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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Nazi Party Winter Hilfswerk collection box

    Red collection box with Nazi insignia used by the NSDAP [National Socialist German Workers' Party] to collect contributions during the Winter Hilfswerk, a charity campaign for the relief of the German people.

  2. Pre-war Jewish life in a Polish shtetl

    A portrait of shtetl Jews in their native setting, the streets and shots of a Polish town, said to be not far from Lublin. The dress is mostly contemporary, but there are some older men in more traditional dress with beards, caps and kapotas. Horsedrawn wagons on the streets. Scenes of a latter day "Tevye" with his horse, a pauper resting on a curbstone, several family portraits, contrast between the local church and the broken down old shul, the ancient cemetery. The film was shot by Jack Weisbord, an American whose father-in-law had emigrated from this town.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Zlin; Bata shoe company

    Jan Antonin Bata arrives at Zlin airport from his trip around the world. Crowds on Work Square at Zlin, greeting Mr. Bata. Procession lead by Mr. Bata, including pupils of Bata School of Work. President Benes at his desk, in Prague's castle. Shows manufacturers at the Bata Shoe company in Zlin cutting leather, sewing, polishing, packing, loading boxes of boots on truck. View of Zlin. Women flying sports airplane. Sports festival day. Mr. Bata speaking (with sound). Young women exercising. Pre-military service of young men. Uniformed young men marching. Children putting on gas masks.

  5. Purple and gray padded satin cover

  6. Five Cities

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: This rare film document captures the spirit of Jewish life in pre-World War II Vilna. Lively narration and music accompany film sequences of people engaged in the rituals and realities of daily existence at work, at play, in the synagogue, and in school. Vilna's famous landmarks-the Strashun Library, Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVO Institute-are among the film's highlights.

  7. Ring family papers

    Contains photographs, identification documents, and medical records relating to the Sara Bak Ring donor's mother family: Meilech Ring (husband), Izaak Ring (son), and others. Photographs show Sara's family life in the DP camp in Speyer, Germany.

  8. Zula Schibuk memoir

    Contains a memoir about Zula Schibuk's Holocaust experiences.

  9. Scott Wade Stewart photograph collection

    Consists of seven photographs depicting the liberation of a concentration camp after World War II.

  10. Muller family papers

    Contains a memoir about Marianne Muller Vitez's Holocaust experiences; two identification cards issued to Marianne Vitez's parents, Hans Israel Muller and Alice Leven, in Morocco; Alice Muller's German passport; John Muller's German passport; a Carte d'identité d'étranger de la République française au Maroc for Marianne Sarah Muller; a list of clothes and household goods Alice Muller submitted to the Nazis before leaving occupied Belgium; and a Certificat d'identité des refugies provenant d'allemagne for Hans Muller, issued by the Belgium government.

  11. Arthur Pais photographs

    Contains a photograph taken of Arthur Pais in the Kovno ghetto and 25 photographs of life as a displaced person in Munich.

  12. Maya Freed Brown collection

    Contains thirteen black-and-white photographs of Maya and her family's post-war life in Berlin and a newspaper from the Mariendorf Displaced persons camp in West Berlin entitled "Der Weg."

  13. The Liberated

    Contains two newsletters entitled "The liberated" that were published under the auspices of the Chaplain Section Headquarters Command USFET by the Frankfurt Jewish GI Council, an unofficial organization sponsored by Chaplain Joseph Miller, Headquarters Command USFET, APO 757.

  14. Henry Bein photographs

    Contains eight photographs from Feldafing and Fohrenwald.

  15. Kindheit in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus in Österreich

    Contains the childhood memories of Margarete Petak, who lived and went to school during the war in the cities of Steyr and Enns, close to Mauthausen in Upper-Austria. She describes the life of her family at the time when her father and older brother were fighting at the Eastern front.

  16. Charles Spitzberg memoir

    Contains a memoir about Charles Spitzberg's experiences in the Bendzin Judenrat.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- harbor, Elbe River; mines; Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad)

    Reel 47. 100 feet. Quays in Usti bay, passing barge marked N.D.B.E. Magdeburg]. Dissel tug marked Tabor Praha, sailing on the Elbe, countryside. Brensko, the Elbe frontier station between Czechoslovakia and Germany. Passengers from ferry coming up steps and showing passport to Czech customs officials. Reel 48. 100 feet. VS, Tabor steaming up the Elbe, also typical Sudeten village on the other side of the river with mountains in BG. Large barge used for exports being towed by the Tabor. Sign reads: O.B.S.L. Praha. Reel 44. 100 feet. Port of Usti on the Elbe river, the main port for exports t...

  18. Deportation lists from Breslau to Theresienstadt, IX/1-IX/8

    Photocopies of lists of Jewish transports from Breslau, Germany, to Theresienstadt between 1942 and 1944. Originals are held at the Bundesarchiv and at Yad Vashem.

  19. Letters from Rabbi Albert B. Belton to Denis Silagi

    Contains letters Rabbi Albert B. Belton (a.k.a. Bela Berend) sent to Munich- based journalist and historian Denis Silagi about his alleged activity in the Hungarian Zionist movement before and during World War II.

  20. From old world to new : omi's stories an oral history of Regina Lederer

    Contains the written transcript, 38 pages, of a privately completed oral history interview with Regina Lederer who describes antisemitic actions being taken against Austrian Jews prior to her emigration to the United States in 1939.