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  1. Laci Schiffer returns to Budapest for a visit

    Laci Schiffer visits home in Budapest around 1930 for the first time since emigrating to US in 1921. His father, Jonas, is in the garden. He walks with a cane and sits with his wife, Jenny, in garden chairs. Laci kisses them both. Erzsébet prepares to serve them cakes. Ernö helps his father stand; he waves. Trademark Pathex logo.

  2. Leo Banemann collection

    Contains an autograph book (Poesie) that belonged to Martha Lieberman; correspondence from 1938 regarding efforts by Martin Kohn of Baltimore to assist the family of Leo Banemann from Burgkundstadt, Germany, in their imigration to the United States; a postcard written by Leo Banemann from jail, dated Novermber 30, 1938; exhibition pamphlet and display; a passenger list booklet from the SS Manhattan dated May 1937; a passenger list booklet from the Orinoco dated 28 March 1939 regarding a voyage from Hamburg with stops in Havana, Veracruz, and Tampico; and photographs, including images from a...

  3. Oral history interview with Robert Neufeld

  4. The Yahad-In Unum Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    The collection consists of 5 finger rings recovered by Father Patrick Desbois and Yahad-In Unum near a mass grave site for Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Bus'k, Ukraine.

  5. Maria Rivka Chwoles Lichtenfeld collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and photographs relating to the experiences of Maria Rivka Chwoles Lichtenfeld in the Vilna ghtto and Poland before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  6. Selected records of the Office of Revendication in Warsaw Biuro Rewindykacji w Warszawie (Sygn.287)

    Requests of Poles for reparation for forced labor, submitted to the Association of Poles in Lübeck, press releases concerning war damages, materials related the criminal activity of the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost (Central Trust Office "East") and German companies (Georg Bunder) in the General Governorship (GG) in 1939-1945; organizational sketch of the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost, revindication reports, certificates, correspondence (1947).

  7. Eva and Otto Pfister papers

    Accretion to the Eva and Otto Pfister Papers including correspondence, documents, booklet, papers, clippings, translations, pamphlets, leaflets, speeches, writings, tickets, passes, photos, and other materials.

  8. United States Army patch and booklet collection

    The collection consists of four patches: two war photographer, one 12th Army Group, and one 4th Cavalry Group, and three booklets relating to the history of units of the United States Army active during World War II.

  9. Jakub Bukowski memoir

    Consists of one memoir, in Polish, consisting of Mr. Jakub Bukowski's memories of his childhood and pre-war life in Wloclaw, Poland; and what happened to the inhabitants of the town during the Holocaust.

  10. George DePuydt collection

    Consists of one photograph of uniformed survivors of the Kaufering (Landsberg) concentration camp holding a crate of bottled alcohol. The caption reads "Jews from a concentration camp at Langberg [sic] taken the day we liberated them." The photograph was taken by George DePuydt, a member of the United States Army.

  11. Myron (Mike) Moses collection

    Consists of nine photographs from the collection of Myron (Mike) Moses, a member of the United States Army. The photographs depict wartime devastation, Myron Moses in his office (he was responsible for Signal Corps supplies), a staged crematorium photograph, the liberation of a French town, a post-war POW enclosure, and a 1944 photograph of American soldiers at Rosh Hashanah services in France. Also includes two booklets, one entitled "Britain", the other "A Pocket Guide to France." These booklets were distributed to American soldiers so they would know the customs of these countries.

  12. Polish Army parade in Warsaw

    Scenes of the Polish army marching through the streets of Warsaw: this is a sign/prelude to war. Several CUs of shop windows displaying proudly the photos of Polish leaders, particularly Pilsudski, Paderewski and the current (1937) President Mosczieksky. This clip features a ceremony where President Mosczieksky passes the baton to Marshall Smigly-Ridz, who was being hailed as the man who would lead the Poles to victory over Germany. Polish officers using horses for crowd control, MCU of Polish Cardinal Hlond, who made several anti-Jewish statements. VS of the bystanders, young boys watch th...

  13. US publishers visit Weimar and Rheims

    US Publishers and Editors Visit Weimar, Germany and Rheims, France, April 24, 1945. Seq: Newspapermen greeted by Brig. Gen. Frank A. Allen at airport and are taken on tour of Buchenwald concentration camp. CU, Gen. Omar N. Bradley at his headquarters. Seq: Newspapermen visit prisoner of war enclosure and Cathedral at Rheims, France. MSs, visitors greeted by Gen. Bradley and other officers.

  14. Agata Tuszynska-Dasko collection

    Collection of Rosenberg and Kaplan family photographs, and of Henry Dasko [donor's late husband's family] who survived the Holocaust on false papers in Warsaw and vicinity. The Rosenberg family was originally from Łódź, Poland, and Rywa Kaplan, Henry's mother, was from Vilna. Professional identification card issued to Wladyslaw Daszkiewicz (real name, Mojesz Josl Rozenberg), stating that he is a member of lawyer's association.

  15. United States Army division shoulder sleeve insignia badge collection

    The collection consists of thirty-five United States Army Division shoulder sleeve insiginia badges issued for Divisions active in the European theater during World War II.

  16. Ursula Klau family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, prayer books, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ursula Klau and her family in Amsterdam, Netherlands, before and after the Holocaust as well as contemporary photographs from the 1950s and later.

  17. Charles Lavering collection

    Contains a scrapbook relating to the experiences of Charles Lavering, a member of the 305 and 309 Ordnance Battalions in the United States Army, while he was stationed in liberated Europe.

  18. Sledding in the yard of the Lieberman family vacation home in prewar Poland

    Hanna is sledding down a small hill in a runner sled, runs back to the top, and repeats. She then treks down a snowy path between houses and walks with Thomas. She begins sledding again.

  19. Niels Bach collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, and documents relating to the history of the Holocaust and the occupation of Denmark by Germany during World War II.

  20. Slomowitz family collection

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the families of Asher Zelig Slomowitz, originally of Vulchovce, Czechoslovakia, and Sara (Shirley) Rosenfeld Slomowitz, originally of Tocovo, in Transcarpathia. Both are Auschwitz survivors who met after the war in the Gabersee displaced persons camp and immigrated to the United States, where they married. Includes a copy of a wartime postcard, in Hungarian and Yiddish, addressed to a member of the Steiner family, and photographs of the couple at Gabersee.