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  1. Panorama of the moving boardwalk at the Paris Exposition

    Panoramic footage of the new moving platform installed on the boardwalk at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Children stand making playful gestures. One boy rubs a piece of paper on his forehead and hat. Some people walk on the platform, others stand still, others move off the boardwalk. Boy pulls a man off. A man hops on, takes his hat off, and smiles. Woman gets on the platform and smiles at the children. Man gets off the platform and cuffs a boy on the side of the head. CUs, people on the platform.

  2. Julius Kohn letter

    Contains a letter from Julius Kohn, of Vienna, dated July 25, 1939, sent to Mrs. Sedonia Kohn in New York, seeking an affidavit that would allow him and his family to immigrate to the United States. Mr. Kohn did not know Mrs. Kohn, and likely wrote to her because of the shared last name. Ultimately, Mr. Kohn did not receive an affidavit and he and his family were deported to Maly Trostenets in 1942, where they were killed.

  3. Training at a Hitler Youth camp

    Pan slowly up to a Hitler Youth Flag waving. A mountain range is visible. 00:01:15 A Hitler Youth organizer meets with members outside the Salzburg train station prior to leaving for camp. The boys carry suitcases. Sign by the road with "HJ Fuehrerschule Groedig 1km" and a two-toned diamond with a swastika. Scenes of the camp at Groedig and mountain landscape from above. 00:02:00 The boys pile out of the bus and are arranged into groups. Boys carry uniforms out of the administration building. The algiz rune, a symbol Nazis used as a celebration of the history of German language, is displaye...

  4. Oral history interview with Ethel Davidson

  5. Frydman and Nachberg families collection

    Contains two false Kennkarten used by Moshe and Bella Frydman during the Holocaust; photographs depicting the Frydman and Nachberg families in Krasnik and Janów Lubelski before the war, during the war in the Krasnik ghetto, in Warsaw while hiding on false papers on the Aryan side, in the Budzyn slave labor camp, and after the war in Poland and Germany and on their way to the United States; documents pertaining to the life of Bella and Moshe Frydman while they were DPs in Germany and their efforts to immigrate to the US. Also contains photographs depicting the Frydman and Nachberg families i...

  6. Portrait of a Young Girl with Two Yellow Badges Diukan na’arah ‘im shnei tla’im tsehubim Portrait print by Esther Lurie of a young woman wearing a plaid dress with two Star of David badges

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn59171
    • English
    • 1941
    • overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) pictorial area: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm)

    Print of a portrait drawing by Esther Lurie of a young woman in checked dress with two Star of David patches. It is print 19 of 20 and is signed the artist. This print is a version of the drawing, Portrait of a Young Girl with Two Yellow Badges, which Lurie did in the Kovno ghetto and for which she was awarded the Dizengoff Prize in 1946 in Palestine. In 1934, Esther and her family emigrated from Latvia to Palestine. She went to Europe in 1939 for advanced art training and was visiting relatives in Lithuania when World War II began with the September invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. In s...

  7. Scene in the Swiss village at the Paris Exposition

    The Swiss village at the 1900 Paris Exposition. People walk through a street of traditional Swiss houses. Man carries pots on his back. Men and women in traditional Swiss clothing. Cows. Women in Swiss clothing dance, men watch, one man dances, man plays accordion.

  8. David Reisfeld papers

    Documents pertaining to the efforts of David Reisfeld of New York City, who working with an American aid organization, the Humane Refugee Aid Society, Inc., sought to facilitate the immigration of several Jewish refugees from Austria to the United States in 1938-1939. Includes documentation about efforts to assist Karl Friedenthal (Vienna), Mr. and Mrs. Levi Hornstein (Vienna), and Hermann Singer (originally of Vienna, writing from Kitchener Camp, England).

  9. "LOL* After 67 Years"

    Consists of one bound memoir entitled "LOL* After 67 Years" written in 2012 by Peter R. Span, who was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, In the memoir, he describes the bombing of Belgrade which ended the attempts of his parents, Ignac Rosenfeld and Elisabeth Span, to emigrate with their sons to Mexico. After the bombing, the family moved to Subotica and in 1942 and again in 1944, Ignac was sent to a forced labor battalion. In the summer of 1944, Elisabeth and her sons (including Peter) were deported to the Ulrichskirchen labor camp in Austria, where they remained until liberation in Apr...

