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  1. Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production Reichsministerium für Rüstung und Kriegsproduktion (R 3)

    Contains records relating to the various offices held by Albert Speer. The documents contain information about all aspects of armaments and war production from planning to the acquisition of raw materials and from the use of forced labor to the deliveries of finished products.

  2. Book

  3. Book

  4. Pin

  5. Handbill

    Anti-Jewish propaganda printed between the cover of false American dollar bill.

  6. Hanka Ehrlich collection

    Consists of two photographs. One an Image of Hanka Granek, the donor, with her friend Moniek Taitelbaum, who perished in Auschwitz; the photograph was taken in Bystra, Poland in summer 1939 during their last vacation before the war. The second image was taken in 1940 in the Bedzin ghetto, Poland, of Rachela Pszerowska Ingster seated at a desk, a Star of David on her dress. Rachela, who perished in Auschwitz, was the sister-in-law of Szewa Ingster.

  7. Minnie Friedman Piha collection

    Two records in paper sleeves including lyrics of songs in Yiddish and English received by Minnie Piha while Secetary to the Advisor of Jewish Affairs in Germany; dated 1948. (1) White label with red trim,"A personal message from a service man" and Star of David with "JWB" printed at top in dark blue ink. Side A: Handwritten in blue ink on label "I - Eingekommen Kein/Berlin dedicated to Minnie Freidman" Side B: Handwritten on label "II." (2) Harold Graham and the Big Band: "Yesterdays" by Kern-Harback and "Twistin' Jazz" by Hal Graham

  8. Arthur Mayers photograph collection

    The Arthur Mayers photograph collection consists of nine vintage copy prints of Buchenwald concentration camp at the time of liberation, including images of the gallows, bear pit, crematorium, and camp survivors.

  9. Oral history interview with Sidonia Bein Weinberger

  10. Ukraine; concentration camps and aftermath

    The following notes are from NCJF documentation: MCU, overhead shot, woman rubbing shoulder of a man who is lying face down on the ground. Pan of hills, pan to bodies in a pit. MCU corpse. Pan across many bodies, side by side, people walking past sign at barracks: "HALT! SEIS MUIDULASEN!" (also in Cyrillic characters). VS, barracks filled with bodies, EXT, bodies stacked like lumber, intermingled with lumber, bodies in various states of decomposition, Russian soldiers walking through areas. EXT, MS, crowd, low angle, men on platform, one is speaking, many flags (not identified) in the crowd...

  11. Fichier Drancy adultes (Fond F/9/5675-5741) Drancy adult index file

    Contains Drancy catalog card of prisoners with following information: last name, first name, profession, age, date of arrival, date of deportation, camp of origin.

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- May Day celebration; Masaryk

    Universal Newsreel outtakes: May Day celebration in Prague. Czechs honor Masaryk's birthday; Czech troops. 1919, Masaryk pinning medals on French soldiers.

  13. Helen Zimm photograph collection

    The Helen Zimm photograph collection consists of seven photographs of Helen Zimm at the Berlin-Schlachtensee DP camp, 1946-1948.

  14. Mayer Mermelstein memoir

    The Mayer Mermelstein memoir includes a personal narrative of the Jewish transit camps in Bari, Italy titled "Jewish refugees in the UNRRA camps in Italy," and four copies of photographs depicting life in a transit camp in Bari, Italy. The Mayer Mermelstein memoir contains three copies of a personal narrative titled "Jewish refugees in the UNRRA camps in Italy," and four copies of photographs depicting a transit camp in Bari, Italy. The original memoir is in hand-written Yiddish. A photocopy of the original and an English translation are also included in this collection. The narrative descr...

  16. UJA for refugees, overseas needs and Palestine

    The United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, overseas needs and Palestine. Produced on behalf of the JDC, United Palestine Appeal, United Service for New Americans. Narrated by Robert Ryan. Features a 3 minute capsule history of Judaism as well as a short animated segment with David and Goliath, Moses, Jesus, settled land, David and Saul-teaching and law. The rise and fall of the Temple, remains of the Wailing Wall.

  17. Book

  18. Hilda Gaber poem

    Contains one handwritten poem ("Ich kenne ein kleines Haeuschen..."), in German, two pages. Written by Hilde Gaber of Israel in April 2000. In the accompanying explanatory note, the author describes the deportation of her and her parents from their home in Bucovina in 1941, to a death camp in Transnistria, from which she was liberated in 1945, although her parents had died on the way to the camp. She expresses longing for her home which she has not seen since 1941.

  19. Liberation: Raids on German Civilians

    Slate reads: "Shakedown". Tram at Wiesbaden, end of operation. Security control checks, civilians searched. MPs getting out of jeep. Escorting woman prisoner to MP jeep. US Army "Military Police" building entrance. Truck with arrested German civilians who will be put on trial. Confiscated material: food, weapons, knives, brass knuckles, American machine gun.

  20. Zvi Rosenwein collection

    The Zvi Rosenwein collection consists of documents, postcards, and photographs relating to Zvi (Zwi, Cvi) Rosenwein's internment in Tittmoning civilian internment camp and to his work in the Liebenau displaced persons camp in Laufen, Germany. The collection includes original postcards and letters, mainly circa 1943-1945 from friends, relatives, and associates in Switzerland, Budapest, the Łódź ghetto, Palestine, and other locations. Includes a series of original correspondence, much of it using coded language, with Nathan Schwalb in Switzerland and Josef Kraus in Budapest. Also includes an ...