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  2. Racial science collection

    Two German ancestry books ("Familien Stammbuch") for the Mikvlajewicz and Haase families used to document Aryan status. One bookmark advertising German racial magazines.

  3. Selma Blick papers

    The papers include one identification card and eight photographic prints relating to Selma Wahrhaftig and her experiences in the Saalfelden Displaced Persons Camp.

  4. Stadtkommandant Vilnius, Fond R-689/1,3

    Contains orders and instructions of the police chief, as well as data on personnel. The documents contain information on Communists, conscripted Jewish labor, crime, deserters, partisans, police battalions, Jewish property, and police behavior.

  5. Ida Nestoyter collection

    Photograph: black and white image of two girls in the shape of a leaf with preprinted text above. Blue ink inscription on side of image, "Rapoport Ida." Verso, inscription in blue ink, "Ida Nestoyter/ Ida Rapoport/ (maiden name)", dated April- May 1945; Yampol, Ukraine.

  6. History of Zionism; growth and development in Israel

    Part One. Travelogue shots of landscape-swamp, desert, etc. Aerial and panoramic views of a number of different cities in Palestine. Buildings, camels, Jews praying in a yeshiva and at the Wailing Wall. Brief history of Zionism with images of Professor Chaim Weizmann, President of the Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency, as well as Nahum Sokolow who was present at the Zionist's First Congress. Also featured: Leo Moltkin, Menachem Ussishkin, Louis Marshall, Henrietta Szold, Rabbi Uziel, Professor Brodetski, Chaim Nachman Bialik, Achad Ha-Am, Sir Herbert Samuel. Construction underway, ...

  7. Book

  8. Judith Taylor collection

    Consists of a photographic print, taken in Nuremberg, Germany. Black and white image of six men seated at a table, some holding documents; verso: "Prosecution staff in big case" handwritten in black ink. Morris Kolander (donor's father) is seated second from right.

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- German POWs; concentration camp liberation

    1251 J: (mute) Arrested Nazi officers entering car with sign "Securite Militaire." Large group of German POWs. 1251 M: 01:29:16 (sound in French) Liberation of a concentration camp in Germany. People behind barbed wire. Very sick people lying in bunks; emaciated, starved. Bodies lowered into graves. Tattoo on the arm of one inmate.

  10. Charles Spitzberg memoir

    Contains a memoir about Charles Spitzberg's experiences in the Bendzin Judenrat.

  11. Book

  12. Airplanes; VE Day in London

    (18 SFP 9500) Pilots, planes taking off for Operation Chowhound/Operation Manna Project, in which Allied bombers dropped food and supplies to the population of the Netherlands. (18 SFP 9501) 01:01:32 Sir Winston Churchill, Mrs. Churchill, Queen Mary, King George exiting limo, entering St. Paul's. Large crowd on London street on VE day, buses, Big Ben in BG. Trafalgar Square. Crowds gathered for VE Day, cheering. VAR shots, crowd, artist. 01:05:51 Planes flying over mountains, planes dropping leaflets.

  13. Zeppelin in Berlin

    Aerial shots of zeppelin in Berlin. Cathedral spires in BG. CUs, zeppelin with swastika. Nazi flag waving in FG. Olympic flag with rings. Brief shot of reflection on automobile headlight.

  14. New archive of the history of Jews in Greece

    Correspondence, population statistics, diplomatic telegrams, ethnographic maps, reports, press clippings, citizenship certificates, receipts, lists of real estate and other records of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs relating to the history of Greek Jewry. Records span years circa 1917-1960. Collection includes but is not limited to information relating to the 1917 fire of Thessaloniki, reports of the atrocities of Bulgarians against Greeks, conditions of Jews in other countries, Jewish emigration, Greek support to Jewish effort for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, discr...

  15. Esther & Myer Liebersohn collection

    The collection consists of nine vintage copies of correspondence written on "V-Mail" stationery between Myer Liebersohn, while stationed in Europe, and his wife Esther (donor), living in Baltimore.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- De Gaulle in Paris

    1251 TTT: Snipers Panic De Gaulle Reception in Paris, September 11, 1944. Mob cheering. Moving shots of vehicles. German snipers open fire, fire returned by GIs. Crowd panics. People race for shelter. 1251 UUU: 01:15:07 De Gaulle Receives Paris Ovation, August 26, 1944. De Gaulle and his aids approach the Eternal Light. Traveling shots of vast crowds cheering, applauding. Crowd outside Champs Elysee, outside Notre Dame. Sniper fire. Police carrying one of the snipers.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- President & Madame Benes

    Reel 52, 100 feet. Two shots, different angles of the President's Palace in Prague. CU, flag on the President's Palace. CU, Czech officer in Italian uniform on duty at the Palace, this uniform is still worn by certain troops in memory of the Czech legion who fought with the Italian army in the war. CU, sentry. Can 74, 100 feet. Several shots of the changing of the guard at the President's Palace. A Czech army band followed by a company of the Czech Italian legion marching into the courtyard of the Palace, with the crowd watching. VS in the courtyard of the Italian legion taking over from th...

  18. Leo Spellman photograph collection

    The Leo Spellman photograph collection consists of four photographs including a photograph of Waldemar Szpilman and Leo Szpilman playing the violin and piano in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, circa 1950-1955; a photograph of Waldemar Szpilman, Jakob Gimpel, and Moyshe Szpilman, circa 1926; a portrait of Reuven Szpilman, Ostrowiec, Poland, 1935; and a group photograph of members of the Cultural Committee of the Fuerstenfeldbruck DP camp, Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany, circa 1945-1950. Pictured in the group photograph are musicians, including (seated left to right) unidentified, Jonas Turkow, Diana Blu...

  19. David Goldschild photograph collection

    The David Goldschild photograph collection consists of photographs relating to David Goldschild and his extended family in Czechoslovakia; of David Goldschild and other war orphans in London, England relating to the Primrose Club of Jewish Immigrants; and a reunion of members of the same group in New York, circa 1950.

  20. Phillip Lindy collection

    Consists of 11 letters, a postcard, and a receipt from concentration camps and killing centers in Austria, Germany, and Poland.