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  1. Dr. Guido Schoenberger collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, reports, photographs and other materials relating to the emigration of the Schoenberger family from Germany to the United States; to family and friends remaining in Germany; to the Schoenberger family's new life in the United States, to Dr. Schoenberger's professional career as an art historian; and to his work for Jewish Cultural Reconstruction.

  2. Roman Antoniak papers

    The Roman Antoniak papers consists of two identification documents issued by the East German Enamel and Metal Factory and the Ukrainian support committee to Roman Antoniak of Lwow, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) in 1942.

  3. Tour of Vienna

    Title card: “An der Kamera: Mario Wiberal.” “Gesamtbildgestaltung: Frank Rossak.” “Der Film zeigt Kultur- und Baudenkmäler sowie Wiens Garten von heute.” Church on Leopoldsberg in Vienna. Pan of the city and countryside below. Pan of Stephansplatz. Vienna Parliament and city council. A streetcar passing in front of the Parliament. The Volksgarten. The Naturhistorisches museum. The Theseus Temple. The Burgtheater. Cafe Landtmann. The City Council. The Rathausplatz. Various statues. A streetcar passes in front of the Rathaus. The Universität Wien Hauptgebäude. The Liebenberg statue. The Ratha...

  4. Refugee girls at the de Monbrison chateau in France

    Refugee girls living at a chateau owned by Count Hubert Conquere de Monbrison in Quincy-sous-Senart, located about 30 km south of Paris. De Monbrison and the Princess Irena Paley (a niece of the last Russian czar who later became Monbrison's wife) used the chateau to house refugee girls from the Russian and Spanish civil wars. In 1939 de Monbrison was approached by his children's Jewish physician, who was a member of the board of the OSE, and asked whether he would take in a group of forty German Jewish refugee children. The count agreed and the Kinderstransport of boys arrived on July 4, 1...

  5. Tenin and Dakhis family papers

    Photographs (9) and postcards (2) relating to the wartime experiences of the family of Moshe and Golda (Olga) Tenin, originally of Odessa, 1942-1944. Photographs include family portrait, photographs of individual family members, including son Boris, in his Red Army uniform, daugher Klara, and daughter Paulina, who was murdered by the Germans in 1942. Also includes photograph of Leonid Dakhis, Klara's future husband, as a soldier in the Red Army, and a later photo showing Klara and Leonid at the grave of her parents and sisters, Odessa, 1976. Also includes two postcards, from Soviet authorit...

  6. Harry Thon papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Harry Thon who served as Chief Investigator for the Prosecution at the trials of perpetrators of the Malmedy massacre and against Otto Skorzeny, at Dachau, 1946-1947. Includes reports, correspondence, photocopies, photographs, and texts of interrogations of Generals Jodl, Keitel, and Warlimont, conducted by Thon.

  7. Majer Feliks Gorewicz collection

    Collection of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of Majer Feliks Gorewicz (donor's father) during the Holocaust and after his liberation. Majer Feliks was originally from Kielce, Poland where he owned and operated a bar and restaurant. He was imprisoned in Stalag VIIa in Moosburg and subsequently sent to the Auschwitz, Dachau, and Flossenbürg concentration camps. He was liberated by American troops in April 1945.

  8. Selected records of the sub-district of Pecica from the Arad Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the sub-district of Pecica, including records relating to various state-owned Jewish goods and goods that were confiscated by the Centrul Naţional de Românizare (CNR).

  9. Klapholc and Shoval families photograph collection

    The Klapholc and Shoval families photograph collection consists of twenty-four family photographs depicting the Klapholc family from Oświęcim, Poland and of Henryk Heniek Wasserlauf from Kraków and after the war in Wrocław.

  10. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  11. Janina Ecker collection

    Photographs (24) and identification cards (3) relating to experiences of the donor's extended family in Krakow, Poland, from World War I through occupation of Poland in World War II.

  12. Ration Coupon

  13. Matchbook advertising Gentiles only US business

    Matchbook issued for use on the east coast of the United States between 1930-1960. It is printed with an advertisement that declares that the establishment is for Gentiles only.

  14. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  15. Selected papers of Marcel Nyns

    Contains selected papers of Marcel Nyns and the Secretaires Generaux (Committee of Secretary-generals), the highest representation of the Belgian administration under German occupation. This department was responsible for education, including the implementation of excluding Jews from the educational system under German occupation. Records include correspondence, minutes, and reports relating to the faith of the Jews living in occupied Belgium, especially concerning their education.

  16. Jews hiding in a nightclub in Amsterdam

    Film without text. An older couple stands and converses. An adolescent boy comforts a young woman [this scene is clearly acted out with the characters wearing stage makeup]. An older man then opens the door, enters the room, and converses with a girl. Several people arrive and are greeted warmly. They all wear yellow stars. INTs of the apartment. The table is set. A girl knits. People lounge about; others arrive. The boy and young woman look out the window onto the street below. Women carry food trays. Women in the kitchen, clipping rations, and washing dishes. One dish falls and breaks. 01...

  17. Binem Wrzonski collection

    Contains approximately 33 postwar photographs of young Holocaust survivors, including Elie Wiesel, taken at the Ambloy children's home in France soon after the war. Also includes one disinfectant certificate from Buchenwald, in English and Russian.

  18. Palestine as a haven from persecution

    Bad quality footage at first. Scenes from World War II: planes, bombs falling, explosions, tanks, soldiers running across battlefields. Narrator describes it as "the face of war," and discusses the soldiers who fought. Images of Allied soldiers. A picture of an elderly Jewish man is shown, which the narrator describes as "more horrible still than even the face of warr," as it calls to mind the horrors of the Holocaust, the horrors of the deaths of millions, innocent and defenseless. Liberation of Nordhausen and other concentration camps. 01:04:02 Superimposed over a color map of Europe are ...

  19. Stanley Squire photograph collection

    Collection of 18 photographs documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp taken by Stanley F. Squire (donor's father-in-law) while he was a solder in the U.S. Army.

  20. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.