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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Dutch

  1. Chana Waserman collection

    Consists of a letter, dated 4 December 1944, written on pre-printed concentration camp stationery by Chil Laks (donor's husband) in Buchenwald concentration camp to Chana Laks (donor).

  2. Two-sided crayon drawing of a girl wearing a cross created by a young girl living in hiding

    Double-sided drawing made by Betty Julia Ensel while she was living under an assumed identity in the Netherlands. One side depicts a girl in a dress wearing a cross; the drawing on the opposite side portrays 6 girls. When Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940, three year old Julia lived in Amsterdam with her parents, Rose Marie Schink, who was not Jewish, and Guy Weinberg, who was Jewish. Rose Marie hid twelve Jews in the attic of her house in Blaricum and was in contact with the Dutch resistance movement. Julia attended school under her mother's maiden name in order to avoid suspici...

  3. German regulations announcements

    Collection of three German announcements titled: "Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement," Nr. 94; "Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement," Nr. 98; "Mitteilungen des Stadthauptmanns der Stadt Krakau," Nr. 15.

  4. Photograph of Zionist group in Kanczuga, Poland

    The photograph depicts Faiga Rosenbluth and a group of unidentified girlfriends from a Zionist youth group in Kanczuga, Poland in 1936. Of the eleven girls photographed, only Faiga Rosenbluth survived the Holocaust.

  6. Magdalena Moskowitz papers

    Consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Magdalena Eisler Moskowitz, who immigrated to the United States in 1937, and her family in Mukacevo, Hungary (Mukachevo, Ukraine). Includes documents, family photographs, and correspondence between Magdalena and her family in Mukacevo. Also included in the collection are two large albums with pasted parchment from tefillin and mezuzot scrolls.

  7. March of Time: refugees

    Info from the MOT story card: Even more horrible than the fate of fugitives from war is the lot of the ever increasing army of fugitives from Nazi terror. Not just Jews, but all who do not agree with Nazi doctrines are victims. Those who escape the concentration camp are hounded from land to land by Hitler's machinations. But his very tactics were to unite the democracies in protest, and in affirmation of the doctrines of liberty. Destroying books and music at 12:09:54:09.

  8. Putnam County Defense Council poster

  9. Stara Gradiska - Camp No. 5 of Jasenovac

    Stamped Ustasha U symbol insignia with checkerboard symbol of Croatia over a still image of a watchtower at Stara Gradiska camp - "Kula Smrti Stara Gardiska; logor br.V." ["Tower of Death: Stara Gradiska, Camp Number 5]. Gathering of people. "Zrtvama Fasizma 1941-45". Flowers left in memory. Military marching, tanks, cars, horses. Ustasha raids village. Photos of bodies, military, mass graves. 01:03:00 People walking through village, children, horses and carts. 01:03:46 Loading people onto trains to go to camps. 01:04:58 Woman and child, birds nest, derelict houses. 01:05:47 The camp as it ...

  10. Verdoner family at the beach

    VS, Yoka frolicking in the water at the beach. Yoka playing with her mother in the water, as well as a man (relative or friend?). VS, Yoka and her father, Gerrit, she is on his shoulders and they are running around the beach. VS, sunbathing, collecting shells, eating ice cream, walking along the water's edge.

  11. settlement of US

    "United States," an AKS production, January 23, 1946. (This is a portion of G I Weekly 108) VS, poor people and children in Europe. LS, ship of Mayflower class. VS, settlers clearing land for farming. LS, British troops marching into village with colonists watching. CU, handbills of new taxes, decrees, etc. VS, colonists assembling and marching through woods and along roads. VS, battles between British troops and colonists. CU, Declaration of Independence. LS, Gen. Washington at head of column of soldiers enters town. VS, Blacks picking cotton by hand. VS, cotton weaving and spinning machines.

  12. Kan family travels to and from New York by ship

    Color. "Transatlantique - Linea Frances" and title: "Le Havre - Southampton - New York - Depart du Mercredi 15 Fevrier." New York City. Camera pans up and down showing city streets and skyscrapers (shot from the top of a building). 01:08:36 Man, woman (Jeanne?), and young boy walk towards the camera - it appears the cameraman knows them although they are unidentified. More scenic shots of New York from street level. 01:09:46 Bridge from inside a car, shots of Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridge (driving on Manhattan Bridge?) New York from street level. Camera pans up to buildings. 01:11:07 Po...

  13. Goebbels at book exhibition in Weimar

    Book fair in Weimar. Banner hanging at fairgrounds, "Die Zeit lebt im Buch" CUs books, Goebbels looking at books/various exhibits, speaking: "The German book is in the hand of all Germans." Sequence of shots of people and children reading on park benches, in library, at open air bookstalls, etc. Narration promotes reading and education.

  14. Jewish family visits Paris

    Paris. People look at books or journals and artwork being sold by vendors along the street. Camera pans left on buildings lining the Seine River. Cars drive across the bridge. Camera tilts down onthe Fontaine du Palmier with a statute of victory standing at the top of the column. Paris streets with cars. A cat sits on a stone wall along the Seine. A French flag flies behind. Camera pans left on a Paris street. View from a bridge on the Seine. Four military men in long black coats and white feather hats walk through the street. Notre Dame with scaffolding along its front. A street sign reads...

  15. War Crimes Trials: film used as evidence in Ministries' Case (#11)

    Case XI, Ministries-Keppler, "German Entry into Austria." "The Return to Berlin." Crowds in Berlin await return of Hitler from Austria. Banners fly and flags are thrown to the crowd. Hitler's plane arrives. He gets out, shakes hands with Goebbels. His car rides in state through crowded streets, people saluting and waving flags. A child gives Hitler a flower. He marches by lines of soldiers. One hundred thousand people gather in square. Hitler appears on a balcony with Goering. Police try to hold back hysterical crowds. Amassed close together, the crowd sways singing a song. Hitler appears a...

  16. Michele Sabatello papers

    The collection consists of false identity cards belonging to Renate Piperno and Fausto Sabatello; letters and notes written by Michele Sabatello in the Fossoli concentration camp; a document excluding a representative of a cheese factory from work; a document from the Archbishop of Florence; a document from Massalombarda SA; an identity pass permit for work along with a photograph for Pietro Ansuinelli (a false identity of Fausto Sabatello); a ration card for bread and soup; and an announcement by Fausto Sabatello, searching for his brother Michele Sabatello.

  17. Günther Rabau and Hildegard Frenkel collection

    Consists of a marriage contract, dated 19 February 1946 in Shanghai, China, between Günther Rabau and Hildegard Frenkel; a certificate of divorce, dated 22 January 1946, issued by the Jüdische Gemeinde, Shanghai; documents relating to the adoption of Benjamin Rene Frenkel; one Deutsche Reisepass, dated 23 February 1939, for Günther Rabau; an identity card, dated 29 March 1934, for Günther Rabau; four photographs; and three miscellaneous documents, including a certificate of immigration.

  18. Fred Witt papers

    Consists of photographs, newspaper clippings, phonograph recordings and sheet music, and miscellaneous documents relating to musical composer Fred Witt (formerly Witkowski), the donor's uncle.

  19. John Howell collection

    Consists of an album of photographs of signage excluding Jews from various locations.

  20. Peter Flusser collection

    Consists of an album containing 49 attached photographss and three additional photographs from Shanghai, China.