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  1. German Condor Legion in Spain

    Onscreen titles: "Deutsche Freiwillige in Spanien" [German volunteers in Spain]. And: "Der erste Filmbericht vom Kampf der Legion Condor" [First film report about fighting of the Condor Legion]. Views of a city (or cities) in Spain. Beautiful landmarks and churches, interrupted by a shot of a bomb-damaged building. The narrator states that in 1936 began a wave of senseless terror, whose barbaric hate knew no bounds. Spanish Republicans are shown taking target practice at a statue, riding in the back of a truck through the streets, and otherwise exhibiting their barbaric natures. Spanish civ...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Various captured newsreels

    Hermann Goering, Albert Speer, Wilhelm Keitel, and others at a ceremony in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Inside the Chancellery, men and women receive small crosses (Kriegsverdienstkreuz) that indicate their level of civilian (non-combat) service to the nation. One man receives the highest level honor. An officer pins this man's cross medal around his neck, and the medal recipient reviews troops with Goering in the courtyard of the Chancellery. 01:01:59 According to the dope sheet, this footage shows foreign workers watching a performance in a Berlin music hall. A band and a couple danci...

  3. Postwar visionary painting commemorating the first deportation of Jews from Drancy by a Turkish Jewish woman who witnessed the event

    Mystical oil painting created by Louise Abouaf Starr in 2003 to commemorate March 27, 1942, the day she witnessed the first deportation of Jewish prisoners from Drancy via train from Paris. The colorful painting features train cars loaded with prisoners surrounded by symbolic images of angels, animals, and the Torah. On March 27, Louise, age 23, and her mother went to the station looking for her father and brother. They were warned not to go onto the platform, since German soldiers threatened to shoot unauthorized persons. They bought a ticket and snuck onto quay one and hid under a corner ...

  4. Bermann family papers

    The papers consist of documents and photographs documenting the Bermann family, originally of Olomouc, Czechoslovakia (Olomouc, Czech Republic), before World War II and their experiences emigrating from Olomouc to Cuba in 1941.

  5. Porges family papers

    The collection consists of documents and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of the Porges family of Vienna, Austria. Includes pre-war family photographs, identification documents, and paperwork related to immigration to the United States in 1946.

  6. Selected records from Romanian diplomatic missions

    Contains reports, correspondence, and reportage sent before and during World War II to Bucharest, Romania, from the Romanian diplomatic missions in Rome (Italy), Moscow (Soviet Union), Washington (U.S.A.), Berlin (Germany), Brussels (Belgium), Istanbul (Turkey), Prague (Czechoslovakia), Belgrade (Yugoslavia), Madrid (Spain), Warsaw (Poland), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), The Hague (Netherlands), Bern (Switzerland), the Vatican, Cairo (Egypt), Lisbon (Portugal), London (UK), Paris (France). The Washington records show the concern of American Jews about the treatment of Jews in Romani...

  7. Card index of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC /JDC)

    Contains the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee card index of the Emigration Service in Munich, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Barcelona, Spain.

  8. German News Agency Selected records from the collection "Deutsche Nachrichtenbüro" (R 34)

    Contains records related to rejection of the non-Aryan members of the Berlin Sports Club; reports from abroad (Spain, Switzerland, Italy); e.g., Jewish Security Police, Soviet cruelties in the east; documents about school attendance of Jewish Mischlinge; reports about movies, operas, dramas, books, and music; folk sport and sport education; antisemitic comments; reports about Jewish editors and actors.

  9. Bulgarian Legation in Madrid (Fond 256)

    Contains selected records from Fond 256 including registries of visas and passports issued.

  10. Expressionistic lithograph by Richard Grune depicting concentration camp inmates begging a guard for food

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune for a 1947 series of works based upon his experiences as an inmate in German concentration camps and prisons from 1934-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933, as the Nazis were consolidating their control of the government. In December 1934, he was denounced and arrested. Under interrogation, Grune admitted to being homosexual. He was held in protective custody for five months, then returned to Flensburg, his childhood home, to stand trial for violating Article 6, §175 of the penal code which punished indecent acts b...

