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  1. Health administration and Senate Administration for Health Selected files of the Gesundheitsverwaltung and Senatsverwaltung für Gesundheit (B. Rep. 012)

    Contains records about Jewish-owned pharmacies, Jewish pharmacists, the reorganization of the health care system, relations between Jews and non-Jews, Roma in hospitals, and the sterilization of “disabled” persons.

  2. Muenz family correspondence

    Consists of correspondence to Eleanor Muenz from family members and friends in Vienna, Austria, between 1938 and 1941. While Mrs. Muenz was able to emigrate to the United States in 1938, the family and friends who authored this correspondence perished in the Holocaust.

  3. David family papers

    The David family papers include a pre-World War II photograph of Lili Brody-Carmosino with her brother Morris and cousin Annutza in Iaşi, Romania; a photograph of Lili planting seeds at the Beth Bialik displaced persons camp in Salzburg, Austria; an identification card for Adela David issued by the AJDC; and a photograph of Lili, Morris, and Ben David in Toronto.

  4. "Non Omnis Moriar"

    Consists of one memoir, two copies (in English and Spanish), of "Non Omnis Moriar," by Irene Birnbaum, originally of Warsaw, Poland. In her memoir, she describes her life in the Warsaw ghetto, including her memories of the deportations of friends and loved ones, and how she resisted deportation while living in the ghetto. She escaped the Warsaw ghetto in February 1943, and hid, first in Warsaw and then as a Polish Catholic worker in the countryside.

  5. Letterhead stationery of The Jewish Brigade kept by a young female recruit

    Letterhead acquired by 17 year old Jutta Rosen while serving in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army in Palestine after the war. The Brigade, established in British ruled Palestine in September 1944, fought against Nazi Germany in Italy from March 1945 until the end of the war in May. Postwar, the Brigade helped create displaced persons camps for Jewish survivors. Many Brigade members were involved in organizing the flight of Jewish refugees from eastern Europe and arranging their clandestine entry into Palestine. Britain disbanded it in summer 1946. In November 1938, after Kristallnacht,...

  6. Spies in US; FBI; J. Edgar Hoover

    Title on screen: Army-Navy Screen Magazine A pictorial report from all fronts for the armed forces only #42. "Caissons Go Rolling Along" plays as the credits roll. Onscreen: Title "Battle of the United States" superimposed over the seal of the FBI. J. Edgar Hoover sits at his desk and addresses the men and women of the armed forces. He tells them they are about to see the story of the battle of the United states against enemy agents "...sent to this country to disrupt our industry, destroy our morale, and damage the impact of our fighting armies." Scenes, narrated by Hoover, showing the US ...

  7. Ehrenreich family papers

    Consists of family photographs, correspondence, official documentation, programs, and articles related to Dr. Nathan and Mrs. Frieda Rosenstein Ehrenreich and their son, Helmut (Henry) Ehrenreich, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Nathan was a composer and the musical director of a prestigious Jewish choir in Frankfurt and one of the founders of the Jewish Kulturbund before the family's 1939 emigration to the United States. After arriving in the United States, Dr. Ehrenreich continued his career in music in Buffalo, NY. The collection includes documents related to the education of e...

  8. "Memories of an Interrupted Youth" : Rachel Friedensohn memoir

    Contains one memoir, 30 pages, entitled "Memories of an Interrupted Youth," by Rachel Feitsma Friedensohn, originally of Antwerp, Belgium. Her family escaped to France before the German invasion, lived in Toulouse and Boulogne-sur-Gesse before receiving their exit visas in November 1942. Rachel and her mother left for Madrid, where they were reunited with her father, who had been imprisoned in the Vernet concentration camp in France. The family spent the remainder of the war in Jamaica and Cuba.

  9. Silberman-Rachkauskas family photographs

    Consists of eight pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Silberman and Rachkauskas families. Chone and Beila Silberman Rachkauskas, originally from Telšiai, Lithuania, fled from Kaunas to Frunze (Bishkek), Kyrgyzstan. They remained there until April 1946, when they returned to Lithuania. None of the Silberman family, with the exception of Beila, survived the war.

  10. Linz; Vienna

    Hitler's motorcade drives through the streets of Linz. Spectators wave Nazi flags. Aerial shot of Hitler's car as it crosses a bridge decorated with large swastikas. Medium shot of a crowd of children waving flags. Another aerial shot reveals the huge crowds that have come to greet Hitler. 02:00:32 Shot of a flag in a forest setting. The camera pans down to reveal Hitler walking at the head of a large crowd, surrounded by spectators. He salutes a group of civilian men holding shovels. The crowd salutes and a group of men follow Hitler to some open railroad cars. Hitler shovels dirt into one...

