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  1. City street scenes

    Very dark interior shots followed by a brief scene at the beach at Snekkersten and then street scenes in Elsinore (Helsingør), Denmark. "Spredte Traeck fra Fam. Schermeisters. Tilvaereise." [Small Notes from the Schermeister Family. Life.] The street scenes show quick cuts of alleys, people in the street on bicycles, shops, a newspaper headline announcing Von Papen as vice chancellor, and the exterior of the Hotel Øresund.

  2. Ruth B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth B., who was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and moved to Sofia when her father's business burned down. She recalls attending French school; anti-Jewish restrictions beginning in 1941, including wearing the yellow star; her brother's draft for forced labor; his warning they were not to get on trains if ordered to do so; his suggestion that she join the resistance; deportation orders in May 1943; refusing to consider leaving her parents; entrusting possessions with non-Jewish friends; non-Jewish neighbors cursing the transport organizers; arrival in Khaskovski; welcome b...

  3. Josef Helfgott papers

    Consists of photographs, restitution-related claims, a business card, newspaper clippings, and photocopies pertaining to the experiences of Josef Helfgott, a Holocaust survivor from Tomaszow Mazowiecki. Among other items, the collection includes a photograph of Josef's wife, Dwora, that he kept with him throughout his internment at various concentration camps, including Auscwhitz. Dwora, and the couple's daughter, Chana, were deported from Tomaszow to Treblinka in 1942 where they were killed. Other documents in the collection concern Josef's extended family as several siblings had immigrate...

  4. DPs in train station

    Man holding "Bryan" slate. Train. SG awards, spectators gathered. DPs with tags walk with luggage off train in line. Women, children, families. CUs, feet as they pass. One with guitar. MSs, CUs children boarding ship. Queue, checking tags with numbers. More shots, families getting off trains. Good views.

  5. Kresch family collection

    The Kresch family collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and identification documents related to the Kresch family of Poland. The collection consists of a wedding invitation for the wedding ceremony of Annie Kurtz and Herman Kresch, May 24, 1912; a Polish passport issued to Hyman Kresch in New York, 1921; a Certificate of Naturalization issued to Hyman Kresch, October 4, 1948; a letter written by Gitla Kersch Riss in Czortków, Poland to her brother Hyman Kresch in New York, dated February 1933; and a postcard written by Gitla Riss in Czortków to her brother Hyman Kresch, circa ...

  6. Georgette S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georgette S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She recalls her father's service in World War I; their strong Hungarian, rather than Jewish, identity; attending a private German school; escalation of anti-Jewish laws from 1939 until 1943; German invasion in spring 1944; ghettoization; avoiding a round-up of young women because her mother claimed her German school certificate exempted her (the soldiers could not read German); their escape from the ghetto in October with assistance from non-Jewish friends; hiding with her parents in a room of their former villa...

  7. Bernard Kutas collection

    Consists of mimeographed documents and resistance tracts issued between 1943-1944 by various groups involved in the resistance movement in France. Includes tracts distributed by "Francs-tireurs et partisans--main d'oeuvre immigrée" (FTP-MOI), "Le Mouvement National Contre le Racisme," "Radio France," "L'Humanite," "L'Avant Garde," "L'Union de la Jeunesse Juive," "Le Comité Central du Parti Communiste Francais," and other resistance groups. Also includes a document used to assist resistance groups in identifying facets of the German occupation forces.

  8. Taylor remarks on German High Command at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 488) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 7, 1946. Telford Taylor of the US prosecution makes opening remarks to the court. He states that he will show that the High Command Group of the German Army had a major part in the commission of war crimes and atrocities. CU, chart of the Wehrmacht from 1938-1945. 04:46:38-04:47:54 Taylor reads to the Tribunal directly from orders signed by Hitler which discuss the purported actions of allied "commandos": "From captured orders it is divulged that they [the commandos] are directed not only to shackle prisoners, but also to kill defen...

  9. Selected records from the Polish State Archives Tarnów Branch

    This collection contains investigative and court cases in Tarnów relating to the following two categories of offenses: 1) Against public order and instigation to disturbances of public peace (mainly anti-Jewish propaganda and actions); and 2) Cases involving Jewish plaintiffs, often having to do with complaints against members of the Jewish community organization, the Kahal in Tarnów.

  10. Louis Eiseman letter describing his personal impressions of Nazi concentration camps

    Consists of a copy of a letter written by Louis Eiseman to his younger sister in May 1945, relating Eiseman's general impressions of the sub-human conditions in the Nazi camps near the end of World War II. The letter describes children in the camps; starvation of prisoners; gassing and cremation of camp prisoners; the liquidation of Lidice, Czechoslovakia; and the torture and killing of American troops by the Germans.

  11. Two lbs. of sugar

    Historical fiction narrative describing the experiences of William Eisen (Wolf Ajzowicz) including the public humiliation of Polish Jews by Germans; death of family members; his internment in a ghetto and many concentration camps including Skarżysko-Kamienna, Rakow, the Miechow ghetto, Krakow-Płaszów, and Buchenwald; a death march; his reunion with his sister and a cousin; the displaced persons camps of Judenburg, Austria, and Landsberg am Lech, Germany; and his immigration to the United States. Note: this work of fiction contains some inaccuracies (i.e. gas chambers are said to have been ...

