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  1. Portrait of Yente Rachel Borowsky

    The black and white portrait depicts Yente Rachel Borowsky, Allen Borowsky's cousin, who perished during the Holocaust in 1942. Inscription in Yiddish on verso reads: "This is our dear brother's daughter Yente Rachel Borowsky. Killed by Hitler in 1942."

  2. Portfolio

    Portfolio, Grosse Deutsch Kunstaustellung 1943, containing color letterpress reproduction prints of fifteen paintings and four sculptures from the Great German Art Exhibition, 1943, in the House of German Art in Munich, Germany. This exhibition and this portfolio present works of ideal German Art approved by the Nazi Party and government. Similar sets were displayed and published yearly. This portfolio originally contained 16 prints of paintings. This set is missing the print of a work by Stahl.

  3. Personal archives of Zinoviĭ Tolkachev

    Contains correspondence, personal documents, art works (portraits and other paintings), a catalog, and a bibliography of Zinoviĭ Tolkachev works. Also contains guest books from several Tolkachev exhibitions in Majdanek and Oświe̜cim, Poland.

  4. Letter from Margarete Jacobson to Susan Taube

    The letter, addressed to Susan Tabue, was written in Hamburg, Germany by Margarete Jacobson. The letter reveals the fate of Susan Taube’s mother and sister, Bertha and Hilde Strauss.

  5. Dana Keren papers

    The papers consist of four American and British military propaganda leaflets aimed at German soldiers and one German propaganda leaflet aimed at American soldiers distributed in Germany between 1944 and 1945.

  6. Goldstein/Gimpel genealogical information

    Consists of family trees and genealogical information regarding the Goldstein and Gimpel/Enis families of Lwow, Poland, from 1586 to the present day. Includes photocopies of government registries in which the names of family members appear. Mr. Maximillian Goldstein, who perished with his family in the Janowska concentration camp in 1942, was a renowned collector of Judaica and the owner of the "Goldstein Collection."

  7. Juliette Cohen photographs

    Contains 25 wartime and post-war photographs depicting Juliette Cohen, who spent the war in hiding in Brussels, Belgium.

  8. Marc Jaffe collection

    Consists of receipts and thank-you letters for donations made by D. Jaffe of Newport, RI, to Rabbi A. Zelman's yeshiva in Warsaw and Rabbi A. Scher's yeshiva in Kaunas in 1939. The thank-you letters relate how difficult it is becoming to keep the yeshivas open.

  9. Vichy-French newsreel about destruction caused by Allied bombing campaigns

    A newsreel illustrating the damage and suffering caused by allied bombing raids in France. Title onscreen, superimposed over a statue of a woman: "France Meurtrie" [France ravaged]. The camera pans down from the top of a church to show pallbearers removing coffins from the church while crowds of mourners watch. Women weep as the coffins are loaded onto the back of a truck. The cortege passes a square crowded with mourners. A speaker addresses the crowd. His speech is heard over shots of individuals in the crowd, workmen excavating the still-smoldering ruins of a building, various other shot...

  10. Selected records of the Reichsinstitut für Geschichte des neuen Deutschland (R 1)

    Contains documents related to the operations of the Reichsinstitute für Geschichte des neuen Deutschland (State Institute for the History of the New Germany) and also articles and manuscripts by individual authors. Includes lists of discharged appointees; budget of the ministry; personal files; orders concerning travel limitation for Jews; manuscript by Christoph Steding entitled "Das Reich und die Krankheit der europaeischen Kultur;" professional articles by Karl Richard Ganzer; and manuscripts by Fritz Schutz about Jews in Gumbinnen and Karlsruhe, Germany, in the 18th century.

  11. Fay Nadaner papers

    The papers consist of two school certificates issued to Fela Friedmann (later Fay Nadaner) and her twin sister, Celina, in Poland around 1944 using the false Christian names that they adopted in hiding and ten pre-war photographic negatives of the Friedmann family.

  12. Jakubowicz family photographs

    Consists of 26 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Jakubowicz family, originally of Wieluń, Poland. Of the seven siblings in the Jakubowicz family, three perished, two survived in hiding, one survived Auschwitz, and Mania Jakubowicz Gryniewicz, the donor, fled with her husband to the Urals. Each photograph has been described by the donor.

  13. Karl Akiva and Ella Huppert Schwarz papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Karl Akiva Schwarz of Vienna, Austria and his wife Ella Huppert Schwarz of Bielsko-Biała, Poland, including their escape from Nazi-occupied Europe aboard the S.S. Pentcho, internments on Rhodes and in the Ferramonti concentration camp, and their immigration to Palestine. The collection includes biographical materials such as birth, marriage, and death certificates; documents from Ferramonti and Palestine; and wartime letters from family members in Poland. Photographs include depictions of the S.S. Pentcho; Ferramonti; Haifa, Israel; and ...

  14. Norbert Vos-Obstfeld photograph

    Contains photograph of a little boy sitting on a big block with an older girl standing beside him; described as "Norbert Vos-Obstfeld 1943, in hiding in Courtrai (Belgium); Norbert with Raymonde."

  15. Hitler at opening of Autobahn (Breslau to Kreibau)

    Hitler opens the stretch of the Autobahn between Breslau and Kreibau. Narrator: In ten different places segments of the Autobahn were opened at the same time. This completes the first 1000 km. Hitler opens the stretch between Breslau and Kreibau. Hitler arriving, greeted by crowds. He consults a map with two men, then speaks from a podium (quality changes - very dark). He waves his finger as he says that these streets will not be destroyed in five or ten years as were those from earlier... Hitler rides standing up in his car down the street, adored by the crowds. Men run alongside his car. ...

  16. History of Majdanek camp; survivors

    An onscreen slate from WFDiF (not original to the film) reads: Film entitled "Majdanek" was produced after the liberation of camp by the Polish Army. The premiere of film: November 1, 1944. Original titles read: Film Polski Warsaw presents: a documentary of the Polish Army Film Unit made on 25th July 1944: "Majdanek". Majdanek was liberated by the Soviets on July 23, 1944. 25th July 1944: Celebration scenes outside in Lublin as Polish Army soldiers enter the city. Women weep with joy, people hand flowers to soldiers. The camera pans down a turret of the Lublin Castle to show the corpses of ...

  17. Ewa Frenkel Przemyslawska photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs of Ewa Frenkel Przemyslawska's life immediately after World War II in Łódź, Poland, where she worked in a Jewish kindergarten and of members of a Jewish cooperative in Łódź demonstrating on May Day.

  18. Willis Hancock liberation photograph negatives

    Contains negatives of photographs taken upon the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, 1945.

  19. Year anniversary of takeover of Austria

    The one-year anniversary of the Anschluss, which occurred on 3/13/1938. Animated map of the expanded Reich with the superimposed words "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer." Standard shots of the lifting of the border crossing between Germany and Austria, Austrians saluting and holding Nazi flags, Hitler speaking to a huge crowd from a balcony. Germans marching into Austria; bucolic scenes of the Austrian mountains and countryside.

  20. Morris and Mania Schwartz Parnes collection

    The collection consists of documents and photographs relating to Mania Schwartz [donor] and her husband, Morris Parnes, documenting their experiences immediately following the Holocaust. Included in the collection: photographs from the Leipheim DP camp, the Ketubah and photographs from the Parnes' wedding day, documents from the ORT school issued to Morris Parnes, and papers relating to their immigration to Canada.