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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Paul Weber Jacobs collection

    Consists of documents related to Paul Jacobs’ experience working for UNRRA from 1945 to 1946. Included among the documents are eleven black and white photographs and approximately 150 letters written from Paul Jacobs to his wife, Ruby, and son, Peter, in the United States. The letters begin with his departure from the docks in New York, N.Y., continue through events at the displaced persons camps in Europe, and end on his return to North America at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

  2. Before the Holocaust three Jewish lives, 1870-1939

    The memoirs describe the experiences and lives of three German Jews, Käte Frankenthal, Max Moses Polke, and Joseph Benjamin Levy, before and during the Nazi era. Frankenthal's essay describes the hardship of being a Jewish socialist. Polke's memoir describes his life before the Nazis came to power and contrasts it with the effect of the Nuremberg Laws on him. His memoir also describes the conditions in the concentration camp of Buchenwald. Levy's memoir describes such historic events as the Nazi book burning, the Jewish boycott, and Kristallnacht.

  3. Frank A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank A., who served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts mobilization; transfer to England; landing in Normandy; being wounded by friendly fire; liberating Dachau; observing unburied corpses; taking photographs of the corpses and emaciated survivors; United States officers forcing local German civilians to walk through the camp (they denied knowledge of what happened there), to dig graves, and to bury the corpses; and his departure two hours later. Mr. A. notes sending his photographs of Dachau to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and show...

  4. Touring Budapest and Vienna

    At Heroes Square in Budapest, Hungary, an American family poses and smiles. Flags hang between the two structures. The youngest boy is bouncing around and twirling, laughing and smiling. (1:31) The older woman, a man, and a boy walk in front of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. (1:39) Visiting the zoo, seals swim around in the water in an enclosure. Polar bears on rocks above. Peacocks strut around. (2:33) A band marches on the street below. Soldiers march behind them, followed by cars. (3:27) A couple walks on top of a walkway overlooking a city, probably at Fisherman’s Bastion in Budap...

  5. documentary film about Babi Yar

    Documentary film about Babi Yar including archival footage and interviews. At times, the narration does not accurately support the footage, images are sometimes misused. Captured Nazi footage, photographic stills, and newsreel footage were obtained from various Russian archives (see notes for more details). Scenes show Kiev, Hitler, Hitler Youth, Nazi flags with swastikas, US protest posters, neo-Nazi scenes, deportation, piles of victims' belongings, Dina Pronicheva's testimony at the war crimes trials in Kiev, Jewish boycotts, undressing sequences, the chief of Kiev Ukrainian Police Kajva...

  6. Luba Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luba Z., who was born in Wyszko?w, Poland in 1914, one of nine children. She recounts visits to Warsaw; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Sarny; fleeing further with one sister (she never saw her family again); hiding in various places, including Zhadova; marriage; traveling to Germany; living in Lechfeld displaced persons camp; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. Ms. Z. notes her son does not want her to discuss her experiences because she becomes too upset. She shows photographs.

  7. Selected records of the commune Boszczynek Akta Gminy Boszczynek (Sygn. 2222)

    Consists of selected files of Commune Boszczynek. Includes lists of local stores, lists of voters to the Sejm (Polish Parliament), 1935-1938, the population book of villages Boszczynek and Bełzów, and general files related to ownership of houses, farms, and other lands.

  8. Selected records from collections of the Ministry of Interior, Administration of the State (Administratio de Stat)

    This collection covers topics such as the “Jewish religion,” converted Jews, internment of Jews in camps, deportation of Jews to Transnistria, Jews accused of communism, the Jews of Czernovitz (Cernăuţi), and repatriation of deported Jews.

  9. Kürschner family photograph collection

    Collection consists of photographs depicting the Kürschner family in Vienna, Austria, 1932 to 1948, photographs depicting life in the Leipheim DP camp, meeting her future husband, Benjamin Segal, and his brother Jehuda from Satu-Mare, and later in Israel.

  11. Invasion of USSR

    Title: Universal Newsreel Nazis War on Russia. Compilation of German and Soviet footage. Sound intermittent. Germans marching on parade, tanks, airplanes in formation, paratroopers parachuting out of planes. Brief shot of von Ribbentrop speaking. Happy peasants harvest crops, probably in the Ukraine. Tanks in Red Square, Soviet planes in the air, Soviet paratroopers, Molotov and Matsuoka sign the Japanese-Soviet non-aggression pact in April, 1941. Stalin stands in the background. In Washington, DC, at the embassy of the USSR, the Soviet Ambassador (?) makes a speech to the camera. He says t...

