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  1. Prewar Jewish family life in Budapest

    Boy and girl (the Szondi children?) play in a park, with a child’s harness and toys, probably in October 1933 [Dr. Szondi was a famous psychiatrist and friend of Ernö Schiffer’s]. (02:34) Toddlers (János and friend from Mohacs, Zsuzsi Sarvari) play in City Park (Városliget) and pose with their moms for the camera. Boy digs in the dirt. The toddlers run in the grass. János embraces and kisses Zsuzsi; they continue to play in park, dog. (06:26) Marcsa Schiffer (visiting from NY) and other women walking along a path in the park in August 1933 in Janoshegy. Brief view of Gyuri Pinter, the photo...

  2. Oral history interview with Olga Grünwald Vèkes

  3. JDC vice-chairman Moses Leavitt visits DP camps in 1947; Lag B'Omer celebration

    Original, out-of-sequence, private footage documenting the field trip by Moses Leavitt (JDC’s Executive Vice Chairman from 1947-1965) in April/May 1947 to DP camps in the American Zone in Germany with stops in Austria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. 01:00:10 At a displaced persons camp in Germany, EXT pan along a path lined with trees, children playing soccer. Crowd of DPs gather, children sitting in the front, waving at something off camera. Several young children are guided by two women up the path, they stand, some holding hands, as a woman arranges them. 01:01:13 INT dark room wit...

  4. Oral history interview with Franciska Levy

  5. Samuel and Lola Gotlieb portrait

    Portrait drawing created in displaced persons camp in Germany of Samuel and Lola Gotlieb who married in the Dabrowa Ghetto.They survived in the Holocaust, returned to their town of Dabrowa and then moved to Germany. They lived in Weiden and Regen, German and then immigrated to the United States on the SS Ernie Pyle in 1947.

  6. Oral history interview with Janina Nilsson

  7. Perel Nagelstein photograph

    Contains a prewar studio photograph of Peryl Nagelstein (née Pinkster), her husband, and three children

  8. Pető prepares a film of the Jewish Labor Company 252/2 in Hungary in fall 1940

    Agfa 8 logo. Hungarian titles throughout. Short prologue film: “Kedves Barátom” (Dear friend,). Text of a letter that Győrgy wrote, ends with his signature. INT doorway, dimly lit, as Győrgy enters through the doorway. CU table, he puts down several items: a box with “E.K. Co. Rochester, NY” (E.K. for Eastman Kodak), two boxes with lightbulbs in them, a box that says “Eumig Klebepresse” on it (Eumig is an Austrian electronics manufacturer, Klebepresse is a splicer), and a camera case. He opens the box with the splicer. He cranks a home movie camera as he leans in to look through it. [Negati...

  10. Harold Green photograph collection

    The Harold Green photograph collection consists of a small photograph album depicting liberation scenes of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. According to an interior inscription the photographs are associated with the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon of the 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division. The photographs were given to Harold Green by an unidentified friend and fellow WWII veteran.

  11. Oral history interview with Gerold Propper

  12. Visiting family in Budapest

    Pathex logo. Jonas Schiffer is seated in front of the camera smoking a pipe, indoors. Marcsa (the new wife of Laci who visited the family in Budapest from New York) joins him. Trademark Pathex logo.

  13. Erwin Berkowitz papers

    Papers relating to Ervin/Erwin Berkowitz who was one of the 50 children rescued from Vienna in 1939 through the efforts of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. Includes a birth certificate, passport of Ernestine Berkowitz (Erwin's mother), passport and U.S. identification, copy of Honorable Discharge, and wedding photograph with Erwin and Marcella Kertzner and photograph of Ernestine with her granddaughter Michelle, circa 1954.

  14. Architect Gutschow (Architect for the redesign of the Hanseatic city of Hamburg and the office of important mission) 322-3 Architekt Gutschow (Architekt für die Neugestaltung der Hansestadt Hamburg und Amt für kriegswichtigen Einsatz)

    Selected records relating to redesign of the hanseatic city of Hamburg. Contains correspondence, architectural plans, and legal contracts sent to the architect Konstanty Gutschow.

  15. Klein and Dreher families collection

    Letters sent to Helen Dreher (nee Ilon Klein) by relatives in Hungary (original and photocopies); photographs from Helen (Klein) Dreher's family as well as her husband, William Dreher, and his family. Also includes Herman Klein's text about the Jews of Hungary and his own family's story (photocopy).

  16. Oral history interview with Jozef Bornstein

  17. Pető family in summer 1939

    Kodak Safety film logo. Hungarian titles throughout. “1939. nyara” “Jancsi 3 éves.” János plays with a tricycle. János and Marika with their grandmother, Zseni Krausz (she died in Auschwitz). They visit a park and look at the river. Men play tennis. Nice close shots of the family and friends at leisure in summer, swimming, drinking, eating cake. Includes shots of Pető and his good friend Endre Kardos, among others. The young people in tennis outfits joke and play wrestle in the city. Two men change a flat tire. Tennis match with spectators. 06:09 Workers repair the roadways. Streetcar and o...

  18. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives Nantes : Embassies and Consulates

    Consists of selected records related to “Jewish affairs” as documented in French embassies and consulates all over the world, from the Treaty of Versailles to 1956, including: Ankara, Berlin, Bern, Beirut, Bonn, Bucharest, Cairo, Jerusalem, Havana, the Syria-Lebanon Mandate, London, Madrid, Munich, Rome-the Holy See, San Salvador, Santiago de Chile, Tangier, Tripoli, Vienna, and Warsaw. Records include reports on anti-Semitism during the pre-WW II years, applications for visas or French papers in consulates around the world, conflict in the Middle East, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his ...

  20. Stefan Kowalinski letter

    A letter written by Stefan Kowalinski in Gross Rosen concentration camp is addressed to his wife Marie Kowalinski and their family, dated May 7, 1944. The letter thanks Marie for the package she sent him and inquires about other acquaintances.