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Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Siegfried Kessler: Correspondence

    This collection of mostly original correspondence between Siegfried Kessler, a Czech Jewish exile in London, and various organisations and individuals, sheds light on the conditions of Czech Jews in Czechoslovakia in the early years of the war and the processes involved in getting them out.According to an incomplete curriculum vitae at -/20

  2. Goperstein family photographs

    The Goperstein family photographs consist of 4 pre-war photographs depicting members of the Goperstein family of Skidel, Russia (later Skidel, Poland, currently Skidel, Belarus). Depictions include David Goperstein in military uniform, Carpel Gopertein and his two sons, Yosef and his wife (unidentified), and two unidentified Goperstein sisters. All members of the Goperstein family depicted in these photographs perished during the Holocaust.

  3. Warsaw 1936

    City scenes from moving tram, police officer. Well-dressed Polish civilians moving about the city, crossing the street, traffic, looking into shop windows at women's fur fashions. Posters affixed to pillar, one reads: "Chaplin." Woman selling flowers.

  4. Sen. Wheeler; British/US troops; Rehabilitation

    (LIB 6748) 01:01:21 Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Orly Field, Paris, France, May 19, 1945. Seq: Senators Wheeler, Homer, Capeheart, Ernest MacFarland, Albert Hawles, Major General Frank Stoner and Admiral Joseph R. Redman are greeted at airport by General William S. Rambough and Major General Smith (?). CU, Senator Wheeler and US Ambassador Caffrey speaking. 01:03:34 Bremen Enclave to 29th Infantry Division. Bremerhaven, Germany, May 20, 1945. Seq: Elements of the British 2nd Army, 51st Highland Division, transfer command to the Ninth US Army's 29th Infantry Division. CUs, MSs, Major General C...

  5. Elena Fleischnerova papers

    The collection consists of letters received by Elena Fleischnerova, formerly of Prague, after she fled Czechoslovakia for France in 1939 and then immigrated to the United States with her husband Eugene and daughter Danielle in 1940. The bulk of the letters, 1939-1941, are from her mother Emilie Wohryzek prior to her deportation with her husband Moritz to Theresienstadt in 1942. Other letters are from friends and family.

  6. Schneiderman family photographs

    The collection consists of photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of the Schneiderman family, including pre-war depictions of Paul Schneiderman's family in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, post-war life in the Landsberg displaced persons camp, and aboard the SS Ernie Pyle enroute to the United States in 1947.

  7. Andrzej Szelubski photograph collection

    Consists of eight group portraits photographs depicting Polish prisoners of war, Jewish and non-Jewish, imprisoned in Stalag IV A in Elsterhorst, Germany, which were taken between 1940-1941.

  8. Crimes by Black Legion

    Black Legion of Ustasa on manuevers and searching for partisans. Dancing at town festival. 01:17:20 LS Jeep moves along road, soldiers run across open ground, fire weapons from prone position, advance toward large farm house and maneuver around buildings. 01:18:01 Soldiers walk across road, CU next to jeep, Ustasa men appear to be wearing German uniforms with Ustasa insignia. One puts bird on his shoulder. POV through windshield of vehicle. CU of driver. 01:18:52 Ustasa officer salutes soldiers in street, walks to jeep. Men lift wooden road barrier. People hoe in field. Ustasa oversees civi...

  9. Youth Meeting in Thuringia

    "June 18, 1933, Youth Meeting in Thuringia." Hitler speaks before a crowd of several hundred thousand. Hitler at outdoor rally of youths, screaming his speech and stabbing the air emphatically. Re: recruitment of millions. Long, wide pans of vast crowd; "heils" and Hitler above them on an elevated platform decorated with large swastikas.

  10. Ruins in Munich

    Views of Munich, probably postwar [film stock dates to 1943]. Street scenes show destroyed buildings and piles of rubble. Short clip of the Bürgerbräukeller, the site of the Beer Hall Putsch where Adolf Hitler and the Kampfbund attempted a coup d'état in 1923. 01:01:02 John Bechtler gets into an army truck (labeled 206008425.) A brief clip of a black dog in the grass. Views of a lake and the surrounding landscape. 01:01:49 (John?) exits a CIC building. The CIC, or Counter Intelligence Corps, was used after the war to locate former members of the Nazi regime and combat various forms of illeg...

