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  2. Santa Maria di Leuca DP camp; Jewish family; protesting British policy against immigration

    Quick pan of buildings at Santa Maria di Leuca DP camp, brief shot of two women and a Red Cross truck. Hannah plays with her son in the water at the beach, Moshe walks toward camera holding the baby. Hannah and Menachem play outdoors on a blanket with various toys, headphones. Hannah and another friend (seen in Film ID 4155 at 6:02) make faces for the cameraman. 02:11 City EXTs, building with British flag, plaque/crest in Bari city (note the fountain of Cavour Avenue in later shots). Men in uniform and large crowd of protestors gathered on street. Young people stand on others’ shoulders, ma...

  3. "One in 6,000,000" One Woman's Story of Survival

    Consists of one memoir, 36 pages, entitled, "One in 6,000,000: One Woman's Story of Survival," by Hilde Geisen. In the memoir, she describes her childhood in Cologne; her memories of Nazi persecutions; her failed attempt at immigration to the United States; the deportation of her parents; life in Theresienstadt; post-war life in Deggendorf; and immigration to the United States in 1947. Includes a copy of her identity card and a 2002 portrait.

  4. Kahn family papers

    The collection documents the Kahn family’s experiences in Germany, France, and Switzerland during the Holocaust. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written to Ruth Kahn in Switzerland from her parents Leo and Elfriede Kahn and her sister Marga Kahn in Sulzburg, Germany and internment camps in southern France at Rivesaltes, Gurs and Les Milles. Also included is other correspondence, identification papers, restitution paperwork, immigration documentation, and a photograph album. Biographical material includes Ruth’s birth certificate, a religious school report card, and a registra...

  5. Łódź ghetto document collection

    Correspondence from Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Łódź Ghetto Jewish Council, concering delivery of furniture from company Schultz and Schmitz, dated November 28, 1941 and stamped December 1, 1941, on letterhead from "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt"; Receipt: discharge, stamped September 17, 1941, issued by Friedrich Hoppert [limited partnership] in Litzmannstadt [purpose of this receipt is unclear].

  6. Goldschmeid and Burstyn families collection

    Documents, correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Imré and Borbala Wirth Goldschmeid and their daughter Veronika Goldschmeid. Included are pre-war images and documents such as birth certificates and report cards for Imré and Borbala, and post-war documents concerning Veronika, Borbala, and Borbala's mother Julianna who were together in Budapest until 1944 at which time Vera was placed with the Red Cross, and Borbala and sister Margit were deported to Bergen Belsen where they survived. Juliana and Mor (Borbala's parents) perished of hunger in January 1945 in Budapest....

  7. Irving Bashevkin collection

    The collection primarily consists of photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp following liberation. Includes captioned on verso in English; dated April 1945; “Soldiers of ’44 / 107th EVAC Events” and packet of copies of newsletters published weekly by and for the Officers and Enlisted Men of the 107th Evac Hospital.

  8. David Newman memoir

    Manuscript memoir, in Yiddish, 120 pages, describing David Newman's experiences in the Skarżysko-Kamienna forced labor camp in Poland during the German occupation, and his subsequent imprisonment at Buchenwald, written by Newman in 1988. An English translation by Miriam Beckerman, from 2006, is also included. The text begins with an account of the pre-war history of the Jewish community in his hometown of Chmielnik, Poland, the experiences of Newman's family during the initial stages of the German occupation of Poland, when his family lived in Łódź, their subsequent move to Staszow, and ...

  9. Collection on Vught, concentration camp in Herzogenbusch (Collection Prisons and camps) Collectie gevangenissen en Kampen-deelcollectie Vught, Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch (Fond 250g)

    This collection contains documents relating to the Vught concentration camp in Herzogenbusch between 1943-1944. Including are documents, maps and some photos as well as pre-war correspondence and court proceedings.

  10. Oral history interview with Ruth Lederer

  11. Census from the city Cluj, Romania, 1924 and 1938

    The collection contains an inventory of the Romanian citizens in Cluj county, dating from 1924-1952; as well as lists of Jews and Christians in Cluj, Gherla, Mociu commune, Câțcău commune, Dej, and Turda, Romania, compiled in 1938, 1945 and 1949. Lists complaied in 1938 are mainly based on the lists of 1924.

  12. Selected records of the district of Sochaczew Starostwo Powiatowe w Sochaczewie (Sygn. 98)

    Contains various records related to the Jewish Committee of Sochaczew, other Polish organizations and societies, Jewish graveyards, lists of war graves, Poles and Jews inhabiting the county of Sochaczew, and additionally included are licenses for running private enterprises.

  13. Congregation Adath Israel commemorative material

    Consists of one folder of envelopes, postcards, and programs produced by Congregation Adath Israel of Woodbridge, NJ, as part of their Holocaust commemoration. The envelopes, many of which carry WWII commemorative postage stamps, commemorate the rescue of the Danish Jews in 1943, the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps in 1995, the 60th anniversary of the sailing of the MS St. Louis. The postcards include artwork of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, commissioned upon the Museum's opening, and the programs were produced for commemorative events at the syn...

  14. Fred Freuthal papers

    The Fred Freuthal papers include correspondence, personal narratives, and photocopies of clippings and photographs documenting Fred Freuthal’s immigration to the United States as one of a group of children selected by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus ("the 50 children") in the spring of 1939, his parents’ immigration in the fall of 1939, and their efforts to help his grandmother immigrate in 1941. Correspondence includes letters and a postcard Fred Freuthal wrote to his parents in Vienna from France and the United States just before and after his immigration and a letter from a caregiver assuring ...

  15. Zvi Terlo papers

    Collection consists of selected papers of Zvi Terlo (1932-2010), who served on the prosecution team at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961-1962. Includes correspondence, printed trial testimony, pamphlets, and photographs, mostly relating to particular phases of the trial, but also including papers from Shabtai Rosen, legal advisor for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from Foreign Minister Golda Meir. Most of the material relates to arguments about the legality of trying Eichmann in an Israeli court rather than an international court, as well as the legality of his ...

  16. Sylvia Neulander collection

    The Sylvia Neulander collection consists of a letter written by Sylvia Neulander, who worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) after the war in the US Zone of Germany; addressed to Sylvia's sister Alice in 1946. In the letter, Sylvia describes accompanying a group of orphaned children from Marseille to Eretz Israel (Palestine) in April 1946, and visiting other children who previously had gone to Kibbutz Buchenwald. The collection also includes a photograph of Sylvia in uniform.

  17. Selected records of the commune in Guzów Akta gminy Guzów (Sygn.5)

    Book inventory of the municipality Guzów in Poland: Contains the inventory of property and financial spending of commune Guzów, 1928-1936.

  18. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  19. Léon Prays photograph collection

    Contains three black-and-white photographs of the donor visiting Miraville in Belgium, the children's home where he lived after the war; photos taken in 1956, when donor was on leave from military service.

  20. Eduard Wirths collection

    The Eduard Wirths collection relates to SS-Standortarzt Dr. Eduard Wirths (1909-1945), his family, and colleagues, before and while he was stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The collection consists of fifteen original photographs, some taken at Solahütte, a resort for Nazi personnel located at Auschwitz, and of other physicians, including Dr. Carl Clauberg (1898-1957). The collection also includes a 1944 presentation album, entitled, "SS Truppenlazarett erbaut von der Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei, Auschwitz OS 1944" which was created to document the const...