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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Expulsion and repatriation of Germans from Sudetenland

    Expulsion of Sudeten Germans from Czechoslovakia (3 million). US Zone. Shots of German citizens wearing armbands as identification on the streets of Usti, Sudetenland. Committee of Allied representatives meeting to decide the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia. LS members over map on table: Dr. Kuchera, plenipotentiary of the Czechoslovak government; American Col. J.H. Fye, liasion offier; Lt. Col. Messick, executive officer of CAX in Berlin; a Czech doctor; and Czech Col. Monzer, from the Ministery of National Defense. MS same. CU Col. Fye, Kuchera, Messick. CU Kuchera and Fye. CU Me...

  2. Ava Schonberg photographs

    Consists of twelve original photographs and five copies of photographs of Ava Schonberg, her mother Roza, and sisters Celine and Alice, while they were living in wartime Switzerland and in post-war Belgium. Includes photographs of large school gatherings, of Ava alone and with friends, and of the post-war Tiefenbrunner children's home in Antwerp.

  3. Cila Rudashevsky papers

    1. Cila Rudashevsky collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of school children in Vilna, Poland, two song sheets from Poppendorf DP camp, a school certificate from Emden DP camp, identification cards, and certificates documenting passage on the "Exodus 1947" relating to Pola and Shoshana Rudaszewska [donor and donor's mother] and their experiences immediately following the Holocaust. Accretion: collection of photogarphs of preWWII and wartime images of Cila Rudashevsky and her family from the Soviet Union, Vilna, Uzbekistan, and the Leipheim and Emden DP camps

  4. Oral history interview with Miriam Hoffman

    1. Music study collection

    Bret Werb interviews Miriam Hoffman in 1999 about songs she collected in a notebook as a child while living in a displaced person camp in Ulm, Germany. Miriam Hoffman relates her experiences as a ten to twelve year-old child in Hindenburg-Kaserne DP Camp, Ulm, Germany: She describes: Writing or collecting about 62 songs; meeting other children in 1946 and singing with them, informally (not in a choir), in four languages: Polish, Russian, Yiddish, and Hebrew; Yiddish becoming the default language between children and parents; singing a wide variety of songs that reflected the national origin...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    In town of Ness Ziona, Arabs and Jews in street, returning from work. The town represents a pure partition scheme, as the left side of road is occupied by Arabs and the right by Jews. 02:13:23 Ben Shemen settlement, a junior agricultural village near Tel Aviv for training young boys in farm work. Boys and girls folk-dancing, playing musical instruments, swimming/diving in pool, editing and printing their own newspaper. 02:15:17 Palestine Orchestra, founded in 1936 by violinist Bronislaw Huberman, in its second season. Under the direction of Issay Dobrowen, conducting the last movement of th...

  6. American OSE Committee (RG 494)

    Records of the American OSE Committee in New York, including correspondence, reports, subject files, materials regarding immigration, OSE Executive Committee and Board of Directors meeting minutes, financial documents, records related to shipments of medical supplies for Jews in the ghettos and in the German-occupied countries during World War II, rehabilitation, emigration, and the care of Jewish refugees and orphans in the post-war period, lists of survivors of World War II, lists of Jewish doctors, lists of Polish physicists, scientists who were murdered, lists of Jewish Polish physician...

  7. Ernst and Hildegard Israel papers

    1. Ernst and Hildegard Israel collection

    The Ernst and Hildegard Israel papers include Ernst’s and Hildegard‘s1943 Shanghai marriage certificate, a 1939 refugee identification card issued to Hildegard Ksinski (Israel) in Shanghai, a 1938 German passport for Ernst Israel, a 1934 invoice on the back of stationery from the Shanghai button factory Ernst managed, and a photograph of Hildegard’s brother, Alfons Cohn, with the Ward Home Kitchen staff in Shanghai.

  8. Jakob Altaras papers

    The Jakob Altaras papers consist of one copy print of a photograph of Jakob Altaras with a group of Jewish refugee children in Split, Croatia just before their departure for Italy in April 1943, two copy prints of a photograph identified as a synagogue in Laubach in 1936, and one copybook that appears to contain copies of business letters written by Max Stein and H. Hirsch Nachfolger in Ruppertsberg (near Laubach) between 1900 and 1920.

  9. Organization of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    Includes title of the film and intertitles. From opening credits of the film (Foreword): "American Jews at the outbreak of the World War in 1914, organized the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to aid the Jewish masses overseas suffering from war, pogroms, famine and pestilence. The following episodes depict the activities in Russia only." Brief shots of Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald, to whose memory the film is dedicated. Stills of other JDC officials and footage of the members of the JDC relief unit sailing for Russia. Dr. Rosen, organizer of Agro-Joint. Scenes of th...

  10. Orphans of Buchenwald; Ex-Prisoners Coming Home

    (LIB 7016) Orphans of Buchenwald, Buchenwald, Germany, June 19, 1945. LS, large crowd at Buchenwald outdoors on hillside. UNRRA official (woman) handing out papers. 03:23:16 01:46:51 Lilly Engelman (from Hungary and previously at Auschwitz) with the bandage on her face, prepares to board the train to Switzerland. Her sisters, Renee and Piri, appear later in this footage. Children at Buchenwald concentration camp are divided into small groups by UNRRA personnel. MS, American military truck taking the orphans to railroad cars. CUs, climbing off truck with belongings/luggage. US soldiers prese...

