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  1. Haas family photographs

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Eleonora Haasova, originally of Bytča, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), and her brother Ivan Haas, who perished at Auschwitz. Included a pre-war photograph of Ivan, a photograph of Eleonora in 1944 around the time of her high school graduation, and a post-war high school reunion.

  2. Polish Army parade in Warsaw

    Short clip of a large military procession of Polish troops, including cannons, horses, etc. down a main street in Warsaw.

  3. Lusya Kalika memoir

    Contains a memoir, 33 pages, as well as photocopies and newspaper articles about experience of Jewish family who survived war by hiding underground in Odessa.

  4. Oral history interview with David Nencel

  5. Film about children in a sanatorium

    with French subtitles. Children in a sanatorium in Otwock the Warsaw district.

  6. Broadcasting station "Hristo Botev" (Fond 209)

    Samples of Soviet radio propaganda directed to Bulgaria from the radio station "Hristo Botev" located in the Soviet Union, which raise issues such as the persecution of Jews in Thrace and Macedonia and German crimes in Kiev, Ukraine.

  7. Mining in Upper Silesia

    CU of molten zinc ore and metal engraving blocks. Scenes inside the zinc refinery in Katowice, the largest industrial town of Upper Silesia, Poland. CUs of men putting materials into the furnaces. Cut back to the countryside.

  8. Battle near Ladoga Lake (Leningrad)

    Map showing Leningrad. The narrator announces: "on the front, south of the Ladoga Lake." View of "hedgehog" fortifications (crisscrossed iron bars strung with barbed wire) in the snow. A German soldier in a white snowsuit and helmet and with a rifle slung over his shoulder, looks out at the scene. Another soldier, also on watch, stands in a trench. "Bolshevist tanks attack! Here they come!" announces the narrator, as German soldiers rush across the snow. Soldiers loading and firing howitzers and rifles as they defend their position against the Soviets. Shots of a number of damaged Soviet ta...

  9. Nazi Germany trims: Leica factory, ferry, Pestalozzi Froebel Kindergarten, airplanes, peasants, exhibitions, nursery, tobacco, anti-Jewish signs, Goldschmidt school

    TRIMS. INTs, Leica factory, various shots. 01:00:43 Fountain at industry exhibition. Crowds looking at exhibitions, including "Das Weisse Gold," "Glaswolle," yarn/textiles, boots, "Continental" tires, "Sicherheits-Glas." Man standing next to large machine. 01:02:01 Small town in Germany. LS, Leica factory, INTs. CUs, lens, laborers, on lunch break, polishing, inserting film into camera. 01:04:01 HAS, LS, German village, cathedral spires, train in FG. 01:04:09 LS, factory, smokestacks. 01:04:18 Laborers on dirt mound with pick axes and sledgehammers. CU, "Krupp" insignia. Locomotive, rail li...

  10. Scenes of rural life in the region of Katowice

    VS, scenes of rural village life in the central Polish region of Katowice, circa 1937. Horse drawn wagons move along a dirt road, an orthodox priest in dark vestments walks along the same road. A family carries kindling on their backs. CU, the Orthodox priest stops to speak to two children with a goat. Three women walk along a dirt road, two carry firewood, one walks hand in hand with her young daughter. She picks up her daughter for a CU for the camera. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  11. Trade school in Berlin

    Trade school in Berlin. Woodshop, airplanes. CU, blond boy.

  12. Stephanie Klein papers

    The papers contain a letter written by Abram donor's uncle to "Moniek" in July 1944 while he was stationed with the Polish Army outside of Lublin, Poland, and a photograph of Abram and his family in Czestochowa, Poland, circa 1938.

  13. Warsaw park scenes 1936

    CU of a baby in a carriage. MLS, from high angle, babies in Saxon Garden (Ogrod Saski) in Warsaw, with their mothers and/or nannies. The building with arcs is the former Saxon Palace (Palac Saski). VS of the scene in the park, babies as far as they eye can see. 01:23:45:20 CU of one baby in a stroller that stares directly at the camera while eating, followed by the mother madly rocking her baby, VS of very sleek looking, shiny, new baby carriages. Cut to group of young school children touring the medieval city wall of Krakow.

  14. American soldiers holding Nazi flag

    Rectangular form with scalloped edge; black and white image depicting United States Army soldiers holding a German flag bearing a Swastika.

  15. Wertheimer family papers

    This collection primarily documents the wartime experiences of Richard Wertheimer and Klara (Deutsch) Wertheimer of Vienna, Austria securing passage to Havana, Cuba and joining their daughter Greta in New York between 1941 to 1942. The collection also documents the Wertheimer family’s life in Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s, including Greta Wertheimer’s report cards and Richard Wertheimer’s license to practice law. This collection includes wartime correspondence between members of the Wertheimer family, records of Richard Wertheimer, Klara Wertheimer, and Klara’s mother Johanna Deutsch’s expe...

  16. Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Haute-Vienne

    Contains documents from the camps at Nexon, Saint-Paul d'Eyjeaux, Séreilhac, Saint-Germain-les-Belles, Saint Sulpice-la-Pointe, and la Meyse. Includes documents related to the organization and forced labor of foreigners in France during the Vichy regime. Also includes documents pertaining to the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane, France, on June 10, 1944; the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) children's home at Chateau Montintin; and emigration to Palestine after World War II.

  17. Seeligmann family papers

    The collection consists of identification photographs of members of the Seeligmann family and documents relating to the Seeligmann family who fled from Berlin, Germany, to Tianjin, China, in 1939.

  18. Krakow Jewish quarter; business district

    Two orthodox Jews arguing in the street in the Jewish quarter of Krakow at the main market square at the intersection of ul. Sw. Jana and the Rynek Glowny. They lean close to each other in a heated conversation at the door. Street scene in the business district in Krakow, many pedestrians, kiosk, people looking at bookshop/newssatand window. Man walking around with a sign advertising the film premiere of the 1936 American film, and Oscar winner, "Anthony Adverse." Scenes of shops and shop windows, crowded streets full of men, women, children, baby carriages, automobiles, etc. A quick cut to...

  19. Ilse Garfunkel collection

    Consists of ten letters and three postcards written by Charlotte (Lotte) Berndt Wolff to her daughter, Ilse Wolff, between 1940-1944. Charlotte and her husband, Herman, emigrated to Shanghai in 1939, while Ilse was sent on a Kindertransport to Belgium and spent the war in various children's homes. Herman Wolff passed away in September 1940, and the collection also includes a copy of Charlotte's death certificate, listing that she passed away from typhus in August 1945 in Shanghai.

  20. Funeral; construction, daily life in Warsaw, 1936

    A Christian funeral procession of an unidentified individual through Warsaw, several people walk behind the horse drawn carriage that carries the casket, the pallbearers are in elaborate uniforms. MS construction site in Warsaw, multi-story apartment buildings are going up, the foreman in a dark coat barks orders to all of the workers laying the concrete. MCU, kiosk featuring various newspapers.