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  1. Letter requesting release from marriage obligation (chalitzah), written by a Holocaust survivor at the St. Ottilien displaced persons camp.

    One letter, handwritten, 5 pages, dated 26 May 1946, from Sara Rudney, writing from the St. Ottilien displaced persons camp, to her brother-in-law, Saul Rudney, presumably in Baltimore, Maryland, asking from release from her halakhic obligations to marry him after the death of her husband during the Holocaust. In the letter, Sara Rudney describes the circumstances of the death of her husband, Moishe, at the age of 36 on 31 December 1944, in the Landsberg concentration camp, and notes that her rabbi has instructed her to obtain chalitzah from her brother-in-law. She mentions the loss of most...

  2. Rosmarie Meldola Haarburger letter

    Contains a letter written by Dr. Rosmarie Meldola Haarburger [donor's maternal aunt] on August 1, 1945 in Amsterdam, immediately after her liberation and recuperation from the Aschersleben concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Dr. Meldola was deported to Auschwitz in August 1944 and tattooed with prisoner number A-25140. In December 1944 she was transferred to Bergen Belsen concentration camp, and in March 1945 she was taken to the subcamp of Buchenwald. Dr. Meldola wrote this letter to her three sisters in the US: Erika, Grete and Were Luise (donor's mother) in which she described h...

  3. Paris Worlds Fair 1937; Travel Films; Saw mill in East Prussia

    Private films. 10:00:00 - 10:17:38 also M 2857. Color: World Exhibition in Paris 1937, at night, street scenes, trip to the Seine, site of the world exhibition.10:05:03 Exhibition center in color and black and white. 10:12:07 Pavilion, at night and inside. 10:17:31 - 10:44:28 also M 3082. Color: Travelogue with title cards in German. Versailles. Autobahn. Heidelberg. Trip on the Rhine. Alpine trip in 1938. Innsbruck. Hohenschwans. 10:44:57 Black and white: East Prussia: timber loading, Treideln, sawmill. 10:50:42 Haffausflug. 10:52:30 Masuria. 10:56:49 Allenstein and voting memorial. 10:57:...

  4. Selected records of the communa Nowa Słupia Akta gminy Nowa Słupia (Sygn. 139)

    Registers of residents, a book of traffic control of population, and financial files of the commune of Nowa Słupia.

  5. Russia campaign

    Snowy streets. Caravan of German soldiers on horseback, buggies. Unsteady camera. Various angles. Examining maps in snow. Men on horseback. Bridge

  6. Maurice and Elisabeth La Kerr papers

    The collection documents Maurice La Kerr’s post-war experiences in Germany and France as a fingerprint analyst with the United States Army. Maurice worked in several capacities including fingerprinting German citizens, identifying the identities of deceased American soldiers, and fingerprinting defendants during the Buchenwald trial in 1947. Included is military paperwork, identification papers, programs, ration cards, booklets, and clippings. Also included is the marriage paperwork for Maurice and Elisabeth Büttenbender along with her immigration and naturalization papers. The photographs ...

  7. Wittman family correspondence

    Contains postcards and notes handwritten by Marcus [Uszer] Selig Wittman (donor's father) in the Drancy internment camp near Paris, France, addressed to his family in Paris; last correspondence dated March 31, 1942. Marcus was deported from Drancy on April 29, 1942 to Compiegne, France and from there on June 5, 1942 to Auschwitz concentration camp. He was admitted to Block 28 on July 7, 1942 and was recorded as having died on July 19, 1942. His wife Paulette and sons Samuel and Marcel went into hiding, eventually in Chambon-sur-lignon in France.

  8. Second international amateurfilm-kongress in Berlin, July 23-29, 1936

    KODAK. Newspaper "Film-Kurier": "Kino am hellen Tag / Die Filmamateure in Berlin". Close-ups of men and women with small-gauge movie cameras. Sign: "II. Intern. Amateur Film-Kongress Berlin". Nice CUs of the attendees. Olympic stadium, athletes with country flags. CUs, female blonde celebrity signs autographs. Dining hall. Gardens. Formal dinner and dancing. Poster for the 5th international competition for the best amateur film. KODAK.

