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  1. "From Flossenbürg to Freedom" and "The Backer/Bächer Families: Settling in New Lands"

    Consists of a written account, in Czech and translated into English, entitled "From Flossenbürg to Freedom", written by Boleslav Kubáček, originally of Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia). Mr. Kubáček, a Catholic married to a Jewish woman who had converted to Catholicism, was arrested in October 1944 for his participation in the resistance movement and was deported to Flossenbürg in January 1945. From Flossenbürg, he was sent to Plattling, and on April 24, 1945, was sent on a death march, and was liberated in Lohnstamf, Germany on May 4, 1945. Also includes a copy of "The Backer/Bäch...

  2. Schipkau commemoration collection

    Consists of photographs and copyprints of the April 18, 2005 dedication of a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, specifically the victims of the "Lost Transport" in Schipkau, Germany. The "Lost Transport" carried Jews from Bergen-Belsen in the direction of Theresienstadt from April 10-25, 1945. This transport never arrived at Terezin, and the few survivors were discovered and liberated by the Red Army in the yard of a coal factory near Tröbitz on April 25, 1945. During the transport, the dead were buried along the train tracks at each stop, the train was frequently the target of bomb...

  3. Halina Jaworski-Klon collection

    The collection consists of two documents of Karol Gecman (later Karol Jaworski) in Kuybyshev, USSR (now Samara, Russia). The first is a 1943 Russian translation of Karol's diploma from a Jewish Gymnasium in Lubin, Poland in May 1933. The second is a 1946 repatriation document allowing Karol to return to Poland.

  4. Tourist sights in Brussels

    Jacoby family tours Brussels: street scenes, EXT buildings, stone monument, street, statue, Cinquantenaire Arch, lion statues, street scenes, train station.

  5. Kharkov trial

    A German defendant at the Kharkov trial says that from 1 September 1942 to 14 September 1943 between 3000 and 4000 residents of the area were murdered. He then describes how the gas vans functioned.

  6. Regina Shumiray collection

    Collection consist of 34 photographs and a calling card relating to the Rozenthal and Shumiray families before the war in Poland and after the war in the Bergen-Belsen and Bad Neuheim Displaced Persons camp.

  7. US Foreign Service and diplomats; Good Neighbor Policy; recall of ambassador from Germany

    March of Time, Vol. 5, No. 4 (continuation of "The Foreign Service") Ambassadors at work abroad: Joseph P. Kennedy in London; William C. Bullitt in Paris (the "listening post for all of Europe"); George Wadsworth in Jerusalem; Joseph C. Grew in Japan; Nelson T. Johnson in China. The Jerusalem footage shows British soldiers, Jewish colonists, and an Arab man being frisked by a soldier. The narration says that the British government has had to send more soldiers to quell Arab attacks on Jews, most of whom are refugees already fleeing persecution. Title on screen: "No more vital problem faces ...

  8. Esther Friedmann papers

    Collection consisting of 71 photographs, two letters, one document, one page from a prayer book, one scrapbook that is empty, and one piece of scrip relating to Esther Friedmann's experiences living in Berlin, Germany as a Jew, through the Second World War and working during that time for the Krankenhaus der Jueduschen Gemeinde or the Hospital of the Jewish community. Included in the collection are photographs of Esther in medical uniform working in, persumably, the Jewish hospital in Berlin and correspondence from family deported to Łódź, Poland in 1939.

  9. Rosenmund family collection

    Consists of documents and identity paperwork regarding the Rosenmund (also known as Katyganer) family, originally of Vienna, Austria. Having been born in Poland, the family, consisting of Elie Kune Rosenmund, his wife Debora (Dora) Penner Rosenmund, their daughter Regina Rosenmund, and Debora's mother, Chaje Penner, had a difficult time obtaining the proper paperwork in order to immigrate to the United States. Collection contains Nazi-issued consular documents and stateless passports for Elie and Debora. The family finally managed to immigrate to the United States in 1940 after spending a y...

