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  2. Hess family collection

    Collection of correspondence between Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Studios, and Oscar Hess (donor’s maternal grandfather), dated 1938, in English. Carl Laemmle helped save many German Jews by providing them with the necessary affidavit of support. Oscar Hess and his wife, Irene, were in Switzerland when they contacted Laemmle for assistance.

  3. Nuremberg Trials photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs depicting the International Military Tribunal courtroom in Nuremberg, Germany. Several images depict defendants, including Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess.

  4. Georg F. Duckwitz private collection (Group 5344)

    Papers of Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz, an attaché for Nazi Germany in occupied Denmark. This collection consists of papers relating to the action against the Jews in Denmark, 1943, records of Duckwitz's conversation with Hans Kirchhoff, a Danish historian in 1968, as well as a travel reports, private letters and correspondence, and calendar, 1943-1944. Note: Records are restricted until 2048, access only by the permission of the Danish National Archives. Access is granted by application and must go through the Danish Data Protection Agency since the material contains personal information.

  6. Baranovichi diary

    Handwritten notebook which belonged to a Jewish man from Baranavichy, dated 1941-1945. Records the wandering of the writer through Europe until his arrival in Palestine. Describes the author's impressions of outbreak of the war, the occupation of Baranavichy by the Germans, three roundups ("aktions") in the ghetto, the names of victims, fleeing to the forest, his journey to Italy and eventual arrival in Palestine. The last comment in the notebook is dated 17.11.1945, and it reads (in transliteration): "dukhgefarn [trip through]: Netanya, Kfar Saba, Kibutz Ramat Hakovesh, Ra'anana, Tel-Aviv ...

  7. Selected records of the Voivodship Office in Łódź Urząd Wojewódzki Łódzki (Sygn. 804) : Wybrane materiały

    Statistical data, correspondence, minutes, registration of war damages, records of the population, records related to the property of Jewish communities, and so-called productivisation of the Jewish population after the war, lists and other materials concerning associations and unions, lists of the mass graves of war victims, and loss or granting of Polish citizenship, documents regarding civil status and the help for the victims of prisons and Nazi camps, as well as other materials.

  8. Buessing factory; parade in Braunschweig

    People in front of a sign: “Barenberger Hof Goethe Haus.” Ethel with a shawl sitting on the grass next to Hans. They paddle in a canoe. He waves. INT, men in white coats study a metal cylinder. Board with measuring tools. Another man looks through the cylinder. Procession through the streets, led by a man with a sign: “BUESSING NAG.” Buessing was a German bus and truck manufacturer in Braunschweig. Military band marches, followed by others. A man carries a large swastika flag; hand raised in salute in FG. Concessions with signs advertising “Waffel; Butter.” Men in suits stand side-by-side, ...

  9. Donations for European Jewry collection

    Three documents concerning donations for European Jewry, during World War II and later. Palestine, dated 1943-1948. Includes a donation card for child refugees, printed on behalf of the Civil Guard, Tel-Aviv, Hanukkah, [1943]; a printed letter to school children in Tel-Aviv, calling them to assist in collection of clothes and donations for Jewish refugees in Russia; a printed card on behalf of "HaMifal leAliyat Yalday Israel," Keren HaYessod, national council in Palestine, showing a print by Aryeh Alweil under the title (in Hebrew), "We shall take them out from slavery to freedom and from d...

  10. British Pathé (Unissued/Unused) -- Refugees are given clothing and food

    Titles read: "ALLIES FEED AND CLOTHE REFUGEES FROM WAR ZONES". Refugees (probably from Eastern Europe) carry bundles on their backs and heads walk to and from a building guarded by soldiers (unknown location). CUs of refugee adults and children outside the building. INT, women and children are given clothing. Refugees sit at long tables and eat. General view of refugees milling about outside the building.

  11. Collection of 3831 photographs made by members of the Peasant Movement Zbiór 3831 zdjęć wykonanych przez członków Ruchu Ludowego

    Consists of catalog cards with the photo collection from a grup of records: K4-BCH Lwów-Rawa Mazowiecka. Each card contains the photograph and its description along with the date (not always). Photographs relate to World War II: military actions, Polish Armed Forces in the West (Polskie Siły Zbrojne na Zachodzie, PSZ), prisoners of war, occupant policy, terror, Peasant Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie, BCH)-Main Headquarters and armed units (partisans), and commemoration events after WWII.

