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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Dutch

  1. "A Christmas Memoir"

    Consists of one document, 6 pages, entitled "A Christmas Memoir," by Anne L. Knox, which describes her memories of life in a German concentration camp in Belgium (possibly Mecheln/Mechelen) in the winter of 1943. In the testimony, she describes the strange celebration of Christmas in the camp. Also includes eight photographs of Mechelen taken in 1990 on the site of the memorial at the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance (located at the Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen).

  2. Aizen family papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence and photographs relating to the Aizen family, including passports, images of life in Hofgeismar DP camp in Germany, and descriptions of their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes a certificate issued by Jewish National Fund in Germany c. 1946, stating that Mr. Dov Aizen (donor’s late father-in-law) planted trees in Palestine in memory of his father, Jeshajahu Aizen, who was murdered during the Holocaust in Wlodzimierz Wolynski, Poland; issued by Jewish National Fund in Germany, c. 1946.

  3. Rhine River tour; Württemberg

    “GERMANY” "THE RHINE” Dark shots from from a boat on the Rhine River of the surrounding area. Castle on the hill. Trees. Smokestacks of boats on the water. The castle wall on the edge of a hill. Waterfront. Smaller castle on a terraced hill. “HALL IN WUERTEMBURG” Schwäbisch Hall, a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Steep stairs lead up to St. Michael’s Church. Houses line the slanted road. Nazi flag. St. Michael’s Church. Young girl approaches the camera, joined by a young boy and mother.

  4. World War I soldiers and families travel to Wesel for an SA march and celebration

    Decorated title in German: "Vereinsfilm aufgenommen durch Fr. Jasper Text von H. Vosskamp" followed by the main title card: "Kameradschaft Duisburg der ehem. Angehoerigen des 3 Oberelsäss. Inftr.-Regiments 172 FAHRT INS BLAUE mit dem Salondampfer 'Deutschland' am Sonntag, dem 13 August 1933 vorm 7:10 Uhr ab Mühlenweide, Ruhrort". Another title card indicating the program, whereby guests will depart from Muehlenweide at 7:30 AM on a "Journey into the Blue" and debark for a march of SA men to the fortifications [in Wesel]. Comic illustration of an early rise from bed at 5 AM. Man opens apartm...

  5. Russian DPs waiting to return home; Montgomery awards medals

    03:18:51 (LIB 7052) Russian DPs go Home, Grimma, Germany, June 21, 1945. Displaced persons get off trains which are decorated with greenery and huge pictures of Stalin. Short scene, two US soldiers speak with a Russian woman who holds infant in her lap. Russian DPs in field await transportation to homeland. Some relax, other wash clothes in river, a few men and women swim. 03:23:15 (LIB 7054) Award, Wiesbaden, Germany, June 26, 1945. LSs, Field Marshall Sir Bernard L Montgomery presents British awards to US Army personnel. LSs, MLS, Montgomery and Gen Omar N Bradley troop the line of soldie...

  6. Helena Pietyra - Auschwitz

    Helena Pietyra describes her experience living near the city of Auschwitz, Poland. FILM ID 3448 -- Interview Auschwitz Pietyra -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:04 to 01:24:13 Roll 1 Madam Pietyra sits in the living room of the apartment she occupies in Auschwitz. Pietyra is citizen of Auschwitz. She was born in Auschwitz and has never left. She recounts that Auschwitz was a predominantly Jewish city before the war. Most of the city was occupied by the Jewish citizens, including the apartment Pietyra lives in, while only a few buildings belonged to Catholic citizens. Overall, the Jews were like...

  7. Abigael de Vries family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Abigael de Vries, Ingeborg de Vries Nikkels, Simon Berklou, and friends in the Netherlands during World War II.

  8. Ezriel Reitzfeld identification card

    Collection consists of an identification card issued July 1, 1948, to Ezriel Reitzfeld, in the "Exodus" Police force in the Sengwarden displaced persons camp.

