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  1. Beruh family correspondence

    The Beruh family correspondence comprises letters written between members of the Beruh family beginning after Gerda and Sonja’s transport to England in 1939 until Gerda and her mother, Nechama were reunited in 1945. The bulk of the letters are written by Gerda to her mother, though many letters include notes from Sonja as well. Three letters to the sisters from their father, Yaakov are also included. A small series of photographs are also included in this collection. Images include Gerda as a teenage girl and two images of groups of children.

  2. Forced burial of death march and concentration camp victims by German civilians; Russian POWs in a hospital; survivors at Buchenwald

    (LIB 5968) Schwarzenfeld, Germany. LS of many coffins loaded onto horse-drawn carts. German civilians from Schwarzenfeld unload and carry the coffins, walking past rows of corpses. Many civilians dig graves in a fenced area. The remains of a striped uniform are visible on at least one of the bodies awaiting burial. Houses are visible in the background. The victims died while on one of several evacuation transports from Flossenbuerg, en route to Dachau. On April 16th, a transport of some 1700 Jewish prisoners left Flossenbuerg. Near Schwarzenfeld, their train was strafed and destroyed by All...

  3. Mendel Awerbuch papers

    Consists of two identification documents for Mendel Awerbuch (also spelled Averbuch), one from the Polish Consulate in Brussels confirming his Polish citizenship, and the other from the town of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, permitting Awerbuch to stay in that town and confirming he had formerly been a prisoner at Buchenwald, both documents dated 1945. Includes four photographs of men and women, including Awerbuch, on a street in post-war Belgium; some wearing old concentration camp uniforms. Also includes passport-sized photos of a different man, with addresses in Paris and in Israel.

  4. Thaler and Angstreich family papers

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to the Angstreich family from Gliniany, Poland (Hlyniany, Ukraine) and the Thaler family from Zborów (Zboriv, Ukraine) and Brzeżany, Poland. Documents include birth certificates and passports from Poland, and marriage documents from Palestine.

  5. Ostarbeiter at the Prater

    Film opens on the Ferris wheel at the Vienna Prater amusement park. Dissolve and other simple special effects throughout. Wide shot of crowds (some wearing German/Austrian uniforms; some in street clothes) at the park followed by closer view of two women and two men walking and smiling. Shots of attractions at the park: the Ferris wheel and a roller coaster (camera views from the ground as well as on the roller coaster). More shots of the “Voelkergemisch” of Nazi uniformed men mingling with males and females in civilian dress. The clothing of the latter indicates that most of them are not G...

  6. Daisy Seror Chelly photographs

    Contina two photographs. One is an image of Daisy Seror wearing traditional dress of Jewish women in Gabès, Tunisia, dated c. 1951; "STUDIO D ART" and "Jean Cordero GABES" embossed on photo; housed in photo holder inscribed "Ida" on back, probably sent to donor's sister Ida in Israel. The second photograph is a black-and-white image of Daisy Seror wearing a nurse's uniform, tending to a little girl. Daisy Seror worked in the OSE dispensary financed by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee as an aide to Dr. Benmoussa, between 1948 - 1950, assisting with medical examinations of new...

  7. Tomasz Wilinski letter and photograph

    One letter, sent by Tomasz Wilinski, from the Stutthof concentration camp, addressed to Leon Stefankowski, in Kolno, near Lomza/Bialystok district, February 1944. Includes one copy photograph of Wilinski while he was a factory worker in New Jersey, taken 6/20/1920.

  8. 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.

  9. Berman family papers

    Photographs of relatives of Mozes Berman including his brother Norbert in medical school in Paris, circa 1938; relatives in israel; Norbert's cousin Mina and her family, and Adolf Berman and his family. Also includes post-war correspondence between Adolf Berman in Israel and Minda Tzupkoff and Norbert Berman.

  10. Mauthausen liberation; German POW camp; freed Allied POWs

    (LIB 6086) Former prisoners of war from various Allied countries sit outdoors, cook, and rest. Some of the prisoners (a few look very thin) regard the camera as they walk down the street. Former POWs pile into the backs of several military trucks. 02:55:58 Long line of horse-drawn carts carrying German civilians and their belongings. CUs of some of the people, including a young boy lying on the ground and smiling at the camera. Former POWs walk down the road. Several Roma caravans drive down the road with children running behind, but it is not clear whether they are Roma children. 02:56:45 ...

