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  1. George DePuydt collection

    Consists of one photograph of uniformed survivors of the Kaufering (Landsberg) concentration camp holding a crate of bottled alcohol. The caption reads "Jews from a concentration camp at Langberg [sic] taken the day we liberated them." The photograph was taken by George DePuydt, a member of the United States Army.

  2. Myron (Mike) Moses collection

    Consists of nine photographs from the collection of Myron (Mike) Moses, a member of the United States Army. The photographs depict wartime devastation, Myron Moses in his office (he was responsible for Signal Corps supplies), a staged crematorium photograph, the liberation of a French town, a post-war POW enclosure, and a 1944 photograph of American soldiers at Rosh Hashanah services in France. Also includes two booklets, one entitled "Britain", the other "A Pocket Guide to France." These booklets were distributed to American soldiers so they would know the customs of these countries.

  3. Polish Army parade in Warsaw

    Scenes of the Polish army marching through the streets of Warsaw: this is a sign/prelude to war. Several CUs of shop windows displaying proudly the photos of Polish leaders, particularly Pilsudski, Paderewski and the current (1937) President Mosczieksky. This clip features a ceremony where President Mosczieksky passes the baton to Marshall Smigly-Ridz, who was being hailed as the man who would lead the Poles to victory over Germany. Polish officers using horses for crowd control, MCU of Polish Cardinal Hlond, who made several anti-Jewish statements. VS of the bystanders, young boys watch th...

  4. US publishers visit Weimar and Rheims

    US Publishers and Editors Visit Weimar, Germany and Rheims, France, April 24, 1945. Seq: Newspapermen greeted by Brig. Gen. Frank A. Allen at airport and are taken on tour of Buchenwald concentration camp. CU, Gen. Omar N. Bradley at his headquarters. Seq: Newspapermen visit prisoner of war enclosure and Cathedral at Rheims, France. MSs, visitors greeted by Gen. Bradley and other officers.

  5. Agata Tuszynska-Dasko collection

    Collection of Rosenberg and Kaplan family photographs, and of Henry Dasko [donor's late husband's family] who survived the Holocaust on false papers in Warsaw and vicinity. The Rosenberg family was originally from Łódź, Poland, and Rywa Kaplan, Henry's mother, was from Vilna. Professional identification card issued to Wladyslaw Daszkiewicz (real name, Mojesz Josl Rozenberg), stating that he is a member of lawyer's association.

  6. United States Army division shoulder sleeve insignia badge collection

    The collection consists of thirty-five United States Army Division shoulder sleeve insiginia badges issued for Divisions active in the European theater during World War II.

  7. Ursula Klau family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, prayer books, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ursula Klau and her family in Amsterdam, Netherlands, before and after the Holocaust as well as contemporary photographs from the 1950s and later.

  8. Charles Lavering collection

    Contains a scrapbook relating to the experiences of Charles Lavering, a member of the 305 and 309 Ordnance Battalions in the United States Army, while he was stationed in liberated Europe.

  9. Sledding in the yard of the Lieberman family vacation home in prewar Poland

    Hanna is sledding down a small hill in a runner sled, runs back to the top, and repeats. She then treks down a snowy path between houses and walks with Thomas. She begins sledding again.

  10. Niels Bach collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the history of the Holocaust and the occupation of Denmark by Germany during World War II.

  11. Slomowitz family collection

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the families of Asher Zelig Slomowitz, originally of Vulchovce, Czechoslovakia, and Sara (Shirley) Rosenfeld Slomowitz, originally of Tocovo, in Transcarpathia. Both are Auschwitz survivors who met after the war in the Gabersee displaced persons camp and immigrated to the United States, where they married. Includes a copy of a wartime postcard, in Hungarian and Yiddish, addressed to a member of the Steiner family, and photographs of the couple at Gabersee.

  12. "Angel on my Shoulder"

    Consists of one memoir entitled “Angel on my Shoulder” by Miriam Schlezinger, born in Poruba, but later moved to Poroskov, Slovakia. During the war, Mrs. Schlezinger first lived with a Gentile family in Uzhorod, and then with a family in Nirethose, Hungary, before moving into a ghetto in occupied Poland, which was liquidated in 1944. She and her sisters were deported to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944, where her sister Hannah later perished. Miriam and her sister Surah were sent on a death march in January 1945 to Buchenwald and from there, were put on a train to Bergen-Belsen, where they w...

  13. Herbert L. Markow collection

    Herbert Markow papers relating to the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials; Mr. Markow acted as an attorney advisor to the Office of the United States Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, specifically for subsequent trial preparation for the indictment against former SS member Oswald Pohl who was head of the Economic and Administrative Office of the SS; Markow also completed preliminary work in preparation for the mesical experiments trial.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Foreign diplomats at banquets in Portugal

    LS, Palace of the President of Portugal in countryside, car pulls up, guard on duty. Reading papers, talking. Gen. Jordana visits the President at his villa near Estoril. Officials enter house, go upstairs. CU, valet hanging caps. Jordana leaves office. Soldiers lined up, people by fountain. Gen. Jordana (Franco's foreign minster), Portuguese Premier Salazar, and other officials arrive. Republican guard soldiers march, join the Chateau guard. Salazar and Jordana in banquet hall in Sintra. Salazar talks to Spanish Ambassador to Lisbon, brother of Franco. Other guests at table, talking. Chate...

  15. Nazi Party campaign poster collection

    The collection consists of campaign and propaganda posters created to publicize the achievements of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany in the mid-1930s.

  16. Ottenheimer family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Ottenheimer family including photographs taken in pre-war Germany, a book on the genealogy of the Moos family, a pre-WWII advertisement for Ludwig Ottenheimer's clothing store, a photocopy of the same advertisement after the Aryanization of the store, postwar correspondence. and a small siddur (daily Jewish prayer book) carried by Ludwig Ottenheimer during his military service during WWI and with him to the United States. Ludwig Ottenheimer was arrested after Kristallnacht and spent one month in the Dachau concentration camp. Aft...

  17. Lahousen testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 399) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 30, 1945. MS, rear view, Russian Gen. Rudenko speaking to the court. MS, rear view, German defense counsel addresses the court. Gen. Lahousen (Austrian Intelligence Service) taking stand and being sworn in. Lahousen identifies Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl and proceeds to testify, recalling what was said and decided of a conference, and mentions Ribbentrop. Rear view, Soviet counsel Gen. Rudenko questions Lahousen. Voice is heard asking, "Were orders for the killing of the Russians in written form?" He answers saying, that yes, he...

  18. Book

  19. Documentary on the Holocaust for TV, with survivors

    Broadcast on TV on July 18, 1960 including fragments from "Night and Fog" (1956), this film opens with Dr. Gisela Perl, a survivor of the Holocaust. It shows an interview with Dr. Perl and other survivors, including Sonia Weissman (the donor's wife and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto), Janus T (a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), and Mr. Friedman (a survivor of Treblinka). Dr. Perl speaks of being taken away by the Gestapo. Her story is intercut with the famous Lvov pogrom footage although it does not relate to the story (see raw footage in RG-60.0441 on Film ID 402). The film then g...

  20. Judith Stieglitz Kessler collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Judith (Yehudit) Stieglitz Kessler and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust in Hungary and Yugoslavia.