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  1. A Testament of the Survivors, A Memorial to the Dead The Collection of Gross-Breesen Letters and Related Material

    Contains a series of transcribed testimonies, diaries, and newsletters in German and English which were collected by Herbert Cohn and relate to the experiences of Jewish youth who lived on the Gross-Breesen training farm. The documents, gathered into a book in 2000, was dedicated to Dr. Curt Bondy, director of Gross-Breesen.

  2. Sandor Berko collection

    The collection consists of eighteen original photographs depicting Sandor Berko and his family before the war in Tiszalök, Hungary; his father in a forced labor battalion; Sandor and others in displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria; after the war in Tiszalök and in Sweden; and one Ketubah (marriage contract) of Sandor 's parents-in-law.

  3. Pamphlet

  4. Photograph of three girls standing on a balcony

    The photograph depicts three girls standing together on balcony; blue ink "X" inscribed over the girl on the right; blue ink inscription crossed out on the verso.

  5. Soviet Propaganda film

    This two reel "agitka" (short propaganda film) was one of the first produced by the Soviet regime. Made in 1919 to show to Red Army troops, often on trains, the film tells the tale of a Jew who survives a pogrom and becomes a leader in the Red Army.

  6. Slonim Jews' Association memorial bronze medal

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. INT of partisan headquarters in Paris. Fixing armbands with FFI. Examining revolver. Digging up cobblestones for barricades. Partisans firing rifles. Dead men lying the street. German car fleeing. FFI men carrying boxes of ammunition. Man reading "Liberation" newspaper. CU of "Liberation" front page.

  8. Selections from I Never Saw Another Butterfly Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944

    Contains selections from "I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944."

  9. Commemorative coin case

    Commemorative coin case issued on fiftieth anniversary of the deportation of the Jewish population from Kolin, Czech Republic.

  10. Airplanes; German POWs; VE Day in Paris

    Planes flying over countryside. Pilots getting onto planes. Taking off, landing. Man holds Nazi flag. 01:41:05 German POWs in front of barbed wire, speaking (no sound). 01:42:25 Celebrating VE Day in streets of Paris. People waving flags, parade, crowd cheering. Nurses and soldiers on Army hospital grounds. Beautifully dressed women, families on the street, marching, saluting. Soldiers kissing women. VAR CUs, French women. Girl with flag. Families. US cameraman on tank. VAR shots, excited civilians posing for the camera. Airplane.

  11. Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs Reichsministerium des Innern (R 1501)

    Contains records relating to various activities of the German Federal Ministry of Internal Affairs from 1919-1945. Includes files relating to the formation of policy regarding the administration of the annexed and occupied territories, the relations between the state and the NSDAP, as well as files from the office of the minister and the offices of his deputies.

  12. Berlin after liberation

    Bomb damage in Berlin. Shots of Kaiser Temple, French Cathedral, Victory Column, Berlitz School sign above Mercedes-Benz entrance, theater, Cafe Vienna, Kaiserhof Hotel (Hitler's balcony). Civilians cleaning up debris, bucket brigade. Field Marshall Montgomery and Marshal Zhukov inspecting troops. Civilians pulling wagons loaded with possessions. MCU of children.

  13. Natan Pompis papers

    Contains 109 letters, 1 notarized affidavit, 3 black and white photo prints, cleared checks and money orders, C.A.R.E. food package receipts, and registered mail receipts. American citizen and California resident Kalmen Klein and his wife, Lillian helped their relative, Bergen-Belsen survivor Natan Pompis and his family to leave Europe, travel to Bolivia, and in 1953 to immigrate the United States. The letters sent by Natan Pompis, and the financial support provided by the Kleins document the story of Natan Pompis's 8-year quest to come to the United States.

  14. Kazimierz, Jewish district

    Intertitle reads: "At the foot of 'Wawel' Kazimierz, 15th century Jewish district." Kazimierz of Krakow. Buildings and Jewish pedestrians. Very brief intertitle: "The Sukiennice The Old Cloth Hall in the Center of Ryrek."

  15. Robert H. Harlan diary

    Robert H. Harlan was an American exchange student from the University of Chicago studying abroad during the academic year 1938-1939 at the Philipps-Universitat in Marburg, Germany. His diary was written between September 7, 1938 and November 14, 1938, in Germany and English, on pages of a date book and include his impressions of the treatment of Jews during Kristallnacht. In a separate typed document, Robert recorded these same events in greater detail after he returned from Germany. The typed chronology details Robert's ten-day visit to the home of German Jews Bruno (1880-1957) and Frida S...

  16. VE Day in London; Airplanes in formation

    (18 SFP 9490) May 9, 1945. LS of Westminster Abbey. Big Ben. Pedestrian traffic. Crowds. Women dancing on street. People carrying flags. Parade. Couples dancing on square. Megaphone. Crowd surrounding Buckingham Palace, Queen Mother and King on balcony. Billboards in Piccadilly Circus, shop signs, traffic, crowds line streets. Buses squeeze through people. Burning hangar. 01:34:44 (18 SFP 9491) March 1945. Planes flying in formation of six. CU, sides of planes "A-YU." CU of pilot in plane cabin.

  17. Recollections of Martha Cooper

    Contains a written transcript of a privately conducted oral history interview with Martha Cooper, a Holocaust survivor.

  18. Reference work

    Photocopy of a register of Jewish citizens located in Berlin, Germany, in 1947 that was copied by John Finke in Chicago in 2000. John (then Hans) was a concentration camp survivor who became an aid worker after the war. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. Jews were forced out of their jobs and their businesses were confiscated. In February 1943, Hans, 23, an electrician by trade, was a forced laborer for Siemens when he was hospitalized with appendicitis. On February 29, his parent...

  19. Hess family papers

    The Hess family papers consist of original and photocopies of biographical material, emigration and immigration material, newspapers, and a diary relating to Adolf and Jette Hess and their daughters Ilse and Vera Hess’ voyage on the MS St. Louis, their disembarkation and experiences in France, and their eventual emigration to Cuba in 1941 and the United States in 1944. Biographical material includes documents relating to Adolf’s service in World War I including a certificate for his service, passports for Vera and Jette, paperwork for payment of Adolf’s funeral, and copy of Vera’s birth cer...

  20. Pre-war Jewish life in a Polish shtetl

    A portrait of shtetl Jews in their native setting, the streets and shots of a Polish town, said to be not far from Lublin. The dress is mostly contemporary, but there are some older men in more traditional dress with beards, caps and kapotas. Horsedrawn wagons on the streets. Scenes of a latter day "Tevye" with his horse, a pauper resting on a curbstone, several family portraits, contrast between the local church and the broken down old shul, the ancient cemetery. The film was shot by Jack Weisbord, an American whose father-in-law had emigrated from this town.