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  1. Allen Spears photograph collection

    Consists of three photographs depicting scenes of Ebensee concentration camp following liberation. The photographs are associated with the military service of Allen Spears of the 206th Engineer Combat Battalion. Original inscriptions are included on the reverse of the three photographs.

  2. Oral history interview with Edgar Cohn

  7. Slaughterhouse and Livestock Market Administration 377-11 Schlachthof- und Viehmarktverwaltung

    Selected records of the administration of meat industry, slaughterhouses and cattle market, import and transport of meat products, implementation of the law for employees and workers (1933-1939), Jewish slaughter ritual, general instructions for "national structure" of events, especially for the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei (National Socialist German Labor Party), NSDAP, Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Labor Front), DAF, Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy), KdF, and general rules for introduction of the Hitler salute (raising of the stretched right arm) and the German...

  8. UNRRA selected records AG-018-026 : Poland Mission

    Consists of the Central Registry-Subject Files: correspondence and cables; reports of the office of the Chief Mission Welfare and Repatriation Division; financial documents of the Department of Finance, and reports and correspondence of the Departments of Supply. Records relate to welfare of displaced persons, child care and maternal welfare, movement of Jewish children to France and Belgium, 1944-1949; repatriation from Germany; welfare activities of the International Student Service, Save the Children Fund, Unitarian Service Committee, Quakers and other organizations.

  9. Oral history interview with Lisa Granér

  10. Cemetery Administration 325-1 Friedhofsverwaltung

    Consists of the register and plans of old burial places, and personnel files of the Cemetery Administration in Hamburg.

  11. Swearing-in Engelbert Dollfuss as chancellor; Heldenplatz

    Probably the May 20, 1932 swearing-in of Engelbert Dollfuss as chancellor of Austria. 01:00:29 Title: “Reception of the Cardinal Legation.” Crowded street scenes in Vienna as people watch parade of people carrying Catholic flags. 01:01:41 Archbishop of Vienna (later Cardinal) Theodor Innitzer. Crowded street scenes continue as several groups of men and boys, wearing different types of uniforms, march down the streets of Vienna. Informal shots of men wearing elaborate uniforms and hats. 01:04:41 A photographer prepares his camera on a tripod at the far left of the frame. 01:05:31 Title: “At ...

  12. Manfred and Adella Plaut collection

    Papers related to Manfred Plaut, including U.S. naturalization paperwork, identification documents, correspondence with the International Tracing Service regarding the fate of family members, and a photocopied chapter from the book "One, by one, by one : facing the Holocaust," by Judith Miller (1990). Also includes material related to Adella (Wachtenheim) Plaut, including her efforts to trace the fate of her family members.

  13. Records of the Sephardic Jewish Community of Uruguay (Comunidad Israelita Sefaradí)

    Registers of birth, marriage and death certificates, photographs of activities, administrative material and correspondence, records relating to various events, registers of social assistance, and minutes of meetings.

  14. Oral history interview with Mario Rufo

  15. Rothschild family papers

    The Rothschild family papers include biographical material, printed material, writings, and photographs relating to Salli and Johanna Rothschild and their family before the war in Bremen, Germany, their immigration, and the relocation of their bakery to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1937. Biographical materials include a birth certificate for Jack Leiner; a birth certificate and work papers from the Office of Censorship for Ilse Rothschild; a birth certificate, German passport (Reisepass), and a certificate of naturalization for Johanna Rothschild; and a birth certificate, German passport (Re...