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  1. Fanny Freund collection

    Collection of documents and certificates documenting the experiences of Fanny Freund (b. 1923 in Tarnopol), before during and after the Holocaust. Collection includes a certificate stating that Fanny Freund was liberated by the British Army from the Belsen concentration camp, dated December 14, 1948; an IRO processing card issued to Fanny Freund, November 1949, with photo of bearer attached; blank registration card; Arbeitskarte (work card) issued for "Maria Chrestschenko" (Fanny Freund's false identity), photo of bearer attached, issued January 27, 1944; a deposition stating that Fanny Fre...

  2. Manski family papers

    The collection documents the pre-war and wartime experiences of Samuil Manski and his family in Lida, Poland (modern day Lida, Belarus). The collection primarily contains pre-war photographs of Samuil, his extended family, and friends. Also included is Samuil’s visa obtained through Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania; postcards from Japan; and Samuil’s report cards.

  3. Rothstern family papers

    Correspondence, identification and citizenship documents, school report cards, letters of reference, photographs, and other items, that primarily document the lives of Irma Rothstern and her son Heinz, of Hamburg, Germany, during the 1910s to 1930s, and then following their forced emigration due to Nazi persecution, in Shanghai, China from 1939 to 1955. Included is a document about the citizenship of Irma's husband, Isidor; and of Heinz's wife, Julia, as well as unidentified family photographs from approximately the 1910s. The bulk of the documents in this collection were used to establish ...

  4. Selected records of the District Court in Kielce Sąd Okręgowy w Kielcach (Sygn. 1040)

    Files of civil and criminal trials with indexes. After World War II, Jewish survivors tried to regain their property in Kielce and certify the deaths of their relatives before the court. Selected archival units contain copies of birth, marriage and death certificates which are attached to the trial files.

  5. Trial and hanging of German war criminals; US Army returns home

    Home movies of trial and hanging of a German war criminal (Alfons Klein?) convicted in October 1945 by U.S. Army court of the Hadamar euthanasia murders sent to the gallows in March 1946 and footage of the embarkation and return home to New York of Army troops filmed by war correspondent Murray Young of the Overseas Press Club. "At the trial of the Hadamar ‘injection’ murderers.” Men sit in the courtroom. Dark shots of people in the courtroom. “RETRIBUTION!,” “The hanging of five German murderers of six downed American airmen” “Bruchsal Prison, south of Heidelberg” Guards set up the gallows...

  6. Koenigstein fortress in spring, summer, and fall

    Intertitles read, “Lavabildungen im äusseren Krater des Vesuvs,” “ Palermo: 8000 Leichen in den unterirdischen Gängen des Kapuziner-Klosters bieten -unbestattet-einen schaurigen Anblick,” “Oktober Zirkus Krone hält seinen Einzug in Leipzig.” Another intertitle: “W.L. Film 63.” The words “Kriegsjahre auf der Festung Königstein” over a photo of Walter Lenger in Königstein. Intertitle: “2. Teil.” Walter, in his uniform, with a small camera up to his eye. He steps into a car. He opens the car door and waves as the car drives away. Walter in a convertible driving through the countryside. A dog r...

  7. 257th Infantry Division moves through Poland

    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 257. Inf. Div. im Krieg (ein forbfilm)” “Ausbildungsbilder in Döberitz.” Soldiers ride in on horse drawn wagons, bringing in weaponry. Soldiers crawl through a field. More soldiers in wagons bringing in supplies. 10:00:42 “Lübbenau” “Gesprengte Grenzbrucke bei Myslowitz.” A wooden bridge over a small river. A collapsed bridge. Man rides a bike in town. “Im Schloßpark Krzeszowice.” Landscape. Soldiers walk along a road....

  8. Oral testimonies of Lilly Malnik and Nesse Godin

  9. Photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image depicting man sewing large Star of David badge on to clothing; another man seated in the background also appears to be wearing a large Star of David badge on his jacket; Mogilev, Belarus, USSR; not dated.

