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  1. Wilno Great Synagogue area (Shulhoyf)

    Men, women, and children walk through a market square in Vilnius (Wilno, Vilna) outside Vilnius Old Town. Many hold flowers. One woman holds a large basket. People move through a large outdoor market. A woman buys goods. A young man walks through a residential street, glancing back towards the camera. 0:44 CU, facade of the Great Synagogue in Vilnius, the camera moves around the Shulhoyf (courtyard of the Great Synagogue) alleys and streets. Sign in Polish: “CHEMICZNA PRALINE i FARBIARNIA” [Chemical dry cleaning and coloring of Cloth) with Yiddish words beneath. A horse-drawn carriage moves...

  2. Personal archives of Miriam Yahieli (RG-95-86) מרים יחיאלי - ארכיון אישי

    Contains interviews, memoirs, correspondence, maps, and records on the Hebrew gymnasium “Tarbut” in Rovno, commemoration sites, informaton about World War II in the Soviet Union, the Hashomer Hatzair activities in Poland, Germany and Cyprus, educational work in kibbutz Tel-Amal, and material about the activities in the Hashomer Hatzair archive Yad Ya’ari.

  3. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Somme

    This collection contains reports from the police on the population, records on strikes, sentences punishing anti-patriotic or anti-governmental activities and political parties or organizations, the press, records on youth movements, propaganda, associations and clubs, the general morale of the population; and lists of Jews living in the Somme. Contains also records on the attribution of Aryan administrators for Jewish businesses and property, deportation lists of Jews, Roma and resistance fighters. There were four places where people were interned: the Camp of the Citadel of Amiens (probab...

  4. Tent camp

    Tents and flags in Palestine A girl seated in a tent looks up, speaking to someone. The tents with a white building behind them and more tents. INT boy sits on small stool next to an unmade bed. 01:10:50 A man sitting near a window looks back towards the camera, stands up, and closes a book. CU of a little boy wearing round glasses, another young boy in round glasses standing behind him. A man walks past and the camera focuses on him. CU of a little girl looking at the camera. People stand outside of a small shed in a field. White building with the tents in the BG at the top of the hill. An...

  5. Permit to leave Dachau concentration camp

    Permit, dated April-June 1945, issued to 1st Lt. William Michael Looney (donor's father) to enter and leave the former concentration camp Dachau at any time. First Lt. Looney participted in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp and served as a platoon leader of the 116th Evacuation Hospital. For his service he received the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the Army of Occupation of Germany Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal; dated circa April-June 1945

  6. Frank J. Sawyer photographs

    Consists of seven photographs of a German military unit traveling on the Eastern front. Includes a photograph of a burning building, of captured prisoners of war, of supply trucks, and of three Jews who were hung by the side of the road. The photographs are captioned by a member of the unit, and the captions indicate that they were taken near Smolensk (Russia) and possibly Chernihiv (Ukraine).

  7. Departure of passenger ship Negbah with Jewish children

    At a seaport in Holland, the departure of a passenger ship, in 1948. On the ship's bow is written "Negbah" and Haifa" with corresponding Hebrew text. Flags of Israel held by passengers and on the vessel itself. Passengers climb aboard the ship along a gangplank. 00:31:14 Girl with long blonde braids, from behind, and her brother among other children. [The two kids were adopted by the Schaap family in Holland after the war. A Dutch family wanted to adopt them, but the courts ruled that the children should go to a Jewish family, so the Schaaps fled to Israel.] Ship departs dock.

  8. Stern family collection

    The collection primarily consists of photographs and copyprints depicting the family of Abraham and Etelka Stern, who immigrated to Antwerp, Belgium from Sighet (Sighetu Marmatiei, Transylvania) in 1927. Included are depictions of Abraham and Etelka, their children Alex, Edith, and Judith, and other family and friends. Also included is a letter received by Edith, a list of hidden children in France, and the 1996 program for a ceremony honoring Emilie and Pierre Baldy, a French couple that helped hide the Sterns in Rimes, France from 1942-1943, who were recognized as Righteous Among the Nati...

  9. Hashomer Hatzair World Headquarters in Israel (RG-31) הנהגה עליונה ישראל

    Correspondence of the World Hashomer Hatzair Headquarter in Palestine (Eretz Israel) and in Israel, between 1930s and 1940s, with branches of the Hashomer Hatzair, reports on activities, documents on immigration (Alya), absorbtion of new immigrants, the kibbutz movement, Holocaust survivors in Cyprus detention camps, families' tracing after the WWII, guidelines for "Shlichim" (representatives) .

