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  1. Philippi family papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Julius and Hedwig Philippi and their daughter Gretel and their immigration to Great Britain shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938. The papers also document the wartime experiences of their extended families in Offenbach, Köln, and Düsseldorf, Germany. Included are identification documents; naturalization certificates; birth, marriage, and death certificates; and family genealogy documents. Wartime correspondence includes letters to Julius from his siblings Klara and Enrico, and correspondence between Caroline Philippi’s husband Karl Ganz and Lord Me...

  2. Lloyd Harvey photograph collection

    The collection contains 15 photographs of Mauthausen concentration camp soon after liberation in 1945; United States Army soldiers; Lloyd Harvey in uniform; and Spittal an der Drau, Austria. There is also a letter dated June 6, 1945 from Lloyd to his mother Irene Harvey in Palacios, Texas describing his experience at Mauthausen.

  3. 257th German Infantry in Galicia region: roundup of Jews; Jewish quarter; German soldiers

    With German intertitles. Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. “Mit dem stab der 256 inf. Div. im Krieg” In the region of Galicja (near the border of Poland and the Ukraine), German officers from the 257th Infantry round Jewish civilians wearing white armbands into forced labor divisions in the town center. Galicja had a large Jewish population (about 800,000) living relatively peacefully amongst the larger Ukrainian and Polish populations in the 1930s. The women of Galicja buy and sell vegetables ...

  4. Marcus family correspondence

    Contains postcards written by Fraydl Marcus, addressed to her son Rubin Marcus and her brother-in-law Louis Marcus.

  5. Cretaceous island Rügen

    Stralsund with railway ferry

  6. Silver box commemorating the launch of the MS St Louis

    Silver box commemorating the MS St. Louis given to Mrs. Carl F.G. Meyer in honor of the launching of the transatlantic liner on August 2, 1928. Mrs. Meyer sailed aboard the ship which sailed on December 6, 1928 to New York City, then from New York City back to Europe on December 27, 1928.

  7. Donald Q. Coster collection

    The collection contains two scrapbooks documenting the wartime experiences of Col. Donald Q. Coster, who served as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France in 1940, served with the Navy in North Africa, 1941-1945, and the Office of Strategic Service (O.S.S.) in Belgium in 1945. The first scrapbook documents his capture and eventual release by the German army near Amiens, France in 1940. Included are photographs, newspaper clippings, letters and telegrams, and other ephemera. The second scrapbook documents Coster's experiences in North Africa and the European theater, 19...

  8. Chronicle of the Prague uprising and first days of liberation, May 1945

    TÝDEN VE FILMU. Ceskoslovenska filmova kronika KVĚTEN 1945. The first post-war newsreel - called Week in Film 1945 no. 1 WS of Prague. St. Vitus cathedral above the rest of the city. Street in Prague. Trees. Soldiers. Women in a crowd try to hand another woman money. News of the death of Hitler: “VUDCE PADL.” A man reads “LIDOVE LISTY” on the sidewalk. Women and children stand with their belongings on the sidewalk. Women in uniform walk into the street carrying suitcases. Young boys lounge, one packs his suitcase. People stand on the back of a truck. Military trucks. Trolley cars. 5. KVĚTEN...

  9. Friedel Tykoschinski collection

    Contains a letter and recommendations, dated October 1, 1938, written by Friedel Tykoschinski (b. September 26, 1914 in Trier, Germany) who moved in 1926 together with her parents Hersch Hermann (b. 1887) and Rosa (b. 1885), and younger brother Erwin to Berlin. She asked Mrs. Cohen (donor's mother) to send her a secondary affidavit, supporting that of Friedel's uncle in New York. Friedel and Erwin managed to reach safe haven in London, England, but their parents were deported from Berlin on October 24, 1941 to the Łódź ghetto where they both died.

  10. Achduth-Jedność, Fraternal Federation in Warsaw Stowarzyszenie Braterskie "Achduth-Jedność" w Warszawie (Sygn. 117)

    Records of the “Achduth-Jedność” Fraternal Federation in Warsaw: List of members and candidates for membership, minutes and correspondence of 1938, insurance policies, bills, a journal of minutes of general assemblies.

  11. Autobahn

    Cars, Holiday ride 1938. Street sign "Albrechtstraße" (Berlin), boy climbs on the sign and points to the lettering, house No. 40. Trolley from behind, Market, downtown, fountains, street scenes, Weißes Rössl, lake, family on the shore, excursion boat.

  12. Selected records of the County Starosty in Włoszczowa Starostwo Powiatowe we Włoszczowie (Sygn. 736)

    Situational reports of the County Starosty of Włoszczowa 1933-1938; included is information about anti-Communist and anti-Jewish events in areas of the country.

  13. Selected records of the District Court in Łódź Amtsgericht in Litzmannstadt Sąd Obwodowy w Łodzi (Syg. 899)

    German court cases of the District Court in Łódź, Civil Department, relating to the confiscation of Polish and Jewish property, Germanization of Polish children, sending youth to the Reich for forced labor, as well as personal data of the Nazi officials, which was useful for the investigation of the Main Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes, especially the Commission of Łódź. Majority of records relete to Germanization of Polish children in Łódź. The collection is incomplete and lack of general files, as well as repertories and indexes of cases, it consists only records of one of fiv...

  14. Execution in occupied Poland

    Winter, scaffolding, Wehrmacht officers, escorting of prisoners to platform (ten people, one woman, man to be hanged could be a Jew)

  15. Friedberg family papers

    The Friedberg family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Friedberg family from Jarosław, Poland; the Jam family and their lumberyard in Rzeszów, Poland, before the war; their survival during the Holocaust; and their move to Paris and immigration to the United States after the war.

  16. personal films of a Nazi official

    (from the Bundesarchiv)

  17. Streator Times Press newspaper article

    Contains a newspaper clipping from the Streator Times Press, dated June 12, 1944. Headline reads: "Jews Still Being Killed by Germans." The article details President Roosevelt's comments to Congress with his submission of a report on caring for war refugees. "Knowing they have lost the war, the Nazis are determined to complete their program on mass extermination." He then details the work of the War Refugee Board.

  18. Herman and Celine Mandelbaum correspondence

    Correspondence from Herman and Celine Mandelbaum, originally from Vienna, and sent to their daughter in the United States, Rosa Mandelbaum, between March and November 1941, following their deportation to the Modliborzyce ghetto in Poland.

  19. Association of the Racially Persecuted Zväz rasovo prenasledovaných

    Membership files for the organization, which consisted of, and document the experiences of, Jewish Holocaust survivors in post-war Czechoslovakia, 1945-1950.

  20. Pair of tefillin and pouch owned by a Polish Jewish immigrant

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn544143
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) c: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) d: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) e: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) f: Width: 63.000 inches (160.02 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)

    A pair of tefillin with cardboard covers and pouch, owned by Max Zuckerman, a Polish Jewish immigrant who left Poland in 1923. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. One of eleven siblings born in the town of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Max left to escape growing antisemitism, violent pogroms, and persecution by non-Jewish populations. He immigrated to Brazil where he worked as a peddler until he saved enough money to immigrate to the United States. Max wrote to his family to implore them to leave Poland ...