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  1. Traveling on the Autobahn; Russian volunteers; Hitler Youth

    Drive in 1936 via Salzburg to the Black Sea, impressions from the Balkan Reichsautobahnbrücke and Munich border. 00:21:53 Sea, France, soldiers, Paris, Eiffel Tower, Atlantic coast, port. Red Cross column. 00:40:50 Excavator loads railroad cars, motive: Westwallbau, Organization Todt. 00:57:40 rail transport. 00:58:17 Freiburg. 01:08:35 Winter: Postman on skis with packages. 10:14:00 Bridge for Reichsautobahn. 01:16:14 Nuremberg: Nazi Party Rally Grounds. 01:17:44 Target practice with carbines. 01:20:45 Railway, driver's cab, tracks, electric locomotive, other locomotives. 01:25:52 Red Cros...

  2. Selected records from the Sigtuna Foundation in Sweden

    Records from a hospital, set up in Sigtuna, Sweden, in 1945, which cared for about 1200 patients who had been released from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. The collection includes photographs of patients and nurses, administrative and organizational records, including pages from the Statement of Operations, newspaper clippings, including an article in a college magazine about the hospital, as well as materials from Marthe Rydback, who worked as a nurse at the hospital, including a copy of an emblem of the hospital, a visitor book with signatures of the patients, photographs, Christmas...

  3. Americans visit family in Vienna, 1930

    Pan of well-dressed men and women seated and eating at dining tables on an outdoor patio. View of a city below them. 00:50 Pan of an ornate fountain and swimming pool. People wade in the water, a man slides down a waterslide. 1:27 Views of a large crowd of people in bathing suits. A well-dressed woman in the foreground. People mill about on the beach and in the water. 1:54 Views of a crowded outdoor café. 2:18 Pan of a gated building, perhaps an apartment. Three well-dressed people pose for the camera in front of the gate. The three walk in a garden towards the camera and pose for the camer...

  4. Cohn and Siebenberg families papers

    The collection documents the experiences of the Cohn family from Leipzig, Germany and the Siebenberg family of Offenbach am Main, Germany during the Holocaust. The collection includes biographical material of Heinrich and Klara Siebenberg and the Cohn family; immigration records of Erma and Georg Cohn and Georg’s brother Walter Cohn; wartime correspondence to Georg Cohn from his brothers Gerhard Werner and Walter; letters to Heinrich and Klara Siebenberg from Klara’s sister Ella Liepold, who was imprisoned in the Gurs concentration camp in France; restitution papers regarding Georg Cohn’s f...

  5. Helen and Willie Abraham photograph collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Helen Abraham (born Hencia Wagner) of Dąbrowica Mała, Leżajsk, Poland in the Ainring displaced persons camp and Willie Abraham of Vel'ky Rakovec, Czechoslovakia (present day Velykyi Rakovets, Zakarpat'ska Oblast, Ukraine) in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp. Included are photographs of Helen at Ainring and the munitions factory in Menden, Germany where she worked under a false identity; a letter written to Helen from her brother David Wagner in 1943 while he was in hiding before he was discovered and murdered by the Gestapo; photogr...

  6. Compiled private films of a German soldier

    Film reel threaded through projector. Maneuvering scenes in summer. Moerser, horse cart, MG. 10:10:20 Construction of a pontoon bridge, guns, heavy bunkers, aerial combat, train ride "Dahlem", trains. 10:13:18 Paris shots. 10:16:12 "Soldatenkino" fishing port, French women with fellow countrymen, Germans with hats, posters. 10:22:50 Observation stand on the western front, newspaper "Der Sieg". 10:32:00 Winter, flood, France. 10:38:50 (1937) Archery in Stolpmünde, train ride. Eating, anti-aircraft shooting, guns, rest, loading. 10:55:30 (1938) Invasion of the Sudetenland, "Teichbaude", heavy...

  8. County Command of the State Police in Olkusz Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Olkuszu (Sygn. 1048)

    Reports and information from police informers relating to political, social and labor organizations. Includes police statistics, registers of crimes, and orders.

  9. UNRRA selected records AG-018-001 : China Office

    Selected records of the UNRRA China Office relating to Displaced Persons Operations, medical and agricultural rehabilitation in China, 1944-1949: reports, correspondence with Jewish Sephardic Committee, Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, lists of refugees, as well as records relating to repatriation, transportation, and tracing inquiries.

  10. Krakow Society of Israel photograph collection

    Collection of photos, primarily pre-war, of Jewish life in Krakow, Poland

  11. David Markovic testimony

    Testimony of David Markovic, describing his family and childhood experiences in Rosvegovo, Czechoslovakia, prior to World War II, his experiences during his Holocaust as a forced laborer in Romania and Yugoslavia, his internment at Flossenbürg and Dachau, and his postwar life. Typescript, 9 pages, as dictated to Miriam Levitan in May 2016.

  12. Einstein in Caputh and Oberwesel

    Horse-drawn cart piled high with logs moves down the street. Couple in a horse-drawn wagon. CU, sign: “KINDER LANDHEIM CAPUTH, Gertrud Feiertag.” Bavarian home decorated with flower boxes. Women pose for camera. Albert Einstein, clad in pajamas, stands with a woman on the front porch of his summer house in Caputh, Germany. She ushers two younger ladies into the shot. They hold notebooks in their arms. View from the second story of the Einstein house of the surrounding property, homes, and gardens. Woman tends to crops. An older woman carries a basket full of goods on her back. Dining at a r...

  13. Luftwaffe film on a Stuka (dive bomber) unit

    donkey, well, occupied trails, German soldiers in Greece, dogs, Acropolis, cyclists, military band, civilians (Jews?) constructing roads, construction of wooden hut in a forest, Eifel Tower, aerial shots of snow, mother and child, groups of Carbines marching

  14. Jidiszer D.P. Lager in Schwäbish Hall

    Contains a book entitled "Jidiszer D.P. Lager in Schwäbish Hall," containing photographs of various aspects of camp life in the Schwäbisch Hall displaced persons camp, with transliterated Yiddish captions.

  15. Marine fellowship

    German warships, Marine day in Berlin, Naval submarine

  16. Ephraim Urbach collection

    Circular letters, reports, and newsletters, and related materials, collected by Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach, during the time when he served as a chaplain with the British Army, ministering in displaced persons camps in Italy, circa 1944-1947. Includes two mimeographed reports issued by the Hechalutz Ha-Echad in Bari, Italy, 1946-1947; letters sent to various institutes in Palestine requesting medical supplies, books and teaching materials for use in displaced persons camps in Italy, 1944; typescript copy of a report filed by a representative (L. Bernstein) of the Central Committee of...

  17. Edward Rutkowski collection

    Contains photographic prints showing destruction due to wafare but also immediate post-liberation images of concentration camps, likely the Ebensee subcamp of Mauthausen.

  18. Broadside

    Broadside: Announcing a memorial gathering in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the recently deceased Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzenski of Vilna. Sponsored by Merkaz Chorev of America at the Tifereth Yisrael Synagoge, in which Rabbi Eliezer Silver will speak and prayers recited for those murdered in the current outrages in Europe; New York, 1940

  19. stamped envelope

    Stamped envelope sent to inmate Ernst Otto Weisz at Camp "N", Ottowa, Canada. The return address is in Montevideo Uruguay and includes a 5 centesimos stamp. The envelope is postmarked 29 April 1943.

  20. Color private films of Germany

    10:00:00 Color: 8-mm private film from Upper Silesia / Peiskretscham, 1938 10:33:51 Color: Private film: Nuremberg, shoveling snow, young people, fair, garden