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  1. Forced burial of victims by German civilians

    (LIB 6591) Estedt, Germany. German civilians smooth dirt over fresh graves in a fenced area, then pound grave markers (crosses) into the dirt. A group of Polish former forced laborers led by a man in a Polish army uniform, carries a large wreath with a red and white ribbon in a procession (Polish funeral march). Wreath inscribed with "Od Polaków z Estetu ku czci pomordowanych rodaków" [From the Poles of (in) Estet in honor of their murdered countrymen]. They wear small badges (the purple P on a yellow square) on their breasts. They enter the fenced area with the wreath. Several American sol...

  2. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  3. Selected records from Massuah Institute for the Study of the Holocaust

    The selected archives comprise a collection of documents and publications related to the Holocaust, the Jewish world prior to the Holocaust-community institutions, youth movements, immigration of Jews to Palestine, personal documents, Brichah [Escape, the organized effort that helped Jews escape post-Holocaust Europe to Palestine] and Sh'erit ha-Pletah [the surviving remnant]. It is the chief archive of the history of the Hanoar Hazioni and Akiva youth movements. Consist also of the unique collections of postal items from the time of the Holocaust, personal testimonies of Holocaust survivor...

  4. Training for future Nazi leaders of occupied countries [captured German film]

    Seized German film described by NARA as showing a training course for German future leaders of occupied countries. The original title is missing and the beginning of the film seems to be missing as well. German titles throughout. The first title states that during the lunch hour the students enjoy the beautiful Alpine landscape. Uniformed men wander around the grounds of a castle, which is the NS-Ordensburg Sonthofen, built by the DAF (German Workers Front) under Robert Ley in 1934. Nice views of the castle and Nazi officers at leisure. A title says that the three course instructors are tal...

  5. Ration Coupon

  6. Beruh family correspondence

    The Beruh family correspondence comprises letters written between members of the Beruh family beginning after Gerda and Sonja’s transport to England in 1939 until Gerda and her mother, Nechama were reunited in 1945. The bulk of the letters are written by Gerda to her mother, though many letters include notes from Sonja as well. Three letters to the sisters from their father, Yaakov are also included. A small series of photographs are also included in this collection. Images include Gerda as a teenage girl and two images of groups of children.

  7. Forced burial of death march and concentration camp victims by German civilians; Russian POWs in a hospital; survivors at Buchenwald

    (LIB 5968) Schwarzenfeld, Germany. LS of many coffins loaded onto horse-drawn carts. German civilians from Schwarzenfeld unload and carry the coffins, walking past rows of corpses. Many civilians dig graves in a fenced area. The remains of a striped uniform are visible on at least one of the bodies awaiting burial. Houses are visible in the background. The victims died while on one of several evacuation transports from Flossenbuerg, en route to Dachau. On April 16th, a transport of some 1700 Jewish prisoners left Flossenbuerg. Near Schwarzenfeld, their train was strafed and destroyed by All...

  8. Mendel Awerbuch papers

    Consists of two identification documents for Mendel Awerbuch (also spelled Averbuch), one from the Polish Consulate in Brussels confirming his Polish citizenship, and the other from the town of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, permitting Awerbuch to stay in that town and confirming he had formerly been a prisoner at Buchenwald, both documents dated 1945. Includes four photographs of men and women, including Awerbuch, on a street in post-war Belgium; some wearing old concentration camp uniforms. Also includes passport-sized photos of a different man, with addresses in Paris and in Israel.

  9. Thaler and Angstreich family papers

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to the Angstreich family from Gliniany, Poland (Hlyniany, Ukraine) and the Thaler family from Zborów (Zboriv, Ukraine) and Brzeżany, Poland. Documents include birth certificates and passports from Poland, and marriage documents from Palestine.

  10. Ostarbeiter at the Prater

    Film opens on the Ferris wheel at the Vienna Prater amusement park. Dissolve and other simple special effects throughout. Wide shot of crowds (some wearing German/Austrian uniforms; some in street clothes) at the park followed by closer view of two women and two men walking and smiling. Shots of attractions at the park: the Ferris wheel and a roller coaster (camera views from the ground as well as on the roller coaster). More shots of the “Voelkergemisch” of Nazi uniformed men mingling with males and females in civilian dress. The clothing of the latter indicates that most of them are not G...

