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  1. Jewish Children DP Center in Kloster Indersdorf, Bavaria

    Between August 1946 and September 1948, this center served as a home for young refugees from Poland, Hungary, and Romania. Men set up a light or camera. INT, man stands, speaking, a man with glasses seated next to him. EXT of Indersdorf building. CU of sign in English and Hebrew reads “JEWISH CHILDREN DP CENTER UNRRA TEAM 182.” Children seated on grass with a female teacher, copying her hand motions. CU of the teacher leading a song with children in the BG, AJDC patch on her shoulder visible. CU of the children singing. CU of teacher singing. Children working in a garden. Girls pick beans. ...

  2. Oral history interview with Zsuzsanna Reisch

  3. Pamphlets printed for Berlin Jewish community

    Contains two pamphlets prepared for distribution in the Berlin Jewish community in the mid-1930s. Includes one pamphlet titled "Unterstützungen und Geldgeschenke Aus dem Auslande" [receipt of support and funds from abroad], printed by Berthold Levy in 1937 on behalf of Palästina Treuhand-stelle zur Beratung deutscher Juden [PALTREU Palestine trustees for advising German Jews]. Also includes a promotional leaflet published circa 1935 for the "Palästina Nachrichten" [Palestine News], a periodical published by Ernst Köstenbaum in Berlin.

  4. Baby János in Budapest

    CUs of baby János with mother Erzsébet in patterned dress in June 1931 (7 months old) in Budapest. Baby in stroller, picked up by mother, placed on table, nurse-maid Tete hands him a toy. “Danubius Pathé Baby Budapest”

  5. Robert Feinsod photographs

    The collection includes a photograph and copyprint of Robert Feinsod and Marc Shapiro, a Soviet soldier, in military uniforms.

  6. Schlachter family correspondence

    The collection consists of letters sent by Leopold and Gertrude Schlachter in Stuttgart, Germany from 1940-1941 to their daughters Liselott and Margot Schlacter in New York. Liselott and Margot fled Germany on a Kindertransport to Glasgow, Scotland and immigrated to the United States in September 1940. There is a small amount of letters sent from other individuals, as well as Liselott’s resume and a copy of Margot’s birth certificate, both from 1939.

  7. Oral history interview with Bronia Lederman

  8. Erich Priebke extradition files from the Federal Court of Bariloche Erich Priebke extradición files (Juzgado Federal de Bariloche)

    Contains documents relating to the Italian government's request for the extradition of Erich Priebke, including newspaper clippings, documents from the Military Tribunal in Rome, Priebke's arrest, and records from the Federal Appeals Chamber.

  10. Grosz family photograph collection

    Photographs illustrating the experiences of Erno Grosz [Ernest Gross] donor’s father, before, during and after the Holocaust. Erno and his brother, Jeno, survived, essentially together, were deported from Beregszász, Hungary [present-day Berehove, Ukraine] to Auschwitz; Wüstegiersdorf, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen; Flossenbürg and Natzweiler concentration camps. The images depict a pre-war photograph of Devorah Grosz, their mother, immediate post-war image of Erno wearing his concentration camp uniform and post war images in the displaced persons camp Föhrenwald, where Erno and Jeno lived unti...

  11. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families of Germany, including Else, Max, and their daughter Eva (later Eva Cohn) Rhée’s emigration from Lüneburg, Germany to England in 1938; Max, Ida, and their son Hans Cohn’s flight from Berlin to Shanghai in 1939; and restitution made to the descendants of Marcus Heinemann by the Museum Lüneburg in 2015 for objects acquired by the museum after Marcus’s assets were seized after Kristallnacht. Included are biographical materials, immigration documents and correspondence, and photographs. Biographical ...

  12. Prewar Austria: vacation and leisure time

    “Bilder vom staatlichen Skikurs Radstadt Weihnachten 1933” Horse pulls a sled. People walk and ski in the snow. They point and wave at the camera. Others trek up a hill on skis and ski down. Tree with icicles. A person falls. “Allerlei Allotria” The boys do acrobatics. They ski down another hill. Someone waves. More acrobatics. People on a balcony. 01:03:45 Parade of uniformed military men in the snow. “Hotel Pesl Lisl Jasny” CUs of different people, some dark, some smiling for the camera, at the train station. Train departs, kids wave. (01:05:46) Mixed shots of skiing, and a group of peopl...

  13. Oral testimony of Shoshana Gottdank

  14. Children emigrate by train after the Holocaust

    Child survivors on a train, preparing for arrival (likely in France and onward to Israel, America, or other countries). Woman buttering bread inside the railcar. CU smiling children in a train car with bunk beds. Little girl opens a compartment door. children lounge on bunk beds as the train moves. Resting and grooming. Children combing their hair, brushing their teeth, and washing their hands and faces. Little girls drinking out of mugs and eating toast.

  15. Jewish County Committee in Żary Powiatowy Komitet Żydowski w Żarach (Sygn. 366)

    Ordinances, announcements, minutes of meetings, official correspondence, registration questionnaires of members, personal files of committee employees, materials related to the Youth Department and others.

  17. Housing Care 353-2 II Wohnungsamt

    Selected files of the Wohnungsfürsorge (Housing Care) relating to the Bullenhuser Damm School, camps for prisoners and workers, camps for interned Italians, Jewish mixed race and homeless, and files relating to murdering of Jewish children shortly before the end of WWII.

  19. Fred and Ruth Cohen papers

    The Fred and Ruth Cohen papers include biographical material, photographs, photo albums, and a personal narrative documenting the experiences of Fred and Ruth Cohen’s families in pre-war Germany and their immigration to the United States. Documents include statements of birth for David and Martha Cohen, marriage documentation for David and Martha, and a copy of a death certificate for Benjamin Cohen. Photographs and albums mainly include pre-war photographs of Ruth and her family in Germany, including in Stuttgart. Also included is an early 1990s handwritten personal narrative by Lotte, Rut...