  11. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  12. Ungar family photographs

    Consists of copyprints of the family of Alfred and Stefa Ungar, who lived in Krakow, Poland, with their children Adam and Kuka (now Helen). Includes pre-war copyprints of the family, copyprints of the family at the labor camp of Krakow-Prokocim, and copyprints of Alfred Ungar in his concentration camp uniform, alone and with other prisoners, after their liberation from Buchenwald. Also includes a copyprint and published article about the memory of Adam Ungar, who was remembered at the bar mitzvah of Daniel Pyser.

  13. Bartolmej D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bartolmej D., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Šaštín, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924. He recalls his parents encouraging education; attending the local school; cordial relations with other ethnic groups; his father's government employment; his mother and sisters working for Jews; a Jewish physician who did not charge for treating them; restrictions of Romani rights under the Hlinka guard beginning in 1939; his brothers' deportation for forced labor; trying to comfort the local Jews when they were rounded-up and deported; cruel treatment by Hlinka gu...

  14. Simmonds family collection

    Consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs documenting the Holocaust experiences of the family of Traute Simmonds, who spent the war in hiding in France. Includes correspondence between Traute's father, Otto, a German-born physician, and brother Steffen, both of whom perished at Auschwitz, as well as a note from a railway worker who found a letter written by Otto while on the train to Auschwitz. The majority of the documents show the extensive restrictions placed on Jews living in France and the collection also includes photographs of the Simmonds family. Also includes two Simmo...

  15. Regierungspräsident (Office of the Governing President) of Opava

    The fonds contains sources for all sections of state administration, education and economics in the government circuit Opava of the Reich’s Sudetenland Reichsgau (region) from the years 1938–1945. The political and economic situation reports and minutes from the conferences of the landrats (Land Councillor's Offices) are of particular value. Jewish history is covered by documents concerning the adoption of distinguishing names for Jews (inv. № 1794) and Jewish personal names (inv. № 1898–1899, 1910), decrees and measures concerning Jewish registers (inv. № 1912), requests of Jewish persons ...

  16. Records of the Regional Zionist Organization (East Galicia- Malopolska) (Fond 338, Opis 1)

    Contains bylaws, programs, appeals, meeting minutes, documents of Zionist congresses and conferences, informational dispatches of Zionist organizations worldwide, reviews of Zionist newspapers, records of activities of the local branches of this organization in Tarnopol (Ternopil) and Stanislawow (Ivano-Frankivsk), lists of Jews applying for immigration to Palestine, and membership lists of local Zionist and Jewish organizations. The bulk consists of correspondence with Zionist organizations and active Zionists worldwide.

  17. Candelabrum fragments from a synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht

    Two pieces of a candelabrum from a synagogue in Mödling, Austria, destroyed by Nazi supporters during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. A large broken piece of the candelabrum was found in the backyard of Mrs. Martha Roth, who had salvaged it from the ruins of the burned synagogue. These sections of the candelabrum were given to Henry Freund, a former congregant of the Mödling synagogue, by his wife, Betty, originally from Vienna, who broke off a small piece of the candelabra and brought it to him in San Francisco when she fled Austria in 1939.

  18. George E. Rothlisberg collection

    Photographs taken shortly after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945 by United States Army Signal Corps photographer George E. Rothlisberg. Also includes a small amount of photographs taken after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Dachau, including German prisoners-of-war.

  19. Hungary's Prime Minister speaks

    Magyar Híradó 777. Béla Imrédy stands at the front of the room on a stage, behind a white podium. He is giving a speech (in Hungarian). Men (security?) stand in a line against the wall beneath him. There is a large audience listening to Imrédy’s speech. View from an upper level of the crowd, and the guards standing with flags on the side of the stage. Four men stand on the stage. The one on the far left holds a flag. Multiple microphones stand on the podium in front of Imrédy. Various shots of the audience and the guards standing on the stage, each with a flag topped by metal symbols. Imréd...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ship to South America; speeches

    Dinner conference aboard SS Brazil (tendered by the US Maritime Commission to North and South American diplomats, bankers, and businessmen to initiate the "Good Will Service" to South America). 01:00:29 CU, Admiral Emory S. Land (Chairman). 01:00:54 Speech by George S. Messersmith, Assistant Secretary of State, on intra-state American relations especially with South America [sound cuts in and out]. He mentions "good neighbor" policy. 01:04:04 Applause. Quick shot of Breckinridge Long, Former Ambassador to Italy, talking. CU, Brazilian Ambassador to the US. CU, Land. CU, Messersmith listenin...