  10. Robert C. March collection

    Consists of copies of widely reproduced images of Yugoslav survivors of the Dachau concentration camp. Also includes a typed excerpt from an article for "Stars and Stripes" written by Lt. Col. Lyman Heidtke, of the 310th Ordnance Battalion, in which he describes the Dachau concentration camp and the purposes of various areas of the camp. The excerpt and images were sent home by 2nd Lt. Robert C. March of the 334th Ordnance Battalion; when sending the material, March noted that the pictures were taken from an undeveloped roll of film from a confiscated German camera.

  11. Lawrence Miceli photograph collection

    Collection of four photographic prints depicting the Dachau death train with captions by PFC Lawrence A. Miceli of the US Army.

  12. Leon Leiberg collection

    Consists of a handwritten note, dated September 16, 1944 consisting of addresses and short messages written by captured British soldiers Leon Leiberg, Max Lampel, Sam Frayman, and Lucien Gottlieb as they were being transported to Mauthausen. They gave the note to a German soldier, Erich Bottcher. Also includes a letter, dated May 17, 1950, which was written by Erich Bottcher and sent to Leiberg (along with the note) in which Bottcher claimed to have befriended the British soldiers and was interested in what happened to them.

  13. Hungarian gendarmerie card files in Moscow, 1920-1944

    Hungarian gendarmerie card files in Moscow, 1920-1944. Collection comprises card files of people detained on suspicion of communist sympathies, or for having been active in the Hungarian Republic of Councils (1919), or on suspicion of being linked to activities in Yugoslavia.

  14. Gerard Moss collection

    Consists of one page of typed testimony written by Gerhard Moos (now Gerard Moss) about his arrest in Munich on Kristallnacht and being imprisoned in Dachau at age 16. Also includes copies of official documents, an original wedding announcement, and testimony related to the experiences of Max Rosenbaum, originally of Munich, who was also arrested in Kristallnacht and imprisoned in the same barracks in Dachau as Mr. Moss. Also includes a biographical statement and letter related to the experiences of Dr. Maurice Schweizer of Euskirchen, Germany. Dr. Schweizer was imprisoned in Westerbork, th...

  15. Selected records from the General State Archives of Greece in Athens

    Selected records from the Archive of Athens Court's Specials Section active between 1962‐1965. It contains decisions of the Athens Court related to the review of applications and compensation awarded to the Holocaust survivors and victims who suffered German persecution, arrest, killing, imprisonment and deportations to concentration and labor camps in the German occupied Europe.

  16. Oral history interview with Hela Gersten

  17. Borowski family papers

    The collection includes correspondence, type-written copies, concerning the plight of Szloma Borowski, his wife, Janet and daughter Helen who survived the Holocaust in Poland and Lithuania. Included are letters exchanged between Maurice Borofsky, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, US Polish ambassador Arthur Bliss, and diplomats Edmund Dorsz, Reginal Kazanjian and G. J. Haering. The letters discuss efforts to get the Borowski family out of the displaced persons camp in Walbrzych, Poland and date between 1946 and 1947. Also included is a translation of Janet’s account of fleeing Nazi-occupied Pol...

  18. Isenberg family on vacation in Klosters; hiking; boating

    Valley, lake, mountains, farmland. Isenberg family swims in the lake, paddles boats, Erna sunbathes. 01:07:41 Family hikes a mountain trail, wild panning shots. 01:08:07 VQ - poor, CUs of Norbert and overlook views of a city. INT, man in bed, waves, a woman walks around the room. 01:08:38 Alice with young Norbert on a terrace, camera pans to show the street below their balcony. People get onto a train, farmland. 01:09:01 Isenberg family swims at a lake - sunbathe, row boats, play. 01:10:11 [VQ shifts to poor] View of houses along an empty street. The Isenberg family and two unknown men walk...

  19. Ida Dancyger family photographs

    Consists of a large portrait, taken in the 1920s, of a young man (possibly her brother) and older woman who were family members of Malka Finkelstein, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Also includes a post-war photograph of Ida Flint, the daughter of Malka Finkelstein and Mendel Flint, with her father at the Hallerin displaced persons camp in post-war Austria.

  20. Reinsch family papers

    Consists of legal, financial, taxation, construction, and restitution documents and correspondence related to the efforts of the Reinsch family, particularly Hannie Reinsch, to regain the property her family owned in Berlin and Leipzig prior to World War II. Includes some family documents regarding the pre-war lives of the family, including participation in World War I and the purchase of investment properties, which were confiscated before and after the family fled Europe. Also includes digital images of the family's pre-war, wartime, and post-war photograph albums. The vast majority of th...