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  1. Lola Kamien photograph collection

    The collection includes photographs depicting members of the Kirszenbaum family who perished during the Holocaust and two photographs depicting Lola and Noah Kamien during memorial services in Majdanek, Poland, on 21 September 1947. The family photographs were taken in Berlin, Germany, and Mielec and Domacyny, Poland.

  2. Surrendering German troops

    MLS, German prisoners, closer shots. MS, tanks/jeeps moving down road, probably the surrender of the XI Panzer Division (and other German units) on May 4 and the days immediately following. The XI Panzer Division was a Wehrmacht unit. German prisoners stand beside road, start marching. CU, destroyed German weapons. Pan up to column of trucks of surrendering Germans. MS, German civilians standing around. CU sign: "Limit of Advance - All US Troops." CU, German general near tank. German prisoners on trucks pass by, GI directs route of surrender. MS trucks with dead German prisoners pass throug...

  3. Raymond McCormick photograph collection

    The Raymond McCormick photograph collection consists of nine photographs of an unidentified concentration camp following its liberation, circa 1945. The photographs include images of victims’ corpses, a cemetery, and a memorial.

  4. Marie Gardova collection

    Contains four black-and-white photographs of Marie Gardova, a former head nurse in the Terezin hospital.

  5. Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection

    The Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection contains primarily photographs of Arthur Gelbart, who was a resident of Częstochowa ghetto and several labor camps, and Rose Grosman, who was kept hidden throughout the war. The photographs show both at several separate displaced persons camps as well as life prior to the war.

  6. UJA appeal for refugees overseas needs

    The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) executives' appeal to bring DPs from Europe to Palestine or to the USA. Footage of liberation of camps. An appeal to raise money for displaced persons. Shows footage of a number of organizers and fundraisers, and speaks of an assembly in Atlantic City, NJ to raise one million dollars. Features founders of the UJA, JDC, United Jewish Fund, etc. Footage of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg is interspersed with speeches given post war to US audiences.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Execution of Nazis; Eleanor Roosevelt

    1251 AA: Five Germans hung, November 10, 1945. Germans on the gallows. Hung Germans placed into coffins. Hanging of Johann Opper, Friedrich, Josef Hartgen (kissing the cross), hood placed over head. 1251 QQ: 01:12:05 (sound in English): Eleanor Roosevelt reading a statement about World War II victories, during a conference in Quebec, Canada. Reception, receiving line for Eleanor Roosevelt.

  8. Destruction in Berlin; Truman at Gatow airfield

    MCU, Berlin woman picking up firewood, wrecked cannon and bomb damage in BG. Bomb damage around Tiergarten. MLS, woman picking up stick for firewood. Bomb damage and debris. Civilians on bicycles. More bomb damage, civilian traffic. Wrecked vehicles, burnt-out car. Bomb damage, sign: "You are now leaving British Sector." Five star automobile passes camera. Sec. Byrnes shaking hands with civilians and general. MS, officer directs C-54 to parking place at Gatow. MS, President Truman disembarks C-54. President talking to Russian officers, walking in crowd. MS, President's car. Activity at Gato...

  9. Mirka Knaster collection

    The Mirka Knaster collection consists of forty photographs of the Knaster family (Baruch, Cyla, and Mirka Knaster) in displaced persons camps, including Santa Caterina, and Bari, Italy. The Jewish marriage certificate (Ketubah) for Cyla and Baruch Knaster.

  10. Ora Nahir collection

    Consist of an emigration certificate issued to Erich Nachheiser (donor’s husband) in lieu of a passport that shows the many stops on his way to Palestine; certificate dated 18 August 1940 in Kladova, Yugoslavia. Also includes a photograph album documenting the year-and-a-half journey of Ehud Nahir from Vienna to Palestine, dated 25 Nov.1939 – 30 March 1941.

  11. Liberation of Buchenwald

    Liberation of Buchenwald, the Nazi concentration camp in Germany. MCUs, Trucks lined up outside of camp, French prisoners getting out and standing beside trucks, waiting to go home; trucks leaving camp with prisoners waving and signing. HASs prisoners walking around camp and courtyard. MCUs, MSs, pile of corpses, funeral wreaths of pine and ribbon hanging on each side of window. MLS, MS, flags erected by Czechoslovakian prisoners; memorial made by prisoners and erected in memory of the 51,000 dead from the KLB (Konzentrations Lager Buchenwald). MCUs, prisoner behind barbed wire sleeping on ...

  12. Goldfarb family papers

    Contains vaccination certificates, testimony, marriage certificate, and naturalization papers for Moses Goldfarb and Szaindl (Shirley) Dudelsak Goldfarb. Also includes a certificate for a tree planted in Israel in the memory of Sara Dudelsak, who perished in the Holocaust.

  13. JDC relief efforts for Jewish DPs

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Israel, people on ship and on dock, waving, smiling, people disembark, kiss as family members reunited. Max Fisher and Lou Pincus talk. Marseilles, Jews board ship. Nameless city, plane (alludes to Russia). Naples, plane. Geneva, woman at switchboard. Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. LS, Jerusalem, men in office, discussing, planning. Two men read teletype, phone calls between offices, nurses, food, ambulance, housing, bulldozer. Naples and Marseilles, emigration preparation, ship at dock, ship sets sail. Bus, man in office at phone, back to teletype, Planes ...

  14. German announcements

    Collection of 3 German announcements titled: Nasco ta vijna?, Zapewnienia w miejsce przysieg, and Pomowmy szcerze! W zyciu naro.

  15. 82 Airborne Division newspaper

    Contains one edition of the 82nd Division newspaper.

  16. Book

  17. Reich service flag with a swastika and Nazi eagle captured by an uknown soldier

    Large, red Reich Service flag or Reichsdienstflagge with black and white images of a swastika and Nazi eagle with a swastika emblem and a cotton hoist and two metal clips along one edge. There is a tag attached to one edge that reads, "Königsberger Segeltuchwaren - und Flaggenfabrik, J.E.W.Hellgardt A.-G. Königsberg i./pp" identifying the manufacturer. This type of flag with a left-facing Nazi eagle was used by all state and provincial authorities between 1935 and 1945, in addition to being flown by government vessels that were not warships. The flag was captured by an unknown soldier and g...

  18. Orpo bei SSPF Litauen (Kaunas), Fond R-683/1, 2

    Contains orders; educational materials; personnel files; lists of arrested persons, of Communist Party members, and of Jews working for the Sipo and SD Commander in Vilnius; telegrams about the activities of Soviet paratroopers in Poland; reports on partisan activities and lists of wanted partisans; index cards of surveyed persons; and publications.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Meetings in London and Washington, DC

    Meeting of European Advisory Commission at Lancaster House. Chaired by Mons. Fedor Tarasovich Gousev (Russian) Ambassador to UK. Military advisors. Car entering gate at Dumbarton Oaks. State Department Press room, group of reporters, playing chess, receiving releases, typing.

  20. Frank Liebermann family papers

    The Frank Liebermann family papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and restitution files documenting the lives of the Liebermann and Orgler families in Upper Silesia before and during the Holocaust; Frank Liebermann’s family’s immigration to the United States and their lives during and after the war in Dayton, OH; and their efforts to obtain restitution for losses and damages suffered under the Nazi regime. Biographical materials include records documenting the lives of Hans, Lotte, and Frank Liebermann; Fritz Liebrecht; and Alfred, Helmut, an...