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  1. Michael Mark collection

    Consists of a letter and envelope addressed to Sandor Kovacs [donor’s parents’ neighbor] in Nagy Kapos, Czechoslovakia [presently Veľké Kapušany, Slovakia] from Blanka Markovits (the donor’s mother) in Sweden, postmarked 17 July 1945. The author states that she is alive, recuperating in Sweden, having been brought there by the British government from Germany, and asks her neighbor to let her siblings, sons, and husband, upon their return, know of her whereabouts. Blanka Markovits died on 11 September 1945, in Sweden, as a result of her wartime experiences.

  2. Esther Fish collection

    The collection consists of three black and white photographs of Esther Fish and her extended family family from Novogrudok, Russia (Navahrudak, Belarus). Photograph descriptions: 1. Copy print; black and white image of two men and one woman sitting, three women and one man standing behind them, and three children seated on the ground in front of them; verso: blue and black ink inscription: “Lilla’s mother, Malka/Lilla’s Uncle, Jankel Chiz/Lilla’s parents, Esther and Aronchik/Her sister, Slata and her husband. I didn’t/remember her other sisters name./The three children are Ester/and Aronchi...

  3. Lea Abel collection

    Bi-folded rectangular form constructed of gray designed paper; handwritten and printed text; interior reveals two finger prints; black and white photographic image of Lea Abel adhered to back cover; white rectangular paper insert with printed and typed text on recto and verso, issued to Lea Abel, and titled "BEWIJS/VAN/AANMELDING,.."; plastic sleeve for holding card.

  4. German educational film: African apes

    This short educational film features the apes of Africa in their natural habitat. VS of gorillas interacting with each other. There is a long sequence of two gorillas fighting, and VS of gorillas climbing trees. The subject shifts from Gorillas to Baboons. VS of baboons in their natural habitat, eating, interacting, etc. There are several good shots of a mother cleaning her young and teaching a baby to climb a tree. Sequence of baboons escaping some sort of unseen danger, CU of one alerting the group and then VS of the group running away across a stream (in slow motion.) They leap through t...

  5. March of Time: refugees

    March of Time. 12:08:25 "Today in Europe, fleeing Nazi Germany into the border towns of Holland, Belgium, France, and Switzerland, is a new kind of refugee. Within the past five years out of Germany have come 200,000 thousands of these refugees fleeing the racial, religious and political persecution of Hitler's Nazi regime...evidence of increasing. Since that day in 1933....persecution upon Jews it has fallen hardest..." 12:09:50 Uses staged scene of Nazis emptying drawers of banned sheet music and tossing it to the floor. 12:10:29 "Because today in Germany every citizen must think only as ...

  6. Gregory Frydman collection

    The collection consists of various certificates and official documents regarding Grzegorz Frydman, originally of Warsaw, Poland, his life in Leninabad, Tajikistan, during the war, and his wife, Gusta Wincygster Frydman's emigration to the United States. Includes an Allied travel permit, immigration documentation, and a translation from Polish to English, of his law degree.

  7. Selected records of the Chancery, the Economic Section, and the Foreign Relations Sections of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party

    Records of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party related to the emigration to Israel, the World Jewish Congress international meeting in Montreux, Switzerland; economic relations with Israel, and to the American Jewish Committee and Jewish Democratic Committee in Bucharest. The collection includes correspondence, protocols, minutes, and statistics of Jewish population and other documents related to Jewish question. This collection includes also 2 files relating to the arrest of young Jews involved in Jewish resistance against the Antonescu regime, 1942 (Fond 96, flies #655 &...

  8. Sexually Transmitted Diseases & their consequences

    Propaganda film, re: gonorrhea, syphilis, sores. Two parts with long German intertitles.

  9. War Crimes Trial: Franz Strasser

    Summary: Austrian Franz Strasser is tried for the murder of Lt E Warren Woodruff and an unknown airman. His testimony is in German. Cpl. Henry Halperin is the interpreter for all witnesses; Sgt. Sessler interprets for Franz Strasser. The six-officer Army Military Commission included Capt. Victor Miles, Lt. Harvey Szanger, and Col. Raymond E. Zickel. Reel 1: Halperin being sworn as interpreter for the Military Commission hearing the case. Man explains choice, duties of Sgt Sessler, the interpreter for the accused (sound only). MCUs, defense table with attorneys and Sessler; swearing in Franz...