  10. The World Jewish Congress New York Office. Series D. Relief and Rescue Department

    Contains records relating to social relief and rescue activities, location of survivors, immigration and migration, refugees, displaced persons, extermination of Jews, reaction to Hitler's Final Solution, and relations with international relief organization including the UNRAA and Red Cross. Seven sub-series of World Jewish Congress New York Office records, Series D contains the following files: 1. Executive files, 1939-1969: The majority of the material deals with applications and affidavits for individual immigration cases; 2. Immigration Division, 1940-1953: Includes correspondence and r...

  11. Mimi Ormond collection

    Contains of materials related to the experiences of Alice Mimi Schleissner (Mimi Ormond), originally of Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia. Includes photographs of Mimi's immediate and extended family, photographs of her life on the Hachshara after arriving in England on a Kindertransport, and her 1944 wedding photograph from her marriage to Ed Ormond, an American GI. Also includes Mimi's wartime recollections of her experiences, the last telegram sent from her extended family in Terezin, and a copy of "Personal Testimonies of Child Survivors of the Holocaust, Northeast Ohio," collected and pu...

  12. Aaron Shapiro liberation photographs

    Consists of 20 contact prints of photographs from the collection of Aaron Shapiro, taken upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Mr. Shapiro is pictured in a number of these photographs.

  13. John and Barbara Helman papers

    The John and Barbara Helman papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting the Helman and Wiewióra families from Łódź, John and Barbara’s survival of the Łódź ghetto, John’s survival of the Auschwitz and Görlitz concentration camps, and the couple’s postwar marriage and refugee and immigration status. Biographical materials include identification papers, certificates, and correspondence documenting John’s status as a survivor of the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, and Görlitz; his marriage to Bronia Wiewióra; her survival of the Łódź ghetto; and the couple’s refugee and immigr...

  14. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Consists of eleven photographs taken upon the liberation of a concentration camp, probably Nordhausen. Photographs are of rows of corpses.

  15. Oral history interview with Hannah Fryshdorf

  16. Bible

  17. Ann B. Dolgin photograph collection

    Collection consisting of two photographs: one portrait image of woman and the other a framed portrait image of man. Portrait of Milia Parnes [donor's cousin] survivor of a death march from Edineti, Romania to Bershad, Ukraine; dated 1968. Framed portrait of Yakov Parnes [donor's cousin, Milia Parnes' brother] recovered by Milia Parnes from the wall of the family's home in Edineti, Romania. When Milia returned in 1945, she found the home occupied and the portrait still hanging on the wall, she begged the occupants to give her the picture. Yakov was murdered, along with their parents Natan an...

  18. Liberating, providing aid to survivors at Buchenwald

    US Army assisting survivors of Buchenwald and shots of the dead and dying. Ambulance with Red Cross drives through gate into camp compound, past brick building labeled 59, many GIs walking around, can see several other same kind of brick buildings. MCU some kind of entryway past brick wall manned by GIs thru which German civilians are filing into or out of camp. HAS of GI smoking next to wall as civilians pass. MS civilians in line on grounds of camp, a number of GIs pass camera. MCU of corpse covered partially by blanket next to brick wall. CU of head and staring eyes, then back to previou...

  19. Goldman family collection

    Consists of photographs and documents relating to the wartime experiences of Dmitry Goldman, originally of Chisinau, Moldova, and of Nesya Goldstein Goldman. Includes Soviet Russian work papers and ration cards, as well as pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs for Dmitry, who fought in the Red Army, and for Nesya, who was a forced laborer.

  20. Textilwerke Seiden-un Schafwollwarenfabriken AG collection

    Consists of copies of documents and photographs related to the Textilwerke Seiden-und Schafwollwarenfabriken AG in Lomnice, Czechoslovakia, and to the Kubie family, who were major shareholders in the company. Includes a timeline and extensive documentation as to the looting of the assets of the factory by the ADCA (Allgemeine Deutsche Creditanstalt) and their persecution of the Kubie family, many of whom perished in the Holocaust. Includes copies of photographs of the factory before the war and pre-war photographs of the Kubie family.