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  1. Harvesting hay and potatoes

    MS, church, cows in FG. VAR shots of farm scene, possibly in Bavaria; people pitching hay onto wagon while train passes in BG. CU bearded old man pitching hay up to woman atop haystack. CU of ox. Man smoking pipe with workers in BG. Picking potatoes. Woman with bicycle. Silhouette of man sowing seeds.

  2. Klooga concentration camp

    Burning town. Civilians, soldiers, survivors. Smoke. Camp, barbed wire. Sign reading O.T. BETRIEBE KLOOGA. Photographic still of Hitler. Corpses piled next to bunks, corpses in pits. Pan of survivors, simulating murders/torture. Footage of brutally murdered bodies.

  3. Program for the Nazi propaganda film, Jud Süss found by an American soldier

    Program for the Nazi propaganda film, Jud Süss found by Les Biner, an American soldier, in the German home in which he was billeted.

  4. Model built by the rescuer of his house where 32 Jews lived in hiding

    Model of his house built by Staszek Jackowski, a Christian man, who hid 32 Jews there for 1 1/2 years. The model lifts to expose the hiding place in the basement. Jackowski built the model for Ruth Gruber in 1967. The hiding place was built in the basement of a house which was 2 blocks away from Gestapo headquarters.

  5. Passenger ship in Bremen harbor

    Various LS of passenger ship SS Bremen with two smokestacks pulling into harbor. "Norddeutscher" on gangplank. CUs of hull, bow. Civilians deboarding. The crest (or "coat of arms") of the ship includes US flag in design.

  6. Milton Margolis photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs taken by Milton Margolis at Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation.

  7. Hans Nussbaum papers

    The papers consist of a document issued regarding the upcoming transport of Jews from Weimar, Germany, to Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, a document on luggage regulations for transport, a document regarding the collection of mattresses and suitcases, and three photographs of a memorial for Gentiles and Jews who were victims of the Nazis in the city of Suhl, Germany. All of the documents were issued in September 1942 by the Erfurt branch of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland Reich Association of Jews in Germany.

  8. Listing of Jews for deportation to Riga, Latvia

    The papers consist of a 20-page document listing Jews for deportation to Rīga, Latvia, on November 20,1941. Contains names from all over Germany with about 20 to 30 names per page.

  9. Victor Katz-Laffite papers

    The papers consist of two French periodicals: "Le Médicin Français" (No. 4 / 15 June 1941) and "Les Lettres Françaises" (No. 19 / August 1944). "Les Lettres Françaises: Revue des Écrivains français groupes au Comite national des Écrivains" was founded by Jacques Decour who was killed by the Germans on May 30, 1942. The review contains various articles on the French resistance and French literary figures and news. It bears the original signature of Paul Eluard.

  10. Mauthausen and Ebensee concentration camp photographs

    The collection consist of 41 photographs of Mauthausen and Ebensee concentration camps at the time of liberation. The photographer is unknown. Captions in French are typed on the verso of the photographs.

  11. Lila Lam Nowakowska papers

    The Lila Lam Nowakowska papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Lila’s assumed identity in Warsaw during the Holocaust, her internment at Mauthausen and forced labor in Steyr and Znojmo, her postwar reunion with her mother, and the Jewish orphanage where her mother worked in Chorzów after the war. Biographical materials include identification and work papers under Lila Lam Nowakowska’s assumed identity, Leonora Leska. Correspondence includes postwar letters from Lila and Dorota Lam in Chorzów, Nowy Tomysl, Elblag, and Cracow to Adam Sznaper in S...

  12. Witold Kuhn letter

    Contains one letter written by Witold Kuhn while he was in the Auschwitz concentration camp, addressed to his father Johann Kuhn in Jasień, Poland. He writes of his health, the weather, the harvest, and the packages he has received and sends his best wishes of health.

  13. Samuel Stimler papers

    The papers consist of a pre-printed form with Oskar Schindler letterhead from Oskar Schindler's factory in Kraków, Poland, and a letter stating that Samuel Stimler was in Brünnlitz concentration camp in Brnenec, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).

  14. Henry Galler papers

    The papers consist of an identification booklet (Deutsches Reich Arbeitsbuch Fuer Ausländer) issued to Szewa Vogel Galler under the name "Katherina Czuchowska" and an identification card for Polish military officers, issued to Henry Galler.

  15. Anna Hoffman identification card

    Contains a Belgian identity card for Anna Hoffman. Anna Hoffman was born on March 2, 1891 in Cernauti, Ukraine, and was arrested by the Gestapo in Brussels, Belgium, on March 3, 1943. She was sent to the Malines transit camp and deported by the 20th convoy to Auschwitz where she was gassed on arrival.

  16. Edith Koenig papers

    The papers consist of six postcards with Adolf Hitler postage stamps sent from Theresienstadt by Hedwig Gutmann, the paternal grandmother of Edith Koenig; three photographs taken by the United States Signal Corps of the liberation of a concentration camp; and one photograph of Edith Koenig, her mother, and Hedwig Gutmann taken in 1932 in Germany. Hedwig Gutmann likely perished at Auschwitz.

  17. Photograph of Gruber family

    The photograph depicts the Gruber family before Samuel Gruber joined the army in May 1939 in Podhajce, Poland (now Pidhaitsi, Ukraine). Pictured are Eva Gruber [donor's sister], Regina Horowitz [donor's cousin], Mina Gruber [donor's sister], and Samuel Gruber.

  18. Postcard

    The postcard was sent by Paula Winter (donor's mother-in-law) in Theresienstadt concentration camp to Mrs. Laura Sara Stern in Vienna, Austria. The postcard is a mass-produced form thanking the recipient for sending packages.

  19. Louis Hilton photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Captions in English are on the verso of the photographs.

  20. Warren A. Gorrell photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs of a Nazi Party propaganda parade that took place on August 18, 1935.