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  1. Nazi National War naval ensign acquired by a US soldier

    National War naval ensign with a swastika and a cross on a red field, obtained by an American soldier during his service in Germany in 1945. This type of flag was used aboard German warships from November 7, 1935 - May 8, 1945. The US soldier who brought the flag home landed at Utah Beach during the D-Day invasion in June 1944, and helped liberate and secure the city of Paris, France in late August. He fought with General Patton's Third Army in the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge in December. While searching for German soldiers on a farm in Germany, he was struck by a barn ...

  2. Zangwill family collection

    The collection includes an envelope and letter sent to Liby Kaplan in Slonim, Poland (present day Belarus) from her family in New Jersey in August 1939 and a letter and envelope from Liby Kaplan to her family in New Jersey postmarked August 17, 1939. The collection also includes two photographic postcards of Liby Kaplan and her husband.

  3. Julius Messer collection

    Collection of correspondence (postcards and envelopes) and birth certificate relating to Julius Messer (donor's cousin) who fled from Krakow, Poland to Shanghai, China during the Holocaust; Newspaper from Polish Jewish refugee community in Shanghai, dated December 1945. An accretion including: photographic portraits of Julius Messer and his wife Irena (nee Cynamon); photographic print of the Board of Directors retirement luncheon for Superintendance LTD, UK of which Julius Messer was Chairman of the Board; certified copies of the death certificate of Julius and Irena Messer; certificates re...

  4. Parade in Munich

    Parade. Nazi banners hang from the buildings as people in costumes parade through the streets of Munich? (for Carnival?). Float poster reads "Negerdorf Neubiberg." Religious procession follows, and people heil Hitler. Panning shots of a rainy day in Munich. The city's triumphal arch and other buildings are visible.

  5. Izak and Pepi Altenhaus Letter

    Contains a letter written by Izak and Pepi Altenhaus (donor's parents) in Belgium, stating that they were being transported. The letter was thrown from train and picked up and posted by someone else. Also includes a scrap of return address and note in envelope.

  6. Walter Furst correspondence

    The Walter Furst correspondence consists of correspondence between Walter Furst at Camp Ritchie, Maryland and his brother Harry, his parents Berthalo and Louise Furst, T.E. Glaser, Herbert Meyer, Curt Sloan, Fred Furst, R.H. Stern, Werner Oppenheim, and various other friends from across the United States. The letters focus mainly on military life and other personal matters. The majority of letters are in English, but some from Walter's father are in German. Also included are two overdue notices for library books.

  7. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  8. Family tours Switzerland; boat tour; airship; sightseeing

    Snow-covered streets in St. Moritz, ice-skating, mountains in BG. Bertha Greif, Erna, and Julie walk towards camera in snow. 01:19:16 They pose playfully on a boat-deck, Sally appears at 01:19:51. 01:20:34 Tourist views of cobbled street, clock on a building façade (possibly in Bern), horse and carriages. CU driver, Erna, and Henriette Susskind in an open car, sightseeing. Hillside with trees and a railway line. Erna and relatives walk on a dirt road, sit at an outdoor table and raise their drinks. The women stand in an open field, plane in the sky. Good MS of Erna holding sunglasses. 01:22...

  9. Snowball fight in Zurich

    Snow-covered landscape. Norbert and Isenberg family walk down snow-covered stairs at the Isenberg family home. Sally swings Norbert and kisses Erna. Snowball fight.

  10. Hitler Youth tour Japan

    Teil II. German intertitle. Training camp in Kokuhara, Japan for settlers of Manchuria. German Hitler Youth (HJ) troops in white dress uniform visit the camp. Japanese practice drills - marching, shooting, and drumming. 01:01:30 German intertitle. HJ visit the Ise-Shrine and march on a city street and across a bridge. Shops and housing in town. HJ continue touring Japan, visiting lake and tourist sites by boat. German intertitle. Men with buckets dive for Mikimoto pearls off the island of Toba. CUs, one HJ youth holds four pearls in his hand. HJ boys fish and participate in a ceremony, some...

  11. American troops help a wounded German soldier in the aftermath of a counter-assault

    Card: "German G.I. Shot in Counter-Attack, Bonn." Two soldiers in full gear stand in front of a brick house with rubble. Soldiers kneel in the forest with a gun. Trees. Fence post with wire. Plane in the sky. Soldiers in a ditch with guns. Plane. Wounded German soldier on the ground, face bloodied, covered in a camouflage makeshift blanket; he looks toward the camera. American soldier lights a cigarette and gives it to the wounded man. Two soldiers cut open his camouflage layer/poncho and pat him down. The Americans help him drink from a canteen.

