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  1. Papers of Harold Levy

    Reports of visits across the country, 1951-76; annual and conference reports, 1951-74, and statistical information, including questionnaires on the number of children attending classes in specified age ranges, 1959-67. Reports for Aberdeen, Amersham, Ayr, Basildon, Bedford, Birkenhead, Birmingham, Blackpool, Bognor Regis, Bournemouth, Bradford, Brighton and Hove, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Chatham, Cheltenham, Chester, Clacton, Colchester, Colwyn Bay, Coventry, Darlington, Derby, Doncaster, Dundee, Eastbourne, Edinburgh, Exeter, Gateshead (Training College), Glasgow (general, Calderwood L...

  2. Soviet Lviv, Ukraine

    Lvov, 1929-1939 (Polish Production). VS, streets and buildings, lion and coat of arms, several fountains with statues, VS of main market that still exists today. The market is filled with people. MLS, MS, MCUs of people buying and selling wares. Two intertitles read, in Polish, "Types of peddlers" and "Old stone houses at the Lvov Market". Shots of said houses, then the façade of the Boym Chapel. High angle shots of the city. An intertitle reads "Armenian quarter, with the Armenian Cathedral." The Armenian district's many arched alleys and entryways, porticos, windows, and cobblestones. An ...

  3. Documentation of the commissioner of the Grodno district affiliated with the Zivilverwaltung (civilian administration) of the Bialystok region, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the commissioner of the Grodno district affiliated with the Zivilverwaltung (civilian administration) of the Bialystok region, 1941-1944 Included in the collection: Correspondence regarding industrial factories and skilled professionals in the Bialystok region; directive of the Reichskommissar fuer das Ostland (Reichs commissioner for Ostland) in Riga, given to the Generalkommissar (general commissioner) of Belorussia in Minsk, regarding the confiscation of property of cultural value in the Belorussia area by Einsatzstab Rosenberg; investigation and imprisonment of Polish c...

  4. Jewish Committee and Provincial Jewish Committee in Lublin Komitet Żydowski i Wojewódzki Komitet Żydowski w Lublinie (Sygn 355)

    Minutes of the committee meetings, reports, correspondence, lists of Jewish survivors, committee statutes, circulars, appeals and communications, budgets, lists of people using assistance, personal data of committee staff and other records..

  5. Millie K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Millie K., who was born in Aub, Germany in 1909. She recalls moving to Paris in 1933; working as a governess; marriage; her husband's incarceration as a German in 1940; her incarceration with him in Gurs a few months later; extreme hunger; her release two months later; joining him clandestinely when he was transferred to Les Milles; their release; living in Calas and Marseille; finding farm and factory jobs; a non-Jewish woman rescuing them from arrest; obtaining false papers in Marseille; her husband's arrest; visiting him at Les Milles; his escape; moving to Lyon; r...

  6. Rudolf G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudolf G., who was born in Wu?rzburg, Germany in 1912. He recalls attending Jewish and German schools; participating in anti-Nazi organizations; his brother's emigration to Czechoslovakia; being arrested in 1937 due to a letter from his brother critical of the Nazis; release after seven months in prison; escaping to Czechoslovakia with the help of socialist organizations; traveling through parts of Europe; secretly returning to Germany to obtain funds for emigration; departure for the United States on November 10, 1938; and learning about Kristallnacht while docked in...

  7. Leonard L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leonard L., who was born in 1922 in Japan to Russian parents, and served with the United States Army 82nd airborne division in World War II. He recounts meeting the Soviets in Ludwigslust; entering Wo?bbelin concentration camp in May 1945; "ambulatory corpses" milling around, including young children; piles of corpses; the pervasive, nauseating stench, which stays with him to the present time; speaking with survivors (he spoke Russian, German and French); survivors dying after giving them candy bars or other rich foods; German civilians feigning ignorance of the camp;...

  8. Badge with a yellow Star of David on a black circle worn by a Romanian Jewish woman

    Star of David badge that 20 year-old Simona Weissmann was forced to wear in Piatra Neamt, Romania from 1941-1945. In November 1940, the fascist government of Romania of General Antonescu joined the Axis Alliance. They immediately put in place polices to persecute Jews, such as the requirement that Jews wear a Star of David badge2 on their clothing at all times. The antisemitic regime also supported increasingly violent attacks and pogroms against the Jewish population.

  9. Handbill

    Anti-Jewish propaganda printed between the cover of false American dollar bill.

  10. Destruction of Warsaw, Poland

    Examines the destruction of Warsaw by the Nazis during September 1939 and the efforts of the Polish underground to rebel. Includes scenes of Warsaw before and after the German invasion, including views of the Jewish ghetto. Under siege in 1939 cityscape smoke rising. Germans shelling. People running through scarred city street. VS of destruction. German troops and vehicles advance along road. Smoke rising from city square. Dead horses on their sides, men cutting meat off of horses, horse skeletons in street. Polish and German officers at surrender ceremony in bus. Occupation and ruins. Vari...

