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  1. Alex Frieder tours factories and sights in Manila and the Far East in 1948

    Alex Frieder boards a Philippine Airlines airplane and poses with a flight attendant. He shakes hands with the pilot and others. Scenes of logging and manufacturing, presumably in Manila. Several men wave and pose for the camera by the factory and automobiles. 01:04:10 LS, a Filipino man climbs a tall palm tree. Boats on the water. 01:04:46 Alex and others stand inside a factory beside an enormous tree that has been felled. CUs, mechanics and machines at work. Alex shakes hands with locals. Scenes of the shoreline and people on boats, beautiful shots. Hotels on the harbor. "Bowline Knot / M...

  2. Lillian and Alexander Schachter papers

    The Lillian and Alexander Schachter papers consist of birth and marriage certificates, identification cards, immigration and naturalization certificates, and affidavits and legal correspondence documenting the Schachters’ internment in Auschwitz and Mauthausen, their immigration to the United States, and their efforts to receive restitution for damages suffered during the Holocaust including teeth that Lillian Schachter lost.

  3. Jewish life in Budapest before the war

    REEL 2. Margaret Gidaly and her children Paul and Elly on a hill overlooking city. An artist with glasses and hat paints the view on an easel. One-story home. Brief view of a different man in a hat. The children stand by Margaret and walk down a stair path next to a row of houses. Brief interior shot with the children. Another shot of Margaret and the children walking up the hill by the painter. 01:00:45 CU, Elly in a summer dress and women and young girls in white dresses on benches in a public park. Paul poses in front of a fountain. Margaret climbs. Paul slides down a large banister. ECU...

  4. Palace of Electricity at the Paris Exposition

    Panoramic film of the 1900 Paris Exposition of the Palace of Electricity, a pavilion that provided the energy for the other exhibits. Crowd in front of the Palace of Electricity. Row of empty chairs outside. Men stand and look toward the camera. Base of the Eiffel Tower. People stroll. The Palace of Electricity. People walk toward the Palace of Electricity.

  5. Charcoal and watercolor sketch of six Orthodox Jewish males

    Watercolor sketch called Pozsony, Hungarian for Bratislava, Slovakia, of 6 Orthodox Jewish males created by Magda Frank, a professional sculpture, at an unknown date. Magda, 30, a native of Kolozsvar, Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) was in Budapest attending art school when it was occupied by Nazi Germany in March 1944. Magda was relocated to a yellow star building and, in November, confined to the Jewish ghetto. In early 1945, Budapest was liberated by Soviet forces. In 1950, Magda emigrated to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to join her only surviving relative, a brother Stefan.

  6. Frieders on vacation, horseback riding, playing

    People play and relax on the beach, probably in Hawaii. Morris Frieder and his girls wearing flowered leis aboard a boat. 00:00:47 Pan of a large garden in the Philippines, probably in Baguio City (see Film ID 2957 at 00:02:56 for film of the same location when the girls are younger). Peggy and a younger girl (likely her sister Sue - b. 1934) pose for the camera. Jane practices swinging a golf club. Catherine O'Connor, the governess from Indiana, helps the girls pick flowers from the garden, and Jane picks up Sue. 00:02:17 A plane lands on a dirt runway. Morris gets out and kisses Sue. The ...

  7. James Boalick collection

    Consists of three pages of typed testimony written by James G. Boalick, a member of Company B of the 45th Armored Medical Battalion of the 3rd Armored Division of the Third Army. He was a replacement on the front line in the Battle of the Bulge and, in the spring of 1945, participated in the liberation of Nordhausen, where he administered first aid to survivors. Also includes a copy of his honorable discharge and his separation record.

  8. Myron and Dottie Miller collection

    The collection consists of photographs from an unidentified ghetto and of the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camp, as well as postal covers from Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Palestine, and Switzerland.

  9. Touring Germany

    In the mountains (Alps?). A man and a woman talk before a tree and look at the camera. Several young men smoke and pose for the camera at the foot of a ski slope. Guesthouse. Visiting the traditional frescoed facades of the Bavarian village Oberammergau and the Ettal Monastery. Pan across the mountain landscape and small towns below. Three men pose near the summit mount with their skis. People ski and ride in cable cars. Large church. 01:02:07 Pan and LS of an ice rink. A villager herds his sheep. Cut back to ice skating, mountains and people hiking. More aerial views, the ski slopes, and a...

