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  1. David Heck collection

    The collection consists of propaganda materials associated with the anti-Nazi movement in Canada during World War II.

  2. Ella Brecher Lieberman collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experience of Ella Brecher Lieberman and her family in Poland and during their emigration to Palestine prior to the Holocaust.

  3. Major John F. Maloney photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, including photographs of corpses, survivors, and architecture. "Not for publication: JJ Carroll 1st Lt. CMP" is handwritten on the verso of each photograph. The photographs are from the collection of Maj. John F. Maloney, US Army (Ret.), who was a staff officer for General Patton.

  4. Roma caravan and German military share road; German soldiers advance; British POWs

    MS German women sending Morse code on key, man supervises. CU potatoes, potato peeler, chopping, making dumplings. Workers at tables eat potato dumplings. LS Germans with suitcases, boarding ship. CU women aboard ship. LS ship in heavy seas. In city, two women stand on canal bridge. CU woman gives soup to patient in hospital. Street car with female conductor. 01:15:14 Long line of Roma caravan carts on road as German army trucks and vehicles pass other way. Carts pulled by oxen. Group of four Roma men standing. Two women under a high teepee tent. Men and women at table, cart headed high wit...

  5. Willy van Gurp testimony

    Consist of one testimony, five pages, presumably written in 1945, by Willy van Gurp, a female member of the Dutch Underground. Ms. van Gurp was arrested in June 1944 due to her involvement in the Underground. After questioning, she was imprisoned, first in the Vught concentration camp, and at the evacuation of the camp, she was sent to Ravensbrück. She describes conditions in Ravensbrück in the fall of 1944 and her deportation to Munich, where she worked in a munitions factory connected to Dachau. As the Americans approached, she was sent on a death march toward a camp near Innsbruck and wa...

  6. U.S. soldiers in Europe

    The images are difficult to see due to severe decomposition and emulsion loss. Intermittent images. US Army soldier in helmet visible briefly along with images of European style homes (rustic, Chalet type style). Various glimpses of European architecture: pyres, steeples, towers, ornate columns, etc. Image of peasant wheeling (driving) horse-drawn cart. Civilians, locals walking along streets, mountains are visible in the BG. US Army men at camp, posing in front of their tents. Military plane flying overhead. VS, buildings, destruction and rubble. Shot of a small child with a woman. Local w...

  8. Martin Weiss papers

    The Martin Weiss papers consists of identification documents collected by Martin Weiss in post-war Czechoslovakia. The documents were collected by Weiss after his release from the Gunskirchen concentration camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen concentration camp, and were intended to be used for Weiss’ immigration to the United States.

  9. "Into the No Man's Land"

    Consists of one memoir, 133 pages, entitled "Into the No Man's Land," by Irene Miller, originally of Warsaw, Poland. In the memoir, she recalls her Holocaust experiences when, as a child, she and her family escaped from Warsaw and were told that they would be taken over the border into the Soviet Union. In reality, their possessions were stolen and they were abandoned in no man's land on the border with other Jews who were unable to enter the Soviet Union. Irene, her father Srulik Miller, and sister Halina were able to escape into the Soviet Union, but her mother, Bella Miller, had to pose ...

  10. Adolf Eichmann passport

    Consists of copies and enlargements of the passport issued by the Italian delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross to Ricard Klement, a pseudonym used by Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann used this passport to immigrate to Argentina in 1950.

  11. Aerial views of Paris; POW camp

    EXT shots of military planes, and a plane taking off. The propellors of plane 771 spin, preparing for take-off. People board plane V4. Aerial shots from plane show views of Paris and a chateau with large gardens. Clouds and the city below. 01:17:44 Two men stand in front of a military jeep smoking cigarettes. A young man in uniform walks towards the camera, hands in pockets and smiling. Building with an arched roof and a steeple has a sign in front that reads “Post Chapel”. 01:18:13 POW camp (?). Camera pans left to a plane, watchtower, a basketball court and rows of buildings. View from pl...

