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  1. Beit Din documents

    Consists of documents from a Beit Din established in the Central Bureau of Orthodox Communities of Hungary for the purpose of releasing agunot. These official documents grant religious permission to remarry after the Holocaust. Includes a marriage permission document for men whose wives were murdered at Auschwitz, a form for documenting testimonies given by the survivors, a form for stating the acceptance of Beit Din's authority, and a form regarding the death of a wife.

  2. Lieberman family babies in prewar Poland

    Two babies, Thomas and Hanna, in a playpen. Nurse. Hanna's parents, Ella and Benedikt, play with her as she tries to drink out of a mug. They pose for the camera. New people surround Hanna, including Ella. A woman named Helena dressed as a nurse helps out, assists Hanna to walk. Multiple shots of the Lieberman family holding Hanna.

  3. Sunday School outing in 1935

    Title: "Sonntags-Schulausflug 1935" Families gathered outdoors for a Sunday School outing. More soccer and other forms of frolicking.

  4. Estate of Rubin Soldaner, Raisa Dayan collection

    Collection of post-war documents, newspaper articles, and photographs of Rubin Soldaner, who was interned in the Auschwitz and Gross Rosen concentration camps. Papers document his postwar experiences in Poland, France, and ultimately in the United States. Includes naturalization certificate and restitution paperwork.

  5. Hanna eats and plays on the terrace with Lieberman family, prewar Poland

    CU, Hanna, with a bow in her hair, eats out of a bowl. She looks around a lot, and plays a bit, but seems to enjoy the food. Cut to outside, the kids are playing with their wagon, and many more adults are around this time. Thomas has a large toy car as well.

  6. Jerome Reisberg collection

    Contains photographs of post-liberation Nordhausen and Dachau concentration camps acquired by Capt. Jerome L. Reisberg, DDS of the US Army.

  7. Schermeister girls in the garden, 1929

    In the garden in Snekkersten. The three Schermeister girls, Lis (donor's mother), Jeanne, and Inge, return from a trip with their governess, wearing the same dresses as the Havdalah sequence, and big summer hats. All three girls jump rope with the help of their mother and their governess.

  8. Street scenes during Anschluss

    Distinct shots of a swastika (mirror-flipped) on a house bearing an official sign near entrance (unknown street, presumably near Schwarzenbergplatz, house has the #13) with Wehrmacht guard. 01:07:45 Street corner with prominent building, street sign unreadable. 01:07:50 Secession building with swastikas. 01:07:57 Crowd in front of Opera House, saluting.

  9. Schermeister family vacationing in Snekkersten, 1929

    An indoor shot of the donor's great grandparents, Leopold and Franzisca Cohen. They exit the door to their vacation home in Snekkersten, along with Bernhard (donor's grandfather) and his sister. The extended family on the lawn. The three girls, Lis (donor's mother), Jeanne, and Inge, eat ice cream with Bernhard's mother (Hana Schermeister). Various family members pose for the camera.

  10. Robert G. King family collection

    Collection of photographs given to Robert G. King (donors' father) that document the Gusen concentration camp in Austria shortly after liberation. These photos were brought home from the WWII by Capt. Herbert P. Ramsayer (Robert King's cousin) who was a doctor in the US Army and a member of the 131 Evacuation Hospital.

  11. Wehrmacht troops; military demonstration

    Includes handwritten slates in German. Uniformed German soldiers with helmets lined up for review. An officer inspects a rifle. Another view of the troops in the street. Small groups of Wachkommandos march ahead in a courtyard. Another group marches away, relieved from their duties of watching the barracks, with civilians in the streets behind. CU of a sign, "8. (M.G.) Komp. Inf. Regt. Goettingen" affixed to Barracks 3 with two soldiers at the entrance. Soldiers at target practice (mixed dress from WWI and new Wehrmacht outfits). The first man introduced as Sergeant Schmitz, followed by Pri...

  12. Hanna eats, plays with her father, and runs around in prewar Poland

    Hanna lies in bed, clutching a stuffed dog and playing. She is being fed. She stands up, her father Benedikt comes on screen to hug and play with her. She runs around in some coat without a back.

