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  1. Suszek-Peczenik family photographs

    Collection of eight photographic images of members of the Suszek and Peczenik families in Sosnowiec, Poland.

  2. Heimer family papers

    The Heimer family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Heimer family from Vienna, Henry and Ralph Heimer’s immigration to the United States in 1938, their parents’ relocation to Brno and efforts to emigrate, and return trips to Austria and Czechoslovakia by one of the brothers in the late 1960s. Biographical materials include Henry Heimer’s bicycle touring club membership card, Austrian passport, calling cards, university student identification card and registration booklet, tax clearance certificate, and immigrant identification card (ph...

  3. Bulgarian Red Cross (Fond 156)

    Contains correspondence with various Red Cross organizations abroad, including the International Committee of the Red Cross, regarding prisoners of war (POWs ), and missing in action (MIAs), etc.

  4. German newsreel featuring stories about the United States

    05:42:38 West point cadets at graduation. The ceremony takes place by the Hudson River; many spectators. Cadets on parade. They are shown marching in slow motion at one point. 05:43:21 US government agents raid an illegal moonshine operation. They release alcohol from taps, drain a large basin and confiscate cans of moonshine. They dismantle the still and blow it up. 05:44:03 A large crowd of American boys (students) rush onto a field to play a game while spectators watch. At first there appear to be only boys but later girls are also on the field. The game is very physical. The students th...

  5. Justizbehörden ausserhalb des Gebiets der BRD (R 137 V)

    Collection contains the arrival and departure books, a book on issuance of food, and information on incarcerated prisoners under Polish punishment regulations ("Polenstrafrecht") at the "Stammlager" Sosnowitz (region Kattowitz).

  6. Iancu family photographs

    Consists of one photograph, dated 1930, of the donor's uncle, Simon Sapsa, who died aboard a deportation train; one photograph, dated 1930, of the donor's parents, Ruhla and Sloim Iancu; one photograph, dated 1938, of the donor and a cousin; and one 1938 photograph of the donor's aunt and uncle, Marcu and Beti Iancu.

  7. Kan family: daily life in Netherlands; children at play

    House shot from across the street. Jeanne and children on sidewalk. Two children walk hand in hand in backyard. Four older men look down hill in yard, woman and two children in BG. Children stand by a window looking out. 01:10:14 Two older women stand next to little girl (Betsy?) and watch the little boy walk towards the camera. Little boy (Robert?) walks around the yard and plays with a ball. Woman and children cross street, walking. Boy eats in chair and points to the camera with Betsy(?) on the right. Shot of both children. 01:11:43 Scenes of a band playing on the beach. People gathered ...

  8. Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office; Legal Division: Trial of Fritz Erich Lewinski von Manstein

    The collection consists of the court files and case registers for the war crimes trial of Fritz Erich Lewinski von Manstein, accused of crimes against humanity in connection with extermination of Jews during the war.

  9. Rulya Firer collection

    Consists of a black and white image of a boy and girl standing wearing sailor suits; and a black and white image of two children (boy and girl) flanked by their parents (donor with her brother and parents).

  10. Verdoner children at home

    Otto Verdoner, seated at a table in his high chair, wearing a bib, and being fed by his mother. He is wearing a party hat that resembles a king's crown, most likely it is Otto's first birthday. Francisca plays with her younger brother. MCU, Otto seated on the 'potty' playing with a hair brush. CU, Otto and his mother Hilde. CU, Francisca and her great uncle Paul Wallmann playing at the table. CU, Yoka and her great aunt Selma Wallmann at the dinner table; great aunt Selma is making sure that Yoka eats all of her food. Yoka shows off her clean plate. CU, Yoka learning to knit. CU, Francisca ...

