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  1. Dr. Samuel Lipsett photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting victims in the Ohrdruf concentration camp shortly after liberation; brought home from WWII by Dr. Samuel Lipsett (donor's father) who was a Captain in the US Army.

  2. Harry Lee photograph collection

    Contains photographs depicting post-liberation Dachau concentration camp in Germany. The images belonged to Private Harry Lee, US Army 7th Armored Division (donor's step-grandfather). Images depict open train cars containing victims, and others wearing concentration camp uniforms moving the deceased; labled on verso in English.

  3. Mandel family papers

    The Mandel family papers include biographical material, restitution files, photographs, and family documents relating to Yehuda Mandel and his family’s experiences pre-war in Latvia and Hungary, their flight from Budapest, immigration to the United States, and their post-war life in America. A large portion of the collection includes materials relating to Yehuda’s Cantorial career including music, education records, programs, newspaper clippings, awards, speeches, and documents relating to various conventions and organizations.

  4. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Josef and Ruth Rosenberg, both of whom were from Poland, interned in the Łódź ghetto, and liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they met and later married. The collection includes identification papers, immigration documents, restitution claims paperwork, and photographs taken at Bergen-Belsen from 1945-1947 along with some pre-war family photographs. The biographical materials include identification papers and immigration documents that both reflect their status as stateless refugees. The restitution claims ...

  5. Hitlertag in Munich; groundbreaking of the House of German Arts

    KODAK. “Hitlertag in Muenchen Juli 1932.” Soldiers march through Munich, spectators, some doing the Nazi salute. Another view. The soldiers raise their arms in salute. Hitler stands on platform, his arm outstretched in salute, beside Ernest Rohm. 10:01:35 Heinrich Himmler, the SS Reichsfuehrer. “Kesselbergrennen 1932” 10:02:14 “Grunsteinlegung zum ‘Haus der Deustchen Kunst' 15 Oktober 1933” [Groundbreaking for the House of the German Arts in Munich] Huge crowds of spectators watch from stands. At the center of the square, soldiers stand in formation. Nazi flags. 10:03:09 Nazi official speak...

  6. US Buy War Bonds poster depicting the Statue of Liberty

    American war bond poster printed in 1945, featuring a clenched fist holding war bonds superimposed in front of the Statue of Liberty’s arm and torch. The symbolism of the image implies that purchasing war bonds was a way the public could support and protect American liberty, represented by the Statue of Liberty’s torch, which is also the lone light in the night sky. The United States Government offered the public the opportunity to purchase war bonds, and return them for reimbursement at a later date. Purchasing bonds was considered patriotic and an investment in victory. U.S. posters tende...

  7. Ajlkichen and Fleichaker families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Ajlkichen family of Brussels, Belgium, including the efforts of Kiwa Ajlkichen and his wife, Tcharna Fleichaker, to hide their children Roza and François, and the deportation of their daughter, Dora, in 1942 and her murder at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Documents include identification papers, a Polish passport, correspondence, a family book, a personal narrative describing Roza’s experiences, and material related to the family’s effort to learn the fate of Dora. Photographs include prewar family photographs of the Ajlkiche...

  8. Prewar Warsaw city scenes

    Reel 3. A rural landscape from a train as it quickly moves by. Windmills. A boat on a canal. More waterways. Farmland. Women and children walk on a sidewalk. Buildings with scaffolding along the front. The Old Town Square in Warsaw. Doors open on a balcony. A woman holding her son. People outside of Holy Cross Church. A street corner and the building above. A woman pours cups of water on the sidewalk. A shoeless boy on the sidewalk. Children gather on steps in a doorway. A woman sits with her son on her lap. Another mother sits with her child who is eating soup. Plants. Through an iron gate...

  9. Philippi family papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Julius and Hedwig Philippi and their daughter Gretel and their immigration to Great Britain shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938. The papers also document the wartime experiences of their extended families in Offenbach, Köln, and Düsseldorf, Germany. Included are identification documents; naturalization certificates; birth, marriage, and death certificates; and family genealogy documents. Wartime correspondence includes letters to Julius from his siblings Klara and Enrico, and correspondence between Caroline Philippi’s husband Karl Ganz and Lord Me...

