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  1. Transport EK document

    Consists of one post-war document, undated, containing a description of the experiences of the men in Transport "EK." On September 28, 1944, almost 2500 people were deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. In October, the group of men who survived the initial selection were divided into transports for forced labor. Transport "EK" was sent to the Taucha concentration camp, where they spend the rest of the war assembling German weaponry in the Hasag factory. The document also gives a description of the route the men took during a forced march in April and May 1945, before they were liberate...

  2. Testimony regarding Kristallnacht and Dachau

    Consists of one typed testimony, 10 pages, unsigned, written most likely in late 1938 or 1939, by an anonymous author, regarding the experiences of the author after being arrested on Kristallnacht and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. The author describes the Gestapo search of his apartment, his arrest, and gives extensive detail about life in Dachau at this time. Wendy Wallace [donor] found this testimony in the home of Miss Mundell Doolittle.

  3. Rabbi Barry Friedman photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the aftermath of the Dachau and Ohrdruf concentration camps after liberation; images show American soldiers in the camp, burial of victims in mass graves, and camp views; dated April-May 1945

  4. Charles Neil Starr collection

    Letter: typed and handwritten on the back of a proof sheet of photographs documenting the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp and printed by the US Army Signal Corps; written by Cpl. Charles Neil Starr (donor's friend) to his wife Vivienne in Akron, Ohio; dated August 17, 1945; in English.

  5. Asher and Sara Laor photograph collection

    Contains eleven photographs of Asher and Sara Laor in the displaced persons camp at Landsberg am Lech, circa 1945.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- de Gaulle, Leclerc and others in Chad

    General Charles de Gaulle deplanes and greets Colonel Philippe Leclerc in Fort-Lamy, Chad. The other men with de Gaulle include his Aide-de-camp, Geoffroy de Courcel and General Edward Louis Spears, the British liaison with the Free French. Leclerc is the thin man with the walking stick. De Gaulle greets a line of men and reviews a line of French colonial troops. De Gaulle and Leclerc arrive at an official building by car. LS of a plane (Martin bomber) landing. General Edgard de Larminat on the tarmac and igreeted by the governor of Chad and the mayor of Fort-Lamy. The symbol of the Free Fr...

  7. Jüdische Gemeinde zu Duisburg, Beitragskarte (contribution card)

    Passbook, issued to Jay Stern, from the Jüdische Gemeinde zu Duisburg, documenting the dues paid by Stern over a period of a year and a half to a welfare organization benefiting Jews in Duisburg. Undated, circa 1930s. Document contains 17 adhesive stamps, in the amount of 1 Reichmark or 50 pfennigs, with representations on each stamp of various Jewish themes, such as festivals and holidays, and the names of patriarchs.

  8. Heribert Froboese testimony

    Typescript text (37 pages) of the testimony of Father Heribert Froboese, O.F.M., a priest interned at Buchenwald, written shortly after his liberation in 1945; and a photograph of Father Froboese in the clothing of a Franciscan monk, dated August 1945. Father Froboese wrote this testimony with the hope that it could be used in the trial of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, and he gave the donor's father, Col. Aloysius McCormick, Jr., of the U.S. Army, a copy of this text after meeting him in 1945. File contains an explanatory note from the donor, dated 1984, and a brief biography of Col. McC...

  9. Gold family collection

    Collection of documents relating to Jacob Gold (b. 1908) and Hela Chaja Ost Gold (b. 1914) [donor's parents] who survived the Holocaust in Siberia, USSR. Includes affidavits, citizenship papers, and immigration documents, circa 1949-1956.

  10. Deportation of the last Jews of Bruchsal, October 1940

    Title onscreen: "Bruchsal Judenfrei! Die letzten Juden verlassen Bruchsal, 18 Oktober 1940" [Bruchsal free of Jews! The last Jews leave Bruchsal, October 18, 1940] A line of Jews, wearing warm clothing and carrying suitcases and bags, files past the camera, including Marcus Rosenberg and his son Leo Rosenberg and Edith [Loeb] Leuchter and her mother, Julie. They are guarded by uniformed Germans, including police. Many people in civilian clothes stand in the background, watching the deportation. Uniformed Germans follow behind the last of the Jews. The last Jews of Bruchsal were deported to ...

  11. Ordnungspolizei in Moravia; Daluege

    Title card reads: “1938 Wiener Schutzpolizei in Südmähren.” Title card: “Wille und Tat des Führers ermöglichen die friedliche Heimkehr des Sudetenlandes in das Groẞdeutsche Reich.” Title: “Ein starker Gurtel von Betonbunkern und Hindernissen sollte deutsche Menschen ewig trennen. Volksbewusstsein und Opferwille überwanden auch diese eiserne Grenze.” LS, then pan, of a fortification in the countryside. Fortification building with the words “Pravda vitezi” [“Truth prevails”] painted on it. Two Ordnungspolizei walk into the building. More shots of the fortification. Buildings in Podyji Nationa...

  12. Allied POWs in Paris

    American and British POWs are marched through the streets of Paris under German guard. French civilians watch them pass. 03:03:06 The prisoners pass by a larger crowd of civilians, some of whom kick them as they walk past. A fight breaks out but it is hard to see who is fighting. CUs of some of the POWs.

  13. Fuchs and Buchbinder families collection

    Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Sarah Fuchs and Moishe Buchbinder before, during and after the Holocaust. Prewar images of the Buchbinder family in Navaselicza, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine], post-war documents including Sarah and Moishe’s Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate), pre-war images of the Fuchs family in Irholcz, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine]. Moishe fled to the Soviet occupied territories where he was arrested and deported to a Siberian prison and later was recruited as a soldier for a Soviet-Czech unit through the end of the War. Sarah wa...

  14. Surrender of military and civilians in Engers and Germersheim

    (LIB 4671) American military activities in Engers, Germany. A soldier directs half-track tanks down the center of town. A German civilian wearing a white armband reads a proclamation while standing astride a bicycle. Soldiers and civilians are visible in the background. German soldiers or Hitler Youth surrendering. 01:54:22 Quality improves. Slate indicates that the date is March 25, 1945 and the cameraman is named Urban. American soldiers walk through the streets of Engers. Nice shots of an American soldier searching Germans. A First Lieutenant swears in two enlisted men as Second Lieutena...

  15. El Male Rachamim Holocaust Memorial - Chile document

    Contains one document on letterhead of the Comite Central de Educacion y Cultura Judia de Chile (Santiago), with text in Hebrew

  16. "We Will Never Die" program

    Consists of one program for the June 6th, 1943, performance of "We Will Never Die: A National Historical Pageant Memorializing the Two Million Murdered Jews of Europe" held at Boston Garden, in Boston, MA. The program includes photographs of previous performances, of participants, including author Ben Hecht, photographs and lists of sponsors, and advertisements.

  17. Secret and confidential records Secretos y Reservados

    This collection contains confidential reports from various Argentinean government agencies and political offices to the Argentine Ministry of the Interior, including the Ministry of Foreign Relations, various provincial Governor's offices, the national police, the Ministry of War, the Postal and Telegraph Service, the Ministry of Agriculture, and others. Also includes records pertaining to Jewish immigration (both legal and illegal) to Argentina and other Latin American countries, the Jewish colonization movement, Nazi activities in Patagonia and other parts of Argentina, and communications...

  18. Hermann Goering's Art Purchases (Fond 211)

    Contains photocopies of art collections dating from the period 1940-1945 concerning transactions in the Netherlands and other European countries; some concern the collection J. Goudstikker. Reichsfeldmarshall Göring (1893-1946) bought art in large quantities in occupied Europe. These transactions were partially organized by his private assistant, Gisela Limberger, Dr. K. Mühlmann and the director of the art collections of Goering, Walter Andreas Hofer.

  19. Jozef Bryf memoir

    Consists of one CD containing the handwritten memoirs, in Yiddish, of Jozef Bryf. The memoirs, written in the 1980s, cover the period of 1920-1980 and describe Mr. Bryf's childhood in Łaskarzew, Poland, the German bombardment of Warsaw in 1939, and escaping with his future wife, Hanna Bleiwais, into the Soviet occupied territories. In 1941, the couple was deported to Siberia for forced labor, but after a year, moved to Tashkent, where they spent the war. After the liberation of the area, they moved back to Poland, from which they escaped in 1946 and ultimately joined family in France.

  20. 804 Research collection Sobibór Jules Schelvis

    Contains source materials for research of Jules Schelvis, a Holocaust survivor, on the death camp of Sobibór. Includes articles; reports; copies of evidence; documentations, illustrations; and eye witness reports. He published his findings in his work "Vernietigingskamp Sobibór /Death camp Sobibór " (Amsterdam 1993) and "Sobibór: A History of a Nazi Death Camp- Jules Schelvis" (New York, 2007, Published by Berg Publishers in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).