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  1. Jonathan Scott Guyer collection

    Letter written by John Correll to his sister Elizabeth Thompson. Describes the Gestapo headquarters and Dachau.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in France and Amsterdam

    667 J: At the "Comite Francais d'Assistance aux Refugees," branch of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Paris. The Committee provides legal and juridicial advice, to help the refugees stay in France and prepare their definitive settlement in some country. LS, relief (money) provided to Austrian refugee. CU, refugee signing receipt. LS, crowd refugees waiting in line. LS, refugees waiting in the lobby of the "Comite d'Assistance," and showing papers to officials of the Committee. MS, table where refugees show their identification papers to employee. Same, another angle. 02:52:34 LS...

  3. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- March of Time managing editors meeting

    March of Time managing editors conference. In office [sound is muffled]. Talking about President's aim of a fortified Guam, trade with Japan, and issues of the Philippines and Singapore (repeated 3-4 times) 04:52:16 Filling in chart/story board. 04:53:23 Editors looking at photographs, talk about cropping one. (repeated) 04:54:55 CU photo, many photos. 04:55:28 Men in room talking about the possibility of war and explaining why it hasn't taken place yet. (repeated 4-5 times) Outtakes related to March of Time Issue "War, Peace & Propaganda" - Vol.V - Issue 11, June 1939

  5. Photographs of Irving Haas's grandparents

    Color duplicates of two photographs of an elderly man and woman identified as Irving Haas's grandparents.

  6. Ralph J. Preiss collection

    Contains 10 black-and-white photographs of donor's cousins, aunt and uncle who were deported from France to Auschwitz; annotations are on the back of each photograph; biographical information of the Wohl family is also included.

  7. Alfred Nowack collection

    Collection contains Alfred Nowack's emigration ticket, sailing from Lisbon to the United States (undated); "Kinderausweis" with a red "J" stamped in the upper left hand corner, issued 15 March 1939; and "Affidavit in Lieu of Passport" issued by the Counsulate of the USA in Marseille to allow Mr. Nowack to travel to the United States, 7 August 1941.

  8. Alfred Traum papers

    The Alfred Traum papers consist of identification papers, a report card, family correspondence from Elias and Gita Traum in Vienna to their children in London, family photographs from Vienna, England, and Palestine, and a brief personal narrative documenting the Traum family from Vienna, and the family’s separation when Alfred and his sister, Ruth, were sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 and their parents were killed three years later in the Holocaust. Alfred’s personal narrative describes his memories of leaving his parents, staying with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Griggs of London thro...

  9. Selected records from the Czech Ministry of Interior Archive

    Contains 46 categories of photocopied documents from 1939 to 1942 relating to the treatment of Roma and Sinti during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia; the organization of police forces; and the design, construction, and operation of the Roma camps at Lety and Hodonin. Also included are articles and excerpts from publications from 1969 to 1994 on the above-mentioned topics.

  10. Louis White photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs of Dachau concentration camp taken by Louis White [donor's father] at liberation on May 2, 1945, and two photographs of three soldiers guarding a woman and five corpses laying on the ground that were removed from a German soldier.

  11. Signal Corps photograph collection

    The collection consists of 70 Signal Corps photographs of captured German prisoners of war, American troops, liberated prisoners at concentration camps, mass graves, and scenes of war damage throughout Europe. Captions in English are attached to each photograph.

  12. Nathan and Regina Eschwege collection

    Collection contains five photocopied letters written in 1941-1942 by the donor's parents, Nathan and Regina Eschwege.

  13. Joan Wolfermann collection

    Contains correspondence from M. Lichtmann dated November 1940, describing his escape from Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia.

  14. Miriam Kurz collection

    Contains Jacob Kurz's memoirs, in Hebrew, entitled "The Last of the Angels - Memories and Reflections." "The Rose Love: Memoires of Jacob Kurz" is an excerpt from the "Last of the Angels" which describes the writer's experiences in Liberose, a sub-camp of Sachsenhausen.

  15. Postcard

    The postcard was written by R. Sara Scajneman from the ghetto in Dombrowa, Poland, to Chana Sender (b. Chana Wajntraub) in a labor camp at Gruenberg, Germany, on August 24, 1942.

  16. Family photo album

    Photographic album which belonged to a Yugoslavian Jewish family, created circa 1938. Green cardboard covers and black paper pages separated by sheets of glassine, bound together with two cloth ribbons; 126 photos attached in album; "Photoalbum/Perfect" printed in gold paint/ink on cover, recto; pages bear inscriptions in black ink.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Spring in Paris

    Eiffel Tower at dusk. 03:55:04 Building, trees. 03:56:59 Champs Elysee, busy street, restaurants, cars. 03:58:17 Flower stall, magazine stall. 03:58:50 Work men having lunch on pavement. AV street. 04:00:04 Base of Eiffel Tower - construction. Looking up at Tower. People on bench. 04:02:01 Bridge.

  18. Fringed leather jacket with beaded design worn by a Jewish refugee child in Shanghai

    Received by Eva Ungar Grudin from American Jewish Charity (probably HIAS). The leather jacket was made in the United States by Native Americans and worn by Eva in Shanghai, China.

  19. Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camp records

    Contains SS (Schutzstaffel) personnel files, personnel indexes, schedule books, personnel pay books, lists of prisoners, delivery receipts, prisoner death books, and various other documents from Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps.

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine

    1125 I: The Zionist Congress meets in Tel Aviv to render homage to its president Chaim Weizmann and his laboratory in Rehovot on December 24, 1944. Several hundred delegates representing different Jewish districts in Palestine participate. EXT shots of the cinema where Congress held. Sign reads, "Jane Eyre." Tickets checked. Crowded room of smartly dressed people. Dr. Weizmann makes his way to an armchair, shaking hands. Ben Gurion, president of the Jewish Agency, speaking. 05:02:45 Dr. Weizmann speaks with Israeli flag behind him. People listening. Clapping. Crowd listening. Ben Gurion spe...