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  1. Plesser family collection

    Contains correspondence from Mendel and Perla Pepi Plesser in Hamburg Altona, the Zbąszyń area for expelled Polish citizens, and later in Stanisławów, addressed to their children Klara (b. December 14, 1921 [donor's mother]) and Oskar (b. May 29, 1920 [donor's maternal uncle]), who had arrived in the US on August 22, 1938.

  2. Frank family relaxes at Schoberhof

    In summer, the Frank children and mother Brigitte relax at their vacation home at Schoberhof. Brigitte consoles her son, Michael. Nanny reads book to the child Brigitte. Young Niklas in checkered-trim smokes a cigarette. Short scene where young women don furs on the porch with a uniformed German. These are two friends of Brigitte, including a Hungarian countess (Noell?) on the right. 02:04:47 The Frank children and others from the neighborhood wear traditional German attire and pose for the camera. Boys dress as "Cowboys and Indians" possibly for Fasching [could relate to a later scene at 0...

  3. Labor Court in Warsaw Sąd Pracy w Warszawie (Sygn.1944)

    Selected court record of cases from the Labor Court of Warsaw, Poland, related to payments of compensation for work, unused leave, disability pensions, etc. The records relate to everyday life and working conditions of Jews in Poland prior to 1939; Records also contain personal data of applicants.

  4. Iteld family papers

    The collection contains correspondence, identification and immigration papers, and photographs documenting the Iteld family’s pre-war life in Brańsk, Poland, and their immigration to the United States in 1938. Included are immigration cards and documents, an autograph book, passport, and a day planner from 1938. Also included are prewar and wartime photographs documenting the Iteld and Shereshefsky families in Brańsk and the United States. Many of the photographs are annotated on the back with identifications of relatives and friends.

  5. John (Hans) Buchsbaum papers

    Correspondence, documents, photographs, and typescript memoir, of John (Hans) Buchsbaum (1910-1988), originally of Ostrava, Czech Republic, relating primarily to his experiences following his immigration to first Britain, and then the United States in 1939-1941, and to the experiences of his family in Europe during the Holocaust. Includes correspondence from his mother, Clara Buchsbaum, his sister and brother-in-law, Gretel and Hugo Spitzer, and his uncle, Norbert Babad, 1939-1941. Also included are pre-war family photographs, correspondence with tracing services following the war seeking t...

  6. Pogrom in Zloczow, July 1941

    Brief panning shot of water and the shore. The next scenes show the Zloczow pogrom, which took place from July 1 - 4, 1941. Before the Soviets retreated from Zloczow, the NKVD murdered several hundred civilians at Zamek prison. Many of those killed were Ukrainian nationalists, but some Jews and Poles were also murdered. The bodies were buried in four mass graves. After the Germans occupied Zloczow, the Jews were blamed for the murders and a pogrom ensued. Corpses litter a muddy, grassy area. These are most likely the bodies of those murdered by the NKVD. A crowd of bystanders, including bot...

  7. Adolf Hitler visiting the Bayreuth Festival in 1933

    Hitler, Festival, SS Attendants, policeman, visitors, girl, cherry tree

  8. Oral history interview with Oscar Cukierman

  9. Odessa tombstone

    Odessa tombstone of Elis Danilovici, who died on October 4, 1929. The tombstone belongs to a group of funerary stones brought to Romania during World War II by the Romanian occupation authorities of Transnistria. The Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities (FCER) found them on a train and brought them to the Giurgiucui Jewish Cemetery.

  10. Russian campaign; entertainers

    Russian campaign. Luftwaffe airplanes. Heavy bombs. Flowers and congratulations after combat mission. Scenes in the Cockpit. Tanks. Zaporizhia. Troop entertainment for US forces

  11. Deutsche Wochenschau 1945

    Moscow strikes back. Soviet propaganda recordings

  12. Resort in mountains; Family poses

    Pan of a spa town in the mountains, cafes. Views of the mountains and a stream. The village is likely Bad Gastein in Austria. 02:17 Views of a busy street. More views of the mountains and the town. A group of well-dressed people pose for the camera outside a building, one smokes a cigar. 03:36 An assembly of people in the street, likely Budapest, Gellért tér (square) 4:00 Two men sit at a table smoking on board a ship, a man in uniform (perhaps the captain) climbs the stairs and waves to the camera.) Views of the deck of the ship, people walk towards the camera. 4:46 Three young girls exit ...

  13. Henryk Chęciński photograph collection

    The collection contains 45 photographs taken by amateur photographer Henryk Chęciński in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, circa 1939-1940. Subjects include bombed buildings, makeshift graves, German soldiers, Polish soldiers, German soldiers marching groups of Jewish men in the street, three hanging men in front of a crowd, and people in the street.

  14. Erich Manfred Hassberg collection

    Contains a "Deutsches Reich Reisepass" issued to Erich Manfred Hassberg (donor's father) on September 17, 1938 in Vienna, Austria; black and white photo of bearer affixed on page 2, red ink "J" stamped on first page; slip of paper regarding baggage inserted between pages 22-23. Also contains a document confirming that Erich Hassberg completed a bookkeeping course in Vienna, Austria, dated May 11, 1938; and a typewritten letter, in English, addressed to Gertrud Hassberg (donor's grandmother), from "Fred" in Prague, dated August 5, 1945.

  15. UNRRA selected records AG-018-028 : Switzerland Mission

    Selected files of the Switzerland Mission (S-1405), 1944-1949: Records include statistics, correspondence, files of displaced persons, lists of children, offers of temporary asylum for children, movement of children to Switzerland, Red Cross actions and personal inquires requesting tracing of individuals, as well as reports on activities of the UN relating to refugees and displaced persons.

  16. Handbook

    Home health care manual given and inscribed to Marianne Schüler by Martin Gerson, a pioneer in the Hachshara movement, who knew her when she was in Gut Winkel, a Zionist youth camp in Germany. Martin Gerson did not survive the war. Marianne emigrated to the Dominican Republic in 1940.

  17. German army, Winter 1941

    Agfa 8. Winter of 1941. Wehrmacht, probably in Russia. Bunker, sawing wood, sleigh

  18. Laying of the cornerstone at the De Rijp condensed milk factory owned by Dutch Jews

    Slow pan of a city on a waterway; tree-lined banks and steepled buildings; extended views of the flatlands across the water from town, including a windmill and people working in the fields; 01:01:17 detailed views of the edifices of various buildings in the town of De Rijp, and of a canal, taken from an upstairs window; 01:02:56 Slow pan of a smokestack and chimney emanating steam; surrounding houses and industrial buildings; the sign on one building reads "De Beemster" at Tuingracht 32; 01:05:09 A man drives a horse-drawn cart carrying metal milk canisters; the interior workings of the mil...

  19. Dina Wizmur photograph collection

    Contains a photograph of Maria Firestein Insler and Edward (Meitek) Insler.

  20. Samuel Chalupovitsch diary

    The collection consists of a diary kept by Samuel Chalupovitsch while he was in the Finnish Army fighting the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front during the Continuation War. The diary covers 1942-1943 and is written in Swedish. Topics include daily life in the military, universal human values, the progress of the war, and his observance of mitzvot. Collection includes English translation.