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  1. Dr. Rosa Seidmann Waldinger papers

    Contains a grade book from the Vienna medical school for the years 1923-1925, which belonged to Rosa Seidmann (donor's relative) who was born in Vinitza, Bukovina. Incldues a certificate of service issued to Dr. Rosa Seidmann Waldinger for her work in a pulmonary clinic for children and youth who suffered from tuberculosis from July 24, 1930 untill November 15, 1935, signed by the chief doctor and director of the clinic.

  2. The Frank family at Schoberhof

    At Schoberhof, the Frank family with relatives. CUs of the family - a baby, young boy, and slender woman in a swimsuit. The Frank children Sigrid and Norman play and pose in costumes outdoors with Nanny Sophie. 02:19:47 Nazi flag waving, EXTs. Slow pan and LSs of Schoberhof.

  3. Hitler in Norway and Finland

    Eduard Dietl, military hospital, camouflage uniforms

  4. Frank family at an estate and visiting the Polish countryside

    Large estate near Kressendorf (Krzeszowice, Poland). Three people (including Norman Frank and his best friend Gerd Voigt) walk a dog on the grounds of the estate. They tour the Polish countryside and villages with a horse and carriage. Railroad crossing. Scenes of the countryside from a moving train (this railway line from Krakow to Dresden goes past Auschwitz). 01:10:20 Soft focus shots of Polish children posing for the camera beside a fence, a woman washes in the river. More scenes of the three people on the carriage, then returning to the wooded estate with a guarded gated entrance with ...

  5. Heligoland 1934/35

    Heligoland, vacaioners board a ship, views of the island, houses, cafes, street scenes, tourists, gymnastics exercises, water skiers on board

  6. Łódź Ghetto

    Short shot from moving vehicle on bridge over street in ghetto at Lodz. Ghetto. Fences. "Ghetto Wehrm.-Angen. ist das Betreten verboten Fleckfieber. The Feldkommandant” Glimpse into the ghetto: barbed wire, people, open window, bed linen. Sign: "Die Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt Federn u. Daunen Arbeits Ressort” 10:00:21 Jews in the ghetto behind the wall, children with the star, women with the star, men with the star. "Wohngebiet der Juden betreten verboten” [Residential area of ?? the Jews] 10:00:37 Soldier with rifle in front of guardhouse at the ghetto entrance. 10.00:42 Jews cros...

  7. Presentation by Lilly Malnik

  8. Keuter family papers

    The Keuter family papers consist of letters written by Albert and Barend Klaas Keuter from the Oranje Hotel prison in Scheveningen, Netherlands, and smuggled to their family describing their arrests, conditions in prison, hunger, and solitude. The papers also include wartime records documenting restrictions on Dutch civilians under the Nazi occupation and the family’s concerns for Albert and Barend; and postwar correspondence to Elizabeth Keuter conveying information about what happened to Albert and Barend in the Vught, Sachsenhausen, and Bergen Belsen concentration camps. Most of the docu...

  9. Records of the registry office of the Jewish community in Lutomiersk Akta urządu stanu cywilnego gminy żydowskiej w Lutomiersku (Sygn. 1547)

    Books of the registry office in Lutomiersk, Poland. Selected records contain registry books with data of marriages, births and deaths of inhabitants in Lutomiersk as well as bound copies of annexes.

  10. Fritzi and Elizabeth Zinger correspondence

    Correspondence, consisting of four letters and a postcard, the majority sent by sisters Fritzi and Elisabeth Zinger, originally of Vienna, following their immigration from Austria to the United States as two of the"50 children" sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, of Philadelphia. The correspondence, dating from June and July 1939, is chiefly from the two sisters, sent to their parents, who were still in Vienna, and were sent from the children's home Brith Sholomville, in Pennsylvania.

  11. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1937-1949

    Records include: correspondence with Jewish communities throughout Turkey, Romania, and Palestine; extensive documentation regarding shipments of food packages and other supplies to concentration camps such as Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen (including a postcard sent by Rabbi Leo Baeck, the renowned German scholar, from Theresienstadt acknowledging receipt of a AJJDC care package); cables and news releases; lists of survivors, including thousands of files from the Central Location Index; wartime testimonies; and correspondence regarding Joel Brand’s and Rudolf Kasztner’s negotiations in 1...

  12. Oral testimonies of Lilly Malnik and Nesse Godin

  13. Oscar Stein papers

    Collection of manuscript texts of poetry copied from underground periodicals, circa 1938, which had originated in Germany during the period from 1933-1936, along with a typescript memoir by Stein, circa 2015-2016, which describes his family's experiences following the German annexation of Austria and the family's subsequent escape. The underground publications were received and copied by Oscar Stein while he was employed at the Palästina Amt in Vienna. Approximately 80 leaves, containing over 100 poems, from authors such as Bertolt Brecht, Stefan Heym, Oskar Maria Graf, Walter Mehring, Eric...

  14. Drawing by a Theresienstadt inmate of a castle near Prague

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn533520
    • English
    • 1943
    • overall: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) pictorial area: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)

    Drawing of the Prague townscape featuring the Prazsky Hard castle created on wood by an unknown inmate in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia in 1943. It was once owned by Ales Jermar, a Czech-born pianist.

  15. Ferenc Hajba diary

    The collection includes a diary and notes kept by Ferenc Hajba, a non-Jewish witness to the persecution of Jews in Hungary.

  16. Robert Dreyfus papers

    Correspondence and other documents from Rabbi Robert Dreyfus, a native of Alsace, and primarly related to his experiences during the occupation of Belgium and France during World War II, including his own imprisonment as a prisoner-of-war from 1940 to 1945, including postcards and letters that he received from his wife, father, and other family members during the period when he was interned. Also includes a small amount of post-war correspondence.

  17. Agricultural works

    Potatoes, horse-drawn wagons, plows, women carrying bundles of straw, rural women drinking from a bottle, motorcyclist, straw shovelling, grain sacks

  18. Poster satirizing world leaders

    1 poster "150 Heads of Worldwide Politics"

  19. Collection of selected posters and proclamations Zbiór afiszów i plakatów (Sygn. 808)

    Posters, ordinances and proclamations issued and disseminated in Poland, dating from the inter-war period, the German occupation and the Communist regime. There are proclamations, ordinances, and posters related to Jews, including those of the establishment of the ghetto in Końskie, as well as the proclamation of 1946 condemning the Kielce pogrom.

  20. Cooperative Bank of Industrialists and Merchants in Częstochowa Bank Spółdzielczy Przemysłowców i Kupców w Częstochowie (Sygn. 1419)

    Financial records of one of the Jewish banks in Częstochowa, included are: the records of the opening balance during liquidation of 1941, and other liquidation files of the bank.