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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Generals Sikorski and Anders review marching troops in Iraq

    Part of reel 1. A line of people wait for food distribution by the British Military Administration in the administrative division of Tripolitania. They receive canned and dried rations. They appear to be of a variety of ethnicities, identified by the Imperial War Museums catalog record as “Maltese, Indians, Greeks, Jews, and Sudanese.” Another scene shows children receiving bread. One of the distributors wears an armband with a cross on it.

  8. Der Nomen Yid The Name Jew

    1. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    "The Name Jew" (der nomen yid), an otherwise unknown lamenting song, dates from the Holocaust or the immediate postwar period. The informant's name and biographical data were apparently not recorded.

  11. Rudolf and Helga Hauptmann Bettsack collection

    Consists of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Rudolf and Helga Hauptmann Bettsack (later changed to Bessac). Includes the Bettsack family Stammbuch, paperwork identifying them as stateless displaced persons, documents (with photos) in lieu of passports, and travel information for their immigration from Shanghai to the United States in 1947. Also includes paperwork for restitution claims and receipts for restitution claims for Helga Bessac.

  16. Roman Sompolinski collection

    Consists of eight photographs taken of Roman Sompolinski and his family in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp between 1945-1949. Includes a photograph of Roman Sompolinski in front of the memorial sign erected by the British Army after the liberation of the camp, a photograph of his marriage to Masza Kuropatwa Sompolinski, and photographs of their daughter, Sara Sompolinski, who was born in the camp in 1947.

  17. Typewriter with case

    1. Leon and Olga Thau family collection

    German typewriter with case brought with Leon and Olga Thau when they emigrated from Germany to the United States with their young sons, Felix and Benjamin.

  18. Oral testimony of William Fertig