  12. Lindemann family at home in Mascherode in 1942

    In Mascherode, Oda rides a bike, passes her baby sister Karin. Lindemann family walks down an avenue (repeat from earlier). Children on a residential street. Ethel walks with the two children. Sleds on the snowy street. Houses. Man on bicycle. The family in a different part of town. Large hall, Field. More rows of homes, mostly identical. “ENDE”

  13. Selected records relating to Romania's communist government's attempt to obtain Holocaust-related restitution from the Federal Republic of Germany

    The collection contains reproductions of Russian restitution applications as well as general records concerning the collaboration between Romanian and German authorities from 1938-1941. All records are translated into both Romanian and German. The records are organized in 31 containers that were given to the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971 by the Romanian Ambassador to Germany. Container 1: Consists of 5 large folders comprising an estimated 5,000 pages concerning: Legislation concerning racial and political persecution, translations of the most relevant documents in Ger...

  14. Robert Kaldeck papers

    The collection consists of documents and correspondence regarding the experiences of Dr. Robert Kaldeck, including his emigration from Vienna, Austria in September 1938 with the intention of going to Mexico, where he had been granted asylum; his denial of entry into the United States and Mexico; his stay in Havana, Cuba, where he was given refuge after meeting with Cuban leader, Fulgencio Batista in February 1939; and his immigration to the United States in September 1939. The collection also documents his medical career in Austria and the United States, his efforts to rescue his parents Mo...

  15. Selected records of the city of Warsaw. City Board of the capital city of Warsaw Akta miasta Warszawy. Zarząd Miejski miasta stołecznego Warszawy (Sygn. 3)

    Records of the Social-Political Department of the City Board in Warsaw concerning Jewish associations from the post-war period: Correspondence, registration or refusal of registration, lists of associations, reports on activities, statutes, lists and members and personal files.

  16. Albert Henry Aronson collection

    Contains a "Programm fur die Ausländischen Ehrengäste des Führers," for an event dated April 20, 1939; the pamphlet was brought back to the U.S. after WWII by serviceman Albert Henry Aronson. Includes a letter written by Albert to his sister Emelia (Mitzi) Aronson Rosenberg (donor's mother) explaining how he found the brochure.

  17. Judenrat in Ujście Jezuickie Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Ujście Jezuickie (Sygn. 273)

    Records of the Judenrat in Ujście Jezuickie. Contains private documents: a letter written by Rozalia Polonecka from Ujście Jezuickie. It is handwritten "Goodbye" letter written before her execution, in the prison Wietrzychowice, September 18, 1942. Includes also a note from Dawid Polanecki explaining circumstances of Rozalia's writing, a note was written in Krakow Jan. 26, 1946.

  18. Kutschmann file from Moskovits Office Legajo Walter Kutschmann

    Records from the the office of Mr. José Moskovits, a Holocaust survivor and attorney in Buenos Aires. Consist of correspondence, memorandums, photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Nazi war criminal Walter Kutschmann who lived in Argentina after World War II under the false name Pedro Ricardo Olmo.

  19. Trencin county II Trenčianska župa II

    Administrative records of Trenčín county, with its seat in Žilina. Included are lists of Jews residing in Trenčín district, and in the district and city of Žilina as well as other districts; lists of Jews employed in various businesses; anti-Jewish regulations, circulars and decrees issued by the Ministry of the Interior and local authorities; and records pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish property and assets. Most of the records are for the period between 1940 until the mass round-ups and deportations in 1942.

  20. German soldiers on the eastern front

    Some damaged film. Wehrmacht soldiers in Lukow, Bobruisk, Smolensk in 1942. German men in uniform by car with W.H. on fender. Behind them, “Maison Roblot.” Officers. Men in shorts, one scrubs his shoes. Shirtless German soldier washes clothes. Others sit around a table to relax. They run laps. Military vehicles. Horses pull a covered wagon across a wooden bridge. Destroyed bridge. Men work with tools. “PATHEX”