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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- John Dulles; New York City

    John Foster Dulles (US delegate to UN,1945-1949 and Secretary of State under Eisenhower) dictating statement to secretary. Wall Street sign. View of Wall Street. View of 5th Avenue, NYC.

  2. Arthur Nunberg collection

    Pass, issued to Arthur Nunberg, typed in black carbon ink with entries hand written in graphite, that states holder is permitted to be absent from the Bremen Emigrant Staging Area from 10 am - 10 pm on 3.5.46.

  3. St. Louis, refugees

    The JDC produced this film to record what it thought would be a successful effort to save over 900 Jews, including 200 children, by sailing them from Nazi Germany to Cuba on the ship the St. Louis in 1939. When Cuba refused to allow the passengers to land, the ship sailed to the Miami area where the U.S. government also barred the refugees' entrance. The St. Louis languished in the waters around Cuba while the JDC searched for countries to accept the refugees. Finally, some European countries accepted the refugees and the St. Louis returned to Europe. Tragically, many of the refugees ended ...

  4. Pollak family papers

    The Pollak family papers consists of civil documents, diplomas, photographs and memorial albums relating to the Pollak family of Liptovsky Svaty Mikulaš, Czechoslovakia before, during, and after the war. Also included are images of Albert Pollak and other Slovakian Jews performing forced labor in a Slovak Labor Battalion in Svety Jan, Czechoslovakia, circa 1940-41.

  5. Small suitcase carried by a Jewish boy from Berlin to England on a Kindertransport

    Small suitcase carried by thirteen year old Max Dobriner (later Geoffrey Dickson) in July 1939 when he was sent by his parents Julius and Hertha from Germany to Great Britain on a Kindertransport.

  6. Oral history interview with Marion Wolff

  7. US Army liberation of concentration camps

    A film produced by the US Information Agency, Paris, France and the US Army. It tells the story of American soldiers and the liberation of Europe's concentration camps through compilations of footage shot by the US Army upon liberation of the camps. Narration from POV of an American soldier.

  8. Adolf Hitler cigarette card

    1 cigarette card, image of Adolf Hitler inspecting quarters of German soldier

  9. KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps. Pictorial report of concentration camps

    A copy of the “KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern” [KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps] pamphlet published in Germany in 1945. It was published quickly by the American War Information Office to increase awareness of the atrocities that had occurred. It contains post-liberation photographs at Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, and Ohrdruf concentration camps and the site of the Gardelagen massacre.

  10. Robert Weinberg papers

    One two-page undated typed document, entitled "Ist eine Assimilation der Deutschen Juden in Amerika möglich oder wahrscheinlich?" The first three-page typed letter is dated 7 November 1939. The second two-page letter is dated 13 Dec.1939. Both letters were sent from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

  11. UJA relief efforts

    Title card reads, "UJA Report from Israel." Immigrants wave from a ship's deck while the narrator explains that these are Holocaust survivors arriving in Israel from Europe. Survivors disembark in Haifa as a crowd waits on the dock behind a fence. People sort through luggage and other belongings. A man stacks blankets and a woman searches for her baby carriage among several others. Items are loaded onto a truck which then takes immigrants to a camp. Dramatic CU of International Herald Tribune headlines: "Heavy Burden Of Immigrants Strains Israel," "Situation Called Explosive,"(article writt...

  12. Book

  13. Gerrichtsoffizier, Orpo Kommandantura, Fond R-682/1

    Contains list of the Orpo personnel who committed crimes, lists of German officers, and other documents relating to the black market activities, recruitment and education of police.

  14. Selected records the Lithuanian Central State Archives, Jager report (Fond 1742/1)

    Contains reports, personal files, and legal documents relating to the escape of the president, Antanas Smetona form Lithuania, the Jäger Report on Einsatzkommando 3, and Lithuania's cultural relations with the Soviet Union.

  15. Signal Corps photographs and other photographs collection

    Group of black-and-white photographs and two clippings of photographs from the Signal Corps and others taken during the war and liberation. Includes two clippings of Signal Corps photographs, 16 Signal Corps photographs with captions, 61 photographs and postcards and five liberation photographs.

  16. My memories of Raoul Wallenberg

    Contains a memoir with Tomas Kaufmann's reminiscences of the assistance given to him by Raoul Wallenberg.

  17. Eskil Eriksson collection

    Consists of two copyprints of images taken after the liberation of a concentration camp, most likely Dachau; on image shows fencing, barracks, watch tower and moat surrounding the camp; and the other shows a pile of corpses being loaded onto a truck by survivors.

  18. Robert Heuck papers

    The Robert Heuck papers contain course material from the School of Military Government; military government reports; memos describing telephone conversations, notes, and receipts; and printed materials documenting Robert Heuck’s attendance at military government school in Charlottesville in 1943 and 1944 and his service in the Provisional Military Government in Zwickau in 1945. School of Military Government course material include lectures on the history, theory, and practice of military government, the Allied governments in North Africa and Italy, economic aspects of the German occupation ...

  19. Kurt Weinberg videotape and manuscript

    Contains a videotape and manuscript about Kurt Weinberg's childhood in Germany, his experiences on a Kindertransport to England, life in a Jewish orphanage in Liverpool, compulsory factory work, and work with the Civil Defence.

  20. Cigarette cards

    Collection of cigarette cards with black and white images of Hitler, Nazi officials and political events. There is a caption, "Gammelwert Nr. 8: Deutschland Erwacht" on each card