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  1. William "Billy" Carry collection

    Consists of 24 original photographs taken by William "Billy" Carry and of four German postcards from World War II. The photographs depict liberated Berlin, a liberated concentration camp, and mass graves, while the postcards show portraits of Hitler and other Nazis.

  2. Legion of Gendarmerie of Bucharest

    Contains records relating to surveillance of Jews, Zionists, Iron Guardists, Communists, Nazi organizations, and Roma; and to deportation of Roma to Transnistria and Roma deportees who returned from Transnistria. It also includes reports on antisemitism and on Jews who did not show up for forced labor.

  3. Prisoners of War Kriegsgefangene

    The collection Kriegsgefangene consists of several war-time prisoner lists of which two lists were reproduced by the USHMM: 1. Stammlager XVII B Gneixendorf/Sterbebuch/AdR/DWM/08 ("Gfg. Lgr. Gneixendorf, Totenbuch 2.8.43-26.4.45"). This list contains prisoners of war of various nationalities, including Americans, who died in the POW camp Gneixendorf between August 2, 1943 and April 26, 1945. The list of the dead includes Americans, Belgians, French, Italians, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Slovaks, Yugoslavs, and other nationalities. 2.The second list includes more than 2,000 prisoners from va...

  4. Nuremberg: ruins of the city; IMT

    Excerpt from the film beginning with opening titles: "This film is made available for television by the Department of the Army in the public interest. Europe 1945." VS of destruction, rubble, etc. incurred in the European theater of war. Men, women, children, babies, walking aimlessly through piles of rubble. German intertitles list the major Nazi Party leaders, all on trial at Nuremberg. VS, scenes of the courtroom, prosecutors/judges speaking, translators in booth. Pan of International Military Tribunal. VS, crowds, Nazi Germany, Nazi Party rallies, large crowds running in the streets, Hi...

  5. Goebbels speech; Anniv. of German-Japan agreement; Invading China; Oath swearing-in ceremony

    06:00:40 Goebbels speaks theatrically and confidently at an orchestra concert celebrating the fifth anniversary of the "Reichskulturkammer" and the "NS-Gemeinschaft KdF." Civilian crowd, well-dressed, and Nazis. Ley and Funk in the loge seats. Goebbels speech (original sound, close-up): "Der Ausdruck, Wir danken unserem Fuehrer sei ein Zeichen der tiefsten Verpflichtung, das die Nation der Fuehrung gegenueber empfinde. Auch der deutsche Kuenstler habe diesen Ruf aufgenommen. Er beneide die anderen Voelker nicht mehr Verantwortung dem Staat gegenueber mitbeteiligt zu sein und seine Teil mit ...

  6. Americans travel to Europe on Nieuw Amsterdam ship

    Title card reading: "Our Trip To Holland, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, France and England 1938". Liza Kurtz, Louis and Lillian Malina, and Essie Diamond on deck of Nieuw Amsterdam ship at sea. Napping and relaxing on deck. Lillian reads the NYTimes magazine dated July 24 about Henry Ford receiving a birthday award from Hitler. The ship departed the port in Hoboken, NJ at 12:40pm on Saturday July 23, 1938. HAS, crowds of people on board a ferry in Boulogne, France or Amsterdam, Netherlands, some waving. The Nieuw Amsterdam stopped first in Plymouth, England on July 30, then in Boulogne, and...

  7. Records of the regional headquarters of the Jewish Youth Organization "Hanoar Hazioni" (Fond 337, opis 1)

    The collection contains correspondence of the Jewish Youth Organization " Hanoar Hazioni” in Warsaw with the Zionist organizations in Poland and worldwide. Records relate to the activities of the branches of the organization throughout Eastern Galicia (arranged alphabetically by locality, Russian alphabet). Contains financial, membership records, including various lists of members, representatives, questionnaires, and lists of young Jews making "aliyah" to Palestine.

  8. Wanda Schmidt collection

    Consists of nine post-war Serbian and Croatian posters commemorating liberation and depicting propaganda surrounding Josip Broz Tito and wartime military achievements. Also includes six wartime aviation magazines, entitled "Croatian Wings" which contain German and Croatian propaganda, and commemorative Olympic books for the 1932 (Los Angeles) and 1936 (Berlin) Olympics.

  9. Selected individual files of children under the care of Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE)

    Contains files of people who had been under OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) care in France during the occupation, and who in 2003 were living in the United States. Included is documentation on their Holocaust-era biographies, subsequent correspondence on emigration to the U.S., and information on non-Jewish families that hid children.

