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Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English

  1. Prefecture of Police family index file Fichiers "Familial" de la Préfecture de la Police de la Seine

    Contains bibliographical card files of Jewish families arrested at the Prefecture de la Police in the Seine region.

  2. Slovak documents related to the Holocaust

    Contains documents on labor camps for Jews, transport exemption documents for Jews, laws and decrees pertaining to Jews, Hlinka Guard activities, Deutsche Partei activities, the Aryanization of Jewish property, Slovakia’s Roma population, and Jewish organizations and their dissolution. Also included are statistics on Jews worldwide and in Slovakia, lists of baptized Jews, Jewish work permits, transport cards, and postwar restitution cases.

  3. Selected records from the French National Archives – Police Générale

    This collection contains police records, including files on national security, the General Secretariat of the Police, the campaign against “terrorism” organized by Vichy, internment camps, and records of the Fichier Central in the Cabinet du Directeur Général de la Sureté Nationale. The collection also includes correspondence and other documents confiscated from emigrants, lists of foreign Jews who were arrested and interned (arranged by country of origin), the personal records of various public figures, newspaper clippings, surveillance reports, and mixed documents. More specifically, the ...

  4. Military Affairs Affaires militaires

    Record Group F9, Affaires Militaires. Contains list of internees, statistics of deportations, lists of escapees, lists of prisoner-of-war camps (1944-1946), survivor testimonies, military reports, catalog cards of people arrested for resistance activities, correspondence regarding refugees, catalog cards of missing camp inmates, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and displaced persons camps reports, Gendarmerie and police investigations documents, and various documents related to concentration camps and prisons in France, Germany, Poland , Austria and Czechoslovakia. Pa...

  5. Jewish Displaced Persons, JDC efforts 1946

    Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, into buses, trucks, Bratislava camp and trains. Prague: Service (JDC supplied torah). JDC meeting, children's home. Loan co-op office, small businesses. Budapest: Clothing warehouse. Canteen. Germ...

  6. Tablecloth and napkin set

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn520281
    • English
    • a: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) b: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) c: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) d: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) e: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) f: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) g: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) h: Height: 44.000 inches (111.76 cm) | Width: 40.000 inches (101.6 cm)

    Tablecloth (2000.496.1 h) and napkin set (2000.496.1 a-g) used in a Lithuanian displaced persons camp.

  7. Brzeziny Ghetto

    Brzeziny ghetto, people working in snow, digging, posing for the camera, CUs, etc. Shots of empty streets. Sled with goods dragged in the snow from one house to another. Women and men move about. CU, child with Jude star.

  8. Abraham Blumowitsch-Atsmon papers

    Contains photographs, legal documents, and booklets pertaining to Dr. Abraham Blumowitsch-Atsmon's family life in Poland and work for the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American occupied zone. Includes pre-war photographs of family life, wartime photographs of partisans in the Brest-Slonim region, photographs of students in classes at the ORT school in Munich, and photographs of Ben-Gurion in Israel in 1948-1949. Also includes documents and identity cards establishing Dr. Blumowitsch as a physician and as an advisor in displaced persons matters.

  9. Ernest Marx photograph collection

    The Ernest Marx photograph collection primarily consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war depictions of Ernest, his parents Siegmund and Bertha (née Steinberger) Marx, and relatives in several cities in Germany and other parts of Europe. Photographs include depictions of Siegmund and Bertha’s wedding in Dettelbach, Germany in 1921; Bertha’s parents Hermann and Jette Steinberber; Bertha accompanying children on a Kindertransport from Berlin to Paris, 1939; Gurs transit camp; Jewish prisoners, including Ernest and his father Siegmund, celebrating Hoshana Rabbah in a Sukkah in Les Milles, 194...

