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  1. Jewish photographs and assorted papers

    Studio photographs, many of First World War soldiers in uniform, but also family portraits, late 19th-early 20th century. Portrait of Levi Barent Cohen together with correspondence about him, 1936; an engraving of a portrait of Sir David Salomons. Visitors' book for South Stoneham House, 1890-1918; souvenir music score for Gounod's 'Romeo et Juliette' performed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in honour of the marriage of the Duke of York and Princess Mary of Teck, 4 Jul 1893; translation of the epitaphs still visible in the Hambro Synagogue cemetery made by Dayan Mendelsohn of the ...

  2. Jewish pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-1924. Documents of the Kiev Oblast’ Commission for Relief to Victims of Pogroms (Obshetskom) (Fond 3050)

    The collection contains records of several major departments of the Kiev Oblast’ Commission for Relief to Victims of Pogroms (Obshetskom). Records relate to variety of activities of this public organization for relief to victims of pogrom in Kiev region as well as Eastern and Central Ukraine.The bulk comprises correspondence with public and government organizations, reports on the activities of regional representatives of the commission, communication with other organizations (e.g. Kultur Liga, JOINT, ORT, OZE, and others), lists of pogrom victims, minutes of board meetings, questionnaires,...

  3. Jewish police

    Jewish Police sequence: CU of commander; double line of police at attention (all turn their heads, German military style). CUs of several policemen. Police march by camera, pan down to boots. VAR policeman at check point, checking papers, chasing children. See Emanuel Ringelblum's diary, May 7, 1942

  4. Jewish political parties and organizations election campaign leaflets

    Contains Jewish political parties' and organizations' election campaign leaflets, produced between 1904 and 1919.

  5. Jewish population in Germany: statistics

    Set of typescript statistics enumerating the population of Jews in Germany broken down by age range and towns within each zoneEnglish 

  6. The Jewish Press Agency in Switzerland- JUNA - newspaper clippings collection, 1936-1965

    The collections consists of newspaper clippings, mainly about the condition of the Jewish people in Nazi occupied Europe.

  7. Jewish Provincial Committee in Przemyśl Wojewódzki Komitet Żydów w Przemyślu (Sygn.367)

    Minutes of the committee meetings, reports, correspondence, lists of Jewish survivors, committee statutes, circulars, appeals and communications, budgets, lists of people using assistance, personal data of committee staff and some other documents..

  8. Jewish publications in Kovno

    Two newspapers, in Hebrew or Yiddish, from Kaunas, Lithuania, 1920 and 1927.

  9. The Jewish quarter and cemetery in Prague

    Prague, the facade of a large clock tower. The facade of the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn. A street in Prague's Jewish quarter. The exterior of Prague's Maisel synagogue, and the surrounding street activity. A street sign reads "Jidelna Hirsch Bilkova 19," or "Hirsch Cafeteria". The old Jewish cemetery, CU of a gravestone shows engraving in Hebrew script.

  10. Jewish quarter in Amsterdam

    Hand turns book. Views rooftops of Amsterdam, VAR shots of city. Street musicians. VAR shots of streets and houses. Old counting house. Canals and canal houses. Market in Jewish quarter. Canals, views of boats, water, bridges. Warehouses, loading. More buskers. Harbor scenes. Herring stall. Bell tower. Rembrandt monument. Jewish quarter: candle and star are superimposed on footage; boys, going to synagogue, wedding; market, men talk, flower stall, diamond cutting. Picture shop. Canals. Harbor. Canal reflections. More Jewish quarter. Sundial with Hebrew letters, interior lamp, brief EXT of P...

  11. Jewish quarter in Amsterdam; preparing Sabbath

    Credits (in Dutch). Roof tops of Amsterdam. HA street scenes. CUs street and business signs in Jewish quarter of Amsterdam. Street scenes, houses, canals. Store fronts. Market. Clock tower (INT and EXT), four o'clock. People look at watches. Challahs. VAR scenes of people closing shops, putting away work (including good quality shots of diamond works). Preparing Sabbath at home (candles, cooking, setting table). EXT Portuguese synagogue, men in top hats enter, families. INT, prayer books, VAR shots of synagogue, cantor at bima, shots of men praying. EXT, rooftops of Amsterdam at dusk.

