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  1. Verdoner family and friends out in Hilversum

    Verdoner family and friends out for a stroll on a late fall/early winter day in Hilversum, Holland. Yoka Verdoner, her mother Hilde Verdoner, Francisca Verdoner in baby carriage, and several other children, women and men (possibly relatives or friends, the family is indentified as the Cohen family in original captions that accompany films). Walking through park, posing for group portraits, pointing out things of interest along their path. All are well dressed. Yoka hams it up for the camera. In one shot, we can see the arm of a man with a movie camera.

  2. Enemy property office in occupied Netherlands Feindvermögensverwaltung in den besetzten Niederlanden (R 177)

    Contains materials on confiscated Jewish property in the Netherlands.

  3. Verdoner baby

    Baby- Francisca Verdoner Kan - bathing, dressing, in crib, etc. Scenes with mother or nursemaid. Scenes with sister Yoka, father and grandfather.

  4. Documentation pertaining to refugees who escaped Germany to the Argentine Pampas

    Contains copies of documents and correspondence, relating to Ludwig Rosenblatt and other members of Rosenblatt and Plaut families, documenting their emigration from Germany to Argentina; the founding of Colonia Avigdor; and related subjects. Also includes a book about Jewish Colonization Association in Argentina

  5. Hand towel

    Paul Kuttner received the towel from his mother, Margarete Kuttner, before his immigration from Berlin, Germany, to Great Britain through Kindertransport in February 1939.

  6. Ada Feingold papers

    The Ada Feingold papers include two drafts of her memoirs describing the Warsaw ghetto and uprising, correspondence with Ada’s mother in the United States, a photograph labeled “W-wa ghetto 1942 Ala I Alek Młynek (Skotnicki),” a list of surviving Jews in Warsaw as of June 5, 1945 compiled by the Central Jewish Committee in Poland, a 1945 Berlin train ticket, registration certificates documenting Ada’s postwar presence in Łódź, Warsaw, Białystok, and Göteborg and her petition for naturalization in the United States, acknowledgements documenting Ada’s efforts to receive restitution, and a boo...

  7. Quisling sentenced to death

    World in Film. Issue no. 20 (1940-1949) 03:39:08 "Last Fight Pictures from the Pacific." British Naval and air units at sea. HS, US convoy under way. Admiral Rawlings, British officer being transported from his ship at sea via breech buoy to an American ship alongside. GSAP pictures of Japanese land installation being strafed. MS, Admiral William F Halsey aboard ship speaking to group of men in fire control room. LSs, American battleship's guns firing at shore in the battle of the Honshu Sea. Scenes aboard US battleship of ammunition being sent to upper deck. 03:42:40 "Soldiers become Farm ...

  8. Leaders in Warsaw; 30 Jan 1939 at Reichstag, Hitler threatens destruction of European Jews if war comes again; Torch parade

    05:46:37 Quick shot of event at night with soldiers in long coats. In Warsaw, von Ribbentrop with Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Colonel Beck. Memorial wreath presented during ceremony for "Polish Ehrenmahl." Old German military leaders, distinguished-looking, sitting at table, conversing. President Ignacy Moscicki is among them. 05:47:43 Berlin, 30 January 1939. Sixth anniversary of the Nazi seizure of power. Decorated streets with banners, night. Hitler arriving at the Reichstag, motorcade, crowd heiling in BG. Marching on street, entering Reichstag, speaking about the Jews from a pod...

  9. Verdoner family playing in the garden

    Francisca Verdoner and Yoka Verdoner, in the family yard with their mother Hilde Verdoner. They are eating and playing. VS, some overhead shots, taken from a window or a balcony in the house. Francisca beginning to crawl, being picked up off the grass by her grandfather. Francisca and Yoka playing with wooden blocks and toys. CUs, their father Gerrit Verdoner helps them to build a tower from the wooden blocks.

  10. Werner E. Michel papers

    Contains 3 pages of sheet music, 13 issues of "Unser Familienblatt, Bunter Lieder aus Aller Welt," "Dela Lipinskaya," and "Stimmer der Schreitenden."

  11. Morris Hillquit

    Morris Hillquit nominating Socialist Norman Thomas for President.

  12. Pagac family photograph

    Consists of a black and white photograph of six members of the Pagac family, who rescued the donor, gathered seated and standing together at Christmastime.

  13. Yugoslavia: theatre; ancient ruins; wreath-laying; riverside; factory

    Reel 2: Dancers performing on stage. Yugoslavian Army officers walking toward Avala Memorial; walking up stairway; officers saluting the Tomb of Yugoslavian Unknown Soldier; US Ambassador Richard C. Patterson, military and navel attaches, walking up stairway to terrace; Patterson carrying wreath, entering tomb; shaking hands and talking with Yugoslavian soldiers and peasant girl near the memorial. Belgrade: scenes include the meeting of the Sava and Danube Rivers, bridge destroyed by the Germans and Zemun Bridge used for foot traffic. Pan across concrete bridge destroyed by the Germans; dam...

  14. Kan family vacations in Switzerland

    "Sint Moritz 1934" Family vacations to St. Moritz, Switzerland during the winter. Women getting off a train. Scenic views of the town. Mountain with snow (shot from a ski lift?). 01:00:55 Three people stand in front of a sign pointing to the "Corviglia Huette Resturant". People hiking up the mountain and views of the landscape with mountains, trees, and snow. 01:01:54 Some women and a man are shown relaxing on chairs in the sun and eating near the ski lodge. Shots of the lodge. 01:03:05 A woman ice skating. The camera shows the same people walking up towards the camera with the mountains an...

  15. Kan family: children play in US postwar

    Color. Child in a snow suit shovels snow into a red wagon. Child plays in the snow and builds a snowman. 01:17:32 Backyard in the spring - child plays with a beach ball. Child and women (Betsy and Jeanne?) walk along the side of a street with houses and cherry/apple trees in the lawns.

  16. Raya Mazin oral history transcript

    Contains a transcript of an oral history interview with Raya Mazin.

  17. Joseph Entenberg collection

    Collection of letters and photographs relating to Joseph Entenberg's service with the United States army during World War II, the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, and his family's experience during the Holocaust.

  18. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  19. San Francisco conference

    Reel 1: April 25, 1945 and June 26, 1945. Jan Christian Smuts, V. Molotov, Sec. Stettinius, and other delegates to the UN conference deplane and detrain in San Francisco. Shows US war casualties and flags flying at half-mast on Roosevelt's death. President Truman addresses conference delegates via radio. Secretary Stettinius confers with Anthony and V. Molotov. Conference delegates register, attend meetings, speak, browse through the San Francisco art gallery, and look at Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings. Charts the UN organization and shows UNRRA supplies being loaded aboard ships.

  20. Mandil family photograph collection

    Mandil Family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Mandil family, Konfino family, and the Ben-Yosif family all of Yugoslavia, as well as the Veseli family of Krujë, Albania. The photographs of the Mandil family include photographs of Gavra and Irena Mandil used as advertisement for the family’s photograph studio including a photograph of the Jewish children standing in front of a Christmas tree. The photographs also include images of the Italian controlled prison in Pristina, Kosovo, 1942; a photocopy of the document which allowed for the release of the ...