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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Romanian photograph collection

    Photographs include Jewish hostages shot in the Soborului Vechi park/garden in Balti, Romania; a Zeppelin; a non-Jewish burial, and an unidentified building in Romania, undated.

  2. Eugene and Elizabeth Franklin collection

    Photographs, documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Eugen Friedmann (donor), born in Kravany, Czechoslovakia in 1921. Documents his family's pre-war life in Kravany, his forced labor in Slovakia, and eventual deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, and Muhldorf concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Includes a postwar identity card illustrating the experiences of Alzbeta Weiss (donor), born in Chust, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine] in 1929; card for the United Kingdom issued to Alzbeta, who survived multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz and Berge...

  3. Yehudit Charasz Berkowitz photograph collection

    Collection of nine photographs documenting the donor's stay in "Kibbutz Buchenwald," a Zionist collective started by a group of survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In July 1945 the kibbutz was moved to Geringshof, the site of the pre-war Jewish agricultural school.

  4. Buxbaum family papers

    The collection documents the pre-war lives of Max and Anna Buxbaum and their daughter Inge (later Inge Rosenbaum) in Essen, Germany, and their immigration to the United States in 1939 on board the SS Manhattan. Included are biographical materials such as birth certificates, vaccination certificates, passports, marriage certificates, naturalization certificates, and Max’s German Army book (Militärpak). Also included are a postcard and list of passengers from the SS Manhattan. Photographs include engagement and wedding photographs of Max and Anna, Anna’s mother Rosa Lazarus, Inge, and a photo...

  5. Larry Shalit (Schalyt-Tykotzki) family collection

    The collection contains correspondence, immigration papers, residence permits, identification papers and other related documentation regarding the immigration of Alexander and Sima Shalit, and their son Larry, from Berlin, Germany to the United States in 1934. Also included is earlier documentation from Russia (their country of origin), photographs, and correspondence and immigration documents from other relatives in Europe. Additionally, there is correspondence between Larry Shalit and his parents while he served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II. The collection also includes a ...

  6. Investigatory Commission on Anti-Argentine Activities Comisión Especial Investigadora de Actividades Antiargentinas

    The collection contains the records of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Anti-Argentine Activities (Chamber of Deputies), prior to and during World War II; and sessions of the Argentine Senate of the Nation. Features reports, testimonies, financial records, publications, pamphlets, and photographs relating to National-Socialist activities on the territory of Argentina, including by the German secret services, local German-Argentine organizations, German-Argentine schools, and the German embassy, among others.

  7. Basic training, German soldiers in Ukraine

    Basic training in tank reconnaissance, motorcycle riding, German soldiers. Jassy 1944 (Southern Ukraine). Bazooka. Tank mine. German-Romanian. Gen. Radulesci. Dead civilians. Stanca 1944. Panzer IV, counterattack. 01:29:50 - 01:42:00 Same as M 2574 (http://www.archiv-akh.de/filme/2574#1).

  8. German soldiers advance; Jewish forced labor

    Map showing Minsk, Libau, Riga. The narrator announces that we are about to see the entry of the German army into Riga. German tanks and other vehicles driving through the streets of Riga. Destruction, destroyed Soviet vehicles, dead horses on the road. Good shot of terribly damaged and destroyed buildings and civilians walking in the streets. The narrator blames the destruction on the Soviets. Huge piles of rubble long shots of Jews at forced labor, removing rubble. Brief shot of someone drawing the scene on a sketchpad. Closer view of Jews at forced labor, including an older man wearing g...

  9. Esther Malin collection

    Contains four pieces of ghetto scrip, four photographs from the Łódź Ghetto, and one newspaper clipping.

  10. German wounded

    "The victory is achieved" announces the narrator, as a wounded German soldier is loaded onto a truck to receive medical care. He is given a cigarette to smoke and a pat on the head as he lies on the table, waiting for treatment. More wounded on stretchers transported from ambulances in the field to trains that will take them home. They smile out of the train window and sit up in their beds inside the train. Heroic music plays.