  10. Warsaw Ghetto documentary for BBC

    After a brief sequence of Nazi rallies (including shots from Triumph of the Will), German footage of the invasion of Poland, and Julien Bryan footage of the siege of Warsaw in September 1939, this film uses still photographs (some from Himmler's personal collection) and much of the 1942 German propaganda footage shot in the Warsaw Ghetto. It details the daily struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto, including scenes of poor sanitation, smuggling food from outside, beggars, Jewish Police and the ghetto prison, deportations, collaboration, and resistance. It uses film footage of flamethrowers a...

  11. "Whereabouts Unknown: Living an Artful Life in a Ruthless World"

    Consists of one screenplay, entitled "Whereabouts Unknown: Living an Artful Life in a Ruthless World" by Susan Kaim Talley and Daniel Vovak. The semi-fictional screenplay tells the story of the Kaim family. It begins with the death of Hans Kaim as he was beginning to research the whereabouts of art looted from his uncle, Emil Kaim, in Germany in the late 1930s. After Hans' death, his family carried on his search. Includes copies of documents which support the historical validity of the story.

  12. Armband with a royal coat of arms worn by a Danish resistance fighter

    Blue, red, and white armband with a medallion issued to Mogens Kofod-Hansen, a Danish resistance fighter, on May 4 or 5, 1945. The armbands, which appeared abruptly throughout Denmark, were issued by the Danish Freedom Council, Denmark's unofficial government-in-exile in England from July 1944 to May 1945. The armbands were meant to identify resistance members as legitimate combatants, rather than guerilla forces, to ensure they were protected under Geneva Convention rules defining combatants and how they should be treated by military forces. Denmark was occupied by Germany on April 9, 1940...

  13. Averbukh family letters

    This collection contains photocopies of the personal letters, newspaper clippings, and postcards of Deborah (Nina) Iakovleva Averbukh, who survived the early German occupation of Kharkov in 1941.

  14. Sulamif Moiseevna Bogoslovskaya papers

    Contains photocopies of an autobiographical statement, employment records, personal letters, official documents, school and work identification cards, and death certificate of Sulamif Moiseevna Bogoslovskaia.

  15. Weinstein family papers

    Contains photocopies of personal letters, a report card, and school compositions of Vladimir Weinstein from an orphanage for gifted children in postwar Kiev. Also included is a photocopy of an unsigned, untitled drawing and a (later) undated clipping about Vladimir’s brother and renowned painter Mikhail. While their father fought in the war, the Weinsteins were evacuated to the Urals with their mother, who died shortly afterwards.

  16. Boris Samoilovich Duberstein papers

    This collection contains nine photocopied documents including an autobiographical statement, personal letters, official documents, and an application form.

  17. Fialkov family collection

    Contains photocopies of official documents and letters of commendation from the Soviet government, as well as personal letters, telegrams, and postcards from the Fialkov family documenting the evacuation of Kiev. Included are items pertaining to Iakov Anatolevich Fialkov and Maria Isaakovna Fialkova, who were spouses and professors at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and their sons Anatol Iakovlevich Fialkov and Iurii Iakovlevich Fialkov. Also included are letters from Maria’s father, Isaak Kantor, and letters to Lena Tulchinsky, a childhood friend of Iurii.

  18. Asriel and Mascha Berkmann papers

    The collection contains documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to Asriel and Mascha Berkmann’s experiences in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and in Munich, Germany after the war. Included are identification documents; immigration papers; documents regarding Asriel’s involvement with the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria and the Jewish Committee Munich; correspondence; an affidavit signed by 30 prisoners at Dachau concentration camp stating that Asriel was also there and worked to help his fellow prisoners; a document stating that no paperwork exists rega...

  19. Gorodetsky family letters

    Contains six photocopied personal letters from the Gorodetsky family during the Second World War. Included are five letters from S. B. Gorodetsky to his wife Zinaida (Zina), and one letter to his sister, Nina Borisovna, in Kazan.

  20. Selected records from the State Archive of Ferrara

    This collection contains records from the Police in Ferrara and Prefecture Cabinet Series of Ferrara relating to personal files of Jews, questionnaire on the status of Jews in the province of Ferrara, racial laws, arrests of Jews, Jewish property and Jewish schools, and discrimination against Jewish residents.