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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Anti-Polish propaganda just prior to outbreak of war

    Excerpts from the last newsreel before the outbreak of war. Women and children who have allegedly suffered at the hands of the Poles are interviewed in a German refugee camp. A weeping woman tells her story. The ship Schleswig-Holstein arrives in Danzig harbor. Joyous civilians and members of the Kriegsmarine wave to the the ship from the shore. Men in formal navy dress uniforms leave the ship and review sailors lined up on the dock. A banner reads "Wilkommen Schleswig-Holstein". German draftees, still wearing civilian clothes, stand at attention at roll call, then are issued shoes and unif...

  2. Selected records from the State Archives of the Samara Region, Russian Federation

    Contains selected records of the former Communist Party Archives of the Samara (Kuĭbyshev) Region related to the evacuation of Soviet civilians to the Samara Region during WWII. It includes correspondence files related to their resettlement and name lists of communists evacuated to the region from various regions of the former USSR.

  3. Ann & Kurt Jacoby collection

    Collection consists of documents, photographs and correspondence pertaining to Martha and Eric Jacoby and their sons Gerhard and Kurt who were forced to flee Berlin in late November 1938 and settle in Shanghai, China, where they stayed until 1947. The collection also includes photographs of Herta and Paul Berghausen and their daughter Hannelore (later Ann Jacoby), as well as extended family in pre-war Hamm, Germany before the immediate family fled to the United States in 1938.

  4. Jewish Union for resistance and mutual aid Fonds David Diamant/Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et l'entr'aide (UJRE)

    This collection contains information about David Diamant (David Erlich), a Communist who remained in Paris during World War II, took part in the Resistance, and after the war worked with the UJRE helping Jewish refugees from Poland. It includes documents concerning Jewish immigrants in the Communist Party; documents of Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War; the final letters of Jewish resistance fighters before their execution; postwar personal files on Polish Jews requesting aid; files on children in Communist-sponsored orphanages (Comité central de l'enfance); books from lending libr...

  6. Records relating to the work of William H. Ramkey with displaced persons in Allied-occupied Austria

    1. William H. Ramkey collection

    Consists of ten documents (photocopies and originals) concerning William Ramkey's involvement with displaced persons programs in Allied-occupied Austria. Among the papers are personal letters to and from the donor and various documents relating to Ramkey's work with the 83rd Infantry Division, the Displaced Persons Advisory Board, and the experiences of displaced persons in Austria.

  7. Records relating to the work of William Ramkey with displaced persons in Allied-occupied Austria

    1. William H. Ramkey collection

    Consists of documents relating to William Ramkey's involvement with displaced persons in Allied-occupied Austria. Among the papers are reports written by Ramkey as a member of the 83rd US Infantry Division, materials relating to the Displaced Persons Advisory Board, and UNRRA.

  8. Records relating to the work of William Ramkey with displaced persons in Allied-occupied Austria

    1. William H. Ramkey collection

    Consists of documents relating to William Ramkey's work with displaced persons in Austria after World War II. Among the topics found in the documents are displaced persons, the situation of Jews in Austria, rationing programs for displaced persons, activities of the US Army in the occupied areas of Austria, and information concerning the UNRRA.

  15. Prayer book, Haggadah, owned by Bernhard Rosenthal

    1. Rosenthal and Glass family collection

    Prayer book, Haggadah, owned by Bernhard Rosenthal and brought to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) when his family immigrated there in the late 1930s. The book is part of a collection documenting the experiences of Inge Glass (nee Rosenthal), her parents Bernhard and Hedwig Rosenthal (nee Bauer) and her brother Walter Rosenthal in Germany, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and South Africa before, during, and after the Holocaust. The collection also includes documents, a cookbook, and Hebrew and German prayer books: a machzor, siddur, and two haggadot.

  16. Prayer book, Haggadah shel pesach, owned by Inge Rosenthal Glass

    1. Rosenthal and Glass family collection

    Prayer book, Haggadah shel pesach, owned by Inge Rosenthal (later Glass) and brought to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) when her family immigrated there in the late 1930s. The book was published by J. Kauffmann in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1890. The book is part of a collection documenting the experiences of Inge Glass (nee Rosenthal), her parents Bernhard and Hedwig Rosenthal (nee Bauer) and her brother Walter Rosenthal in Germany, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and South Africa before, during, and after the Holocaust. The collection also includes documents, a cookbook, and Hebrew...

  17. Prayers for the Feast of Weeks Prayer book, Gebete fur das Wochenfest, owned by Sara Thalheim Rosenthal

    1. Rosenthal and Glass family collection

    Prayer book, Prayers for the Feast Weeks, owned by Sara Thalheim Rosenthal and brought to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) by her son, Bernhard Rosenthal, when his family immigrated there in the late 1930s. The book was edited by W. Heidenheim, and published by M. Lehrberger in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1891. The book is part of a collection documenting the experiences of Inge Glass (nee Rosenthal), her parents Bernhard and Hedwig Rosenthal (nee Bauer) and her brother Walter Rosenthal in Germany, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and South Africa before, during, and after the Holocaust...

  18. Prayer book, Siddur Schaare Tefillah, owned by Walter Rosenthal

    1. Rosenthal and Glass family collection

    Prayer book, Siddur Schaare Tefillah, used by Walter Rosenthal and brought with him when his family immigrated to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the late 1930s. The book was written by J. B. Levy and published by M. Lehrberger & Co. in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1934. The book is part of a collection documenting the experiences of Inge Glass (nee Rosenthal), her parents Bernhard and Hedwig Rosenthal (nee Bauer) and her brother Walter Rosenthal in Germany, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and South Africa before, during, and after the Holocaust. The collection also includes doc...

  19. Cookbook for the Tropics Cookbook, Kochbuch für die Tropen, used by Hedwig Bauer Rosenthal

    1. Rosenthal and Glass family collection

    Cookbook for the Tropics bought by Hedwig Rosenthal in preparation for her family’s immigration to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the late 1930s. The book was written by Antonie Brandeis and published in Berlin, Germany, by Dietrich Reimer, in 1930. The book is part of a collection documenting the experiences of Inge Glass (nee Rosenthal), her parents Bernhard and Hedwig Rosenthal (nee Bauer) and her brother Walter Rosenthal in Germany, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and South Africa before, during, and after the Holocaust. The collection also includes documents and Hebrew and Germa...

  20. Erzählung von dem Auszuge Israels aus Ägypten an den ersten beiden Pessachabenden Narrative of the exodus of Israel from Egypt on the first two Passover evenings Prayer book, Haggadah Seder ha-Hagadah le-lel shimurim, owned by Bernhard Rosenthal

    1. Rosenthal and Glass family collection

    Prayer book, Haggadah, Seder ha-Hagadah le-lel shimurim, owned by Bernhard Rosenthal and brought to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) when his family immigrated there in the late 1930s. The book was published by M. Lehrberger in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1900. The book is part of a collection documenting the experiences of Inge Glass (nee Rosenthal), her parents Bernhard and Hedwig Rosenthal (nee Bauer) and her brother Walter Rosenthal in Germany, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and South Africa before, during, and after the Holocaust. The collection also includes documents, a cookboo...