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  1. Portfolio cover page

    Portfolio cover page for book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  2. "A Conversation with Hans Fantel"

    Consists of one oral history interview with Hans Fantel, originally of Vienna, Austria, conducted by Rosemary Masters in 2000. In the interview, Mr. Fantel discusses his childhood in Vienn and his discovery, after the Anschluss, that his grandmother was Jewish and he was therefore deemed to have "impure blood." He became a member of the Czech underground and immigrated to the United States, where he married and became an author and journalist. His father, who was Jewish on his mother's side and who had argued against German rearmament, was arrested in 1938 and did not survive the war. After...

  3. Captured German POWs; camp victims and survivors

    Mr. Dixon chronicles the progress of the 99th Chemical Mortar Battalion, primarily in Germany, includes captured German POWs, victims of concentration camp, and liberated former camp inmates most still in uniforms walking in line along the road. Trip to Paris Arc de Triomphe, Tomb of Unknown soldier. Group shot of battalion commanders, army vehicles in snow of courtyard going back to front. Trucks full of captured German POWs coming across Bailey bridge. MLS American tanks and other artillery firing in the Colmar pocket. Camouflaged guns, destruction. German Tiger tank, soldier points to ar...

  4. Chava Edelman collection

    Contains 16 photographs pertaining to the experiences of the Weineirman family in Transnistria between 1941-1944.

  5. Propaganda film about the improved life of the German people under Hitler

    Well-known scenes of interwar unrest, including street riots and communist rallies, interspersed with caberet performers and people in nightclubs. Shot of a bearded Jew walking down the street in Berlin. A brief shot of Hitler speaking is followed by Otto Braun, Prime Minister of Prussia, speaking against National Socialism in March, 1932. He speaks of a secret Nazi document that details plans to seize goods from farmers; those who resist will be shot (uncertain translation). The next scenes show Hitler among joyous crowds at a rally of some kind (presumably of farmers) and a brief shot of ...

  6. Selected records of the Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahr-Korps (NSKK) (NS 24)

    Contains records of the NSKK corps-leadership, mostly from the inspector of technical training and equipment and the Main Office of Technology.

  7. Dr. Leon Cytryn collection

    Photo album from Marburg, Germany assembled by Dr. Leon Cytryn while he was in medical school. Documents relating to Dr. Leon Cytryn’s liberation and stay in Landsberg DP camp, circa 1946. Included is a group of loose photographs.

  8. Gina Bilander collection

    Album of copy prints of donor's father and his twin brother as well as other family members in prewar Łódź, Poland. Donor's father immigrated to the United States in 1936. He was one of nine children in the family. Original photos of Herman Goering taken in 1945 when donor's father was a Private 1st class member of the 253rd Engineering Corp under General Patton during WWII. Their platoon guarded Herman Goering after his capture in 1945. Photograph of donor's father wearing his army uniform taken in Germany in 1945, signed by donor's father for his wife.

  9. Eva Baumohl papers

    The Eva Baumohl papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, personal narratives, and photographs documenting Eva Baumohl’s family in Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Antwerp; her father’s and brother’s expulsion into Poland in 1938; Eva’s survival in Auschwitz with her sister Erna; and her husband, Naftali Baumohl. Biographical materials include Eva’s wartime and postwar foreigner identification card in Belgium, her Belgian travel card for foreigners, and her son Bernard’s business card. Correspondence include letters and postcards among Eva Baumohl, her parents, and her siblings in Berl...

  10. Myron Bassman collection

    Correspondence: sent from Sokółka and Dąbrowa near Grodno in Poland by family and friends of Szejna Sylvia Jaroszewska (later Sylvia Bassman, donor's mother) in Brooklyn, NY. Photographs: images of family and friends of Szejna given to her on the occasion of her leaving Poland for the USA in 1939. None of the relatives in Poland survived the Holocaust. Prayer book: hand-bound with an inscription on the cover, dedicated to Szejna by her brother Israel Zvi Jaroszewski.

  11. Booklet

    Folksongs and songs glorifying Hitler and Germany, including music and guitar chords, for members of the Hiltler Youth.

