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  1. Sonja Speyer Echt papers

    The collection documents the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Sonja Speyer Echt, originally of Guxhagen, Germany, including her childhood in Guxhagen, immigration to the United States in February 1938 on a Kindertransport, and her efforts to receive restitution from Germany. Included is her German passport, a copy of her birth certificate, a wartime postcard from her family in Guxhagen, genealogy notes, One Thousand Children reunion materials, restitution claims, and photographs. The photographs include depictions of Sonja, her sister Rita, Berta, and family tombstones.

  2. 774 Army Tank Battalion photo album

    Contains a photo album bearing the cover title "1946 Bad Aibling," bearing the insignia of the 774 Army Tank Battalion. Album is empty with the exception of loose pages with photos depicting reproduced photos of the Dachau concentration camp after liberation.

  4. Famous performers visit Italian rest homes, 1948

    Silent black and white footage from a JDC morale-boosting tour of famous performers to DP camps, convalescent homes, and hachsharot (vocational training collectives for those planning to settle in Israel) in Italy. 01:00:03 EXT path lined with hedges and trees at an Italian rest home for refugees from Romania and Poland (repatriated from Russia after the Holocaust en route to Palestine) - possible locations include Preventorio anti-tubercolotico, the children’s convalescent home at Monte Mario, Grottaferrata Rehabilitation Center and ORT Vocational Training Center (outside Rome), and DP cam...

  6. Nass family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Max and Florett Nass, their son Werner, and Florett’s parents Manfred and Helene Goldmeir. Included are biographical materials, immigration paperwork, wartime correspondence to Max in New York from his father Abraham Nass in Regensburg, Germany, and photographs. Biographical material includes identification papers, birth and marriage certificates, German passports, a clipping regarding Straubing, a Goldmeier family history, vaccination certificate, and a German driver’s license. Immigration papers include Affidavits of Support, appli...

  7. Children in Budapest before the Holocaust

    Babies in carriages, János and cousin Zsuzsi Schiffer, in 1932. An adult hands a mirror (or Pathé 9.5mm canister?) to the babies. CUs (dark shot) of mothers. Mothers with babies in carriages in the park, they congregate in front of building. Several views of the babies. One plays with a lipstick case. Nurse-maid strolls baby to elegantly dressed parents on a sidewalk, they ogle over the baby and pose for the camera [the man in the bowler hat is probably a colleague of Ernö’s, Dr Hetènyi, with his son]. (06:15) Cousin Peter Molnar plays with János in stroller outside a home in Budapest. Nurs...

  8. Helen Kronenberg Borenstein collection

    Contains a "Displaced persons pass and ex-Political Prisoner from Concentration Camp" document issued to "Helena Borensztajn" (donor) authorizing her to be absent from the Stuttgart West camp; undated.

  9. Oral history interview with Fiorella Fano

  10. Oral history interview with Bela Czitron

  11. Presentation by Samuel Schryver

  12. Jewish family life pre-war; skiing

    Section 1 and 3: Eric Weyl smokes a cigarette while sitting at a table (continuation of shot in RG-60.1740 at 01:01:17). Two women outdoors in a wool coats and hats, snow on the ground, they walk along a sidewalk. The taller woman is Else Weyl, who later walks with her brother-in-law Paul Weyl, the man with spectacles. They make faces at the cameraman. Family members walk on the city street (shops, tram-lines), probably in Monchengladbach, and pose for the camera. In a park, Gertrude and her mother Elsa (Lieschen) Weyl walk down a path. They push Bernard Weyl, Eric's father, in a wheelchair...

  13. Otto and Ann Silber Mandel papers

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Anny Silber (b. 1917) and her husband Otto Mandl (b. 1913) from Vienna, Austria [donor's parents]. Documents include school report cards, Deutsches Reich Reisepass [German passports], correspondence addressing their emigration from Austria and assistance by Otto's cousin Sam Kellner in New York. Also included are State Department letters concerning the 1941 emigration of Anny's parents Sigmund and Malvine from France and birth certificate for Otto ["Otto Bass recte Geiger" parents "Israel Bass recte Geiger und Adele geb. Bornstein...

  14. Activity report for the Basler Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder

    Contains a "Praktikumsbericht" [Activity report]; typed document with handwritten corrections; nine pages, concerning 300 boys and girls from Germany who found refuge in Switzerland in what was titled the "300 Kinder-Aktion" in 1939. The report, written by Eli Mangold of the Basel Relief Organization for Emigrant Children (Basler Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder), describes the group, in particular fifty children of Orthodox families; their time in Langenbruck and later Basel; and their daily lives and activities.

  15. Hillel (Harry) and Liza Zelmanovich collection

    Contains papers, identity cards, photographs, passports, correspondence relating to the experiences of Harry and Liza Zelmanovich. Includes postwar identification documents and medical forms issued in Munich, including an Identity Card for Ex-Con[centrarion] Camp Inmates, and United States naturalization records.

  16. Oral history interview with Laura Manoni

  17. Municipality of Farms 412-4/3 Gemeinde Farmsen

    Selected records of the Gemeinde Farmsen (Commune Farms), Gemeindevertreter (Municipal Representative), and Gemeindebeirat (Municipal Advisory Council) relating to farms, execution of the law for restoration of the civil service, road construction and maintenance, unemployment relief, free gymnastics and sport clubs, school medical examination (1931-1933), and a role of the public library.

  18. Oral history interview with Josef Klima

  19. Magistrate Bergedorf 415-12/1 Magistrat Bergedorf

    Selected records of the Magistrat Bergedorf (Magistrate of the city Bergedorf) related to re-construction of broken memorials in the town, burial places of the Jews on the Gojenberge (Hamburg), 1883-1938, and honorary distinction of the cemeteries. Consists of architectural plans, photographs of burial monuments, clippings, correspondence, bank financial documentations, a register of names of bank customers.

  20. Erich Lilienthal death certificate

    Death certificate issued for Erich "Israel" Lilienthal, a Jewish man who died in Berlin on June 14, 1940 at St. Hedwig Hospital. He was survived by his wife Gerda Amanda "Sara" Lilienthal (nee Sürth); she was deported to Auschwitz on November 29, 1942 and did not survive.