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  1. Steven P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Steven P., who was born in Cuhea, Romania in 1928. He recalls observing Shabbat; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending public school and cheder; relatives in the United States; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish regulations; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization in Ti?rgu-Mures?; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in April; selection for labor with his father; his brother staying with them for three days; separation from his father after a week (he never saw him again); transfer to Buchenwald; placement in a children's block; German Jews sharing parcels from Switz...

  2. Steven Paskuly papers

    Contains Steven Paskuly's editorial work on "Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz."

  3. Steven Schuyler collection

    Postcards, black and white images from Israelitsches Kinderheim Koln; almanac, gray cover with Star of David image, title "Kulturbund Deutscher Juden Almanach 1934-1935"; book, cardboard cover with image of two flowering trees, title "Die Haggadah des Kindes"; calendar, for 1938-1939, pages for each month attached to yellow cardboard backing, photographic imges of children on backing, issued by Israelitsches Kinderheim Koln.

  4. Steven Vogel collection

    The collection consists of a cotton shirt and a leather belt worn by Steven Vogel as he exited Mauthausen concentration camp upon liberation in April 1945. Steven Vogel took the shirt and belt from an SS storeroom housing clothing and supplies at the camp. Letter: handwritten by Tomi Baratod [sic] in Budapest addressed to "Pistka" [sic], dated December 14, 1946. Letter describes events in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland after Steven was evacuated from there to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Written by a friend of Steven's who remained in Auschwitz and detailed his experien...

  5. Steven W. Simon collection

    This collection consists of artifacts, books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Steven Simon and his family in France when they lived in hiding during the Holocaust and after the war when they returned to Paris and then emigrated to the United States. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Stevens & Moffat at Elbe River

    Stevens walking in front of destroyed metal bridge. GI (probably Moffat) going down to river's edge and returning from river's edge. Army Engineers sign reads: "In memoriam to our comrades who fell with the bridge?" then list of names. Shots of destroyed bridge and river. Stevens walking into tunnel. Boys walking along railroad track, river's edge, bombed out buildings. Stevens and Moffat talking. They walk along barbed wire pathway. Stevens in jeep Toluca and weapons carrier behind crossing pontoon bridge and driving past anti-aircraft gun, along riverside and past fortifications. Stevens,...

  7. Stewart Levy collection

    Collection contains an identity card for "Opfer des Faschismus" for donor's grandfather, Harry Levy; a Milwaukee Journal Magazine article for 5 May 1985 describing the donor's father; obituary for donor's father; essay written by donor's mother describing her Holocaust related experiences.

  8. Sticker

    Sticker, "Jews are TRAITORS to America and should not be trusted. Buy Gentile"; 1939.

  9. Sticker issued in the US to support relief efforts for Polish Jews

    Sticker with the caption "They Shall Not Die" with an image of a Jewish family in Poland wearing armbands issued by the American Federation for Polish Jews to raise funds and awareness of the persecution of Jews in Nazi occupied Poland.

  10. Stiel family collection

    Contains photographs depicting Esther and Isidore Stiel [donor’s parents] before the war, with their firstborn son Jacques during the war, and after the war with Raffie [donor]. Also contains a copy of a letter written by a nun in the convent where Raffie was hidden, to reassure his mother that he is well, dated September 29, 1943; a testimony given by Esther Wolf (Stiel) regarding her and her husband’s contacts with Weinreb; postwar Red Cross tracing correspondence regarding relatives who perished in Holocaust, and the trial protocol of Frijdrijk Weinreb, dated November 1947. Isidore Stiel...

  11. Stiftung Hilfswerk 20. Juli 1944: Various papers

    This collection contains circular letters and papers celebrating the 75th birthday of Emil Henk; also a death notice for the same

  12. Still photographer shoots Stevens & camera crew on board ship

    Helmeted officer shooting still photos toward Stevens and his camera crew. Men at stations. Man with Red Cross arm band, heavy white gloves and canvas hood peering through binoculars behind camera. VS of sailors, guns and empty shell casings. Pan of eight ships with barrage balloons overhead. Shot over shoulders of officers on bow of ship. HAS of deck. VS of Stevens looking through 35mm camera on tripod. Shot of aircraft overhead.