  11. Daisy Seror Chelly photographs

    Contina two photographs. One is an image of Daisy Seror wearing traditional dress of Jewish women in Gabès, Tunisia, dated c. 1951; "STUDIO D ART" and "Jean Cordero GABES" embossed on photo; housed in photo holder inscribed "Ida" on back, probably sent to donor's sister Ida in Israel. The second photograph is a black-and-white image of Daisy Seror wearing a nurse's uniform, tending to a little girl. Daisy Seror worked in the OSE dispensary financed by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee as an aide to Dr. Benmoussa, between 1948 - 1950, assisting with medical examinations of new...

  12. Tomasz Wilinski letter and photograph

    One letter, sent by Tomasz Wilinski, from the Stutthof concentration camp, addressed to Leon Stefankowski, in Kolno, near Lomza/Bialystok district, February 1944. Includes one copy photograph of Wilinski while he was a factory worker in New Jersey, taken 6/20/1920.

  13. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  14. Berman family papers

    Photographs of relatives of Mozes Berman including his brother Norbert in medical school in Paris, circa 1938; relatives in israel; Norbert's cousin Mina and her family, and Adolf Berman and his family. Also includes post-war correspondence between Adolf Berman in Israel and Minda Tzupkoff and Norbert Berman.

  15. Mauthausen liberation; German POW camp; freed Allied POWs

    (LIB 6086) Former prisoners of war from various Allied countries sit outdoors, cook, and rest. Some of the prisoners (a few look very thin) regard the camera as they walk down the street. Former POWs pile into the backs of several military trucks. 02:55:58 Long line of horse-drawn carts carrying German civilians and their belongings. CUs of some of the people, including a young boy lying on the ground and smiling at the camera. Former POWs walk down the road. Several Roma caravans drive down the road with children running behind, but it is not clear whether they are Roma children. 02:56:45 ...

  16. Brand and Lowinger families papers

    Collection of photographs depicting the Brand family in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, showing Hanna (Agi), her two brothers Richard and Erich, and her parents Etel and Moric Brand; two letters written in April and May 1944 in Ujhely, Hungary by a Viennese woman who took care of Erich Brand in the local hospital; photographs depicting the Löwinger family in the ghetto in Hajdúböszörmény, Jews at forced labor and a family photograph from before the war.

  17. Bella and Bernard Pasternak collection

    Collection of documents, photographs and correspondence illustrating the experiences of donors before, during, and after the Holocaust; includes photographs from Bernard’s experiences in forced labor (March 1943-March 1944) and ghetto (March-May 1944), in addition to his post-war life in Displaced Persons camps in Germany and Italy [Trani] (1945-1949). Also included are records of Bella’s pre-war life in Urisor, Romania (1930s, early 1940s), and post-war in Dej, Romania (after liberation), and Austria (after liberation). Bernard was deported to Auschwitz and then went on a death march to Bu...

  18. Inge Fischer Engel papers

    The Inge Fischer Engel papers consist of biographical materials, a diary and autograph book, photographic materials, and printed materials documenting the Fischer family from Vienna, the two years Inge and her sister spent in England, the family’s emigration to Trinidad, their internment in Trinidad, and their immigration to the United States. The collection also includes photographs documenting Inge’s uncle in Shanghai and the Canidrome where he worked as director, photographs of her husband’s family from Vienna, and student and employment records documenting her brother-inlaw, Otto Engel....

  19. Jeanette Meyer collection

    Includes a "Deutsches Reiche Reisepass" issued to Jeanette Klugmann (donor) on November 25, 1938, in Nuernberg-Fuerth, Germany. Black and white photograph of bearer affixed on page two; stamped with red "J" on front page; includes visas for France and the United States.

  20. Gadomski family papers

    Contains documents and correspondence related to the family of Mieczyslaw and Wanda Gadomski, including correspondence in 1980s between Gadomski and other former internees at Ebensee.