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  1. Anniversary of the Socialist Revolution; Kremlin; Care packages to the frontlines

    Title: "Soviet Newsreel / 76-77 / Moscow / November 1942 / Directed by I. Setkinoy"/ "1917-1942"/ "25 years since the great October socialist revolution!" High-angle ELSs of Moscow and the Kremlin. LS of soldiers on rooftop with cannon, one is observing through binoculars, all are silhouetted against sunlight. Busy Moscow streets. Title: "At the factories of the capitol on the eve of the great anniversary." LS row of telescopes. Factory workers. Title: 01:53:17 "Ardent greetings to the heroic defenders of Leningrad" High-angle panning ELS across Leningrad. MS tank. LS tank passing under arc...

  2. Testimony by Hadassah Rosensaft

    Contains testimony by Hadassah Rosensaft about her experiences in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

  3. Elaine L. Roth collection

    Contains a typescript copy of a memoir entitled, "Aron Levenstein June 1930 - May 1975," and typescript poems titled "Little Boy Don't Cry," "Untitled," "For the Land That is us Dear," "Forget It," "The Flame," "Elaine's Lullaby," "The Shoe Shine Boy," "The Men on the Line," "The Bird," "Come Back and I'll Say That I'm Sorry," "The Messiah," "Debra," "The March to Eternity," "Land Where My Children Grow," "I Want to Go on Home," "A Father," "From the Regions of Treblinka," "The Day My Pa Was Crying," "A Mother's Last Appeal," "The Ghetto," "The Grand Lullaby," "Michael's Song," and "If he c...

  4. Memoir entitled "I Never Left Janowska"

    Contains a memoir, 212 pages, entitled "I Never Left Janowska," written by Christine Kaplan in 1987. The memoir, which is a typed manuscript with handwritten corrections, describes her life in Boryslaw under Russian occupation, living in the Lwow ghetto, forced labor in Janowska and Drohobycz. Using papers identifying her as a non-Jewish Pole, Ms. Kaplan escaped the ghetto in Lwow and traveled to Oberammergau, Germany, where she worked as a forced laborer. After the war, she married and emigrated to the United States with her husband.

  5. Memoirs: Shanghai and Europe; China and Europe

    Consists of multiple copies of the typescript testimony "Memoirs: Shanghai and Europe," by Sigmund Tobias.

  6. German officers; Allied POWs

    German officers and others talking, smoking. Forest and barracks in BG. LS Allied POWs with KG stamped on their backs.

  7. Korn family papers

    The Korn family papers includes five photographic postcards of a concentration camp, likely Buchenwald concentration camp following its liberation. The collection also includes two letters written by an American G.I. named "Ward," written to his mother, June and August 1945. One of the letters describes a visit to Buchenwald concentration camp.

  8. Metzl family papers

    The Metzl family papers consists almost entirely of correspondence written to Leo and Josephine Metzlova from members of Josephine’s family in 1942. The majority of the letters are from Josephine’s mother, Martha Fleischner. Three letters in this collection are written by Fini to Leo and her parents. Other correspondents include the couple’s young daughter, Alenka and Fini’s aunt, Josephine Orlik. Also comprised is a school report card for Alenka, and identification cards issued to Fini, one of which entitled her to free public transportation in the city of Prague due to her illness. All of...

  9. Poster

  10. "Outpost" "Placówka"

    Contains copies of Placówka, a weekly newspaper for “the Polish village” published clandestinely in Warsaw in 1940. Topics include discussions of the war in general including war news in other theaters and U.S. efforts to build a war machine larger than Germany’s; the need for Polish farmers to retain their land at all costs; the efforts of the occupiers to substitute German and Soviet culture for Polish culture; Soviet deportations of Poles; a speech by the Pope; and plans for the postwar period (assuming the defeat of Germany), specifically that Poland should use German lands to solve agr...

  11. German capture and invasion of France

    LS, pan, small lake with ship. Snow-covered fields in FG. MS, bridge over river with demolition crew. LS, large explosions in buildings at edge of city. MS, German troops in snow-covered hills, firing guns. LS, German paratroopers jumping from large twin-engine aircraft. MS, paratroopers landing in snow-covered field. MCU, German soldiers with equipment. MS, paratroopers marching after landing. CU, German troops and equipment. MS, pan, German Stukas taking off from airfield. LS, Stukas in flight, craters on ground. LS, wrecked airfield, wrecked aircraft. MS, wrecked British planes. LS, Germ...

  12. Documents relating to August Rosenberg and his family during the Holocaust

    Testimony, 4 pages, typescript, from Walter Rosley (born Walter Rosenberg) of Manchester, VT, describing experiences of his family, originally of Frankfurt/Main, during Holocaust, including time in occupied Netherlands and Westerbork. Includes typed notes of his brother, August Rosenberg, and typescript translation of letter from family member in 1945, describing experiences during war.

  13. For the sake of my children

    Testimony. Typescript, 51 pages, titled "For the Sake of My Children…" by Sigi and Rosl Steiner.

  14. Soviet partisans; Stalingrad advance

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel / 83-84 / Moscow / December 1942 / Directed by M. Fidelevoy"/ "Partisan-Glory" Coverage of ceremony extolling support of partisans in the war effort. 02:21:22 Title: "Defenders of the Caucuses" Gun workshop. CUs and MSs of workers putting together rifles and other guns. Tracking shot of cannon factory. Close shots of cannon maintenance. 02:23:10 Title: "Film-reporting from the Frontlines"/ "In the area of Nalchik" Pans across mountains. ELSs of soldiers hiking through. Coverage of fire fight in the mountains. CU badly wounded soldier. MS German soldier taken prisone...

  15. First report of the Nuremberg Trials

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. First report of the Nuremberg Trials. Long establishing SEQ on court building (interiors and exteriors, security precautions, etc.). Entry of judges. The accused prisoner in the dock, identified by commentary. Court President (Geoffrey Lawrence) opens proceedings. The indictment is read. Defense lawyers confer with the accused, reading copies of the indictment.

  16. Ilse Loewenberg papers

    The Ilse Loewenberg papers primarily contain identification papers, imprisonment documents, correspondence, and clippings related to Ilse Loewenberg’s experiences as a member of an underground resistance group and her imprisonment in Berlin, Germany from 1943-1945. Included are a photograph and identification card for her husband Gerhard Grün, government documents related to Ilse’s imprisonment in Berlin, a list of the names of those who helped her hide in Berlin, post-war correspondence, and clippings related to Elisabeth Bornstein receiving the Medal of the Righteous for helping hide Ilse...

  17. Nazi flag

    Nazi flag acquired by Sergeant Charles Ottinger while serving in the US Army during WWII. Brought back to the US by Charles Ottinger, March 1945.

  18. Richard Kelley collection

    Photographs (3) showing corpses and liberated prisoners at Buchenwald, spring 1945, and one letter from Richard Kelley, relating his experiences as an American G.I. upon liberating the camp, and how he obtained a Nazi flag.

  19. Kay Atkinson King collection

    Contains a manuscript of the book entitled "Raoul Wallenberg: His Remarkable Life, Heroic Battles and The Secret of His Mysterious Disappearance" and of a partial text regarding treatment of Jews in Romania and Hungary.

  20. Robert W. Kesting papers

    Contains unpublished manuscripts and copies of photographs relating to several Holocaust topics. Includes typescript drafts of notes and articles, and likely early versions of Kesting's article "Forgotten Victims: Blacks in the Holocaust."