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  1. Rivka Radzinski photograph collection

    Consists of approximately 186 pre-war photographs taken from the photograph album of Rivka Radzinski of Warsaw, Poland. Rivka, her father Dawid, a Zionist activist, and her mother, Miriam Twersky, were killed in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  2. J Malan Heslop papers

    The papers consist of two binders holding photographs, newspaper clippings, a copyprint of a cartoon, a pamphlet, "Betrifft Widerstand," and an unpublished memoir by J Malan Heslop, who was a photographer with the 167th Signal Corps Unit that documented the experiences of the United States Army in Europe during World War II culminating with the liberation of Ebensee and Mauthausen concentration camps.

  3. Eric and Fee Goldfarb collection

    Consists of autograph book owned by Felicitas (Erica) Beyth (entries date from 1937-1940), French identity card for foreigners for Felicitas Beyth Goldfarb (1948) and wartime and post-war documents regarding Eric Goldfarb, including a copy of a form giving the "Comite Israelite Pour Les Enfants" custody and power of attorney for Eric Goldfarb. Also includes a photocopy of a "constitution" written at the La Guette children's home, in which the children decided to create a representative democracy.

  4. Records of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission to investigate crimes committed by Nazis and their collaborators on the territory of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic during WWII (Fond 1026)

    Contains records about victims, crimes against persons, and perpetrators as well as information about damage and material losses to personal and government properties ( houses, clubs, theatres, museums, libraries etc), industry and agriculture, caused by the occupation. Including name lists of victims, evacuees, protocols of interrogations of eyewitnesses by local members of the Extraordinary Commission, inventories of the destroyed property and signed depositions summarizing what the commission learned. Also includes photos, diagrams, and maps showing the location of atrocities or graves.

  5. Berthe Pesses Cygelfarb photographs

    Contains wartime and post-war photoprints relating to the Holocaust experiences of Berthe Pesses Cygelfarb. Includes a 1942 photoprint of her father, Israel Pesses, as well as numerous post-war photographs taken at the Le Tremplin OSE children's home. Also includes one framed pre-war family photograph.

  6. Die wahrheit über das konzentrationslager Buchenwald

    Contains a magazine entitled "Die wahrheit über das konzentrationslager Buchenwald." The front cover contains black and white photographic images of Buchenwald stone sign and interior of barracks.

  7. Spreekmeester family papers

    The collection documents the efforts of the Spreekmeester family of Amsterdam, The Netherlands to prove their English ancestry and citizenship in order to obtain British passports for emigration and to avoid deportation to a concentration camp. The majority of the correspondence is with the Embassy of Switzerland in Berlin, and regards efforts to obtain British passports for Emanuel and Rebecca Spreekmeester and their two sons Philip Alfred and Alfred Arthur. Documents in1943-1944 were written after the family was deported to the Westerbork concentration camp, and then Bergen-Belsen. The ma...

  8. Photograph of employees in Łódź ghetto

    The photograph depicts a group of employees in the economic administration department in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. Rachel Waner [donor's mother], seated on right, was a teacher, and in the ghetto she was the principal of a school on 6 Smugowa Street. After the closing of the schools in the fall of 1941, she taught children in the carpet workshop of the ghetto and later worked in the economic administration department along with her husband, Chaim Waner. Inka Waner Honigman [donor], standing to the left of her mother, was a high-school student and later worked in the ghetto's hat workshop.

  9. "In Memory of a Great Man"

    Consists of one memoir, translated from the original French into Spanish and English, entitled "In Memory of a Great Man," written by Dr. Boleslaw Ratniewski. Dr Ratniewski, originally of Poland, received a medical degree in France in 1930. He was mobilized into the Polish Army after the German invasion in 1939. In 1941, he was captured by the German Army, escaped from a POW camp, and joined the resistance. Dr. Rainiewski joined the Russian army in 1943, and was transferred to the Polish army in 1944. After the war, he resumed work in a hospital in Poland until his immigration to Mexico in ...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- World War I memorial at Vimy; French refugees, Belgium

    Several Frenchmen, some of whom wear the uniforms of high-ranking officers and some of whom are in civilian dress, visiting the Canadian World War I memorial at Vimy, France. They survey a vast fortification system dug into the earth and lined with sandbags. The camera focuses on a sign reading "Canadian Front Line, 1917." The scene switches to show soldiers (French?) marching across a town square, then back to the men inspecting the fortification. The men approach a huge structure that serves as the memorial. 01:21:44 Various views of ruins of buildings in the Flanders region of Belgium. C...

