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  1. Lore Hillman papers

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

  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. Selma Aufhaeuser affidavit

    Consists of one affidavit submitted to the general consul in Stuttgart, Germany, by Ludwig and Pepi Ottenheimer of New York City, in support of the visa application of Selma Aufhaeuser of Bavaria, Germany. The affidavit was notarized on April 10, 1941. The effort was ultimately unsuccessful; Selma Aufhaeuser and her husband were part of the first deportations of German Jews to Riga, and were killed upon arrival as part of the Rumbula massacre.

  5. Selected records from the State Archive of Assisi

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the community of Assisi.

  6. Bergen-Belsen photograph collection

    The collection is comprised of a small album of spiral bound photographs and loose photographs which document the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp following liberation. The black and white photographs are dated April 1945, and depict scenes around the camp, Allied troops, victims and survivors, and a British Rabbi talking with a captain. Some photos are captioned on the verso.

  7. Teofila Kotlewski sings

  8. Bernard John Sobczak collection

    Work ID card: "Werk-Ausweis Nr. 58 662" in metal frame, issued to Bernhard Sobczak, born on August 3, 1924; issued by Gerhard Feissler Werke; Kassel; November 4, 1944; Camp Lohfeldden.

  9. Jewish family and vacation life in Reichenbach

    Pan, city square with shops: "Gustav Böhm", possibly Wroclaw. Snowing. Clocktower (12:28pm). End 01:00:24 01:00:29 Side view, a woman walks towards the camera with a boy (possibly Helene Fleischer and grandchild Johannes) passing their home in the mountains. Snow. 01:01:07 INT, Else Weyl in a patterned shirt looking at a catalog. [VQ: film is scratched]. She smiles and waves for the camera. 01:01:18 INT, Eric Weyl reading a magazine in the same room, he lights a cigarette. End 01:01:28 01:01:32 Two men and a woman stand around an automobile with license plate "IK-78126 - D". The man with su...

  10. Selected records of the City of Błonie Akta miasta Błonia (Sygn.107)

    Minutes of the Municipal Council of Błonie, projects of buildings of Jews living in Błonie, certificates of the birth, death and marriage, various ordinances and circular letters of German authorities, as well as documents related to sanitary actions in the town.

  11. Pilpel family papers

    The Pilpel Family papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and documents related to the family of Franz Josef and Marion (Stern) Pilpel (later Pell), their daughter Nina, and their son Ronald, chiefly related to the family's immigration from their native Austria to India, and their subsequent immigration to the United States. Includes personal and biographical documents, correspondence between members of the Pilpel family, predominantly from the post-war era but also some pre-war correspondence, and correspondence with extended family members and friends in Australia, Israel, and the ...

  12. Demonstration; DPs inflate rafts for trip to Palestine; family life; DP protest in Bari

    Very brief shot of protest/parade in a field, probably in Italy (like Film ID 4154). DPs inflate large rafts on a beach in DP camp in Italy and carry Israeli flags. 07:05 Menachem in his carriage with a still camera. Young men participate in formal ceremony or initiation. The men on the rafts on the water preparing for trip to Palestine. 08:30 Hannah squeezes into her baby’s toy rocking horse. Pan of the DP camp in Italy, huts. Moshe with Menachem - good CUs. Friend makes faces and shows off her baby on camera (possibly Chaim Springer and his parents). More shots of Moshe and Menachem. 09:4...

  13. Poster, American Relief for Poland

  14. Leszner family collection

    Collection of French newspaper and magazine pages saved by Julius and Margaret Leszner (donor's parents) during WWII. Some of the pages include their daughter Liliane's birth announcement, a photograph of Margaret Leszner and other refugees from Luxembourg heading to France, an announcement searching for Margaret Leszner posted by her husband, along with other pages saved by the Leszners. Julius survived in hiding, while Margaret and Liliane survived posing as Catholics.

  15. Laszlo Bohm Collection

    Photographs, marriage license, postcards, and other correspondence relating to the experiences of Laszlo Bohm in Fonyod, Hungary.

  16. Records of Ignacy Schwarzbart Akta Ignacego Szwarzbarta (Sygn. 543)

    The collection contains correspondence, notes, press clippings, articles, regulations, speeches, reports, and correspondence. Materials relate to the following subjects: Aid rendered by Schwarzbart to the Jewish emigrants and war refugees from Poland; Jewish emigration, editing of the Jewish newspaper “The Future” in France in 1940 and newspapers in other countries; and Schwartzbart’s activity in the National Council of the Republic of Poland in France during 1939-1940.

  18. Fred Strauss papers

    The Fred Strauss papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Fred Strauss’ attendance at the Israelitische Waisenanstalt school in Frankfurt, his inclusion in a Kindertransport from Frankfurt to Paris in 1939, his life as a child refugee in OSE homes in France, his immigration to the United States as part of an USCOM children’s transport from Lisbon in June 1941, his mother’s death in 1943, his move to New York, and his enlistment in the United States Army. Biographical materials include identification papers, travel papers, and m...

  19. Henny Wenkart papers

    The Henny Wenkart papers includes passports, postcards, photographs, and printed material, related to the childhood and emigration of Henny (Henriette) Wenkart from Nazi-occupied Austria as one of the "50 Children" on the transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus in June 1939. Includes childhood photographs of Wenkart and her family, German passports for Wenkart and her mother, Rose (Rachela) Wenkart, postcards sent by Wenkart's father, Hermann, including those sent to family members during World War I, and several publications containing poetry written by Wenkart reflecting on her e...

  20. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport

    Slim, rectangular leather identification card case received by Fritz (later Fred) Strauss while part of a refugee transport of children from Germany between 1939 and 1941. In response to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and growing anti-Semitism in their small town, Fritz’s mother sent him, in 1936, to Frankfurt to attend school at a large Jewish orphanage. Within three years, anti-Semitism in Frankfurt had grown, and on March 8, 1939, Fritz was sent on a transport to Paris, France, with ten other children. Fritz and the other Orthodox children moved to new towns multiple times in the area around Pa...