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  1. Rommel in Africa

    Shows German tanks, trucks, and motorcyclists advance in Libya; narration mentions Bir Hakeim. General Rommel in a staff car; German 88mm guns and mobile anti-aircraft guns firing against British tanks; Stukas attacking British around Tobruk; a German ace landing and being congratulated on his victories; German antiaircraft guns firing at attacking British planes; flaming wreckage of British bomber; desert sandstorms; Germans banqueting with Arab chiefs; and German troops bathing at an Oasis.

  2. Memoir of experiences in Germany, Kibbutz Bamidbar (Yugoslavia), and emigration to Palestine.

    Contains a memoir relating to experiences in Germany, relocation to Kibbutz Bamidbar (Yugoslavia) in 1934, and emigration to Palestine in 1936.

  3. Association of Teheran children and their instructors collection

    The collection contains copies of various documents from an exhibition produced for the 50th anniversary reunion of the Association of Teheran Children and Their Instructors in 1993. The exhibition of documents and photographs recounts the history of the rescue of the "Teheran Children" from the Nazis and their relocation in Israel via Teheran, Iran, in 1943. Daṿid Laʾor, an agent of the Jewish Agency for Israel, served as the Director of the Jewish Children's Home in a camp for Polish refugees in Teheran beginning in 1942. He organized instructors to help locate Jewish children in the ref...

  4. Bret Werb collection

    Photocopied documents (folder 1), ordered by USHMM intern in 1994, from Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstand, concerning the trial of Helena Kafka and other Catholic religious. DOW signatur 19722/1, may have been copied for them from Bundesarchiv. Second file contains various newspapers, including Gazetka Ozobowa (six issues, appears to be mimeographed newsletter for Polish free forces stationed in Palestine, 1941), Wychodzca (Warsaw, 1935-1937, three issues), "Narod" (2 issues, 1943), and booklet "Zapomnie? nigdy nam nie wolno," from Kielce, 1945.

  5. Dorothea Dressel collection

    The Dorothea Dressel collection contains documents primarily concerning Dorothea Dressel’s husband, Friedrich Dressel, who was a member of the Communist party and was killed in Dachau in 1933. Records include correspondence concerning Friedrich’s death, and post-war correspondence, including a letter from the writer Oskar Maria Graf. Other items include a death and marriage certificate, photographs, and newspaper clippings. The Dorothea Dressel collection contains material primarily related to her husband’s death in 1933. The correspondence contains a letter from Fritz’s parents, asking Dor...

  6. Margarete Knopf Igra collection

    Contains documents relating to Margarete Knopf (Marketa Knopf) and her emigration from Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939. Documents from Vienna (late 1938) documenting birth and residence, poverty due to (forced) unemployment, and tax status. Also contains two Czech documents from early 1939: a police registration form and an inventory of belongings worth 2,300 crowns.

  7. A memoir relating to experiences in the Glusk ghetto and as a partisan in Byelorussia

    Testimony, handwritten, 2 pages, circa 1990s. Describes experiences in village of Glusk (in Poland or Belarus).

  8. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 mark

    1 mark coupon issued at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. Later that day, soldiers from the Sixth Army Armored Di...

  9. Oral history interview with Wolf Finkelman

  10. Shoshannah Gallowski Fine papers

    The Shoshannah Gallowski Fine papers consist of Allied Expeditionary Forces Displaced Persons (A.E.F D.P.) registration records, administrative records, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Fine's work with orphaned Jewish children and displaced persons at Kloster Indersdorf (Kibbutz Dror) and in Great Britain after the Holocaust. The papers also contain addresses given by Leonard G. Montefiore relating to Jewish orphans; a book of drawings by Moshe Barash entitled "Figures from the haze" (in Hebrew); and a book of songs entitled "Songs from the Vilna ghetto" (in Y...

  11. Experiences of my French Jewish family under German occupation

    Contains a typescript copy of a memoir which relates to Thomas J. Schwab's French family's experiences during the Holocaust.

  12. Donald E. Wolpe collection

    Testimony. Thirteen (13) pages, with additional copied documents, titled "Masha: Why Me? An Unlikely True Story," by Donald Wolpe, about the experiences of Masha Wolpe, and her family (originally of Kaunas, Lithuania).

  13. Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate German-Fascist Crimes Committed on Soviet Territory from the USSR

    This collection contains selected material about victims, crimes against persons, and perpetrators, and excludes information about crimes against property. Documents include victim name lists, protocols of interrogating eyewitnesses by local members of the Extraordinary Commission, and signed depositions summarizing the commission’s findings. Also included are photos, diagrams, and maps showing the location of atrocities and graves.

  14. Occupation of Denmark; Invasion of Norway

    German warship, showing crew at quarters. Crew listening to speech by Captain (not heard on soundtrack). CU, German officer looking through binoculars. Merchant ship at dock. German troops carrying supplies from ship to dock. Looking down pier, German troops marching. MCU, German troops standing under arch; buildings. CU, German troops laying out large swastika on street for recognition by plane. Pan, overhead, showing German Air Force flying. Street in Denmark, German troops talking with Danish soldiers. German planes overhead. German officials in front of building; Danish police being dis...

  15. Brochures from the Gedenkstaette Ahlem

    Brochures and printed material, all created by the Deutsche-Israelitische Gemeinschaft of Hannover, in commemoration of the camp Hannover-Ahlem and of the 50th anniversary of deportations from Hannover, 1992-1993. Includes a series of 10 brochures and several newspaper-like publications detailing Jewish history of Hannover, persecution during Third Reich, the role of Ahlem as a gathering place for Jews prior to deportations, and lists of murdered community members, among other topics.

  16. Lemel Adler collection

    Contains a displaced persons identity card, registration of Lemel Adler with the Jewish community of Steyr, photocopy of letter to Lemel Adler from Lutz Rosengart, letter of endorsement by Lloyd E. Nobles, letter of endorsement by James L. Darling, certificate about Lemel from Steyr, copy of Noble's letter of endorsement, letter of endorsement by Louis Tesser to American consulate in Austria, and photographs of Lemel Adler either by himself or with others.

  17. Verdict at Dachau trial

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. (Very brief) Forced open air cinema show in the jungle of Burma. "Dachauer Prozess: DAS URTEIL" The verdict at the conclusion of the trial of Dachau officials. Courtroom scenes, including numbered accused in the dock. 02:15:32 Commandant Martin Gottfried Weiss (#1) 02:15:37 Josef Jarolin (#3) 02:15:50 Dr. Claus Schilling (#15) 02:16:11 Fritz Becher (#27). Witnesses give testimony (one identifies a defendant). Prisoner's mid-day meal. Verdict and sentences.

  18. Heinrich Himmler order to establish a special court for relatives of SS and German police personnel

    Consists of a 1940 order signed by Heinrich Himmler establishing a special court in Munich for the relatives of SS and German police personnel.

  19. Frank Klein and family papers

    Photocopied documents related to post-war experience of Frantisek (Franz, Ferenc, Frank) Klein, of Slovakia, including immigration and restitution documents, affidavits, including description of wartime internment in forced labor camps.

  20. Edward Levin papers

    Diary, typescript translation, circa 100 pages. Consists of translation provided by Edward Levin, of Jerusalem, of the diaries of Egon "Gonda" Redlich, who headed youth education activities at Theresienstadt, and date from 1942 to the eve of his deportation in 1944. Levin planned to publish these under the title "Life as If: The Diaries of Egon Redlich from the Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942-1944."