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  1. Oral history interview with Anna Wolf

  2. Amateur footage filmed on the Eastern front by a German soldier

    Date: Fall/winter 1941 - 1942. Panning shots of a Russian village, with thatched-roof peasant huts and a tall white Russian orthodox church. 00:06:25 A Wehrmacht officer stands beside a road sign that indicates the village is near Roslavl, in the Smolensk Oblast', a province in the Ukraine along the border between Poland and the USSR. Cut to a once-grand, stone, Neoclassical building (church, theater, administrative building?) now in disrepair, with many German soldiers walking about. German soldiers with horse-drawn wagons march down a road through a destroyed section of city or town, poss...

  3. Alpert family collection

    Collection of photographs of the Ptaszek family in Warsaw, Poland before the war; the Berger family (Berta Berger with her siblings in the Jaworzno ghetto), Abraham Ptaszek Alpert and Bertha Berger Alpert in Marburg, Germany immediately after the liberation, at their wedding, with their baby Sabina Rose; and images of Sabina Rose Alpert as baby in Marburg, 1925-1949. Includes documents relating to the Alpert family's timein Germany 1945-1947 and their immigration to the US in 1947. Also includes audio cassettes on which Mr. Abraham Alpert recorded his memoirs later published as “Spark of Li...

  4. Hitler Youth photograph collection

    Five photographic prints depicting Hitler Youth and Hitler Maidens. Depictions include a boy and girl who appear to be older teenagers, both wearing Hitler Youth uniforms in all but one image; final image appears to be family photograph in which both boy and girl are included, but not in uniform. Geography unknown.

  5. Prewar Jewish life of the Weinlaub (later Vanlaw) family

    Scenes shot on the latter part of the Weinlaubs' trip from Los Angeles to New York, including street scenes in Chicago (see highway sign at 01:01:44) and views of Washington, DC (01:04:13 to 01:05:15). The couple was travelling cross-country because Kurt's company had transferred him back to New York (see Biographical Notes field for more information). The Washington scenes include the Washington monument, the White House, the National Museum of Natural History, and other famous buildings. Lily (Rehfisch) Weinlaub first appears at 01:01:35 and Kurt Weinlaub at 01:01:38. From 01:02:36 to 01:...

  6. Carl Goldstein collection

    Contains documents, photographs, certificates, and other materials concerning the experiences of Dr. Kurt Isidore Goldstein, his wife Irma, and son Carl Max Alexander and their experiences as refugees fleeing Germany through India and eventually to the United States. Includes a certificate of identity in lieu of a passport, issued to the family, signed by the undersecretary to the Government of Madras, India on March 19, 1941, with US immigration visas (under Polish quota) stamped on the reverse and dated March 25, 1941; three certificates of good health issued to the Goldstein family by a ...

  7. Large sepia diazo print of Congress Hall in Nuremberg acquired by a US soldier

    Diazotype reproduction of the architectural blueprints for Congress Hall retrieved by 32 year old Colonel Max W. Goodman, a Jewish American soldier, in Nuremberg, Germany, circa May 1945. The monumental building was designed to be the congress center of the Nazi Party Rally Grounds, for which Speer designed the overall plan. Congress Hall was designed by Ludwig and Franz Ruff. The foundation stone was laid in 1935, but the building was never finished due to the outbreak of the war. Max served for five years in the Quartermaster Corps with the Third United States Army under General George S....

  8. Marianne Schwarz Gerstenfeld colllection

    Contains a school report card issued to Marianne Schwarz in the Westbork internment camp; dated September 1944; and two photographic portraits of Marianne Schwarz in Amsterdam.

  9. Joseph Dekalo collection

    Collection of photographs depicting pre-war and wartime experiences of Joseph Dekalo (donor) and his wife in Sofia, Bulgaria, and in Strazagorod, Lucovitz, and Razgrad villages where families were expelled during the occupation. Mmany of the images show donor wearing required Star of David badge.