  12. Jewish quarter in Poland

    Street scenes, dark, people gathered, automobile. Interior shots of a restaurant (probably Owsianka) in a Jewish quarter in Nasielsk, Poland, many people looking inside the window in clear view. Several wonderful street scenes of people, especially children, in the Jewish quarter grinning and vying for the camera's attention. A sign above a shop indicates a grocery, "Spozywczy". Some people have been identified, including: Shmuel Tyk and Faiga Milchberg at 01:11:25, Chaim Talmud and Shmuel Tyk at 01:11:56, Simcha Rotstein and Avrum Kubel at 01:12:04, Yitzhak Borts at 01:12:09, Srebro at 01:...

  13. Jewish quarter in Suwalki; Market in Filipow

    The Jewish quarter of Suwalki including Schul Gasse, the Big Synagogue of Suwalki. Market and Wesola streets with locals. The bi-weekly outdoor market in Suwalki. 00:03:02 Harold Brenner in dark jacket and hat holding birds with another young man. Pan, good CUs. 00:06:32 Herman, Lottie and Harold stand underneath the fishermen's stalls, conversing with the locals. Farmers bring in goods for the market by horse and wagon. An ice cream vendor's machine and a market stall containing horse shoes, wooden wash tubs, peat and logs for heating. 00:09:41 Livestock market scenes outside of Filipow. H...

  14. Jewish quarter of Nasielsk

    In the Jewish quarter, a tracking LS follows a boy with a cocked hat who makes an effort to stay on camera. Dark silhouetted interior (of a restaurant, probably Owsianka), faces cannot be deciphered. Bright exterior CU of group of children in the street. Excited to be on camera, they wave and move together as the camera rotates. 01:03:06 Fourteen year old Maurice Chandler [nee Moszek Tuchendler] wearing a dark cap. Sign indicating "Spozywczy", a grocery storefront. Several shots of crowded streets. Many exit the synagogue together, walking down the set of stairs. Some people have been ident...

  15. Jewish quarter of Warsaw burning, 1939

    This sequence was shot on the night of September 16, 1939, during Rosh Hashanah. The German invasion of Warsaw, Poland had begun over a week before, but they intentionally set the Jewish quarter of Warsaw on fire during the holiday. Bryan did not have any external lights to illuminate the action while shooting this event. If the viewer looks closely they can make out the outlines and shadows of the inhabitants of the Jewish quarter in bucket brigades in the foreground of these shots trying to save their homes, their lives, and their livelihoods. The quarter was destroyed that night.

  16. Jewish quarters Krakow and Warsaw 1936; Jewish teens

    Daily life in the Jewish quarter or Krakow. Two men conducting business in a dark doorway. 01:15:05:26 MS of four orthodox Jews walking down the street in Krakow, they look to the camera, and move on. They pass a man with a movie camera. (This is not Julien Bryan; probably Jules Bucher, cameraman who accompanied Bryan in Poland in 1936.) MS of three orthodox Jews on a street corner talking to each other, across the street in BG there is a sign for the shop "Salomon Diamant"- a men's clothing store [duplicate footage on USHMM Film ID 3001]. CUs of the religious Hasidic men talking and walkin...

  17. Jewish Refugee Alliance in Switzerland / Union of Jewish Refugees in Switzerland Jüdischer Flüchtlingsverband in der Schweiz / Union Jüdischer Flüchtlinge in der Schweiz

    The collection pertains to the activities of the Jewish Refugee Alliance in Switzerland / Union of Jewish Refugees in Switzerland during the immediate postwar period, 1945-1948.

  18. Jewish refugee children from Belsen in London

    Jewish teenage survivors of Belsen arrive at refugee center in London. Children eating in dining hall, dancing the Hora outside, arriving at Red Cross building, in classes.

  19. Jewish refugee children in Britain

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 727, Part 2C. Release date, 12/12/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Young Refugees Reach Britain" Harwich, England. 206 German-Jewish youngsters, whose parents fill Nazi concentration camps, arrive on peaceful shores with their meager belongings to start life anew in comfortable quarters and in safe surroundings. Young Jewish refugees arrive in Britain, including Hans Berlinsky [now John Berrys] at 12:10:08. Girls walking down ramp from ship. Coats. Suitcases. Boys and girls walking along street with luggage. CU of smiling, happy boys. ...

  20. Jewish refugee children, England, play in park

    Jewish refugee children playing in a park. MLS of kids dancing in a circle. Girl with a hoop. Group of children playing leapfrog. Children indoors with toys at table. CU girl with doll. CU boy writing letter. High angle view of long table and children eating soup. Eating at table.