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  1. Ursula Wolff photographs

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

  2. Gerstle and Levi family collection

    The collection primarily consists of letters and documents regarding attempts to assist Sofie Gerstle and her son Gustav Gerstle emigrate from Stuttgart, Germany to the United States via Cuba in 1941. Also included is paperwork regarding Oskar Gerstle’s emigration from Munich, Germany to the United States, and Julius Gerstle’s application for citizenship. Includes correspondence with the State Department's Visa Division and details about the family's arrangements to secure ship tickets. Although Sophie and Gustav successfully gathered all the necessary paperwork to immigrate, the American c...

  3. Hélène Cantkier Goldflus collection

    Photographs, ration card, tickets, ship’s passenger list and menus, school composition notebooks, related to the experience of the Cantkier family, of Paris, France, from the years following the immigration of the Cantkier’s from Poland to France in 1930, until their postwar immigration to Canada. The photographs include images of Natan and Taube (Therese) Cantkier from their wedding, a copy print image of Taube’s parents (original photo was from 1899), photographs of Natan and Taube’s children in France, and pictures of Helene with family and friends in postwar France. Documents include va...

  4. Wolf Lubliner papers

    Identification card that was issued to Wolf Lubliner (later William Lubliner), a civilian internee of Mauthausen-Gusen, after his liberation by American forces in April 1945.

  5. Wanderer in Hell: Erno Lazarovits's account

    In his memoir Erno (Erno) Lazarovits describes his experiences in the Holocaust. He was drafted into the Budapest labor battalion in May 1944. The forced laborers were herded towards the western border of the country (Gánt, Bodajk, Mór, Fertoʺrákos, Szombathely), and later transferred by the Hungarian gendarmes to the German Todt organization, which took them to Deutsch-Schützen, Austria. Subsequently they had to go on foot to Mauthausen, and finally they were liberated in Gunskirchen, Austria on May 4, 1945. Using flash-back technique Lazarovits remembers his childhood in Szilágysomly...

  6. Coenraad Rood collection

    Consists of photographs taken in the Staphorst Rouveen labor camp, in the Netherlands in the summer of 1942; also contains photographs of Elisabeth Rood-Kooperberf and Coenraad Rood, including a wedding photograph from their marriage in 1940; also includes postcards written in 1942 from Coenraad Rood to Elisabeth Rood letting her know his whereabouts.

  7. Nazi crimes: early gassing; corpses; camp atrocities; forced labor; Nuremberg Trial proceedings

    Part 3 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA reels 5 & 6] Excludes extra shot of nurses and Mogilev gassing. Courtroom scene, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at podium speaking about Canaris and Hans Frank describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Goering, Hitler, and other Nazi officials in a meeting. Pan, hut with thatched roof. CU pipes from a German police car bearing a license plate POL-28545 and a German police truck with license POL-51628 (as well as military unit markings: 7 circle-with-flag IX). Apparently metal piping is directed into ...

  8. Ilya Ehrenburg talks with Soviet soldiers in Koenigsberg

    The Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg talks with a group of Soviet soldiers in Koenigsberg. The camera pans around the circle of men around Ehrenburg, high angle shot. Nice close-up of Ehrenburg wearing a winter hat. A soldier shows him a rifle scope. Ehrenburg smiles and shakes hands with the men.

  9. Concentration camp uniform jacket and pants worn by a Catholic Polish prisoner in several camps

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn523852
    • English
    • a: Height: 27.750 inches (70.485 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) b: Height: 39.500 inches (100.33 cm) | Width: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm)

    Striped jacket and pants worn by Mieczyslaw Lewicki during his imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, and Dora-Nordhausen concentration camps from September 15, 1942-April 9, 1945. Nineteen year old Mieczyslaw, a Catholic, was arrested in Radom, Poland, on September 1, 1942, for taking food to Jews in the ghetto who worked at his family's shoe factory. He was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp where the uniform was issued and a mug shot taken. On August 15, 1944, he was transferred to Buchenwald in Germany. He was then sent to Dora-Nordhausen slave labor camp where he worked...

  10. Birobidzhan (Jewish Autonomous Region)

    Excerpt from a film extolling the merits of Birobidzhan, capital of the Jewish Autonomous Region, which was created in 1934 in the eastern USSR. Scenes in a classroom. A female teacher shows Hebrew letters to a young boy. The rest of the film, not shown here, shows construction of the settlement, gold mining, a marble quarry, natural resources, and various scenes of the city.