  9. Selected records from the National Library of Morocco

    Contains mostly regulations, correspondence, reports and the like, compiled by French authorities in Morocco. Main topics are: legislation related to Jews; Moroccan and Algerian laws concerning Jews; professions prohibited to Jews (1941-1942 records); records on taxes levied on the Jewish community (1940-1945); decrees concerning nationality and citizenship of Jews; 1930-1935 tax matters related to the Jewish community; Jewish cemeteries; Jewish life in Fez; German activity in Morocco before and during the war including notes of the DAP (Deutsche Arbeitspartei); activities in the Spanish zo...

  10. Nuremberg Trial war criminals on plane; Landsberg Hangings

    21:28:40 (Munich 187) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 24, 1946. War criminal von Burgdorff seated in truck on Furth airfield and guarded by MPs. Col. Muszkat, Chief of the Polish Mission for Prosecution of War Crimes at Frankfurt, signing receipt for prisoners. Prisoners are put aboard plane. INTs showing prisoners seated in plane. 21:34:01 (Munich 191) Hangings at Landsberg, Germany, May 28, 1946. Military hangings of two German civilians.

  11. Oral history interview with Lloyd Crothers

  12. "Les déportés de France internés su l'île d'Aurigny"

    Consists of one manuscript, entitled "Les déportés de France internés sur l'île d'Aurigny", a master's thesis by Benoît Luc. The manuscript contains information about the Aurigny/Alderney internment camp for Jews, Spaniards, and resistance fighters located on the Channel Islands.

  13. Selected records of the Organization for the Relief and Rehabilitation of Greek Jews (Ο.Π.Α.Ι.Ε.)

    Consists of several thematically arranged sections. Included are property restitution files, correspondence, inheritance documentation, files on individuals, and the like.

  14. Joseph Brandt collection

    The collection consists of ten coins issued in the Łódź Ghetto in Poland during the Holocaust.

  15. Personal archives of Esdras Moissis related to the history of the Jewish community of Larissa in Greece

    Contains Esdras Moissis’s personal archives, which include various records, correspondence, and publications related to the history of the Jewish community of Larissa.

  16. Selected records of the Central Board of Jewish Communities (KIS) Athens, Greece

    Consists mainly of files of correspondence between various Greek Jewish communities, with Greek governmental authorities concerning the restitution of the property of Greek Jews, and with international Jewish organizations concerning remembrance. Also included is correspondence with various other, but primarily German, organizations and authorities concerning reparations.

  17. Otto and Hilde Egener collection

    Consists of documentation related to the lives of Otto and Hilde Rahmer Egener, German-Jewish refugees who escaped to Shanghai in 1939. Includes Otto Egener's Reisepass, marriage and immunization documentation, and a letter sent to Otto in 1942 from a friend just prior to his deportation to a concentration camp.

  18. Archives of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki

    Consists of historical records reflecting the history of the Jewish community from 1943 to the 1990s. Included are property and financial assets declarations demanded by the German authorities in 1943, certificates issued to the surviving members of the community reclaiming property of their families, applications for German reparations, copies of German payments from the late 1950s and 1960s, certificates verifying membership in the community and relationship to the murdered, correspondence among Jewish communities and Jewish organizations in Greece and abroad, correspondence with local an...

  19. Selected records from the Archives of the Département of the Creuse

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn37059
    • English
    • 1937-1945
    • 24,633 digital images, JPEG 5 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm 1 microfilm reel (digitized), 35 mm 4 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in. 24 pages of photocopies,

    Materials of the Cabinet du Préfet, the Service du Travail Obligatoire (office sending French workers to Germany), and summer camps for city children; documents on the surveillance and internment of foreigners, including prewar German, Austrian, and Polish political refugees; documentation of the activities of the French gendarmerie and of the 1943 deportations.

  20. "One in 6,000,000" One Woman's Story of Survival

    Consists of one memoir, 36 pages, entitled, "One in 6,000,000: One Woman's Story of Survival," by Hilde Geisen. In the memoir, she describes her childhood in Cologne; her memories of Nazi persecutions; her failed attempt at immigration to the United States; the deportation of her parents; life in Theresienstadt; post-war life in Deggendorf; and immigration to the United States in 1947. Includes a copy of her identity card and a 2002 portrait.