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  10. Max Pyster collection

    Consists of 3 negative envelopes with "Agfa-Kleinbildtasche" printed on outside; the envelopes contain one of the following: 5 1/2 strips of 35mm negatives; 6 strips of 35mm negatives; 4 1/3 strips of 35mm negatives and 5 cut 2/1/4" square negatives The images are of views of the countryside and of Nazi soldiers and rallies.

  11. The Striker, March 1937, 15th year 1937 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Issue of Der Stürmer, a viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Julius Streicher, an early Nazi Party member, from 1923-1945 in Germany. The newspaper's slogan was "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" [The Jews are our misfortune]. The paper thrived on scandal, and preferred sensational stories of Jews committing disgusting, evil acts. It was also infamous for its antisemitic cartoons and staff cartoonist Fips. Streicher was arrested by the US Army in May 1945. He was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed per the ruling that his repeated articles...

  12. Charles Abramson collection

    Consists of a black and white image of fourteen children and two adults standing and seated together outside; verso: handwritten in blue ink “April 1944/Bari – Italy/Jewish children/saved by members/of the Jewish/Brigade – 8th Army”; dated April 1944; Bari, Italy.

  13. Ora Nahir collection

    Consist of an emigration certificate issued to Erich Nachheiser (donor’s husband) in lieu of a passport that shows the many stops on his way to Palestine; certificate dated 18 August 1940 in Kladova, Yugoslavia. Also includes a photograph album documenting the year-and-a-half journey of Ehud Nahir from Vienna to Palestine, dated 25 Nov.1939 – 30 March 1941.

  14. POWs and German advance in Ukraine

    A German soldier is decorated with the Balkenkreuz. 00:15:55 German soldiers oversee POWs in the countryside. A massive line of (Soviet?) POWs march up hill. LS, the POWs rest at a campsite. 00:16:21 Large body of water, bridge, maritime vehicles docked. 00:16:38 Two German planes in an open field. A soldier talks to the cameraman from inside the plane. 00:16:56 Aerial shots of the river and a city from aboard the plane. AGFA 1941 logo.

  15. Eugene Berger collection

    Consists of two identity cards and two photographs. One card is for the Diplaced Persons Assembly Center 578, Lampertheim, has Eugene Berger's photograph on it, and is signed by the Director of the UNRRA. The second card is for securing rations and has Mr. Berger's right thumb print on the card. Both are dated 1946. The two photographs are of post-war Buchenwald. The photographic print of the Weimar civilians looking at the gallow has dittoed information on the back and is from "Photo-France A.E.P." The photograph of the bodies at the camp has very faint dittoed information on it.

  16. Lola Byron collection

    The Lola Byron consists of family photographs depicting the Papierbuch family before the war in Kielce, Poland and in DP camps in Germany after the war; documents relating to donor’s mother life and property in Poland and to the family’s stay in DP camps and their subsequent immigration to the United States..

  17. Margaret Lowe collection

    Consists of instructions, dated 8 Aor. 1939, issued for Gretl Pappenheimer [donor] to the "Movement for the Care of Children from Germany" in London by the "Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland"; two copies of a "Fuehrungszeugnis," or certificate of good conduct, issued on 4 February 1939, for Kurt Lowenstein [donor's husband] by the Chief of Police of Düsseldorf, Germany; letter of reference, dated 17 February 1942, together with an envelope, issued for Kurt Lowenstein by C. Mayou & Sons in Birmingham, England; booklet, "Soldier's Service/and/Pay Book" issued to Kurt Lowe [sic], i...

  18. Cyprus photo album

    Album of 16 photographs from internment camps in Cyprus. Includes images presenting daily life in the camps; the dining hall; the workshops, including the amateur stone chiselers presenting the stone works they have created in the camp; and a a puppet theater. The inner side of the front binding is mounted with a photographic postcard bearing the Hebrew inscription "Souvenir from the Cyprus Exile 5709." On the front binding is a chisled stone plaque with image of the ship at sea, barbed wire, and the Hebrew inscription "Kafrisin 5708" [Cyprus 1948].

  19. John R. Crowe photograph collection

    The John Crowe photograph collection consists of eleven photographic prints of Dachau concentration camp after liberation, 1945. The photographs were taken by Corporal J. Robert Crowe.

  20. Roza Dvortsis photograph collection

    Three photographs of Roza Dvortsis in Chechelnik, Ukraine, circa 1936-1949.