  11. "My Life Story": Joseph Fischer memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 174 pages, written in 1986, entitled "My Life Story," by Joseph Fischer, originally of Bicsad, Transylvania. Mr. Fischer recalls his experiences growing up in Bicsad, his family's deportation to the Satu-Mare ghetto and their May 1944 deportation to Auschwitz. Mr. Fischer was the only member of his family selected to work and was given the number A-3338. He describes his experiences at the Buna factory, where he worked until being evacuated from Auschwitz on January 17, 1945. From there, he was sent on a forced march to Gleiwitz, then was put on a train to Dora-Mitte...

  12. Estate of Colonel Sidney S. Rubenstein collection

    Collection consists of ten U. S. Army Signal Corps photographs following liberation; some captioned on verso; dated 1945; in English. The photographs were acquired by Col. Sidney S. Rubenstein, USAF, who served as Deputy Director of the War Crimes Office, circa 1944-1946.

  13. Arbeiter family papers

    The Arbeiter family papers consist of wartime correspondence, a newspaper clipping, and pre-war family photographs relating to the Arbeiter family, originally of Płock, Poland. The later correspondence relates to inquests into the fate of Elek Arbeiter, born in 1919, who escaped to the Soviet Union, but had not been heard from since 1941.

  14. "Before the Storm": Alexander Cohen's autobiography

    Consists of one memoir, 40 pages, entitled "Before the Storm," written in 2004 by Alexander Cohen, originally of Budapest, Hungary. In the memoir, Mr. Cohen describes the anti-Jewish measures in Budapest before 1944 and the chaos of life in Budapest in 1944. He describes his experiences in a Hungarian forced labor battalion and the deaths of members of his family and those of his wife, Magda, whom he married after liberation.

  15. Touring Paris

    Jacoby family tours Paris. CUs, pan up Eiffel Tower. Various sights in Paris: EXTs of buildings, statues. French on streets. "John Baillie" tailor shop. Opera House. Traffic. Cafe la Paix. Street scenes. Brasserie. S. Raphael (hotel) car. Champs d'Elysee. Arc de Triomphe. Obelisk in Place de la Concorde. Street scenes, civilians, gardens with pond & tourists. In park outside Paris, street entertainment (band, unicyclist). Leon Blum speaks, airshow, spectators wave white flags. 00:23:07 Notre Dame. Cecil shop. Street scenes.

  16. General records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 150)

    This collection contains records concerning anti-Jewish legislation in Hungary, the legal foundation for the activities of German agencies there, the exemption of some individuals from anti-Jewish measures, instructions to various levels of public administration regarding Jewish matters, the processing of passports, repatriation, disciplinary actions, and grievances. It also includes records of steps taken to protect Hungarian citizens living abroad.

  17. Georg Kalisz papers

    Consists of 11 photocopies of documents regarding the wartime experiences of Georg Kalisz. Mr. Kalisz was born in the women's camp of Auschwitz, sometime at the beginning of September 1944. In the documents, the Museum in Oswiȩcim verifies that he was born not before August 1944 and his tattoo (which was administered to his left thigh) (199784) was issued between September 20th-25th, 1944. The International Tracing Service verifies only that he remained in the women's camp until liberation in late January 1945. He does not know his mother's name. The documents also show that it is likely t...

  18. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Côte-d'Or

    Contains records pertaining to the systematic expropriation of property belonging to Jews and Freemasons in the Côte-d’Or. Also contains information regarding the harassment, internment and deportation of Jews and Freemasons from the Côte-d’Or.

  19. US infantry in France; Female French collaborators

    American troops of the 4th Division advance through fields and woods. They take cover in trenches and behind trees. According to NARA the tanks are M-4 tanks and the howitzer is a 105mm on an M-7 motor carriage. Long shot down a road. Smoke billows in the distance. More howitzers firing. Close-up of shells being loaded and fired. Two captured German soldiers are marched down a road. 01:14:45 Sign at the entrance to a devastated town reads Cherence le Roussel. American soldiers advance through the town, looking for snipers. A soldier marks a mine with a flag. Young soldier holding a telephon...

  20. Mordechai Theo Vered papers

    Papers consisting of letters, travel documents, certificates, photographs, and other documents relating to the experiences of Theo Markus Verderber [donor] as a child on the Kindertransports to England during the Holocaust.