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  1. Hanseatisches Auktionshaus fuer Historica documents

    Artificial collection of documents including blank forms used to prove Aryan ancestry, completed forms for a few individuals, identification cards for Polish workers (undated), and postcards from German colonies in Africa (from World War I era).

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- street scenes, urban life

    Life in Czechoslovakia, street scenes, urban life. General views of Prague. Vltava River, bridges and towers of Prague. Suburbs, men and women working in the arena of the new Sokol Stadium. VS of modern buildings, Gothic Powder Tower with Community Hall, Old Town wall. Huss statue with Tyn Church in background. Old arcades on the Rathaus Platz. Charles Bridge, statues, people crossing the bridges.

  3. Robert K. Wagemann photographs

    Contains three black and white photographs of Robert K. Wagemann, a survivor of the T4 program.

  4. Thomas Benson collection

    Contains seven black-and-white photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following liberation. Thomas B. Benson took these photographs during World War II while serving as a Major in the United States Army assigned to the 301st Combat Engineer Battalion

  5. Views of Prague, Czechoslovakia

    Amateur footage of an unidentified origin. Brief glimpse of the city of Prague. Views of the Charles bridge, castle, pedestrians walking across the bridge, etc. The longest shot is a MS which focuses on a statue on the bridge. Another statue of the crucifixion of Christ, flanked by the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene, with Hebrew writing.

  6. Der Aelteste der Juden vom Litzmannstadt-Getto The elders of the Jews in the Łódź ghetto Przełożony Starszeństwa Żydow w Getcie Łódzkim

    Contains various documents of the record group Przełożony Starszeństwa Żydow w Getcie Łódzkim, 1939-1944. Consists predominantly of the records of Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski, the Eldest of the Jews in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and of his administration. Included are letters, announcements, circulars, charts, publications, reports, essays, name lists, and photographs.

  7. Deutschland Erwache scrapbook

    Contains widely distributed photographs of Nazi party rallies of Hitler Jugend.

  8. Kaunas SD Prison, Fond R-731/1

    Contains Jewish name lists and case files from the Kaunas hard labor prison.

  9. Records from various collections of the National Archives of Norway

    Selected records from the Norwegian Ministry of Justice, Police Department, Passport Agency, Teachers Union, German Sicherheitspolizei, and SD commander of Berg and Grini internment camps. Contains records from series: Jodeboer Nordenfielske avdeling Tronheim Scandinavian Jews of Trondheim; Jodeboer sonnenfjelds Oslo og Akershus [Southern and eastern Jews outside of Oslo and Akershus], Diverse, 1942-1950 [Various]; Godtgjorelese for beslaglagt eiendom, 1940-1941 [Compensation for confiscated property]; Politiet, 1942-1949 [The Police]; Politiedepartementet,1940-1945: Statspolitiet [State Po...

  10. Jews in Warsaw in 1938

    The following notes are from NCJF documentation: The lively Jewish neighborhoods of Warsaw, including Zamenhof Street and the commercial "beehive" Nalewki Steet, were home to 400,000 Jews before World War II. "A Day in Warsaw" sets Warsaw's modern multistoried buildings and broad streets against its old market square and Jewish quarter. Trucks, trolleys, autos and buses meet horse-drawn carriages, pushcarts, and porters in the bustling commercial district. Also shown are the Yiddish Theater, Gensza Cemetery and other Jewish institutions-the community council, hospitals, schools and synagogu...

  11. Zinaida Rabinovich collection

    Black and white photograph of a woman wearing a heavy coat and hat; verso: blue ink inscription; dated 1947.

  12. Esther Karpman collection

    Consists of three documents relating to donor's membership in the Zionist Organization of Poland, and one immigration certificate issued to the donor, entitling her to immigrate to Palestine.

  13. Captured German records returned by USSR to Lithuania in 1953 (MVD) (R-1173)

    Record group 1173. Contains trophy documents from Germany relating to Lithuanian citizens collected by police and secret services.

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

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. FFI men carying stretcher waving Red Cross flag, carrying wounded man. Holding captured Nazi flag. Captured collaborators being marched along by a group of FFI. French young woman having her head shaved. Tearing down German posters. Hitler's picture lying among the rubble in the street. Pan of Notre Dame. Men with machine guns.

  15. Palestine Post newspaper article about the Nyassa

    The newpaper clipping is an article entitled "Refugees sing 'Hatikvah' as ship comes in," written by Ernst Aschner, discussing the arrival in Haifa of 750 men, women, and children who fled to Portugal and sailed from Lisbon to Palestine aboard the ship Nyassa; the newspaper is identified as "Palestine Post" and dated 1 February 1944.

  16. Book

  17. Ring

    Ring created for U.S. serviceman by newly liberated prisoner of Dachau.

  18. VE Day in Washington, DC

    Downtown traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue, U.S. Congress building, automobile traffic, buses, trolleys, pedestrians. Hotel Washington. WS of the White House, flag at half mast for FDR's death. EXT, the Navy Department and the Department of the Interior. Military and civilians entering building. Pedestrians and street traffic. CU of "Washington Afro-American" newspaper front page title: WAR ENDS IN EUROPE. Front page of "Jewish Journal and Daily News" in Hebrew. Woman at gates of the White House. Group of naval officers and civilians enter Navy Department. DC newsstand with V-E Day headlines.

  19. Hana Wieder collection.

    The Hana Wieder collection consists of postcards written to Konrad Budzanowski in Brussels by Reginsa Budzanowski in Breslau (Wroclaw), Germany; Chaim and Itta Birnbaum in a Soviet labor camp near Konosho, Archangelsk district, USSR; and an aunt, Stefanie Leschizer, in Izbica Lubelska ghetto, Poland. Also included are documents relating to Konrad Budzanowski and Helena Hudes Budzanowski’s inquiries with Polish authorities regarding their civil status, and a photograph of them.

  20. Oral history interview with Sam Orshan