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  1. Shirley Gola Enselberg photographs

    The photographs depict Shirley Gola Enselberg, her parents, and rescuers in Belgium, after liberation, and during their emigration to the United States aboard the ship, "Ernie Pyle," in September 1948.

  2. Bulgarian Legation in Madrid (Fond 256)

    Contains selected records from Fond 256 including registries of visas and passports issued.

  3. Sulamita Simenauer Konar collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Sulamita Simenauer Konar’s mother Chana Pomerancblum Simenauer and grandmother Mina Zalcman Pomerancblum, both of whom survived in hiding under false identities in Jeleśnia, Poland. Included are a registration form (Meldebestaetigung) issued to Chana under her false identity of Maria Kolodziejczyk, and two occupancy registration forms (anmeldung) issued to Mina under her false identity of Luzie Wilczynska. The form issued to Maria Kolodziejczyk stated that Maria, maiden name Szczepan, was born on June 20, 1918 in Skala, in the Lvov regi...

  4. "Janina's Story" memoir

    An autobiographical memoir by Janina Spinner Mehlberg, edited by Dr. Arthur Layton Funk; the memoir includes photocopies of photographs of Janina Mehlberg and her husband Henry. The testimony describes the experiences of Mehlberg and her husband as refugees in hiding in Lublin, Poland, during the Holocaust and their involvement with an underground movement to assist the prisoners of Majdanek.

  5. Catholic hospital in Warsaw destroyed during the German siege, 1939

    The bombed out Catholic Hospital of the Transfiguration, one of Warsaw's largest hospitals. A nurse and doctor make their way through a destroyed ward full of empty beds. Catholic statuary in the hospital, CUs of beds filled with rubble, a Virgin Mary statue on a bed, a palm tree. MCU of Julien Bryan speaking with one of the nurses at the hospital. 01:06:05 Quick shot of the destruction at the American Consular office in Warsaw. Shots of another hospital with a makeshift maternity ward in the cellar hallway. VS of the new mothers and newborns. CU, a newborn's head is bandaged. More shots of...

  6. Touring Germany

    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. In Germany, along the Rhine, tourist shots of river, a boat, crane industry on the shore, sailors. CU, Herz girl with camera. LS, chalets on shore, bridges. Street scenes with civilians on bicycles, steamboat, chalets in the mountains. In German town (Nuremberg?), street scenes, MS of food and ice cream vendor. CU Coca-Cola sign.

  7. Nationaal gedenkteken van het Fort van Breendonk Mémorial national du Fort de Breendonk

    Square, tri-folded paper cover with red pre-printed text against white background; includes ten black and white photographs of sences from the Breendonk camp in Belgium attached to each other and cover; on lower left corner of verso of each photograph is printed caption of image on recto.

  8. Centrala Evreilor

    Contains correspondence, requests, and reports from the Jewish Center in Romania. Correspondence relates to forced labor camps in various places in Bucharest, Romania, and Jewish schools including a list of 42 women at forced labor at Institutul Central de Statistica. Some letters addressed to Radu Lecca by Nandor Gingold concern requests of exemption from forced labor for various Jews. Other requests concern the special taxes for Jews and Centrala's inspection in Transnistria. Correspondence of Filderman relates to Jewish doctors from 1941 to 1943. Collection also includes information conc...

  9. Friendship ring engraved GG made from silver spoons in the Riga ghetto

    Engraved silver ring made from a spoon for Gerda Gerstl, 12, in March 1943 in the Riga ghetto. Gerda and her friend Hanka Spiegel had rings made for Hanka’s 12th birthday by Issi Lurie, a silversmith who worked with Hanka’s father Karl in the Luftwaffe uniform deposit. Gerda and Hanka traded their rings in fall 1943 when they were separated. Hanka kept Gerda’s ring until her liberation in March 1945, wearing it upside down on her hand and hiding it in her mouth during selections. Gerda and Hanka met at the Viennese school in the ghetto. Hanka and her parents were sent to Riga from Theresien...

  10. Street scenes in Latvia, circa 1937

    Street scenes, streetcars, bicycles, automobiles, people on the move, traffic cop in busy intersection at the crossing between the Old Town and the Freedom Monument Plaza in Riga, Latvia. 01:00:35 The Latvian Freedom Monument, the letters inscribed on the monument read: TEVZEMEI UN BRIVIBAI [To Fatherland and Freedom], a soldier stands guard at the base, pan up the same monument to the statue of a woman holding 3 gold stars above her head. This is the Freedom Monument in old town Riga. Side street with a view of Riga Town Hall Square, a woman is cleaning the street with a hose and water. LS...

  11. Bloeme Evers-Emden photograph

    The photograph depicts a 15 to 16-year-old Bloeme Evers-Emden with her hair pinned back and wearing glasses; on her chest is pinned a yellow star.

