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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Roma Becher collection

    Collection of postcards and photographs documenting the experiences of Baruch Hershstyn (donor's step father). Includes postcards written by Chana Hershstyn (Baruch's wife) from the town of Kransnytav (near Lublin) to Baruch, who had been sent to Sverdovskaya Oblast for forced labor. He survived the war, but his wife and children perished.

  2. Eric Frisch collection

    Collection of materials relating to Eric Frisch (donor's father) who was a torch runner in the 1936 Olympic Torch Run and was a coach of the Austrian women's track team at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. Eric Frisch was a Jewish athlete in Austria and a well known and respected runner. He was asked to oversee the runners in the fourth stage of the torch relay through Austria, was the final runner of that group. He fled Europe in November 1938 and immigrated to the United States. Includes several newspaper articles: "Track Star Jesse Owens, U.S. Hero In Berlin Olympics, Dies of Cancer" by Bob...

  3. Betty Trebitsch passport

    Contains a Deutsches Reich Reisepass issued to Betty “Sara” Trebitsch; stamped with red ink J on first page; includes American immigration visa issued in October 1939; passport issued August 26, 1939, Breslau, Germany.

  4. Trench warfare; German surrender in WWI; captured Germans

    View of World War I warfare from the trench, smoke rising from bombings in the field. Soldiers charge forward in grassy fields. 01:18:07 "Kamerad" (slate with Donald C. Thompson inscription) German troops surrender to Americans, taken into trenches. 01:18:51 "And still they come" More enemies are captured. 01:19:22 "Removing buttons to prevent escape" Cutting suspenders out of pants. Captured men behind barbed wire enclosure. 01:19:57 "Searching German officer" U.S. military inspect a German's notebook. 01:20:20 "Germans forced to abandon ammunition" MS, weapons abandoned in a field. 01:20:...

  5. Nela Warsagier Stanik memoir

    Memoir written by Nela Warsagier Stanik (donor's mother) about her flight from Lvov in June 1941 and years in the USSR in Kazgarkishvak in Uzbekistan. In 1943 Nela was summoned to Moscow to assist in organizing the Polish Army. She became disillusioned with Communism in 1949 and immigrated to Israel in 1968. Includes photographs depicting Nela Warsagier Stanik with her baby daughter Olga in Lvov in 1941 and Moscow in 1945.

  6. Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) [Newspaper]

  7. Stock market crash

    Title: Morgan Heads Group that Halts Market Panic: Announcement of support from leaders of finance stops wild trading in Wall Street. Brief shot of crowds on Wall Street. Also on this newsreel: 02:32:59 Title: Hoover Leads New Waterways Celebration: President and party cruise down Ohio River to dedicate 180,000,000 to project. Mute footage with intertitles of riverboat journey. Identified personalities: Secretary of War Good, Speaker Longworth. Title: Italy's Naval Cadets in Mid-Air Ship Drill [Spezia, Italy]. Italian cadets perform exercises on board ship. 02:36:45 A blimp sails over Londo...

  8. Samuel Halber collection

    Documents and correspondence concerning Samuel Halber (donor’s father). Born June 22, 1914 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he fled Nazi-occupied Europe in 1941 through Spain and Portugal were he applied for a US visa, ultimately arriving in New York City in 1941. He was drafted into the United States Army and was a Military Intelligence Interpreter, translating German, Dutch, and French in England until 1945, when he was assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) and supervised the denazification of German railroads in the US Zone.

  9. Filming feature films; Cardinal Faulhaber; Eisenhower in Germany; commemoration for victims of fascism in Berlin

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 72 Title: Filmstart in der Britischen Zone: Die beiden ersten Spielfilme [Beginning of filming in the British zone: the first two feature films]. A crowd watches as filming gets underway in Hamburg. The director describes the first scene before the action starts. The camera rolls along a track fillming the scene. The next film involves young people sailing in kayaks along the Weser river between Karlshafen and the sea. The camera, mounted on a raft, follows the boats on the river. The narrator names the stars of the film. The young stars are shown eating lunch and ta...

