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Language of Description: English

  1. Romania in color

    German soldier's home movies. Family, civilian, domestic scenes. Krad, with car, private swimming pool, trucking, guns, women and soldiers on the street, snow shovelling soldiers in 1941, picnic in the forest

  2. Ella Spiegler papers

    Birth certificate, passport, autograph book, newsletter, photograph, and other documents related to the immigration of Ella Spiegler (later Goldstein), who left Austria for the United States in 1939 as one of the fifty children sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. The Stammbuch is a booklet that was given to Ella before her departure from Vienna in 1939, and in which friends and relatives wrote poetry, greetings, drew pictures, and left other expressions that wished her well as she prepared to leave her homeland. However, since her father, Wilhelm, was the first family member who was abl...

  3. Boat tour on the Alster, 1920s

    Canoeing on the Alster

  4. Occupied France

    Cafe with soldiers, Montmartre, street scenes, flight over Paris, landing, Louvre

  5. Freikorps, NSDAP

    Various recordings Kapp-Putsch, Freikorps, Lütwitz, early NSDAP, Hindenburg, inauguration of the Freikorps monument in Schliersee, vigilante groups in Munich etc.

  6. Sarolta Planer Lowy collection

    Contains two documents issued to "Sarolta" Planer Lowy in Erdóbėnye, Hungary. One document details and value of personal possessions being confiscated from various people, dated 1943. The second document legally explains and justifies the dispossession of property belonging to the Jewish community in Hungary, specifcally in Erdóbėnye, based on 1939 dictate and details numerous property owners, including Sarolta (donor's grandmother).

  7. Jews in Kazimierz in 1940 before the establishment of the ghetto

    In color, inside Kazimierz (the Jewish neighborhood of Krakow), Jews wear armbands with the Star of David. Men peer at camera from a shop entrance in BG. Pan of public announcement poster in Polish signed by Schmid (Bekanntmachung LXII was published on May 10, 1940). [Schmid served as Stadthauptmann of Krakow from February 21, 1940 to March 31, 1941; the ghetto was formed on March 3, 1941.] Red Cross YMCA poster. Good CUs of children, one barefoot. Tram, bookstore, and other shops show street activity. Horse and buggy. Street scenes with pedestrians and shuttered shops. 01:18:05 A Jewish ma...

  8. Groszman family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Groszman family of Vámosmikola, Hungary, including wartime life in Budapest, Hungary; post-war immigrations to Vienna, Austria and Buenos Aires, Argentina. It also documents the experiences of Gabriel’s Groszman’s wife Ruth Heda and her family, primarily of Trnava, Slovakia, including their immigrations to England and Argentina. The collection consists of biographical materials, immigration paperwork, and photographs. Biographical material includes identification papers; birth, marriage and death certificates; education papers of...

  9. Notice to ghetto residents to turn over all jewelry

    Notice to residents of Łódź Ghetto that they must turn in all their jewelry. It was issued by Mordechai Rumkowski, chairman of the Judenrat [Jewish Council] that administered the Ghetto for the German occupation authorities..Łódź was occupied by Germany a week after the September 1, 1939, invasion of Poland. It was renamed Litzmannstadt and, in February 1940, the Jewish population, about 160,000 people, was confined to a small sealed off ghetto. Due to the severe overcrowding and scarce food, disease and starvation were common. In January 1942, mass deportations to Chelmno killing center be...

  10. Courtland Vincent Guerin, Jr. photograph collection

    Collection of photographic postcards in an envelope documenting the Buchenwald concentration camp following liberation; images taken by US Army photographer and brought home from the war by Courtland Vincent Guerin, Jr. (donor’s father) who served with the First Army, 175th Signal Battalion

  11. Goebbels; SS grave; Hans Frank parade

    Eastern campaign. Army group. Goebbels, German troops, Ordnungspolizei?, SS grave 1941. Parade in Vilna for Hans Frank,

  12. Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn549447
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm) | Depth: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) b: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 20.500 inches (52.07 cm) | Depth: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) c: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)

    Small brown leather suitcase used by Fritz (later Fred) Strauss while part of a refugee transport of children from Germany between 1939 and 1941. In response to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and growing anti-Semitism in their small town, Fritz’s mother sent him, in 1936, to Frankfurt to attend school at a large Jewish orphanage. Within three years, anti-Semitism in Frankfurt had grown, and on March 8, 1939, Fritz was sent on a transport to Paris, France, with ten other children. Fritz and the other Orthodox children moved to new towns multiple times in the area around Paris, but managed to contin...

  13. Victor Bienstock papers

    The Victor Bienstock papers document the pre-war and wartime work of journalist Victor Bienstock, as he served as an overseas correspondent for the Overseas News Agency, a subsidiary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The collection contains materials relating to the on-the-ground coverage of wartime events from various locations (London, Cairo, Rome, and France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and the fate of Jews in Nazi occupied lands. The Victor Bienstock papers contains travel materials; ephemera; correspondence; diaries; an unpubl...

  14. Poster celebrating America's diversity

    Poster illustrated by Emma Bourne for the The Council Against Intolerance in America.

  15. America Trip 1930

    German intertitles. Trip to America made by Karl May, Frau Klara May, Dr. Just, Herr und Frau Lieberknecht.

  16. Jordan family collection

    Collection of photographs relating to the Jordan family from Miskolc, Hungary. Gyula Itzhak Jordan (b. Nov. 30, 1895) and his wife Aranka Zeisler Jordan (b. January 29, 1904), parents of Judit, (b. June 13, 1929). The Jordan family moved to Budapest in 1932, where Judit attended Scottish missionary Burgerschule, but in September 1943 she was transferred to a Jewish Gymnasium. In March 1944, with German invasion of Hungary, Jewish children were not allowed to attend school. The Jordan family had to move to a building marked with a Star of David. Gyula worked in the basement of the building, ...

  17. Marianne and Josef Schömann portrait

    Portrait of Marianne and Josef Schömann, parents of three daughters who immigrated to the United States from Germany before the war. Mr. and Mrs. Schömann managed to reach Holland; on October 30, 1942 they were arrested and taken to the Westerbork transit camp, and deported to the Auschwitz death camp on November 2, 1942.

  18. Selected records of the Municipal School Council in Kielc Rada Szkolna Miejska w Kielcach (Sygn. 248)

    Records of the Municipal School Board, which supervised the activities of all schools in Kielce before the war. Included are numerous lists of Polish and Jewish schoolchildren. The Board granted and withdrew licenses for teaching and corresponded with the schools. Among the materials are documents related to Jewish private schools in Kielce.

  19. Marta Goldschmidt Neuhaus collection

    The collection contains two diaries written by Marta Goldschmidt Neuhaus in Esslingen, Germany. One diary, dated 1935-1936, describes her life in Germany including her family’s efforts to leave. The second diary, dated 1936-1937, begins at the point of the family's departure in January 1936 through July 1937.

  20. Edwin Hinrichs photograph collection

    Collection of photographs captured by Edwin Hinrichs (donor's father) Master Sargeant in the 17th Cavalry Squadron under General Patton, from a German POW, depicting German soldiers during their military operations; c. 1941-1942. Some of the photographs depict concentration camps.