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  1. UNRRA selected records AG-018-037 : South West Pacific Area Office (SWPAO)

    Selected files of the UNRRA Headquarters Office-Subject Files: Mainly files on the displaced persons and war relief matters.

  2. Zeilsheim DP Camp (color)

    Color film of Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp taken by Jewish survivor Albin H. White [under the false identity Albin Ostrowski] around June 1947, including shots of the assembly center, an office, outdoor performances, children, the monument to murdered Jews, soccer, school, and machine shops. Opening pan over the countryside, street scene with homes, residential area. Sign: “Zeilsheim/Assembly Center/UNRRA Team 1022” with two stars of David. “Achtung" [announcement] poster underneath dated 25 June 1947. Woman and child walking near to an entrance: “UNRRA TEAM…[1022]” Street scenes in wha...

  3. UNRRA selected records AG-018-023 : Hungary Mission

    Consist of correspondence, reports, statistics, newspaper clippings, and articles relating to welfare programs of various agencies, displaced persons in Hungary, and repatriation of Hungarians from Palestine, welfare institutions and projects in Budapest, and to Hungarian journalists.

  4. German American Bund Joy Through Sports advertisement poster

    1. Eugene Goldfield collection

    Poster depicting Leni Riefenstahl ascending a mountain slope on skis, to promote the German American Bund’s “Joy Through Sports” program. The German American Bund was an organization of ethnic Germans living in the United States that expressed an admiration of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in the 1930’s, prior to US involvement in WWII. The Bund was founded to promote Nazism and US policies for Germany’s benefit. They organized demonstrations, maintained youth camps to instill Nazi ideals in children, and published magazines, brochures and other propaganda. Nazi German ideology placed great...

  5. German American Bund Joy Through Sports advertisement poster

    1. Eugene Goldfield collection

    Poster depicting Leni Riefenstahl ascending a mountain slope on skis, to promote the German American Bund’s “Joy Through Sports” program. The German American Bund was an organization of ethnic Germans living in the United States that expressed an admiration of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in the 1930’s, prior to US involvement in WWII. The Bund was founded to promote Nazism and US policies for Germany’s benefit. They organized demonstrations, maintained youth camps to instill Nazi ideals in children, and published magazines, brochures and other propaganda. Nazi German ideology placed great...

  6. Germans and Czechs in the Sudetenland

    Reel 4 Anna lives with her German father Mayor Jobst at a rural estate near Budweis in the Sudetenland. Her mother, of Czech origin, killed herself because of an unfulfilled desire to return to her native town of Prague. Already engaged to a young peasant from the village, Anna is attracted to the engineer Christian Leidwein from Prague and travels to the 'Golden City' to visit him. While staying with the family of her mother and working in their tobacco store, she is seduced and made-pregnant by cousin Toni Opferkuch. Her changing morals are accompanied by her changing appearance -- jewelr...

  7. Joseph and Rosalie Holler papers

    1. Joseph and Rosalie Holler Collection

    The Joseph and Rosalie Holler papers include biographical materials, correspondence, reparation files, photographs, printed materials, and children’s books documenting the Hollers’ lives in Stettin, Germany and their immigration to the United States in 1939. Biographical materials document the lives of Joseph and Rosalie Holler and Rosalie Holler’s mother, Gisela Walker. Records include a World War I military card, birth and marriage certificates, immigration records, and recommendations. Additional items include an appraisal of Gisela Walker’s jewelry and permission to take it with her, he...

  8. John and Harriet Isaack papers

    1. John and Harriet Isaack collection

    The John and Harriet Isaack papers consist of John’s description of his wartime experiences, an original drawing, and biographical, photographic, and printed materials documenting the Isaack’s escape from Germany, life in occupied Shanghai, and immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include identification papers, birth and death certificates, membership cards, vaccination records, and letters of recommendation documenting John and Harriet Isaack and Hermann Bondy, their emigration from Germany, registration in Shanghai, Hermann’s death, John’s and Harriet’s refugee and dis...

  9. Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate

    1. Matthaeus Pibal collection

    Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by Matthaeus Pibal, a Jehovah’s Witness who was imprisoned in Dachau and Sudelfeld SS Berghaus concentration camps from 1940 to 1945. The purple inverted triangle badge identified him as a Jehovah’s Witness; the white patch above it has his prisoner number 14307. The Nazi regime actively persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses. Their beliefs did not permit them to put any authority, such as the state, before God, or serve in the military, and the Nazis saw this as subversive. Matthaeus lived in Austria which was annexed by Nazi Germany in...

  10. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate

    1. Matthaeus Pibal collection

    Concentration camp uniform pants worn by Matthaeus Pibal, a Jehovah’s Witness who was imprisoned in Dachau and Sudelfeld SS-Berghaus concentration camps from 1940 to 1945. Their beliefs did not permit them to put any authority, such as the state, before God, or serve in the military, and the Nazis saw this as subversive. Matthaeus lived in Austria which was annexed by Nazi Germany in March 1938. On April 8, 1940, Matthaeus was arrested by the Gestapo for speaking in public about the Bible. On August 10, he was sent to Dachau concentration camp in Germany and assigned prisoner number 14307. ...

