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  1. Collection of manuscripts Zbiór rękopisów (Sygn. 205)

    The collection contains memoirs, manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, clippings documenting the experiences of Poles and Polish Jews who lived in Poland during the German occupation in World War II. Includes the memoir of Tadeusz Hilarowicz about the Nusbaum-Hilarowicz family, the memoir of Bronislaw Maul-Hochber about his life and fate in Warsaw, 1906-1945, a portrait of Rabi Rabin Załman Boruchowski from Łożnia, materials concerning masonic lodges in Warsaw (the Jewish masonic lodge B'nai B'rith), 1799-1936, and various memoirs and essays relating to participation in the resistance move...

  2. UNRRA selected records AG-018-006 : Balkan Mission and Middle East Office.

    Selected records of the Albania Mission, Bureau of Relief Services, 1944-46: correspondence, registration cards, statistics, policy and procedures, repatriation, and tracing and inquiry forms and other records relating to displaced persons, Albanian Prisoners of War, Albanians employed during the war, forced labors and deportees; Records of the Bureau of Requirements and Supply-Greek Relief Series-Joint Relief Commission 1944-1949: reports on medical supplies, food and care; Records of the Bureau of Finance and Administration-Central Registry Series, 1944-1949: correspondence, and intellige...

  3. Trip to Kaunas with Abraham Resnick

  4. "My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant"

    "My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant" by Dr. Rudolph (Rudy Keimowitz) is a 19 page manuscript. The manuscript includes information about Henry Keimowitz's childhood in Hungary, time in the Hungarian Army during World War I, capture and imprisonment by the Harlem Hellfighters during the Battle of Verdun, experience as a POW in France, and his illegal immigration to the United States as a stowaway around 1922. He married and started a family in the United States, and, during World War II, was investigated as an enemy al...

  5. Roza Schwartz collection

    Contains a British Zone PWX/DP registration/identity card for Roza Schwartz, and modern copy prints of corpses at concentration camps.

  6. Romanian troops in Czechoslovakia

    Romanian troops parade on the outskirts of the city of Humpolec. Man plays the cymbals next to a drummer. Local Czech children in traditional folk outfits walk through the streets in front of a marching band. 06:57 CU of two Romanian officers, one tips his hat. More soldiers in a field, they salute as officials walk by. One addresses the crowd from a platform with flags. They salute and march and the band plays. 08:00 glimpse of a cameraman. CU, official. Military parade, ceremony. Automobiles drive away.

  7. Blima Sicherman papers

    Contains documents concerning Blima Sicherman, born in Breslau, Germany [present-day Wroclaw, Poland] in 1905. Includes a Polish postwar passport issued in the Czech Republic and documents for vaccination, immigration documents, and translations attesting to Blima's internment in the Auschwitz concentration camp and then "Brnenc" [Brunnlitz] concentration camp, where she survived due to the actions of Oskar Schindler. From there, Blima went to Sweden and immigrated to the United States. Her husband, Oskar Sicherman and children [names unknown] did not survive the Holocaust.

  8. Book, Missals et Vesperals

    Missal given to Jacques Lajbman by Father Philippe Laurent Cleeremans (1878-1944) while he was in hiding in the Belgian village of Tourinnes-St. Lambert.

  9. Officer with family; Assault gun in the snow

    Occupied France, life in Paris, market, newspaper dated May 8, 1942: "German Submarines in the Mississippi"

  10. Sport at Messerschmitt factory; Luftwaffe

    AGFA 1940. Company group marches in step in Regensburg at the Messerschmitt aircraft factories. In the outdoor swimming pool with diving platform. Company group marches in column on sports field. Physical exercises. Outdoor pool: young woman with swimming cap swims. Teenagers take a shower. Jump off the one-meter board. "Kraft durch Freude" [Strength through Joy]. 06:00 Luftwaffe officer (black and white)

  11. Berger, Flescher and Tepper families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs, photo albums, passports and certificates documenting the experiences of the Berger and Flescher families during the Holocaust era. Hella Berger fled Germany to the US in 1938 with her two sisters. Sam Flescher fled Vienna after the Anschluss to Holland, and was able to get a visa to the US. He joined the US Army in 1942. His brother Henry, survived multiple concentration camps. The brothers were reunited in September 1945 when Sam returned to Europe as a member of the occupied forces. Includes Nazi propaganda publications that Lester Tep...

  12. UNRRA selected records AG-018-037 : South West Pacific Area Office (SWPAO)

    Selected files of the UNRRA Headquarters Office-Subject Files: Mainly files on the displaced persons and war relief matters.

  13. Hungary & Yugoslavia

    Private film of the Batschka region in Hungary and Serbia

  14. German troops

    Mountain troops

  15. Goering, soldiers tour

    B/w Cars move through a rainy street. Assembled Wehrmacht units and high officers stand in formation alongside the road. Mountain chapels. Göring exits a building in a fur hat. He then stands back under the doorway. Marching band. Snowy hillside from a funicular car, mountain railway. Snowy view from the top of the hill. Small log cabins. An avalanche. Göring walks with his cane and fur hat, followed by multiple men. Mining carts. 11:07:46 Soldiers line up alongside train tracks. Sign “Leoben.” Leoben, Austria. The soldiers perform a rifle drill, led by their commander whose back is to the ...

  16. County Command of the State Police in Opoczno Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Opocznie (Sygn. 1187)

    Police reports, surveillance books, an inspection of dactyloscopic cards, an album of criminals, a journal of a service inspection, reports by police officers and informers related to political, social and labor organizations, and records related to communist activities among the Jews.

  17. Sportfest; Winterhelfswerk

    Sportfest. Women dance in meadow. 05:52 BDM sings, swaying spectators, fun fair. 07:39 DAF assembly, Wehrmacht, flags, standards (Osnabrück), HJ. 09:40 Swearing in Wehrmacht, Wehrmacht music train, soldiers. Winter Relief / WHW. 20:17 "Schutz vor Bolschewismus" [Protection against Bolshevism], decorated streets. 23:19 Goulash, cannon. Signs: "NSDAP-Ortsgruppe", "NSV". March through town. Large industrial plants. Barracks life. 33:42 Party divisions march through forest, forest festival. Small train, narrow gauge, bog mining? 41:03 WHW, soup meal, peeling potatoes. BDM. 44:47 "Rettung vor Bo...

  18. Jidisze gezelszaft cu farszprojtn kunst Jewish Society to Propagate Fine Art Żydowskie Towarzystwo Krzewienia Sztuk Pięknych (Sygn. 361)

    Minutes, reports, workplans, incoming and outgoing correspondence, lists of art objects collected by the Society, published materials, such as articles, press cuttings, and photographs (collected mainly for the purpose of creating a catalog); personal files of the Board staff, name lists and applications of artists; financial files, such as preliminary budgets, approved budgets and cash reports.

  19. Hamburg

    Hamburg; ships with German flags, swastikas (agfa-color).

  20. Spiritual resistance prayers from Amsterdam

    Contains two documents with prayers about what was happening, written in Amsterdam circa 1942-1943, written as a form of spiritual resistance.