  11. Sergio DeBenedetti memoirs

    Consists of one unedited memoir, in Italian, entitled "Note Antifasciste," by Sergio DeBenedetti (approximately 520 pages) 1941, and the edited version of "Note Antifasciste," retitled "Between Fascism and Freedom: The Education of Sergio DeBenedetti," edited by Vera DeBenedetti Bonnet, in English, (approximately 100 pages), 2003. In this memoir, Sergio DeBenedetti recounts his experiences as a Jewish physicist in Mussolini's Italy and his experiences working in Paris in the months immediately preceeding the Nazi invasion in 1940.

  12. Gardelegen burial of POWs

    (LIB 5953) "Murder, Incorporated", Gardelegen, Germany, April 25, 1945 SEQ: Catholic and Jewish chaplains conduct memorial services for 1100 prisoners of war murdered by Germans. VAR, graves in small cemetery. MS, Honor Guard firing salute. MS, bugler sounding Taps.

  13. Mayer and Mané family papers

    The collection consists of original and photocopies of biographical material, correspondence, and photographs related to Eugene and Selma Mané’s prewar life in Germany and their immigration to the United States in 1937, as well as their family’s wartime experiences in Germany and France. Biographical material includes an affidavit, immigrant identification card, and report cards for Eugene, as well as newspaper clippings and research of family history and the fates of family members. Family correspondence includes letters between family members in the United States and Europe, including le...

  14. Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Bund

    50th anniversary of the Bund, 1947. Credits in Polish and some kind of introduction written in Yiddish. People march with flags down the streets of the remains of the Warsaw ghetto. Some of the marchers carry large wreaths, which are placed on the monument the Warsaw ghetto fighters. Men carry a casket containing (according to the narration) the exhumed body of Dr. Leon Feiner, who died one month after liberation. Men identified as Dr. Schuldenfrei and Minister Grossfeld speak to mourners. Dirt is shoveled onto the casket. Marek Edelman speaks. The narrator reads the names engraved on a sto...

  15. Spector family papers

    Consists of one affidavit, dated 1939, in which Mr. Hyman Spector of Brooklyn, NY, pledges to support members of the Wielodrotz family wishing to emigrate to the United States from Germany, as well as two telegrams written in 1945 by Yetta Spector requesting information on missing family members and two postcards from the American Red Cross, which was unable to locate the missing people.

  16. Selected records from Romanian diplomatic missions

    Contains reports, correspondence, and reportage sent before and during World War II to Bucharest, Romania, from the Romanian diplomatic missions in Rome (Italy), Moscow (Soviet Union), Washington (U.S.A.), Berlin (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), Istanbul (Turkey), Prague (Czechoslovakia), Belgrade (Yugoslavia), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), The Hague (Netherlands), Bern (Switzerland), the Vatican, Cairo (Egypt), Lisbon (Portugal), London (UK), Paris (France). The Washington records show the concern of American Jews about the treatment of Jews in Romani...

  17. Photograph of the Landsberg concentration camp

    The photograph depicts the remnants of a burned-out building in the Landsberg concentration camp in April 1945.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- England 1939: posters with Hitler & Goebbels "wanted for murder"

    Blackout preparations in London: men paint white stripes on trees, lamp posts, and curbs. People at a gas mask depot in Lambeth. A newly married couple exits a church. The bride, groom, and bridesmaids all carry gas masks. A sign on the side of a building informs the public that gas masks are the property of the government and must be properly cared for. A young boy sitting on a curb opens a box containing a gas mask and puts it on. Men pile sandbags around a fire alarm box. "Wanted!" posters featuring photos of Hitler and Goebbels. Men paint car bumpers white for driving in a blackout. San...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- David Ben-Gurion and Stephen Wise at the World Zionist Congress

    David Ben-Gurion speaks (in English) to a roomful of men at the first postwar gathering of Zionist leaders. Rabbi Stephen Wise sits beside Ben-Gurion. There is a Zionist flag and a map of the middle east hanging on the walls behind Ben-Gurion. Long shots of Ben-Gurion speaking. 01:35:50 Closer shots of Ben-Gurion, speaking at great length. Mute: Various shots, medium close and close, of portions of the audience. 01:40:20 close-ups of Stephen Wise listening to the speech. 01:40:36 Sign reading "World Zionist Conference." Sound is mostly comprehensible, better in closeup scene.

  20. "Fighting for Survival" memoir

    Consists of a memoir, 218 pages, describing the Holocaust experiences of Erwin Kampelmacher from 1938-1945. The memoir describes his emigration to Holland from Vienna after the Anschluss and his experiences hiding with various Dutch families as a non-Jew and working in various occupations in wartime Holland. The memoir began as a diary, with the pages concerning 1938 written as the events occurred, but the description of the years following 1938 were written fifty years after the war.