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  1. Bavarian village; Hitler Youth; Autobahn

    Home in Bavaria. The visiting Americans (the Major Family) and locals dine outdoors. CUs of individuals in the garden. "The Fire Department of Munich rescues a cat" Many specators watch a fireman climbing firetruck ladder to rescue a cat in a tree. 01:14:17 "In the Bavarian Tyrol" (color) EXT, buildings in Bavarian village. Men in traditional Bavarian dress. Decorated maypole for a folk ceremony with swastika symbols at the top. Street scenes, local shops. Hotel Alte Post (Anton Preisinger guest house) in Oberammergau. Bicycles. (changes back to black and white) Group of Hitler Youth with b...

  2. Keren Alexandria collection

    Contains documents concerning the commemoration of the Aleksandria community in the region of Wolyn, Ukraine. Includes handwritten and typewritten letters; a memorial article about the town; an announcement about searches for relatives; a names list of victims; material from Yad Vashem; and documents and notebooks listing letters and donations to the association.

  3. Samuel Jacob Landau collection

    Contains documents and correspondence relating to the internment of the family of Samuel Jacob Landau, and their subsequent immigration to the United States.

  4. Visiting Oberammergau

    “OBERAMMERGAU” St. Peter and Paul Church in Oberammergau. World War I memorial. People seated at a restaurant. The inscription on the side of the memorial pillar. Other activities in town center. Bavarian-style buildings, people dining, crowded streets.

  5. Ernest Braun papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Ernest (Eliezer) Braun of Vienna, Austria, including his escape from Austria in 1938 to Yugoslavia and Italy, his immigration to the United States in 1944, and his time living at the Fort Ontario refugee camp in Oswego, New York. Included is a small amount of biographical material; a false identification card from Italy; correspondence from his parents Josef and Gisela Braun and his sister Nelly Braun, all of whom perished during the Holocaust; writings; and photographs. Biographical materials include birth certificates, address books, a...

  6. Berariu family papers

    Contains 15 archival documents, four postcards, and two identification cards related to the Holocaust-era experiences of the Berariu family.

  7. Szyfman and Rozental families collection

    The collection contains correspondence sent by Dr. Leon Szyfman in the POW camp Oflag VI B Dössel between September 25, 1943 and November 3, 1944 to Helena and Henryk Rozental in Bern, Switzerland; a Red Cross letter sent by Stephanie Pitzele in Kibali, Congo to Helena Rozenthal; a letter from M. Rappaport in ILAG to Helena Rozental regarding Dr. Szyfman; a wedding announcement of Paulette Ouvrard and Joseph Cukier, 1944; calling cards of Atalia Singer; and miscellanous notes.

  8. Collection of Florian Efraim Sokołów Akta Floriana Efraima Sokołowa (Sygn.103)

    Personal papers of Florian Efraim Gotthold, his wife and son. He was a Jewish lawyer and journalist. The collection includes political correspondence and journalistic work, as well as press services, newspapers and news clippings, collection of postcards, and family private correspondence, telegrams and bills. The smaller group are papers related to the period of his work in the Joint Distribution Committee (Files 9-10) and Jewish issues (Files 11-12). There are contributions to the activities of Zionist organizations in Poland and abroad, a speech of Nachum Sokolow (Florian's father), note...

  9. Budapest: city views; bathhouse; rose gardens

    Film Nr. 38. Title card: “Budapest – wie es war!” [Budapest – how it was!]. Parliament building in Budapest from across the Danube. Views of the Buda side of the river. Views of the Danube and the buildings along the water on the Pest side. The Parliament building from afar. Driving in a car across the Szechenyi Chain Bridge. A streetcar. Flowers and gardens on Margaret Island. Title card: “Im Palatinus Strandbad.” [In Palatinus Bathhouse] EXT of the bathhouse. Gardens around the baths. Thermal baths. People swim in the baths. Fountains. Flowers and gardens. People sunbathing. Groups of peo...

  10. Red Cross ribbon bar

    American Red Cross ribbon bar received by Helen Weisberger during her service with the American Red Cross in World War II.

