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  1. Window card for the film “None Shall Escape” (1944)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Window card for the film, “None Shall Escape,” released by Columbia Pictures in 1944. Window cards were mass-produced promotional materials used until the mid-1980s. They included a blank section at the top for individual theaters to write in dates and show times, and were placed in locations outside of the theaters. “None Shall Escape” was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Story. The film jumps between a fictionalized post-World War II war crimes trial of a Nazi officer from Poland, and the events leading up to and during the war. The man is embittered after Germany’s defea...

  2. Pressbook cover for the film “A Yank in the R.A.F.” (1941)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Cover to a pressbook for the American film, “A Yank in the R.A.F,” released in September 1941 by 20th Century-Fox. The film tells the story of a young American pilot who, after ferrying a warplane to Great Britain, runs into his ex-girlfriend, who has joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. To remain close to her, the pilot volunteers for the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.), and is assigned to the squadron of a competing suitor. He is eventually shot down during the Battle of Dunkirk, but manages to survive and return to his love. Not only did the R.A.F. provide the studio with stock footage, but ...

  3. Trade advertisement for Warner Brothers films, including “Sergeant York” (1941)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Double-page British trade advertisement for Warner Bros. films, including “Sergeant York,” released in July 1941. Movie manufacturers send trade advertisements to exhibitors to increase the distribution of a film to as many theaters as possible. “Sergeant York” was the top grossing film of 1941 and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning two, for Best Film Editing, and Best Actor for Gary Cooper’s portrayal of the title character. The film was based on the life of Alvin York, a veteran of World War I who lived in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. Initially a pacifist, whose regi...

  4. Lobby Card for the film “A Yank in the R.A.F.” (1941)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Lobby card for the American film, “A Yank in the R.A.F,” released in September 1941 by 20th Century-Fox. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. The film tells the story of a young American pilot who, after ferrying a warplane to Great Britain, runs into his ex-girlfriend, who has joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. To remain close to her, the pilot volunteers for the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.), and is assigned to the squadron of a competing suitor. He is eventually ...

  5. U.S. re-release advertisement for the film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin" (1939)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Re-release advertisement for the American feature film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin,” originally released by Producers Pictures Corporation in October 1939, and re-released in 1942. After encountering opposition from censorship boards, the film was alternatively called “Goose Step,” the title of the adapted novel, and eventually released as “Beasts of Berlin.” In the film, Hans Memling, his wife, and his brother-in-law are members of an underground Nazi-resistance movement. He is arrested and ends up in a camp as a political prisoner. Hans and the other prisoners are interrogated, beaten, and f...

  6. Scene still from the film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin" (1939)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Scene still from the American feature film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin,” originally released by Producers Pictures Corporation in October 1939, and re-released in 1942. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and are then used as marketing and advertising tools. After encountering opposition from censorship boards, the film was alternatively called “Goose Step,” the title of the adapted novel, and eventually released as “Beasts of Berlin.” In the film, Hans Memling, his wife, and his brother-in-law are members of an underground Nazi-resistance movement. He is a...

  7. Lobby card for the film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” (1939)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Lobby card, distributed by Vitagraph (a Warner Bros. subsidiary), for the American feature film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” released by Warner Bros. Pictures in May 1939. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. The film was chosen as Best Picture of the Year by the National Board of Review in 1939. Based on articles written in the New York Post by ex-agent Leon G. Turrou, the film recounts a fictionalized version of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Rumrich N...

  8. United States trade advertisement for the film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” (1939)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Trade advertisement for the American feature film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” released by Warner Bros. Pictures in May 1939. Movie manufacturers send trade advertisements to exhibitors to increase the distribution of a film to as many theaters as possible. The film was chosen as Best Picture of the Year by the National Board of Review in 1939. Based on articles written in the New York Post by ex-agent Leon G. Turrou, the film recounts a fictionalized version of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Rumrich Nazi Spy Case (1938). The film follows FBI agent Edward Renard’s investigation ...

  9. Double-size British trade advertisement for the film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” (1939)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    British trade advertisement for the American feature film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” released by Warner Bros. Pictures in May 1939. Movie manufacturers send trade advertisements to exhibitors to increase the distribution of a film to as many theaters as possible. The film was chosen as Best Picture of the Year by the National Board of Review in 1939. Based on articles written in the New York Post by ex-agent Leon G. Turrou, the film recounts a fictionalized version of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Rumrich Nazi Spy Case (1938). The film follows FBI agent Edward Renard’s invest...

  10. British trade advertisement for the movie “Pastor Hall” (1940)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Double-sided British trade advertisement, promoting “Pastor Hall” on one side and “Under Your Hat” on the reverse. “Pastor Hall” (1940) was a British feature film, released in the United States on September 13, 1940. “Pastor Hall” was an adaptation of the 1938 play written by Ernst Toller, a Prussian Jewish veteran of World War I. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Toller was declared an enemy of the state and immigrated to England, and moved again to the United States in 1936. In the film, a Lutheran minister resists the Nazification of German Protestant churches, an...

