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  1. Blanket

    Blanket entrusted to Jewish community of Budapest by woman who walked in with it and wanted to give it to Syrian refugees, claiming it was worn by her mother after liberation from the camps during WWII. On September 11, 2015, the Bálint House (the Jewish Community Center of Budapest) was fundraising, collecting blankets and tents for Syrian refugees. An elderly person arrived in the afternoon who brought in blankets, includings this blanket which they said it was difficult to part with because their mother was given this blanket during WWII.

  2. Festival in Wachau region; Dollfuss burial

    Wachauer Festzug 2 Mai 1936. Festival in Wachau. Girls in traditional costume, procession. 10:03:21 Burial/ceremony for Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss. Crowds, speeches, Fatherland Front flags.

  3. May Day; Siemens factory

    With German title cards. May Day celebrations in 1934/1935. Siemenswerke at Mannheim.

  4. Various film records on the history of German aviation

    Various recordings on the subject of German aviation / air force: Gliding (1921-1923). Flying through muscle power (1934). Commercial aircraft. Structure and use of the air force. 10:32:58 Helmut Lent and Wolfgang Falck (I./ZG 76) 10:33:57 am Johannes Steinhoff 10:34:02 Wolfgang Falck 10:34:08 Gordon Gollob and Helmut Lent 10:34:15 Carl-Alfred Schumacher

  5. Germans building bridge

    Germans building a railway bridge. Officials in uniform.

  6. Selected records related to history of the Jewish Community of Estonia from the National Archives of Estonia in Tallinn

    Correspondence, minutes, reports, statistics, registers, etc. of various government offices (Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Education, Police Department, Credit Unions, State Chancery, Tax Office, Banks, etc.) and Jewish organizations, banks and schools (Jewish National Committee, Cultural Autonomy of the Jewish Minority, Jewish communities of Tallinn and of Tartu, Jewish Cooperative Bank, etc.). The collection includes records related to the confiscation of the Jewish property (by the Soviet and German authorities 1940-1945), nationalization of the Tallinn J...

  7. Selected records related to the evacuation of civilians to Armenia during World War II

    Records related to the evacuation of civilians to Armenia during World War II that includes information about resettlement, employment, financial aid, food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities to evacuees and refugees. Includes lists of evacuees arriving to Armenia from various regions of the former USSR, lists of Polish refugees repatriated to Poland and Jews evacuated from various locations, correspondence of the local authorities pertaining to settlement and employment of evacuees and refugees, statistics, reports, lists of communists, etc.

  8. Glee club "Loreley"; excursions around Dresden; daily life

    Ascension Day 1937, pub, bus ride, boat ride, Elbe River, Family in Glossen, Lübben, Dresden

  9. Wolf and Schlesinger families papers

    The collection documents the pre-war lives of Rudolf Wolf and Gretel Schlesinger Wolf and their families in Frankfurt, Germany, as well as their immigration and post-war experiences in the United States. Included are biographical materials such as identification papers, diaries, and genealogical research; pre-war correspondence along with war-time letters written from family and friends in Germany as well as those who fled; immigration papers; restitution papers; and pre-war and post-war photographs of family and friends in Frankfurt and the United States. The biographical materials primari...

  10. Ursula Nelson collection

    Photographs (two albums, two loose photographs) and certificate from the Deutscher Makkabikreise, 1938, both related to Ursula Kantorowicz (later Nelson), documenting her childhood in Germany and young-adult years as an emigre in England. Photograph albums include images of Nelson's parents and relatives in Germany, childhood friends, her life in Britain after emigration, including her friends and work, and her first husband, Leslie Smith.

  11. Leah Press Kalina photographs

    The Leah Press Kalina photographs contain photographic prints, photographic postcards, and Rosh Hashanah cards documenting the post-war experiences of Leah Press Kalina, her sister Ruchel, and friends. The majority of the images in this collection depict Leah in the Deggendorf displaced persons camp between 1946 and 1947. Images include daily activities within the camp, friends, weddings, and Leah in a uniform. Also included are photographs of Leah with friends and several images of a friend named Saul Eckstein in Rome and Israel after the war. Pre-war images depict Gershon Press and his mo...

  12. Selected records of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Poland Prokuratoria Generalna RP (Sygn. 347)

    Statements of death, with accompanying investigative documentation, issued by the Office of General Prosecutor in Kielce. Majority of records relate to Kielce Jews from the years of German occupation. Prosecutor's investigations cover the period from 1945 until 1951. Included are persecution of civilians, descriptions of the deaths of individuals and groups of people murdered by the occupier, deaths of Poles who perished in labor camps, concentration camps, and displacements, and the persecution of Jews. Most of investigations of the Attorney General (General Prosecutor) in Kielce relate to...

  13. Flemish SS volunteers

    Flemish youth organization AVNS. Funeral ceremony. Flemish SS volunteers at Brussels.

  14. Headquarters; exercises of Nazi workers

    Private films with German intertitles. Group headquarters in Hilchenbach and Siegen. Exercises. Mess hall. Gauleiter Wagner. Dr. Decker.... Continues in next reels.

  15. Nasielski family correspondence

    Contains 12 postcards sent by various members of the Nasielski family, from the Łódź ghetto, during the German occupation of Poland during World War II. The postcards were all addressed to Dudek Nasielski, who was living in Tashkent, in Soviet Central Asia. Those who wrote to him included his parents, his sisters Ruta, Fela, his brother Scholek, and his sister and brother-in-law, Tusia and Joszef Luft. In the correspondence, various family members ask after his health and well-being, report on the illness of their mother, and that they are unable to work at that time. There are also sever...

  17. Activities of the 257th German Infantry

    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. Men working in a quarry, soldiers eating, exploring, playing soccer, training, testing weapons, examining a destroyed bridge, bouncing on broken traintracks.

  18. Huguette Frank papers

    The collection primarily contains documents, correspondence, and photographs that document the wartime experiences of Huguette Salomon Frank of Paris, France in Marseille, France; Drancy transit camp; Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp; Ravensbrück concentration camp; and one of the Bunzlau subcamps of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Included are some photographs and documents relating to the pre-war lives of the Salomon family, and Huguette’s post-war life with her husband Werner Frank.

  19. Files of the bailiff of Grójec Akta komornicze w Grójcu (Sygn.1325)

    Files of the bailiffs of Grójec region, Poland, related to the recovery of Jewish debts. Selected cases relate to Jews from different towns and villages of the Grójec county (Mogielnica, Zbrosza Duża, Błędów, Broniszew, Winiary, Głowaczów, Jadwiga, Otalążka, Miechowiec,Tarczyn, Goszczyn, Ryszki, Łatanka, Daszew, Wola Karolewska, Tomaszów gmina Konie, Trzylatków, Dąbrówka Stara, Dobiecin, Pielinów, Wilhelmów,Goliany, Worów, Świdno, Daszewice, Łychów and other places, as well as from the Grójec itself). The files generally contain documents typical for the execution of debt: a motion to the C...

  20. Bleier and Weisz families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of the Bleier family of Budapest, Hungary and the Weisz family of Baia Mare, Romania. Included are biographical papers, correspondence, immigration documents, writings, clippings, and photographs. The material primarily focuses on the wartime and post-war experiences of Zoltan Weisz and Gisela Bleier, who met and married in Baia Mare after the war. The biographical material primarily contains identification papers, genealogy research, and birth, marriage, and death certificates. Included with the biographical material are exhibition and pre...