  10. Calel and Michael Kurzer collection

    Documents and publications surrounding the post-liberation experiences of Calel Kurzer [born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1902] and his son Michael Kurzer [born in Utena, Lithuania in 1928] who were deported from the Kovno ghetto and to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany where they were interned and from where they were both liberated. Documents include post-war identification cards for both men and publications, including the journals "From the Last Extermination" and "The Ruins of Lithuania"

  11. Prewar Jewish life in Budapest

    Peter Veres plays in his playpen during summer 1939. He is pushed on a swing outdoors. Mother Kati holds Peter. Kati, Agi, Lenke, Bela, and another woman pose together. Kati and her father Bela Krausz walk towards the camera. Kati, Agi, and another woman, possibly a cousin or friend, pose by a large haystack. George and Kati hug. 01:13:15 Peter and his cousin Andrew (as infants) are posed on a blanket in the yard, probably in Summer 1939. They are joined by Kati and Agi Jakab (Andrew's mother). 01:15:09 Kati and another woman knit outdoors. A little girl and Peter play in a playground. 01:1...

  12. Henry Baigelman collection

    Contains documents pertaining to Henry Baigelman's participation in a jazz band called the "Happy Boys" that performed in displaced persons camps in Germany after WWII. Includes handwritten sheet music, song lyrics in Yiddish, certificates acknowledging group's performances, documentation stating that Henry Baigelman had been interned at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and a copy of a Passierschein issued to him. (See also Henry Eisenman collection, 2018.525.1)

  13. Haim Roet papers

    The Haim Roet papers consist of pre-war, wartime, and postwar photographs of Haim Roet; his family, wearing Star of David badges; his rescuers, Anton and Adelaide Deesker; and his brother Josef’s rescuers, Reinier and Margaret Veerman. Additional photographs depict Prims family weddings (Josef and Mathilda Prims, Maurits and Betty Prims), a 90th birthday celebration, a Jewish school in Amsterdam, and rescuers Max Leons and Arnold Douwes. The papers include a May 1945 postcard from Josef Roet in Dedemsvaart to his parents updating them on his and Haim’s situations as well as a July 1945 post...

  14. Freud family papers

    The Freud family papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, diaries, calendars, and subject files relating to Martin, Ernestine, Sophie, and Walter Freud’s pre-war experiences in Austria and fleeing to France and England. The collection also includes material relating to Ernestine and Sophie’s immigration to the United States and Ernestine’s career. Biographical material includes a birth certificate, engagement certificate for Esti and Martin, appointment of Esti to the University of Vienna, and the last will and testament for Esti as well as a letter from the Ministry of Just...

  15. Booklet

    Booklet published on the occasion of 25th anniversary of the Jewish Gymnasium for Girls. The school was named after its founder, Józef Lajb Ab, who was the principal and the owner of the school which he established in August 1910. Over time, the school changed its curriculum from vocational to liberal arts elementary and middle and high school for girls. Ab served as the principal until 1931. The position was then held by Mrs. Stella Rein. The school continued to operate in the Łódź ghetto until September 1941.

  16. Nuremberg IMT

    2009 restoration by Schulberg Productions with English subtitles. The film "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today" is the official documentary of the International Military Tribunal held in Nuremberg from November 21, 1945 to October 1, 1946. It is set in the Nuremberg courtroom and recreates the case against the Nazi high command using German documents, photographs, and moving pictures. The film was completed by Stuart Schulberg and his editor, Joseph Zigman, in the spring of 1948, and premiered in Stuttgart in November of that year. For political reasons the film was subsequently suppressed by ...

  17. German family photograph

    Consists of one pre-war photograph of the German (now Germain) family, originally of Ukmerge, Lithuania. The photograph depicts Lezar, Judith, Pesa, Chaim, Riva, and Benjamin German in 1928.

  18. Vera and Max Klueger collection

    Collection of two (2) Deutsches Reich Reisepass passports issued in Vienna, Austria to Vera Degen and Max Klüger (donor and donor’s husband); stamped with red ink “J” identifying them as Jewish. Max’s passport was issued March 29, 1939, Vera’s was issued on December 12, 1938; both immigrated to the United States in April 1939; in German, French, English.

  19. Commercial for the Aryanization of Kempinski restaurant

    An advertisement dealing with the Aryanization of the Kempinski restaurant in Berlin. The restaurant was located on Leipziger Strasse. The Kempinski name was changed to Borchardt on March 27, 1941.

  20. Salomon Windmuller collection

    The Salomon Windmuller papers document Windmuller’s life in Germany, internment in France, and immigration to the United States and consist of a school certificate, World War I commendation, Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten membership card, American immigration quota number, tax office clearance certificate, internment camp release certificate, transit pass, request for leave from the Gurs concentration camp, and an identification card renewal receipt as well as photocopies of a safe passage certificate, of a letter from the American Consulate in Marseille, and of a telegram confirming th...