  11. Crimean Commission on the History of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, city of Simferopol of the Crimean Region

    • Крымская комиссия по истории Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945 годов, г. Симферополь Крымской области
    • Державний архів в Автономній Республіці Крим
    • П-156
    • English, Russian
    • 1944-1947
    • Inventory 1 – 247 files. Chapters of the Inventory:  Initial period of the Great Patriotic War. Sevastopol and Kerch-Feodosia landings – files 1-23.  Fascist occupation regime – files 24-41  Partisan movement in Crimea – files 42-60.  Underground activities in cities and districts – files 61-90.  Underground activities in the city of Simferopol – files 91-158.  Underground and partisan press in the occupation period – files 159-170.  Liberation of Crimea by the Red Army, recovery of national economy – files 171-179.  Heroes of the Soviet Union. Heroism of the Crimean dwellers on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War – files 180-190.  Poetry and songs – files 191-194.  Documents of the Crimean Commission on the Great Patriotic War – files 195-235.  Materials on groups and individuals who were not recognized officially as underground movement participants. – files 236-247.

    The following files are related to the history of the German and Romanian occupation regime and the Holocaust: File 24. Orders, announcements, leaflets and posters by occupation authorities. 1942-43. 39 pages. File 25. Leaflets and appeals of the German military commandment of Crimea. 1942-44. 99 pages. File 26. Copies of orders, circulars and enactments of the German Propaganda Headquarter in Crimea about the ideological working of the population. 1941-43. 40 pages. File 27. Collection of materials of the German Propaganda Department for Broadcasting in the Occupied Territories (“Radio Ger...

  12. Boris Tödtli: Papers and correspondence

    This microfilm collection of correspondence and papers documents the activities of Boris Tödtli, a Russian Nazi sympathiser and Anti-semite, who, as a leading light in the Swiss branch of Weltdienst organised the defence of the veracity of that infamous forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. A large part of this collection consists of correspondence described as the 'Russian Letters', containing copies of the originals and French and German translations. These letters were confiscated by the Swiss police in Bern in relation to his prosecution for espionage. The letters are thought to ...

  13. Gertrud and Max Joseph, Ida and Paul Simons and Arthur and Hans Bial: papers

    This collection contains papers relating to the Jewish family of Gaby Glassmann-Simons, in particular her grandparents, Gertrud and Max Joseph and Ida and Paul Simons.These papers include personal accounts as well as interviews with Walter Rau and Hans Sahl. Also included is other material relating to Jewish persecution such as an article by Gaby Glassman regarding Irene Bloomsfield's work on intergenerational communication within families affected by Nazi persecution (2003), and correspondence and papers relating to the Jewish community in Stralsund.The collection also consists of the pers...

  14. Zappert family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Zappert family, a Jewish family whose roots can be traced back to 18th century Prague. The papers mainly relate to Wolf Zappert, a wealthy jeweller who worked in the second half of the 18th century in Prague, and Julius Zappert (1867-1941), a highly regarded paediatrician and university professor from Vienna. Julius Zappert fled Austria shortly after his imprisonment under the Nazi regime in 1938. His son Karl and his family also escaped further persecution by going to England via Denmark and Brazil. Wolf Zappert's papers include title deeds and ot...

  15. Gaston Kahn papers

    1. Gaston Kahn collection

    Consists of documents from the collection of Gaston Kahn, who served as the director of the CAR ("comité d'assistance aux réfugiés) an aid organization affiliated with the Joint Distribution Committee that provided aid to Jewish refugees in the prewar period. Includes reports and a newsletter from the "L'Accueil Francais aux Autrichiens" [French Home for Austrians] in 1938-1939; a photograph of the CAR leadership of Gaston Kahn, Albert Levy, and R. R. Lambert; wartime ration cards; postcards and an envelope; and a recommendation letter, as well as copies of additional documentation related ...

  16. Miriam Klein photographs

    1. Miriam Reinharz Klein collection

    The Miriam Klein photographs depict the Reinharz, Sturm, and Schech families in Przemyśl before the war; the Banasiewicz family who hid members of the Reinharz family during the war; the Reinharz family in Sweden after the war; and Miriam Klein's late husband, Berek Dov Klein.

  17. Laci Schiffer returns to Budapest for a visit

    Laci Schiffer visits home in Budapest around 1930 for the first time since emigrating to US in 1921. His father, Jonas, is in the garden. He walks with a cane and sits with his wife, Jenny, in garden chairs. Laci kisses them both. Erzsébet prepares to serve them cakes. Ernö helps his father stand; he waves. Trademark Pathex logo.

  18. Fanny and Leo Englard papers

    1. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    Documents, correspondence and photographs regarding Fanny Dominitz, who survived several concentration camps, and her husband Leo Englard, who served in the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II.

  19. Silver sugar tongs carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Hannah Kronheim Deutch collection

    Sugar tongs carried by Hannah Kronheim, 17, who left Germany in 1939 on the Kinderstransport [Children's Transport]. She left soon after Kristallnacht, November 9 and 10, 1938, when the synagogue behind her home in Bochum was set on fire. She arrived in Harwich, England, on February 3, 1939. Hannah was older than most of the children, and no placement arrangements were made for her. She was housed in a boarding house, then a hostel until November 1940 when she was sent to Port Erin internment camp on the Isle of Man. Her mother, Ella Kronheim Mayer, left for Chile on August 25, 1939, with h...

  20. Rose embroidered tablecloth kept by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Hannah Kronheim Deutch collection

    Tablecloth with roses embroidered by her mother carried by 17 year old Hannah Kronheim when she left Germany on the Kinderstransport [Children's Transport] in 1939. Hannah left soon after Kristallnacht, November 9 and 10, 1938, when the synagogue behind her home in Bochum was set on fire. She arrived in Harwich, England, on February 3, 1939. Hannah was older than most of the children, and no placement arrangements were made for her. She was housed in a boarding house, then a hostel until November 1940 when she was sent to Port Erin internment camp on the Isle of Man. Her mother, Ella Kronhe...