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  1. Red Cross Tracing Service in action; Berlin receives aid; UN meeting in New York

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 78 Title: Suchdienst fuer Kinder und Eltern [Tracing service for children and parents]. Women in nurse uniforms and civilian clothing work in a busy office. Two nurses look through boxes of alphabetized cards. The narrator explains that the Red Cross is attempting to reunite parents and children torn apart by the war. Several people work at a large table, looking through boxes of cards. The main bureaus of the tracing service are in Munich and Hamburg. The next scenes show orphaned children living in a children's home that was formerly an SS Lebensborn center. Variou...

  2. Estate of Jack Weston Wood collection

    Contains photographic prints showing post-liberation scenes of the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, dated circa April 1945. The photographs were potentially taken by Major General Jack W. Wood of the United States Air Force, who was in command of the 20th Bomb Wing of the Eighth Air Force and later executive of the 14th Combat Bomb Wing.

  3. Petzal family collection

    Contains a Red Cross letter sent by Grete Werner in Palestine to her sister Lotti Bieber in Piaski, Poland, dated August 27, 1942, and returned with annotation: "Address moved away"; a letter written by Hilde Petzal in Piaski, probably in 1940, describing the terrible conditions the family was in after their deportation from Stettin in February 1940; letters written by the Petzal family in Piaski to their cousins in Washington, DC, dated c. 1940; letters written by Ingeborge Petzal in Germany to her brother Horst in Palestine, dated c. 1939; an identification certificate issued to Ingeborg ...

  4. Wolman family collection

    Consists of family documents related to the Wollman (Wolman) family, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Includes the pre-war passport of Robert (Sam) Wolman, who emigrated to the United States in 1924, as well as correspondence with the family who remained in Poland. Includes written vignettes about life in the United States and in Poland, as well as correspondence from the late 1930s about getting aid from relief committees and about helping the Mandelsberg family (who were Polish and living in Berlin) with their immigration paperwork.

  5. Blum family collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the Blum family from Berlin. Richard Blum, a high fashion tailor, was arrested on Kristallnacht and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. Includes an example of Richard's business cards; Betty Blum's German passport; various identification documents related to immigration efforts; and photographs taken aboard the MS St. Louis. Richard and Betty left Germany on the MS St. Louis in May 1939 and disembarked in Belgium when the ship returned to Europe. They were briefly imprisoned in the Gurs internment camp in France, and survived the war ...

  6. Olympics -- Berlin 1936

    The first title says, "Short cross-section of the 11th Olympiad Berlin." The film seems to have been produced on orders of the Reichssportfuehrers or Reich Sport Leader. Another title on the screen says, Olympic Berlin (Olympisches Berlin). Scenes of the streets of Berlin decked out in flags and other paraphernalia for the Olympics and crowds in the street. Various famous locations, including the Lustgarten and the Brandenburg Gate. Shot of the Olympic flame and flags, including the American flag. The next scenes show the Olympic village, including shots of athletes. The next title says "Th...

  7. Pressburger family collection

    Contains ten photographs of Pressburger family in Bratislava, Luhacevic and Prague before the war and after liberation. Includes an identification card issued to Alexander Pressburger (donor's father) in Bratislava on July 18, 1945. Alexander Pressburger served as a chairman of a Jewish council in the slave labor camp Sered in Slovakia.

  8. Sara Schieber collection

    Contains a letter written by Leon Drusine (donor's brother), a member of the US Army's 139th Evacuation Hospital, to his sister Sara (donor) in which he describes the liberation of the Ebensee concentration camp and the experiences of the camp's survivors; dated June 11, 1945.

  9. Spring in Germany; American fertilizer for Europe's fields; Commemoration of liberation of Dachau; Reichsbahn is rebuilt

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 50 (part) Title: Fruehling in Deutschland [Spring in Germany]. A woman smiles out of her open window at a blossoming tree. People sunbathe and enjoy themselves among the ruins of Berlin. People ski down a grassy slope in Garmisch. Celebration of a religious festival in Traunstein. People at a very crowded fair/carnival in Munich, with a ferris wheel and a puppet show. Title: Fuer die Fluren Europas [For the fields of Europe]. Workers mine phosphate in Florida for use as fertilizer in the fields of Europe. Shots of the phosphate as it is processed. Title: Dachau Geden...

