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  1. Jewish Community in Bydgoszcz Synagogen-Gemeine Bromberg Gmina Żydowska w Bydgoszczy (Sygn. 104)

    This collection contains protocols and reports on the meetings of the Commune Management and Council of Representatives, documents regarding elections to the Council of Representatives, donations and foundations for the benefit of the commune. In addition, also included are financial documents such as tax books, revenue and expense ledgers, payment orders for specific persons and correspondence on financial matters. Files 27-30 contains correspondence of the commune on various matters. The last part of the collection consists of documents regarding investment plans and technical works in th...

  2. Major Howard Slade papers

    Contains photographs, newspaper clippings, copies of "Rainbow Reville" and the "Rainbow Division World News" concerning the liberation of Dachau, scrapbook pages, and a portrait of Major Howard Slade, all related to his military service in the 42nd Infantry "Rainbow" Division prior to and during WWII.

  3. Neusustrum camp in the region of Emsland

    Neusustrum was a detention camp for homosexuals and other political prisoners. Filmed by Willhelm Niemann, teacher and member of the SA. Country fields and barn-like structures in Germany. Three children sit in front of a house with a sloped roof. A young boy swings around a horizontal bar set up in the trees. 10:01:43 “Am Grenzgraben.” People work in a hay field while German officers stand nearby. Two officers in a field look through binoculars. Officers walk out of a property entrance. 10:02:52 CU face of a German officer. A stream. Train tracks through fields and trees. Hayfields. Sheep ...

  4. Wertheimer and Reich families photograph collection

    Contains photographs depicting the Wertheimer and the Reich family from Znojmo in Moravia, Czechoslovakia.

  5. Selected records of the Police Headquarters of the city of Łódź Komenda Policji Państwowej miasta Łodzi (Sygn.182) : Wybrane materialy

    Applications for a street trade permit, reports on community activities, Jewish and Polish political organizations, communist movements, and antisemitic actions. Includes also registers of ID cards issued by KPP.

  6. Bernard Makover diary

    The collection includes a typewritten diary by Bernard Makover documenting his trip to Europe in 1934. During his trip he dictated his entries to his secretary, Julius Grossbart. In the diary Bernard describes his time aboard the SS Conte di Savoia to Italy, the train ride from Italy to Poland, the political situation in Poland, his time spent with his extended family, and his trip back to New York aboard the SS Rex. While in Poland he tried to help bring family members back to the United States with him, but was unsuccessful.

  7. Oral history interview with Martyn Benn

  8. Transit camp in Eindhoven

    Scenes from a transit camp located in the Philips factory in Eindhoven, Netherlands. According to the IWM record, the camp was run by the 506 Detachment, Civil Affairs, and the nationalities of the laborers include Dutch, French, Polish, and Russian. Adult and children civilians (former foreign forced laborers) and British soldiers in front of military trucks. CUs of a woman talking and laughing with a British soldier. Military truck carrying civilians enters a gated compound. Passengers disembark from the back of the truck. Quick shot of slate indicating 3/15/1945 and cameraman Sgt. Collin...

  9. Jack Cherniss papers

    The collection primarily consists of letters written by Jewish American soldier Jack Cherniss to his wife Shirley while he was serving in the United States Army during World War II. His frequent letters describe his training in the United States and his deployment overseas in December 1944. Significant letters include one from 11 January 1945 describing an altercation with an antisemitic fellow soldier, and his letter from 27 April 1945 contains his account of the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation. Also included are administrative papers regarding his military career an...

  10. Charles Phillip Sharp collection

    The majority of the Charles Phillip Sharp collections concerns the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Sharp’s records give first hand account of what he saw at the camp, and the immediate goals the British Army had in trying to save the survivors. This is further told in the Story of Belsen by Captain A. Pares, which gives the official military report on the camp. Also included are lecture notes that Sharp gave well after his time with the Army, detailing his exxperience in liberating Bergen-Belsen. Other documents include various items related to Sharp’s stay in the army, ...

  11. Eichmann Trial -- Session 55 -- Testimony of Dr. G. Gilbert

    THIS MASTER TAPE DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST. DISTORTION AND DROP-OUT WAS SO SEVERE THAT THE ENTIRE TAPE WAS BLANK. Session 55.

  12. Krakow street scenes; children; shops

    In Krakow, MCU young boys with caps with the number "21" walking in unison and looking at the camera. Girls in berets and matching coats with fur collars walk along the street by a castle-like building. Most of the girls have their backs to the camera. Some boys in the group also wear berets. Shop windows, no sign is visible in its entirety. LS, more of the schoolchildren on their outing. MCU, three people looking in the window of a bookstore. The people linger before going inside.

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Rally, NYC

    Citizens' Rally against oppression at Carnegie Hall, NYC. LS, from above, of Carnegie Hall then closer, men seated behind. 03:21:58 Second speaker with curly hair, "Dangers in situation in Germany...". Man, older, waiting behind curtain. 03:24:22 LS, crowd, well behaved. Participants (from March of Time card catalogue) include: Mayor LaGuardia, Victor Ridder, William Dodd, Theodore Green, Fulton Sheen, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, Bishop Manning.

  14. The Woman, After Whom One Longed For Die Frau, Nach Der Man Sich Sehnt [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  15. Lena Lipchiz papers

    The Lena Lipchiz papers document relatives of Lena Lipchiz who remained in Poland when she immigrated to the United States. Records include one 1920 photograph of Moryc Baumgarten in Łódz; an admission card allowing Basia Baumgarten visitors at a Chojny sanitorium; a 1940 letter from Basia in Łódz to Lena in New York; a 1940 postcard from A. Dziaba in the Łódz ghetto to Lena; and a 1946 postcard and empty 1947 envelope from Isak Kleber in the UNRRA DP camp at Grugliasco to Lena.

  16. Bernard Stern collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of the Stern family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Rosendahl and Blasbalg family papers

    Correspondence, telegrams, passports, immigration and naturalization documents, birth certificates, educational records, and other documents, related to the immigration of Ernst and Jenny Rosendahl (Blasbalg) from Germany to France, and then the United States; the immigration of Mrs. Rosendahl's sister, Gerda Miller, first to Palestine and then to Britain and the United States; and attempts to help their father, Fritz Blasbalg, emigrate from Germany, and then from German-occupied Netherlands, which were ultimately unsuccessful. The files concerning Fritz Blasblag primarily contain correspon...

  18. Eichmann Trial -- Session 104 -- Cross-examination of the Accused re: Hungary

    This tape begins in the middle of the proceedings of Session 104. Attorney General Gideon Hausner questions Eichmann about comments Eichmann made to Wilhelm Sassen regarding his inability to keep up with the pace of deportations in Hungary. Hausner cites quotes in which Eichmann compared the deportation in Hungary with the ease of those in Denmark and Holland, referring to the Jews of Hungary as being offered to them like "sour beer." This section duplicates footage found on Tape 2181. The footage is edited at 00:03:30, skipping a lengthy section in which Eichmann is cross-examined about hi...

  19. Book

  20. Oscar Reiss papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Oscar K. Reiss, originally of Munich, Germany. Included are immigration paperwork, his German passport, United States Army records, and an affidavit related to his attempt to help his family in Germany immigrate to the United States. Also included are a small number of photographs which include depictions of Oscar’s mother Irma Reiss prior to the Holocaust, and Oscar in his U.S. Army uniform.