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  1. Axelrad family papers

    The Axelrad family papers consist of immigration correspondence and forms and an Oranienburg photo album. The correspondence and forms primarily document Felix Axelrad's liquidation of his business in Vienna in the late 1930s, emigration from Vienna to Istanbul and then to the United States, his attempt to emigrate to Australia, and his efforts to help his friends Heinrich Grünberg (b. 1894 in Vienna) and Klara Török (b. 1907 in Budapest) immigrate to the United States from Istanbul. The photo album documents life in Oranienburg and Vienna and trips to Wannsee, Werbelinsee, and Berlin. It c...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- World War I scenes; Orient Express; Austrian troops in Berlin; Toscanini in Salzburg

    World War I-era scenes: German soldiers riding horseback. British troops on the battlefield, sheltering from enemy fire, then running across the field. Quick scenes of Kaiser Wilhelm II, in a group of military men, descending a staircase and reviewing a parade of German soldiers. Women, men and children gathered on a balcony for what appears to be a wedding. This is the wedding of Archduke Charles I of Austria to Princess Zita of Parma in October 1911. The last scene shows Franz Joseph I of Austria (Habsburg) in the company of another man on a field. They have evidently been hunting: severa...

  3. 1988 "Saving the Bulgarian Jews" conference documents

    Consists of speeches and articles written on the occasion of the 1988 roundtable conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, entitled "Saving the Bulgarian Jews 1941-1944." Included are speeches by Mrs. Shulamit Shamir, Dr. Stefan Petrov, a report of the conference by the Bulgarian embassy in Washington, and a message of greetings from Todor Zhivkov.

  4. Cathy Salomon photographs

    Consists of 15 photographs depicting the wartime and post-war experiences of the Gotteszmann family of Paris, France, consisting of Eugene and Helene Honig Gotteszmann and their daughter, Catherine. Eugene Gotteszmann was a foreign (Hungarian) military volunteer with the French army in 1940 when he was arrested. He spent the war in the Magdeburg work camp. Helene Gotteszmann hid in Paris with false papers, and Catherine (Cathy) hid with the Gomez family in Puiseaux until France was liberated. The family was reunited in 1945 and emigrated to Venezuela in 1955.

  5. Photograph of the Rotfeld family

    The photograph depicts members of the Rotfeld family during the visit of a cousin from Paris, France, shortly before the German invasion of Poland. Seated from left to right are: Mr. Rotfeld, Etta, Mrs. Rotfeld, Heniek, and Mr. Stark. Both Heniek and Mr. and Mrs. Rotfeld perished in the Holocaust.

  6. Milton Frankel liberation photograph collection

    Consists of photographs taken at the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp as well as photographs of the V-2 rocket factory at the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp. Also includes a still negative film strip of post-liberation Nordhausen concentration camp, acquired by Milton Frankel, a United States Military officer stationed in Germany. Multiple images on one uncut strip inside metal canister labeled "negatives of Milt's Holocaust pictures." Images Germany, negatives American.

  7. Klein family photographs

    Consists of 20 copyprints of the Klein family, originally of Berlin, Germany. Pre-war photographs include wedding photographs of Josef and Lotte Klein and of extended family members. Post-war photographs include photographs of Rosel, Ruth, and Eva Klein in various childrens' homes as well as of their emigration to Canada in 1948. The Klein family emigrated to Belgium in 1939, and the girls spent the war in various convents and childrens' homes. Lotte Klein died of natural causes in 1940, and Josef Klein perished in the Holocaust in 1942.

  8. Lionel Victor photographs

    Consists of four photographs of the extended family of Beru Vigder, of Burdujeni, Romania. The photographs, all dated in the 1920s, depict his siblings Chaya, Leah, and his nephew, all of whom perished in the Holocaust.

  9. Emil Hersch photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs taken of Emanuel Herszkowicz (now Emil Hersch) at the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Includes photographs of Mr. Herszkowicz working in an O.R.T. training facility and as a member of the Landsberg camp's police force.

  10. Max Arthur collection

    Consists of 14 photographs taken by Chicago Tribune photographer Max Arthur in Germany and Poland, as well as a letter written to family members, dated December 28th (presumably 1945) and on clipping from the Chicago Tribune of a photograph he took. Photographs include post-mortem photographs of Hermann Goering and Julius Streicher, as well as photographs of Nazi propaganda murals.