  11. Sigmund Freud vacationing in Poetzleinsdorf (Vienna), Austria

    Head title, "Freud, Sigmund at Poetzleinsdorf, Vienna, Austria, between 1925 and 1935." Title, "Freud on Holiday, 1920, Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1983." Nice views of Freud. [One web source on Freud chronology identifies Poetzleinsdorf under the year 1931 as: "Weakened by an operation for cancer, Freud spends the summer in a rented villa in the Vienna suburb of Poetzleinsdorf."] Various shots of Freud at the lake home and on the porch, talking with friends - women, men, and children. Mountains in BG. Man with glasses, next to automobile. Garden, with statue and table and chairs. INT, ho...

  12. Yugoslavia: damage; peasants; village; church; monastery; wounded partisan soldiers; German prisoners; weapons

    Reel 3: Boy watering oxen near well; street scene showing total destruction to row of houses; horse-drawn carts moving along streets. LSs, MSs, church in Bingula destroyed. Peasant walking across his destroyed barn and house; peasant living in wooden shack; more destroyed houses. Boy and girl, woman and man, peasants of the village of Bingula. Women walking with farm tools. In Mangelus, man with team of oxen plowing field; destroyed church, homes, peasants living in barn, oxen-driven carts moving along streets. Pan, village of Lezimir. Women spinning wool; destroyed church. Monastery in Sis...

  13. Joe Hausman collection

    Consists of eight black and white photographs of street scenes and one black and white photograph of a group of men and women in Shanghai, China; a document, issued in Shanghai on 26 June 1946, "DENTAL TREATMENT CARE No 08927," authorizing dental treatment for the donor’s father in Shanghai; and one “Ausweis,” which the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) issued to Zymunt Hausmann, the donor’s father.

  14. Mary Temple Shanghai papers

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn510542
    • English
    • oversize folders 1 folder 2 4 photographs, 1 innoculation certificate, 1 announcement, 1 resident certificate, 1 census certificate, 1 identity card, 1 Shanghai Youth Association School report card, 1 article,

    Consists of photographs from Shanghai; innoculation, resident, and census certificates; a Shanghai Youth Association report card; a newspaper article from 'China Press," Shanghai, 26 November 1946, and an announcement requesting help to leave Shanghai.

  15. George Lewenson collection

    Collection of four photographs depicting gatherings in the Schliersee and Rosenheim displaced persons camps, including a memorial for the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

  16. US Army medical unit conducts target practice and eats

    American soldiers (US Army) in an open field for target practice. The unit's medical truck is visible in the BG, identifiable by the large red cross on the side of the truck. VS of the members of the unit shooting guns, setting up targets, sorting ammunition, talking, etc. The soldiers take a break: CU of a soldier smiling, sitting down on the ground to eat a sandwich and soup.

  18. Postwar Germany; refugees; war crimes trials

    Reel 2, Narration refers throughout to "M.G." -- military government. Damaged hospitals, pharmacies. Transportation and communication services are repaired. View of Cologne Cathedral. Refugees receive food and clothing at an American Military Government camp. A monument to Nazi concentration camp victims is unveiled. Shows brief scenes of an American Military Government trial. 01:31... Children burn Nazi flags, emblems, and pictures. (Footage from 111 ADC 4727) 01:32:20 Jews worship in their temples again 01:32:40 Man with Buchenwald armband on jacket 01:36:30 Kids burning flags, etc. Close...

  19. Lucille Eichengreen documents

    Contains documents pertaining to Cecilia Landau's experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen Belsen, and later emigration to the United States.

  20. Kan family postwar in US: Robert's child

    Color. Robert gets into a car, out of the car, and walks to the house. Robert walks out of a house with a boy. They walk down the sidewalk and wave. LS, mother in the doorway of the house. She then walks toward the camera. The boy gets into a car and sits in the driver's seat. 01:07:06 City skyline. Boy plays with children on a sidewalk, children line up for the camera. 01:07:56 Robert holds the hand of a younger child in a blue snowsuit who looks and waves at the camera. Robert and his wife, seen earlier, walk down the sidewalk with the children.