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  1. Zula Schibuk memoir

    Contains a memoir about Zula Schibuk's Holocaust experiences.

  2. Bricha: Jewish refugees leave Europe for Palestine; Ebensee camp at liberation; Belsen DP camp

    11:00:12 Refugees getting on board buses and trains, UNRRA officials help. Refugees waiting at the border at Nachod, a village on the Czech/Polish border. Reception center at Bratislava. 11:07:25 Jewish refugees leaving Europe for Palestine. Groups of DPs (Bricha Underground) crossing the Alps from Gnadenwald, Austria to Italy in February 1948. Many shots of walking up paths, climbing slopes, jumping over streams, sheltering under a bridge. Arriving at foot of mountain, getting instructions. 11:18:27 (color) Traun Lake and castle in the town of Ebensee. Local Austrians. Roadside statue of J...

  3. David Goldband collection

    Consists of an "Ahnenpass," an official pre-printed booklet inscribed with specific familial information and officially stamped at each entry with Nazi national insignia, issued for the family of Hedwig Hartung, Berlin, Germany. Undated.

  4. Handbill

  5. Arbeitsamt Kaunas (Fond R-1474/1)

    Contains a name list of craftsman and specialists; personal data for workers in Kaunas; a name list of males born in 1912, 1919, and 1925; and requests, reports, orders, and medical certifications relating to labor in Kaunas and in Germany.

  6. JDC: Relief efforts for Jewish DPs

    Notes from NCJF documentation: "This is the story of 2,500,000 Jews in Europe and Moslem lands on the road to survival." "Against the background of authentic footage showing rescue missions from Europe, Cyprus, Aden, the film shows the importance of aid to the new immigrants. The dramatic effect of the poor living conditions in contrast with the hopefulness of their new life in Israel serves as a powerful message to the audience." Trains with Jewish DPs leaving Germany for Israel (reference to trains leading to concentration camps). People saying goodbye (but many are still left behind afte...

  7. Mirijam Slezinas passport

    Contains a Lithuanian passport issued to Mirijam Slezinas on July 8, 1938.

  8. Hermann and Josefine Neuman collection

    Consists of two passports; "Deutsches Reich Reisepass," issued to Hermann and Josefine Neumann (donor's husband and first wife); each marked with a red "J" on the first page. They contain visas for Sweden and the United States; issued November 1938; Vienna, Austria.

  9. Schächter family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Filip and Janina (née Hirsch) Schächter (later Philip and Jean Schechter) living in Poland and Germany under false identities, and their daughter Basha Schächter (later Barbara Cohen) who was a hidden child in Dürnholz, Germany (Drnholec, Czech Republic) from 1942-1945. Biographical materials include documents under Janina and Filip’s false identities, Janina and Frank Rogalski; identification papers; Basha’s identification card from the Stuttgart displaced persons camp; a testimonial document by Janina; a small amount of correspondence ...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Russian diplomat; Walter Winchell

    Russian diplomat disembarks plane (US Army Air Forces sign). He is interviewed by US reporters (sound). Many takes of the same question. 01:04:00 Broadcast by Walter Winchell (sound) [Transcript of broadcast attached to the dope sheet in files).

  11. Selected records from the French National Archives – Police Générale

    This collection contains police records, including files on national security, the General Secretariat of the Police, the campaign against “terrorism” organized by Vichy, internment camps, and records of the Fichier Central in the Cabinet du Directeur Général de la Sureté Nationale. The collection also includes correspondence and other documents confiscated from emigrants, lists of foreign Jews who were arrested and interned (arranged by country of origin), the personal records of various public figures, newspaper clippings, surveillance reports, and mixed documents. More specifically, the ...

  13. Prefecture of Police children's index file Fichier "Individuel" (Enfants) de la Préfecture de Police de la Seine

    This collection contains index files on Jewish children from the Prefecture of Police in the Seine region. These records form part of the records of the Seine Police Prefecture and the Drancy, Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande camps, also known as the “Jewish files.”

  14. Lithuanian Sipo and SD Commander in Vilnius, Fond R-680/2

    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.

  15. Liberation - Yugoslavia

    Airfield, airplane. Group of men converse. Injured POWs exit building. US soldier inspects wounds. Boys marching, some have bandages around heads. Group of girls marching. Children dancing in circle. Doctors examine children, CUs of wounds. US photographer plays with young boy who is knitting. Children dancing. Crowd of children running and playing with ropes. CU, sign on building in Serbo-Croatian. Yugoslav? soldiers on horses riding through villages. Peasants/civilians wave and cheer as they pass. Different angles, more shots of soldiers. MS,CUs children waving. CUs, troops marching past ...

  16. Central Jewish Committee, Social Welfare Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Opieki Społecznej (Sygn. 303/VIII)

    Contains protocols, reports, statistical documents, financial documents, books with donors' names, correspondence, personal files of people receiving help. The collection documents activities of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce, CKŻP (Central Jewish Committee in Poland, Welfare Department) for the period 1945 to 1950. Documents concern the Jewish communities in larger cities such as Warsaw, Wrocław, Kraków, Szczecin, Łódź, Białystok, Katowice, and Lublin.

  17. Zionism; Travel to Palestine

    A 1934 newsreel, and "advertisement" to persuade Jews from Europe to travel to Palestine via ship from Constanza (Romania). Original archive copy has title and censor's permission for showing in British occupied Palestine (can be viewed briefly in this video, in a few frames at the beginning of the story: TC 03:52:45:19). Segment depicts the first voyage of a Polish ocean liner to Palestine. The film contains crudely edited footage of the embarkation at the Black Sea port of Constanza, the passengers enjoying the pleasures of the open sea, the recitation of Yom Kippur prayers on deck, an ex...

  18. Photograph of Rabbi Benjamin and Chana Gelband on board the St. Louis

    The photograph shows Rabbi Benjamin and Chana Gelband, in a cabin looking out a porthole on board the St. Louis.

  19. Deutsches Siedlerund badge with clasped hands across a Reichsadler

    Deutsches Siedlerbund (German Settlement) house emblem to show support for the expansive Nazi governement building program for German workers in the 1930s.

  20. Auschwitz concentration camp records D-Au I-II-III-5 Abteilung V-SS Standortarzt

    Medical personnel lists, hospital books of barracks (No. 20, 21, 28), prisoner transfer list, records related to medical examinations of Roma and Sinti, a list of Russian prisoners of war who died in Auschwitz, and various other records related to medical procedures for inmates (prescriptions, temperature diagrams, reports of the removal of gold teeth, etc.).