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  1. Marvin C. Jacobs family papers

    Contains documents and written testimony relating to the Holocaust experiences of Janowskiegoi Marii Markiewicz and Cyla Biderman.

  2. Telegram

    Telegram, dated December 1942, from Mrs. Benjamin Spitzer to Mrs. Isadore Freedman, warning of the wholesale massacre of Jewish children in Europe and requesting a meeting of national Jewish organizations. Mrs. Spitzer was the Chair of the Conference Committee of National Jewish Women's Organizations; Mrs. Freedman represented the Habanoth organization.

  3. Richard Scott Washington photograph collection

    The collection consists of 18 photographs taken or obtained by Richard Scott Washington, formerly Corporal, C Company, 42nd Tank Battalion, 11th Armored Division. The images were taken during World War II and depict Buchenwald concentration camp post-liberation as well as other sites of slave labor and refugees formerly under Nazi occupation.

  4. During my childhood Gouache created postwar by a former inmate of a people in a transit camp being loaded on a truck

    Multi-colored gouache created by Maurice Rosen based upon his experiences as a prisoner in Pithiviers transit camp in France.The painting depicts men and women standing on the flatbed of a truck located in front of a barbed-wire fence with soldiers standing nearby.

  5. Nordhausen concentration camp photos

    Contains eight post-liberation photographs of the Nordhausen concentration camp.

  6. Filmstrip: German defenses in France

    Filmstrip about German defenses in France. NO VIDEO ELEMENTS AVAILABLE.

  7. UNRRA supplies

    Boxes of UNRRA supplies from USA stacked. Ship "Falstria", bundles piled high in FG, crane, workers moving bundles. CU "US Mail" on side of bundle.

  8. American Consulate building in Warsaw

    Cars, buildings, stream of water on pavement. EXT, American Consulate Building in Poland, U.S. flag hangs from window.

  9. Invasion of Poland; Poland surrenders

    Title on screen: Ozaphan 11/39 Monatsschau; Krieg in Polen (Loosely, November monthly report on the war in Poland). View from a low-flying aircraft of smoke and destruction on the ground, including a bridge collapsed into a river. Title on screen: Brennende Haeuser kennzeichnen den (?) Rueckzugsweg der Polen [Burning houses indicate the retreat of the Poles]. Aerial shot along a line of burning structures on the ground. An explosion; soldiers walking through burning and smoking rubble. Title on screen: Hier sassen Heckenschuetzen [Here sat the snipers]. German soldiers climb over rubble tow...

  10. Chaya Miron-Katz papers

    The papers consist of three Lithuanian passports and one identification card from Uruguay issued to members of the Cicelskas family.

  11. Gheller-Millberg papers

    The collection consists of a census card issued to Romanian Jews in 1942, a military book identifying a Jewish member of the Romanian military, an identification card issued by the commissar of Jewish affairs, a death certificate issued to Ifrim Gheller [donor's relative] who was killed in a pogrom in Iași, Romania, in 1941, and four identification/citizenship certificates issued to Ifrim and Sarika Gheller [donor's relatives].

  12. Ruth Shapiro Igdal collection

    Collection consists of one yearbook entitled "Pictorial Review; Vaad Hatzala, Germany," 1948, which describes Vaad Hatzala's multi-faceted work with refugees (in English); one compendium book of the testimonies of Lithuanian survivors, collected in 2002 (340 pages, in LIthuanian); one CD-ROM containing 580 black and white photographs taken between 1920-2003 from the private collection of Ruth Shapiro Igdal. The CD-ROM, entitled "The World I Knew" also contains an index of the photographs (in English) and a history of the experiences of the Shapiro family before and during the Holocaust.

  13. Fred Weissmann collection

    Contains ten photographs of Fred Weissmann and other children under the care of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) organization in France.

  14. Nurses with young patients

    Dormitory-style room full of young children in beds and nurses. Nurses read. The children listen, look at the pictures, and play with toys in bed. Girl runs out to balcony, a nurse follows. LS of pond and trees. The nurse and the patient look out at the view together and chat. Patient is wheeled down a hallway, the plaster cast on her leg is cut off. She practices walking without her cast and gets a piece of candy. Child writes on a paper with a Christmas tree on it. Children bundled up on deck chairs outdoors on a balcony. A nurse helps tuck them in. They close their eyes or read. Brief sh...

  15. Oral history interview with Nadzia Goldfinger

  16. DPs at Bremerhaven port

    Boat dock, Bremerhaven port. "Meet the first DPs" "Ship to Freedom" Numbers on tags pinned to coats of refugees. Suitcases, boarding ship, shots on board ship, ship leaves port.

  17. Women working at sewing machines; fashion

    INT, women sitting at tables and sewing clothing in a large room. A woman walks through the room with two shirts. A woman stands in front of a mirror in a dress that a seamstress is adjusting and pinning. CU, book of fashion. A designer sketches a dress. CU, Singer sewing machine. Camera pans over a city street in Russia, closes in on a sign on a building (in Cyrillic). INT, large group of women sitting around a table. Garments hang and rotate from mirror panels on a wall. CU, high heels as the camera pans up the body of a woman trying on a dress. INTs, women work at sewing machines. CU, fa...

  18. American Zionist Fundraising photographs

    Photographs show American fundraising events for Jewish causes, such as the National Emergency Campaign for the Settlement of German Jewish Refugees in Palestine, and the National Palestine Appeal Conference. Most of the photographs are posed publicity photographs and show the most prominent Jews of the day in the United States.

  19. Anniversary celebration of 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising

    Second anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The celebration at the synagogue in Roma (Rome?), the Polish soldiers of Anders Army fighting in the West take part.

  20. Warsaw park and schoolboys

    EXT, LS, in a park in Warsaw. Man in Polish uniform or police walks along the street with a woman in contemporary dress. Woman with a young child and carriage. CU, a group of small boys walk along the street wearing caps with a shiny insignia and the number "21" on them. Some smile, others look at the camera as they pass through the frame.