  13. Visiting Switzerland

    On a boat in Switzerland, views of villages, including Hotel Beaux-Rivage and Hotel "Gotthard" (sign). Seaside views of mountains.

  14. Hanna and Benedikt play in the river, prewar Poland

    Hanna and her father walk around a beach. She plays in the water. He stands around. They sit together next to what appear to be small railroad tracks. Pan up to a large flagpole (flag with circle in the middle).

  15. Kurtz family and friends on European tour in the south of France, Paris, and Switzerland

    MS of Liza Kurtz, Louis and Lillian Malina and Essie Diamond smiling for the camera and admiring the landscape from Parc Municipal du Mt. Boron in Southern France in mid August 1938. Panning shot of city and harbor of Nice and distant mountains. 01:05:12 Over shoulder shot of Louis in a sunhat pointing toward the old city of Monaco from the Jardins Exotique. 01:05:19 Street scenes in a city, possibly Cannes. Louis in a suit, and African soldier with a red hat. 01:05:27 LS of Liza, Louis, Lily, and Essie feeding birds in Paris in front of the Préfecture de Police and the Hôtel-Dieu, most lik...

  16. Children playing in prewar Vienna

    Possibly a kindergarten scene. Four little girls, posing for the camera, then running about happily. An infant is being placed into its carriage, CUs. Another baby. A few mothers with carriages gathered on a sidewalk, including Doris Lichtenthal. Children play. They begin raking sand or dirt of some kind. 01:01:08 Kids play, boys in lederhosen with hoops and sticks, girls with jump ropes. The boys try to climb the fence before giving up. Peter rides a scooter that is just a bit big for him. Peter plays with blocks (brief). A child writing, followed by a girl running behind a toy baby carria...

  17. Vacationing on Lake Traun, Gmunden, Austria

    Outside, a sign reads "Schloss Pension: Freisitz Roith" (a famous historic hotel on the Traunsee [Lake Traun] in Gmunden, Austria). Scenes of an estate at the end of a long scenic road, where children run about and peer over a railing to the view of Lake Traun with mountains surrounding it. They run back into the house. 01:05:11 Eva Schur stands on a man-made pathway, watching swans on the lake in front of her. Motorboats pass by. 01:05:30 Girls play with dolls, boys swim, mother crochets. A rowboat with everyone aboard, along with a new woman in glasses. The boat is landed and chained by t...

  18. Family vacations at the beach in prewar Austria

    Summer scenes near the lake on a beach (the same vacation resort in Gmunden, Austria?). A teenage girl swings, older men swim, a motorboat passes by, a woman (their mother?) does gymnastics, and the children Eva and Peter play in the sand with a ball, beach chairs, and fishing rods.

  19. Liberation of Belgium and capture of collaborators and POWs

    Civilians gathered in a city plaza welcome Allied soldiers arriving in trucks. A joyful crowd of Belgian men, women and children ride on a tank and wave Belgian and American flags. Interior shots of German soldiers and Belgian collaborators kept in animal cages lined with straw at the Antwerp zoo (shots are dark), including CUs of a German officer looking through the bars. Belgian collaborators are led down the street by armed Belgian resistance fighters, members of the L'Armee Blanche. German soldiers are escorted to waiting trucks by troops from the 4th Battalion King's Shropshire Light I...

  20. Inspection of euthanasia facility Meseritz-Obrawalde

    Doctors examine and care for very sick, emaciated children and youth. Panning shot of a medication (barbiturate) called Evipan Natrium, made by Bayer, and other medications (used for euthanasia?). Interior of a cell with a blanket labeled "Anstalt Obrawalde" (Obrawalde Institution, located in Obrawalde, Germany, now Obrzyce, Poland). A medic and another man inspect the cell. Views of the crematorium and the graveyard, with graves marked with small, numbered stones. CU of one of the stones, numbered 1632. A hand withdraws the stone from the ground and shows the camera that there is another n...