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  1. Correspondence of collaborators (Fond 241)

    The collection includes correspondence of Dutch volunteers who fought with the Germans on several fronts. Correspondence relates primarily to Dutch volunteers of the Nationalsozialisches Kraftfahrkorps (NSKK - National Socialist Motor Corps), with their families in the Netherlands. It also includes correspondence of members of the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB- National Socialist Movement), who emigrated to the German refugee camps after September 1944.

  2. Dagmar Lieblová memoir

    Memoir, typescript, 45 pages, English translation of Czech original, describing the experiences of Dagmar Lieblová, originally of Kutná Hora, Czechoslovakia, in which she describes her childhood in Kutná Hora, the Jewish community there, the German annexation of Bohemia and Moravia, the subsequent introduction of antisemitic policies, the deportation of her family to Theresienstadt, the daily life during her 18 months of internment there, her participation in the children's play "Brundibár," her subsequent deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau and experiences as a forced laborer there, the murd...

  3. Landscape painting with buildings

    Oil painting made by Imre Deutsch before the war in Budapest, Hungary.

  4. Neumann family papers

    The Neumann family papers consist of biographical materials, photographs, and restitution files documenting the Neumann family from Vienna, Gertrud and Ernst Neumann’s immigration from Vienna to the United States in 1940, and their children Karl and Greta’s immigration from Sweden via Riga, Vladivostok, Tokyo, Vancouver, and Seattle in 1941. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, registration, immigration, medical, military, and student records. Photographs primarily date from before World War II and depict the Neumann family and their relatives including, among others, Ernst’s bro...

  5. Poster encouraging voter turnout as a way to support freedom and the war effort

    Poster titled Your Right to Vote, promoting Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. Different types of wartime propaganda campaigns were designed around these slogans. This poster says that exercising the right to vote is the way civilians on the home front can protect the freedoms the US is fighting for overseas during World War II. This poster shows a vote for Freedom of Enterprise. The other choices on the ballot machine are Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of Press. In his January 1941 State of the Union address, FDR proposed four fundamental freedoms that people everywhere in the ...

  6. Rolleiflex camera taken by an American soldier

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn526520
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) b: Height: 5.625 inches (14.288 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Depth: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) c: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Diameter: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) d: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)

    Standard Rolleiflex 6 x 6 K2 camera, in leather case with accessories acquired by Hilbert Margol while serving with the US Army. Margol took it from a German soldier and then used it throughout the rest of his time while serving overseas.

  7. Postwar Berlin; theaters in Steglitz; US Air Force planes landing

    Four men operate a machine to demolish a city building. Men at work. 01:34:49 Train. Men at work again. Airplane lands. Rubble. 01:35:44 Street scene in Berlin with traffic, trams, and pedestrians. Max Kuehl sign. Couple walks towards camera, woman returns with flower bouquet. Outdoor market. Street scenes. EXT, "Ratskeller Steglitz" and "Albrechtshof Lichtspiele" (a theatre). "Titania Palast" theatre. Red Cross vehicle passes by. More street scenes. Café tables. 01:38:40 Dog walks towards camera. Puppies. 01:38:53 Women with aprons. Older couple with hats. Man in back of pickup truck waves...

  8. Cemetery, daily activity, and synagogue in Filipow

    Country road. Lottie poses with locals and relatives, probably in Suwalki, including Peretz Lansky and his wife Razel, Nahum Lansky (01:00:10), Zawel Borodowski (man with cane), next to Labe Hirsch Borodowsky (man with hat), next to Rivka Borodowsky with her children David and Eliyahu Vinizky at 01:00:16, and Rachel and Shlomo Quint at the end of the group (cousins); some children, probably Avraham and Binyamin Borodowsky, hide behind Zawel. A different group poses for the camera on cobbled streets. The countryside around Filipow, LS of town square. The American Blands arrive in a horse-dra...

  9. Licco Haim and friends at leisure in Spring 1940

    AGFA 8 1940. Handwritten title "Früjahr 1940". Title with 5 May date and names, "Panagiurishte" (a town in central Bulgaria). The friends - Paula, Hans, Kete, Anny, Fredy, Anny, and Licco, playfully goof-off, dance, and play games outside. 01:01:02 Licco with a girlfriend. CUs. 01:05:56 Title with 12 May date and names, "Petrohan" (a passage in the West Balkan mountains). The friends, Anny, Fredy, Kete, Hans, Zdravka, Paula, Anny, and Licco, play on a grassy hillside near their car. 01:09:41 Licco on top of the car, jumping. 01:10:00 Title with 9 June date and names, "On the Liulin Mountain...

