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  1. Posters; Nazi officials visit Tatra mountain region

    Perutz logo. 01:15:20 In color, CUs of an poster "Kampf den Wanzen!" (Fight against bedbugs!) and poster for 1939 UFA comedy film "Ich bin gleich weider da" starring Paul Klinger and Mady Rahl. A soldier adjusts a camera tripod. 01:15:45 Scenes of the Polish countryside and Tatra mountains from a slow-moving funicular. 01:16:06 Hans Frank (in the middle with a cane) and other Nazi officials walk outdoors in the snow by a gate that reads "Berghaus Krakau," a mountain hotel on Kalatówki in the Tatra Alp region which served as a guest house for high-ranking German officers during the Nazi occu...

  2. Jewish community in Włocławek and its region Gmina Żydowska we Włocławku oraz akta gmin żydowskich Aleksandrów, Brześć Kujawski, Chodecz, Izbica, Kowal, Lubień, Lubraniec, Przedecz

    Various documents of the Jewish community in Włocławek and its region: minutes of the Board meetings, lists of incomes and expenses, budgets, correspondence, inspection of the community in Włocławek, lists of community members, materials related to the election of the community leaders, applications of candidates for rabbis. Lists of payers to the community funds, birth, marriage and death certificates, register books, posters, announcements, etc.

  3. Graf Rothkirch; Ludwigslust

    Wochenschau. Lenski rides through Ludwigslust, ex Grand Duke of Mecklenburg. Ludwigslust city.

  4. Press tour in the Wachau region in 1928, Austria

    Monopol Mondial film. With German title cards. Press trip 1928 in the Wachau. Nice snapshots.

  5. Panzerregiment 8 1940/1941

    German military. Tanks. Western campaign. Relocation to Italy.

  6. Side of a pew from a synagogue in Beregszasz

    Side of a pew from the so-called "large" synagogue of Beregszasz [Beregovo]. The synagogue was the storage site of looted objects from Jewish homes of Beregovo. The synagogue’s building was renovated in 1960 and the furniture has been stored offsite since that time.

  7. Scrapbook album, "First Reunion, 1958"

    Scrapbook, containing photographs and ephemera, titled "First Reunion, 1958," compiled by an unidentified German emigre couple (possibly Charlotte and Herbert Jewell, originally Jewelowski) who fled the country in 1938, documenting their return to Germany and England for the first time in 1958, to visit relatives. Contains pre-war pictures of family, and depicts departure from New York in May 1958, arrival and visit with relatives in Berlin, trip to Munich and Bad Gastein, Austria; a visit to London to visit the burial site of their parents and relatives (including memorial to those killed ...

  8. Reception; presentation of key to Mackensen

    Rome? Reception in a garden, General Flieger, Albert Kesselring with wife? Goering in uniform sips from an espresso cup. People stand around drinking at this small gathering. Four women sit at a table, including Emmy Goering. 10:48:55 In Germany, Göring speaks in front of a man standing on the stairs, while everyone around him watches. Goering holds a speech for General August von Mackensen. Presentation of a document and key, probably on 22 October 1935. On this day Mackensen received the Prussian domain of Brüssow in the district of Prenzlau by order of Adolf Hitler as an endowment. This ...

  9. Lidia Gelband Eichenholz collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and notebooks documenting the experiences of Holocaust survivor Lidia Gelband. Collection includes her student notebooks and portfolio from UNRRA University in Munich, post-war identification papers and cards, medical diploma, documents and reports from the International Refugee Organization in Munich, and photographs of Dr. Lidia Gelband Eichenholz giving a talk at Carleton College.

  10. Boating; German wedding

    Sailboats, steamboats, kayaks on river. Man with an injury walks with a cane, observes activities on the river from porch and beach. MS, group of young friends, sitting on bench, with tea and cookies, dog. Building with sign in German (illegible). Crew teams practice. Sailing (filmed from boat). Group gathers on land, some in Nazi uniform. Young woman plays with a sheep. 10:06:02 Woman in patterned dress and pearls on a balcony. Young man in uniform. Nurse. Young injured German in uniform and cap walks with cane (possibly in late fall). 10:07:45 Man with cane walks with girlfriend (he appea...

  11. Potsdamer Platz in the Autumn of 1994

    Autumn 1994 filming in Berlin for HJ-Film: Potsdamer Platz, former command post of Artur Axmann

  12. Rolnik family photograph collection

    The collection documents the pre-war and post war lives of the Lorber Rolnik and Rolnik families of Poland. The collection includes pre-war family photographs in Włodawa and Chełm, Poland; post-war family photographs in the Tempelhof displaced persons camp, Brazil, and Israel; and theatre productions featuring Pinchas Rolnik in Włodawa and the Tempelhof displaced persons camp.

  13. Labor Service in Occupied France

    Drill. Rifle shooting, march through French village, shoemaker, mail delivery

  14. Dr. Jacob Tombak correspondence

    Contains two letters written by Dr. Jacob Tombak (donor's grand uncle), who was a child psychiatrist in Warsaw, Poland, to his sister, Lillie (donor's grandmother), in which he describes his many efforts to obtain a US visa. Dr. Tombak would later be in the Warsaw ghetto, and he did not survive.

  15. Presentation by Lilly Malnik

  16. Collection of documents from Freemason's Lodges in Dresden, Hannover, and Altenburg Zbiór dokumentów lóż masońskich m. in. w Dreźnie, Hanowerze, Altenburgu (Sygn. 118)

    Correspondence related to various Masonic lodges on German and Dutch territories, visitors’ books, name lists of members of lodges, diplomas of members of the Lodge from German territory between 1780-1921, books of freemasons’ and religious songs, as well as selected works of renowned composers (Mozart, Chopin and Schumann), and studies related to freemasons.

  17. Budapest; Berlin Zoo; Dunkirk; Dnieper dam; Hunting in Yugoslavia; Belgrade

    refugees, hunting, zoo, military personnel pose in city, beach child waves Nazi flag.

  18. Charles R. Lord papers

    The collection contains photographs and correspondence documenting Charles R. Lord’s trip aboard the SS Carroll Victory “Cattleboat I” to deliver livestock to Greece as part of a relief mission by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) from November 1946 to March 1947. The correspondence is primarily between Charles and his wife Josephine. The photographs document the livestock delivery as well as trips to villages and cities in Greece, Palestine, and Africa. An itinerary of the SS Carroll Victory is also included.

  19. Rachel Levin collection

    Contains letters, with envelopes, from Rachel Levin and her daughter, Hannah Narwitch, in Raguva, Lithuania to Pesia Phyllis Levin Costell (donor's mother) in the United States. In the letters, Rachel describles her husband's (Moyshe Levin) illness and death, the progress of the war, and requested affidavits of support for the family ("kartechke"). Includes photographs which belonged to Phyllis Levin created c. 1941 in Raguva; Phyllis had left Lithuania 1928 for Canada and then came to the US in 1939.

  20. Kaufmann family collection

    Collection of prewar photographs, photographic postcards, and written testimony relating to the Kaufmann family from Cologne, Germany. Photos document the family before WWII, and the postcards were written by the donor's brother in Amsterdam to their parents in New York, NY. Includes a testimony written by donor in 1998 and 2011 regarding her experiences during the Holocaust.