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  1. Russell Blixt collection

    Contains a photograph of the Buchenwald concentration camp taken soon after liberation. The image depicts cart of deceased bodies stacked and people standing in the background, one wearing concentration camp uniform and the rest appear in civilian clothing. Includes an envelope pre-printed "censored photographs" and addressed to "Capt. Russel [sic] G. Blixt-0373750/705th.TD.Bn..."

  2. Oral history interview with Teofila Kotlewski

  3. Wofford Lewis collection

    Consists of Wofford Lewis's copy of "Nurnberg" by Charles Alexander (Nurnberg, Germany: Printed by Karl Ulrich & Co., 1946) along with his documents (some pasted inside the book) related to his time at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, in August 1946. Includes his signed gallery ticket (upgraded to "press"), dining room permission, military authorization for the trip, IMT brochure, copies of 1945 regulations regarding treatment of prisoners on trial, and a description of the IMT heraldic design.

  4. Jewish family life after the war; Altalena ship on fire

    Hannah and baby exit a home (Israel?). Baby pushes a pram. 09:11 MS, crowd of people on the street, palm trees in BG. Menachem (?) plays with a collection of porcelain dolls and rides a carousel [poor VQ]. 10:18 Children play on a balcony (in Israel?). 11:34 MS, a ship on fire [probably the Altalena in June 1948], billowing smoke. 12:16 Child (sister of Menachem?) plays on the balcony, rides a tricycle, and pushes a toy wheelbarrow; the flowerpots contain mini flags of Israel. Some celebration (nursery school graduation?), women carry flowers and children eat an assortment of desserts.

  5. Relaxing in Bulgaria

    Panoramic view of mountains and trees, possibly in the Rila mountain range. Two people, including Licco Max Haim, emerge from an earthen hut. Two men and a group of women climb a mountain then relax at the top. Backpacking and mountaineering. More CUs of Licco. Resting by a river. Mountainous scenery and more hiking. Brief shot of a car and residence.

  6. Licco Haim and friends on a ski holiday

    AGFA 8 1941. [COLOR] The friends climb a snowy path with skis for an adventure. 01:00:30 Berta Haim (Licco's wife). Pan of mountain landscape. 01:03:01 [B/W] Skiing filmed in slow-motion. 01:03:45 Chalet Sherni Vrah in the Black Peak. 01:08:46 [COLOR] Three friends slowly walk with skis across the snow toward the camera. More skiing. 01:11:43 [B/W] Skiing in slow-motion. LS of skiers with plane overhead. The friends, including Berta, walk back up for another run.

  7. Ruins

    Destroyed homes and buildings filmed from a moving vehicle, probably in France in summer 1944. Small children stand by the road, while adults rummage through the rubble for their possessions. More pans of the devastation and ruins of buildings.

  8. Letter of protection

    Contains a letter of protection issued to Dr. Farago Gyorgi, signed by the Apostolic Nuncio in Budapest, Monsignor Angelo Rotta, dated November 15, 1944.

  9. Dr. Wieslaw Piller collection

    Contains documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Wieslaw M. Piller (donor's grandfather), who was Roman Catholic and interned in Auschwitz from June 1940 through 1944 and then Sachsenhausen from October 1944 to February 1945 Includes materials about his postwar experiences in and around Munich, Germany.

  10. Fred Lifschutz papers

    The Fred Lifschutz papers consist of biographical materials, a personal narrative, photographs, postcards, and three photograph albums documenting Fred Lifschutz from Vienna, Austria, his family and friends, and his immigration to the United States as one of the "50 children" sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. The biographical materials document Moritz, Bertha, and Fred Lifschutz and especially Bertha and Fred Lifschutz’s immigration to the United States. Bertha’s brief personal narrative describes her childhood, her experiences during World War I and the interwar years in Galicia and ...

