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  1. Selected records of the District Court in Łódź Amtsgericht in Litzmannstadt Sąd Obwodowy w Łodzi (Syg. 899)

    German court cases of the District Court in Łódź, Civil Department, relating to the confiscation of Polish and Jewish property, Germanization of Polish children, sending youth to the Reich for forced labor, as well as personal data of the Nazi officials, which was useful for the investigation of the Main Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes, especially the Commission of Łódź. Majority of records relete to Germanization of Polish children in Łódź. The collection is incomplete and lack of general files, as well as repertories and indexes of cases, it consists only records of one of fiv...

  2. Execution in occupied Poland

    Winter, scaffolding, Wehrmacht officers, escorting of prisoners to platform (ten people, one woman, man to be hanged could be a Jew)

  3. Friedberg family papers

    The Friedberg family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Friedberg family from Jarosław, Poland; the Jam family and their lumberyard in Rzeszów, Poland, before the war; their survival during the Holocaust; and their move to Paris and immigration to the United States after the war.

  4. personal films of a Nazi official

    (from the Bundesarchiv)

  5. Streator Times Press newspaper article

    Contains a newspaper clipping from the Streator Times Press, dated June 12, 1944. Headline reads: "Jews Still Being Killed by Germans." The article details President Roosevelt's comments to Congress with his submission of a report on caring for war refugees. "Knowing they have lost the war, the Nazis are determined to complete their program on mass extermination." He then details the work of the War Refugee Board.

  6. Herman and Celine Mandelbaum correspondence

    Correspondence from Herman and Celine Mandelbaum, originally from Vienna, and sent to their daughter in the United States, Rosa Mandelbaum, between March and November 1941, following their deportation to the Modliborzyce ghetto in Poland.

  7. Association of the Racially Persecuted Zväz rasovo prenasledovaných

    Membership files for the organization, which consisted of, and document the experiences of, Jewish Holocaust survivors in post-war Czechoslovakia, 1945-1950.

  8. Pair of tefillin and pouch owned by a Polish Jewish immigrant

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn544143
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) c: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) d: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) e: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) f: Width: 63.000 inches (160.02 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)

    A pair of tefillin with cardboard covers and pouch, owned by Max Zuckerman, a Polish Jewish immigrant who left Poland in 1923. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. One of eleven siblings born in the town of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Max left to escape growing antisemitism, violent pogroms, and persecution by non-Jewish populations. He immigrated to Brazil where he worked as a peddler until he saved enough money to immigrate to the United States. Max wrote to his family to implore them to leave Poland ...

  9. Harry Reese photograph collection

    Collection of black and white photographs and copy prints, some loose, some fused together, which document atrocities committed during the Holocaust at a sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp; dated circa 1945. Acquired by Harry Reese (donor's father) while serving with the US Army in Belgium during WWII.

  10. Motorcycle racing 1935

    Motorcycle racing at Nürburgring, race car

  11. Ohrdruf and Vlocklamarkt liberation photographs

    Photographic prints: collection of black and white images depicting American soldiers, survivors, and victims in the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany and Vocklamarkt, a subcamp of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austrria; some photos captioned on verso; dated circa April-May 1945; in English

  12. Prague, May 1945

    A few clips from the newsreel, "KVĚTEN 1945” of liberation activities in Prague in May 1945. WS of Prague. People in streets, soldiers. Newspaper: “VUDCE PADL” with a portrait of Hitler on it. Women and children stand with piles of their stuff on the sidewalk. Military trucks. Intertitle: “5 KVĚTEN.” Man wipes words off of a shopfront window. Someone knocks a letter off of a building. Man tears down a sign in German from the side of a building.

  13. Carl Schurz Tour of American professors and students through Germany in summer 1934

    REEL 4. The Schurz group travels by bus through rural landscape. In Rothenburg, they pass under stone archways and by Bavarian shops. Student with two birds. They go to Augsburg. A woman pumps water from a fountain. They drive through Landsberg, where Hitler was once imprisoned after the Beer Hall Putsch. The tour continues in the country. They take a break to swim and lay on the dock. More Bavarian landscape and villages. It rains, but the sunshine returns as they drive into the valley of Oberammergau.

  14. Presentation by Lilly Malnik

  15. Selected records of the Prosecutor of the District Court in Kielce Prokuratura Sądu Okręgowego w Kielcach (Sygn. 1119)

    Indexes of names related to cases handled by the office of the Prosecutor of the District Court in Kielce.

  16. Russian Campaign (color film)

    Russian campaign, German soldiers, tank wrecks, winter, Officer in a warm fur coat, Earth bunker, winter landscape

  17. Rings um eine Kirche

    Private soldier's film with German title cards. From the HKL (front/combat lines). Color film of church. Animals. Grooming horses. Blossoming trees.

  18. Bitterman family photographs

    Contains photographs of the Bitterman family, including two photographs of the donor's parents' wedding in Ulm, Germany; one photo of Yaakov Bitterman and his sister Devora, dated 1937; one photo of the donor's paternal grandparents, Baruch Bitterman and Sheindl Nachnonsohn; one photo of the donor's grandmother with her children Yaakov and Bluma Bitterman; and one photo of Yaakov Bitterman and his wife and daughter (donor).

  19. Selected records of the City of Kielce Akta miasta Kielce (Sygn. 122)

    Correspondence and minutes of sessions of the Municipal Council (34 aldermen, 10 of them Jews), alphabetical lists of cases examined by the Council (1917-1925), materials related to elections to the Council and lists of voters (1919 and 1927), materials related to election to the Parliament and Senate, lists of voters included (1922, 1928, 1930), files of the Town Hall - Departments of Treasury, Statistics and Technical Dept. (e.g. documents related to the Jewish graveyard (call No 1601), also lists and books of inhabitants, lists of recruits, files of the Jewish religious community in Kiel...

  20. Campaign in France; Ruins/ghetto in Warsaw; Slave laborer

    Exercise in the Eifel tower. Campaign in France: bunker. Paris - revue with performers. 10:24:05 Poland: column, ruins, ghetto in Warsaw, Vistula Bridge, old market, palace square. 10:28:04 Adolf Hitler Platz, ruins in Warsaw. 10:33:38 Sign: Jewish residential area, no entry. 10:35:05 France, construction of a bridge. French prisoners return home Tank. 10:51:29 Soldiers with full suitcases (towing luxury goods). Funeral 10:57:47 hanging Russia. Grave with coffins. 11:07:30 emaciated slave laborer