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

  1. Announcement

    Announcement from authorities in “North-East France” announcing the existence of “bandits” and asking for the cooperation of the French population not to align or work with the “bandits” which the French and the German Wehrmacht will squelch. The announcement Itself is entirely in French, however signed at bottom in German “Der Befehlshaber im Bezirk Nord-Ost Frankreich” or the commander in the district of north-eastern France.

  2. Selected records of the Intelligence Archive of the Buenos Aires Police Department (DIPBA)

    The records consist of surveillance of the Jewish community in Argentina by the Intelligence Directorate of the Buenos Aires Province Police, 1956-1998. This collection contains records relating to the surveillance of the Jewish community in Argentina by the Intelligence Directorate of the Buenos Aires Province Police, 1956-1998, and relating to former Nazis in Argentina, nationalists and right wing activities, and Antisemitism.

  4. Selected records of the Civic Chambers, attached to the Judicial courts of the Department of the Seine Les registres des arrêts des Chambres civiques de la cour de justice du département de la Seine (Z5)

    The archives of the civic chambers of the court of justice, departmental section of the Seine, are constituted by the files of the cases judged from 1944 to 1951, classified by registration number of the Prosecutor's office, as well as by the registers of judgments and the files on behalf of the accused allowing their files to be found. The accused are often members of collaborationist parties or members of the French State services and the documents of their trials help to establish their responsibilities in the implementation of the policy of the Vichy government. We can thus find in this...

  5. Raya-Ginette Karsenty papers

    Contains the original manuscript for the biographical novel "Pour l'amour de vous," by Raya-Ginette Karsenty, published by Editions LAURIFLAM, 1990; a copy of the book "Escale a Shangri-la ou Les Horizons Retrouves, ecrits de jeunesse," published by Publigraph Editeur in 1994; two copies of a Karsenty and Bressac television script, directed by Badel, an adaptation of Saint-Exupery short novel "Vol de nuit"; and translation and adaptation of two short stories by Irwin Shaw, "Les Jeunes femmes en robes d'ete" and "Rencontre de veuves."

  6. Album

    Copy of Männer und Ereignisse unserer Zeit belonging to William Burns, acquired during his time as a court reporter at the Nuremberg Trials. Particular defendants are identified with original ‘x’ mark notations.

  9. Oral history interview with Tobias Rawet

  11. JDC summer camp in Germany for child survivors from DP camps and children’s homes

    EXT A group splashes in the lake. Children and teenagers walk past in a rough line. More children, tents, and trees in BG. Several girls emerge from the entrance to a tent. Flag pole against the sky with two flags, one appears to be the flag of Israel. Several boys heading a ball to each other. INT girls walk to and sit down at tables set with bowls and mugs. Girls eat stew. CU boys pretend to sleep in bunks, then start a pillow fight. Girls smile at a man beside them, with his back to a window. EXTs bushes and buildings on the shore of a lake in the mountains near the summer camp.

  12. Agnes Schwartz collection

    Contains identification documents and a school notebook related to the experiences of Agnes Grüner, dating primarily from before the war in Hungary. Agnes was hidden by their family maid Juliska Balazs. Her father survived and her mother perished in Bergen Belsen.

  13. Oral history interview with Egon Brill

  15. Karl Maramorosch collection

    Collection of correspondence, primarily letters but also includes a postcard, bookplate, and photocopies of correspondence between members of the Maramarosch family.

  17. Otto Ernst Falkenhagen papers

    Consists of four letters written by Otto Falkenhagen in the 1990s reflecting on his life and that of his family under National Socialism in Hamburg, Germany. The letters address his internment between the years 1940 and 1945 at the Moringen Youth Camp, the persecution of his father and disabled sister under Nazi eugenics policies, and the death of his sister who died at age 12 in the Alstersdorf Anstalten in 1941. Also includes 3 copy prints of photographs depicting Falkhagen family members circa 1920—1931.

  18. Hiking; Performance in Vienna; Family holidays - Easter and Christmas

    Title: “Buntes Allerlei” “Mitglied des Klubs der Kino-Amateure Österreichs” “Schulwandertag April 1931-May 1933”. Shaky views of a school group hiking trips, dining outdoors. Girls dressed up in gowns embrace. Horse races. The group hikes, older man with a cane, they relax at the Liesing Brewery. 01:01:46 Ferdinand Hausner. Ducks. More shots of the school group at the brewery. 01:02:58 A different group of friends at a brewery, carrying flower bouquets. Cinema [Kino] in Vienna, “Weisse Woche”. “Verbands Kunstlaufen” sign. Crowds at Heldenplatz. Indoor performance. “Ostern 1933” Scenic shots...

  19. "Journal of Hungarian Jews" Magyar Zsidók Lapja [Newspapers]

    A Jewish weekly newspaper "A Magyar Zsidók Lapja" issued in Budapest, Hungary, 1939-1944.