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  1. Floyd "Pete" Joslin photograph collection

    The collection contains photographs and an envelope. The photographs are of the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation, and are believed to have been taken by Floyd "Pete" Joslin (1916-2007), a U.S. serviceman in the 94th Division Artillery.

  2. Postwar wedding of a German soldier and American POW

    EXT, couples with flowers walk towards camera to celebrate the wedding of Theo's eldest son Gerald, a soldier for Germany and POW of the Americans. INTs, celebration, gifts, and the couple dancing. Family gathers around the bride and groom for portraits. Woman (bride?) in sequined jacket and top-hat dances with balloons labeled "Ratskeller Steglitz" in the Berlin area. Others dancing drunkenly. Little girl turns and dances and uses potty. Family continues to celebrate. Girl plays outdoors.

  3. Mountaineering in Bulgaria

    HAS of roads, housing, and mountaineers. Different views of the men climbing, full trees, a river and the environs. Quick view of filmmaker, Licco Max Haim at 01:09:45 - bald, with glasses, smoking a cigarette.

  4. Szajndla Rajs work card

    Consists of one forced labor work card from the Łódź ghetto, on onion skin without backing. The signed card, which is missing a photograph, was issued to Szajndla Rajs, born in 1935, listed as an apprentice milliner. The card is undated. Szajndla (Szaindla, Szaindle) Rajs perished in the Holocaust.

  5. Olec As told to Anne Marie Davies

    Memoir, typescript, 47 pages with photographs, as dictated by Alex Kozlowski to his niece, Anne Marie Davis. In the memoir, Kozlowski describes his childhood in Lwów, including his life there during the German occupation, his escape with his aunt to Warsaw, liberation, life in post-war Krakow and in displaced persons camps in Austria and Germany, and his immigration to the United States. He also describes his service in the United States Air Force from 1948 to 1968, including tours of duty with counter-intelligence corps in West Germany during the Cold War, and with a unit that rescued down...

  6. American nurses attend to wounded German POWs

    Campsite with Red Cross vehicles. The 51st Field Hospital attends to a massive number of wounded soldiers in early September 1944, most likely in St. Erme in Northern France, where the 51st Field Hospital had too many German POWs to treat under tents.

  7. Selected records of the General Jewish Labor Federation "Bund" in Poland Ogólno Żydowski Związek Robotniczy Bund w Polsce (Sygn.1214)

    Records of the activities of the the Central Committee of the Jewish Workers Federation "Bund" in Poland and abroad between 1900-1948. The collection contains circular letters, proclamations, reports, posters, appeals, photographs, press articles, a list of confiscated newspaper “Fołkscajtung”, correspondence, minutes, testimnonies, bulletins, accounts, memoirs, and card files.

  8. Lea Blumenkrantz Fried collection

    Contains photographs, documents and correspondence relating to the wartime experiences of Lila Blumenkranz, who survived the war in hiding in a convent in Przemyśl.

  9. UNRRA selected records AG-018-040 : Office of the Historian

    Selected files of the UNRRA Office of the Historian. Consists of publications and monographs: UNRRA monthly reviews, the Facts and Figures, Operational Analysis Papers, the Director General's Report to the Central Committee-Supply Operations, Documents of the Central Committee of the Council, Indexes to the Council Documents, United Nations Committee on UNRRA, the President Roosevelt's message to the First Council, reports to the Allied Governments, various agreements; Subject files: agreements, Richard Brown's diary of trip with congressmen, reports, correspondence, displaced persons files...

  10. Jewish Community Board, Skuodas (Fond 1235)

    Collection contains records of the Board of the Jewish community of Skuodas (Shkud in Yiddish) in Lithuania. It includes minutes of the Board's meetings, correspondence and other records related to the activities of the Jewish community of Skuodas (Shkud) before WWII.

