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  1. Green family photographs

    Contains five photographs of Green family members and friends in Celle, Germany.

  2. Green knapsack used by a Hungarian Jewish man in forced labor

    Large, two pocket rucksack used by Elek Brust while a forced laborer from 1941 and 1943-1944 in Hungary. He then used it while living in hiding with his family during the German occupation through February 1945. Elek was a manufacturer and prominent member of the Jewish community in Budapest where he lived with his wife Lilly and young daughter Eva. In 1941, Jewish males were required to do forced labor service and Elek was sent to a labor camp. Lilly obtained his release a few months later with black market papers. In 1943, Elek was again drafted, and not released until March 1944. On Marc...

  3. Green metal Werk Kratzau labor camp badge worn by an inmate

    Green painted identification pin impressed Werk Kratzau issued to Helen Waterford at Kratzau-Chrastava labor camp, a satellite camp of Gross Rosen concentration camp, where she was interned from October 1944 until May 1945.

  4. Green patch with a gray embroidered swastika within a diamond

    Green parch with a gray swastika to be worn by a Nazi party member or sympathizer.

  5. Green velvet monogrammed tallit pouch buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding

    Velvet tallit pouch buried for safekeeping with other religious items by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. A tallit is a prayer shawl worn by Jewish males for prayer services, It originally belonged to her husband, Bernhard, who died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. She brought it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and soon there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewish landlady who hid her in her attic. In Dece...

  6. Greenbaum family collection

    The collection consists of books, a poster, a pamphlet, documents, photographs, and letters documenting the experiences of Henry Greenbaum, his family, and his wife, Esther Stern, in Gąbin, Poland, Romania, and France, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  7. Greenfield family papers

    The collection contains 118 black-and-white photographs relating to the experiences of Joseph Greenfield, his wife, Rachel Bunis, and his son, David S. Greenfield, after liberation in several displaced persons camps in Austria, including Braunau am Inn, Ebelsberg, Ranshofen, Bindermichl, and Münichholz, from 1945 to 1949. Among the photographs in the collection there are scenes of Joseph Greenfield and his friends from the 331st and 222nd Infantry Division and the 42nd Tank Battalion of the United States Army working in Steyr, Austria, and vicinity after liberation; the wedding of Joseph a...

  8. Greenland freed of Nazis; Warsaw Ghetto after uprising

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 359, Parts 1 and 3. Release date, 12/27/1944. Part 1 (13:00:40-13:03:00): According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Greenland Freed of Nazis" Nazi weather and radio stations in Greenland are located and destroyed by the US Coast Guard who dynamites its way through the Arctic ice fields to reach the enemy. Sleek German trawlers are destroyed or captured, and the Nazis are driven from their North Atlantic observation points. Part 3 (13:04:00-13:05:39): "The War in Poland" Review of German occupation of Poland (mostly if not all Warsaw). Footage of Wars...

  9. Greet and Rob Coopman photograph collection

    The collection consists of 42 photographs documenting the Troostwyk and Coopman families and their experiences in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

  10. Gregg and Michelle Philipson Collection and Archive

    The collection consists of poster stamps and a letter relating to the United States and Poland before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  11. Gregg G. Kantak photographs

    The collection consists of 13 prints from original negatives taken after the liberation of Dachau concentration camp by the United States Army.

  12. Gregor and Otto Strasser: A footnote to the history of Nazi Germany

    Relates to the early lives of the brothers Gregor and Otto Strasser, their early prominence in the Nationalsozialistische deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, the development of differences between them and Adolf Hitler, the assassination of Gregor Strasser in 1934, and the anti-Nazi activities and later life of Otto Strasser.

  13. Gregor S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cantor Gregor S., who was raised in Liepa?ja, Latvia. This testimony includes much of the information in an earlier interview (HVT-104). Additional topics discussed include learning of mass murders in the Bikernieki Forest; resistance activities; feelings of being a "non-person" for years after the war; and his postwar marriage to an American. Cantor S. recites a Yiddish poem he wrote about meeting his wife.

  14. Gregor S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gregor S., the only survivor of a family of twenty-two, who grew up in Libau, Latvia. He speaks of his prewar life in a close-knit Hasidic family; his childhood education; his musical education in Vienna and his career as an opera singer (he is now a cantor.) He tells of his return from Switzerland to Latvia, shortly before the Russian occupation, where he was employed by the state opera; the rapidly worsening situation for the Jews following the German occupation; and the willing collaboration of the Latvians. He relates his internment in the large ghetto and, upon i...

  15. Gregorii Frid collection

    Contains a newspaper clipping, a concert program, and an advertisement poster for the mono-opera "Anna Frank's Diary," written by Gregorii Freed and conducted by Leonid A. Shulman. Gregory Frid composed the mono-opera "Anna Frank's Diary" in 1969. It was scheduled to premiere in the Grand Hall of Moscow in 1971; however, antisemitic attitudes in the Soviet Union a the time brought about the cancellation of the opening. Leonid A. Shulman, conductor, succeeded in premiering the mono-opera in May 1977 in Kisolovdsk.

  16. Gregory B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gregory B., who was born in Rovno, Poland (presently Rivne, Ukraine) in 1930, an identical twin. He recounts his family's move to Radziwiłłów (presently Radyvyliv) in 1933; having a governess; attending Hebrew school; Soviet occupation; his father's arrest in April 1940 (they never saw him again); deportation three days later with his mother, twin brother, older sister, and paternal grandparents to a small village in Siberia; his grandparents and sister returning to Poland prior to the German invasion of the Soviet Union (they did not survive); his mother's vain atte...

  17. Gregory F. Holocaust testimony

    Video testimony of Gregory F., a non-Jew, who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1941. He relates experiences as a "displaced person" in his own country when he and his family were relocated by the Germans from Vienna to a small Austrian town.

  18. Gregory Frydman collection

    The collection consists of various certificates and official documents regarding Grzegorz Frydman, originally of Warsaw, Poland, his life in Leninabad, Tajikistan, during the war, and his wife, Gusta Wincygster Frydman's emigration to the United States. Includes an Allied travel permit, immigration documentation, and a translation from Polish to English, of his law degree.

  19. Gregory K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gregory K., who was born in Pleshchenit︠s︡y, Belarus in 1912. He describes becoming a blacksmith; antisemitic violence; moving to Minsk; enlistment in the Soviet Army; discharge three years later; working in Leningrad; returning to Minsk; marriage in 1938; his daughter's birth in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; being beaten by a German officer; forced labor; becoming temporarily deaf from a beating; an order for all men to gather; separation of the Jews; their imprisonment and release; ghettoization; deportation to Lublin, then Budzyń; beatings by guards and kapo...

  20. Greissman and Aronsfrau families collection

    Correspondence; from relatives in Berlin, dated September 1933, in Yiddish; from Anna Greissman Aronsfrau, sister of donor’s grandmother; dated December 12, 1940, from London, UK, in English; letter from Sophie Kanarek Aronsfrau from Lisbon explaining whose names should appear on an affidavit, dated January 22, 1941; and a telegram sent by Sophie Kanarek Aronsfrau from Lisbon on March 15, 1941 asking about the status of the affidavit. Also includes the front cover of a prayer book; inside, Mary Greissman wrote the names of her children, their dates of birth and Bar Mitzvah.