  10. "Eric Hoffman: For My Family, For My Children, For My Grandchildren"

    Consists of one typed memoir, circa 40 pages plus photographs, photocopied, and written in the spring of 1996 by Eric Hoffman, entitled "Eric Hoffman: For My Family, For My Children, For My Grandchildren." The memoir details Hoffman's life growing up in Münster, Germany; his move to Antwerp, Belgium; his voyage to Palestine in 1939; his wartime service in the British Royal Army Service Corps and his post-war life. The memoir also includes several personal photographs with, 'The Windmuller Family Chronicle,' which details the fate of 120 members of Eric's close and extended family, as well a...

  11. US War Bonds poster of three small children under the shadow of a swastika

    U.S. War Bond poster designed by Lawrence Beall Smith in 1942, after America's entry into World War II. It features three young children, apprehensive and fearful, as they are enveloped by the large, dark arm of a swastika shadow. The poster was distributed by the United StatesTreasury Department and implied that purchasing war bonds would keep the children safe from the Nazi threat. War bonds were offered by the United States Government for purchase by the public; purchasers would keep the bond and be reimbursed for its return at a later date. Purchasing bonds was considered patriotic and ...

  12. Messcher family photographs

    Consists of two photographs of the Messcher children; one photograph of Frits Messcher (b. 1936) and Martijn Messcher (b. 1934), and one photograph of Martijn holding his infant sister Martha (b. 1942). The photographs were taken in Rotterdam on April 4, 1943. In the photographs, the children are wearing the Jewish star (Magen David).

  13. Solly Border diploma

    Solly Border's diploma in chemical engineering, awarded to him from the Polytechnic University in Iași, Romania in 1957.

  14. Records of the City of Częstochowa Akta miasta Częstochowy (Sygn.1)

    This collection consists of selected records created before and during the WWII in Częstochowa, Poland by the President and executive authorities of the Town Hall (1918-1939), and by the Municipal Government (Stadtverwaltung) headed by the Municipal Starost (Stadthauptman) (1939-1944). Consists also of books listing information about the inhabitants of Częstochowa (1870-1930). The pre-war records refer to the social, cultural, economic and religious life of the Jewish community in Częstochowa, for example: sport activities, schools, charity, social welfare and hospitals. Includes a list of ...

  15. Watman and Weissblum families photograph collection

    The collection consists of pre-war photographs depicting the extended Watman and Weissblum families in Opatów, Poland. Many of the photographs are annotated on the verso in Yiddish or English.

  16. Waffen-SS recruiting poster

    Waffen-SS recruiting poster designed by Mjolnir.

  17. Devisenauskunfsstelle Tschenstochau Foreign Currency Office in Częstochowa Biuro Dewizowe w Częstochowie (Sygn.315)

    This collection contains official correspondence related to the relief for Jewish inhabitants of Czestochowa, as well as applications for the allowance of foreign currency for family members of prisoners sent to concentration camps.

  18. Gessner visits Italy

    In Pompeii, three men, two in uniform and one in a suit outside of the entrance. The building reads “ENTRATA IN POMPEI”. 01:02:53 A man in a suit (friend of Gessner) walks along the entry road to Pompeii. 01:03:01 Gessner faces the camera and takes a photo before walking up the road and waving for the his friend to follow him. The friend stands in the ruins of the basilica at Pompeii. 01:03:15 Gessner in the ruins of the basilica. 01:03:25 Sign reads “TEMPLUM APOLLINIS”, the Temple of Apollo. Gessner stands on a block next to a colonnade, bronze sculpture. The other man walks across elevate...

  19. William Buckhantz papers

    The William Buckhantz collection is an excellent resource for those studying the experiences of UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) personnel working in displaced persons camps. The collection includes extensive photographs depicting life in the Deggendorf and Ellwangen displaced persons camp. It also includes blank UNRRA forms, including blank AEF Displaced Persons forms and identity cards. Buckhantz also received letters written by displaced persons asking for his assistance; a remarkable document written and illustrated by a survivor cartoonist, Georg Feier, g...

  20. Eugene A. Stehle photograph collection

    Collection of photographic prints depicting the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps immediately following liberation. Includes images from the series taken by former Yugoslavian prisoners documenting the cremation process in Dachau, the crematorium and victims in Buchenwald, reburial, and forced confrontation; dated April- May 1945.