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  1. Russian POWS singing

    Repatriation of Russian POWs in Bari and Florence, Italy. Reel 5: Russians seated on ground. Officer leaning against tree leading group in song. Marching and singing.

  2. Abraham Blumowitsch-Atsmon papers

    Contains photographs, legal documents, and booklets pertaining to Dr. Abraham Blumowitsch-Atsmon's family life in Poland and work for the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American occupied zone. Includes pre-war photographs of family life, wartime photographs of partisans in the Brest-Slonim region, photographs of students in classes at the ORT school in Munich, and photographs of Ben-Gurion in Israel in 1948-1949. Also includes documents and identity cards establishing Dr. Blumowitsch as a physician and as an advisor in displaced persons matters.

  3. Jewish Community of Venice Selected records from the Comunita Israelitica di Venezia

    This collection contains material concerning the Jewish community of Venice, Italy, including documents about the census of Jews, racial discriminatory measures, Jewish refugees in Venice, and the charitable organization DELASEM (Delegazione Assistenza Emigrante Ebrei, Delegation for Assistance to Jewish Emigres), which supported the refugees.

  4. Abraham Ackerstein collection

    Consists of two documents from the SS Marine Flasher, thirty photographs, and three small photograph albums from the displaced persons camp in Föhrenwald, Germany, relating to Abraham Ackerstein.

  5. UN appeal for WWII refugees; DP camps

    From opening credits of the film: "United Nations Film Board presents...Produced by the Office of Public Information of the International Refugee Organization, A specialized agency of the United Nations." UN appeal for WWII Refugees, an "inside look" at life in a DP camp. A day in the life of a DP.

  6. Wolf Finkelman collection

    Consists of photographs, identification cards, certificates and other documents relating to Wolf Finkelman's internment in Mauthausen and his time in the Bindermichl displaced persons camps and his emigration to the United States in 1946.

  7. The Striker, September 1941, 19th year 1941 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Issue of Der Stürmer, a viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Julius Streicher, an early Nazi Party member, from 1923-1945 in Germany. The newspaper's slogan was "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" [The Jews are our misfortune]. The paper thrived on scandal, and preferred sensational stories of Jews committing disgusting, evil acts. It was also infamous for its antisemitic cartoons and staff cartoonist Fips. Streicher was arrested by the US Army in May 1945. He was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed per the ruling that his repeated articles...

  8. Dog tag identification issued to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

    Dog tag with his name, birth date and place, and blood type issued to Dr. Edmund Lusthaus, a medical officer in the 2nd Polish Corps, a unit of the British Armed Forces during World War II. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and seventeen days later, the Soviet Army invaded from the east. Lusthaus was captured and taken to a camp for Polish prisoners of war in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he served as a physician. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Polish POWs were released to join the fighting. Lusthaus joined the volunteer Polish Army of the East, known as Anders Army...

  9. Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl

    Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl was an early confidant of Hitler but fell increasingly out of favor after Hitler's assumption of power. In 1937 Hitler ordered Hanfstaengl to parachute over Spain and act as an agent for Franco in the Spanish Civil War. Hanfstaengl feared this was really a plot on his life and, in his telling, he convinced the plane's pilot to return to Germany. According to Albert Speer in his memoirs, this was all an elaborate practical joke and no harm was intended. However, Hanfstaengl was frightened enough to decide to defect. It is this episode which is documented in this foo...

  10. Olympic event (crew) at Lake Gruenau

    Sign, "Olympia Gruenau." Olympic rings, flags, stadium, civilians. Lake Gruenau (20 km from Berlin) surrounded by spectator stands. Sign, "ZIEL" Crowd awaiting Olympic sporting event, some people with binoculars. Crew boats on lake. CU, sign, "Reihenfolge bei 1000 mtr. ZIEL" Crew race. Spectators reading newspaper. More crew. Larger boat with men and Nazi flag. Man sleeping with binoculars. Foreign flags on posts.

  11. John E. Hart letters

    The John E. Hart letters consists of four multi-page letters written by John E. Hart, a member of the 121st Infantry division, United States Army, between April 8 and June 2, 1945. The letters, which are each written over multiple dates, describe capturing German towns and guarding captured enemy soldiers. The letter dated May 6th describes what he witnessed at the liberation of an unknown concentration camp.

  12. Doily with embroidered yellow, red, and pink flowers recovered postwar by a Polish Jewish girl

    Doily with embroidered flowers recovered by 17 year old Masza Senderowksi after the war from the house of a non-Jewish neighbor who had looted the Senderowski home. It was likely embroidered by one of her older sisters, Frieda or Lea, who were presumed killed during the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Zdzieciol, Poland (Dziatlava, Belarus.) Masza, her parents, and three sisters lived in Zdzieciol, which was occupied by German troops in June 1941. In August 1942, as the Germans prepared to liquidate the ghetto, the residents were ordered to the village center. Masza, then 14, and her two...

  13. Calecka Perla memoir

    Contains one memoir, 18 pages, about Calecka Perla's family life in Łódź, Poland, her family's deportation to concentration camps, and her survival as a non-Jewish domestic, liberation by the Russians, and emigration to Israel.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Brussels during liberation

    Riots in Brussels. Leftist rioting on streets of Brussels, trying to prevent meeting of "Royalists." People, trying to enter Flemish Theater for the meeting, being pushed away and chased by the crowd. Gendarmes stationed along street. 01:03:10 Charles de Gaulle visiting Brussels, with Prince Reginal. Taking to crowd from Royal Palace balcony.

  15. Debbie Haynie collection, 1943-1944

    Contains currency from Theresienstadt and a two letters written from Buchenwald and Ravensbrück.

  16. Clara Grossman collection

    The photograph depicts Yitzchok and Pasia Spector and their eight children on their farm in Szabrockrycky, Poland.

  17. Sephardic Jews

    Documents on the Sepahardim collected by Ernesto Gimenez Caballero. The following notes come from intertitles from the film, restored by NCJF in 1994: The Jews lived in Spain, more or less tolerated, from the time before Christ until March 31, 1492, the date of the national consolidation of Spain. And in this land of "Galud" (Exile), they produced a rich culture for centuries. For this reason Spain, apart from Zion, is the Sephardi's most sentimental homeland. The ancestral home of their most respected ancestors whose descendants are the aristocratic Sephardim--The Jews of the Spanish Homel...

  18. Martin and Monica Spier collection

    Registration certificate issued to Dr. Kurt Gurassa (Monica Spier's uncle) on July 6, 1945 in Terezin, Czechoslovakia; in Czech, Russian and English. Certificate (Amtsgerichtsprasident) issued to Hern Dr. Kurt Gurassa, stamped with Nazi insignia, dated April 12, 1939, Breslau, Germany, in German.

  19. E.E. Dilworth papers, 1945-2000

    Contains a record of the statements taken from the previous commander of the concentration camp Mauthausen-Gusen, Linz, etc. SS Standartenfuehrer Ziereis.

  20. Various documents of the Nazi era

    Contains black and white photo prints (some of them bearing the rubber stamp of Heinrich Hoffmann); postcard most likely written by a concantration camp guard and mailed from the Buchenwald camp; acceptance document issued for an individual upon joining the SS; stamps with cancellation on the first anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen; German press clippings; and miscellaneous other items.