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  1. Robert Bogart collection

    Color glass slides of the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany taken by Robert Bogart (donor's father) who as a US Army Signal Corps photographer; copy photographs of the Stroop Report photographs; photo of the Nuremberg Trial taken by a fellow photographer.

  2. Luftwaffe (partly in color)

    Replacement Fighter Group 50, hunting group, bull fight, Parisian brothel scenes

  3. Records of the Stockholm Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    Records of AJJDC’s Stockholm office during the years 1941-1967. The majority of the materials focus on the Stockholm office’s activities during World War II and in the postwar period from 1944-1949. Included are records of the AJJDC’s collaborations with other organizations to assist survivors, such as its work with the Red Cross on the White Buses. This project, headed by Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish diplomat and then-president of the Swedish Red Cross, provided packages and medical care to survivors in concentration camps, as well as bringing concentration camp inmates to safety in S...

  4. Bayreuth in 1934

    Olympic Games, motor race with Silver Arrows, motorcycle race in Hanover

  5. Frank family at Kressendorf; high-ranking official visits Wawel castle

    The Frank family eats indoors at Kressendorf winter garden. Norman and his friend Voigt pretend to sleep on the balcony. 01:19:41 HAS exterior street views, and the Wawel castle inner courtyard. [Hans Frank set up residence in Wawel after being named Governor-General of the German-occupied Polish territories in October 1939.] Procession of marching band and troops in the courtyard. 01:20:06 A high-ranking Nazi official marches out and salutes the troops. Official photographers capture the moment. 01:21:20 In color, CU of document stating "An die polnische Bevoelkerung" [To the Polish Popula...

  6. Diary of Jakow Tobaisz

    Contains a photocopy of a diary written by Jakow Tobias (December 12, 1900 - September 17, 1970), kept ; written in Karakulino, Russia between 1941-1946.

  7. Appenzeller family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence and photographs relating to Adam Emmanuel Appenzeller (donor's father), b. November 20, 1889 in Krakow and Josefa Peppi Appenzeller (donor's mother) b. March 16, 1902 in Jurcoutz, Bukovina.

  8. Transcripts from Adolf Eichmann trial

    Documents, mimeographed, from the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, 1961. Includes text of the opening address by the prosecution (Gideon Hausner), and minutes of sessions 15 and 16 of the trial. The documents were collected by Michel Levant, while he was an observer at the trial. Levant's family had emigrated from France prior to the German invasion in 1940, and he later served in the United States Air Force, attaining the rank of Brigadier General, and was on active duty with the Air Force while he was observing the Eichmann Trial.

  9. Condensed milk factory owned by the de Kadt family

    Angle view of the front of the original factory building of De Nieuw Beemster at Tuingracht 32, De Rijp, with the half-finished building visible next-door; a man stands on a beam and peers down into the new building from above; panning the construction site; various shots of mixing and laying cement; 01:04:45 A suited man and a man in a white coat pose together in front of the partially-built brick walls of the new building; close-ups of scaffolding; 01:06:05 A group of men hoist the building's main rafter, with a large Dutch flag attached; close-up of the flag against a cloudy sky; aerial ...

  10. Sim Ashkenazi collection

    Documents of Sim Ashkenazi (donor's late husband) relating to his attendance at the gymnasia in Russe, Bulgaria and at Clement Ochridsky University, Sofia as well as document from the Spanish Consulate in Bulgaria; class photo, gymnasia in Russe, Bulgaria, 1941-1942; photo album documenting the Ashkenazi family in Bulgaria and Israel during the Holocaust

  11. Glass family photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of Wanda, Marian and Andrzej Glass seated together indoors with bookshelf and window behind them; handwritten inscription on verso; taken in New York after their journey from Poland; dated May 5, 1941; in Polish

  12. Ohrdruf liberation photo

    Photographic print: black and white image of American soldier standing next to open trailer loaded with corpses; caption handwritten on verso: “Murdered slaves about to get a decent burial / Ohrdruf, Germany”; dated April-May 1945; in English

  13. UNRRA selected records AG-018-027 : Sweden Mission

    Cables, miscellaneous correspondence, statistics, lists of unaccompanied children, search requests, minutes of meetings, and status reports from the UNRRA Swedish Mission Office relating to efforts to assist the Displaced Persons camps in Sweden after the war.

  14. County Command of the State Police in Radom Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Radomiu (Sygn. 1049)

    Reports and information from police officers and police informers pertaining to political, social and labor organizations and local interaction between Poles and Jews.

  15. Trip to East Prussia, 1937

    Amateur travelogue, railways. Essen, Dortmund, drive through Ruhrgebiet to Hamm, train Cologne-Berlin, Minden, Hannover Linden, Königsberg color, harbor, memory, Excursion from Heilsberg to the voting monument at Allenstein, Cranz 1937, to Cranzbeek, steamer, Rossitten, moose, excursion to the Amber Coast, Mikolajki, boat trip, Masuria color, Kurhaus Rudzanny, Pillau color

  16. Masaryk narrates montage about the suffering of Czechoslovakia during WWII

    THE CZECHOSLOVAKIAN DOCUMENTARY UNIT PRESENTS A LETTER FROM PRAGUE No.1 A special newsreel produced by: JIRI WEISS, edited by: FRANTISEK SADEK, music by: VILEM TAUSKY This film was shot for an anti-Nazi exhibition in London. Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk sitting at his desk speaking to the camera. He says that he has been writing letters to his friends abroad, and that they are worried about certain problems. He says these friends are worried about our serving justice to the Germans and the transferral of the Czech population. He wishes the Germans could see what they left in their wake, so ...

  17. Brandeis family correspondence

    Contains a letter written by Louise and Betty Brandeis, distant relatives of Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dated April 16, 1938 in Vienna. In the letter the two sisters ask Justice Brandeis to help them to come to the United States since life under the new anti-Jewish laws made it impossible for them to work. Justice Brandeis noted on the first page that he received the letter on May 13 (1938). According to a ship manifest, the two sisters sailed on board the SS Europa from Cherbourg, France arriving in New York on July 20, 1938.

  18. Berlin, Horsemen of the SS Campaign, 1939

    Polish Campaign, war prisoners. Hans Frank. Roma wagon.

  19. Avraham Slitinsky letters

    Consists of more than 300 letters and several paper items written by soldier Avraham Slitinsky, while he served in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army in Eindehoven, Delft, Brussels, Antwerp, London, Italy and other places in Europe. Written to his wife Michal who lived in Tel Aviv, the letters describe life in the British Army and Europe. Some of the topics mentioned in the letters insclude a dispute between British officers and the Brigade soldiers concerning raising a Hebrew flag in the camp; first encounters with Jewish refugees; several letters from Germany with descriptions of Germ...

  20. Farajn fun Jidisze Literatn un Żurnalistn in Pojln Association of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Poland Związek Literatów i Dziennikarzy Żydowskich w Polsce (Sygn. 368)

    Minutes, reports, programs, correspondence, personal files of members and staff of the Association, as well as candidates applying for membership. These materials contain information related to the pre-and-postwar life of individual persons. Also included are financial files, such as preliminary budgets, approved budgets and cash reports, as well as other financial documents. The last part consists of records of the Jewish Theater Council.