  10. Selected records of the county department in Skierniewice Wydział Powiatowy w Skierniewicach (Sygn. 879)

    Protocols, correspondence, accounting reports of the county of Skierniewice; records related to the electoral committees, and registers of candidates for councilors, including Jewish candidates.

  11. Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers

    The Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers consists of five handwritten journals written by Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz (1903-1980) at the Feldafing displaced persons camp, dated May 1945 - August 1949. The papers also include five colorized photographs of portraits of the Hipszer family including Rajzla (Rejzla, née Krzesiwo) and her children Machla Hipszer (1931-1943), Gitla Hipszer (1937-1943), and Mina (Minca/Mincz, 1940-1943). The Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers consists of five handwritten journals written by Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz dated May 1945 - August 1949. The journals, written while Ilona was l...

  12. Max Reiner papers

    Typescript autobiographical text, approximately 254 pages, by Max Reiner, originally of Czernowitz and Vienna, describing his experiences in Austria and Germany prior to emigration, written 1940. The text was written in response to a project at Harvard University in 1940, seeking autobiographical texts from German and Austrian emigres, titled "My Life in Germany." In his text, Reiner described his impressions of turn-of-the century Czernowitz, his move to Vienna to begin his career as a journalist, his move to Berlin at the age of 23, and his subsequent career with the Ullstein publishing h...

  13. Selected records from collections of Dâmboviţa branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Reports relating to religious cults, the surveillance by the Iron Guard of Adventists and Jews; the confiscation of Jewish-owned land, properties and companies; the elimination of Jews from state jobs, the confiscation of Iron Guard properties by the Romanian government, internment in Târgu Jiu camp; Iron Guard activities in various localities, various complaints against Roma, lists and nominal files of of properties confiscated from Jews in Târgovişte, confiscation of goods from Roma who were deported to Transnistria, the status of Jews and Polish refugees. Records relating to epidemics, c...

  14. Oral history interview with Eugenia Unger

  15. Marco Clementi collection

    Contains a newspaper, "Corriere Della Serra," published November 11, 1938 in Milan, Italy, announcing racial laws; and a 1938 tourist map of Rhodes, Greece.

  16. Herman Wolf memoir

    Consists of a handwritten memoir in Hungarian authored by Herman Wolf (later Herman Woolf), originally of Buštino, Czechoslovakia (Bushtyno, Ukraine). The memoir discusses the occupation of Hungary, Herman’s experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oranienburg with his son John, their separation, and his liberation from Sachsenhausen. The memoir was written around late 1945 or early 1946 while Herman was recovering in a sanatorium in Liberec, Czechoslovakia (Liberec, Czech Republic). Also included is a typed, English language translation prepared by Herman’s son John Woolf in 2013.

  17. Sendzischew and Mottes family papers

    The Sendzischew and Mottes family papers primarily contain biographical papers, restitution claims, and photographs of Holocaust survivors David and Sala Sendzischew of Sosnowiec, Poland. The biographical papers are chiefly identification papers, marriage certificates, and immigration and naturalization documents. Also included is a testimonial statement from Sala, and letter to her from a soldier who helped her during the war. The photographs include family members and friends of the Sendzischew and Mottes families; David, Sala, and Israel Jacob Sendzischew; a photograph album of the famil...

  18. Fiala, Adler, and Fixler families collection

    Consists of photographs and documents related to the Fromowitz (later Fiala) and Adler families of Berezovo, Czechslovakia (now Berezovo, Ukraine) and of the Fixler family of Tačovo. Includes family trees of the Adler and Fixler families, official translations of official paperwork collected after the war by Mark Fiala and Lilli Fixler documenting his name change, the deaths of his first wife (Chaya Adler) and their children; and their 1946 marriage. Also includes pre-war photographs and copyprints of members of the Adler and Fixler families, many of whom perished in the Holocaust.

  19. Nazis parade in Berlin

    Parade of Nazi soldiers marching on Unter den Linden in Berlin. Crowds line the streets waving Nazi flags. They stop in front of the Neue Wache building. 01:01:22 Dignitaries arrive and walk from right to left (perhaps including high Nazi officials). Wreath-laying ceremony (possibly February 25, 1934/5 for National Mourning Day or Heroes Day).

  20. Komendant policji bezpieczeństwa i służby bezpieczeństwa Dystryktu Krakowskiego Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienst für den Distrikt Krakau (Sygn. GK 678)

    Contains personnel files of the officers of KdS Distrikt Krakau (Commander for the Cracow region of the Security Police [Sicherheits­polizeiand] and the Intelligence Service [Sicherheits­dienst]). Including are a general list of officers, a list of telephone numbers, and orders of admission to the Montelupich prison, as well as the files of Gestapo officers Eric Wüstenhagen and Wilhelm Klüger.