  11. R.C. Slater collection

    Contains a booklet, liberation photographs, and combat images belonging to a soldier named R.C. Slater, who later gave the materials to the donor.

  12. Berko family papers

    Correspondence, from Ignatz Berko, sent to family members in New York, circa 1937-1941; among the recipients were son Louis (Lajos) Berkow, and daughters Sadie Grossman and Rose Rubin. Also includes copy of certificate attesting to Andor Lichtman's imprisonment at Mauthausen, 1944-1945; and copy prints of photographs of Ignatz Berko and family (original was from circa 1932), and of a memorial plaque for Ernest Lichtman at the site of the Ebensee concentration camp.

  13. Vasilevsky family in Slovakia

    KODAK. Quick pan of workers in Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia. The Vasilevsky family exits an automobile, including mother Elizabeth, daughter Emma, and son George. CUs. The children pick flowers and dance with George (the cameraman). Four schoolgirls on sidewalk and in town. An elegantly dressed man waves to the camera. Boy cries. Elizabeth and her children exit a building (possibly the Kvetnica Sanatorium where they visited Dr. Madziuk). Walking in the large park in the center of Kvetnice. Children, including Vitia and Peter Kalina, play in the garden with a rabbit at home in Spišská Nová Ves...

  14. Selected records from the Panevėžys Branch County Archives in Lithuania related to restitution of Jewish property

    Records of various county agencies (State Notary, County Executive Council, People's Court, etc.) related to the restitution and inheritance of the individual and communal Jewish property located in the Panevėžys County, Lithuania after World War II.

  15. Fred Weiss collection

    Contains photographs, letters, and documents related to the wartime and postwar experiences of Wilhelm (William) and Regina Rusinek Weiss. Includes photographs showing Regina Rusinek in Volary, Czechoslovakia, soon after the liberation by the US Army in May 1945; later photographs depicting William and Regina in the Feldafing DP camp, in the Berlin Zoo and with their newborn son, Samuel, born 1946; documents related to the imprisonment of Regina in Grunberg forced labor camp and on a forced march to Volary; documents related to their immigration and sailing on the SS Gen. Heinzelman; and a ...

  16. Prayer book

    Set of prayer books for different Jewish holidays. The set belonged to Martha and Leo Loeb.

  17. Paul Blank photograph collection

    The collection consists of post-war photographs depicting Holocaust survivor Paul Blank standing with fellow survivors and American soldiers in front of the memorial monument at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Zeilsheim, Germany.

  18. Jung family photographs

    Contains photographs depicting the Jung family in Munkač, Czechoslovakia; Josef Jung (donor's father) ID photo in Israel after the war; and images of Gitta Erbs (later Jung) in Germany after the war and later in Israel. Gitta Erbs was born in Hust, Hungary to Mordechai Erbs and Berta Farkas Erbs. In May1944 she was deported with her family to the Auschwitz death camp and tattooed with the number A-11690; Josef Jung was born on Feb. 16, 1926 in Munkač, Hungary, son of Izak Jung and Rosa Weisskopf Jung. Josef was deported to Auschwitz death camp in May 1944 and tattooed with number: A-17900. ...

  19. Records of Jewish communities and institutions in Paraguay Paraguay-Legajos de Comunidades e Instituciones Judías

    Records from the Jewish community in Asunción and several Jewish institutions in Paraguay, including the "Sociedad Templo Israelita Latino del Paraguay," "Unión de Israelitas pro Socorro Mutuo," "Unión Hebraica del Paraguay," "WIZO," and others. Features board minutes, protocols, statutes, correspondence and reports, account ledgers, newspaper clippings, commemoration records, publications and articles, photographs, questionnaires and lists, and other documents.

  20. Pastor Paul Vogt papers Nachlass Pfarrer Paul Vogt (1900-1984)

    Private papers of Paul Vogt (1900-1984), Swiss pastor and a refugee aid worker. Consists of manuscripts, press articles, honors, diaries, obituaries, notes by Sophie Vogt-Brenner and Annemarie Vogt, photographs, interviews and publications. Records relate to Paul Vogt's commitment and leadership for charity and assistance to refugees, his work towards understanding between Christian and Jews, and his support for the existence of the State of Israel.