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

  1. Bertl a story of a unique Holocaust survival

    Describes the experiences of Bertha Geminder Brotfeld (Bertl Glotzer Geminder Brotfeld, b. 1912) and her two children, George and Robert Geminder, before the Nazi occupation of Poland; during an Aktion at a cemetery; their stay in the ghetto in Stanislawów, Poland (now Ivano-Frankivsḱ, Ukraine); their experiences during the Warsaw Uprising; their eventual liberation; and their travel to the American Zone in Germany. Bertha later immigrated to the United States.

  2. Selected records from the State Archives of Fermo

    This collection contains records and correspondence relating to concentration camps for prisoners of war, 1915-1919.

  3. Cederbaum family collection

    Contains a certificate identifying Ryszarda Cederbaum, born in Łódź on June 28, 1922 (donor’s mother), daughter of Maurycy or Moszek Cederbaum and Frymeta Wislicka Cederbaum; issued in Zamość; Dated: April 3, 1941 in Polish; Certificate; identifying Marianna Jasińska, false name of donor’s mother, who was employed by the Warsaw regional labor and social welfare office in Otwock, Poland; dated: February 12, 1945; in Polish; Permit; for the official name change of Bronisław Epsztajn, son of Stefan and Anna, born in Zamość, on March 4, 1923, to: Rałowiecki; this new last name conveys to his ...

  4. Dr. Zvi Richter memoir

    Consists of one memoir, referred to in the text as a CV or Vitae, by Dr. Zvi Richter, who was born Budapest, Hungary and raised in Berehovo. In the memoir, Dr. Richter describes life in Berehovo, the Jewish and Zionist community, establishing his own law firm, and his memory of the Hungarian occupation in 1938. He served in the Horthy army for a brief period in 1940, but was recalled after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. As a Jewish soldier, he witnessed the effects of the massacres and deportations of Jews in the areas in which he served until 1943, when he was captured and impris...

  5. War Crimes Trials: Einsatzgruppen Case

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case), Nuremberg, Germany, October 15, 1947. Ohlendorf testifying about the number of persons his Einsatzgruppe D killed. Cross examined by US prosecutor James Heath. Musmanno rules that Ohlendorf's testimony from the International Military Tribunal regarding the number 90,000 victims stands.

  6. Kriegsberichterstattung: Von den Stellungen an der Narwa. Nach der Schlacht (version 1)

    Decelith Folie D. War report by Rudolf Becker, SS Standarte Kurt Eggers, 3. Kriegsberichter-Kompagnie. "From the positions at the Narwa After the battle." Dramatic description of the battlefield during the Battle of Narva. Becker describes a young Estonian soldier, looking across the river at the Soviet positions, and how this battle for him is all about Heimatboden [homeland]. Detailed description of engagement between the Soviets and the Germans that ends with the death of the Estonian soldier.

  7. Claire Welch memoir

    Consists of one CD containing a memoir of the Holocaust experiences of Claire Weinberg Welch, originally of Brake, Germany. In the memoir, Claire describes how she recently discovered that she and her family had been picked up on Kristallnacht. Claire and her mother were released within a few hours and her father was released from Sachsenhausen in December 1938. They immigrated to the United States in February 1939.

  8. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Hautes-Pyrénées

    Contains material related to the use of forced labor, expropriation of Jewish property, exclusions preventing Jews from practicing medicine or dentistry, antisemitic legislation, and measures taken against Freemasons in the Hautes-Pyrénées.

  9. Touring Germany

    Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. In Germany, along the Rhine, tourist shots of river, a boat, crane industry on the shore, sailors. CU, Herz girl with camera. LS, chalets on shore, bridges. Street scenes with civilians on bicycles, steamboat, chalets in the mountains. In German town (Nuremberg?), street scenes, MS of food and ice cream vendor. CU Coca-Cola sign.

  10. Feature film about a Russian army officer: soldiers fighting

    Feature film about a young Russian army officer. Begins with his participation at a Russian youth military school and follows him as he advances in the army. Film portrays youthful patriotism through the willingness of young Russian men and women to enlist. The inhumanity of war is illustrated through scenes of extreme and ruthless German aggression. There are many any scenes of camaraderie between soldiers, battles with the Germans, and the destruction of war. Reel 4: Opens with CU of a barbed wire fence. Soldiers crawl out of a trench and through a field. They cut through the barbed wire ...