  11. Perpetrator postcards and photographs

    Consists of twenty-two postcards of portraits of SS officers and German soldiers in the field; eight photographs of perpetrators in powdered wigs and what appears to be French Revolution-era militia costumes; two postcards and nineteen photographs of animals, landscape, and architecture, 35 candid photographs of SS officers and soldiers at various ceremonial and non-ceremonial events; one booklet to record exercise training, issued to an SS soldier, 1938 (name is illegible); one newspaper article (nd) entitled "Princesses Police Up for GIs As Anti-Nazi Grandpa Laughs" (in English); one birt...

  12. Rob Knight research collection regarding Jehovah's Witnesses

    Consists of four books of articles, clippings, and information compiled by Rob Knight entitled, "The History of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and the History of Jehovah's Witnesses and the Holocaust." The books include articles about Jehovah's Witness Holocaust survivors, the stories of Jewish survivors and Nazi soldiers who converted to become Witnesses after the war, and information regarding the Museum's holdings on the topic of Jehovah's Witnesses. Also includes one original Jehovah's Witness tract, published in 1941, entitled "End of the Axis Powers: Comfort All tha...

  13. Association of the Prussian provinces Selected files from the collection: Verband der preussischen Provinzen (B. Rep. 142-06)

    Contains records relating to health politics: castration and sterilization law; welfare and eugenics; taxes for nursing facilities. Also includes correspondence related to welfare services for “psychopaths” and “cripples”, and statistics related to welfare services for Jews.

  14. The Carolyn Howe Holladay and Jane H. Howe collection

    Collection consists of 11 liberation photographs taken in the Ebensee concentration camp. The collection was acquired by Edward G. Howe, MD (donors' father) while serving with the U.S. Army in Europe during WWII.

  15. Hemar family papers

    The Hemar family papers includes a 1940 postcard from Helena Kalwari in the Warsaw ghetto to her friend Tosia Stryk in Chicago, birth certificates purchased by Alice and Władek Hemar to secure identification cards under false identities, false identification cards and marriage certificate under the couple’s assumed names, a birth certificate for Ryszard Hemar under his false name, and photographs of Alice and Ryszard Hemar shortly after his birth and of Ryszard shortly after the war ended.

  16. Destruction in Magdeburg

    General views of destruction in Magdeburg. MS man walks bicycle past rubbled facade of buildings, pan left across street to more damaged building frames. MS of smashed streetcars. MCU tilt up damaged building frame, deep blue sky. LS through rubble strewn passage, large steel cylindrical structure in BG. 01:07:03 The Brabag "Gasometer" in Magdeburg. 01:07:14 LS down cleared street, darker exposure, man on bike comes toward camera, pan of more rubble. 01:07:31 back to brighter exposure, more of same with water pump in FG, can see buildings or homes in BG that are intact, chimneys standing. 0...

  17. David Klayman photograph collection

    Collection consists of 15 prewar and postwar photographs of the Klajman, Tropauer and Szternfeld families of Bedzin, Poland.

  18. Guta Strykowski collection

    Contains a copy of one report, 15 pages, written by Dr. Peter Ostwald, a psychiatrist at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco on January 18, 1966, to Mr. Klaus Hoefel, a consular officer at the Federal Republic of Germany consulate in San Francisco, regarding the mental health of Mrs. Guta Strykowski (later Cohen, born Weintraub), originally of Vlostrova, Poland. Dr. Ostwald describes Mrs. Strykowski's wartime experiences and relates that she is currently experiencing nightmares, depression, and pain as a result of her experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Ausc...

  19. Gertrude Rubin papers

    Collection consisting of 11 letters and one postcard received by Gertrude Rubin [donor's mother] while she was living in hiding in France, after she was able to leave the Rivesaltes internment camp with help from the French resistance. Collection includes letters and a postcard written by Selma Rubin [donor's grandmother] to her daughter, sent from Rivesaltes internment camp in France, June-July 1942; letter written from unknown acquaintance in Rivesaltes, dated August 1942; and letters written by Erich, Rudy and Dohle (Danielle) Adler, Gertrude's half-brothers and sister, while they were l...

  20. Ursula Wolff photographs

    Five photographs regarding Ursula Wolff (donor's cousin).