  11. The Frank family celebrates Christmas; children ski; baby

    At home in Schoberhof, the Franks and their nanny exit the doorway of the vacation home. Norman gives the family dog a treat. Nanny with baby. Norman sits near a stack of chairs and furniture. A man takes a picture of Brigitte with baby Niklas (or Michael?), then shows Norman how the camera works. Mother wraps presents; CUs Norman. CUs, toy train. Hans and Brigitte sit together as Brigitte bounces the baby on her knee. A boy lights the candles on the Christmas tree. The family with five children sit for a portrait photo (with a spotlight flash). CU of a record player. Man (father of Hans Fr...

  12. Edith Cord collection

    Contains material documenting the experiences of the Mayer family while in French concentration camps and in hiding under false names. Contains a letter from the Rivesaltes concentration camp from father to wife and children (8/25/42) just prior to deportation; the last postcard from a father sent prior to deportation to Germany (9/3/42); the last postcard sent from donor's brother Kurt to mother and Edith (8/23/42), Bram, France; two envelopes, one from donor's father sent from Camp de Rivesaltes, and second addressed to donor from Red Cross postmarked January 19, 1945; French residence pe...

  13. Abraham Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczergingski Collection (RG-223, Vilna Ghetto, Part 1)

    This collection contains materials relating to the Vilna ghetto, its daily life and living conditions in the ghetto, social and cultural work, activities of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) and the Jewish interaction with the German and Lithuanian authorities.The records consists of: maps of the ghetto, 1942, diaries, chronicles and manuscripts on the history of the ghetto by Zelig Kalmanovitch, Herman Kruk, Yitschak Rudashevsky, Szmerke Kaczerginski, personal identification documents such as badges, armbands, identification cards, passes; materials on the ghetto administration and its divisio...

  14. Anti-Jewish propaganda film: Jews in Poland

    A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts. REEL 1 Rolling title card: "The civilized Jews we know in Germany give an incomp...

  15. UNRRA selected records AG-018-005 : Bureau of Administration

    Records on UNRRA's organizational and procedural history, the Headquarters central files (Registry files) dealing with every aspect of UNRRA's work.

  16. Stephen Kornreich papers

    1. Stephen Kornreich collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Stephen Kornreich, originally of Munkács, Hungary (Mukacheve, Ukraine), including his upbringing in Munkács, his life and career as an architect in Palestine from 1933-1938, and his service in the United States Army Air Corps. Included are identification papers, education and employment papers, immigration documentation, a personal narrative from his brother Beno Korda, an oral history transcript, and photographs. Biographical material includes education documents from Technische Lehranstalt Bodenbach, Stephen’s military service in M...

  17. Rosenwald and Stahl families papers

    1. Rosenwald and Stahl families collection

    The Rosenwald and Stahl families papers consists of correspondence, identification and travel documents, postcards, photographs, an autograph album, financial documents and restitution files, and other similar materials related to the emigration of the family of Otto and Elfriede Rosenwald, and their daughter, Helen, from Germany in 1936, to escape Nazi persecution, as well as the later emigration of Otto’s father, Simon. Includes selected photographs and documents related to the family of Helen Rosenwald Stahl's husband, Gerhard (Gerald) Stahl, documenting their own lives in pre-war German...

  18. Budapest: city views; bathhouse; rose gardens

    Film Nr. 38. Title card: “Budapest – wie es war!” [Budapest – how it was!]. Parliament building in Budapest from across the Danube. Views of the Buda side of the river. Views of the Danube and the buildings along the water on the Pest side. The Parliament building from afar. Driving in a car across the Szechenyi Chain Bridge. A streetcar. Flowers and gardens on Margaret Island. Title card: “Im Palatinus Strandbad.” [In Palatinus Bathhouse] EXT of the bathhouse. Gardens around the baths. Thermal baths. People swim in the baths. Fountains. Flowers and gardens. People sunbathing. Groups of peo...

  19. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 102 and 103 -- Cross-examination of the Accused re: Operation Units

    This tape begins near the middle of Session 102, during a discussion about a meeting held in a cinema pertaining to the issuing of orders to the Einsatzkommando/Einsatzgruppen. Eichmann is cross-examined by Attorney General Gideon Hausner about the number of people who attended the meeting and his own role. Eichmann talks of his personal ambitions to be the commander of an Einsatzkommando, which he claims he thought were military units operating at the Eastern Front, and his disappointment when this did not come to pass. 00:09:08 Later in session 102: Hausner questions Eichmann about his in...

  20. Ohringer and Weil families papers

    1. Ohringer and Weil family collection

    The Ohringer and Weil families papers include biographical material, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating primarily to the wartime experiences of the Ohringer and Weil families. The collection includes identification documents, immigration material, and photographs relating to the Weil family as well as a family tree and letters Julius and Klara Weil wrote from Camp de Gurs. The collection also includes identification documents, immigration material, correspondence, a family tree, and restitution files relating to the Ohringer family. Biographical materials include family...