  12. Wolf and Hausmann family collection

    Consists of letters, postcards, documents, passports, and books related to the Holocaust experiences of the Wolf and Hausmann families, originally of Worms, Germany. Though the collection details many members of the family, especially notable is the correspondence from Mr. Daniel Hausmann and Mr. Julius Wolf, as well as information regarding their attempted immigration plans. Mr. Hausmann perished in 1943, in the Terezin ghetto, while Mr. Wolf was able to immigrate. Many of the documents have been translated into English. Mr. Hausmann's son, Louis, married Mr. Wolf's sister, Ella, after the...

  13. Buchenwald and Natzweiler photographs

    Consists of fourteen photographs from the collection of Basil Peter Malamis, a member of the United States Army during World War II. Consists of twelve graphic photographs of corpses used for medical experimentation which were discovered at the Natzweiler concentration camp and two photographs, presumably taken by Mr. Malamis, of the crematorium at Buchenwald; these photographs are captioned.

  14. James and Hedy Reeds collection

    Consists of two large original pre-war portraits, one each of Esther Laub Neumann and of Markus Neumann, the parents of Hedy Neumann Reeds. The Neumanns perished in the Holocaust. Also includes copies of 35 pre-war photographs, some on album pages, of the Neumann family in Poland, and one copy of a photograph of James Reeds, who was part of the "Monuments Men," who investigated and discovered Nazi-looted art. In the photograph, Dr. Reeds is seen examining a discovered painting. He received a 2007 National Humanities Medal as a member of that group.

  15. "Bystanders, Victims, and Perpetrators" "A descriptive analysis of individual choices and moral responsibility in the case of an informal network of Protestants trying to rescue Jews in the surroundings of Antwerp and Louvain between 1942 and 1945"

    Consists of one manuscript, 79 pages, entitled "Bystanders, Victims, and Perpetrators: A descriptive analysis of individual choices and moral responsibility in the case of an informal network of Protestants trying to rescue Jews in the surroundings of Antwerp and Louvain between 1942 and 1945," by Jan Maes, who wrote the paper as part of a masters degree in religious sciences at the Catholic University of Louvain. In the manuscript, Maes uses original testimony and interviews with rescuers and those who were rescued, and focuses on Julia Schuyten Sluys, a rescuer, Sylvieke Reichman, a child...

  16. William Fraser collection

    Consists of one bound memoir, untitled, by Bill Fraser, a soldier in the British Army who was captured at Anzio in February 1944. In June 1944, he and a group of British POWs, were deported to Auschwitz, where they worked in the IG Farben complex. He describes life in Auschwitz and the group's attempts to sabotage the German war effort, memories of air raids, the comraderie among the soldiers, and his memories of the evacuation of the camp. After a months-long march, he was liberated near Regensburg by the American Army. Includes a copy of a poem entitled "Memories of a Prisoner of War Camp...

  17. Barges; European seashore

    VS, EXT. Along a canal. Barges, carrying metal drums are docked. Strings of international flags on barges. VS, EXT of rocky shoreline and the sea. CU, young girl on beach. LS, shot from above, most likely a hilltop, looking down to unidentified town and rooftops of homes below. More panning shots of trees, hills, the sea and the shoreline.

  18. Dachau photograph

    Consists of one photograph of a pile of corpses, captioned "This was taken at Dachow [sic] concentration camp right after we took it from the Germans. This was the last part of April, 45." Also includes one envelope with the photographic negative.

  19. Avraham Abba Frieder collection

    Consists of a CD-ROM containing scanned images of the diary (both handwritten and typed with photographic and document inserts) of Rabbi Avraham Abba Frieder, originally of Prievidza, Czechoslovakia.

  20. Hashem Ykom Wiktor Brilliant collection

    Consists of one set of copies and one CD-ROM containing a Powerpoint of scanned images, of pre-war and wartime correspondence from Hashem Ykom Wiktor Brilliant (the Levy), originally of Jaroslaw, Poland, and his sons, Edmond, Karol, Maximilian, and Yohanan, between Poland and Palestine. Also includes information about the family history.