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  1. Abstract bronze statue of a concentration camp inmate made by a Czech Jewish survivor

    Small bronze statue cast from the figurine made by Vera Meisels from a bar of washing soap shortly after her liberation from Theresienstadt concentration camp in early May 1945. This figurine was cast in 2002 because the original was drying out and losing its original shape. The work is based upon Vera's memories of the concentration camp inmates called Musselmann, prisoners near death due to exhaustion, illness, starvation, or hopelessness. In August 1944, eight year old Vera, her parents, Cecilia and Zoltan, and her 12 year old sister, Aliska, fled Ruzomberok, Czechoslovakia, after the Sl...

  2. Sailing on "Ile de France"

    Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. Jacob's wife walks towards the camera on board the "Ile de France." Belle and Judith play ring toss on the upper deck. Jacob and his wife lounge in chaises. High angle shot nuns aboard boat, on deck. MS, sea, other passengers, sailors. MS, Jacob Herz poses for camera. Sailors. Brief shot of people playing shuffleboard.

  3. Horace Freeman photograph collection

    Contains 19 photographs depicting scenes from Buchenwald and Ohrdruf concentration camps after liberation. Captions are written by Horace Freeman on the verso of the photographs.

  4. Dr. Philip Solomon letter

    The three-page letter was written in Munich, Germany, and sent from Dr. Philip "Pinny" Solomon [donor's father], a physician in the U.S. Army, to his parents, Max and Dora Solomon, who lived in the United States. In the letter Pinny discusses his search for and discovery of his cousin, Jakob Ben-Zion Feinstein, who had been a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp.

  5. BDM

    BDM women with flowers at village house, EXT. 01:15:36 Automobile 01:15:38 BDM women on steps of house, gardening. Girls marching on country road, picking plums. Girls eating, performing skit, writing, eating, marching.

  6. Poles bury their war dead, Warsaw, Poland 1946

    Red Cross banner in the center of large memorial wreath- crowds of people- men women and children, this is POSTWAR footage, 1946. Polish soldiers are milling about, several military vehicles. Civilians: men, women and children, some with Red Cross armbands, a group of nurses, etc. They process to a cemetery gate, purchase candles for graves. In the BG a wooden coffin is moving past on the shoulders of some soldiers. White flags drape the gates to the cemetery. This scene cuts out before we enter the cemetery.

  7. Theater performance; balcony

    INT of a theater. People in costume rehearse a scene in which a king and queen process across the stage, followed by men holding the King's train. Two women (not seen heretofore on Film IDs 2719 or 2720 are shown sitting in the audience, no one else in audience. One of these women is shown on a balcony in the sunshine, cuddling and playing with a cat, which doesn't seem happy about the situation. A bald man in civilian clothes is shown briefly playing with the cat as well (man seen at 01:06:10 in Story 4409 and in Story 4411). Brief shot of mountain and lake.

  8. Invasion of the USSR

    German soldiers on horseback and in vehicles on a dusty road, moving east, on the march toward Schaulen (Siauliai). The camera focuses on one soldier who has his foot soaking in a bucket, riding on a horse-drawn cart. The music is upbeat and slightly comical. Three soldiers carry radio or telephone equipment between them as they walk. The music changes as the soldiers engage the enemy with automatic weapons and rifles. A few Soviet soldiers, with their hands in the air, surrender to the Germans. More fighting, surrender, burning vehicles. Close-ups of POWs, including one woman, described by...

  9. Rufa Kotlyarskaya photograph collection

    One photograph is a family portrait of the grandparents of Rufa Kotlyarskaya and their children, including her mother. The other photograph depicts a memorial to the murdered Jews in Starokonstantinov, Soviet Union (now Starokostiantyniv, Ukraine).

  10. Collection of 269 titles of Polish underground newspapers

    Contains of 269 titles of the Polish World War II underground newspapers.

  11. Liz Sonnenfeld nee Rozsi Szalbe-Marecka collection

    Contains a Polish memoir and English translation along with photographs about Rozsi Szalbe-Marecka's Holocaust experiences.

  12. Blanka and Fania Eckstein papers

    The papers consist of 17 photographs and 10 documents relating to the experiences of Blanka and Fania Eckstein before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  13. Brown leather trifold wallet used by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

    Leather trifold wallet with three pockets used by Dr. Edmund Lusthaus to store documents and photographs while serving as a medical officer in the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Lusthaus was drafted into the Polish Army. Seventeen days later, the Soviet army invaded from the east. Lusthaus was captured and taken to a camp for Polish prisoners of war in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he served as a physician. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet government released Polish POWs to join the fighting. Lusthaus joined the volun...

  14. Folk dancing in southern Poland

    Folk dancers in Zakopane, the southern Polish region near the Carpathian/Tatras mountain ranges. They dance in a circle around a cross. VS dancing. Several shots are in slow motion. 01:13:54 Quick shot of three male dancers playing with their hats and horsing around, taking a break from dancing. Sequence of folk dancing continues, the camera captures the dancers at various angles.

  15. Postwar steel wire factory

    INTs wire factory (ECA slates throughout), workers, and equipment.

  16. Anti-Jewish Nazi and collaborationist leaflets and announcements

    Contains Nazi and collaborationist anti-Jewish leaflets and announcements made and posted during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine (1941-1943).

  17. Goldschmidt School

    Goldschmidt School. Hebrew on chalkboard. Teacher and Jewish girl. Girls in class at desk. Packing book bags.

  18. Shlomo Adler papers

    The Shlomo Adler papers include documents and photographs relating to Shlomo Adler's family in Bolechow, Poland (now Bolekhiv, Ukraine) before, during, and after World War II. Photographs include pre-war images of Shlomo, his parents Dolek and Sara, and his sister Musia in Poland and at the Tarbut school in Bolechow, wartime photographs depict the Bolechow ghetto, and post-war images depict Zionist youth groups such as Gordonyah (Gordonia) in Bielsko-Biała, Poland and Noàr ha-Tsiyoni (Hanoar Hatzioní). Also pictured in pre-war photographs are Salim, Pepcia, and Alta Diamand and Jozik Adle...

  19. Trade fair; German factory; sports racing; doctors; Mussolini

    Reel 1. Part 1: Trade and industrial fair held at Konigsberg, East Prussia, Germany. 01:23:47 Part 2: Pencil factory in Germany. 01:25:30 Part 3: Bicycle race held in Germany. 01:26:25 Part 4: Swimming race and fancy diving in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 01:27:20 Part 5: Man fishing with his bare hands in Italy. 01:27:58 Part 6: Medical doctors in German hospital demonstrate modern equipment to visiting foreign physicians. 01:28:42 Part 7: Train bound for Copenhagen leaves German railroad station. 01:29:39 Part 8: Benito Mussolini acclaimed by Roman crowd.

  20. Farming and schoolyard in central Poland

    In the fields of central Poland, CU of woman harvesting crops. Then a quick succession of shots seen earlier: two girls in traditional folk dress who do not want to be photographed without their mother, girls playing dodge ball in the school yard.