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  1. Lola Kaufman Eisenberg photographs

    Consists of five pre-war photographs of the Kaufman family, originally of Be̜dzin, Poland. Includes photographs of David, Adela, Billia (Bala), Moses, Lea (Lola), and Simcha Kaufman, as well as of Selek Brediu and Vera and Fela Pfeffer.

  2. MS St. Louis immigrant identification card

    An identification card for Elisabeth Haas, a passenger on the MS St. Louis, dated May 27, 1939, the anticipated date of arrival.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Petain trial

    Exterior shots of the Palace of Justice, where the trial of Marshal Henri Phillipe Petain is taking place. Several shots of a police van arriving at the palace while French police watch. A policeman patrols the roof of the palace of justice; interior and exterior shots of Petain's barred windows. Judge Mongibeaux speaks with another man outside the palace. Spectators show their credentials to the police at the gate. Interior shots of the building; a man holds a movie camera. Lawyers or judges in robes enter; Petain watches as Attorney General Morney walks past him (we see Petain entering th...

  4. Helena Sztajnberg memoir

    Contains a memoir, 37 pages, regarding the Holocaust experiences of Helen Sztajnberg. She was born in 1919, in Skarzysko Kamienna, Poland. After the German invasion she and her son Jurek were forced into a ghetto, where she attempted to obtain false papers as Helena Andrzejczak. She traveled from town to town throughout the war and was liberated in April 1945. Her parents and brothers perished in Treblinka and her husband was murdered by Poles after the war.

  5. Selected records from the Hauptstaatsarchiv NSDAP (NS 26)

    Contains a variety of administrative documents created by the NSDAP, including procedural guidelines, SA reports, speeches, correspondence, personnel files, minutes of meetings, and information on groups deemed inimical to Nazi ideology.

  6. Herbert Krogman photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Herbert Krogman’s life in Copenhagen, Denmark prior to World War II; his flight to Sweden with his parents, Herman and Frieda Krogman, in 1943; and his service in the Danish Army in 1945.

  7. Ewa Karpinska photograph collection

    The collection consists of 18 photographs depicting members of Ewa Karpinska's family in Germany during the time period of the Holocaust.

  8. Selected records of the Lehr- und Forschungsgemeinschaft- Ahnenerbe (NS-21)

    Contains documents related to the operations of the Lehr- und Forschungsgemeinschaft- Ahnenerbe, a Himmler-created organization that sought to promulgate the notion of German cultural superiority through pseudo-scientific and pseudo-archaeological 'discoveries.'

  9. "From Bessarabian Jews to the 'Justs' of Creuse"

    Consists of one memoir, "From Bessarabian Jews to the 'Justs' of Creuse," written by Assia Mèlamed in June 2000. She writes about the current atmosphere in Romania and Moldova in regard to the Holocaust and also describes her own experiences as a hidden child in France, highlighting the French citizens who rescued her and her parents, the Dufour and Fournier families.

  10. Antisemitic postcard

    Consists of one postcard, undated, with a black-and-white photograph of Hitler greeting a little girl on the front. Both sender and recipient are unidentified on the postcard; it reads that the Jewish press in America are spreading lies about events in Hitler's Germany.

  11. Nazis in Łódź and other cities in Poland

    Quick pan of German officials inside building, meeting. EXT, Nazi elite (some with wives) on steps in uniforms, waving. Speech in field. 01:07:55 "AGFA 1940" Nazis speaking to large crowd, marching band. LS Polish landscape. HAS, inspecting soldiers, crowd, speaking. 01:10:08 "AGFA 1940" Soldiers marching, parades, demonstrations, band, gathered to hear speech, uniforms with swastikas, cavalry unit in forest, Germans heiling, speaking from balcony in street, swastikas in Łódź city square. CUs, Hitler Youth. [01:12:33 - 01:12:40 black screen] HAS, parade. Civilians in city streets. Nazi marc...