  10. Carl Schurz Tour of American professors and students through Germany in summer 1934

    REEL 3. Arrival in Dresden, cathedral, Zwinger Palace with many classical sculptures. Boat on the Elbe. The train moves alongside the Saale River and enters Thuringia. The ruins of the Rudelsberg Castle on a hill. In Weimar, funeral wreaths with ribbons bearing swastikas at the base of the Goethe-Schiller monument with two bronze statues of the poets. The Schiller House. The students walk with a professor through the park in Weimar. The Nietzsche Archive with Nietzche’s sister on the steps to welcome the group of American students. They visit the Goethe House, where Goethe worked, lived and...

  11. Blankenese and Elbe river tour; New Year's Eve

    Agfa 8 1939. Tour. Some title cards in German. 10:11:22 (color) Blankenese, Elbe trip, goats on the dam, BDM and HJ 10:15:02 Hamburg port, child in hammock, Zoo Hagenbeck / Elefantentor, 10:19:21 Punch and Judy show, doll, Russian, then idyll with animals, Elbe trip, picnic 10:28:32 (color) flowers, lighthouse, coast, pier, beach life, same bw 10:37:45 house music, New Year's Eve 10:42:50 Riding excursion, older women 10:47:00 Kurstadt, "main source", Bad Pyrmont Hbf

  12. Boxing

    Brief shots on board a ship: a large crowd observes a boxing match. A man’s hands in the foreground fumble with a matchbook. CU of the two boxers, one throws a punch.

  13. Dr. Rosa Seidmann Waldinger papers

    Contains a grade book from the Vienna medical school for the years 1923-1925, which belonged to Rosa Seidmann (donor's relative) who was born in Vinitza, Bukovina. Incldues a certificate of service issued to Dr. Rosa Seidmann Waldinger for her work in a pulmonary clinic for children and youth who suffered from tuberculosis from July 24, 1930 untill November 15, 1935, signed by the chief doctor and director of the clinic.

  14. The Frank family at Schoberhof

    At Schoberhof, the Frank family with relatives. CUs of the family - a baby, young boy, and slender woman in a swimsuit. The Frank children Sigrid and Norman play and pose in costumes outdoors with Nanny Sophie. 02:19:47 Nazi flag waving, EXTs. Slow pan and LSs of Schoberhof.

  15. Hitler in Norway and Finland

    Eduard Dietl, military hospital, camouflage uniforms

  16. Frank family at an estate and visiting the Polish countryside

    Large estate near Kressendorf (Krzeszowice, Poland). Three people (including Norman Frank and his best friend Gerd Voigt) walk a dog on the grounds of the estate. They tour the Polish countryside and villages with a horse and carriage. Railroad crossing. Scenes of the countryside from a moving train (this railway line from Krakow to Dresden goes past Auschwitz). 01:10:20 Soft focus shots of Polish children posing for the camera beside a fence, a woman washes in the river. More scenes of the three people on the carriage, then returning to the wooded estate with a guarded gated entrance with ...

  17. Heligoland 1934/35

    Heligoland, vacaioners board a ship, views of the island, houses, cafes, street scenes, tourists, gymnastics exercises, water skiers on board

  18. Łódź Ghetto

    Short shot from moving vehicle on bridge over street in ghetto at Lodz. Ghetto. Fences. "Ghetto Wehrm.-Angen. ist das Betreten verboten Fleckfieber. The Feldkommandant” Glimpse into the ghetto: barbed wire, people, open window, bed linen. Sign: "Die Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt Federn u. Daunen Arbeits Ressort” 10:00:21 Jews in the ghetto behind the wall, children with the star, women with the star, men with the star. "Wohngebiet der Juden betreten verboten” [Residential area of ?? the Jews] 10:00:37 Soldier with rifle in front of guardhouse at the ghetto entrance. 10.00:42 Jews cros...

  19. Presentation by Lilly Malnik

  20. Keuter family papers

    The Keuter family papers consist of letters written by Albert and Barend Klaas Keuter from the Oranje Hotel prison in Scheveningen, Netherlands, and smuggled to their family describing their arrests, conditions in prison, hunger, and solitude. The papers also include wartime records documenting restrictions on Dutch civilians under the Nazi occupation and the family’s concerns for Albert and Barend; and postwar correspondence to Elizabeth Keuter conveying information about what happened to Albert and Barend in the Vught, Sachsenhausen, and Bergen Belsen concentration camps. Most of the docu...