  11. Sonnenmark family correspondence

    Correspondence between members of the family of Robert Sonnenmark, of Prossnitz, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Prostějov, Czech Republic). Most of the letters are from Robert, while he was imprisoned at Buchenwald, addressed to his wife, Marta and daughter, Miriam in Prossnitz, and dated from October 1939 to March 1940. Many of these letters were forwarded by Marta to her father and brother in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, who added their own comments in the margins and forwarded them to Peter Sonnenmark, the son of Marta and Robert, who was living in Palestine. Other correspondence in...

  12. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note

    1. Michael W. Barnes collection

    Westerbork voucher, value 10 cents, acquired by Michael W. Barnes. This scrip was issued in Westerbork transit camp beginning February 15, 1944. Inmates were not allowed to have currency, which was confiscated. The vouchers [gutschein] were distributed as an incentive for doing work. Netherlands was occupied by Germany in May 1940. The camp, in northeast Holland, was originally set up by the Dutch in 1939 to intern Jewish refugees. In July 1942, the German security police and the SS turned it into a transit camp to hold prisoners before deporting them to concentration camps in the east, whe...

  13. Allied Military Authority currency, 1 mark, for use in Germany, acquired by a German Jewish survivor

    1. Gerhard and Ursula Naumann Maschkowski collection

    Allied Military Authority currency, 1 mark, for use in Germany, acquired by Gerhard Maschkowski, presumably while living in Deggendorf displaced persons camp after the war. Gerhard lived with his parents Arthur and Herta, and brother Siegfried in Elbing, Germany. From 1933, the country was governed by a Nazi dictatorship that persecuted Jews. Siegfried left for Palestine in 1939 and Gerhard was sent to agricultural school. Soon after arrival, Gerhard and the others were sent to Jessenmühle labor camp. In 1941, they were transferred to Neuendorf labor camp. In April 1943, he was deported to ...

  14. Gelb and Heiser family collection

    1. Gelb and Heiser family collection

    Consists of identity papers, correspondence, photographs, genealogical material related to the pre-war lives, emigration, and families of Charlotte Kuhlfas (also Hochheiser, Heiser) and Martin Gelb. Charlotte emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1937 and Martin in 1940; they married soon after his arrival. Includes letters he wrote to her in March 1940 as he was preparing to emigrate; family photographs, the machzor Martin purchased and inscribed after arriving in the United States; their identity cards and naturalization papers; family tree information for the Gelb and Heiser families; Charlot...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Embassy in Paris: Ambassador's office; Office of Counselor

    665 P: Using Camereclaire: US Embassy, Ambassador's Office. (Sequence depicting daily morning routine.) Ambassador William C. Bullitt enters office, sits at desk, rings for personal secretary Carmel Offie, lights Camel cigarette. Offie enters with cables and mail, converses with Ambassador. Ambassador reads mail. CU Ambassador at desk, talking on phone with Minister of Finance Marchandeau, reading Embassy document addressed to French Foreign Office, signing document, standing at bay window overlooking Place de la Concorde, talking with First Secretary and Acting Consul General Robert D. Mur...

  16. Georg F. Duckwitz private collection (Group 5344)

    Papers of Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, an attaché for Nazi Germany in occupied Denmark. This collection consists of papers relating to the action against the Jews in Denmark, 1943, records of Duckwitz's conversation with Hans Kirchhoff, a Danish historian in 1968, as well as a travel reports, private letters and correspondence, and calendar, 1943-1944. Note: Records are restricted until 2048, access only by the permission of the Danish National Archives. Access is granted by application and must go through the Danish Data Protection Agency since the material contains personal information.

  17. Arthur and Meta Grünebaum Schmitt papers

    1. Arthur and Meta Grunebaum Schmitt collection

    The Arthur and Meta Grünebaum Schmitt papers consist of biographical materials, military records, and photographs documenting Arthur Schmitt and Meta Grünebaum Schmitt. Biographical materials include identification papers, birth certificates, a ketubah, and restitution papers documenting Arthur and Meta Schmitt. Military records include a V-mail letter from Lt. Felder to Arthur Schmitt, separation records, and a 1992 memorial certificate from President George Bush. Photographs depict the Schmitt and Gruenebaum families in prewar Germany.

  18. Charnitzki family papers

    1. Charnitzki family collection

    The Charnitzki family papers consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and an autograph book related to the experiences of the Charnitzki family of Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad). Includes documentation of pre-war life in Königsberg, life in Shanghai, and their emigration to the United States in 1947, including correspondence with family members who perished during the Holocaust.

  19. Aharon Lazer papers

    The Aharon Lazer papers contain two handwritten diaries and documents that belonged to Jewish Brigade soldier, Aharon Laser (Lazer). Aharon served in the 1st Palestine Light Anti-Aircraft Battery of the 202 Field Artillery Regiment in Cyprus, Italy, Germany, and other locations in Europe. The first diary, which begins in French and then switches to Hebrew, dated November 14,1944, includes numerous edits and deletions. In an entry dated May 27, 1944, and revised on December 1, 1944, he documents the last months of the war. This diary also includes entries about a battle on the Senio River, e...

  20. Eve S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eve S., who was born in Hannover, Germany, in 1926. She describes her childhood in Berlin in her large, closely-knit family; their emphasis on education; her socially responsible father (with whom she was particularly close) and grandfather; and her parents' anxiety about the rise of Nazism. She recalls her belief at age six that simply inviting Hitler to dinner would convince him that she and her family were "good people." She recounts her first childhood encounter with antisemitism; the family's experience during Kristallnacht in 1938; her parents' search for foster...