  11. Brand and Lowinger families papers

    Collection of photographs depicting the Brand family in Michalovce, Czechoslovakia, showing Hanna (Agi), her two brothers Richard and Erich, and her parents Etel and Moric Brand; two letters written in April and May 1944 in Ujhely, Hungary by a Viennese woman who took care of Erich Brand in the local hospital; photographs depicting the Löwinger family in the ghetto in Hajdúböszörmény, Jews at forced labor and a family photograph from before the war.

  12. Bella and Bernard Pasternak collection

    Collection of documents, photographs and correspondence illustrating the experiences of donors before, during, and after the Holocaust; includes photographs from Bernard’s experiences in forced labor (March 1943-March 1944) and ghetto (March-May 1944), in addition to his post-war life in Displaced Persons camps in Germany and Italy [Trani] (1945-1949). Also included are records of Bella’s pre-war life in Urisor, Romania (1930s, early 1940s), and post-war in Dej, Romania (after liberation), and Austria (after liberation). Bernard was deported to Auschwitz and then went on a death march to Bu...

  13. Inge Fischer Engel papers

    The Inge Fischer Engel papers consist of biographical materials, a diary and autograph book, photographic materials, and printed materials documenting the Fischer family from Vienna, the two years Inge and her sister spent in England, the family’s emigration to Trinidad, their internment in Trinidad, and their immigration to the United States. The collection also includes photographs documenting Inge’s uncle in Shanghai and the Canidrome where he worked as director, photographs of her husband’s family from Vienna, and student and employment records documenting her brother-inlaw, Otto Engel....

  14. Jeanette Meyer collection

    Includes a "Deutsches Reiche Reisepass" issued to Jeanette Klugmann (donor) on November 25, 1938, in Nuernberg-Fuerth, Germany. Black and white photograph of bearer affixed on page two; stamped with red "J" on front page; includes visas for France and the United States.

  15. Gadomski family papers

    Contains documents and correspondence related to the family of Mieczyslaw and Wanda Gadomski, including correspondence in 1980s between Gadomski and other former internees at Ebensee.

  16. Prewar life in Vienna

    Home movies under the label "Herzstark Filmjournal" with German intertitles. Young women and men at leisure, playing games in the garden. Title card: “Hohe Schule der Hundedressur: Wilde Bestie vorgef. von Papa Herzstark“ Mr. Herzstark trains the family dog in the yard. Title card: "Grossmutters Film Debut“ Grandmother sits on a bench and waves for the camera. Title card: "Wird einer gefallen? Hutprobe im Garten vor dem Ausflug!“ Family members playfully try-on hats and look in the mirror. Title card: "Eine die fuers Huete-probieren Verstaendnis hat.“ Young woman in hat points off-camera. T...

  17. Part 2 excerpt from Police Yearly Retrospect 1938

    Title card: “Montag, den 14. Marz 1938 | Ankunft des Führers an der Wiener Gemeindegrenze.” Lines of Nazis. The soldiers speak with Austrian civilians on the sidewalk. A processional of cars with soldiers goes by; pedestrians on the side of the road give them the Nazi salute. Hitler passes in one of the cars. Various shots of the rally. Title card: “16. Marz 1938 | Die Beeidigung der Wiener Polizei durch den Reichsführer SS, Chef der deutschen Polizei, Himmler.” Marching band and soldiers lined up on the Heldenplatz in front of a building draped with Nazi flags. Line of men dressed in nice ...

  18. 1938 educational film for drivers in Austria

    Short film advising drivers in Austria toswitch from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side. Narration ends with "Fellow Germans! Traffic community is part of the National Socialist people's community! Take this into account, show more discipline, more gallantry, and have more regard for others in road traffic."

  19. German Auxiliary Police photograph album

    Contains a photo album possibly owned by Franz Schneider, a policeman who served in the German auxiliary police force and later taught in the police school of Bohemia. Some of the photographs show an inspection by SS-Obergruppenführer and Generaloberst der Polizei Kurt Max Franz Daluege, deputy Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, and Major General Max Ziervogel, a Luftwaffe general and the Wehrmacht chief of staff for Bohemia and Moravia. The photographs in the album include family shots with wife and daughter in 1942; border-patrol maneuvers in Königshütte in October 1942; firefighting...

  20. Marti Dotan photograph collection

    Contains photographs of the donor and family in the Netherlands. Includes portraits of Dutch children (including donor) who were on the "Exodus," as well as a kindergarten class in Jewish school.