  12. Antisemitic Exhibit in Zagreb

    The production of an antisemitic exhibit. Gathering books and information, writing text, creation of "artwork," and preparation of propaganda. 01:31:29 Research Institute where traveling exhibit on "Jews" is to be assembled. People bring in whatever information they have on Jews including books and pamphlets. 01:35:42 Translations of parts of Talmud to find out what Jews thought of non-Jews. Preparation of text panels and illustrated art caricature of prosperous businessman. 01:38:04 Sculpting of stereotypic "Jewish" head, director gives preview to journalists. Shows map of Jewish expansion...

  13. Bedcover recovered by the Gleiser family

    Velvet bedcover used in Pidvolochysʹk (formerly Podwołocziska), in the Tarnopol district, where more than 2,000 Jews lived before 1939. The Gleiser family lived there until they were forced into Pidvolochysk ghetto. Ita Bier Gleiser (b. 1895) escaped together with her children, Moishe (b. 1923), Genia (b. 1926), Riwa (b. 1922), and Frima (b. 1936), and hid in different places until the liberation in 1944. At that point the family returned to their hometown of Pidvolochysʹk and recovered the one item they had before the war – the bedcover. In 1945 the family reached Germany via Szczecin in P...

  14. Narodowosocjalistyczna Niemiecka Partia Robotnicza. Obwód Generalnego Guber na tor stwa [Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. Arbeitsbereich GG]

    • akta osobowe (akta personalne pracowników NSDAP na obwód GG; ankiety personalne niemieckiej instytucji dobroczynnej Das Deutsche Hilfswerk z terenów dystryktów radomskiego i warszawskiego; karty personalne członków Związku Społeczności Niemieckiej w GG z terenów dystryktów: krakowskiego, radomskiego i warszawskiego) - akta administracyjne (korespondencja dot. spraw mieszkaniowych oraz budowy i urządzania domów mieszkalnych dla urzędników; pisma w sprawach opieki nad chorymi dziećmi oraz domami dziecka, wysyłania dzieci na wypoczynek i opieki społecznej; wykazy oraz zapotrzebowania na różn...

  15. German invasion of W. Europe; Paris, France

    Reel 5: German tanks advance. Stukas bomb Allied positions. Wounded tank crewmen receive aid. German trucks haul artillery. German troops cross the Rhine in rubber boats over pontoon bridges. German soldiers stuff grenades into their belts. German troops lay wire, and horses are pushed into water. Shows wrecked French tanks, French POWs, French troops in the Maginot Line. Panoramic views of the Maginot Line. French troops in the Line run, ride a subway, dance, eat and man communications equipment. Maps the German attacks on the Line in Paris. Also maps France and Britain's colonial empires ...

  16. David Reisfeld papers

    Documents pertaining to the efforts of David Reisfeld of New York City, who working with an American aid organization, the Humane Refugee Aid Society, Inc., sought to facilitate the immigration of several Jewish refugees from Austria to the United States in 1938-1939. Includes documentation about efforts to assist Karl Friedenthal (Vienna), Mr. and Mrs. Levi Hornstein (Vienna), and Hermann Singer (originally of Vienna, writing from Kitchener Camp, England).

  17. Hahlo family collection

    The collection contains vital records, identity papers and other personal papers of members of the Hahlo family, principally Peter Hahlo. In addition there are interviews with Peter and Fay Hahlo conducted by their son, Gerry, as well as the memoirs Georg Hahlo wrote for his children and family photographs.

  18. Oral history interview with Zelman Rosenberg

  19. Rosenberg speaks on Nazi ideology, anti-Bolsehvik, anti-Jewish

    Alfred Rosenberg speaks to camera (interview-style) about the responsibility Hitler gave him in the occupied Eastern territory to eliminate Bolshevism and Marxism and complete the NSDAP revolution against [them and] Judaism and democracy. Also talks about German Volk and the different types of people. Partial translation from Raye Farr's notes (1972): "A battle of racial souls....In his writings...tried to establish a 'typos' of the German people, in contrast to other peoples. World history has been a battle of racial souls....the relation between Earth and Volk....Weltanschauung.... don't ...

  20. Records of the Gebietskommissar Kaunas (Fond R-616/1)

    Contains correspondence, name lists, orders, business auditing reports, requests, and various other documents relating to the work of the Gebietskommissar Kaunas in German occupied Lithuania from 1941 to 1944. Includes records of the military occupation administration unit relating to occupation duties, especially pertaining to the plunder of Jewish property.