  11. Oreffice family collection

    Contains documents and photographs relating to Admiral Paolo Maroni (donor’s great uncle), who was removed from his position in September 1938 because of the racial laws of Italy. Includes false papers belonging to Vittorio Maroni (Paolo Maroni's father), dated c. 1943; numerous petitions to the Fascist government asking for permission to hire non-Jewish help for Paolo Maroni’s elderly parents; numerous drafts and typed copies of Admiral Maroni’s CV; and newspaper clippings from Italian and American press relating to the firing of the Admiral. Also includes an Italian passport issued to Mar...

  12. Eleanor Kraus memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir, 166 pages, written by Eleanor Kraus in the 1960s. In the memoir, she describes her experiences, with her husband Gilbert, traveling from Philadelphia to Vienna in 1939 to bring 50 children (later referred to as "the 50 Children") to the United States with the support of the Brith Sholom organization.

  13. Jewish Community of Targu Neamt collection

    The collection contains documents related to the deportation of Jews from Târgu Neamt, Romania to Transnistria. Included are 10 identity cards issued to Jews exempting them from forced labor for limited time, 1943; a list of names of Jews from Târgu Neamt deemed fit or unfit for forced labor, 1944; an announcement concerning war widows and orphans on how to get restitution for the death of family members; and a document listing orphaned Jewish children removed from Transnistria and taken to Palestine, 1944.

  14. Relli Glowinski Robinson collection

    Contains a letter, dated April 30, 1938 on letterhead of M. Glowinski company, addressed to Mrs. Glowinski in Palestine, notifying her of sending a check for £12 and describing the situation in Danzig as “not rosy”; a photograph depicting Beniek Fersztendik (donor’s maternal uncle), dated April 20, 1930; a letter written by the donor’s parents in Warsaw ghetto to friends in Vilna thanking them for a food parcel and asking them to convey to family in Palestine to arrange for foreign documents and not to forget them; a photograph of Relli Glowinski, dated January 28, 1941; a letter, dated Nov...

  15. Margot Lichtenstein collection

    Consists of loose photographs, original documents, photograph album pages, and a biography documenting the Holocaust experiences of Margot Schoenherz Freudenberg Lichtenstein, originally of Berlin. Includes identity documentation for Margot Freudenberg and her husband, Hans, loose photographs, and photograph album pages with images of their immigration from Italy to Shanghai via the Suez Canal, Eritrea, India, and Hong Kong, and of life in Shanghai. Also includes a biography of Margot Lichtenstein written by her stepdaughter, Ruth Dunkinson, incorporating Margot's stories about her experien...

  16. Oral history interview with Michal Walczyk

  17. Zenon Nowak letter

    Consists of one letter, dated November 10, 1941, written by Zenon Nowak to his mother, Anastasia Nowak, and sister, who were living near Litzmannstadt (Łódź). The letter was handwritten on Dachau concentration camp stationery, and both the letter and envelope bear Nowak's prisoner number, 12183.

  18. Alexander Gleis papers

    The Alexander Gleis papers consist primarily of Gleis' firsthand accounts of his experiences surviving the Stanisławów ghetto, hiding in an underground shelter at the home of a Polish Catholic named Staszek Jackowski, being liberated, and moving to Israel. The papers also include retellings of the Jackowski story by Ruth Gruber and in clippings, biographical materials documenting Gleis and his wife, maps of Stanisławów, photographs of Gleis and his family before and after the war, and two letters to Gleis from the Bayerisches Landesentschädigungsamt.

  19. Phillip Greenglass family papers

    The collection consists of letters written to Phillip Greenglass in the United States from his family in Babruĭsk, Belarus. A select few letters in Russian also include donor-provided translations. Also included are pre-war photographs of Phillip’s family in Babruĭsk and depictions of his visit with his family in Babruĭsk in 1938.

  20. Heilpern Family Collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, passports and identity papers illustrating the experiences of Hans and Sidonie Heilpern and their three children Gertrude, Felix and Wilhelmine all of whom fled Vienna, Austria in 1939. Included is correspondence from Hans to Sidonie from concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald in Germany, where Hans was interned from June 1938 to April 1939. Passport issued to Sidonie states family arrived August 1939, except Felix, who arrived separately. Also included are various documents issued to family in the United States, and pre- and postwar photographs of the...