  11. Walter Rockler papers

    Consists of legal briefs and opinions, publications, transcripts, memorandums, correspondence and artifacts relating to Mr. Rockler's work as a prosecutor for the Office of the Chief Counsel for War Crimes in Nuremberg, Germany, and later as the Director of the Office of Special Investigations of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

  12. Selected records of of the commune Zaborów Akta gminy Zaborów (Sygn. 58)

    Contains office correspondence and German ordinances related to Jewish properties and businesses, relocations of Jews and Romanies, and statistics of the commune population.

  13. Theodor Kleinsorge papers

    The collection primarily documents the arrest of Theodor Kleinsorge, originally of Laßbruch, Germany, as a non-Jewish political enemy of the Nazis in July 1944; his deportation to the Dachau concentration camp in September 1944; and his death in Dachau in February 1945. Wartime materials include documentation about his arrest and deportation sent to Theodor’s wife, Ruth Kleinsorge; correspondence from Theodor and Ruth to Theodore’s mother Elise Kleinsorge; one letter written to Ruth from Theodor while imprisoned at Dachau; and several family photographs. Biographical material includes ident...

  14. Jewish periodicals and newspapers from the National and University Library of Croatia

    Copies of the major Jewish periodicals published in Croatia during the interwar and pre WWI period. This collection includes newspaper Jevrejski List (1934), Židov (1917-1941) and pre WWI Jewish newspaper Židovska smotra (1906-1914). These publications cover a wide range of topics such as cultural, political, and public events taking place in the Jewish communities of Croatia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and Jewish communities worldwide. In addition, these newspapers also include contemporary coverage of local and world politics.

  15. Rabunski family collection

    Contains a typed carbon copy of autobiography of Wolf Rabunski (donor's grandfather) from Kurzeniec (Kurenets), Belarus, dated 1965, in German; family photos; documents from German government, dated 1965-1970; and letters from World Jewish Congress, dated 1964.

  16. Provincial Court for Warsaw Province Sąd Wojewódzki dla Województwa Warszawskiego (Sygn. GK 318)

    This collection contains selected files of the Provincial Court for Warsaw Province for trials during the years 1945-1956. These trials refer to to the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of Nazi criminals guilty of murder and the persecution of civilians and prisoners of war as well as the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. The “Sierpniówka” was one of the world's first legislation on liability for war crimes committed during World War II. This decree also applied to soldiers of the Home A...

  17. Selected records of the Holy Ghost Public County Hospital in Rawa Mazowiecka Publiczny Szpital Powiatowy Św. Ducha w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1080)

    Records related to the registration of inpatients (ledgers of inpatients)–many Jews are among the inpatients, inhabitants of the counties. The ledgers contain personal data: first and last name of a patients and names of their parents, age, religious denomination, whereabouts, occupation, marital status, kind of illness or disease, date of admission and discharge from the hospital, who financed the treatment, number of days spent in the hospital, total costs.

  18. Lore Hillman papers

    Documents, correspondence and photographs regarding the Baumgarten family during the Holocaust.

  19. Morgenthau family visits a dude ranch; Lindbergh welcome home parade in NYC

    Quick shot of an ocean liner. Henry Jr., Henry III, Robert, and Joan Mogenthau sail model ships in their swimming pool at the farm. Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigning in a town, parade. The children and their father ice skate on a frozen pond. In a warmer season, the children drive a battery operated toy car (red bug) in the street in front of their house, and the boys let Joan drive. The family practices horseback riding while adults race horses, somewhere in the Rocky Mountains at a dude ranch. Scenes of the mountain range in Wyoming. The family visited Grand Teton Park before it was open ...

  20. Deutscher Kleinempfänger [German small radio] produced in Nazi Germany

    Deutscher Kleinempfänger [German small radio] manufactured by G. Schaub in 1938. The radio was produced to help spread Nazi propaganda. It was made to sell at a low cost, so the majority of people could afford it. It lacked shortwave reception to make it difficult to receive foreign broadcasts. The radio was nicknamed Goebbels’ Schnauze [Snout], referring to the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, who often addressed the public through radio.