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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. German educational film: birds: egg laying and hatching

    Opening title: Die Lachmowe. VS of birds in a marshy area, flying, sitting in the water, etc. VS, of the birds in their natural habitat, laying and hatching eggs, socializing, etc. Several good CU's of chicks hatching from eggs.

  2. Kan family at the airport and beach

    Betsy and Robert exit the house carrying small shovels. The children exit a car and walk towards the camera. Two boys (Robert is on the right) run towards the camera. Betsy waves from a balcony. EXT large house. Pan down to a woman walking down a hill. 01:00:42 Several children and two adults in a field. The children pick things up from the ground. Children sit on a balcony ledge. Robert waves his arms around. Frits enters the screen and stands behind the children, swings Robert back and forth. 01:01:16 Adults sit around a table playing cards and looking at the camera. Pan across the group,...

  3. Lenin/Stalin

    Lenin's body with Stalin looking at it. Woman with arm around Stalin and whispering in his ear, being hugged, Stalin signs something for young women. Sync of Stalin, 1937 (followed with English voice-over). CU, Pravda, started by Lenin. Paintings of Lenin and Stalin plotting the Revolution, revolutionary troops marching.

  4. Jasenovac Memorial Area collection

    This collection contains records created by the camp memorial administrations of Jasenovac, Lobor-Grad, and Stara Gradiška, including registers of artifacts and documents; testimonies by surviving inmates of the camps; copies of files relating to Croatian war crimes investigations and trials; documents relating to the camps and the activities of the Croatian government ministries during the period 1941‒1945; name lists of people who were displaced, deported, interned, and/or murdered; translations of German documents relating to the activities of German military units in Croatia; testimonie...

  5. Gedenkbuch Isaak David and Martha Teich-Birken

    Contains a compilation and translation of letters written by Isaak David and Martha Teich-Birken to their daughters in New York in 1941.

  6. Wojciech Zatwarnicki photograph collection

    Consists of a portrait image of Wojciech Zatwarnicki and three photographic images of his Czerniaków area estate, where a group of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto worked from 1940-1942/.

  7. Benjamin Rudinkow letter

    Contains a letter written to Benjamin Rudinkow about the destrution of the Polish Russian town Baranovicz.

  8. Siddur

    The siddur belonged to Yontev Rülf who fled from Nazi Germany in 1938 to South America

  9. Richard Ebbitt collection

    Six black and white photographs of concentration camp scenes taken immediately following the liberation of the camps; given to Evy Serow (donor's late wife) who brought them to the United States after her release as a German political prisoner.

  10. Aleksander Herszkowicz collection

    Consists of three handwritten songs written and performed by Jankel Herszkowicz in the Łódź ghetto; ten group photographic portraits of Jankel Herszkowicz with his family and friends in Łódź, Poland, circa 1960; three photographs of Jankel Herszkowicz with Josef Wajsblat and friends at the Łódź Jewish cemetery, circa 1960; an ID photograph of Majer Herszkowicz, Jankel’s brother; a photographic portrait of Cudyk Herszkowicz, Jankel’s brother; c. 1930, in Opatow, Poland; a military ID; issued to Jankiel Herszkowicz in 1949 in Łódź, Poland; and two audio cassettes consisting of recording...

  11. Charles and Ruth Terner papers

    The Charles and Ruth Terner papers include biographical materials, correspondence, a drawing of Ruth Terner’s middle school, four photographs of the Terners, and several newspaper pages and clippings. The papers document Ruther Terner’s arrival in England on a Kindertransport, Charles Terner’s arrival in England via Switzerland and the establishment of his career, and the emigration efforts of family members remaining in Germany. Biographical materials include documents regarding Ruth Terner’s departure from Berlin on a Kindertransport; Charles Terner’s identity papers, membership cards, mi...

  12. Paul Vaderlind collection

    The collection consists of two documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Janeta Gościcki (born Janeta Wulkan), originally of Ostrowsko, Poland. The first document is a forged identification card (Kennkarte) of Janeta’s issued on 15 October 1942 in the name of Helena Kochanowicz. The document states that she was born on 7 March 1914 in Wegierka, near Jaroslaw in the Lvov district and that she was a bookkeeper by profession. The document shows four different addresses under which the bearer was registered. The second document is a letter, dated 21 May 1944, written by Janeta’s second ...

  13. Onella Debinski Stagoll collection.

    Consists of letters and postcards addressed to Pola Kirszencwajg Debinski from her sister Bela, who writes of the conditions in the Warsaw ghetto, her concern for their missing brother, Berek, and his wife, Zosia, and her worries regarding the conditions of a Soviet labor camp where Pola and her husband, Josef, were interned. Additional letters and postcards were written by Dawid Kirszencwajg, who was in Kobe, Japan, to Pola and Josef, who were in the Soviet Union.

  14. Samuel S. Pines correspondence

    Contains correspondence pertaining to Samuel S. Pines efforts to assist relatives in their escape from Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, Vienna, Austria, and Germany.

  15. Isaac Zubovsky papers

    Contains a letter written by Isaac Zubovsky's uncle from Kiev, Russia (August 1941), a certificate given to Isaac Zubovsky's mother by NKVD station of evacuation in Kiev (July 1941), a certificate given to Isaac Zubovsky's father's military unit (July 1941), a photograph of Isaac Zubovsky's uncle Yasha Zaslavsky (1941), and an article written by Isaac Zubovsky entitled, "One more time how it happened."

  16. Duda family papers

    Contains 18 documents pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of Adam Duda in Pawiak, Majdanek, Flossenbürg, his service with the Polish Guard Units for the American Occupation Army, and work for the IRO as a driver and metal-polisher. Other documents contain information about Janina Duda that include her work card from Warsaw and a letter from the War Relief Service National Catholic Welfare Conference IRO Resettlement Center to the Bavarian Offices for Compensation indicating that Mr. Duda has obtained a work contract in America and requesting that Adam and Janina Duda's request be taken ...

  17. Lucille Eichengreen documents

    Contains documents pertaining to Cecilia Landau's experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, and Bergen Belsen, and later emigration to the United States.

  18. Documents of rescue of Jews by Vaad Hatzalah

    Invoices, in binder, for money sent from U.S. Jewish organization to Europe via Jewish aid groups.

  19. Rachel Abadi Schlanger collection

    Consists of a black and white photographic portrait of the donor's father, wearing a suit and tie; and two black and white photographs of the donor's father, one of a group of men posing outdoors, in Le Vernet internment camp.

  20. Erika Erdos papers, ca. 1941-1948

    Contains photographs, a memoir, and legal documents pertaining to Erika Erdos and her family's experiences in Slovakia in hiding and eventual emigration to Canada.