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  1. Capture of partisans in Crimea

    Waffen SS members search for partisans in the Crimea. Soldiers walk through wooded mountainous territory (at 1200 meters) in search of "Soviet soldiers in civilian clothes, Jews, and Soviet agents" who have allegedly been terrorizing the population. The Germans throw grenades and shoot at a stone and wood structure. They capture the "bandits," all in civilian dress. The narrator says that "these rabble can expect no mercy." The prisoners are led away by armed Germans.

  2. Central Historical Commission : Testimonies (M.1.E)

    The collection contains approximately 2,500 testimonies of Holocaust survivors coming from different countries. The testimonies deal with the fate of the survivors during Nazi rule in their countries of origin. The testimonies were gathered by The Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, Munich.

  3. Fred Mandel letter

    A letter Fred Mandel wrote to his mother in Austria while he was interned as a youth in Dachau. Donor was released from Dachau and immigrated to the United States.

  4. On board the Exodus

    Video copy of Bill Bernstein's 8mm color home movies aboard the ship Exodus 1947. Exodus 1947 carried 4,500 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who sought to illegally immigrate into Palestine. Even before the ship reached Palestine's territorial waters, British destroyers surrounded it. Bill Bernstein, the Exodus's second officer and a Jew, was clubbed to death trying to prevent a British soldier from entering the wheelhouse on the ship. The remaining passengers were eventually transferred to DP camps in Germany. Exodus ship at sea, flag on ship. 01:03:20 MSs, snow on board steamship (probab...

  5. Morris Gabrielides collection

    Collection consists of a photograph of donor with his family taken at the Port of Pireaus, Greece on March 7, 1951, a day before the family left Greece for the United States. Also includes two copy prints, one of the donor and his father and sister circa 1938, and the other of donor and sister (Effie) with parents and paternal grandmother, circa 1939, both in Athens, Greece.

  6. Portrait of a Polish female inmate drawn by a fellow inmate in a Soviet labor camp

    Pencil portrait of Roza Holcman created by Jozia Berko in March 15, 1944, when both women were political prisoners in a Soviet labor camp in Samarka (Temritau), Kazakhstan. Jozia was an underground delegate for the Polish Government in Exile. She was imprisoned by the Soviets at the camp by 1944 and died there in the late 1940s. Roza was arrested by the Soviets in 1942 for doing military recruitment for the Polish Home Army in the east and sentenced to fifteen years. She had a daughter, Aurelia, in November 1944, with an American medic, Phillip Rosenblith, who was later transferred to Mosco...

  7. Franklin Horowitz collection

    Collection consists of a photograph that was taken on May 18, 1948 in Philadelphia pertaining to founding of the State of Israel. Included in the photo are Mayor Bernard Samuel; George Louis, holding the flag; next is donor's aunt, Ann Sebotnik; and behind Levinthal is the donor's grandfather, Lawrence G. Horowitz.

  8. Propaganda film of Jews in Stuttgart; food distribution; claim that rations are the same as for German citizens

    Title: Lebensmittel Sonderverkaufstelle fuer Juden in der ehem. Gastwirtschaft "zum Kriegsberg" [Special food purchasing location for Jews in the former inn "Zum Kriegsberg"]. Jews wearing stars stand in line outside the former inn. Title: Liefertag [distribution day]. People in white coats remove boxes of food from trucks and take them into the store. A shot of the side of a car with an advertisement for Dr. Whilhelm Kraft's crispbread. People continue to unload goods, giving the appearance of abundance. The image is grainy and high contrast. 01:21:57 "Im Gegensatz zu den Behauptungen der ...

  9. Almanacs

    Almanac containing information about the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai, addresses and general information.

  10. National Socialist Lawyer's Association, Reich Law Department Selected records of the the Nationalsozialistischer Rechtswahrerbund, Reichsrechtsamt (NS 16)

    The records contain documentation of the accumulation, budget and bookkeeping of the Bund Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Juristen (BNSDJ) / Nationalsozialistischer Rechtswahrerbund (NSRB), personnel files and records of the education and career advancement of members of the BNSDJ / NSRB, and files from the Reichsrechtsamt and several district-bureaus of the BNSDJ / NSRB, primarily personnel files.

