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  1. Klion family papers

    Envelopes, and in a few cases postcards, sent from Polish POWs in German prison camps (Oflag II-C, Oflag VII-A) to recipients in New York, 1941-1942.

  2. Industry along Rhine, production, farming, German trade show

    Koblenz city scape from balcony. VLS down to long train, river, men. Statue of Wilhelm I with a horse, teenage boys at balcony, slow pan view. 00:02:10 Mostly empty courtyard of military fort, Festung Ehrenbreitstein. Workers on the banks of the Rhine River, LS, gray, crossing small wooden bridge. 00:03:05 Coca-Cola sign: "Hier stets eiskalt", boy drinking cola, CUs. Trucks, cars, CU "Krupp" on motor. Slow tug, long low boats rolling down river. 00:04:12 Scientist with microscope, lab with other workers, women and men in lab coats, making cameras, zoom lens, various MS and CU of workers at ...

  3. Nicholas G. Winton collection

    Contains photocopies of pages from the book "Time Zones" by Joe Schlesinger; a photocopy of a names list containing hundreds of Czech children brought to the United Kingdom by the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Children's Section, under the leadership of Nicholas Winton; and a photocopy of an article published in the "Evening Post" 21 June 1991 entitled "Prague Reunion for Hero Father: He Rescued 664 Children."

  4. Soldiers awarded; soldiers dance; scrapping of downed German airplane

    Titles: "Soviet newsreel / 78 / August 15, 1941"/ "Glory"/ "To brave defenders of the Homeland"/ "Presiding chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR Comrade Kalinin gives out awards and medals" Several MS of Kalinin shaking hands with and presenting awards to soldiers. Tracking LSs of battleships. CUs naval officer and several soldiers. Titles: 01:12:00 "N Squadron, our brave Falcons"/ Film-reporting from the front lines" LS Soviet plane camouflaged by trees. LS attentive audience of Soviet soldiers. ELS crowd of soldiers gathered around Cossack dancers. Cuts between LS soldier dancing and...

  5. Fanny Auerbach papers

    The Fanny Auerbach papers contain primarily correspondence between Fanny, a German Jew who escaped Germany in 1935, and Malchen Banner, a young woman who Fanny helped raise while Fanny worked at an orphanage in Cologne, Germany prior to her emigration. Malchen was subsequently deported to the Warsaw ghetto, where in her correspondence to Fanny, she describes the hardships of her life there before her letters abruptly end. Also included are correspondence with Theresa Wallach, the administrator from the orphanage where Fanny had worked, photographs, a poem from another orphan, and a newspape...

  6. Susan Warsinger papers

    The Susan Warsinger (Hilsenrath) papers comprise documents and photographs related to Susan Warsinger’s Holocaust experiences as a Jewish child from Bad Kreuznach, Germany who took refuge in France from 1939 until she immigrated to the United States in 1941. Much of the collection pertains to Susan’s life while living in the OSE home Chateau les Morelles in Broût-Vernet, France, which she describes in a diary and through a series of correspondence to her parents and little brother in the United States. Also comprised is correspondence with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and American Frien...

  7. Concentration camp atrocities

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism]. Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include: Arnstadt: tents in camp; corpses Belsen: survivors; corpses; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; Josef Kramer; interrogation/detention of SS guards and camp officials Gardelegen: corpses; i...

  8. Joseph Spitz papers

    Contains a memoir entitled "Story Written in the Exact Words of Joseph Spitz's Experiences During the Time of the Holocaust"; a photograph of Joseph Spitz taken in 1946, in the Weilheim German Displaced Persons camp; a photograph of Joseph Spitz's family dated 1930; and a photograph of Ilona Spitz, the wife of Joseph Spitz, with children Agnes Veronika and Klara Judith, who perished in Auschwitz in 1944.

  10. Emma N. Brixey collection

    Consists of a newspaper article from the Joplin Globe written about the donor, black and white photographs, seemingly of Dachau, and a handwritten memoir.

  11. Przecież on jest Żydem

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 8 pages, Polish, describing donor's childhood as Polish orphan of Jewish parents in Lublin. Written in 1994.

  12. Memories of war

    Testimony, printed, approximately 15 pages, about Barratt's military service, including liberation of Dachau, as compiled by his daughter, Ruthye Payne, along with copies of photos and documents.

  13. Claire Uricchio collection

    Photograph, of corpses, location not identified.

  14. Klara Vinokur collection

    Consists of a photocopy of a transcript of an oral history with Klara Vinokur.

  15. Report on the documentary film "Die Welt im Film" at the International Film Festival, Cannes

    Photocopy of typescript report, recording audience reaction to the showing of a documentary about the Nuremberg Trials at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946.

  16. Jacoby family papers

    Documents, post-war, relating to Otto and Regina Jacoby. Includes letter from Ministry of Social Welfare in Prague, 1947, informing him of fates of several family members who were deported to Theresienstadt and from there to Poland in 1942, and French identification documents for Regina (nee Karpel) Jacoby. Also, one handwritten letter in German, sent to Jacoby by Harry Noll, in Prague, Sept. 1945, providing information about family members.

  17. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, Braunschweig, and Woebbelin

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 18 pages, about the donor's life in Poland prior to and during occupation, time at Auschwitz, as forced laborer in Braunschweig, and as a displaced person after the war.

  18. A memoir

    Testimony, handwritten, 4 pages, experiences in Łódź ghetto and Bergen Belsen.

  19. Otto Wolf and Felicitas Garda papers

    The Otto Wolf and Felicitas Garda papers consist primarily of four volumes describing the lives and activities of the Wolf family from the time they entered hiding in 1942 to escape the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia until their liberation in 1945. The first three volumes are written by Otto Wolf. Otto’s entries describe meals, weather conditions, the state of the family’s shelter, prayer, interactions with rescuers, dramatic developments, and occasional news of the war. After Otto’s arrest, Felicitas took it upon herself to carry on the diary entries. Her entries imitate Otto’s reporting styl...

  20. Blam and Selinger family papers

    The Blam and Selinger family papers consists primarily of correspondence in the form of postcards from Golda and Hersch Blam to their family, presumably their daughter, Machcia in Sambor. One postcard in the collection is from Toni (?) Selinger to Machcia. The postcards were written during a five month period between June and October of 1942, a time period when most of the Jews from the Drohobycz ghetto were transported to the Belzec extermination camp. Most of the postcards relate family news and concerns for each other’s health and wellbeing. Mention of food shortages and a lack of adequa...