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  1. Spanish General; Spanish Street Scene

    00:04:05 - 00:04:50 MCU General Weyler, Spanish General, who fought against the Americans in War of 1898. 00:04:53 - 00:05:49 Horsedrawn carriages with women in fancy traditional costume (mantilla, etc.). A few people sell flowers from pots balanced on their head.

  6. Portrait of a German Jewish refugee

    1. Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families collection

    Watercolor and pencil portrait of Rudi Hockenheimer (later Ralph Hockley) painted by G.W. Mooy, another refugee in 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Rudi, his parents, Julius and Lilli, and his sister Marianne escaped from Nazi Germany to Marseille, France. Julius was held in Les Milles and Gurs internment camps of Les Milles and Gurs. But in 1940, the family left for the United States on the ship Winnipeg, sailing by way of Trinidad.

  7. Franco with de Arrese at El Escorial

    Ufa logo onscreen. Francisco Franco visits the royal palace at El Escorial. General Franco is met by Minister of Party Juan Luis de Arrese. Franco arrives at El Escorial and greets the troops and officials there to meet him. Wide shot of a large contingent accompanying Franco across a courtyard. Franco greets a bishop. Shots of the interior of a tomb, followed by some still photos of the tomb. With Franco, although hard to distinguish, are Minister of Party Juan Luis de Arrese and Minister of Foreign Affairs General Count Jordana. Arrese was an admirer of Hitler and German fascism. Franco a...

  8. Mina Loeffler passport

    1. Kurt N. Grübler collection

    Contains a German passport ("Deutsches Reich Reisepass") issued to Mina Loeffler (mother-in-law of donor's cousin), March 1941, Vienna, Austria. Issued by Chief of Police, Vienna, Germany (Austria); letter "J" stamped in red ink; middle name "Sara" added; contains official stamps allowing travel through Spain and Portugal; contains immigration visa for the United States dated May 19, 1941.

  9. Enslein family collection

    Contains photographs, documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Jakob Enslein and his wife, Margarete Einstein Enslei, and their two children Kurt and Hans Gerd [donor, b. 1929]. Gerd was born in Cologne, Germany, and in 1932 his parents relocated the family first to Belgium then in 1933 to France, first to Paris and then Collias, Nimes and Perigaux, before eventually fleeing through Spain and arriving in the United States in early May 1941.

  10. Set of ration stamps

    1. Joseph Strip family collection

    Set of ration stamps, one of a number of materials documenting the experiences of the Stripounsky (later Strip) family: Menachem Nathan and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The Stripounskys fled Antwerp, Belgium in May 1940 to France. After a year, they got American visas, traveling via Spain and Portugal, arriving in New York in May 1941. Joseph was sent by the US Army to Germany in 1944.

  11. Pauline Joseph passport

    1. Joseph and Loeb families collection

    The "Reisepass" was issued to Pauline Franziska "Sara" Joseph (b. Neustadt) [friend of donor] by the Chief of Police in Berlin, Germany. It is stamped with a red "J" in the upper left corner to identify the holder as a Jew. It includes immigration visas for the United States issued in Germany and Spain.

  13. Liane Reif-Lehrer photographs

    1. Liane Reif-Lehrer collection

    Contains photographs and negatives compiled by Liane Reif-Lehrer, a survivor of the Holocaust who interviewed numerous survivors of the "MS. St. Louis" for a potential research project about that ship. Ms. Reif-Lehrer was born in 1934 in Vienna, Austria and, together with her mother and brother, were on the St. Louis, returned to France and fled to the United States through Spain and Portugal.

  14. Liane Reif-Lehrer papers

    1. Liane Reif-Lehrer collection

    Contains documents, photographs, transcripts, oral histories and general research completed and compiled by Liane Reif-Lehrer. Numerous survivors who were aboard the MS St. Louis were interviewed and participated in research Ms. Reif Lehrer completed for a potential publication on the voyage of the ship. Ms. Reif-Lehrer was born in 1934 in Vienna, Austria and, together with her mother and brother, were on the St. Louis, returned to France and fled to the United States through Spain and Portugal. Also includes modern photographs and negatives

  15. The memoirs of Tova Klein Sego during World War

    Contains Tova Klein Sego's account of her experiences in Kassa, Hungary, (until 1938 known as Košice, Slovakia) during the Holocaust; her life in the ghetto; her escape to Slovakia where she was reunited with her sister, Margaret; the arrival of her parents and brother, Michael, a few weeks later; their life in hiding in various villages and in the mountains; their liberation by the Russians in February 1945; and their reunion with other members of their immediate family and return to Košice.

  16. German newsreel excerpts: Gen. Franco; Mussolini; Winter Aid; British air raids

    Reel 1, Part 1, General Franco and German officials visit the Alcazar in Seville, and review Moorish guards, Part 2, Mussolini decorates Italian airmen and reviews troops in Rome. Part 3, crowds, including children, attend a military, exhibit in Vienna. Contributions for "winter aid" are collected. Part 4, Flemish musicians perform in a Berlin cabaret. Part 5, a wedding is performed in Le Meuse, France. Part 6, factory workers attend a concert performed by the Berlin Philharmonic. Part 7, cultural and religious monuments in Lubeck, Germany, rubbled by British air raids.

  17. 5 Pesetas scrip

    1. Sue Elder collection

    Five pesatas scrip issued in 1945 in Spain by the Banco de Espana, part of a collection documenting the experiences of Sue Elder who worked as a translator at the Nuremberg trials from 1946-1948.

  20. Samuel Halber collection

    Documents and correspondence concerning Samuel Halber (donor’s father). Born June 22, 1914 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he fled Nazi-occupied Europe in 1941 through Spain and Portugal were he applied for a US visa, ultimately arriving in New York City in 1941. He was drafted into the United States Army and was a Military Intelligence Interpreter, translating German, Dutch, and French in England until 1945, when he was assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) and supervised the denazification of German railroads in the US Zone.