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  1. Jewish district in Krakow

    Kazimierz, the predominantly Jewish area of Krakow, filmed by Julien Bryan. Men inside arched shop entrance. Various shots and CUs of people, with many Orthodox men on street, walking, talking, avoiding camera. Mixture of other people mingling and on the move. Market stall selling poultry in the main square in Kazimierz, synagogue in background. Market stalls and vendors. Street scenes, balloons, shops. Funeral procession for Marja Steinberger. Market scenes. Archway in alley. Various CUs Yeshiva boys, ECUs, smiles and laughter, talking to each other.

  2. "Life Story of a Holocaust Survivor from Shaulen, Lithuania who Lived his Life to Help Others"

    Consists of one memoir, 16 pages, titled "Life Story of a Holocaust Survivor from Shaulen, Lithuania who Lived his Life to Help Others," by Harry Demby, originally of Shaulen (Schaulen; Šiaulai), Lithuania. In the memoir, Mr. Demby describes his life in the Kaukaz (Kaukazas) and Traku St. (Trakai) sections of the ghetto in Šiaulai, his deportation to Stutthof in 1944, his liberation from Dachau, his displaced persons experiences and his post-war life. The memoir includes copies of photographs.

  3. Abstract bronze statue of a concentration camp inmate made by a Czech Jewish survivor

    Small bronze statue cast from the figurine made by Vera Meisels from a bar of washing soap shortly after her liberation from Theresienstadt concentration camp in early May 1945. This figurine was cast in 2002 because the original was drying out and losing its original shape. The work is based upon Vera's memories of the concentration camp inmates called Musselmann, prisoners near death due to exhaustion, illness, starvation, or hopelessness. In August 1944, eight year old Vera, her parents, Cecilia and Zoltan, and her 12 year old sister, Aliska, fled Ruzomberok, Czechoslovakia, after the Sl...

  4. Polish YMCA: classroom, orchestra, swim team

    Women exit a building. CU sign "Polska YMCA". People file through a hallway looking at posters, checking their coats. Boys stand in front of a doorway. Doors open to reveal a classroom of teenagers learning the English language. Man conducts an orchestra. CUs, the listening audience. Coach instructs swim team how to dive properly. Boys swim and play around, file into a locker room.

  5. Deportation of Polish Jews

    Poor houses, exteriors. Interiors: Close views of jumbled belongings, straw, household objects, bedding, stove. 00:53:20 Close views of individuals in Poland - buildings in BG suggesting large town. Deportation. German trucks. Carts. Jewish people moving in lines, wearing light armbands (issued in General Government - eastern Poland), with sacks and bread. Uniformed Germans threaten individual Jews, including an elderly woman with a whip. Extensive views of deportation actions in towns in Poland; many different shots. 00:57:58 Jews sitting on ground, suitcase of currency; German seems to be...

  6. Torczyner collection

    Contains documents about the activities of the Maccabi Aid Committee and the Maccabi World Union. The activities involved the 1939 organization of illegal transports of Jewish refugees travelling by boat on the Danube River from Vienna, Austria, across Hungary and Yugoslavia, to Palestine. Another activity was to find a place in Bolivia to settle hundreds of Jewish refugees. Includes an atlas of Bolivia. Also includes corresdondence between various members of the family living as refugees in Palestine, Shanghai, China, and Havana, Cuba. The Palestine branch of the Torczyner family are survi...

  7. Sales family papers

    Contains photographs, letters, and legal documents pertaining to the Sales family and the family's Hebrew bookstore in Berlin, Germany.

  8. Train in German village

    Train, bucolic village.

  9. The legacy of Martin Luther in Germany

    In Wittenberg, MS, church where Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses. Inserted title: "To the political leader, the religious doctrines of his people must be inviolable!" -Hitler in "Mein Kampf". Subsequent title: "Nazis praise, dead 400 years - but in 1938 Germany's new Luther, Martin Niemoeller, is in prison." In Eisenach, EXT, "Luther-Haus / Lutherkellar." Women on street in front of building. MS, ornate lightpost, CU, Luther tablet engraving on side of building. 01:00:34 MS, HJ boys marching in line in front of church, piles of dirt/rubble in FG. CU, inscription/art above church door. Man...

  10. Oral history interview with Gertrude Gottfried

  11. Pupils at Goldschmidt School

    Classroom shots of the Goldschmidt school in Berlin, which was created when Jews were no longer allowed to enroll in public schools. Interiors with students at desks writing and a female teacher. The pupils include Stella Goldschlag, who passed as Aryan during the war and reportedly betrayed Jews in hiding, and Trudi Goldschmidt (01:05:16 the blond girl with braids in profile view), the daughter of the school's founder, Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt. Outside the school during recess, students play and move around the yard before returning to the classroom. Good CUs of teenage boys and girls as th...

  12. Herbert T. Singer correspondence

    Contains information about Herbert T. Singer's attempts to sponsor his wife's cousin, Bluma Babushkin from Liepaja, Latvia, to the United States.

  13. Rosenberg, Ross, and Singer family papers

    Contains photographs and documents pertaining to the family's experiences in Germany, France, and England during the Holocaust.

  14. Liesel and Harry Rosenberg correspondence

    Consists of correspondence between Liesel and Harry Rosenberg. Harry Rosenberg is referred to as "Bobby" in the correspondence.

  15. Simon Adelman photographs

    Contains photographs taken inside the Warsaw ghetto by a German soldier in 1942. The photographs were given to Simon Adelman by a German soldier when they were both students at the University of Gottingen in 1954.

  16. Marian Neuhaus Nachman family letters

    Contains correspondence with information about family attempts to obtain affidavits and come to the United States.

  17. Der Najer Moment

    Contains copies of the Yiddish-language Displaced Persons camp newspaper "Der Najer Moment."

  18. Written testimonies of St. Louis survivors

    Contains written testimonies of St. Louis survivors compiled by Terry Healy's Woodrow Wilson elementary students in Manhattan, Kansas.

  19. Hans Wiener papers

    Contains documents and newspaper articles pertaining to Hans Wiener's acitivites in Bolivia as founder and President of the Jewish sport club Macabi in Oruro (Bolivia).

  20. Schifferes family papers

    The Schifferes family papers consist of correspondence, emigration and immigration records, and subject files documenting the lives of Bertha, Liese, and Stephan Schifferes in Austria, Germany, England, and the United States and property belonging to Stephan Schifferes’ relatives, the Siebenschein family, in Vienna. Bertha Schifferes materials consist of correspondence with relatives, friends, and her son’s family; employment records; and identification papers documenting her departure from Vienna, stay in England, and immigration to the United States. Liese Schifferes materials consist of ...