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  1. Jewish daily life and culture shot by Roman Vishniac

    Religious Jews at work in their agricultural community. Various shots of them building homes and at work in the fields in the remote Carpathian village of Vysni Apsa. Also shown are children weaving baskets, studying and riding horses across a river. This footage contains several good CUs of adults and children, particularly focusing on facial expressions, gestures, and clothing. Shots are well lit and expertly framed. Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, an Orthodox Jewish farmer, tanner, and father of eleven children appears from 12:33:50 to 12:34:11 and 12:35:54 to 12:36:00. He was killed at Auschwi...

  2. Slonim Jews' Association memorial bronze medal

  3. Teddy bear carried by a young boy on the Kindertransport

    Teddy bear received by 14 year old Jack Hellman as a child and carried with him on the Kindertransport in early 1939. When Jack was nine, his parents sent him away to boarding school in Frankfurt, Germany, to escape the vicious anti-semitism in his hometown, Tann. During the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, synagogues and Jewish businesses all over Germany were vandalized or destroyed. Soon after, the housemother of his boarding school petitioned Baron James de Rothschild in Great Britain to provide refuge for the 26 children in the school, as well as her own family. Rothschild ...

  4. Libby Flumenbaum collection

    Consists of eight postcards written by donor's family in the Łódź ghetto to the donor in Lvov and later in a labor camp in Siberia; and 31 pre-war photographs depicting the donor's classmates in the private Jewish gymnasium, the Maria Hochstein school, in Łódź.

  6. Victoria Borejdo poetry collection

    The collection consists of a series of poems written in the Warsaw Ghetto for Victoria Inwald Borejdo, donor's mother, by a judge she befriended in the ghetto. The first poem is hand written, housed in a small green notebook cover. The second poem, or series of poems, is type-written on nine pages.

  7. Goldhersz family papers

    Contains a doctoral dissertation written by Sara Goldherszowna; a report card for Sara Goldherszowna; a photograph of Sara Goldherszowna; a photograph of the ship, Cap Arcona, that later sunk with 6800 people on board; and a Łódź ghetto work card for Pinkus Goldhersz.

  8. Book

  9. Glass eye found in the Paneriai Forest, Lithuania, outside of Vilnius

    Glass eye found in the Paneriai Forest, Lithuania, outside of Vilnius. Thought to be from a burial site related to a Holocaust event.

  10. Larry Rebacz collection

    Contains nineteen original letters and postcards written by the Atterman family in Nazi-occupied Poland to their children in the United States, dated 1939-1941.

  11. Henry Alter papers

    The Henry Alter papers primarily document his family’s pre-war history; his immigration to the United States in 1939; and his service in the military, including training at Camp Ritchie and working as a Film Theater and Control Officer for the Information Services Branch, 1943-1946. Biographical material includes birth certificates, education materials, and immigration paperwork. Military service records include paperwork and memorandums related to his training at Camp Ritchie and his service overseas, including correspondence with Martin F. Hertz and memorandums from the theater and music ...

  12. Lieselotte Feinschil family papers

    Consists of correspondence sent to Lieselotte (Lelo/Lilo) Rieder [now Lieselotte Feinschil], who emigrated with her family from Hamburg, Germany to Philadelphia, PA, in 1937. Includes letters from friends about the situation in Germany and their own attempts and emigration. Also includes copies of documents related to the emigration of the Rieder family.

  13. Corpses on sidewalks, passers-by, loading coffins

    Jewish-mortality chart. Shots of people walking by corpse on the sidewalk; some are running. Coffin wagon in street stops, men carry out plain coffin and drag body into it. Group of men carries and then loads coffin into wagon and walk it away. Two emaciated corpses laid out on sidewalk, people pass by. Men bring cart to bodies and begin to load them.

  14. Krakow, Poland

    German-produced documentary, scenes of life in Krakow. Mostly exterior shots of streets, streetcars, people involved in their daily activities- on the move with bikes, carts, on foot, etc. Various high angle shots of public squares, statues/monuments and architecture. Contrasted with various shots of a market, most likely in the Krakow ghetto, MCUs of bearded and /or bespectacled men dressed in tattered clothing, photographed in stereotypically "Jewish" poses. Trains pulling into a station, where Nazi flags are displayed on the building, uniformed man in FG as train enters station.

  15. Poster

    Poster, printed in multi-color ink, with image of a dragon wearing a British union jack and a crown with a Star of David swimming across the ocean and blocked by a French figure. The caption on the bottom reads, "La France est le bastion avance de l'Europe Defends La!"

  16. Nicolas Weill papers

    The Nicolas Weill papers consist of copies of court documents, evidentiary documents, press clippings, printed materials, and research files pertaining to Maurice Papon, secretary general of the Gironde prefecture under the Vichy regime, investigations into his collaboration in the deportation of Jews from Gironde during the Holocaust, and his 1997‐1998 trial. Court documents include copies of the indictment against Papon, hearing schedules, lists of parties involved, interventions, and arguments made by attorneys for the prosecution. Evidentiary documents include photocopies of official re...

  17. Henry Kellen collection

    Collection consists of photographs, identity cards, and letters relating to Henry Kellen and his family's experiences as displaced persons after the war. The family name in the documentation is listed as "Katznellenbogen" or "Kacenellenbogen."

  18. Porus and Palevsky family photographs

    Contains eight black and white photographs of members of the Porus and Palevsky families who were murdered during the Holocaust.

  19. Identification tag issued to a child on a Kindertransport

  20. Photograph of a young woman and her grandfather

    The photograph depicts a young woman standing behind a seated man with her hand on his shoulder, "grandfather" written in margin below image. Inscription on verso: "Grandfather / he was a survivor too sic / from the geto [sic] bershade."