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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Arrival of SS Brazil in Uruguay, 1938

    "Brazil" sign on SS Brazil boat (tendered by the US Maritime Commission to North and South American diplomats, bankers, and businessmen to initiate the "Good Will Service" to South America). LS, MS, view of Montevideo, Uruguay from boat. Shots of harbor, steamship, boats, people. 02:01:49 Flags on building. 02:02:13 Officials on patio at government house, including Admiral Emory S. Land, Ambassador Breckinridge Long, Alberto Guani (Minister of Foreign Affairs), Don Fermin Carlos de Yereugi, and Leslie Reed (US Charges d'Affaires). Suited men talking. In garden at the President's residence: ...

  2. Piano tribute to the victims of the Holocaust

    Contains a piano composition written by Matt Wilder, an eighth grade student at Yorktown Middle School, Yorktown, Indiana, in remembrance to the victims of the Holocaust.

  3. William F. Angen collection

    Collection contains eleven slides of Dachau presumably taken in 1945; a one page memoir describing William F. Angen's experiences of liberating Dachau; and a photocopy of a permanent pass to Dachau concentration camp issued to William F. Angen.

  4. Bertha Taenzer collection

    Contains 249 letters written by Bertha Taenzer to her children, Erwin and Ilse, from 1937 to 1943. Bertha Taenzer (b. 1876, Merchingen, Baden, Germany) died in Theresienstadt concentration camp on September 25, 1943.

  5. "Six Million? How could it be done?"

    Contains a memoir describing the donor's Holocaust related experiences. The memoir also contains copies of original art completed by the donor.

  6. John Leh II collection

    Collection contains a letter written by the donor to his parents in May 1945 describing his experiences in the 82nd Airborne Division and his visit to Wobbelin concentration camp. These excerpts are not the originals but copies which were used in a publication.

  7. Alfred Nowack collection

    Collection contains Alfred Nowack's emigration ticket, sailing from Lisbon to the United States (undated); "Kinderausweis" with a red "J" stamped in the upper left hand corner, issued 15 March 1939; and "Affidavit in Lieu of Passport" issued by the Counsulate of the USA in Marseille to allow Mr. Nowack to travel to the United States, 7 August 1941.

  8. The competing interests reflected in the design of Holocaust Memorials: an examination of three Holocaust memorials - Auschwitz-Birkenau; the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and "Le Memorial des Martyrs de la Deportation."

    Collection analyzes three different Holocaust memorials as case studies, and how the architecture reflects the experiences of Holocaust victims.

  9. Records relating to the international settlement in Shanghai, China

    Documentation of German foreign office response to Japanese reception of Jewish refugees in Shanghai. Collection also includes documents on the embargo on weapons for the republicans during the Spanish Civil War and the policies of various countries toward Jewish refugees. The latter contains significant material on George Rublee, the Evian Conference, and its aftermath.

  10. Reflections on some pertinent aspects of the Holocaust

    Contains a description by William Pace (formerly known as Wolf Peisachowitsch) of the role of Jewish councils and police in the ghetto life of Jews during the Holocaust and his own experiences in the Schavel, Lithuania ghetto. Also included are photocopies of a portrait of a man and of letters written to Dr. Pace in 1980 by the Medical Society of the State of New York regarding a service citation and in 1983 by the New York County Medical Society regarding membership.

  11. Everett Goldstein collection

    The Everett Goldstein collection consists of a 35 page typescript report entitled "Program of general measures of Relief and Rescue of Jews threatened with extermination by the enemy," made by the World Jewish Congress and submitted to the War Refugee Board in 1944 regarding measures and policies that should be enacted in order to help with Jewish refugees and victims of Nazi persecution. Also includes the program to a radio show made in May 9, 1943, entitled "The Truth About Refugees," on which Everett Goldstein was one of the panelists.

  12. Hy Barsky collection

    Three items: Photocopy of article titled "Undici mesi," by Valentina Supino, which recorded her childhood memories of the period between the fall of Mussolini and the liberation of Italy in Tuscany, and which appeared in the journal "Il Ponte" in March 1991; photocopied typescript memoir about a childhood in hiding in Italy during the war, with the name "Kitty Braun" written at top; and a typescript titled "L'Anzulon," by Jenny Bonani Liscia, written in spring 1993, recounting events she experienced following the German invasion of Italy in 1943.

  13. Records relating to twins in Auschwitz

    Collection contains photocopied lists of names and certificates of twins who were used in Josef Mengele's medical experiements in 1944 at Auschwitz II.

  14. Thessaloniki Jewish Community records

    The collection contains registration records for over 43,000 Salonika Jews completed prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. The cards contain personal information as well as itemized lists of real and material property subsequently aryanized by occupying forces and Greek collaborators.

  15. "Die Letzten Mitglieder der Juedischen Kultusgemeinde Dauborn"

    Consists of a research paper entitled "Die Letzten Mitglieder der Juedischen Kultusgemeinde Dauborn," written by Gerhard Heckelmann in 1995. The paper includes information on the history of the town of Dauborn,Germany, the names and histories of the Jewish families in the community, and what happened to them in the Holocaust. Also includes information about families in the towns of Kirberg, Heringen, and Mensfelden.

  16. Fred Steven collection

    Collection contains both original correspondence and photostat copies of correspondence between numerous individuals affiliated with the NSDAP.

  17. Regina and Siegfried Keil papers, 1942-1947

    The Regina and Siegfried Keil papers include birth certificates for Regina and Siegfried Keil, one photograph of Regina and Siegfried Keil, one photograph of a family reunion, and one commendation for Regina Keil from the maternity ward of the Jewish hospital of Berlin.

  18. Undzer lid = Our song

    Collection contains an original typescript of Yiddish music lyrics with annotations made by Kaczerginski (1908-1954). It was discovered folded in a book regarding Kaczerginski. The collection also contains the translation which was used in the booklet to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum compact disk, "Rise up and fight! Songs of Jewish partisans."

  19. Aron Tsakh collection

    Collection contains photocopies of a memoir and certificates, in Russian, and of a letter, dated April 22, 1997, in English, from the donor "To Mister Ambassador of Federal Republic of Germany," asking for help in locating a German officer who helped him escape from the Nazis.

  20. Liza Kotler Katz papers

    Contains identification cards, affidavits, personal narratives, and correspondence relating to Liza Kotler Katz (born in 1908), her husband, Yudel Kotler, their son, Szmerek (Stanley) Kotler, and their lives in Wilno, Poland, and ghettos and concentration camps during World War II. The bulk of the materials contain information about Liza Kotler Katz's claims for restitution against the Bayerische Landesentschaedigungsamt for the death of her husband.