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  1. Charcoal drawing of men pushing a bread cart created in the Łódź ghetto

    Drawing created in the Łódź Ghetto.

  2. Slovak documents related to the Holocaust

    Contains documents on labor camps for Jews, transport exemption documents for Jews, laws and decrees pertaining to Jews, Hlinka Guard activities, Deutsche Partei activities, the Aryanization of Jewish property, Slovakia’s Roma population, and Jewish organizations and their dissolution. Also included are statistics on Jews worldwide and in Slovakia, lists of baptized Jews, Jewish work permits, transport cards, and postwar restitution cases.

  3. Saul Sorrin papers

    The Saul Sorrin papers measure 0.5 linear foot and date from approximately 1945‐1950. The collection contains correspondence and photographs documenting Sorrin’s work as United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) director and field supervisor of displaced persons camps in the American occupied zone of Germany from 1945 to 1950. Camps covered in the collection include Neu Freimann, Föhrenwald, and Geretsried. Sorrin's work involved traveling among the camps to discuss with UNRRA staff and camp administrators problems related to food, housing, education, health, and immig...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- air raid rehearsal; Prague

    Air raid rehearsal in Prague (see Story 2157, Film ID 2246 for similar footage, although this sequence may be longer). German Army Day, Sham Battle and Air Force (with sound). 01:17:06 Runciman visits Prague. 01:17:16 Sokol Festival? Stadium performance in Prague.

  5. Hedwig Goldmann papers

    The Hedwig Goldmann papers consists of two Identification cards issued to Hedwig Goldmann in the Theresienstadt,(Terezin) ghetto and in the Deggendorf.Germany, displaced persons camp; a certificate of labor performed in the Theresienstadt ghetto, issued in July 1945 to Hedwig Goldmann; a letter rfrom the Austrian Red Cross regarding the fates of family members; eleven (unused photographic postcards of Theresienstadt; and 26 pieces of Theresienstadt ghetto scrip.

  6. Blue, white and yellow Jewish Relief Unit Star of David badge worn by a German Jewish nurse

    JRU [Jewish Relief Unit] Star of David shaped pin worn by 26 year old Alice Redlich while working as a nurse at Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice had left Germany in 1938 to study nursing in Great Britain. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, arrived with Team 110 in Bergen-Belsen. She cared for infants, children and young women, and taught hygiene. When Alice left Berlin, she left behind her parents Ella and Georg and younger ...

  7. Simon Slivka photograph collection

    The Simon Slivka photograph collection consists of eight photographs of the Śliwka family in Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland before and during the war.

  8. Garry Pierce photograph collection

    The Garry Pierce photograph collection consists of 29 black and white photographs mounted on three album pages. The photographs were compiled by the Garry Pierce's uncle and show concentration camps after liberation, plus scenes in France and on a military ship. Notations made in white ink on the black album pages; dated 1944-1946.

  9. Rokiskis concentration camp for Jews (Fond R-1515/1)

    Consists of pay sheets for all levels of concentration camp administrative personnel.

  10. Sign

  11. Photographs of Hermann Göring and of concentration camps

    Consists of 36 photographic prints bearing images of Hermann Göring during meetings, with his family and with Adolf Hitler; the film with these images was found by a soldier while the donor's unit was marching through Mannheim, Germany. The images were developed contemporaneously. Also contains seven photographic prints bearing images of concentration camps (most likely Dachau concentration camp), taken by Harry Mueller while on assignment as a photographer with the U.S. Army, dated April 1945.

  12. JDC aids refugees, DPs

    Includes title of the film and intertitles. From opening credits of the film (Foreword): "American Jews at the outbreak of the World War in 1914, organized the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to aid the Jewish masses overseas suffering from war, pogroms, famine and pestilence. The following episodes depict the activities in Russia only." Brief shots of Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald, to whose memory the film is dedicated. Stills of other JDC officials and footage of the members of the JDC relief unit sailing for Russia. Dr. Rosen, organizer of Agro-Joint. Scenes of th...

  13. Hekster family papers

    Contains Red Cross messages between Hekster family members in South Africa and other members of the Hekster family remaining in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation.

