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  1. Rosenberg, Ross, and Singer family papers

    Contains photographs and documents pertaining to the family's experiences in Germany, France, and England during the Holocaust.

  2. Immigration of the Polish Jews to Palestine

    Polish Jews immigrate to Palestine, locations in Constanza, Romania, and Mediterranean.

  3. Selected records from the Prefettura Gabinetto Ebrei di Roma

    Contains records related to Italy’s 1938 “race law” and the ensuing census of Italian Jews, notably on individual discrimination cases and exemptions on the basis of health, mixed marriage, decoration in World War I, or membership in the Fascist Party.

  4. Torczyner collection

    Contains documents about the activities of the Maccabi Aid Committee and the Maccabi World Union. The activities involved the 1939 organization of illegal transports of Jewish refugees travelling by boat on the Danube River from Vienna, Austria, across Hungary and Yugoslavia, to Palestine. Another activity was to find a place in Bolivia to settle hundreds of Jewish refugees. Includes an atlas of Bolivia. Also includes corresdondence between various members of the family living as refugees in Palestine, Shanghai, China, and Havana, Cuba. The Palestine branch of the Torczyner family are survi...

  5. Men in office

    INT, man sitting at table, staring at wall. INT, office or apartment with two men. Poster on wall reading "Prague 17 XI 1945". Men eating bread, pointing to photographs on wall.

  6. Berlin

    Pedestrians in city, dog.

  7. Wartime SS officer's diary

    The wartime diary of an SS officer is written in German and is arranged chronologically although the year is unknown. The diary includes descriptions of events along with newspaper clippings and map. The dairy was taken from an SS officer by an unnamed Sergeant in the United States Army.

  8. Rysia Bialostocka photograph collection

    The photographs relate to Rysia Bialostocka's experiences in Bialystok, Poland, before World War II. The images consist of informal, outdoor shots of groups of teenagers and children as well as studio portraits of individuals.

  9. Deportation of Bessarabian Jews to Transnistria

    Low aerial shots from an airplane show the destroyed city of Balti. Pan across dead bodies, with the narration that the KPU (communists) and their "Jewish helpers" had perpetrated the murders. The next shot shows the forced march of Bessarabian Jews in the area of Balti, Romania, part of the deportations to Transnistria, late fall, 1941. The narration describes how these "eastern Jewish types" overran Europe after World War I and attempted to destroy the culture of the non-Jews. Long line of impoverished people moving along a country road and over a low wooden bridge. Some are barefoot. Mos...

  10. Train in German village

    Train, bucolic village.

  11. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Werner

  13. Bryan locates individuals he filmed during the German siege of Warsaw

    Reel 7A. Colorful flowers. Mother sitting with children on a park bench in Warsaw. New housing in Warsaw. Reconstruction. Steel mill. Workers leave mill through gates. Cranes at work, INT coal burning. INTs, Julien Bryan with Jozefa Drzewowska (age 72), photographed clasping her hands in prayer in 1939 and used on the cover of "Siege" (Photo Archives W/S 47403). Jozefa's daughter and grandchildren. Julien Bryan with Apolonia and village children distributing contents of a CARE package. Apolonia Wiktorzak was photographed in 1939 holding a loaf of bread, now 65 years old (Photo Archives W/S ...

  14. Oscar S. Johnson photograph collection

    The collection consists of 16 photographs taken by Oscar S. Johnson, a lieutenant in the United States Army, immediately following the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp.

  15. Pupils at Goldschmidt School

    Classroom shots of the Goldschmidt school in Berlin, which was created when Jews were no longer allowed to enroll in public schools. Interiors with students at desks writing and a female teacher. The pupils include Stella Goldschlag, who passed as Aryan during the war and reportedly betrayed Jews in hiding, and Trudi Goldschmidt (01:05:16 the blond girl with braids in profile view), the daughter of the school's founder, Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt. Outside the school during recess, students play and move around the yard before returning to the classroom. Good CUs of teenage boys and girls as th...

  16. "Family Saga" memoir

    Memoir, 150 pages, "Family Saga" detailing the life of Joseph Ripp, from his birth in Bochum, Germany, childhood in Nazi Germany, escape to the United States, experiences in the United States Army, and adult life through 2000.

  17. Ships in iced-over Rhein; Sinking of English ship; "Altmark" in Norway

    01:00:00 Line of troops walking across chunks of snow and ice, wearing dark clothing that makes them stand out. Mountains in background. Brief shot of a large boat, which appears to be stuck in the ice. Title: "Pioniere setzen mit Schlauchbooten ueber den vereisten Rhein" [Engineers set up inflatable dinghies on the frozen Rhein]. The engineers use a foot pump to inflate a dinghy, then a wide shot of groups of men pushing the dinghies across the snow. Troops running with packs on their backs; they arrive at the edge of the Rhein and toss their supplies into the inflatable boats. They board ...

  18. Jewish wedding in German-occupied Netherlands, wearing stars

    Marriage of Dutch Jews Jim de Zwarte and Rosa Wertheim in the Nieuwe Synagoge [New Synagogue] in Amsterdam, 1942. The couple is wearing star of david badges.

  19. Immediate aftermath of the German invasion of Poland

    INT, broken windows and broken glass. Men outside shovel the glass from the windows of the American Consulate. Soldiers walk by the camera in city. Women milk a cow on the side of the street. Debris from destroyed buildings. People, refugees, destroyed buildings in Warsaw. A crowd surrounds a vehicle. CU, license plate. A plane in the sky. Destroyed American Consulate building, and other bombed buildings.

  20. 50 FACES: The Holocaust Remembered

    The collection consists of copies of 51 brief testimonies from Holocaust survivors and 51 black-and-white matted portrait photographs of men and women; below each photograph is a copy of each person's Holocaust testimony written in his or her own hand