  12. Joan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joan B., who was born in Mainz, Germany. She describes the growth of antisemitism in Nazi Germany; Kristallnacht, which resulted in the deaths of her father and mother; and her experiences as a slave laborer in Theresienstadt, where her first husband and entire immediate family perished. She also describes Auschwitz; various slave labor camps in Germany; and Bergen-Belsen, from which she was liberated. Other topics include the ways in which she attempted to undermine the German war effort while in concentration and labor camps; her postwar life in Belsen, where she wo...

  13. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Nirim

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Nirim Memoirs/ experiences: 1. Lucia Almagor; 2. Gedaliahu Baruch; 3. Lili Golombovitz; 4. Salomon Garfinkel; 5. Rivka Hononov; 6. Dani Luz; 7. Elia Mandels; 6. Frida ("The mother of Ruthi Wolf"); 9. Sara Kaplun; 10. Zeev Ram; Interviews/ testimonies: 1. Ruchela Ahituv; 2. Shimon Alter; 3. Lucia Almagor; 4. Lili Golombovitz; 5. Arieh Genislav; 6. Reuven Domani; 7. Esther (Levi) Wolfson; 8. Miki Hermoni; 9. Dani Luz; 10. Rafael Levi; 11. Jean...

  14. Decision Board Trial: Fritz Kuhn

    Decision Board Trial - Fritz Kuhn, Munich, Germany, February 14, 1949. MSs, CUs, Fritz Kuhn sitting in courtroom, looking at papers, talking to counsel. CU, book "Under Cover" by John Roy Carlson. MS, Kuhn seated at table talking to court. CU, prosecutor. Cut-ins, people in courtroom. CU, German papers with headlines. CU, article showing Bundsfuehrer Fritz Kuhn in San Francisco. Reporters in courtroom taking notes. Periodicals showing pictures of Kuhn at Bund meetings in America. MS, witness for prosecution, Mr. Wiedemann, former Consul General in San Francisco. MS, witness Mr. Krott, Ribbe...

  15. Anysz family. Collection

    Picture of the Anysz family in Warsaw, Poland. Left to right : Joseph Anysz, unidentified grandparent, Isy (Isaac) Anysz, Jacob Anysz and his wife Sophia Lindner.

  16. Miklos Szalay papers

    Contains information about Miklos Szalay and the role he and his family played in hiding and protecting a downed Jewish-American airman and a Jewish escapee from a labor camp in Hungary during the Holocaust.

  17. Gejza S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gejza S., who was born in Dolný Kubín, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1909, the oldest of nine children. He recounts brief service in the Czech military; moving to Žilina after enactment of anti-Jewish laws, then to Bratislava; marriage in 1941; his son's birth in 1942; his father's death; his mother sending him, his family, and his siblings to Budapest to avoid deportation; separation from his wife while saving their son; posing as a Catholic after German invasion; traveling to Stupava after liberation; and remarriage. Mr. S. notes his faith was...

  18. Służba Specjalna Batalion Zastępczy w Lublinie Sonderdienst Ersatz-Bataillon Lublin (GK 689)

    Personal files of SS-Sturmbannführer Anton Binner along with his private correspondence. administrative files: correspondence, service assignments, promotions, lists of members of the SS Substitute Battalion of the Special Services in Lublin, orders, reports on business travel, and financial settlements. Includes a protocol on the dissolution of Sonderdienst E-Bataillon, February 22, 1941, and photographs of the 1th company.

  19. Waldapfel family papers

    The Waldapfel family papers include correspondence, immigration documents, and photographs documenting Irma Waldapfel, her children Valerie, Max, and Karoline, and their Waldapfel and Fischer relatives. Correspondence includes postcards sent from Czechoslovakia to Irma, Valerie, and Karoline during the interwar period and letters Irma and Karoline sent from Vienna to Valeria and Max in New York. Immigration documents consist of a Queen Mary passenger list and handwritten notes documenting Irma’s and Karoline’s itinerary from Vienna to Cherbourg to New York. Photographs depict Irma, Karoline...

  20. Munich streets; war memorial; Reichswehr

    “MUNICH” “LUDWIGSTRASSE.” People walk along Ludwigstrasse in Munich, some turn to look at the camera. “ODEONSPLATZ.” Funeral wreaths on the stairs of Feldherrnhalle. Nazi soldiers walk down the stairs on the left. Children, pigeons in the Odeonsplatz. “HOFGARTEN” Munich, Germany, white chairs and covered tables in the pavilion. “OKTOBERFEST” Procession of men on horseback, marching band. They are dressed in traditional costume. Spectators and children on the sides. Men in military uniform march. “WAR MEMORIAL” The World War I memorial in front of the Old Army Museum in Munich. Tomb covered ...