  10. Hans (Jan) Löw collection

    Consists of enlargements, CD photographs, original negatives, copyprints, and original photographs of Hans "Jan" Löw, originally of Brno, Czechoslovakia. Prior to his 1936 emigration to England, Hans had previously edited a Revisionist Zionist publication in Prague and worked for Keren Tel Chai. Upon his arrival in London, Hans served as a secretary to Vladimir Jabotinsky in his office at 47 Finchley Rd. The office operated from 1936-1939.

  11. Blumberg family photographs

    Contains a photo album with images of activities and vacations with friends of Shlomo Baruch Blumberg (donor's father) who immigrated to Palestine in 1934 from Warsaw, Poland.

  12. Judith Weiszmann collection of stamps

    Contains postage stamps issued in Canada and Sweden in 2012, commemorating Raoul Wallenberg on the centenary of his birth. The graphic design of both stamps incorporate a "Schutzpass" that was issued to Judith Weiszmann, nee Kopstein, in Budapest in 1944. Included are postage stamps, first day covers, and souvenir sheets; as well as copies of news articles about Weiszmann and the issue of the Canadian postage stamp, that appeared in publications in Canada, Germany, and Hungary.

  13. Harland Schuler copyprints

    Consists of two copyprints of photographs of corpses at the Buchenwald concentration camp. The original photographs were taken by Harland Schuler, who was a member of the Third Army and participated in the liberation of the camp.

  14. Frank Elkins collection

    Contains a booklet entitled "These 21," written by Allan Dreyfuss and published by Stars and Stripes, based on Dreyfuss's assigned coverage of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in December 1945. Each of the 21 Nazi defendants' positions within the Third Reich is detailed as well as the crimes of which they are accused. The defendant’s original signatures are taped in the booklet in the chapter in which they are included by Frank Elkins, a United States military police officer who worked at the IMT. Also included are two handwritten notes, from defendants Fritz Sauckel and Han...

  15. Frieder family in Manila

    Jane Frieder swims in a pool, probably in Manila (note servant in white and plant vegetation in next shot), while Peggy floats in an inner tube. Jane practices diving. Scenes of life in the Philippines. 00:03:34 Housekeeper wearing white walks Peggy down the stairs. Jane and Peggy pose for the camera outside in the garden of their family estate. 00:03:56 Jane and Peggy swim in a pool, large cargo ships are visible in the distance. 00:04:42 INT, dark shots of a nanny helping the girls with their meal. 00:05:22 Jane and Peggy pose in white linen outfits at the Frieder family's Manila villa. 0...

  16. Selected records from the State Archive of Ferrara

    This collection contains records from the Police in Ferrara and Prefecture Cabinet Series of Ferrara relating to personal files of Jews, questionnaire on the status of Jews in the province of Ferrara, racial laws, arrests of Jews, Jewish property and Jewish schools, and discrimination against Jewish residents.

  17. Tela Zasloff research collection related to Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille

    Consists of notes, photocopies, photographs, interview transcripts, book excerpts, and other research material created and collected by Tela Zasloff for the preparation of her book, "A Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France." Includes correspondence and interviews with those who knew Toureille; copies of documents from the World Council of Churches in Geneva; photographs of the places he lived and worked; copies of his articles and sermons; minutes of the Committee of Nimes; and correspondence regarding his recognition as Righteous Among the Nations.

  18. Jozefine Markstein and Georg Spitz papers

    Photographs and correspondence concerning the experiences of Jozefine Markstein and George Spitz (donor’s parents). Includes correspondence from American soldiers, Don Reagan and Sergeant Cletus King, to Jozefine’s relatives stating she had survived, as well as photographic prints of the wedding of Jozefine and Georg in 1940 and a postwar image of Jozefine with her son John (donor) in 1946. Also included are portrait photographs of Jozefine taken before her 1944 deportation. Jozefine survived multiple camps and reunited with George after World War II.

  19. Newspaper announcing the death of President Roosevelt

    Consists of the front page of the Philadelphia edition of the "Jewish Daily Forward" from April 13, 1945, announcing the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  20. Maria Madi diaries

    Consists of seventeen bound volumes containing diaries written by Dr. Maria Madi, a non-Jewish female physician living in Budapest, Hungary, between December 1941 and September 1945. In the diaries, which are handwritten in English, Dr. Madi describes what she is hearing about the war, about propaganda in Hungary, and about missing her daughter, who immigrated to the United States in 1939 and started a family. After the German invasion of Hungary in March 1944, Dr. Madi describes constant air raids, intense deprivation, and what she knows and sees of the ongoing persecutions against Jews. S...