  12. Lachter family photographs

    The Lachter family photographs consist of twenty pre-war and post-war photographs documenting the Lachter family of Turobin, Poland. Prewar photographs depict Izak’s uncle Pesach Diamant in Turobin, Mottle Leichter’s extended family, a group from Turobin in a horse-drawn wagon, and Izak Lachter’s father, Moshe, wrapped in a winter coat and boots. Postwar photographs depict Holocaust survivors, including Izak Lachter, at the Lampertheim displaced persons camp and in Ulm and Heidelberg.

  13. Sara and Jochanan Ben-Dor collection

    Photographic prints and documents documenting the experiences of Sara (Gyorgi) Heisz Ben-Dor and Jochanan (Tibor Blau) Ben-Dor in Hungary before and during the Holocaust and also liberation and afterwards; dated 1930's and 1940's.

  14. Cossack volunteers

    LS of Cossack volunteers on horseback. They dismount and shoot at targets with cartoon drawings of Russian officers on them. Shot of Germans officers standing with men in Cossack dress. Cossacks gallop across a field with swords drawn. They use the swords to cut off the heads of mannequins in the shape of a Jew (wearing a Star of David on his chest) and Josef Stalin. CU of Stalin's head on the ground.

  15. Wehrmacht soldiers are welcomed in Yugoslavia

    Wehrmacht soldiers preparing to invade Yugoslavia from Hungary on the morning of April 10, 1941. Smiling soldiers marching, tanks rolling down a road. Kessel says that the soldiers called the battalion commander "Ohm Krueger." Quick shot of Serbian civilians wearing home-made swastika armbands. Kessel notes that the German soldiers viewed these men, who had shortly before been enemies of the Germans, with "mixed feelings." Men identified by Kessel as Croatian farmers wearing Serbian uniforms give themselves up to the Germans. A Serbian officer gives a Hitler salute. Romanian soldiers search...

  16. Zalcberg family collection

    Consists of documents and photographs relating to the post-war experiences of Morris, Regina, and Chana Zalcberg. This includes emigration documentation from the Feldafing Displaced Persons camp, a photograph of the family, and six audiotapes of the oral testimony of Morris Zalcberg, recorded in 1981, who was in the Polish army before the war.

  17. Kurt and Helen Rosendahl collection

    Collection consists of four photographs, one 2 RM note from the Buchenwald SS commisary, three documents declaring K. Rosendahl a former political prisoner (from the Amicale of Buchenwald, the National Federation of World War II political prisoners, and from the Brussels Minister of the Reconstruction), two photocopies of identifying documentation, one article by Kurt Rosendahl entitled "Buchenwald Revisited (2 pages), and one exhibition brochure for "The Overlooked Holocaust: The Devastation of the Sephardic Communities," which ran from 11/16/92-6/24/93 at the Holocaust Resource Center and...

  18. Malwina "Inka" Gerson Allen papers

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518794
    • English
    • box oversize folders 1 3 32 photographs, 11 ration cards, 1 booklet, 55 documents, 65 notices, 1 identification card, 19 newspapers, 1 newspaper clipping, 5 postcards,

    Collection consists of documents and photographs from the Łódź ghetto; collection of ghetto newspapers and collection of ghetto announcements. All the items were collected and recovered from the ghetto by the donor, Malwina Gerson Allen, and her parents, Dora and Gustav Gerson.

  19. Carl Gärtig collection

    The Carl Gärtig papers consists of color photocopies of photographs, letters, and documents relating Carl Gärtig and his family while he was imprisoned in Kassel, Germany and Buchenwald concentration camp; post-war letters written to Gärtig from fellow survivors; pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs; a brief biography of Carl Gärtig; and Carl Gärtig's memories of the death of Reverend Paul Schneider (1897-1939) in Buchenwald concentration camp.

  20. Markevitch family photographs

    Consists of 31 photographs of the Markevitch family of Bialystok, Poland. With the exception of the donor's mother, Rose Markevitch Hatkin, who had emigrated to the United States in 1919, and one uncle, Mr. Kochakovich (who emigrated to Uruguay in the 1930s), the entire family perished in the Holocaust.