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  1. Crowd outside of synagogue in Moscow

    People of all ages stand on the steps outside of Choral Synagogue in Moscow, located at Bolshoy Spasoglinishchevskiy lane, 10, during the High Holidays. Multiple people wear the tallit. A man using crutches moves down the front steps of the building, unable to use the lower part of his right leg. People move out of the synagogue, men put out their hands, begging for money and some give. As more people file out of the synagogue, the beggars continue to put out their hands, becoming very aggressive with one woman. She attempts to push them back. People stand in the streets while others keep m...

  2. Maerker and Behr families papers

    The collection consists of biographical documents, correspondence, photographs, memoirs and family histories, a military medal, and other items related to the history of the Maerker and Behr families, originally of Bernburg and Mainz, Germany. Includes materials related to the emigration of Willy and Else (nee Behr) Maerker, and their children, Gerhard and Inge, from Germany, to escape anti-Semitic persecution, in 1938.

  3. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Danish Refugee Administration in Sweden Central Register (Group A-Ø)

    Consits of the alphabetical (phonetic) register of refugees with detailed information about an each refugee, including both Jews and resistance fighters and their families. There are no related files to the register, but the information on the cards is quite unique. This collection contains the most detailed and systematic overview of Danish refugees in Sweden.

  4. Family activities before the Holocaust in Szeged, Hungary

    AGFA 8 logo. (color) Man walks through gate into his garden. Fade. Pető and Lengyel family members follow. Fade. Marika and János pose, flowers. He skips, Marika chases him. 01:38. Street scenes in Szeged, woman pushes carriage over cobbled sidewalk. 01:48 Pető walks towards the camera. He takes off his coat and sits on a white bench in Mora Park in Szeged. Man in uniform walks a dog. Pető smokes a cigarette. Boat in river. Smoke from factory across the river. Pető leans against wall, looking out over the river. 03:12 (black and white) CU, grass. Boy with father and farmer walk through crop...

  6. Liberation scenes

    05:17:59 Title: LIBERATION Allied camera teams from Russia, Britain, and the US filmed the liberation of the camps from 1944-1945. 05:18:04 Various camps. Bones. Passports, scissors, shoes, eyeglasses, zyklon B canisters. 05:19:06 Majdanek. 05:19:32 Mauthausen: Corpses on ground. Emaciated survivor walking, posing next to barbed wire fence. People in uniforms, grabbing potatoes from truck. Inmates offer food to liberators. Woman kisses hands of liberating soldier. 05:20:38 Bergen-Belsen: Bodies lying out in rows. Civilians tour camp. Women bury the dead. Bulldozer covers mass grave. 05:21:2...

  7. Benjamin Buchsbaum papers

    The collection primarily contains correspondence sent to and from Benjamin Buchsbaum, of Philadelphia, relating to his efforts to rescue relatives, friends, and strangers from Nazi-occupied Europe and bring them to the United States. Correspondence is often from those he sought to help, as well as others who recognized his efforts, and dates from the period of the Holocaust up through the 1960s. The album was presented to Buchsbaum by his family on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1958, but he added letters to the album that he received from some of the correspondents in subsequent year...

  8. Budget for Bonds/Save Systematically to Win the War WWII Public Utilities Commission broadside

    Broadside, "Sacrifice & Save/Destroy Dictators by Buying Bonds" on one side; "Budget for Bonds/Save Systematically to Win the War" on other side.

  9. Oral history interview with Gerd Hahn

  10. Gorodiscas family papers

    Consists of Bencelis Gorodiscas's passport from Lithuania, issued in 1921; the "livret de famille" family book documenting Bencelis's marriage to Malka Mendrzycka (originally of Warsaw) and the births of their children, Marguerite in 1933 and Gilbert in 1944. Also includes a certificate of liberation issued to Bencelis Gorodiscas from the Gurs internment camp in April 1943 and a bill for their immigration to the United States in 1961.

  11. Oral history interview with David Krauthammer

  12. Photographic print of a boy with a toothache

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613474
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) | Width: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of a boy suffering from a toothache clutching a tattered school notebook, Slonim, ca. 1935-38.

  13. Ryan M. Cooper collection

    The collection consists of table linens, a mustard pot, coin purse, suitcase, book, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, documents, and an audio recording relating to the experiences of Otto Frank, Edith Frank, Fritzi Frank, Herbert Frank, Miep Gies, Jan Gies, Bep Voskuijl, and Victor Kluger in Frankfurt, Germany, Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Basel, Switzerland, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  14. George A. Silver collection

    Photographs, maps, propaganda leaflets, booklets, and ephemera, related to the military career during World War II of George A. Silver, including his service in the U.S. Army in the North African and Italian theatres, 1943-1945, as well as the liberation of Dachau concentration camp. Included are a book plate from the library of Adolf Hitler, Allied and German propaganda leaflets, and information provided to American soldiers in occupied Germany after the war. Also contains material documenting Silver's attendance at the International Liberators' Conference, hosted by the United States Holo...

  15. Jack Freedman collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Jack and Sara Freedman during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. Arrigo Minerbi

    Il fondo raccoglie le lettere e le cartoline originali scritte negli anni '40 dallo scultore Arrigo Minerbi e dall'ingegnere Diego Nunes - Vais a Marta Pagnoni (1), donna di servizio in casa Minerbi-Ravenna relative all'arresto e alla deportazione della famiglia residente nel palazzo di via Garibaldi 94 a Ferrara. L'ultima unità archivistica è un fascicolo di soli fotoritratti protetti da una cornice.A corredo del fondo, per una più chiara comprensione delle carte, è conservato un fascicolo con la pubblicazione "Se la buona Marta è ancora in casa Ravenna" contenente le trascrizioni delle le...

  17. Israel (Laszlo) Lazar collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of Israel (Laszlo) Lazar. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Chana Batista collection

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

  19. Marcel Janco artwork collection

    The collection consists of four original drawings depicting the persecution of Jews and the Holocaust by Romanian artist Marcel Janco. Janco immigrated to Israel in 1941, shortly after his brother's murder during the Bucharest Pogrom. The drawings were created during the 1940s.

  20. Paul and Margit Rafford collection

    The collection consists of papers, photograph album, loose photographs and artwork relating to Paul and Margit (Lichter) Rafford