  11. Parke O. Yingst liberation collection

    Consists of photographs and color slides taken by Lieutenant Colonel Parke O. Yingst, a member of the Army Corps of Engineers, upon the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps. Also contains one roll of film of the Buchenwald liberation photographs. Notable is a photograph of Margaret Bourke-White taking a photograph. Collection contains duplicate copies of photographs.

  12. Emmi Liberman Pipersberg photographs

    Consists of 11 photographs: pre-war photographs taken in Sosnowiec, a wartime photograph taken in the Sosnowiec ghetto, and photographs taken in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; includes photographs of the Jewish police force and the "Hatikva" soccer team.

  13. Ester Ajzen Lewin family photographs

    The Ester Ajzen Lewin family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Ester Ajzen and the Ajzen family of Chełm, Poland. The collection also includes photographs of the the Lewin family of Derazhnya, Ukraine; Ester Ajzen Lewin’s husband, Abram Lewin and his brother Misha Lewin. Both served as Soviet soldiers.

  14. Szczukowski family photographs

    Consists of eight pre-war photographs of the family of Mendel and Hynda Szczukowski, originally of Łódź, Poland. Of their seven children in Poland (an eighth, Esther, emigrated to Poland in 1916), five perished during the Holocaust, as did Mendel. Hynda passed away in 1932. Also includes post-war photographs of Mojzesz Szczukowski in a displaced persons camp in Hofgeisman, Germany, participating in the sport of boxing.

  15. "My Impressions of Belsen Concentration Camp"

    Consists of document, seven pages, entitled "My Impressions of Belsen Concentration Camp," by Robert M. Rutan. Mr. Rutan visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on May 2, 1945, shortly after liberation of the camp, while traveling toward the Baltic Sea with the 7th Armored Division. He describes the experience of a visitor to the camp and what he witnessed there.

  16. SHAEF photographs

    Consists of 58 photographs taken upon the liberation of various concentration camps (including Dachau, Buchenwald, Nordhausen, Kaufering IV, Dora-Mittelbau, Bergen-Belsen, and photographs of the Gardelegen massacre). Also includes wartime photographs of mass arrests of Jews in Amsterdam and photographs taken upon the liberation of that city as well as photographs taken after a massacre of Belgian civilians by the Nazis in 1945. The photographs have been thoroughly described on cards which have been fixed to the back of each photograph. The photographs have been approved by SHAEF (Supreme He...

  17. Bela Herskovits collection

    Consists of one long playing 33 1/3 RPM record entitled "Two Cantors at Carnegie Hall: Eddie Cantor and Bela Herskovits," released by Tikva Records. This record was probably recorded around 1958. Also includes articles regarding the Holocaust experiences of Bela Herskovits, the former chief cantor of a synagogue in Budapest, Hungary; included are articles entitled "Cantor of the Ghetto" and "He poisoned his wife to save her life!."

  18. Portfolio

    Portfolio, Grosse Deutsch Kunstaustellung 1943, containing color letterpress reproduction prints of fifteen paintings and four sculptures from the Great German Art Exhibition, 1943, in the House of German Art in Munich, Germany. This exhibition and this portfolio present works of ideal German Art approved by the Nazi Party and government. Similar sets were displayed and published yearly. This portfolio originally contained 16 prints of paintings. This set is missing the print of a work by Stahl.

  19. Selected records from the Varese prefecture

    Contains documents related to the formulation and implementation of anti-Jewish racial laws in and around the areas of Piedmont and Lombardia, Italy. Also contains documents related to Jewish refugees in this area.

  20. Defeat of Norway; arresting resisters; defeat of Denmark; Hitler's birthday in Copenhagen and Berlin

    German troops in a snow-covered Norwegian harbor. A German soldier receives a light for his cigarette from a smiling Norwegian civilian. Mountain troops [Gebirgsjaeger] unload munitions from a ship. A truck carrying German troops heads into the "inner part of the country" in pursuit of Norwegian resisters, who have been influenced by English propaganda (according to the narration). Shot of bus damaged by Norwegians who were then captured by the Germans. Norwegian prisoners of war being arrested, searched, and having their weapons confiscated while a light snow falls. The Germans are very po...