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  1. Trims; outtakes from Jonny's Gang comedy film

    Reel contains quick, unrelated trims and cuts filmed by Walter Hausner. WH logo (reversed). Side view of man in dark sweater vest, observing the tennis game from above. VAR quick cuts of athletes in the tennis match. Side/close view of woman, with athletes and court in BG. More shots of the spectators, some smoking. Two athletes walk up the stands towards the camera. Soccer team, playing and posing for the camera. The Hausner friends ski outdoors in winter. Czech troops in uniform with weapons parade the streets in Prague, spectators with umbrellas, shop signs, cobbled streets/tram lines. A...

  3. Aaron Finger papers

    The collection primarily documents the wartime experiences of Aaron Finger, originally of Toronto, Canada, who trained at Camp Ritchie and was in Germany from 1945-1946. Included is an identification card, letter of commendation, a small amount of correspondence, photographs, and a photograph album. Also included are a small amount of documents and photographs related to the family of his wife, Henrietta Finger (née Treister). The Aaron Finger documents include an identification card, a 1946 letter of commendation, a postcard inscribed in Yiddish to the Finger family in Toronto, and a 1991 ...

  4. Part 2 of short film about Eva and György; honeymoon in Budapest

    Opening title card in Hungarian handwriting (too dark to read). “Egy Ember tragédiája 2 felvonításban.” “II. rész.” “Nászút: Budapest.” Eva and Győrgy travel to Budapest on their honeymoon. “Kirándulás a Gellért Hegyre esa Hárshegyre” Eva walks up a flight of stairs, establishing shots of Budapest, then Győrgy and two others walk around a park, steamship, and what seems to be an excavation site. “Emléklap Átosok.” Men do some work at the site. “Önkéntes munkaszolgálat.” Győrgy and the two friends also begin to work, shoveling dirt. They get into a car. “Margitsziget. (Palatinus.).” Flowers....

  5. Oral history interview with Hans Baruch

  6. Sol and Sylvia Horwitz visit family in Bessarabia, 1936

    In 1936, Sol and Sylvia Horwitz traveled to their hometowns in Bessarabia and visited Paris, Berlin, Romania (Chernovitz, Falesht, Beltz, Tulcea, Ismail), and Vienna. They documented their journey on 8mm film and each kept a travel log, in which Sol discussed his growing anxiety and concern over the current state of his homeland, while Sylvia described the townspeople and their cultural customs. Sylvia returned to NY on July 6, 1936, sailing on the SS Queen Mary from Cherbourg, France. Sol stayed in Vienna for medical training and arrived separately in NY on November 2, 1936. 0:00 Bustling ...

  7. Geclewicz family photographs

    Contains approximately 69 postwar photographs brought by parents Anna (nee Charlotte Gersten) and Daniel (Gedalia) Geclewicz (later Geslewitz) from Lüneburg, Germany, depicting displaced persons in and around the town.

  8. Willstätter family collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, passports, ID cards, newspaper clippings documenting the experiences of the extended Willstätter family and their internment in Camp de Gurs.

  9. Instytut Niemieckiej Pracy na Wschodzie (IDO) Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO)

    Records of the Central Board of Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO): correspondence, lists of employees of the Institute, financial books and others; records of IDO branches in L’viv and Warsaw; records of various IDO sections: Prehistory, History, Art History, Law and Administration, Touring and Descriptive Geography, Anthropology, Ethnography and Race, Farms and Statistics, Forestry, Chemistry; and records on economic relations in selected villages in the GG area. Contains also statistical studies, typescripts of scientific papers, editorial materials of the journals "Die Burg", "Deuts...

  10. Vicki Miles collection

    Contains photographs taken in the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation; Overseas Service Certificates issued by American National Red Cross to William Swannie; newspaper page with an article entitled “The Nazis Sent Me to a Concentration Camp,” with the testimony of an Austrian refugee, published in The Sunday Oregonian, May 21, 1939.

  13. Swimming in Budapest; zoo visit

    The Schiffers put coats on and children play on a grassy hillside. (01:30) Anni and János swim with Ernö at Szecheny bath/pools in Budapest in July 1934. (02:42) At a restaurant on Lake Balaton. The family takes a boat trip, views of water, horizon, sailboat. (05:11) At Szecheny bath, swimming, including János, Anni, Bözske, Alice, Gyuri, and nurse-maid Tete. (06:20) Trip to the zoo that includes elephants, camels, zebras, and other animals. János and others ride ponies and horses at the zoo. (09:20) They greet more animals, including peacocks, tigers, and bears. (10:02) Newborn Éva (János’...

  14. The General Jewish Workers' Federation "Bund" in Lithuania, Poland and Russia Ogólnożydowski Związek Robotniczy „Bund” na Litwie, w Polsce i w Rosji (Sygn.334)

    This collection contains records of the activities of the the Central Committee of the Jewish Workers Federation "Bund" in Poland and abroad between 1945-1949. Includes circulars, reports, resolutions and conference papers. minutes of the meetings and plenum of the „Bund”. Also includes a list of Bund members, questionnaires of participants of the jubilee anniversary in 1947, general lists of members paying various types of contributions; documents of local departments from 42 cities, protocols, reports and correspondence of individual branches, there are also membership declarations filled...

  15. RZ 102 Office of the German Secretary of State 1936-1944 RZ 102 Büro Staatssekretär 1936-1944

    Records concerning reparations, occupied territories, security issues, military matters, League of Nations, economic and trade negotiations, diplomatic visits, political correspondence, main political affairs, etiquette, personnel matters.

  16. Suss family collection

    Contains a certificate of residence issued to Pinkas Suss giving him rights to remain in his hometown, including stamp used as a passport, issued January 22, 1929; an identification card issued to George Suss (donors' father) from an Austrian scout organization, 1927; and a wedding portrait of the donors' parents, dated 15 December 1945.

  17. Announcement

    Announcement from authorities in “North-East France” announcing the existence of “bandits” and asking for the cooperation of the French population not to align or work with the “bandits” which the French and the German Wehrmacht will squelch. The announcement Itself is entirely in French, however signed at bottom in German “Der Befehlshaber im Bezirk Nord-Ost Frankreich” or the commander in the district of north-eastern France.

  18. Selected records of the Intelligence Archive of the Buenos Aires Police Department (DIPBA)

    The records consist of surveillance of the Jewish community in Argentina by the Intelligence Directorate of the Buenos Aires Province Police, 1956-1998. This collection contains records relating to the surveillance of the Jewish community in Argentina by the Intelligence Directorate of the Buenos Aires Province Police, 1956-1998, and relating to former Nazis in Argentina, nationalists and right wing activities, and Antisemitism.

  20. Selected records of the Civic Chambers, attached to the Judicial courts of the Department of the Seine Les registres des arrêts des Chambres civiques de la cour de justice du département de la Seine (Z5)

    The archives of the civic chambers of the court of justice, departmental section of the Seine, are constituted by the files of the cases judged from 1944 to 1951, classified by registration number of the Prosecutor's office, as well as by the registers of judgments and the files on behalf of the accused allowing their files to be found. The accused are often members of collaborationist parties or members of the French State services and the documents of their trials help to establish their responsibilities in the implementation of the policy of the Vichy government. We can thus find in this...