  11. Toni Susskind Weber photograph collection

    Pre-war and war time photographs pertaining to donor's experiences during WWII. Pre-war photos are of the Bnei Akiva youth group. War-time photos are from Switzerland, where Toni managed to escape together with her brother. Included is one photo of Toni's brother David in a labor camp in Switzerland. Also includes a brochure of songs sung by Bnei Akiva members prior to the war (photocopy).

  12. Life (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    One original copy of Life Magazine from September 22, 1947. It inlcudes an article "Exodus Refugees End Tragic Voyage." Sam Brill's father was on the Exodus and is pictured in the image on page 34.

  13. Shmuel Hupert collection

    Contains photographs and documents relating to Shmuel Hupert from Pabianice, Poland, who survived in Czarna Wieś near Bialystok together with his wife Mina Klein Hupert.

  14. Jews in occupied Poland

    Camera pans across a damaged brick building to a synagogue while the narrator says that the synagogue is the only building that has not been destroyed by the arsonists, and "further commentary is superfluous." Shots of the exterior and interior of the synagogue. Several close-up shots of Jews. The narrator says that in the ghettos of the occupied territories the eastern Jews are in the best mood. More shots of smiling men, women and children as the narrator asserts that these scenes should refute the foreign atrocity propaganda. The camera pans across a large crowd of Jewish men and boys si...

  15. Nelly Hartogs Wollman collection

    Contains nine photographs of the donor and her parents before the war in Belgium. The donor escaped from Holland to Belgium and immigrated to the United States in 1940.

  16. Helen Enisman collection

    The Helen Enisman photograph collection consists of photographs of the Eisman family in Łódź, Poland. The photographs include Gita and Jacob Terkeltaub (Helen’s grandparents); Chana Enisman (Helen’s grandmother); Jacob Enisman; and Helen’s aunt, uncle, father, and grandmother, and at her grandfather’s grave in Łódź, Poland.

  17. Swastika shaped pin commemorating the reintegration of the Saarland with Nazi Germany

    Pin created to commemorate the March 1, 1935, reintegration of the Saar region into Nazi Germany. This German industrial region on the border with France and Luxembourg had been removed from German control and placed under a fifteen year League of Nations mandate by the Treaty of Versailles following the end of World War I. The French controlled the coal mining operations as part of the reparations owed by Germany under the treaty. On January 1, 1935, there was a plebiscite to determine the future of the country and an overwhelming ninety percent of the population voted to reunite with Germ...

  18. Judy Bamberger collection

    Collection consists of documents and correspondence concerning the Moos family and their efforts to flee Germany. Included are letters written by Hermann and Gertrud Jonas Moos in Lippstadt, Germany to their daughter [donor's mother] Hannelore, who was able to immigrate to San Francisco, California in 1938. Included in the correspondence are letters and envelopes sent from or through Portugal as well as correspondence from relatives in Kassel and Bielefeld, Germany. Hermann and Gertrud were deported from Lippstadt to Auschwitz via Theresienstadt; Hermann was possibly sent to Sachsenhausen c...

  19. Avraham Shomroni collection

    The collection consists of photographs, negatives, letters, a wood-covered prayerbook, and wood-covered photo album.

  20. Edith Cord collection

    Contains material documenting the experiences of the Mayer family while in French concentration camps and in hiding under false names. Contains a letter from the Rivesaltes concentration camp from father to wife and children (8/25/42) just prior to deportation; the last postcard from a father sent prior to deportation to Germany (9/3/42); the last postcard sent from donor's brother Kurt to mother and Edith (8/23/42), Bram, France; two envelopes, one from donor's father sent from Camp de Rivesaltes, and second addressed to donor from Red Cross postmarked January 19, 1945; French residence pe...