  10. Lloyd Harvey photograph collection

    The collection contains 15 photographs of Mauthausen concentration camp soon after liberation in 1945; United States Army soldiers; Lloyd Harvey in uniform; and Spittal an der Drau, Austria. There is also a letter dated June 6, 1945 from Lloyd to his mother Irene Harvey in Palacios, Texas describing his experience at Mauthausen.

  11. 257th German Infantry in Galicia region: roundup of Jews; Jewish quarter; German soldiers

    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 256 inf. Div. im Krieg” In the region of Galicja (near the border of Poland and the Ukraine), German officers from the 257th Infantry round Jewish civilians wearing white armbands into forced labor divisions in the town center. Galicja had a large Jewish population (about 800,000) living relatively peacefully amongst the larger Ukrainian and Polish populations in the 1930s. The women of Galicja buy and sell vegetables ...

  12. Marcus family correspondence

    Contains postcards written by Fraydl Marcus, addressed to her son Rubin Marcus and her brother-in-law Louis Marcus.

  13. Cretaceous island Rügen

    Stralsund with railway ferry

  14. Silver box commemorating the launch of the MS St Louis

    Silver box commemorating the MS St. Louis given to Mrs. Carl F.G. Meyer in honor of the launching of the transatlantic liner on August 2, 1928. Mrs. Meyer sailed aboard the ship which sailed on December 6, 1928 to New York City, then from New York City back to Europe on December 27, 1928.

  15. Donald Q. Coster collection

    The collection contains two scrapbooks documenting the wartime experiences of Col. Donald Q. Coster, who served as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France in 1940, served with the Navy in North Africa, 1941-1945, and the Office of Strategic Service (O.S.S.) in Belgium in 1945. The first scrapbook documents his capture and eventual release by the German army near Amiens, France in 1940. Included are photographs, newspaper clippings, letters and telegrams, and other ephemera. The second scrapbook documents Coster's experiences in North Africa and the European theater, 19...

  16. Chronicle of the Prague uprising and first days of liberation, May 1945

    TÝDEN VE FILMU. Ceskoslovenska filmova kronika KVĚTEN 1945. The first post-war newsreel - called Week in Film 1945 no. 1 WS of Prague. St. Vitus cathedral above the rest of the city. Street in Prague. Trees. Soldiers. Women in a crowd try to hand another woman money. News of the death of Hitler: “VUDCE PADL.” A man reads “LIDOVE LISTY” on the sidewalk. Women and children stand with their belongings on the sidewalk. Women in uniform walk into the street carrying suitcases. Young boys lounge, one packs his suitcase. People stand on the back of a truck. Military trucks. Trolley cars. 5. KVĚTEN...

  17. Friedel Tykoschinski collection

    Contains a letter and recommendations, dated October 1, 1938, written by Friedel Tykoschinski (b. September 26, 1914 in Trier, Germany) who moved in 1926 together with her parents Hersch Hermann (b. 1887) and Rosa (b. 1885), and younger brother Erwin to Berlin. She asked Mrs. Cohen (donor's mother) to send her a secondary affidavit, supporting that of Friedel's uncle in New York. Friedel and Erwin managed to reach safe haven in London, England, but their parents were deported from Berlin on October 24, 1941 to the Łódź ghetto where they both died.

  18. Achduth-Jedność, Fraternal Federation in Warsaw Stowarzyszenie Braterskie "Achduth-Jedność" w Warszawie (Sygn. 117)

    Records of the “Achduth-Jedność” Fraternal Federation in Warsaw: List of members and candidates for membership, minutes and correspondence of 1938, insurance policies, bills, a journal of minutes of general assemblies.

  19. Autobahn

    Cars, Holiday ride 1938. Street sign "Albrechtstraße" (Berlin), boy climbs on the sign and points to the lettering, house No. 40. Trolley from behind, Market, downtown, fountains, street scenes, Weißes Rössl, lake, family on the shore, excursion boat.

  20. Selected records of the County Starosty in Włoszczowa Starostwo Powiatowe we Włoszczowie (Sygn. 736)

    Situational reports of the County Starosty of Włoszczowa 1933-1938; included is information about anti-Communist and anti-Jewish events in areas of the country.