  10. Johannes Lehrbach papers

    Contains documents pertaining to the Lehrbach family's Holocaust experiences.

  11. War crimes investigation and trial records from the former Lithuanian KGB Archives (Fond K)

    Contains documents from the criminal investigation files and trial records of Lithuanian citizens of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) accused of wartime crimes related to the Holocaust.

  12. Départmental Archives of the Bouches-du-Rhône records

    Selected records from the Prefect's office, the regional court, and the police relating to the internment camps of Les Milles and Saliers, Jewish affairs, and the Departmental Committee of Liberation. Includes documents from the Sous-Préfecture of Arles and Aix-en-Provenance, fonds Giraud, and German publications. The accretion of 8 microfilm reels (Reels #22-29) contain records relating to judicial affairs and administrative personnel files under a 75 (justice) and 100-year reserve law: Criminal Court Proceedings, Regional Court of Justice in Marseille, Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence....

  13. Gedenkbuch Isaak David and Martha Teich-Birken

    Contains a compilation and translation of letters written by Isaak David and Martha Teich-Birken to their daughters in New York in 1941.

  14. German Girls, Aryan ideal

    Life as RADwJ (Reichsarbeitsdienst der weiblichen Jugend), referred to as "Arbeitsmaiden" The young women tend to garden, cook, help farmers, do calisthenics, dance, care for hospitalized. Young women walking. Train in Hamburg. "Arbeitsmaiden-Transport ins Elsass (Alsace)" Exiting train, entering home, receiving uniform, medical examination, running outside, playing with ball, chalet on water, singing in forest, Nazi flag, mopping floor, cleaning house, preparing meal in kitchen, eating, washing dishes, gardening, talking at table outdoors, riding bicycles, laundry. Young woman playing with...

  15. Yugoslavia: part; street scenes; shops; ruins; airfield; civilians

    Reel 1: CUs, shoes, trinkets, food and other articles on stands in Cuetnitrg Market. Civilians and soldiers trolling down paths in Kalmegden Park, Serbian Orthodox Church in BG. Knez Mihaijlova St, people walking and riding in horse-drawn carts. View from store window onto Kralya Milana St at shoppers walking by; trolley cars passing by; Terazyje Square in FG. INT, looking over conductor's shoulder of trolley car going down street towards square. View from control tower at Belgrade Airport showing destroyed hangars. Pan across destroyed hangars and buildings; workmen repairing damaged build...

  16. Doll hat

    Julia Schor played with the doll hat while in hiding during the Holocaust.

  17. According to Doyle : a cartoon history of world war II [Book] a cartoon history of world war II

  18. Verdoner children in Hilversum

    EXT, MCUs, Yoka Verdoner, in the arms of a young bespectacled man, on the streets of Hilversum, Holland. They are both smiling and joking with each other, Yoka gives the man a kiss on the cheek. Yoka and a young boy, roughly her age, playing on a see saw in a garden or a park, Francisca Verdoner looks on, then amuses herself playing ball. Their mother Hilde Verdoner appears in a brief shot. Another man, mid-thirties, with glasses, appears in the garden. He plays briefly with Francisca. (Perhaps the father of the young boy.) Yoka pushes a ball around with a large broken tree branch.

  19. Russian DPs cross Elbe; German prisoners clean camp courtyard

    (LIB 6898) Russian DPs Cross Elbe, Magdeburg, Germany, May 31, 1945. LSs, train carrying DPs arrive at station. MSs, CU, Russian civilians with their belongings waiting at railroad station. CU, child standing next to trunk, crying. MLSs, British officer directing and counting groups as they pass. MLS, US, British, and Russian officers watch the long column of civilians crossing bridge. LSs, trash in camp courtyard which was recently evacuated by Russians. MSs, INTs, two Russian women carving meat in camp kitchen. HSs, platoon of German prisoners marching toward camera under British guard. S...

  20. Delousing DPs; medical examination; interview w/ Russian DP

    (LIB 3385-3390) Displaced Persons, Verviers, Belgium, February 10-13, 1945. MSs, MCUs, delousing displaced persons. Short scene, small child and woman undergo medical examination. MCU, US Army officer through German/Russian interpreter, interviews a Russian displaced person. The security examination of the Russian reveals that he served with the Russian army and was captured by the Germans in 1943, hospitalized for six months, and returned to the German front as a forced labor battalion member.