  11. American Friends Service Committee Refugee Assistance Case Files

    Consists of more than 20,000 case files created and maintained by staff and volunteers with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker relief and rescue organization. The files are concerned primarily with the sponsorship of individuals for immigration to the United States and the process of their adjustment to America, including job-hunting and the placement of young adults in colleges and training programs. The collection contains a wealth of detail on individual refugees, the bulk of whom were fleeing Nazism, including their experiences before or during the war and the effor...

  12. Ingrid Sacks collection

    Consists of photographs; a 1945 Aufbau newspaper article; letters written in Gurs; a school notebook; six original photos of the donor, including one portrait and one at Ecole de Filles; and six copy photos of the donor prior to her deportation to Gurs, in Gurs, in hiding with a rescuer, and in an OSE home prior to leaving for the United States.

  13. Ginette Kalish photographs

    Contains photographs of Ginette Kalish [donor] and other children in Canet Plage, France, who were part of a group of seventy other orphaned children from Barcelona, Spain, who had escaped Franco and were assisted by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. This group of children were later moved to a chateau in La Vercantiere that included a school and church until their liberation in 1945. Also includes a collection of prewar and wartime photographic prints and a photographic postcard documenting the Druker family, friends from Canet Plage and the Château de Masgelier children's home in Francet.

  14. Rose Abrams papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Roza Margolis (later Rose Abrams) and her sister Estera Margolis (later Edith Adlam), both of whom grew up in Łódź, Poland. Included are two postcards written by Roza and Estera to relatives in the United States, 1944-1945; a postcard received by the same relatives by Roza’s uncle, Zundel Bagielman, writing from the Łódź ghetto, 1940; and a certificate issued to Roza upon her release from Camp de Gurs, France in April 1943.

  15. Edith M. Adlam papers

    Consists of an identification card (Carte d’Identite d’Etranger), a census card, (Fiche de Recensement), and a certificate of liberation (Certificat de Libération) issued by the Centre d’Hébergement de Gurs/le Chef de Camp on 10 April 1943. The documents were all issued Estera Margolis.

  16. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Pyrénées-Orientales

    Collection includes records from sources including the departmental committee on the liberation of the region; and the cabinet of the prefecture and the sub-prefecture at Prades. Topics include internment camps; the Rivesaltes military and internment camps; the fortress at Perpignan; correspondence, denunciations, and dossiers on individuals; international brigades returning from Spain; Spanish refugees; staff of internment camps; Polish refugees in France; arrests and detentions; Jewish internees at Rivesaltes; and other internees.

  17. Spanish diplomatic and consular correspondence and related records

    The collection contains diverse documents from 1939 to 1963, concerning the situation for Jews in Europe in general, Spanish Jews, and individual cases of Jews seeking asylum in Spain. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence related to securing transit visas to Spain for Jews attempting to escape Nazi persecution.

  18. Bulgarian Legation in Bucharest (Fond 327)

    Contains reports and press clippings from the Romanian press regarding underground communist activities in Dobruja and Bessarabia; correspondence between the Bulgarian and Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding individual persons of Jewish origin and about the sinking of the "Struma" (Sṭrumah); correspondence regarding passport renewals for Jewish volunteers in the Civil War in Spain; and correspondence regarding visas and transit lists for people of non-Jewish origin. Also includes a registry of incoming documents and passports issued.

  19. Anti-Jewish propaganda film: migration of Jews

    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 2 Further scenes shot in Warsaw, Poland, October 1939. More shots of Jewish...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Sudeten-Deutsche Party; Eger

    Can 22, 100 feet. Scenes taken in the headquarters of the Sudeten-Deutsche party at 4 Hybernska Prague. Deputy Karl Hermann Frank leader of both Parliamentary factions of the S.D.P. and personal representative of Henlein. Signing letters at his desk, talking to his secretary. Can 23. 100 feet. Frank leaving headquarters for the country receiving the salute. Party members arriving at the desk in the entrance, giving and receiving the salute. Member at desk signing form, giving salute and leaving. Banner on wall, in German, reads: "Heimat is Arbeit" in BG. Two takes. Three shots of members ar...