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  1. Lifschitz family photographs

    Two (2) pre-war family photographs: black and white portrait of Chaya Sara and husband Zeev Gorin (donor's father's sister), both of whom perished on October 24, 1927; black and white portrait of Aharon Lifschitz (donor's father) and his younger brother Leibl, 1937, who perished in the Holocaust.

  2. Frank Caplan collection

    Contains a typewritten statement given by former political prisoner Rudolf Hess of Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart), Germany, to Lt. Frank Caplan (donor’s father) at Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, on May 18, 1945. The report documents former Hess’s arrest by Nazi authorities in 1943 and his imprisonment in the Dachau concentration camp, where he was subjected to medical experimentation. Hess was then transported to another concentration camp and, after an eight-day journey, arrived at Neuengamme concentration camp where he was a forced laborer. Hess was transferred to Stuttgart to be interrogated and t...

  3. Ethnic Germans; German invasion of Poland

    German intertitles. Title on screen: Ozaphan 10/39 Monatsschau [Loosely, October 1939 monthly show]. von Brauchitsch speaks to workers in arms factory in Dusseldorf in August 1939. Tanks. Swastikas. War preparations in London in August 1939. Men load materials in boxes onto a vehicle, dig ditches (street traffic in BG), and move a large gun. Volksdeutsche [ethnic Germans] with suitcases, eating. German soldiers (SS-Heimwehr) prepare to defend Danzig from Polish control by mounting and camouflaging weapons. Shell damage of buildings and homes near the border as the German offense advances. G...

  4. Kurt Schwarz papers

    The Kurt Schwarz papers consist of correspondence, photographs, telegrams, and documents related to the immigration of Kurt Schwarz, originally of Vienna, Austria, to the United States by way of Italy and Cuba, 1938-1940; as well as extensive correspondence from his mother, Helene Schwarz, in Vienna, 1938-1941. Includes telegrams from the American theatrical producer, Billy Rose, as he sought to help Kurt Schwarz immigrate to the United States, 1938-1939. Also includes later correspondence with Idy Sherer, the daughter of Kurt Schwarz, as she researched the fate of her grandmother, Helene S...

  5. Selected records of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki Akta gminy Żyrardów-Wiskitki (Sygn. 3)

    Consists of selected records of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki, Poland, e.g. registers of foreigners; files on inhabitants of Teklinów, Feliksów, Henryków, Kozłowice, Ruda Guzowska and Wiskitki; a list of 937 Jews from Wiskitki, 1937-1940; various correspondence of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki; registers of homeowners; birth and death certificates; records of the "Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy" in Wiskitki, 1941-1942; records of Jewish community in Wiskitki; records of Judenrat and registers of Jews permitted to travel, 1940; correspondence relating to Jewish Holocaust survivors, reco...

  6. Rotter family collection

    Photographs illustrating the experiences of Zbiegnew [Samuel/Steven] Rotter, born in Bielsko Biala, Poland in 1917 and interned in multiple concentration camps, including Mauthausen and its subcamp Gusen in Austria, and Aida Weinberg [alias Eugenia Domanska] born in Miedryzec, Poland in 1921 on false papers and their child Marian, born in the Degerlach displaced persons camp in Stuttgart, Germany in 1946; images primarily postwar.

  7. Jewish family after the war; DPs prepare for journey to Israel; new babies at DP camp

    Dark shots of Menachem, INTs. Street scene in Bari, Italy, horse and buggy, Hannah pushes Menachem in pram. Nice group shots of local children (Italian? DPs?) on a residential street. Moshe makes a face to the camera. Window displays of dolls, Hannah and Menachem walk on the city street towards a truck marked “Sica, Milano.” 01:35 Men carry rafts over their heads and lower them into the water at a beach near Santa Maria di Leuca DP camp in Italy. VAR shots of Menachem, Moshe and Hannah at DP camp in Italy (similar atmospheric shots as Film ID 4152). Barracks/huts. Hannah feeds baby with a s...

  8. 51st Field Hospital at Normandy and other sites

    The 51st Field Hospital campsite in a dusty landscape, probably in France. They laugh and tease one another as they walk along the road. A plane flies low to the ground. LS, pan of tent camp grounds with some military men, vehicles, and wooden stakes (gravesites?). 01:09:17 Large ships docking close to the Normandy shore on June 12, 1944. People wait and unload boats. The 51st Field Hospital nurses arrived at the Normandy beaches on D-Day plus 6 (June 12, 1944). 01:09:28 Beatrice waves to the camera by a tent. Pan of a campsite with grass after the Normandy invasion, probably in the summer ...

