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  1. Pablo Cano collection

    The collection consists of a miniature bust of Hitler, six Nazi propaganda pamphlets, documents, and photographs associated with the propaganda efforts of the Nazi Party in Germany from 1933-1945.

  2. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Côte-d'Or

    Contains records pertaining to the systematic expropriation of property belonging to Jews and Freemasons in the Côte-d’Or. Also contains information regarding the harassment, internment and deportation of Jews and Freemasons from the Côte-d’Or.

  3. Selected records from the Deutsches Staatsministerium für Böhmen und Mähren (R 30)

    Contains records pertaining to aryanizations and deportations, passport issues, restrictions on Jewish passports, administrative reports, and reports on conditions for the Jewish population of Bohemia and Moravia.

  4. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Marne

    Contains records pertaining to the systematic expropriation of property belonging to Jews and Freemasons in the Marne and information regarding the harassment, internment, and disenfranchisement of Jews from French business, education and society. Also contains information concerning the deportation of Jews from the Marne.

  5. Jewish forced labor

    CU Jewish men squinting into camera, sitting around, jackets folded in laps to display star patches. Star of David patches (larger than usual, for propaganda purposes) on backs of clothes. All the men are cleaning up large pieces of debris from the streets (fence posts, big pieces of wood, metal, some munitions shell casings). Shoveling, sweeping, pushing wagon filled with debris.

  6. Verle H. Brown collection

    Photographs taken at Gardelegen showing victims of the atrocity, the confrontation between American servicemen and local German officials, and civilians being forced to participate in the exhumation and reburial of victims.

  7. Amateur film of the liberation of Prague; Germans forced to breakdown barricades

    Montage of scenes from the liberation of Prague in May 1945, made up of footage shot by Bohumil Veselý in the area of ​​his residence. Most of the footage filmed near the intersection of streets and Vodickova School. Title of film. Another: “Ve 13. roce Hitlerovy vlády a v 7. roce našeho, protektorátu přišel konečně.” “KVETEN” and the number 5. “Dopoledne.” Morning. People in a Prague street. A man holds a white flag out of a window. A woman smiles. People outside of “ANTONIN KMENT.” Trolley car. Two people wave Czech flags out of a window. German soldiers on the street. People outside “Tsc...

  8. Rachel Greene Rottersman collection

    The collection consists of paintings, audio recordings, correspondence, documents, reports, and writings related to the experiences of Rachel Greene Rottersman during her career with UNRRA and her work at the children’s home at Aglasterhausen, Germany, assisting displaced children after World War II.

  9. Forced confrontation, funerals of victims

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Funerals of victims of the SS in Cologne and Lindlar. German civilians are forced to walk past open caskets and aid in the religious processionals.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Parisians fitted for gas masks; poison gas drill

    Parisians being fitted for gas masks. Uniformed members of the Garde Mobile assist civilians by helping them put on the masks and checking to be sure that they fit properly. Closer views of women and men submitting paperwork, being fitted, and receiving their masks. Shots of people leaving the building carrying their gas masks in canisters. 01:45:28 People wearing head-to-toe protective clothing and gas masks in an underground shelter practice what appears to be a drill enacting the treatment of victims of a poison gas attack. The dope sheet calls the victims "yperite-gased people", and a s...

  11. Speculum owned by a German emigre and US Army medic

    Speculum used by Dr. Bruno Lambert, who immigrated to the United States from Nazi Germany in 1938, and served in the United States Army Medical Corps during the war. Bruno attended medical school in Germany from 1932-1937, but was not allowed to receive a diploma as a Jew under the Nazi regime. He transferred to a university in Switzerland, and earned a Doctorate of Medicine in July 1938. With the help of Margaret Bergmann, Bruno immigrated to the US in August. Margaret was a Jewish athlete who was banned from competing in the Olympics by the Nazi authorities, and subsequently immigrated to...

  12. Oral history interviews of the Romania Roma Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews with eight non-Jewish witnesses (Roma) whom were victims of persecution, humiliation, and forced labor in Transnistria during the Holocaust.

  13. "The Nursing Log of our Son, 1942-1946"

    Consists of one notebook entitled "The Nursing Log of our Son, 1942-1946-[1948]", by Mrs. Imre Sugár. Mr. and Mrs. Imre Sugár's son, Peter, was born on July 26, 1942, while his father was serving in a Hungarian labor battalion on the Eastern front, where he would perish in 1943. Mrs. Sugár kept this journal hoping for the return of her husband, and planned to give him a full account of the first months of Peter's life. The journal contains data about the difficulties the small family was facing during the Holocaust, the siege of Budapest, and the aftermath of the war.

  14. Nachlass Franz Jetzinger

    Dr. Franz Jetzinger (1882-1965) was a social-democratic politician and a member of the provincial state government of Upper Austria from 1932 until 1934. The collection Nachlass Franz Jetzinger was acquired by the State Archives of Upper Austria in 1953. It consists of the documentation which Jetzinger compiled during his research for his book about Adolf Hitler’s youth, including transcripts and copies of documents, duplicate photographs, and the original correspondence between Jetzinger and Hitler’s boyhood friend August Kubizek from the years 1948 and 1949.

  15. Elmer G. Hurd photograph collection

    Contains 19 photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp taken shortly after liberation.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- President Benes at his desk

    President Edouard Benes at his Desk. Several angles and takes of Edouard Benes, President of Czecho-Slovak Republic, at desk. Benes reads statement (prepared for The March of Time) in three languages (English, French, Czech). Benes speaks about the Czechs reorganizing their country so that it may take its traditional place in Central Europe as a factor for peace in the United Nations Organization.

  17. Marc Ratner papers

    The papers consist of documents and letters relating the experiences of Marc Ratner after World War II. Includes a letter of recommendation for Marc Ratner from the Provisional Engineering team in Ebensee, Austria; a certificate from the Cham Jewish transient camp for Gustava, Marijan, and Alicia Ratner; a transit visa for Venezuela from the Central Committee for Liberated Jews for Alicja [donor's sister] and Manau (Marian) Ratner issued on September 11, 1946; and two letters from the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) certifying that Marian and Simone Ratner were employed in the Paris, Fra...

  18. Rosa and Zygmunt Schleichkorn collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and photographs related to the experiences of Rosa and Zygmunt Schleichkorn in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  20. Dorien Grunbaum family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Manfred and Rita Grunbaum and their daughter, Dorien, in the Netherlands, Westerbork transit camp, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp before and during the Holocaust, and in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States in the postwar period.