  14. Margaret Lowe collection

    Consists of instructions, dated 8 Aor. 1939, issued for Gretl Pappenheimer [donor] to the "Movement for the Care of Children from Germany" in London by the "Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland"; two copies of a "Fuehrungszeugnis," or certificate of good conduct, issued on 4 February 1939, for Kurt Lowenstein [donor's husband] by the Chief of Police of Düsseldorf, Germany; letter of reference, dated 17 February 1942, together with an envelope, issued for Kurt Lowenstein by C. Mayou & Sons in Birmingham, England; booklet, "Soldier's Service/and/Pay Book" issued to Kurt Lowe [sic], i...

  15. Karmann family papers

    The Karmann family papers relate to the experience of the Karmann family aboard the MS St. Louis. The papers contain Cuban immigration cards for Richard Karmann, Sidonie Karmann, and Annemarie Karmman, as well as correspondence and passenger notifications written on Hamburg-Amerika Line stationery regarding the ongoing negotiations about the ships destination after being denied entry to Cuba. Handwritten English transcriptions of the correspondence is also included.

  16. Yugoslavia during liberation: parade with troops and peasants

    Parade scenes. Troops marching through Terazyje Square (main square in Belgrade). Boys watching from trees. Children waving and cheering. Girls throwing flowers. Yugoslavian Partisan Army cavalry riding past. Reviewing stand in BG, officers saluting. Russian heavy tanks in parade. Pan across spectators waving scarves. Girls riding in truck. Peasants in native dress demonstrate, carrying banners and flags, marching. Boy playing accordian, band playing. Peasants dancing and singing. Demonstrators at Pozorizini Square. Statue of Prince Michael. National Theater in BG

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Red Army advances; destruction of Warsaw

    On the Eastern Front. Russian Newsreel. Slate in Russian: "Front Issues-First Belorussian Front, 1945" Russian officers studying map. Explosions on Visla riverbanks. Underground bunkers. Map with Russian names of the Western Front, showing Red Army advancing. Dead German soldiers. Russian and Polish soldiers put up a Polish flag (Polish Hymn heard in BG). Destroyed Warsaw. Ruins of: University; theater; Chopin's home; streetcars. Sign "Adolph Hitler Platz." Warsaw inhabitants march on street with orchestra. Red Army, Polish Army, crowds.

  18. UJA fundraising film about Jewish refugees

    From Cinematography of the Holocaust catalog: The long journey, by train, then bus, and then by ship, until refugees finally reach Israel. The poor facilities and the lack of care for the patients and the urgency for help. A former prison is used as a mental institution because no other facilities were available at that time. Shotlist: Jewish refugees arriving. CREDITS. GV: City (Vienna?). Train arriving at station and refugees alighting. Refugees proceeding to waiting bus. Jewish Agency official processing papers. GVs: Transit camp. Refugees at transit camp, having meal. Pictures of Israel...

  19. William Littlewood collection

    Consists of a postcard, typed in blue ink, written by Marianne Peiser in Bombay, India, to Herbert Peiser in Zurich. recto: address and text of message typed in black ink, recipient "Herbert Peiser, Esq./39 Toblerstr./ZURICH (SWITZERLAND)/EUROPE" last line handwritten in black ink, sender's name and address handwritten in black ink in upper left over ink stamp? "Mrs. Curt Peiser/Jer Manor, 4th Floor,/Third Pasta Lane, Colaba,/BOMBAY (BRIT. INDIA)", three "India Postage" stamps adhered in upper right corner, blue stamp with white print "BY AIR MAIL/PAR AVION" adhered in bottom center; text r...

  20. Roza Krzesiwo photographs

    The Roza Krzesiwo photographs consist of six images depicting Roza’s brothers Izak, Meir, and Filip Stoleru in Bucharest in 1944; her husband (Zucher Ber Krzesiwo) in the “Progres” Jewish tailoring cooperative in 1946 and at a Communist Party event in 1950 in Bytom (Poland); his uncle Eli Krzesiwo in 1938 in Działoszyce (Poland) and his friend Josef Szlam in 1945 in Poland; and a Bund youth demonstration in 1946 in Katowice (Poland).