  11. Egg crate used as a suitcase by family living in hiding

    Egg crate used as a trunk by the family of 2-year-old Uriel Cohn to move their belongings from one hiding place to the next in the Netherlands. Eggs were brought to auction in these wooden egg boxes packed in a bed of hay to avoid breakage. On July 15, 1942, the family received a summons from the German occupying authorities for deportation to a labor camp. They decided to go into hiding instead. Uriel’s 6-year old brother, Michael, was placed alone with one family and Uriel was hidden by Everdina and Marinus van der Beek. The van der Beek’s soon offered refuge to both his parents and they ...

  12. Reichssportfeld exhibition; Water tank; Cement factory in 1937

    Professors give tours of facilities in Austra in November 1937 - "A School Chronicle" filmed by Walter Nitsche. Title card: “100 Meter Schulchronik | Ein Filmchen von Walter Nitsche" "Besichtigung der Reichssportfeld-Ausstellung 1937 in der Wiener Sezession Führung: Prof. Prantl Pro. Strache.” The Secession Building in Vienna, draped with an enormous Nazi flag. CU on the swastika. A group of men exit the building down the front steps. Title card: “Besichtigung des Wasserbehälters im Lainzer Tiergarten Nov. 1937 Führung: Prof. Hubel.” Wooden building. A group of men in suits. Pan of a work y...

  13. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  14. Ruth Kupperschlag papers

    The Ruth Kupperschlag papers consist of documents and photographs relating to Ruth and Marion Kupperschlag’s experience on a Kindertransport and life in the Netherlands and their parents Josef and Anna’s deportation to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. The collection includes letters sent to Anna’s cousin, Idel Woog, from Josef and Anna Kupperschlag, including letters sent from Theresienstadt shortly before their deportation to Auschwitz, as well as letters from Ruth to her Aunt and Uncle, prewar family photographs, typed narratives about Ruth’s experience, documentation of Josef’s military ser...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- American soldiers in Le Mans, France

    American troops in Le Mans, France. They congregate in the streets of the town and drink at outdoor cafes. Nice street scenes with troops and French civilians interacting happily. A group of several African American soldiers talk to a French colonial troop; they shake his hand and offer him a cigarette, which he accepts. American nurses look at dresses in a store window. Exteriors and interiors of shops. The exterior and interior of the Bar Americain, where a smiling woman pours drinks for American soldiers. Young French women exiting the palace of justice. Americans and French people shopp...

  16. Basia Garfinkel Lemel photographs

    Eight original vintage photographs documenting Basia Garfinkel, Sala and Heniek Garfinkel, and Gitl Beitner before the war in Będzin and after the war in Sosnowiec and Piotrolesie, Poland.

  17. Robert Sejwacz Collection

    Contains one postcard with a photograph of the donor, Robert Sejwacz, and his mother Freida Sejwacz. The photograph was taken in Paris to send to Robert's father Walek, who was in the French army awaiting combat. Another copy of the photograph was sent to Walek, and had an inscription on the back.

  18. War Bond Parade; Nazi Sub Spy Trial

    04:12:02 War Bond Parade, Atlantic City, NJ, April 18, 1943. 04:19:36 Nazi Sub Spy Trial in Washington: VS, prison van and armed soldiers enter court building. Panel of unidentified Army officers conduct trial of Nazi spies. CU, spies in the courtroom. Atty Gen Francis Biddle and an Army officer show pieces of evidence to the spies. (see Story 3631, Film ID 2532 for duplicate footage)

  19. Displaced persons; VE Day in Czechoslovakia

    02:01:20 (B-1236) Displaced Persons, near Haganow, Germany, May 10, 1945. CU, woman cuts man's hair. SEQ: Men, women, and children of camp engaged in activities such as sewing, resting, and playing. These are probably Roma. SEQ: Flag-raising ceremony at the camp in which fourteen different nationalities participated. CUs, DPs parading wth flags of each nation. 02:04:35 (LIB 6555 or LIB 6565?) V-E Day, Susice, Czechoslovakia, May 8, 1945. CU, US officer of the 4th Armored Div, Third US Army, reads Gen Eisenhower's decree on German capitulation to the troops. MSs, loudspeaker set in window of...

  20. Star of David badge with the Dutch word Jood for Jew

    The badge belonged to an unidentified Jewish boy in the Netherlands who survived the Holocaust by hiding in a convent. After World War II, he became a Catholic priest.