  11. Chamber for Arts and Culture and Subchambers Reichskulturkammer und ihre Einzelkammern (R 56)

    Contains records from Bundesarchiv R 56 relating to various activities of the Reichskulturkammern and subchambers (Chamber for Arts and Culture and Subchambers); spans the years 1933 to 1944.

  12. Wehrmacht exercises ("greatest since 1913")

    Soldiers on horseback traveling along a road. Narrator: "Im Gebiet um den Vorwaerts Berg in Oberhessen" the great exercises of the Wehrmacht in Fall 1936 occurred.... They were the greatest German maneuvers since 1913. More soldiers along the road, marching into a village. A banner hung in the town greets the Wehrmacht. Soldiers on horseback receive drinks from smiling women leaning out of the windows of their house; young girls and women rush up to soldiers carrying plates of food. Men marching along road and signing, shot from above. Sign reading "Frankfurt am Main 69 KM" Soldiers perform...

  13. Allied bombings of Dresden collection

    Consists of six photographs of the aftermath of the Allied bombings of Dresden, Germany, in February 1945, specifically the mass burning of victims of the bombings, as well as one official Nazi report, one page, dated March 22, 1945, describing the bombings and giving the number of bombs, the number of victims, and the damage done to the city. Also includes one handwritten poem, in English. The collection presumably belonged to Robert Lunow, a native German and the bookbinder of the Folger Shakespeare Library from 1948 until his death in 1971. These items were found in the bindery in May 1972.

  14. Speech about Christian merchants in Hungary, 1942

    Magyar Híradó 944. An intertitle reads “KERESZTÉNY KERESKEDELEM. M.F.I- HORVÁTH TÖRÖK SARDI.” A grand chandelier with many lights hangs from the ceiling. There is a split-color flag with the symbol of a bird in flight holding a seal that says “BAROSS SZOVETSEG” with a sun motif. A table of seated men and one woman, a denser crowd of seated men on the level behind them, and young boys in uniform in front. In the middle, the President of the Association for Christian Merchants addresses the audience. WS of the audience members. Men and women sit separately. Flags in the BG. The men at the fro...

  15. US Army advances at Iwo Jima

    Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 4: 08:46:30 "Pacific - Ulithi Anchorage" Shows aerial views of many ships anchored at Ulithi Harbor in the Carolines. Shows activities at an emergency landing field on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines. Guerillas help fuel and hide planes. 08:48:41 "Pacific - Iwo Jima" Troops and supplies reinforce Iwo Jima under enemy fire. Carrier planes bomb the island; ships and artillery shell caves. Shows dead Japanese and the flag raising on Mt. Suribachi.

  16. 1946 news roundup

    News documentary with intertitles produced for the home movie market by Castle Films Productions. "The News Parade of the Year 1946" "War's Aftermath 'Round the World!" Includes war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Pope (Pius XI) creating new cardinals, a plane crash in Belgium, and atomic test bombing of Bikini Atoll.

  17. Dr. Josef Kiefer scrapbooks

    The Dr. Josef Kiefer scrapbooks consist of two albums created by a Wehrmacht medical officer documenting his World War II medical service between August 1939 and May 1940 in the areas of Saarbrucken, Oberstein, and Bad Homburg in Germany and the Moselle region in France. The scrapbooks include photographs of Kiefer, medical examinations, and military life, equipment, and installations, as well as clippings, maps, and Kiefer’s labels and commentary.

  18. Stadtpräsident der Reichshauptstadt Berlin (A Pr. Br. Rep. 057)

    Contains files on looted Jewish property in Berlin Germany, registered by street names.

  19. Selected records from the State Archive Pisa

    Contains records from the Prefecture of Pisa regarding racial laws and their implementation in Pisa, as well as a census of Italian Jews and confiscation of Jewish property.

  20. 257th German Infantry in Galicia region

    Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. In the region of Galicja (near the border of Poland and the Ukraine), German officers from the 257th Infantry round Jewish civilians wearing white armbands into forced labor divisions in the town center. Galicja had a large Jewish population (about 800,000) living relatively peacefully amongst the larger Ukrainian and Polish populations in the 1930s. The women of Galicja buy and sell vegetables and other goods in the market. HAS of the crowded marketplace. Jewi...