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  1. Inge Schiffman papers

    The papers consist of newspaper clippings about a ship, "Navemar," that transported Jewish refugees from Spain to the United States during the Holocaust, one vaccination record, one receipt, one medical certificate, and one passport ("Reisepass").

  2. Gerald Malenbaum papers

    Testimony, two pages, photocopy of typescript, titled "Ostrog, Ukraine, Summer 1941," written by Malenbaum in 1993, and copies of letters in Yiddish from parents and family members, circa 1915-1930.

  3. Prewar scenes of Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Yugoslavia

    The documentary movie depicts the landscapes surrounding the Danube starting in Romania with the town of Turn-Severin located after the 'Iron Gate' and with pictures of orthodox priests and peasant life. Scenes of petroleum wells in the Carpathians, buildings in Bucharest, and the Danube delta located in the Dobrudscha province are shown. From Bulgaria there are scenes of village life and tobacco harvest. From Turkey, the island of Adakalah. Concerning Yugoslavia, there are pictures of the tributary Sava River, the city of Semendria, the Banat district, the capital Belgrade and the harbor c...

  4. Oral history interview with Dov Fettman

  5. Berry Nachmias memoir

    Testimony, 4 pages, photocopy of handwritten, in form of letter to USHMM in 1995, describing experience of author, president of Jewish Union Survivors of Greece, describing feelings at opening of USHMM, view of Holocaust in Greece, and own family's experiences there.

  6. Ukraine supreme court; Kiev; Mining in Rudnik

    Titles: "Soviet newsreel / 17 / Moscow / March 1944"/ "Directed by I. Kravchunovsky"/ "The sixth session of the Supreme Court Ukraine, USSR" High-angle ELS pan across Kiev. ELS courtroom INT, large portrait of Stalin centered in frame. Audience. MS, CU of Nikita Khrushchev addressing courtroom from podium. Courtroom. Title: 04:22:35 "On liberated Soviet ground" Workers rejuvenating factory. ELS of civilian crowd and platform. Message from Stalin read allowed to crowd. CU of crowd members applauding and smiling. ELSs river-damming facility. Shots of workers. Title: "With a camera on the coun...

  7. The Choice

    Testimony, typescript, titled "The Choice" by Magda Sugar Simon, 217 pages, written in the form of a novel, about a young woman in an Austrian forced labor camp that is liberated by Americans.

  8. Quisling's trial in Norway; Execution of German spies

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Report on War Crimes, including shots of the London meeting of the investigating commission, the opening of Quisling's trial in Norway, and the execution of two German spies by the US 9th Army.

  9. Jonathan Kempner collection

    Primarily correspondence of the Reich Justice Ministry concerning the administration of the Dachau concentration camp. Of particular interest are correspondence dated 1933, which details the transfer of power from the Bavarian State Police to the SS; and the earliest politically motivated murders carried out at Dachau. Also includes important correspondence dated 1938-1942 from the Reich Justice Ministry relating to Rassenschande (racial shame), and Mischlinge (persons of mixed race) serving in the Wehrmacht. Also contains the criminal indictment of Marinus Van der Lubbe, charged by the Naz...

  10. Documents relating to Sargorod ghetto in Transnistria

    Contains printouts of digital images of two postcards sent from Transnistria, 1941.

  11. Ruth B. Weitz family papers

    Correspondence, mostly from cousins in Yugoslavia and Israel, 1948-1950, describing events of war years. Includes photocopied documents from period of occupation of Yugoslavia, concerning Melanie Ormosch (cousin of donor).

  12. Oral history interview with Ruth Wells

  13. A memoir relating to experiences in France during the Holocaust

    Testimony in the form of a letter, from Bindefeld (nee Regina Westreich), in which she very briefly describes family's escape from Germany (Leipzig) after Kristallnacht, survival in occupied France (she worked for an Orthodox rabbi, Schneerson, who was sheltering children in southern France), and eventual immigration to U.S. Letter asks questions of USHMM staff about fate of family members who were in Poland.

  14. "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition; BDM; farming; Reichsarbeitsdienst

    INT "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibit, "Nehmen Sie Dada ernst" in Munich. 00:20:47 BDM girls place flag in ground, write letters. Landscape with ploughed fields, oxen and cart, between Nuremberg and Leipzig. Road between Nuremberg and Dresden with BDM girls, marching and singing with banner. CUs faces, braids, white blouses. While resting at roadside, two girls perform a singing act, flirtatious, very animated. Others seated, write in diaries, then march on. Ages range from 8 to 12, most in braids or bobbed hair. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, r...

  15. Ruben J. Baer papers

    Correspondence from Baer to his parents, spring 1945, while he served in U.S. Army in Germany. Describes scene at concentration camp near Hannover.

  16. Kommandeur der Gendarmerie Lublin records (Sygn.104)

    Contains reports, decrees, radiograms, orders, and various other documents relating to resistance activities in the Lublin area; establishment and administration of aerial patrols; police activities; and escapes of and searches for prisoners of war and prisoners of forced labor.

  17. Photograph of liberated Buchenwald inmate

    Contains a photograph of an unidentified liberated inmate of the Buchenwald concentration camp, circa may 1945.

  18. Hana Gruna collection

    Contains a list of Czechoslovakian Jewish women who were inmates of Sackisch labor camp and a memoir of experiences relating to Sackisch.

  19. Paul Weber Jacobs collection

    Consists of documents related to Paul Jacobs’ experience working for UNRRA from 1945 to 1946. Included among the documents are eleven black and white photographs and approximately 150 letters written from Paul Jacobs to his wife, Ruby, and son, Peter, in the United States. The letters begin with his departure from the docks in New York, N.Y., continue through events at the displaced persons camps in Europe, and end on his return to North America at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

  20. Materials relating to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Auschwitz

    This collection is comprised of photocopied documents and copy print photographs detailing the fates of Jehovah’s Witness from the villages of Wisła and Ustroń, in Cieszyn County, Poland during the Holocaust. Materials include name lists of men and women from Wisła and Ustroń who were interned and murdered at KZ Auschwitz and their corresponding death records as copied from the Nazi death log (sterbebuch). Other name lists include children from Wisła sent to Łódź as part of the German youth camp (Jugenverwahrlager Litzmannstadt). Associated with the name lists is a series of copy prints of ...