  10. Minnie Friedman Piha collection

    Two records in paper sleeves including lyrics of songs in Yiddish and English received by Minnie Piha while Secetary to the Advisor of Jewish Affairs in Germany; dated 1948. (1) White label with red trim,"A personal message from a service man" and Star of David with "JWB" printed at top in dark blue ink. Side A: Handwritten in blue ink on label "I - Eingekommen Kein/Berlin dedicated to Minnie Freidman" Side B: Handwritten on label "II." (2) Harold Graham and the Big Band: "Yesterdays" by Kern-Harback and "Twistin' Jazz" by Hal Graham

  11. Rosh Hashanah card

    Rosh Hashanah card bearing an embossed image of a bird and a basket of flowers shaded purple. The card and envelope were sent from Eishishok, Poland (Ejszyszki, Lithuania), to Rabbi Aaron R. Charney in Bayonne, N.J.

  12. Sutin family footage

    Family footage showing CUs of Cecilia, the daughter of Jack Sutin. Brief shot of Julius Sutin, the father of Jack Sutin.

  13. Refugees

    Iran: Group of women, children, few men, walking in sun, sand. Mountains in BG. CUs of faces, bare feet, hands, luggage and bundles. Arrival at refugee camp. Other refugees greet them, they embrace. CU of people exchanging kisses, particularly women and children, and greetings. Registration. VS, tents, washing, getting clothes, eating.

  14. Eichmann Trial -- Session 81 -- Examination of the Accused re: Office of Reich Security, visiting a camp, Polish Jews, executions

    Session 81. Dr. Servatius talks, citing pieces from a letter and asking Eichmann if they are valid. Eichmann says that a different conception arose in the SD circa 1938 with respect to the Jewish question. Emigration was encouraged, and creating organizations in favor of that were created. Eichmann says that he had to inform those in Vienna about this new mentality. 00:14:42 Tape jumps. Dr. Servatius submits a letter from Eichmann. It concerns Dr. Loewenherz and his interventions at Eichmann's office, working for the release of arrested persons. 00:19:23 Tape jumps. The judges ask if there ...

  15. Pre-war Poland

    Wilno: pre-war views. Architectural landmarks. Narrow, curved streets. Cemetery on outskirts where Marshal Pilsudski's heart is buried. Arabian horses in Janow. Narrated by Eva Curie.

  16. Pre-war Poland

    Clips from a documentary compilation presenting an idyllic view of the Polish countryside and civilization which Poles in exile in Great Britain were fighting for. Countryside, villages, peasants in their national costumes. River banks at Warsaw. Architectural details- LECIZNICA (letters on building). Street scenes, parks (very picturesque). Views of Krakow, wide, sweeping pans from high over city. Wawel castle, VS of architecture. Views of monastery.

  17. Karliner family papers

    The Karliner family papers consist of wartime correspondence and photographs taken of the Karliner family in Germany before World War II, aboard the MS St. Louis, in France while in hiding at Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) homes, and during the post-war years. The correspondence is written by members of the Karliner family, many of whom perished in the Holocaust at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Written by Joseph, Martha, Ilse, Ruth, and Walter Karliner, the letters are dated circa 1927-1944. The Karliner family photographs include photographs of Josef Karliner’s store; the family i...

  18. Eichmann Trial -- Session 99 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins with a shot of Attorney General Gideon Hausner and Assistant State Attorney Gabriel Bach seated at the prosecution table. Dr. Robert Servatius, counsel for the defense, enters (00:00:26) and the camera cuts to a long shot of the courtroom. Servatius walks over to the defense table and is seated. The camera cuts to another angle and Adolf Eichmann enters the booth (00:00:39) carrying documents and accompanied by three Israeli guards. He bows to Servatius and is seated. There are various shots of Servatius and Eichmann preparing for the session. All rise as judges Halevi, Landa...

  19. Eichmann Trial -- Session 89 -- Decision of the court to cancel session

    Session 89. Courtroom. People sitting and waiting for the Judges to enter. Almost immediately, Dr. Servatius runs out of the courtroom (duplicate footage from Tape 2124). 00:12:23 Judges enter. They open the 89th Session of the trial. The President of Court says that the Defense requests this session be cancelled because the medical condition of Eichmann prevents him from being cross examined in both the morning and afternoon. They cancel the morning session, and adjourn. Shots of people leaving.

  20. Adler typewriter with fitted case used by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp

    Adler typewriter with gray case purchased by Shaya Yurfest from a local German while the family was living in Windsheim displaced persons camp in 1946. The family used it to assist other refugees with their paperwork.