  13. Stillhaltekomissar für Organisationen (Continuity Commissioner for Organisations) in Liberec

    The fonds contains materials on Jewish communities, associations and foundations within the territory of the former district of the Sudetenland, liquidated upon cession of the Sudetenland to Germany. Part of the fonds, held under inv. № 6, have individual folders ordered alphabetically by municipality: file 43 – Jewish religious community Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad in German): billing for demolition of the synagogue and land underneath it, tax from the cemetery plot, Jewish foundation and Jewish spa house; folder 46 – statement from the land register with regards to the synagogue in Úštěk (Ausc...

  14. Stillhaltekommissar, Signature : AT-OeStA/AdR ZNsZ Stiko Wien

    Records from the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives) located in Vienna, Austria, pertaining to the Stillhaltekommissar, department IV of the Reichskommissar für die Wiedervereingung Österreichs mit dem Deutschen Reich. The responsibilities of Reichskommissar Albert Hoffman, who was appointed after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany by Gauleiter Bürckel, were defined by the law dated May 17, 1938 regarding the “Überleitung und Eingliederung von Vereinen, Organisationen und Verbänden” (GBl. für Österreich Nr.136/1938), i.e. the transfer and incorporation of clubs, o...

  15. Stills of Romanian fascist atrocities; pogrom

    A film showing photographs of Romanian fascist atrocities. Intertitle reads, POGROMUL DE LA BUCURESTI. Document, 2? January 1941 (text in French). Photographic stills illustrate atrocities, mangled faces, corpses, portraits. VAR images of devastation. Talmud/Torah. INT, destruction of synagogue, chairs, debris, rubble. CUs, documents with Jewish names. 01:10:56 Document, 29-30 June 1941 (text in French). More stills of atrocities. Corpses dead in the streets. Some images include soldiers and civilians. Corpses lined in fields. CU, document (text in French). More corpses. Trial stills. Prepa...

  16. Stimson; Patterson; Churchill; Japanese children; German troops; French refugees; US soldiers; Tunisian front

    04:28:30 (NR-38) Sec of War Henry L Stimson Arrives in North Africa. Arrives at airfield. Stimson gets off plane and is greeted 04:29:34 Under Sec of War Robert Patterson, Adm William Leahy and Elmer Davis in a broadcasting studio. 04:29:45 Winston Churchill Speaks to Congress, standing on dais before many microphones addressing US Congress. At conclusion, entire Congress rises and applauds. Henry A Wallace and Alben W Barkley can be seen in BG. 04:31:11 Japanese Children in Mass "Kendo" Drill. Japanese school children in Tokyo performing skull-testing contest. Two groups charge each other ...

  17. Stjepan (Esteban) Hefer, odvjetnik, političar, veliki župan župe Baranjske

    • Stjepan (Esteban) Hefer lawyer, politician, head of the ISC Baranya County

    The collection holds material relevant to the life and work of Stjepan Hefer, a lawyer and politician who was the head of Baranya County during the Independent State of Croatia. After the war, Hefer emigrated to Argentina to escape execution/trial in socialist Yugoslavia. In Argentina, he ran the Croatian Liberation Movement until his death. During the Second World War, Stjepan Hefer was the leader of the Velika Župa Baranja, one of the highest regional authorities in the northeast of the Independent State of Croatia. Considering that the collection of the Velika Župa Baranja is very fragme...

  18. Stock market crash

    Title: Morgan Heads Group that Halts Market Panic: Announcement of support from leaders of finance stops wild trading in Wall Street. Brief shot of crowds on Wall Street. Also on this newsreel: 02:32:59 Title: Hoover Leads New Waterways Celebration: President and party cruise down Ohio River to dedicate 180,000,000 to project. Mute footage with intertitles of riverboat journey. Identified personalities: Secretary of War Good, Speaker Longworth. Title: Italy's Naval Cadets in Mid-Air Ship Drill [Spezia, Italy]. Italian cadets perform exercises on board ship. 02:36:45 A blimp sails over Londo...

  20. Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust

    This collection contains transcripts of speeches by a number of leading European political figures and Professor Yehuda Bauer of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, on the occasion of the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust.