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  1. Blima Sicherman papers

    Contains documents concerning Blima Sicherman, born in Breslau, Germany [present-day Wroclaw, Poland] in 1905. Includes a Polish postwar passport issued in the Czech Republic and documents for vaccination, immigration documents, and translations attesting to Blima's internment in the Auschwitz concentration camp and then "Brnenc" [Brunnlitz] concentration camp, where she survived due to the actions of Oskar Schindler. From there, Blima went to Sweden and immigrated to the United States. Her husband, Oskar Sicherman and children [names unknown] did not survive the Holocaust.

  2. Book, Missals et Vesperals

    Missal given to Jacques Lajbman by Father Philippe Laurent Cleeremans (1878-1944) while he was in hiding in the Belgian village of Tourinnes-St. Lambert.

  3. Officer with family; Assault gun in the snow

    Occupied France, life in Paris, market, newspaper dated May 8, 1942: "German Submarines in the Mississippi"

  4. Sport at Messerschmitt factory; Luftwaffe

    AGFA 1940. Company group marches in step in Regensburg at the Messerschmitt aircraft factories. In the outdoor swimming pool with diving platform. Company group marches in column on sports field. Physical exercises. Outdoor pool: young woman with swimming cap swims. Teenagers take a shower. Jump off the one-meter board. "Kraft durch Freude" [Strength through Joy]. 06:00 Luftwaffe officer (black and white)

  5. Berger, Flescher and Tepper families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs, photo albums, passports and certificates documenting the experiences of the Berger and Flescher families during the Holocaust era. Hella Berger fled Germany to the US in 1938 with her two sisters. Sam Flescher fled Vienna after the Anschluss to Holland, and was able to get a visa to the US. He joined the US Army in 1942. His brother Henry, survived multiple concentration camps. The brothers were reunited in September 1945 when Sam returned to Europe as a member of the occupied forces. Includes Nazi propaganda publications that Lester Tep...

  6. UNRRA selected records AG-018-037 : South West Pacific Area Office (SWPAO)

    Selected files of the UNRRA Headquarters Office-Subject Files: Mainly files on the displaced persons and war relief matters.

  7. Hungary & Yugoslavia

    Private film of the Batschka region in Hungary and Serbia

  8. German troops

    Mountain troops

  9. Goering, soldiers tour

    B/w Cars move through a rainy street. Assembled Wehrmacht units and high officers stand in formation alongside the road. Mountain chapels. Göring exits a building in a fur hat. He then stands back under the doorway. Marching band. Snowy hillside from a funicular car, mountain railway. Snowy view from the top of the hill. Small log cabins. An avalanche. Göring walks with his cane and fur hat, followed by multiple men. Mining carts. 11:07:46 Soldiers line up alongside train tracks. Sign “Leoben.” Leoben, Austria. The soldiers perform a rifle drill, led by their commander whose back is to the ...

  10. County Command of the State Police in Opoczno Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Opocznie (Sygn. 1187)

    Police reports, surveillance books, an inspection of dactyloscopic cards, an album of criminals, a journal of a service inspection, reports by police officers and informers related to political, social and labor organizations, and records related to communist activities among the Jews.

  11. Sportfest; Winterhelfswerk

    Sportfest. Women dance in meadow. 05:52 BDM sings, swaying spectators, fun fair. 07:39 DAF assembly, Wehrmacht, flags, standards (Osnabrück), HJ. 09:40 Swearing in Wehrmacht, Wehrmacht music train, soldiers. Winter Relief / WHW. 20:17 "Schutz vor Bolschewismus" [Protection against Bolshevism], decorated streets. 23:19 Goulash, cannon. Signs: "NSDAP-Ortsgruppe", "NSV". March through town. Large industrial plants. Barracks life. 33:42 Party divisions march through forest, forest festival. Small train, narrow gauge, bog mining? 41:03 WHW, soup meal, peeling potatoes. BDM. 44:47 "Rettung vor Bo...

  12. Jidisze gezelszaft cu farszprojtn kunst Jewish Society to Propagate Fine Art Żydowskie Towarzystwo Krzewienia Sztuk Pięknych (Sygn. 361)

    Minutes, reports, workplans, incoming and outgoing correspondence, lists of art objects collected by the Society, published materials, such as articles, press cuttings, and photographs (collected mainly for the purpose of creating a catalog); personal files of the Board staff, name lists and applications of artists; financial files, such as preliminary budgets, approved budgets and cash reports.

  13. Hamburg

    Hamburg; ships with German flags, swastikas (agfa-color).

  14. Spiritual resistance prayers from Amsterdam

    Contains two documents with prayers about what was happening, written in Amsterdam circa 1942-1943, written as a form of spiritual resistance.

  15. Fire brigade exercise with beautiful shots of ancient fire engines

    Brown house in Munich, fireman with trumpet, runs and blows the trumpet "fire alarm" Text panel: "The Rabenstein fire brigade, from the good old days! Here is a test alarm: the dying noon is burning!" (In Chemnitz-Rabenstein.) Firefighter sprays foam on the wall of a factory building,

  16. Ministry of Interior-Transport cards of Jews Ministerstvo vnútra. Transportné karty Židov

    45,826 registration cards of deported Slovak Jews, 1942. Each card pertains to one deported person. Each card measures 10,5 x 7, 5 cm. The cards are arranged by last name in alphabetical order. Cards contain the following information: surname, first name, year of birth, place of birth, last domicile in Slovakia, date of deportation/transport, place from which the transport departed, number of the transport, and notes.

  17. Oral history interview wtih Adam Leczycki

  18. Selected records of the Cooperative Credit Bank Ltd. in Kielce Bank Kredytowo-Spółdzielczy z o.o. w Kielcach (Sygn. 1547)

    Selected records of the Jewish Cooperative Credit Bank Ltd. in Kielce: minutes of sessions of members of the Supervisory Board, membership declarations, books of register, shares and funds.

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  20. Arnoldi and Kohn families collection

    The Arnoldi and Kohn families collection consists of documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Ruth Arnoldi and her family, who fled to Sosua, Dominican Republic, from Berlin, Germany. Also illustrated is Herbert Kohn (Ruth's future husband) who fled Austria and settled in Sosua, where he met and married Ruth.