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  1. Scenes from the port city of Gdynia

    LS, EXT, a freight yard as materials are taken off trains, piled in the yard. Workmen move lumber, in the northern port city of Gdynia which is Poland's main port city on the Baltic Sea.

  2. Liesel and Harry Rosenberg correspondence

    Consists of correspondence between Liesel and Harry Rosenberg. Harry Rosenberg is referred to as "Bobby" in the correspondence.

  3. Arc de Triomphe

    Ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe at night. The monument is heavily lit and a flag is posted before it. CUs, street lamp.

  4. Mendel Birnbaum photograph collection

    The photographs depict Mendel Birnbaum's experiences before and after World War II in Szczecin, Poland. The images consist of informal group photographs of family and friends as well as images of people dining, riding motorcyles, and farming.

  5. Anne Marie Yellin photograph collection

    The photographs depict Anne Marie Yellin and her parents before World War II as well as Anne Marie and other children who were in hiding during the Holocaust in a convent, St. Antoine de Padoue, in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium.

  6. Street scenes in Danzig, circa 1937

    Danzig, street scenes: streetcars, buses, supply trucks, shops, civilians going about their daily routines. 01:04:12:00 LS of trolley traveling down tracks in the center of the street. Nazi insignia and flags are visible everywhere, in every window of every building, most buildings have multiple flags displayed; continues with more street scenes of the entire street full of Nazi flags and banners. CU of sign for Adolf Hitler Strasse. MS of Hitler Youth, three young boys pose for the camera and smile; more shots of all the Nazi banners, stormtroopers, etc; 01:06:17:24 MCU of sign that reads:...

  7. Couple visits estate

    Couple walks up a driveway to an estate in the Polish countryside. People and dog walk about the property (hunting party?). CU, man with a cane speaks to a peasant woman.

  8. William Horn memoir

    The collection consists of a personal narrative by William Horn regarding the persecution of the Jews of Radom, Poland.

  9. Touring Vienna and Austria

    COLOR 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. Herz family posing in front of gardens in Vienna, plaza, "Blumen" stand, chalets. 01:15:22 Jacob, his wife, and two daughters walking towards camera. Two boys (probably Herz relatives living in Vienna). Swimming at the beach. 01:17:32 Herz girls and two boys walking around garden in German folk costumes and lederhosen in front of "Kointech" building. "Das Haus" sign. Strolling through town. Parade.

  10. Prague, 1946

    EXT shots of the YMCA building in Prague (called YMKA in Polish). VS: reconstruction of buildings in Prague. INT: VS: young adults/university age students; a reading room; CU of books on the bookshelves (Polish titles); MS: a group of young men socialize in a dormitory room, pictures of dignitaries and a poster of Prague hang on the walls; CU of a professor's classroom door. Inside the classroom, English lessons in progress, female teacher. VS: CUs of the students in class and at a social gathering.

  11. Jüdische Gemeinde Mannheim collection

    Contains lists of foreign emigration, files on confiscation of Jewish goods, on Jews transported to France on 22 October 1940, on Dr. Neter, and on the estate of Doris Perlstein (1935-1990); and financial books.

  12. Battle for Kharkov

    Map showing the "southern sector of the front." Troops marching in the area of "Donez" (Donets'k) and "Ckarkow" (Kharkov). Odessa and the Dnieper River also appear on the map. German troops marching and riding bicycles along a road. Shots of horse-drawn carts and soldiers on horseback from a ground-level perspective. A German soldier rides a camel down the road, because "the Asian border is not far away." A plane flies overhead; we see the line of horse-drawn carts and a gasoline storage facility from its perspective. From the perspective of the ground again, we see German soldiers rolling ...

  13. Esther Lask photograph collection

    The photographs relate to the experiences of Esther Lask in several displaced persons camps in Germany after World War II. The photographs mainly consist of studio portraits of individuals and informal group images of refugees at various camps. Many of the photographs have handwritten messages on the back.

  14. Mordechai Weinryb photograph collection

    The photographs depict Mordechai (Motek) Weinryb [donor] and his friends during their years of organizing illegal emigration to Palestine and later during his internment in Cyprus. The images consist of studio portraits of the donor and friends as well as one informal group photograph.

  15. Tito in office; map of Yugoslavia

    EXT, building. INT, Tito walking into his office. He sits, smokes and looks through papers. A man walks in to show him a folder. Men meet in a large room, smoke and review papers. CU, map of Yugoslavia. Tito walks through his garden and around a sculpture, followed by a dog.

  16. Selected records from Reichsschatzmeister der NSDAP (NS1)

    Contains reports, ordinances, and correspondence between the Nazi Party headquarters and its regional offices as well as officials in the occupied territories. Records include information on: Aryanization and confiscation of Jewish-, church-, and foreign-owned property; heat supply stations for various concentration camps, provisions of food and supplies to prisoner-of-war camps (Hilfszug Bayern), use of forced and slave labor, a report on the disbanding of Dachau concentration camp in 1945, and miscellaneous antisemitic newspaper clippings.

  17. Polish prewar Catholic film: gathering, ceremony, celebration, speech

    Polish titles, mainly music track. Opens with quote from Ignacy Moscicki. Church seen from various angles. Madonna and child superimposed in the sky above the town. Religious procession along a road and in boats down a river, to 00:24:23. Singing. Bells tolling 00:26:15. Townspeople stream along the streets towards the ceremony. Train coming down the tracks. Children in ethnic costume present flowers to honored guest. A plaque bearing the name of Jozef Pilsudski (who died in 1935) is unveiled, former head of the Polish government and Poland's representative at Versailles. Man gives a speech...

  18. Russek family photograph

    Image is of Herman Yablokoff (donor's uncle), a prominent actor in Yiddish theater, holding Michael Russek [donor's son] upon the arrival of the Russeks in N.Y. on March 3, 1949. The Russeks had immigrated from a displaced persons camp in Germany with the assistance of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), as indicated by the pin on Michael's jacket.

  19. Church

    Church.

  20. Selected records from the Archives départementales de Vaucluse

    Contains various records on foreign refugees, including Jewish refugees; documents on the internment camp Saint-Cyprien and the prison Sainte-Anne, 1940; files on Jewish and French Freemasons (Masons); summary of prefecture reports for the non-occupied part of France, 1941-1943; registers and personal dossiers of internees.