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  2. Bar of soap issued in a concentration camp

    Bar of soap issued in a German concentration camp. Irving Klapper survived Bergen Belsen and acquired the soap after the war.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hungarian troops, 1938-1939; Horthy; St. Stephen's day

    March 1939: Hungarian troops occupying Ruthenia (scenes taken from a lavender positive from the library of "Magyar Film Iroda," Hungary's official news agency). Tanks, military, soldiers and bicycles in snow. CU, Admiral Horthy reviewing troops. Troops on Ruthenian roads. Poland's General Wieczorkiewicz greeting Hungary's General Szombathelyi as Hungarian troops reach Polish border after occupying Ruthenia. 04:43:37 Weiss Manfred factories near Budapest (these factories produce everything from planes, bicycles, preserved food, to trucks, ammunition, tires, etc. This was a Jewish-owned compa...

  4. Singer style Soviet treadle sewing machine and table of the type used in Kovno ghetto

    Treadle sewing machine produced in the Singer factory in Podolsk, Soviet Union (Podol’sk, Russia), which was nationalized following the Bolshevik October Revolution in 1917. The machine is mounted to a wooden table, which served as both work surface and storage container for the machine and sewing accessories. This mass produced machine was very durable and affordable. This specific machine was in use in Lithuania until the late 1990s. This type of machine would have been used by Jewish forced laborers in the Kovno (Kaunas) Ghetto in German occupied Lithuania. There were about forty worksho...

  5. Alfred Traum papers

    The Alfred Traum papers consist of identification papers, a report card, family correspondence from Elias and Gita Traum in Vienna to their children in London, family photographs from Vienna, England, and Palestine, and a brief personal narrative documenting the Traum family from Vienna, and the family’s separation when Alfred and his sister, Ruth, were sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 and their parents were killed three years later in the Holocaust. Alfred’s personal narrative describes his memories of leaving his parents, staying with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Griggs of London thro...

  6. Holocaust survivor testimonies Relacje ocalalych z Holocaustu (Sygn. 301)

    Contains approximately 7,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies. Testimonies describe the destruction of an entire Jewish community during World War II. From the autumn of 1944 to the summer of 1947, Centralna Żydowska Komisja Historyczna (Central Jewish Historical Commission) developed a questionnaire and trained interviewers to record the testimonies. Survivors came forward from bunkers in the forests, from partisan units, and from newly liberated concentration and labor camps wishing to relate to the Commission's field workers what they or their families had endured during the occupation. In...

  7. Ivano-Frankivsk State Oblast Archives records

    Contains correspondence, financial records, questionnaires, applications, list of residents, House Registry Book, census documents, inventories of confiscated Jewish property, autobiographies, list of people confined in ghettos, Ukrainian police lists and reports, and other documents pertaining to Holocaust-related issues in the district of Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine (Stanisławów, Poland). Records include documents of the Kolomyia District Chief, Snyatin City Administration, Zaluche District Administration, Stetseva District Administration, and Ivano-Frankivsʹk City Administration.

  8. Commissariat général aux questions juives (AJ 38)

    This collection contains records relating to the operations of the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ), established by the Vichy government of France in March 1941. The CGQJ was responsible for defining Jewish status; inventorying Jews and their possessions prior to property Aryanization; excluding Jews from the French economy; implementing anti-Jewish laws and regulations; and arresting, interning, and deporting foreign and French Jews. Included are a variety of documents relating to the CGQJ’s operations during the German occupation, as well as records form the Ministre des F...

  9. Oral history interview with Eva Grin

  10. Oral history interview with Bernard Helitzer

  11. Oral history interview with Marie Rosenberg

  12. Oral history interview with Jeanne Rothschild

  13. Oral history interview with Judith Swimmer

  14. Oral history interview with John Weidner

  15. Oral history interview with Paula Ruthling

  16. Oral history interview with Marianne Schwarz

  17. Oral history interview with Charles Rotmil

  18. "The story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob"

  19. Oral history interview with Adele Strummer

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Arrival of Romanian Jewish refugees in Palestine

    Arrival of 600 Romanian Jewish refugees (liberated by Russians) near Haifa [coming from concentration camp in Trans-Dniestrie]. LS ship docked. 05:21:27 MS refugees wave handkerchiefs. Authorities go aboard. LS ship with soldiers carryng arms; ambulances in FG. Unloading baggage with Commandant Morgan, Sea Transport Naval Officer, in FG. 05:22:35 Refugees exit ship down gangplank; elderly, mothers with children. 05:25:08 Filled baggage wagon passes in front of ship. Young refugees dance the "Hora" on the bridge of the ship. Refugees pass crowded train and board another. Arrival of train in ...