky forced labor camp in Slovakia in 1944.

  18. Selected records from National Archives in Prague (JAF: NSM 1464)

    This collection contains records of the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and subordinate Czech agencies dealing with matters of internal security and “racial” policy. It also includes a police catalog of art and precious metal objects confiscated from Jews.

  19. Robert Krob papers

    The papers consist of one letter and 11 photographs. The letter was written on September 4, 1945, by Robert Krob in Amberg, Germany, to his wife, Verona, in Iowa. In the letter he describes the experiences of a soldier from the 11th Armored Division of the United States Army who was in Mauthausen after the camp's liberation and his own opinions and impressions of the German regime. He enclosed with the letter 11 photographs that he printed from the negatives that were taken by the soldier who was at Mauthausen.

  20. Dave Williams slide collection

    Collection consisting 14 positive image cut, mounted, and taped between two pieces of glass depicting "Jewish ghetto" scenes, identified in some cases as Kozienice, Poland and Russia, and as being photographed by "Konrad Berge of Infantry Regiment 43."