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  1. Judith Bar Kochba photograph collection

    The Judith Bar Kochba photograph collection consists of photographs of the Kann family in Dordrecht, Netherlands before and during World War II. Some of the photographs were taken while the Kann children (Elise Kann, Otto Kann, Judith Kann, and Jacob Kann) were in hiding.

  2. Martin Mansson negatives

    Contains negatives of photographs taken by a German solder from 1940-1945, depicting his time in the SS-Totenkopf-Standarte Kirkens and later the SS-Inf. Ftg. 9 Thule, including images from Norway and Hungary.

  3. Gusti Shoval photograph collection

    Contains two photographic prints of Sabina Sheindl Klapholc and Chaim Jakub Klapholc in the Chrzanow ghetto, circa 1941.

  4. Sylvia Weiss collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the Aszknazy family before the war in Romania; the Weiss family in Hungary; Sylvia Aszknazy immediately after the liberation in German in 1945; Sylvia and her brother Leopold Aszknazy in their hometown in Romania in 1946 and later in the Ulm DP camp in Germany and during their journey to America in March 1948; Frank Weiss during his military service in the US Army; and Mr. Weiss's parents. Also includes a memoir, 29 pages, titled “Selected from Above,” by Sylvia (Cipora) Weiss.

  5. Antisemitic graffiti on Jewish shops

    Building sign for a university health clinic. Pedestrians walk past the opera house with an antisemitic sign "Judentum ist Verbrechertum, Stuermer Sondernummer" ["To be Jewish is to be criminal. Read the special edition of Der Stuermer."] with a caricature of Jewish man. More graffiti on Jewish-owned shops as pedestrians walk by, including a red-painted "Jude" with X's, stars of David, and profile caricatures.

  6. Eva Shlamovitz photograph collection

    The Eva Shlamovitz photograph collection consists of 232 photographs from Braunschweig, Germany and one copy print from Nuremberg, Germany documenting the experiences of Eva Shlamovitz, who was a relief worker with the Jewish Hospitality Committee, part of the Council of Voluntary War Work in the British Zone following the Holocaust.

  7. Hungarian protective pass

    Document issued by a Hungarian ministry, attesting to having seen the names of two Budapest residents, Dr. Károly Radó and his wife, Piroska (née Ujhelyi), on a list of individuals protected by the Swedish legation; 15 November 1944.

  8. First public NS student rally in Vienna

    Excerpt from newsreel Ostmark-Wochenschau Nr. 13/1938 (25. März 1938) about the first NS student public rally after the five-year ban. Title card: “Vienna | First National Socialist Student Rally.” Main building of the University of Vienna, with Nazi flags flying from its balconies and draped from its columns. On the steps, a large crowd of students is gathered. Nazi flag waving in the wind. Students in front of the building. Rows of students march through the larger crowd, which is enormous by now. They appear to be mostly, if not all, men. Men wearing long coats and Nazi armbands march up...

  9. Helen Sternlicht Jonas photograph collection

    Contains three photographs: one of Adam Sztab that was saved by Helen Sternlicht upon arrival at Auschwitz by hiding the photograph in her mouth while they were in the showers; one copy photograph of Szymon Sternlicht (Helen's father), the original of which was also saved by Helen Sternlicht in her mouth upon arrival at Auschwitz; and one copy print of a pre-war photograph of Helen Sternlicht, her sisters Betty and Sydell, and her mother Lola, original dated circa 1934, at Wawel castle, Krakow, Poland.

  10. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  11. Krakauer family collection

    Contains photographs related to the Krakauer family and their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes a family portrait showing (from left) Chaja Brajna (mother), Gisela, Chaim (father) and Malvine, taken in Vienna, Austria, c. 1932; a photograph of the Krakauer and Schwadron family, with Malvine in the front, c. 1935; a photograph of Malvine Krakauer and her best friend Anita Maibaum walking in the street in Brussels, Belgium with their Stars of David visible on the coats, dated June 1942; and a business card of Chaim Krakauer, who manufactured work clothes. In July 1942 Anita and anoth...

  12. Ethel Davidson photographs

    Contains 26 photographs of pre-war Poland, including from resort areas Szczawnica and the Pieniny mountains, and post-war displaced persons camps in Germany, including Zeilsheim.

  13. Herzberg family papers

    The Herzberg family papers include biographical materials and photographs documenting the family of Jacob and Margaret (née Bloch) Herzberg, and their daughter Rachel, originally of Fulda, Germany. Included are family photographs and documents, including birth certificates, and certificates related to religious ceremonies and weddings, extending back to the late 1890s. Also included are forms and correspondence related to the efforts of the Herzberg family to emigrate from Germany, their successful arrival in the United States, Jacob Herzberg's application to not be considered as an enemy a...

  14. Jews hiding in a nightclub in Amsterdam (with text)

    Film with text. The film (as seen in Story 1315) repeats with added intertitles in Dutch (see linked document). Image rolls at 01:16:19 with an older couple stands and converses. An adolescent boy comforts a young woman [this scene is clearly acted out with the characters wearing stage makeup]. An older man then opens the door, enters the room, and converses with a girl. Several people arrive and are greeted warmly. They all wear yellow stars. INTs of the apartment. The table is set. A girl sits and knits. People lounge about; others arrive. The boy and young woman look out the window onto ...

  15. Springtime in Vienna

  16. Bruchsal Kreistag 1938

    Footage shot at the 1938 Kreistag in Bruchsal, showing scenes of athletic and social activities combined with marching and speeches. Agfa 1938 logo. Shot of a building heavily decorated with Nazi paraphernalia, with a sign reading "Kreistag Bruchsal". Quick shot of a parade of SA men marching in the street, followed by street scenes with many Nazi flags blowing in the breeze. Children splash each other in a fountain. Four uniformed men walk toward the camera. LS of a man standing at a podium with uniformed Bund Deutscher Maedel girls facing him. An officer arrives in a car and is saluted by...

  17. Prayer book

    Megillat Esther, the scroll of Esther, read on the Jewish holiday of Purim carried by Anton Spitzer when he moved to Iasi, Romania, in 1931. Shortly before he was taken away by the Nazis in 1944, Anton hid the scroll in a cellar in the Iasi ghetto. He recovered it when he returned to Iasi after the war in 1945. The family would read from this scroll on Purim in Iasi until they immigrated to Israel in 1950.

  18. World War II Iron Cross

    Iron Cross that may have been awarded to Franz Schneider, a policeman in the German auxiliary police force in the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the former Czechoslovakia.

  19. Michael Flack papers

    Collection contains texts of songs and poetry written by Flack during his internment at Theresienstadt, including typescript copies and a leather-bound diary containing hand-written poetry by Flack, dated 1940-1941. Collection also contains correspondence, news clippings about Flack following his immigration to the United States, and materials related to the play "Ester," by E.F. Burian, which was produced at Theresienstadt, including a performance that was directed by Flack, and which received renewed interest in the 1990s.

  20. Judit Schichtanz collection

    Photo album and documents relating to the Schichtanz family's experiences in Hungary before, during, and after WWII. Included are images of Judit Schichtanz at her First Communion after her mother Ella and she converted to Roman Catholocism in 1941; baptismal certificate for Judit Schichtanz; pre-war photographs of Judit's father Lorand, who was later deported to a Hungarian forced-labor battalion in 1944 is presumed to have perished in Mauthausen.