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  1. Michael Botermans poems

    Contains two poems entitled "Yehoshuah" and "Why" written in remembrance of Holocaust victims and survivors.

  2. Book

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Mass graves, monument, ceremony

    Somber looking men with flags. The bald man on whom the camera focuses and who gives the speech is Jozef Cyrankiewicz, head of the Polish Socialist Party and later head of the Polish government. An Auschwitz survivor, he had been active in the Polish resistance and was arrested in 1941. 06:18:47 Unidentified man speaking, crowd watches. 06:09:57 Tombstone uncovered, Cyrankiewicz places a medal on the stone. 06:21:32 Panning shot of huge crowd, with people visible through the empty window frames of the damaged buildings. 06:22:35 Coat of arms. 06:22:48 Unidentified man giving speech. 06:23:4...

  4. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

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

    Children in park, Eiffel Tower in BG. 04:03:00 Construction near Eiffel Tower, Chaillot? Paris street with cars, trams. People looking in store windows. Workers, Eiffel Tower, busy street with cars, Champs Elysees, road, cars. Building with "Le Figaro" across top. At Boulangerie, people leaving with bread (shot repeated several times). Scenes near the Louvre and in gardens. Street, tulips, Petite Arc de Triomphe, artist painting. 04:07:35 Eiffel Tower at dusk. Magazine stall, people buying papers. 04:09:33 (Still in Paris, seems colder?) Selling plants at outdoor market.

  6. "Their Aims, Our Aims"

    Contains a brochure entitled "Their Aims, Our Aims," published approximately 1940 by the League for Human Rights, Freedom and Democracy. Contains quotations contrasting Nazi statements of principles with those of American political and labor leaders. Includes references to Roosevelt's Four Freedoms; the struggles of the labor movement in countries under dictatorships; and extensive quotes from R. Walther Darre and President Roosevelt.

  7. Steven Galezewski collection

    The collection consists of a memoir containing information describing the liquidation of the Minsk-Mazowiecki ghetto and a copy of an arrest warrant dated 30 August 1941.

  8. Morton Benson collection

    Contains information regarding his observations of corpses in striped uniforms on the side of the road in April 1945 while serving in the 11th Armored Division of the Third Army; only one date entry from a diary kept by the donor.

  9. Jeanne Rothschild collection

    Contains correspondence and documents relating to the donor's father's internment in Camp Gurs and Les Milles: drawings made by Gurs inmates in 1939; documentation of attempts to obtain visas; photographs taken by donor's husband while in Germany with the U.S. Army, some from Dachau taken two days after liberation; documents from the Red Cross International Tracing Service concerning the donor's mother's twin sister and older brother; and a sound cassette of the donor's oral testimony.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Szold funeral; Jerusalem; Shertok

    Crowd of people outside Hadassah Medical Organization. CU entrance. Nurses process for the funeral services of Henriette Szold, founder of the School of Nurses on Mt. Scopus. Towards Jewish cemetery. Shots of road, outside town. Crowd of men. Many people, Jerusalem seen in the BG. View of the mountains over the Dead Sea. Shots from hillside. Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. 06:19:49 Students walk under arcades which go from the library to the new University buildings in Jerusalem. Hebrew University, shot of Jeruslaem, churchs. 06:21:11 Inscription of an old Jewish tomb. La Jaffa gate and Je...

  11. Egon Hamlet collection

    Travel document belonging to Egon Hamlet.

  12. Gregorii Frid collection

    Contains a newspaper clipping, a concert program, and an advertisement poster for the mono-opera "Anna Frank's Diary," written by Gregorii Freed and conducted by Leonid A. Shulman. Gregory Frid composed the mono-opera "Anna Frank's Diary" in 1969. It was scheduled to premiere in the Grand Hall of Moscow in 1971; however, antisemitic attitudes in the Soviet Union a the time brought about the cancellation of the opening. Leonid A. Shulman, conductor, succeeded in premiering the mono-opera in May 1977 in Kisolovdsk.

  13. Book

  14. ID patch stenciled 139905 worn by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate

    Prisoner identification patch with the number 139905 worn by 21 year old Shmuel Czyzyk when he was imprisoned in Dora Mittelbau slave labor camp, and its subcamp, Rottleberode, from January-April 1945. Shmuel, his parents, and three siblings were living in Łódź when Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany in September 1939. His father and brother left for eastern Poland but were caught by the Germans and interned in the Deblin ghetto. The rest of the family was sent from Łódź, and the family was held together in Deblin. In 1942, while Shmuel was at work, his parents and brother were deported to...

  15. Alexander Paspa collection

    Contains information regarding a request for medicine; a notification of receiving a package; and a request for certain foods. Three original postcards dated October 23, 1944, 1942, and July 31, 1942, all with English translations. All of the postcards were mailed to Ella Paspa in Zagreb, Croatia.

  16. Bracelet found by an American soldier

    Bracelet found by GI during tour of duty.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Germans arrive in Sudentenland; Sudeten refugees

    Big crowd mourning, (German) women in tears, talking. 03:43:18 Nazi speaker heard. 03:43:32 People in courtyard silently heiling. Pan, women cries as she heils. 03:44:23 Sad faces of children and women boarding streetcar. 03:44:41 Men on bicycles rush down street, men with QF ruined room. Border, gate going up, 03:45:06 grinning Nazis on horseback go through. Lots of marching Nazis, heiling (hesitant). 03:45:24 Nazis on carts, peasant women, flowers, heiling on cue, others being taught to heil. CU, elderly woman watches and does nothing. Goering with children. SS feeding people in square. F...

  18. Lutz Haase collection

    Contains official documents concerning donor's status as a political refugee in Shanghai during the war. Collection of booklets and newspapers are published by the "Association of Former Central European Refugees from Shanghai." Also includes 27 photographs taken in the Hongkew ghetto between 1943-1948, described by the donor.

  19. "Charlotte's memoirs, Oct. 8, 1991"

    Consists of a memoir entitled "Charlotte's Memoirs," written by Charlotte Arpadi Baum in 1991. In the memoir, Charlotte describes her experiences as a child and as an adolescent in Berlin, Germany, as an inhabitant of the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia, in the concentration camps of Rīga-Kaiserwald and Stutthof, on a death march, of liberation in Poland, and her emigration to the United States. Please note: This material is available on microfiche as RG-02.121.

  20. Charles Lavering collection

    Contains a scrapbook relating to the experiences of Charles Lavering, a member of the 305 and 309 Ordnance Battalions in the United States Army, while he was stationed in liberated Europe.