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  1. Thea Sara Sluzker collection

    The flyer is in both in French and in German. The identification card was issued in Amsterdam to Thea Sara Sluzker and stamped with a red "J;" no photograph; no issue date.

  2. David Elentukh memoir

    Contains David Elentukh's handwritten memoir, in Russian. In the memoir, Mr. Elentukh describes his pre-war life in Minsk, being drafted into the military in 1941, and escaping to return to his family and move with them into the Minsk ghetto. Elentukh was transferred from the ghetto for forced labor in Minsk, escaped to return to the ghetto, and went into hiding in a cellar. After emerging from hiding, Elentukh and his family were rounded up and marched outside of Minsk to be shot. He managed to run from the column and escape, joining the partisans with his brother-in-law. In 1944, Elentukh...

  3. Berta Fried papers

    The papers consist of a postcard sent by Berta Fried, a Hungarian Jewish deportee, from Auschwitz-Birkenau to a Christian cousin in Budapest, Hungary, dated May 28, 1944; a letter from Berta Fried in a hospital in Danzig, Germany, to her children after her liberation from Stutthof concentration camp dated April 1945; and two envelopes sent to Agata Fried in Mukacevo-Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), by her mother, Berta Fried, in Danzig.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Nazi conquest of Austria, Vienna, 1938

    LS, facade of former Austrian War Ministry with Nazi flag. The Ring and Karntnerstrasse (Opera) with flags and posters showing Hitler's picture and the words: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer." 01:01:53 Man shining shoes. Army trucks with food supplies. Stand erected in the Ring. Monument to Austrian Victims of the War. 01:02:32 LS, Danube Canal. Jews sitting on a bench. Vienna's Jewish shop district. Car with Schupos on Danube Bridge. Trams, Hitler posters. 01:03:23 Peasants at work. 01:03:56 Village street near Vienna, Deutsche Wagram, Bocek. Soldiers and children in village. 01:04:14 Sol...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ship to South America; speeches

    Dinner conference aboard SS Brazil (tendered by the US Maritime Commission to North and South American diplomats, bankers, and businessmen to initiate the "Good Will Service" to South America). 01:00:29 CU, Admiral Emory S. Land (Chairman). 01:00:54 Speech by George S. Messersmith, Assistant Secretary of State, on intra-state American relations especially with South America [sound cuts in and out]. He mentions "good neighbor" policy. 01:04:04 Applause. Quick shot of Breckinridge Long, Former Ambassador to Italy, talking. CU, Brazilian Ambassador to the US. CU, Land. CU, Messersmith listenin...

  6. Denkmal das Konzentrations-Auenlager Heppenheim

    Contains an unpublished report, 105 pages, on the Heppenheim concentration camp, compiled by a group of German high school students at the Starkenburgergymnasium, Heppenheim.

  7. Henrik Deutsch letter

    Letter from Henrik Deutsch to Gizella Deutsch Pienitz, his sister in the United States. Deutsch asks his sister for finanical help so that the family can emigrate from Budapest to the United States. The letter is in Hungarian and the Hungarian Tourist Board supplied the English translation.

  8. Pamieci mej matki

    Contains a photocopy of Lotka Goldberg's typewritten memoir written in memory of her mother and describing life in the Rzeszowa, Poland, ghetto; the liquidation of the ghetto on September 3, 1943; deportation to Szebni work camp; her escape from the camp, her recapture and transfer to Płaszów concentration camp; a death march to Auschwitz; and her transfer to Bergen-Belsen where she was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945.

  9. Arthur Grossman memoir

    The Arthur Grossman memoir is a 3-page handwritten memoir in which Arthur Grossman describes his experiences as a slave laborer in Stopnica and Skarzysko, Poland and in Rehmsdorf concentration camp; on a death march from Rehmsdorf to Terezin concentration camp; and his postwar life in the United States.

  10. Photograph

    Photograph portrait of a man with mustache and closely cropped hair dressed in suit; grey border, adhered to green cardboard backing with printed words: "BUDAPEST/Szekelyes Tarsa/ANDRASSY-UT29" on recto, lower edge; verso bears print: "FIOEK MUETEREM POESTYENBEN/BUDAPEST/Szekelyes Tarsa/ANDRASSY-UT 29 sz./Utanrendelesek/evek mulva is eszkoezoeltetnek./.K.KRZIWANEK.WIEN. [in small print]"

  11. Eszter Forrai collection

    Contains copies, in French, English, Hungarian and Yiddish, of "Steps," written by Eszter Forrai, an Hungarian poet living in France; a copy of an illustration for her poem done by Frans Schuursma, a Dutch painter; and a copy of a catalog, in French and English, for a Paris exhibition of Frans Schuursma's work.

  12. Jeffrey Cymbler collection

    Collection contains one copy of the 1943 German Census of all Jews residing in Bedzin, Poland, taken by the Gestapo; list totals 22,174 names.

  13. Feliks Sinalevich memoir

    Memoir, 44 pages, of wartime survival entitled "From the Cemetery" (translated from the Yiddish) written by Feliks (Feivel) Sinalevich in 1997.

  14. Marcelle Bock collection

    Contains 12 documents relating to the family Burakowski. The documents are certifications of birth, deportation, and citizenship ranging in date from 1935-1961.

  15. Pamphlet

    Pamphlet containing photographic images from former Nazi concentration camps in Germany.

  16. Book

    Book of poems given as wedding gift.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Copenhagen

    LS, Copenhagen from church tower, harbor. 05:01:06 "Bruarfoss" ship from island. Dutch ship "Tilly," lines of steamships. "Hans Brog Danmark" ship. Greek flag painted on side of ship. 05:02:26 Trams, bicycles in Copenhagen street. Shops, traffic. EXT, conservative paper "Politiken" building with map of German invasion into Poland. News from the front on the EXT of "Berlingske Tidende" building, busy street, bicyclists.05:04:21 MS, Thorvald Stauning, Danish Premier Minister, in his office, writing. 05:05:10 EXT Ministry building, horse. Aerial shot of Raadhuspladsen, Copenhagen's main square...

  18. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  19. Betti Weimersheimer collection

    Consists of one folder of original letters sent from Betti Wild Weimersheimer in Ichenhausen, Germany, to her son Samuel (born Siegfried) Weimersheimer in Newark, NJ, between 1940 and 1942. Also includes letters written by Fritz Weimersheimer (Samuel's brother) before immigrating from Palestine to the United States.

  20. Richard Remizowski collection

    92 black-and-white commercially produced cards depicting the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.