  10. Bloch family collection

    Contains letters and postcards written by Ingrid and Hannelore Billigheimer, their parents Irma and Kurt Billigheimer, and grandmother, Marie Hochherr, from Fürth and Karlsruhe in Germany and later from Gurs and Rivesaltes internment camps in France, and from an OSE children’s home in Le Couret, dated October 29, 1939 to April 5, 1943; the last letter was written by Marie Hochherr on June 11, 1945. All the letters were addressed to Drs. Bloch in Zurich, Switzerland. Includes receipts for food packages sent by Dr. Charlotte Bloch to the Billigheimer family, and a copy photograph of a group p...

  11. Brecher family collection

    Consists of one pre-war photograph of the Brecher family of Sighet, Hungary; a one-hundred kronen piece of scrip from the Theresienstadt camp; and four post-war Czech stamps commemorating Jewish history and the Holocaust.

  12. Ginz family collection

    Contains twenty photographs depicting Otto Ginz, his wife Marie Mancinka, and their two children, Petr, born 1928, and Eva (Chava), born 1930. Includes a postcard sent to Otto Ginz in Prague from Theresienstadt from his friend Freudenfeld, who write about meeting Petr there, c. 1942; and three documents issued to Eva Ginz in Theresienstadt in March 1945.

  13. Morris Koen photograph

    Contains a photographic print image of Morris Koen [donor] serving in the Greek military during the Greek civil war; image dated March 9, 1949 on reverse and labeled in Greek. Morris Koen was born in 1925 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Upon the Nazi occupation of Thessaloniki, he joined the resistance and remained with them throughout the war. HIs parent and two siblings perished in Birkenau.

  14. Ziskind family correspondence, 1929-1939

    Correspondence from the Ziskind family in Krewo, Poland (today in Belarus) to Sadie Nechama Ziskind, later Alpert, in Chicago, IL. The letters are written in Yiddish, between 1929-1939. In most of the letters the Ziskind family asks for additional correspondence and some financial support. Sadie Ziskind left Krewo in 1915 just being 16 years old. She married William Alpert and they had three children: Edith, Jean, and Louis.

  15. Jancu Nadler collection

    Consists of papers related to the post-war experiences of Jancu Nadler, originally of Bucarest, Romania. Includes one 1947 French train schedule for the Pullman company; one certification from the Jewish community of Paris that Jancu Nadler was born Jewish, dated 1947; one travel visa, 1947; one card with Nadler's dossier number from the "Comité juif d'action sociale et de reconstruction" (COJASOR); and one letter regarding Jancu Nadler from COJASOR.

  16. Leica camera factory; return of musical instruments; survivors arrive in New York

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 56 (part) Title: Industrie im Aufbau [Reconstruction: industry]. Coal mining near Cologne. The coal is manufactured into briquettes, some of which are used to pay reparations while the rest are used by the German people and industry. People at work in the newly reopened Ernst Leitz factory, which manufactures Leica cameras. Shots of people working on microscopes with Leica lenses and 35mm Leica cameras. 02:02:05 Title: Streiflichter aus Deutschland [Spotlight on Germany ?]. Activities at a former old age home that now houses a recuperation home for those wounded in t...

  17. Gerhard Hans Herbert Becker collection

    Consists of an “Ahnenbuch” (ancestry book) with insert used by Waffen-SS member Gerhard Hans Herbert Becker to document his family’s racial purity. A pamphlet advertising the Lebensborn program is also included. Becker fathered a child who was part of the Lebensborn program.

  18. To our homeland, Poland, let us be faithful Arthur Szyk poster for the Polish-Soviet War 1919-1921

    War propaganda poster designed by Arthur Szyk to rally the Polish people against the Bolsheviks during the Polish-Soviet War, February 1919 - March 1921. It depicts wounded Polish soldiers next to a 19th century patriotic poem by M. Romanowski celebrating the Polish Homeland. Szyk was a Polish Army officer and artistic director of the Department of Propaganda for the Polish army regiment quartered in Łódź during this war. In 1921, Szyk moved to Paris where he established his career as one of the greatest modern creators of illuminated miniatures. After the German invasion of Poland in Septe...

  19. "Shakespeare Saved My Life"

    Consists of one memoir, 84 pages, entitled "Shakespeare Saved My Life," by Eva Porges Rocek. In her memoir, Eva describes her family's history, her memories of the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, the antisemitic laws and regulations, her family's deportation to Theresienstadt (Terezin) and then Auschwitz, her liberation by the Russian Army in January 1945, and her life after the war in the United States.

  20. Artwork by communist resistance fighter Boris Taslitzky plus catalogue of Vichy exhibition on "Bolshevism"

    The collection consists of reproductions of a series of sketches and other artwork by Communist resistance fighter Boris Taslitzky after he was deported to Buchenwald, and a photo album of a 1942 Paris exhibit on “Bolshevism against Europe.”.