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Country: United States

  1. Survivors with concentration camp tattoos; USO performance; Russian soldiers

    American soldier walking amongst fly bombs, low buildings in fields with tree cover. CU, bomb,“Nicht Auftreten” Title card: “So well concealed it was never bombed” 01:02:06 Title: “A British plane is consumed by explosion of ammunition train it strafed.” Bombed out plane filmed from vehicle on dirt road. Title: "Trees blown over from blast” Soldiers examine wreckage. “German field piece” Machine and camouflaged fence. 01:04:30 Title card: “Jewish girls from Italy, Belgium, Greece.” Female Jewish survivors near Rostow showing their prisoner tattoos. Girls in dresses, smiling showing their ar...

  2. Jewish wedding in Holland

    Wertheimer family, CUs, jumping rope. Jewish wedding of Alfred Wertheimer (a cellist) and Marion Warner in Amsterdam, Holland on May 19, 1937. 01:04:52 Family trips: beach, Pension Belvedere, CUs girls, young women, Wertheimer family members posing in a garden. The newly married couple, Alfred and Marion.

  3. Jewish wedding in Sofia

    The Jewish wedding of Aharon Mevorach and Lutzy Pincas in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1935 (probably in May). The couple arrives at the Central Synagogue of Sofia, poses, and greets guests. They move toward the exit of the synagogue where a carriage waits to transport the newly married couple to their home. Aharon's brother, Dr. Leon Mevorach, filmed the event. Family members shown include: Baruch and Dudah Mevorach; Dr. Daniel Pincas and Dora Pincas (nee Mevorach); Stefie (wife of Dr. Leon Mevorach who films the wedding) and their son Baruch (called Bubie), with a white beret; Baron Mevorah, the yo...

  4. Belarus, 1934

    Lourie family visits Pinsk and Deniskovichi, Belarus in August 1934. Outdoor market. Crowds walk and stand in the market. Three women with bundles on their backs walking in ankle-high water. Horse-drawn carts in the water. Men and women in boats/raft. Scenery and people on boats filmed from a moving boat. Car drives through shallow water and stops. People are helped onto the shore, men push the car in the water. Three men and one woman stand and talk.

  5. U.S. 8th Infantry in the Rhineland

    Title card: "Banen Productions" "8th Infantry Division: Normandy. Northern France. Rhineland. Central Europe." Swastika flag. American soldiers in the Rhineland, smoke in field. Damaged cathedral in Cologne. Ruins. "Cologne air field" Soldiers board U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport plane. Title card: "Crossing the Rhine! surely Jerry won't hold out long now!" American military vehicles cross the Rhine River in March 1945. Traveling in trucks on roads, passing abandoned tanks. Rubble in villages. Road sign for Altenkirchen. 01:07:16 Medics loading wounded military into ambulance "USA 72544...

  6. Lourié family life in 1934

    Title: "5 Jahre Spaeter". Lourié family life in Vienna in 1934. Automobile. 01:01:27 "In der Zwengalle” Lourié’s home address #17, film pans residential neighborhood from rooftop perspective, Leopold Lourié and wife host guests. Family scenes.

  7. Records of the Sociedad Israelita de Paysandú

    Records of the Sociedad Israelita de Paysandú (Israelite Society of Paysandú), Uruguay. Includes correspondence, minutes of sessions; reports and other office documents, 1945-1948.

  8. Oral history interview with Lajos Sághy

  9. Ernest N. Strauss collection

    Documents and photographs of Ernest N. Strauss and family from Europe, immigration to the United States and his military service as a Ritchie Boy.

  10. Erna Wimbley photograph collection

    Collection of photographs of German citizens entrusted to Erna Wimbley by an American serviceman that depict German citizens exhuming victims immediately following WWII.

  11. Oral history interview with Leo Parenti

  12. Geheime Staatspolizei Neustadt records

    Contains three interrelated collections pertaining to the Gestapo headquarters in the city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Gestapostelle Neustadt). These Gestapo records cover the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.The three collections are as follows (a. - c.): a. Bestand H90 (Geheime Staatspolizei Neustadt-Verwaltung): Administrative files of the Gestapo headquarters in Neustadt. Contains financial records, building plans, rules and regulations, and records pertaining to the monitoring of the French border, the transfer of political prisoners to the concentration camp Neustadt, registra...

  13. Marc de Klijn photograph collection

    4 photographs

  14. Okresný úrad vo Vranove nad Topľou District Office in Vranov nad Topľou

    Contains documents of the District Office in Vranov nad Topľou which was the regional state administration body. Besides documents about various social and economic issues, this fond features records on the persecution of the Jews living in the territory of the district of Vranov nad Topľou in 1938-1945. It includes documents on the appointment of governmental trustees of Jewish-owned properties and businesses, records on the dismissal of Jews from public service, and essential documents on the registration of Jews in preparation for their deportation from Slovakia in 1942 such as the only ...

  15. Gurs Machzor

    Gurs Machzor of Jacob Rothschild, Gurs 1941, 6 pages

  16. Suchostaw Association gatherings in New York

    Suchostaw Landsmanshaften association events in New York City filmed by Nathan Okon, including a welcome-home dance for service men after World War II. Film ID 4594 - Suchostower Association, Part I Film ID 4595 - Suchostower Association, Part II (color) Film ID 4596 - Suchostower Association, Part III (30th Anniversary) Film ID 4597 - Suchostower Association, 1941-1946 (color) Film ID 4598 - Suchostower Association, 1942-1946

  17. Jüdisches Zentralarchiv des Burgenlandes (Jewish Central Archive of the Burgenland)

    Records of seven former Jewish communities of the Austrian state of the Burgenland, which were disbanded after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany. The material consists of official correspondence, protocols of Jewish community board meetings, marriage, birth and death records, decrees, Jewish community records, school records, tax records, military records, records pertaining to Jewish organizations and officials, and other documentation.

  18. Paul Fairbrook collection

    The collection primarily consists of copies of documents related to Paul Fairbrook’s WWII military service as a “Ritchie Boy” who received military intelligence training at Camp Albert C. Ritchie, and member of the MIRS (Military Intelligence Research Section). Documents include clippings, military paperwork, memos, reports, captured German documents, and poems. Also included are two bound reports: one contains copies of documents regarding Fairbrook’s military career, and the other is a copy of a government report regarding the history and activities of MIRS.

  19. Edward E. Harriman report

    Edward E. Harriman's report after the liberation of Dachau (includes tipped in photos); also a photo of Harriman in uniform and another of him in a suit and tie (inscribed to the donor's grandmother).

  20. Olga Nadich Galerstein collection

    Souvenir program from presentation of We Will Never Die at the Hollywood Bowl on July 21, 1943 which belonged to Olga Nadich Galerstein (1922-1985). At the time she was studying acting at the Actors Laboratory Theatre in Hollywood, headed by Roman Bohnen (1901-1949), who was in the cast of the production.