  9. Sudetenland

    Buch und Regie: C.A. Engel. Bild: Fritz Lehmann. Musik: Lothar Bar, Fritz Wenneis. Boehner Film.

  10. Jefferson Patterson travels by car through countryside

    Germany. River boats. Jefferson Patterson and his mother Mrs. Carnell on front steps of a house, garden, American flag. Massive ocean liner moves slowly through a harbor in Bremen. Men and women wave at the ship. Various shots of the city, riverboats in the water. Nazi flag in a square. Dresden Cathedral. Terrassenufer Street, Dresden courthouse. The Carolabrücke Bridge and the Albertbrücke Bridge. Saxon State Chancellery. Konigstein Fortress. Elbe River. Cars in lot. People walking. Views from the Konigstein Fortress, people gathered at lookout, including German and Nazi soldiers. Boats on...

  11. North African campaign, Erwin Rommel

    Deployment of soldiers to Africa, soldiers on train, Ruins, Italy? Accommodation in Naples, soldiers on ships, entrance to the port of Tripoli, Libya, camel rides, swimming in the Mediterranean, swastika flag, camp life, military cemetery, baking pancakes, desert, Officer Corps, commander's bus, Award of the Knight's Cross to Winrich Behr

  12. Soviet war newsreel: Struggle for East Prussia and Königsberg 1944/1945

    forest, soldiers, cannons, air attacks

  13. Berlin 1930s

    Olympic games, Berlin Palace, city views, garden exhibitions

  14. Western Campaign Albert Canal

    British and French war prisoners, command post, office

  15. German soldiers forced to dig up mass graves at Terezin

    Czech newsreel footage of men digging into the dirt at Terezin. One with SS insignia on the back of his shirt. Men dig and shovel dirt into small wheelbarrows which other laborers wheel away. They continue to dig. At the bottom of the pits are decaying bodies (mass graves). The men use smaller tools to delicately unearth and exhume the bodies. Another worker has the SS insignia on his pant leg. Captured German soldiers forced to dig up the mass graves, under guard of the Czech army. They lift a body up on a stretcher. Other men move the body to rows of coffins. The process continues with ex...

  16. UNRRA selected records AG-018-035 : Philippine Mission

    Selected files of the Philippine Mission: Correspondence, telegrams, UNRA registration cards, questionnaires, interviews, affidavits for refugees, and UNRRA agreements and polices related to displaced persons desiring repatriation: Displaced Persons-Chinese in Rabaul 1944-1949, as well as Displaced Persons, European, 1944-1949. Some files relate to Jewish refugees after the war, and the repatriation of Austrian and German Displaced Persons in the Philippines. Including are addresses of tracing bureaus in Europe and description of the tracing programs of the major organizations: National Tra...

  17. Return of an infantry regiment to Schwäbisch-Gmünd after the Western Campaign

    Band, infantry, group of soldiers with bicycles, cart pulled by horses, soldier in conversation with civilians including a child, rail transport, waving soldiers in and on the wagons

  18. "Po'alei Zion," Jewish Social Democratic Labor Party Żydowska Socjaldemokratyczna Partia Robotnicza "Poalej Syjon" (Sygn. 1213)

    Records from the Jewish Social Democratic Labor Party „Poalej Syjon” including program proclamations, a proclamation on the occasion of Labor Day (1th of May), and others documents.

  19. March of SA storm troopers in 1933

    Hilter youth, Adolf Hitler, Ernst Röhm, Heinrich Himmler, swastika flags, German greetings

  20. Family films; Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg; Hitler; Western campaign; Göring; Everyday-life in occupied France.

    July 1934: private life, children. Sep 1934: Vienna trip, zoo visit, wedding.1935: Winter and carnival delights, soldiers in a private atmosphere 15:20 Nazi Party, Volksfest, Adolf Hitler in an open car. Railroad, private, moving, May celebrations, sea vacation in Karshagen, carnival run 38:40 Western campaign, ruins, Dunkirk, war goods left behind, church, Lille 44:57 Bus with the inscription "Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss" / front theater 45:13 Goering at Air Force Unit 46:20 Everyday life, Luftwaffe, Donnerbalken, airfield, Stukas, France, typical shots, Ride on the Eiffel Tower, debri...