  10. German soldiers return from WWI

    German soldiers return to Berlin from World War I. Different views of the soldiers marching in the streets. CU, soldier kisses a little girl. HAS, marching, a vendor hands something to the soldiers.

  11. Oral history interview with Hana Lowy Weiner

  12. Roman Witkowski collection

    Contains a blank "Ausweiss" identity form for right-of-movement in the town of Ostrowiec, Poland, and a photographic ID portrait of Roman Witkowski (born August 10, 1906), who resided in Ostrowiec with his wife, Irena.

  13. Kamerman family collection

    Contains an “Arbeitsbuch” [workbook for foreigners] issued to “Irena Kruczewska” the false identity of Ida Kamerman [donor’s mother] in Katowice, Poland on January 8, 1944; four photographic images of Erna Kamerman [donor] taken while she was living in a rectory under the false name of “Danka,” where her mother was assigned to work as a slave laborer, dated 1944 in Katowice, Poland.

  14. Battle of Britain

    Title: Yesterday's Big Story. Footage from the Battle of Britain, which began August 8, 1940, with pro-British, pro-Churchill narration. Stukas bomb supply convoys but are in turn shot down by shore batteries. Fires caused by bombs rage in London. Children are evacuated from London. Civilians reinforce buildings with sandbags. Panning aerial shot of the Great Fire of London, sometime between September and November, 1940. Churchill tours the devastation. Cheering Londoners. Also on this newsreel (beginning at 01:34:08): Title: Decathalon Record: UCLA Champ Sets Mark in 10 Events. Chinese ath...

  15. Herbert Klaber collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the donor's early life in Borken, Germany, and later experiences in the Netherlands, where his parents sent him for school and to avoid persecution in the late 1930s, and where he eventually physically went into hiding to avoid deportation. Includes the last letter of his parents Max and Regina Klaber, stating that they are being sent to "Theresin" [sic]; also included are a Dutch Jewish identification card issued to Herbert as well as his report cards, which he buried while he was in hiding.

  16. Dina Buchler Chen collection

    Pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Dina Buchler [donor, now Dina Chen] and her parents. Includes are photos of Blanka First, with whom she lived after her mother smuggled her out of a concentration camp, and photos of the Beretics family, who hid her during the war. Includes a false baptism certificate; letters written by Dina's mother to her uncle Bela Weiss, who escaped to Shanghai; and a scrapbook and other materials pertaining to Paula Sitzer, an opera singer in Zagreb.

  17. Annie-Claude Ghozlan collection

    Contains an identification card from Jeunesses Musicales de France issued to Annie-Claude Ghozlan [donor] in Blido, Morocco, dated 1944-1945; a photograph of donor with her parents, Constantine, Algeria, dated c. 1937; a photograph of the donor's parents on the occasion of their engagement, dated 1931-1932; a photograph of Zionist Youth Movement Blida, Algeria; and 4 photographs of youth movement (Gordonia), Algeria, 1951-1952.

  18. Germany Gives Up!

    Title: Universal Newsreel. Germany Gives Up! Truman, sitting behind a desk, announces German surrender. Shots of a victory parade in NYC (?). Devastated landscape, destroyed train cars, dead German soldiers, German POWs. Compilation of German footage showing Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders, Nazi rallies, German troops marching, German POWs. British soldiers in the water and climbing aboard a ship (evacuation from Dunkirk?), Hitler at the signing of the armistice with France in the railcar at Compiegne, weeping French civilians watch the Germans enter Paris (?), London during German bomb...

  20. "Beshert: It was Meant to Be"

    Consists of one memoir, 212 pages, entitled "Beshert: It was Meant to Be", written in 1975 by Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc and translated into English in 2007 by her daughter, Suzanna Eibuszyc. Part one of the memoir is entitled "At the Mercy of Our Luck" and covers April 1917-November 1939, when the family lived in Warsaw, and the second part of the memoir is entitled "The Troubles I've Seen" and covers November 1939-March 1946, when the family was forced to flee to southwestern Russia and Uzbekistan. Ms. Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc and her sister and brother, who were also unmarried, spent the war ...