  11. Robert Buckley papers

    The Robert Buckley papers contains two folders. One folder contains two copies of the Jehovah's Witness magazine Awake! , from 1989 and 1995. The magazines each contain an article concerning the Holocaust, including some on the role Jehovah's Witnesses played during that time.The second folder contains photographs from Buckley's trip to West Germany in May, 1990. Besides landscape photos, there are pictures of interviewees Sophie Mewes, Irmgard Jahndorf, Josef and Margarete Niklasch, Hubert Mattischek, Berta and Gustav Wenzel, and Johanna Buchner. Also included is a photograph reproduction ...

  12. Sophie R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sophie R., a Romani, who lived in Germany, one of eight children. She recalls imprisonment in Stuttgart; deportation to Auschwitz in 1941; the deaths of her parents and siblings; transfer to Ravensbru?ck, then to a munitions factory; a death march from Oldenburg to Dachau; liberation by United States troops; recuperating for six months, living in Munich; marriage; her strong faith in Jesus leading to her very honest lifestyle; surgical removal of her tattoo; and reluctance to share her experience with her children lest they hate Germans. Mrs. R.'s daughter and grandda...

  13. Documentation of the Jewish national organization "Trumpeldor" in Riga, 1929-1941

    Documentation of the Jewish national organization "Trumpeldor" in Riga, 1929-1941 History of the organization The organization was officially established on 20 August 1924. The aim of its establishment was the establishment of a Jewish country in Eretz Israel. The main focus of the organization was the education of youth toward national values, the study of Hebrew, physical labor, and the study of agricultural professions, handicrafts and seamanship. The organization declared that the Jewish citizens of Latvia be educated toward the spirit of a national state. Thus, on 15 May 1935, approxim...

  14. Notársky úrad v Jelšave

    • Notary Office of Jelšava

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Jelšava holds records of the local administration in the period between 1939 and 1944, including materials on the Anti-Jewish measures, the persecution of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property in 1944. The archival collection contains the minutes of the city council of Jelšava from the years 1939 – 1944, in which various documents regarding the Anti-Jewish measures have been preserved. For example, one might find here the measure in which Jews were forbidden to sell their goods on the local markets or various files concerning citizenship ...

  15. Verdoner family garden

    Otto Verdoner, at roughly four months old. VS, CUs, MCUs, Otto being bathed by his mother. CU, Francisca posing in the arms of a woman in the Verdoner garden, Yoka doing same. VS, MLSs, MSs, MCUs, Francisca and Yoka playing in the garden, and in a sand box. Their grandfather comes out to join them in the garden, followed by other unidentified relatives. The camera focuses for quite a while on a young man as he speaks to an older woman and then to Hilde Verdoner (uncertain of this man's relationship to the family). CU, older couple having tea in the Verdoners' garden.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Buchenwald Concentration Camp

    Buchenwald Horror Camp, Buchenwald, Germany. (Via Universal) VSs, Buchenwald concentration camp showing inmates walking about, barracks in BG. PS (AV), entire prison showing barracks and barbed wire. Pan, INT of camp courtyard. CU, jeep and truck painted white and marked with Red Cross passing camera. HAS, GI's entering the camp. LS, barracks with GI inmates and barbed wire in FG. CU, sign on barracks, "All Polish Greet the Fraternal American Army." MS, flags above the sign. LS, crowd of inmates cheering picture of Stalin tacked to the barrack wall. MS, pile of pulverized bones. CU, concent...

  17. Walter G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter G., who was born in Berlichingen, Germany, in 1924. Mr. G. recalls prewar life based on mutual respect between Jews and Catholics in his "conservative" village; the first antisemitic incidents in 1937; having to leave public school and attend a Jewish one in an orphanage near Stuttgart; Kristallnacht, when he and others at the school were beaten and Torahs burned; and returning home to care for his family's business when his father was briefly interned in 1939. He recounts coming to the United States to join his sister in May 1939; his parents arrival in Septem...

  18. District Department of Czestochowa Wydział Powiatowy w Częstochowie (Sygn. 61)

    This collection contains selected records of the County Department of Częstochowa, Poland, created by the various departments. Includes minutes, resolutions of the sessions of communal councils and budget files. Contains information concerning Jews, including lists of the unemployed, the aldermen (towns Kłobuck, Krzepice and other communes), merchants, physicians and farmers. Minutes of the communal councils contain affairs of the Jewish community and the names of Jewish aldermen.

  19. Antonina and Jonas Paulavičius photographs

    The collection consists of three photographs of Antonina and Jonas Paulavičius and their family of Panemune, Lithuania. The Paulavičius family rescued 16 people during the Holocaust, including 12 Jews primarily from the Kovno Ghetto. There is also a post-war photograph of Antonina with 6 of the Jews the family helped rescue: Miriam Krakinowski, Yohanan Fein, Musia Gershenman, Tanya Ipp, David Rubin, and Aaron Neimark.

  20. "Strangers in the Heartland"

    Donald M. Douglas wrote the essay, "Strangers in the Heartland" in January 1989. The essay consists of three parts, accounts of those who escaped from Europe, of those who survived in Polish forests, and of one man who survived Auschwitz. The narratives include such subjects as: emigrating to the United States, Kristallnacht, resistance movements and partisans, male rape, and the conditions inside concentration camps.