  12. "Entartete Kunst" [Degenerate Art] exhibit in Paris with commentary

    Sign advertising "Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme" in Paris. Interior of exhibit featuring a naked female mannequin in a museum display. Shrill, harsh music over scenes of the exhibit and the narrator's critical comments about the exhibit on surrealist art.

  13. Catheryne Morgen photograph collection

    The collection consists of pages from a scrapbook that contain photographs of the Ilkovic family before World War II in Vrútky, Slovakia, and photographs of Catheryne after the war in Bad Gastein, Austria, and Lido di Roma, Italy.

  14. Josef Kliger collection

    Consists of the wedding contract marking the marriage of Yaakov Feldman to Sara Adler, Tomaszowska, 1939; photographs of the family of Chaim Klinger, who married Pajga Adler in 1938, and spent the war in Karasyara, Russia. His parents perished during the war. Also contains post-war photographs of survivors at Holocaust commemorations.

  15. Anti-Nazi, pro-Soviet film about the Ukraine

    Film illustrating the effect on the Ukraine of the Nazi invasion there in 1941. The perspective is pro-Soviet and anti-Nazi (it was produced by the US Government). The film opens in the city of Lvov. People wearing native costume parade along a street, then shots of civilians marching and giving the Soviet salute. The narration speaks of the divided, oppressed Ukrainians and the freedom and unity they found under Joseph Stalin's rule. The camera focuses on a reviewing stand full of Soviet officials but Stalin does not appear to be among them. The camera pans across an aerial view of Kiev, d...

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Former Gestapo torture site in Paris

    Scenes of a "Gestapo torture chamber" in Paris. A contingent inspects the torture chamber; a line of relatives of torture victims waits outside. More interior shots, including a room where victims were burned. Handprints are visible on the walls, and a man points them out to the camera and places his hands in some of the impressions by way of illustration. In another room, a group of men inspects wooden posts to which people were presumably tied and executed. The tops of the posts are riddled with what may be bullet holes. A string of rosary beads and a blindfold have been placed on one of ...

  17. Goldberger family photographs

    Consists of eight pre-war and wartime photographs from the collection of Gustav (Gus) Goldberger. The Goldberger family emigrated to Denmark in 1935, where Jeno Goldberger was the chief cantor in Copenhagen. The photographs include kindergarten pictures, piano recital pictures, and other pictures that demonstrate the daily life of the family in pre-war and wartime Denmark. The family escaped to Sweden in 1943, but returned to Denmark after the war.

  18. Maier family papers

    The Maier family papers contain identification documents, passports, correspondence, and photographs relating to the Maier family’s experience aboard the MS St. Louis. Two photographs show Bertha Ackerman, Freya Maier, and Ludwig Maier boarding the MS St. Louis, and Sonja Maier attending a child’s birthday party aboard the ship. Also included is a donation registry list detailing donations collected for the funeral expenses of Mortiz Weiler who died while aboard the MS St. Louis. The registry records the name, room number and amount donated to the donation fund by passengers on the MS St. L...

  19. Anniversary of Munich Putsch

    Anniversary of the 1923 Munich Putsch. Reenactment of the burial of the party members killed in the Putsch, at the Feldherrnhalle in Munich. Horse-drawn hearses carry coffins into the Feldherrnhalle. The event appears to be taking place at night and is lit by torches. Good views of the hall, including two large stone lions flanking a staircase. Flag-draped coffins line a wall; above them are banners bearing the names of the dead. A uniformed man stands behind each coffin. The scene switches to a solemn outdoor parade headed by Julius Streicher. Streicher stops, salutes. A wreath is laid. Hi...

  20. Records of the Ministry of Jewish Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania (Fond 1129)

    The collection includes files of the Ministry of Jewish Affairs regarding the development and activities of Jewish communities in Lithuania during the inter-war period. The collection includes mainly correspondence with local and government authorities, local Jewish communities across Lithuania regarding budget, tax collection, salaries of Jewish community officials and their election, Jewish schools, minutes of the meetings of the Jewish councils, annual reports, and budget proposals, documents related to the Jewish emigration from Lithuania to America and the Jewish Folk bank, and newspap...