  12. George Sakheim collection

    Consists of photographs and photographic album pages from the collection of Dr. George Sakheim, depicting the images he saw and events he experienced as a simultaneous translator at the Nuremberg trials. Also includes a DVD of a speech given by Dr. Sakheim in May 2013 about his experiences.

  13. Visiting England

    REEL 1 (personally shot or purchased?) LS of a moving train from different angles. Train tracks. Train passes a station. Sheep graze on a hill and run. Sign for "Malvern Theatre / George Arliss / The Iron Duke..." (a 1934 British film) on a brick building. [Malvern Hills is in the West Midlands of England] 01:05:45 Airplane stunts. Aerial shots of the city and countryside. Man stands on the wing of the plane, and jumps off, ejecting a parachute and falling through the air. 01:07:58 Waterfall pouring into a river, rapids. 01:08:27 Slate, "Craven Hunt. Point-to-Point." Men on horseback race a...

  14. Departing US

    Aerial views of an American city from a rooftop with skyscrapers and a river partially clouded by smoke rising from rooftops. Young men pose for the camera aboard the ship "New York." Another large ocean cruiser can be seen from behind the deck rail.

  15. Eva Lips speech

    Consists of a mimeographed transcript of a speech given by Eva Lips, a German-Jewish refugee from Cologne, Germany, at Christ Church in New York City on November 14, 1936. In the speech, she describes her impression of Hitler prior to 1933, and the ways in which she and her husband, University of Leipzig anthropologist Dr. Julius Lips, were persecuted after 1933. She also describes the confiscation of their library, the burning of their books, and experiencing constant surveillance. The couple emigrated to the United States through Paris in 1934.

  16. Cubist lithograph of a female head created by a Jewish Polish refugee

    Green ink lithograph, 38/50, a Cubist study of a woman's head created by Morice Lipsi, an artist known for his sculptures, at an unknown date, but probably postwar. The print was given to Micheline Weinstein, a psychoanalyst, in the 1970s by a patient who had kept it hidden under his floor for years. Morice, who was Jewish and originally from Poland, had lived in France since 1912. When Germany invaded France in 1940, he, his wife Hildegard, and daughters Verna and Jeanine left their farm near Paris and fled to the Free French zone in the south. Hildegard then took the girls to her native S...

  17. Albin family photographs

    Consists of 28 photographs of the funeral of Frieda Neska Gold Albin; the photographs, taken in Riga, Latvia, in 1936, show religious ritual life. Also includes captions and caption translations.

  18. Selected records from the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg, Russia

    Selected records from several archival collections related to the prewar history of the Jewish community of the Petrograd-Leningrad region and archival records related to the German occupation of this region during World War II. Prewar records contain: Correspondence, minutes of the meetings of the Jewish Committee in Petrograd (EKOPO) and others, statistics and reports of the Commissariat for Jewish National Affairs (Moscow) for January-March 1918, various records of Jewish organizations to assist the Jewish population, 1917-1938: correspondence with Jewish organizations in the US, Germany...

  19. "History of Dachau Station"

    Consists of a three-page document entitled "History of Dachau Station" which explains the history of the location on which the concentration camp operated, covering pre-war (the use of the buildings), wartime (operating as a concentration camp) and post-war (use of the camp as a site for war crimes trials). The document focuses on the use of the physical buildings and space.

  20. POWs cross Elbe; interrogation of Hans Goebbels; Latvian troops surrender

    (LIB 5988) CROSSING THE ELBE FOR PWS, Arneburg, Germany, 25 April 1945. Slate by cameraman #93, Sergeant Krueger. Soldiers row a canoe and unload on the Elbe River. Soldiers in a large boat unload. French, British, and Belgian prisoners of war wait on the river bank. 01:01:01 POWs load into boat and smile for camera. Unload and walk up stairs into building. 01:01:19 POWs in uniform and civilian clothes listen to US soldiers' directions before loading into boat. Scenes of POWs left waiting for next boat. 01:02:20 (LIB 5991) INTERROGATION OF HANS GOEBBELS, Dusseldorf, Germany, 26 April 1945. ...