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  1. Grace Miller photographs

    The images are of U.S. troops with the 415th Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry Division supervising German civilians who were forced to clear corpses from the ruins of the "Boelke Kaserne" at Nordhausen concentration camp.

  2. Nazi Party rally at Nuremberg

    The 1937 Reichsparteitag (Reich Party Day) at Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg. Grand views of the decorated stadium with thousands of participants and spectators. Flags. Adolf Hitler greets the crowd from an open car. BDM girls in the stands, many heiling with hands outstretched. Nazis march past Hitler. Military review of airplanes and tanks.

  3. Ruth Templehof Szorecki manuscript

    Untitled World War II and post-war memoir of Ruth Templehof Szorecki, born in Łódź, Poland. The memoir tells the story of the family from 1939 to 1962. The Szorecki family worked in the Warsaw ghetto, escaping selections by hiding, until the family managed to escape to the non-Jewish sector of Warsaw, Poland, in 1942. They posed as non-Jews for the remainder of the war and in 1949 emigrated to the United States.

  4. Ohrdruf liberation photograph

    Photograph taken at Ohrdruf concentration camp in 1945. Photograph shows four men with arms raised surrounded by United States Army soldiers. In the foreground is a pile of charred wood and what appears to be skulls. One camp inmate is shown talking to the soldiers on the left-hand side of the photograph. In script on the back of the photograph: "Ordroff [sic] Concentration Camp 30 min. after capture."

  5. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Consists of 20 photographs taken after the liberation of Nordhausen concentration camp.

  6. American Zionist Fundraising photographs

    Photographs show American fundraising events for Jewish causes, such as the National Emergency Campaign for the Settlement of German Jewish Refugees in Palestine, and the National Palestine Appeal Conference. Most of the photographs are posed publicity photographs and show the most prominent Jews of the day in the United States.

  7. Mark Mordechai Koller family collection

    Collection consists of one album of photographs depicting the life of Mark Mordechai Koller and his family from 1931-1981. The collection also includes one report card, from Czernovitz (1945/1946) and one "Certificat de Calatorie", which is a group one-way passport from Romania to Israel (1949).

  8. Ilse Garfunkel collection

    Consists of ten letters and three postcards written by Charlotte (Lotte) Berndt Wolff to her daughter, Ilse Wolff, between 1940-1944. Charlotte and her husband, Herman, emigrated to Shanghai in 1939, while Ilse was sent on a Kindertransport to Belgium and spent the war in various children's homes. Herman Wolff passed away in September 1940, and the collection also includes a copy of Charlotte's death certificate, listing that she passed away from typhus in August 1945 in Shanghai.

  9. Tetyana Kotlyarska papers

    The papers consist of eight photographs of Tetyana Kotlyarska and her family in the Soviet Union and Germany before, during, and after World War II and one school notebook used by Tetyana Kotlyarska at the Teacher's Pedagogical Institute in Bukhara (Bukhoro), Uzbekistan.

  10. Nazi funeral photographs

    The collection contains photographs of an unknown Nazi officer or official's funeral. Photographs show the parade of mourners as well as photographs of the funeral itself.

  11. Nordhausen and Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Six photographs are taken of the situation at Buchenwald and Nordhausen camps upon liberation--photographs of barracks, of lines of corpses, of piles of bone, and of an inmate showing his tattoo. Two of the photographs have the words "Buchenwald Concentration Camp--not for publication" and "Nordhausen" written on them. One photograph is of what appears to be Jewish-American soldiers being led in prayer with Nazi flags flanking them. On the back of this photograph is written "Germany."

  12. Bloeme Evers-Emden photograph

    The photograph depicts a 15 to 16-year-old Bloeme Evers-Emden with her hair pinned back and wearing glasses; on her chest is pinned a yellow star.

  13. Helen Saidner Spitzberg photograph

    One photograph of four women, dressed to go out and wearing hats. The photograph is a family photograph, taken during the war in the Sosnowiec ghetto.

  14. Volary hospital photograph

    Contains one photograph showing eleven young adults, including Miriam Lieberman. The picture is described as the hospital in Volary, May 1945.

  15. Jewish affairs in Milan

    Contains a variety of documents on the Jews of Milan, including residence permits, the 1938 census of Jews, questionnaires for determination of “race,” and applications for exemption from the “race law” of 1938.

  16. Confiscation of Jewish property in Milan

    Contains a variety of official forms related to the confiscation and liquidation of property belonging to Milan’s Jews.

  17. The World Jewish Congress New York office records. Series A (Central Files)

    The Central Files (1919-1971) contain the history of the World Jewish Congress (especially prior to 1940); correspondence and other materials of important World Jewish Congress leaders (Stephen S. Wise, Nahum Goldman, Israel Goldstein and Administrative/Executive directors of the New York office: Abraham S. Hyman, Monty Jacobs, Yehuda Ebstein, Greta Beigel); and minutes and other records of plenary assemblies, conferences, and committee meetings. The Executive Committee files include material from the South American, European, and Israeli Branches of the Executive. Significant subjects cove...

  18. Sightseeing in Paris; German officers

    Unsteady, shot from moving vehicle across streets, monument. Montmarte district in Paris. Camera steadies at 01:01:40. People exiting buildings. Germans in uniform on the street then across and to the top of the La Basilique du Sacre Coeur. Pan across street, encompassing bars (including one at 01:02:26 seen later in Story 4411), restaurants, shops. Civilians on the street; German officer (SS?) watching the scene turns and walks toward the camera, smiling, acknowledging the camera. Quality deteriorates at 01:02:55: darker and grainy, showing Germans walking on the street against French civi...

  19. Kaufbeuren Institution

    "Agfa 1941" leader. The film shows the various types of work performed by the patients. A man butchers a large animal (a cow or pig?) hanging from a hook and grinds up the meat in a grinder. Both women and men are shown doing ironing and sewing. Women in a kitchen prepare a meal for a large number of people - it's an institutional kitchen with large vats for cooking. Other activities include: bread baking, weaving, furniture upholstering, shoemaking, woodworking, laundry, bookbinding, A brief shot of what appears to be a nurse and a doctor shepherd a couple of patients out of a room where a...

  20. Paul Touvier trial transcripts

    Contains the 1994 French trial transcripts for the proceedings against Paul Touvier, convicted of crimes against humanity.