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  1. Aerial shots of postwar Germany; destruction of Nuremberg

    Slate reads: Lt. Col. Wm. Clothier, May 29. From plane: flying over countryside in Germany. Planes. 01:19:18 Aerial shots of bombed Nuremberg, showing damage to buildings, streets, and marshalling yards.

  2. Stephanie Mayer collection

    The Stephanie Mayer collection consists of three photographs with inscriptions. The photographs show Stephanie Pringheim Mayer with friends on board the MS St. Louis in May 1939.

  3. Mezirich memorial collection

    Contains 77-page English language photocopied book titled Memorial for Greater Mezirich, which includes photocopied black-and-white and color photographs; scroll listing in Hebrew names of murdered inhabitants; NTSC VHS tape showing with English narration material of the book and ceremony in Yad Vashem.

  4. Lithuanian Ambassador to Germany (Skirpa), Fond 1398/1

    Contains correspondence, notes, and other documents relating to the office of the former ambassador of independent Lithuania in Germany, Kazys Skirpa. The material includes letters to the prime minister and other members of the government about Lithuania’s position at the beginning of the war, an unsigned letter entitled “To liberate Lithuania forever from the Jewish yoke,” appeals to the Lithuanian nation, and letters from Reichminister Dr. Lammers.

  5. Ruth H. Windmuller papers

    The Ruth H. Windmuller papers primarily consist of song lyrics and poems written by children at the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants children’s homes Villa Helvetia at Montmorency and Château Montintin near Château‐Chervix. The collection also includes a program for a children’s performance at Villa Helvetia, and a clipping and a flyer documenting two children Windmuller knew at Montmorency or Montintin. The lyrics and poems are set to well‐known children’s songs and use clever words and rhymes to describe staff, events, activities, work, and recreation at the children’s homes at Villa Helveti...

  6. Italian newspaper clippings and documents on the Holocaust, genocide, and racial topics

    Contains a variety of newspaper clippings and documents related to the Holocaust, genocide, and contemporary ethno-racial conflicts.

  7. Charles Abramson collection

    Consists of a black and white image of fourteen children and two adults standing and seated together outside; verso: handwritten in blue ink “April 1944/Bari – Italy/Jewish children/saved by members/of the Jewish/Brigade – 8th Army”; dated April 1944; Bari, Italy.

  8. Strafing; VE Day in London

    Aerial shots of GSAP strafing town, vehicles on road, trains (pilots' names indicated on cameraman's slates). Dive bombing marshalling yard. 01:20:26 CU of Winston Churchill, the King, Allan Brooke, etc. Large crowd behind the gate leading to Buckingham Palace. Square filled with people. More GSAP strafing targets.

  9. Book

  10. Alex Sonnenfeld Trial papers

    Contains a trial transcript for James Alex Sonnenfeld, who was arrested in Berlin on June 12, 1936, for allegedly having sexual relations with a half-Jewish female after the passage of the Nuremberg laws.

  11. Book

  12. Manya Ganiyevva memoir

    Contains a memoir about Manya Ganiyevva's childhood experiences in Tulchino, Vinnitsa Oblast, in the Ukraine, life in the Tulchino Ghetto, the Pechora concentration camp located in Tulchinskiy rayon of Vinnitsa oblast, and the Krasnopolka, Mikhaylovka and Talaleyevka work camps.

  13. Bronia Chosid collection

    The Bronia Chosid collection consists of a photograph of Eliash Leib Prous, circa 1930; a photograph of Eliash Leib Porus and his sister before she left for America, in Swencian, Poland, 1928; a Mahzor in Hebrew and Russian which was kept by Bronia Chosid’s brother, who was a partisan.

  14. Bela Sampson collection

    Contains one certificate of naturalization for the United States (dated 1952); one United States citizenship declaration form for Bela Sampson and Joseph Samuel Sampson (dated 1946); one marriage license form (dated 21 October 1945) for Bela Bajnesz and Joseph Sampson; and two marriage certificates, one dated 9 January 1946, the other a Ketubah in Aramaic and English.

  15. Displaced Persons, Norwegian relief efforts

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation, cribbed from narration presented by Cedric Hardwicke: "This film describes the life of the "hard core" displaced persons in a village in South Germany. They were the handicapped, the old, and the victims of polio that no country wanted. For them no jobs were made available and their lives seemed hopeless until the Norwegian government allowed small numbers to immigrate and settle. The rest of the film shows two people: one woman whose husband and two children had TB but were rehabilitated and were able to return to normal family life, and a blind man who...

  16. Thomas Allen papers

    Contains seven documents: two pieces of stationery, one ration card, one magazine clipping, one copy of "Yank" magazine, one copy of "Warweek" newspaper, and one partial 1 scrapbook.

  17. Book

  18. Repatriation of POWs: airplane; supplies; camp; classroom; sports; roll call; mess hall

    Repatriation of Russian POWs in Bari and Florence, Italy. Reel 1: Airplane at Bari airport, Russians departing, lining up in double columns and marching. Inspecting airplane. Russian POWs boarding truck to repatriation camp, receiving mess kits. Men entering and leaving Russian orderly room. MCU, sign: "Orderly Room" in English and Russian. Russians entering and leaving recreation hall, star over entrance. Men entering and leaving shower room. Men cleaning up yards and sweeping living quarters. Back view of Russians sitting in group, officer delivering latest war news from European map. Men...

  19. My World War II Story

    Contains a memoir about Anthony Palmowski's experiences as a Polish Catholic living in Warsaw. He was arrested and sent to Mauthausen where he spent the war as a slave laborer.

  20. Vera Nussenbaum papers

    The Vera Nussenbaum papers include biographical materials and correspondence documenting Vera Nussenbaum’s travel to England on a Kindertransport, her family’s efforts to emigrate, her uncle’s death in Sachsenhausen, and her mother, aunt, and grandmother’s deportation to Riga. The materials in this collection refer to Vera Lichawski, using the last name of Nusenbaum’s mother’s second husband. Biographical materials include a vaccination certificate, birth certificate, and questionnaire for the accommodation of foreign children for Vera Lichawski. The letters dating from 1938‐1940 are from V...