  12. Joe Ross collection

    The papers consist of a letter written from Buchenwald concentration camp to Copenhagen, Denmark, and a postcard written from Sachsenhausen concentration camp to Josefka Kuspumerek in Radom, Poland.

  13. Volunteers from Nazi-occupied countries

    Volunteers from Nazi-occupied or collaborator countries sent to help Germany in the fight against the Soviets. A column of Dutch Nazis marching down the streets, giving the fascist salute. The narrator describes them as the first transport of Dutch volunteers to travel to Germany, where they will join the army and fight against the Soviet Union. Crowds of well-wishers on a train platform wave goodbye to the volunteers. A close-up of a Dutch volunteer kissing his wife or girlfriend before boarding the train. The train pulls out of the station. Scene switches to Croatia, where Marshal Slavko ...

  14. 1948 documentary short about Poland (reel 1)

    Reel 1. Title cards read “THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FOUNDATION PRESENTS” then “POLAND,” “THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE,” and additional credits appear over an illustration of a flag with the Polish eagle. EXT Wawel Cathedral in Kraków. River and raft in FG, Wawel Cathedral in BG. People walking in a courtyard. (01:10) Map with illustration of Kraków and labeled “UNION OF POLAND-LITHUANIA AND RUTHENIA.” EXT market in front of St. Mary's Basilica. Additional buildings, courtyards, and street views. Sandomierska Tower. Many people walking in the streets. Sigismund's Column in Warsaw. Sign next to a ...

  15. Visiting Jacob Herz's father & relatives in Wola, Poland

    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 visiting the farm of Jacob's father, Israel, in Wola, Poland. Shots of the farm, house, and family. The Polish Herz family poses in front of their home with children. Jacob's wife and daughter Belle posing inside window frame. Daughter Judith pulls the calf. More shots of the family, farm, house, ducks, chickens.

  16. Paul Sauber memoir

    Manuscript relates to the Holocaust experiences of Paul Sauber. Mr. Sauber was born in Cluj, Transylvania (Romania), and survived Auschwitz, Mauthausen, and Dachau. The memoir (15 p.) is interspersed with Mr. Sauber's handwritten comments and newspaper clippings related to the Holocaust and centers on his anger toward Germans.

  17. Polish cavalry on maneuvers, street scenes in Warsaw, scenes in the countryside, 1936

    TRIMS of Poland 1936- not connected by subject matter. Polish cavalry on maneuvers in an open field. Shop window in Warsaw during the arrival of Smigly Rydz. INT, MCU a streetcar full of passengers in Warsaw. Gdynia, ships loading and unloading at the port, pier 23. EXT, MS, streetcar rounding a corner in Warsaw. VS, EXT, MLS, husband and wife in the countryside walking toward their home, MCU entrance to home, etc. MS, EXT, street scenes, busy street in Warsaw. EXT, MLS, new buildings in Warsaw. EXT, MS, miners exiting building in Zakopane, Poland, drinking water. EXT, CU, dockworkers at lu...

  18. Pavilion attractions and entertainment at the International Exposition in Paris, 1937

    "Expofilm. Le Plus beau souvenir de l'Exposition" 01:08:12 German flag with swastika flying with other country flags. Country maps. Child dressed like Churchill with cigarette. Adults gathered to watch play with midgets dressed in period-attire. 01:09:29 "Expofilm presente" "en exclusivite" "les parcs d'attraction" Amusement ride for children, airplane. 01:10:11 "et leurs etonnantes nouveautes" Amusement park rides, one similar to the Pirate Ship. Spectators watch, amazed at mechanical innovation, Muslim walks in FG, food stalls, hot air balloon. 01:11:01 "achetez Expofilm" Raft ride, helpi...

  19. Charna Reina Koryski correspondence

    A series of letters written in Yiddish on small white pieces of paper detailing the pre-war life of Charna Reina Koryski of Vilnus, Poland. She wrote to her widowed sister-in-law (Eva Koryski Hurwitz) of Rochester, NY about her children and the poverty and sickness the family was enduring. She thanked those in America for sending money and clothing but continued to stress the poverty they all endure. The series concludes with a letter from Rochester marked "return to sender" with a Nazi stamp. This letter, from Eva Koryski Hurwitz, Charna's expressed concern that they had not heard from the...

  20. Goering's private train (Sonderzug) and staff; Luftwaffe officers at HQ Eastern Front; Romanian air force visitors

    Events seen may be 1941 to 1943, many are 1942. Brief scene of rifle practice at shooting range in Rominten, near Goering's HQ (train) with Luftwaffe men, including Eitel Lange, Goering's still photographer (see also Film ID 2551). Goering in summer uniform under trees with Romanian air force visitors including tall dark officer, & German officers, including Adolf Galland. (May be 4 October 1941 according to Goering photo album #39 at LOC) 01:00:32 - 01:00:36 glimpse of Goering's valet, Robert Kropp, walking unobtrusively behind the group, very close to the train. Goering & others w...