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  2. Cytrynowski family correspondence

    The Cytrynowski family correspondence collection consists of letters, postcards, and Red Cross messages to Nathan Citri from Yechiel, Genia, and Miriam Cytrynowski in Łódź, Poland and later in the Warsaw ghetto.The correspondents describe their lives, their preparations to move to Palestine, and their disappointment after plans fall through.

  5. U.S. vs. Ohlendorf recordings

    Recordings of the Einstatzgruppen trial "U.S. vs. Ohlendorf", specifically the proceedings of September 29, October 8-9 and October 14-15, 1947. Otto Ohlendorf, the commander of Einsatzgruppe D, which participated in the executions of Jews, Roma, and other persecuted groups, was sentenced to death by hanging as a result of this trial and was executed in 1951.

  6. Gardelegen burial of Nazi victims

    (LIB 5954) "Murder, Incorporated", Gardelegen, Germany, April 25, 1945 Pan, graves of 1100 victims. MCU, Col. G.P. Lynch, Chief of Staff, 102nd Div. delivers speech which tells of the methods used to exterminate these victims -- the dead were burned alive in a barn set afire by military bullets and grenades. LSs, MS, US soldier translates the speech into German. MLS, MS, chaplain speaks of Nazi atrocities. Fast pan past graves to German civilians and military attending services.

  7. Ammy and Nico Herschel collection

    The Ammy and Nico Herschel collection consists of correspondence, personal papers, biographical materials, newspapers, speeches, programs, and ephemera relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Ammy Herschel (née Weyel/Weijel) and Nice Herschel of the Netherlands. The biographical materials includes the diaries of Nico Herschel written in the Netherlands from July 1, 1933 to September 7, 1942; Nico Herschel’s school diplomas and report cards, 1927-1928; 1931-1937; Nico Herschel’s ID card for hiking organization, 1935; and Ammy Weyel’s Zionist membership card, September 1940. The He...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- French Navy hailing neutral freighters, seizing contraband

    Shots of a French submarine which, according to the dope sheet, captured a German freighter and took it to a Moroccan port. French sailors on the ocean look for ships from neutral countries carrying contraband goods. Sailors board a ship for inspection. The bags in the cargo hold are labelled "Oslo." A ship docked at a harbor (the same ship?) with the name "Tjikandi" visible. Pan across a huge warehouse full of goods, presumably seized cargo. Officials inspect some of these goods. A group of French sailors pulls the outer layer off a bag of cargo to reveal the word "Hambourg" on the inner b...

  9. Ernst Hacker papers

    Contains three black and white phographs of Adele Hackler Riegler, Samuel Hacker, and Leo Hacker; three postcards from Theresienstadt; and one color photograph of a memorial dedicated to the Hacker family.

  10. Juliette Cohen photographs

    Contains 25 wartime and post-war photographs depicting Juliette Cohen, who spent the war in hiding in Brussels, Belgium.

  11. Sol Rubinstein papers

    Contains correspondence addressed to and from Sol Rubinstein, Cleveland, OH, to family members of Łapy and Łódź, Poland, describing actions being taken against the Jewish populations. Other letters include those written by Sol Rubinstein addressed to a friend in Sokoli, Poland, as well as letters from family members in Haifa and from Nathan Zahavi about attempts to save his Aunt Fradl. Also contains two manuscripts, "Rubinstein-Stolarsky Family History, 1984" and "The Rescue of our Family Survivors." "The Rescue of our Family Survivors" includes translations of much of the family wartime ...

  12. Ernö Goldstein papers

    The papers consist of a photograph of a group of men seated outdoors wearing uniforms (Ernö Goldstein [donor's brother] seated first from right wearing an armband), five postcards written by Ernö Goldstein to his wife, Elisabeth, postmarked 1944, two newspapers, "Párizsi Magyarság," dated November 25, 1934, and "A Magyar Zsidók Lapja," dated March 18, 1943, and one 14-page handwritten manuscript by Ernö Goldstein. Accretion: Copy print: 8th grade middle school class picture from Orthodox Jewish school DOB Street 35, in Budapest, Hungary; donor standing top row, 6th from right; origina...