  9. American nurses sightseeing in Paris

    Sights in Paris in late August 1944 following the liberation of the city from German control. The 51st Field Hospital visits the Arc de Triomphe, the Seine, and the Eiffel Tower. 01:13:16 Beatrice and a man pose for the camera outside Notre Dame. French civilians near a Red Cross truck. The July Column with pedestrians and bicyclists.

  10. Mentesh and Tarabolous families photograph collection

    Collection of photographs of the Mentesh and Tarabolous families from Sofia and Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Lazer Mentesh was sent to a slave labor camp where he worked in a quarry and building roads; dated 1942-1943.

  11. Kotlewski family collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Dr. Moses and Teofila Vorshirm Keitelman (later Marian and Teofila Kotlewski), originally of Mielec, Poland. The documents relate to the Keitelmans' pre-war education, including Moses' training as a doctor and Teofila's as a X-ray technician. Includes post-war documents related to the family's name change to "Kotlewski," the name they used during the war, and Moses' name change to "Marian." Includes wartime and post-war photographs of the Kotlewskis, their sons George and Adam, life in Wrocław, and photographs tak...

  12. Wasservogel Wellerson families collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence relating to Dorrit Wasservogel Wellerson (donor’s late wife), born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, and her parents Marcel and Klara Wasservogel. The Wasservogel family left Austria on August 20, 1939 for India. On September 1, 1939 the war broke out and they were trapped in Naples, Italy not being able to proceed. They later moved to Rome, but in 1940 they were placed in internment camp in Atripalda in Forino, Italy, not far from Naples. From October 1943 Forino was under Allied control. In July 1944 the Wasservogel family joined approxim...

  13. Barbed wire from a German POW camp

    Piece of barbed wire from the site of a German prisoner of war camp in Rzhev, Soviet Union (now Russia). The camp operated from 1941-1943 and this piece was excavated in 2014 by the U.S.-Russia Joint Commission on POW/MIAs. Rzhev was located on the Volga River along the Moscow-Riga railway. Nazi Germany launched a surprise attack on its former ally, the Soviet Union, in June 1941. Rzhev, a city of about 50,000, was taken by the Germans in October. It was the site of several fierce battles, from the Soviet offensive in January 8, 1942, until March 22, 1943, during the German retreat from Rus...

  14. Selected records of the Steam Brewery in Skierniewice Browar Parowy w Skierniewicach (Sygn. 922)

    Books of recipients, debtors, incomes and expenditures of the Steam Brewery in Skierniewice, owned by Polish businessman, Władysław Strakacz. The brewery’s clientele included many Jews.

  15. Selected records of the City Mszczonów Akta miasta Mszczonowa (Sygn. 31)

    Selected records of the population of city Mszczonów in Poland: registration cards of private businesses, correspondence with the Tax Office and the Main Office of the District Blonski; documents of civil status, and registration of churches of different faiths in the city.

  16. Philomena K. Malin collection

    Envelope sent by Philomena K. Malin to her family in Genoa, Wisconsin containing three black and white photographic prints which depicts victims of the Nordhausen concentration camp immediately following liberation; photographs captioned on verso; dated April 1945.

  17. Selected records of the commune Szymanów Akta gminy Szymanów (Sygn. 54)

    Records related to control of the movement of population of the municipality Szymanów, 1945-1946.

  18. Questionnaires, related to Ktav-Heter and Agunot, post-Holocaust Hungary

    Nine questionnaires recording testimonies of men and women whose spouses were killed during the Holocaust, and who were seeking to record documentation of such, in order to obtain a writ of permission (Ktav Heter) to remarry. Stamped and signed by rabbis in various locations in Hungary, approximately 1946-1952.

  19. Paul Hirschfeld collection

    Collection of eight photographic postcards documenting the reburial of Holocaust victims and forced confrontation by local residents; inscribed "Naila, Nov. 1945" in black ink on verso; some also stamped as enlargements by photographer. The postcards were brought back to the United States after the war by Paul Hirschfeld (donor's father), who had fled Vienna in June 1938 and returned to Europe as a member of the US Army and OSS investigator.

  20. Morris B. Parloff papers

    Correspondence, scrapbook pages, and documents, related to the service of Morris B. Parloff in the Counter Intelligence Corps of the U.S. Army, from 1942-1945, including his service in occupied Germany in 1944-1945, and his training in counter intelligence at Camp Ritchie, Maryland. Includes some original correspondence sent from Parloff to his wife, Gloria, during the time he served in the Army, primarily from 1944, as well as a later (circa 2001), typescript compilation of all correspondence Mrs. Parloff received from her husband, for much of which the originals are no longer extant. Also...