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  1. Unknown ghetto

    A doctor examines patients. This footage seems unrelated in subject matter to the ghetto footage that follows. 00:14:49 An elderly man wearing an armband supports himself on a building wall as he walks slowly along a sidewalk in an unidentified Jewish ghetto. A woman appears in a doorway and speaks to him. Shot of a swastika flag hanging from a building. Several Jews sit or stand in front of the doorway. Jewish children wearing armbands playfully salute the cameraman (a major in the Luftwaffe). Two Jewish men doff their hats as German soldiers pass by.

  2. Dorrit Westheimer collection

    Contains documents, photographs, and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Dorrit Feuerstein, born 1936 in Ústí nad Labem, the former Czechoslovakia, and her parents Marianne and Edmund Feuerstein, who fled persecution to France in 1939 and then ultimately to the United Kingdom, where the family remained through the end of the second World War.

  3. Pogrom in Zloczow, July 1941

    Brief panning shot of water and the shore. The next scenes show the Zloczow pogrom, which took place from July 1 - 4, 1941. Before the Soviets retreated from Zloczow, the NKVD murdered several hundred civilians at Zamek prison. Many of those killed were Ukrainian nationalists, but some Jews and Poles were also murdered. The bodies were buried in four mass graves. After the Germans occupied Zloczow, the Jews were blamed for the murders and a pogrom ensued. Corpses litter a muddy, grassy area. These are most likely the bodies of those murdered by the NKVD. 00:47:30 A crowd of bystanders, incl...

  4. Their Names Can Still Be Remembered Deras namn kan ännu viskas: vittnesmål från gettot I Łódź

    Contains an English translation of a manuscript written in Sweden by Mala Maroko Freund.

  5. Reutlinger family papers

    Collection of documents pertaining to Shlomo Reutlinger's family who escaped Pforzheim, Germany to Cuba. Shlomo was sent from Germany to Belgium and then to Palestine in 1940. Included in the collection is Shlomo's grandfather's passport and documents from Gurs and Rivesaltes which include description of life in these camps. List of inmates in Rivesaltes, postcards and handwritten manuscript giving an explanation of the Passover Haggadah that was written in Gurs. Photo of Shlomo's parents and sister Ruth in Cuba, 1943, as well as other miscellaneous documents.

  6. Announcement for a prayer and public fast in honor of victims of the Holocaust

    Small poster announcing a prayer assembly in memory of victims of the Holocaust at the Churvat Yehuda Ha-Chasid synagogue in Jerusalem on December 21, 1943. It includes a commemorative prayer for a fast day to be held on Wednesday, the 24th of Kislev [December 21, 1943], the day of Hanukkah. Among the attendees was the Imrei Emet of Gur, Avraham Mordechai Alter. The prayer is based upon an adaptation of a traditional prayer chanted for the dead at funerals, El Male Rahamim, adapted to honor "the souls of many hundreds of thousands of Israel, men, women, boys and girls who were murdered and ...

  7. David Ettlinger collection

    Collection of 39 photographs; images of children and their activities in the Jewish Children's Home in Caputh near Berlin, Germany; dated 1934-1936.

  8. Hugh R. Fox photograph collection

    Collection of photographs taken immediately following liberation in the Nordhausen concentration camp. The photographs were brought back to the United States by Hugh R. Fox of brought home from the war by Hugh R. Fox of the United States Army’s 817th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Also included is a portrait of fox in uniform.

  9. Liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau

    Narration begins before image. Introduces narrator, Norman Krasna, and the film crew, Capt. Ellis Carter and Lt. William Graf, from the Air Force Film Unit. Entrance to Buchenwald. Crowd of former inmates with a band playing. Inmates preparing food. CU of prisoners, some talking - narration lists different nationalities of Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Belgian, French, Norwegian, Czech, English and American. More shots of inmates cooking, looking out windows. Group shot of young male inmates, plus CU, including Henry Kinast. Four year old prisoner boy is Joseph Schleifstein, born 7 March 1941...

  10. Robert Cowley collection

    Consists of photographs taken by Robert L. Cowley while he was a member of the 861st Field Artillery Battalion as part of the United States military. Includes photographs of wartime France and Spain, photographs of the discovery and reburial of about 800 victims of a mass atrocity, and photographs of Russian forced laborers. Some of the photographs are annotated.

  11. Emil and Martha Feigenbaum collection

    Consists of documents and correspondence relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Emil and Martha Feigenbaum, originally of Berlin, Germany. The papers specifically concern emigration, employment, and visa issues. Although the couple was able to emigrate to the United States before the war, despite attempts, they were unable to save Emil's parents, Meier and Flora, both of whom perished in the Holocaust.

  12. Jake Fersztand collection

    Contains 15 photographs pertaining to Jake Fersztand's family during the the Holocaust

  13. Stephen Fisher collection

    Consists of two stereographic prints depicting the persecution of the Jews during World War II. One image depicts Polish Jews being forced to labor with a large cart, while the other image shows the burning of Jewish beds in the town square in Myślenice, Poland. The photographer is listed as Heinrich Hoffmann, and the photographs were mass produced and published by Raumbild-Verlag-Otto Schönstein.

  14. Anna Berkovitz papers

    Papers consist of 19 photographs and documents relating to the experiences of the Weiszhausz and Friedman families before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  15. György Ránki collection

    Consists of color copies of materials related to György Rosenberg (later György Ránki), who was fourteen years old when he was deported from Budapest. The collection includes copies of the note he threw from the train addressed to his father; identity papers he received after his liberation in Lübeck, Germany, and later in Sweden; a Red Cross search card; and other documents.

  16. Davidovits family collection

    The Davidovits family collection consists of photographs and documents concerning the Davidovits family (donor's mother and extended family) in Sighet, Romania; many images document a visit by Evelyn and her mother Regina who traveled from the United States for an extended visit to Sighet in the early 1930s to visit Regina's immediate family and their children. The majority of Regina's family were eventually deported from Sighet to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

  17. Oscar Reiss papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Oscar K. Reiss, originally of Munich, Germany. Included are immigration paperwork, his German passport, United States Army records, and an affidavit related to his attempt to help his family in Germany immigrate to the United States. Also included are a small number of photographs which include depictions of Oscar’s mother Irma Reiss prior to the Holocaust, and Oscar in his U.S. Army uniform.

  18. Rachel Garfunkel papers

    Collection consisting of a group of clippings of reviews of the book "And the Sun Kept Shining," a manuscript, a script of a play, correspondence, and two memoirs.

  19. "Ash Camp" photograph album

    The Ash Camp photograph album is a leather bound photograph album, black with embossed horses, which includes 326 mounted and labeled photographs. The photograph album's owner is unknown but includes photographs of the Gabe family, the Saul family, the Jake family, and the Elais family. In addition to candid family photographs, there are also photographs of life in Shanghai, the "Ash Camp," likely a camp for Jewish refugees in Shanghai in 1945, and the distribution of food delivered by parachutes by “Yanks.”

  20. German prisoners; Americans at Moosburg

    Long lines of German prisoners and US military in a city square. 02:15:00 US tanks parade through city street, shops behind, civilians cheering. Soldier talking with Austrian civilians. CUs, German prisoners marching, bicycle, open jeep. Some prisoners riding in jeep. (AUSTRIA slate) 02:17:40 More German prisoners marching (very blurry), conducting traffic in city streets. HAS, lake/river with quick shot of a civilian getting water. Long line of prisoners march by wrecked railroad cars. Pan of wreckage with prisoners marching by, looting, trucks, mountains in distance. Two lines of German p...