  13. Wilder family papers

    Consists of documents and photographs pertaining to the Wilder family, originally of Będzin, Poland. Includes an identity card for Josek Wilder as an employee at Camp Leipheim, 1947; a travel authorization for Jakob and Josek Wilder; papers and documents regarding the emigration of Jakob and Josef Wilder to the United States; and a pre-war photograph of the Wilder family. Mrs. Wilder and five of her children perished, while Mr. Jakob Wilder and his son Josef survived.

  14. Berthold and Else Sinai papers

    The papers consist of official documents, correspondence, and passports relating to Berthold and Else Sinai Fred Ward Sinay's parents and their experiences fleeing from Nazi-occupied Austria and their subsequent emigration to the United States. Included in the collection are reissuances of birth certificates, German "Deutsches Reich" passports issued under Nazi occupation, and a postcard from Berthold in Dachau concentration camp to Else in Vienna, Austria.

  15. Olga Gelb school photograph

    Consists of a posed school portrait of a group of girls, taken in Budapest, Hungary, in the mid 1930s. Included among the girls is Olga Gelb (now Mrs. Paul Weinstein), the donor's mother. On the back of the photograph are the signatures of the girls pictured.

  16. Moshenberg family collection

    Consists of the memoir of Elka Moshenberg, who spent much of her life in Israel and wrote her memoir to memorialize her family members who perished during the Holocaust. She lists those who were killed by the Nazis, and laments that she did not insist that they join her in Israel. Also includes a videocassette and CD-ROM documenting a trip to Turka in 2003, visiting many of the places mentioned in the memoir, as well as four videocassettes depicting a 2000 trip with the donor's cousin, Aba Moshenberg. The family videotaped Mr. Moshenberg's visits to the Gross-Rosen, Gradice, Faulbrick, and ...

  17. Lilian Falk papers

    Contains four letters from girls in Children's Home in Otwock, Poland, photograph of Krystyna Reklewska [a wartime friend of Lilian Falk, donor], pre-war photograph of Lilian, post-war photograph of Lilian, post-war photograph and wartime kennkarte of rescuer Mrs. Bronislawa Hessen (Bronislawa Kaczmarczyk), war-time photograph of Lilian's mother, Dr. Rozalja Szajn, birth certificate used by Rozalja during the period in hiding, and a birth certificate used by Lilian during the period of hiding.

  18. 63rd Infantry liberation photographs

    Contains six photographs of the Dachau concentration camp, post-liberation; includes one photograph showing the sign of the 63rd Infantry Division.

  19. David Glick's trip to Europe 1936/37

    Reims, France. CU of a man with a long beard, and loose fitting clothing, holding a pigeon in his hand and feeding it, another pigeon rests on his other arm. MLS of a street in the city, a street lamp hangs from the corner of a building, and a sign above a doorway reads: "Champignons". VS, of the neighborhood, a cat running along a ledge of a building, rows of houses, three women dressed in traditional costumes with white pointed hats, a street corner with a restaurant called "Restaurant Jeanne-D'Arc," men sitting in a bar raising a glass to the camera, the owners of the bar smile and wave ...

  20. Rudas family collection

    Consists of a photograph, circa 1943, of Istvan Weltman, the donor’s cousin (fourth from left) during his forced labor near Munkacs, Hungary; a photographic portrait, circa 1934, of Bora and Imre Barna with their daughter Anna (Bora and Anna perished in Auschwitz and Imre was killed in a labor battalion); a photographic portrait of the donor’s relatives – Reiner; a photographic portrait of Suzy Barna, who at the age of 5 was killed in Auschwitz in 1944; a photographic portrait, circa 1940, of Gyorgy Kaszas, the donor’s first cousin, a jazz player, who was shot and killed in 1944, after bein...