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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Embargo Japanese goods; refugees at Resettlement Office

    667 S: Relief campaign for China. On street, Chinese students collecting money on sidewalk; 03:03:12 "Buy nothing from Japan"; Embargo the aggressors. 03:03:58 Well-dressed women walking in street with many signs, against Japanese goods, against silk. Wear cotten, rayon, lisle. 03:05:18 MCU, women speakers with microphone, earnestly addressing the gathering. 03:06:49 667 V: People in waiting room. 03:09:07 CU glass door, "Resettlement Division", "National Coordinating Committee for Refugees and Emigres". 03:09:42 People waiting in line near "teller"; older men, women, children. Papers check...

  2. Einsatzgruppen in Polen

    Contains information regarding the administrative aspect of the Einsatzgruppen. The report spans from September 1939 to through the year 1940. The Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen, Ludwigsburg materials are from file 172/58.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Foreign diplomats at banquets in Portugal

    LS, Palace of the President of Portugal in countryside, car pulls up, guard on duty. Reading papers, talking. Gen. Jordana visits the President at his villa near Estoril. Officials enter house, go upstairs. CU, valet hanging caps. Jordana leaves office. Soldiers lined up, people by fountain. Gen. Jordana (Franco's foreign minster), Portuguese Premier Salazar, and other officials arrive. Republican guard soldiers march, join the Chateau guard. Salazar and Jordana in banquet hall in Sintra. Salazar talks to Spanish Ambassador to Lisbon, brother of Franco. Other guests at table, talking. Chate...

  4. Zoya Goldberg collection

    Contains a photograph and a one-page memoir of the donor in which she describes her experiences in the Minsk (Soviet Union) ghetto; her deportation on June 30, 1944, to a prison in Poznań (Poland); her transfer to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in September 1944, where she was liberated by the British Army on April 15, 1945; and her postwar return to Minsk.

  5. Zinochka Craevitsky collection

    Contains photocopies of handwritten letter, in Russian, from a friend of Aron Craevitsky, Zinochka's father who was killed at the front in 1943, to Aron's mother, and of a photograph of Zinochka Craevitsky; and a handwritten memoir by the donor regarding the fates of Zinochka and her mother in the Minsk (Soviet Union) ghetto.

  6. Shirt worn by former prisoner of Auschwitz upon liberation

    Shirt worn by Sara Yablonowicz upon liberation of Auschwitz in Nazi occupied Europe.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- The New School, NYC (University in Exile)

    New School for Social Research, NYC. 03:11:34 CU of sign, EXT: "The New School". 03:12:51 INT, people walking through lobby, information board. 03:13:43 CU, individual names and their subjects. View of faculty members meeting around table in front of mural, with the president of the New School, Alvin Johnson. There are various European exiles, including Leo Strauss, Frieda Wunderlich, Emil Lederer, and Max Wertheimer. (Full list of names is available in March of Time research files). 03:14:07 View of adult students in class. 03:16:52 People at a meeting.

  8. Charlotte Dunwiddie papers, 1907-1995

    The Charlotte Dunwiddie papers consist of biographical materials documenting Dunwiddie, her husbands, her parents, and her grandparents; correspondence among Dunwiddie and her family and friends during and after World War II; printed materials documenting Charlotte and Stanley Dunwiddie’s lives in Peru; restitution and property files, including architectural drawings and maps, relating to Dunwiddie’s efforts to receive compensation for inherited property in Germany that had been held in trust for her stepfather during the war so that it would not be seized as Jewish property; and four famil...

  9. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  10. Richard Jackson collection

    Contains photocopies of Ernst Theilman's character testimonies, with English translations. One black-and-white photograph of Mr. Theilman.

  11. Debbie Borenstein collection

    The Debbie Borenstein collection consists of correspondence; the title page of a December 1949 issue of "Frankfurter Rundschau; memorial text/pamphlet for the community of Czestochowa, Poland from 1942-1948 which was published under EUCOM Civil Affairs Division (Authorization no. UNDP 240).

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hungarian troops, 1938-1939; Horthy; St. Stephen's day

    March 1939: Hungarian troops occupying Ruthenia (scenes taken from a lavender positive from the library of "Magyar Film Iroda," Hungary's official news agency). Tanks, military, soldiers and bicycles in snow. CU, Admiral Horthy reviewing troops. Troops on Ruthenian roads. Poland's General Wieczorkiewicz greeting Hungary's General Szombathelyi as Hungarian troops reach Polish border after occupying Ruthenia. 04:43:37 Weiss Manfred factories near Budapest (these factories produce everything from planes, bicycles, preserved food, to trucks, ammunition, tires, etc. This was a Jewish-owned compa...

  13. Moyshe Rekhtman memoir

    Contains a handwritten memoir describing the author's life in a labor camp near Letichev, Ukraine cutting trees and building bridges and roads; his escape from the labor camp on November 25,1942 to the Luchinets, Ukraine ghetto; his transfer in May 1943 to Tulchin labor camp; and his escape from that labor camp and return to Luchinets three months later where he hid in a Ukrainian family's house until the end of the occupation in March 1944. After the war, he remained in Ukraine until March 29, 1985 when he emigrated to the United States.

  14. Lilo Goldstone papers

    The Lilo Goldstone papers consist of five photographs of the Heldenmuth family. The photographs were taken at their home in Plettenberg, Germany; aboard the MS St. Louis; and after their arrival in England. There is also a piece of scrip issued to Alfred Heldenmuth at an English refugee center, and an obituary concerning the death of Solomon Heldenmuth in Germany.

  15. Oscar and Lillian Stempler Foundation collection

    Contains an album of postcards, envelopes, postage stamps and other items with accompanying captions.

  16. F. Harry Brown's memoirs

    Contains autobiographical information of the donor and his family in Czechoslovakia and Austria prior to 1939; emigration to the United States through Switzerland; and fates of other family members.

  17. Prayer book

    Prayer book in Hebrew and French originally owned by Meta Poli.

  18. Capital Stamps papers

    The papers consist of six photographs of Jewish forced laborers in Tarnów, Poland; two documents and two permits issued in the ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt), Poland; one receipt from Auschwitz; one vaccination card issued in Theresienstadt; and two ration cards issued in the Litzmannstadt and Theresienstadt ghettos.

  19. Earlean McCarrick collection

    The Earlean McCarrick collection consists of research files documenting cases of denaturalization, deportation, and extradition of accused Nazi criminals and collaborators in the United States and the role of the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) in those cases. Denaturalization files document denaturalization proceedings against accused Nazi criminals and collaborators in US District Courts, Circuit Courts, Immigration Courts, and the Supreme Court. Records include OSI digests of cases, court records, notes, Westlaw case digests, Lexis‐Nexis court records, printed materials, drafts of...

  20. Hy Barsky collection

    Three items: Photocopy of article titled "Undici mesi," by Valentina Supino, which recorded her childhood memories of the period between the fall of Mussolini and the liberation of Italy in Tuscany, and which appeared in the journal "Il Ponte" in March 1991; photocopied typescript memoir about a childhood in hiding in Italy during the war, with the name "Kitty Braun" written at top; and a typescript titled "L'Anzulon," by Jenny Bonani Liscia, written in spring 1993, recounting events she experienced following the German invasion of Italy in 1943.