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  1. Randy Comins collection

    Photographs: family photographs of Zelda Field's (donor's aunt) family in Vilna, Poland, who died during the Holocaust.

  2. József Essösy papers

    Collection of documents relating to József Essösy's rescue activities in Hungary. Essösy was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 2016.

  3. Vitta family papers

    The collection consists of letters written by Benvenuto Mario Vitta (Mario) in 1944 to his wife Ines and daughter Adriana who were in hiding. The letters were likely written in Milan and the Fossoli di Carpi concentration camp. There is also one letter to Mario from his friend Alessandro Sgatti who was hiding Mario's son Adolfo with his family in Marina di Carrara.

  4. Rachel Rottersman correspondence with Grace Cohen Grossman

    Correspondence from Rachel Rottersman, a social worker who had worked with UNRRA at displaced persons camps in Germany following World War II, and Dr. Grace Cohen Grossman, curator at the Spertus Museum in Chicago, dating from 1979-1980. The correspondence largely deals with requests from Rottersman regarding research about a mass grave near Baumholder, Germany; efforts to recognize a Polish couple, Victor and Ludmila Gromadski, as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem; and proposals to interview people who Rottersman knew from the displaced persons camps where she had worked.

  6. East Prussia, Breslau

    Several short documentaries with titles on East Prussia, Silesia, Transylvania, Refugee Camp in Denmark

  7. Samuel Kramer papers

    Consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs and similar materials collected by Samuel Kramer, an attorney who was legal counsel to Agudas Chasidei Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and who worked closely with Rabbi S. Gourary and his father-in-law, the Lubavticher Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, in attempts to secure visas for several dozen rabbis and students of the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva, first so that they could leave Lithuania for Japan, and then from Japan onward, 1940-1941. The “Correspondence” series is the largest component of the collection, and consists primarily of letters fr...

  8. Trip to Italy, 1930s

    Ponte Vechhio, the Duomo, The David, Colosseum, fisherman sitting at the harbor, various Italian sites

  9. Lviv city life

    Lvov, Poland. People on the sidewalk by Mickiewicz Square. Monument dedicated to Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz. Polish officers walk by on the sidewalk. Two men set up a camera on tripod. People on the streets of Lviv. Foot traffic by Mickiewicz Square. KINO building. Two young boys walk towards the camera. Bronze monument to Count Aleksander Fredro. A monument to Kornel Ujejski with a bust of Ujejski at the top. Pedestrians. “PLUTON” shop. Two men carry a banner for the Hungarian-born American actress and singer, Marta Eggerth: “MARTA EGGERTH. PALAC FLANDE” with a photo of one woman’s face o...

  10. Elmer Jesse Fisher papers

    Contains a multi-paged report titled "We Saw Dachau" (V. 1 No. 6) dated "Mon. 14 May 1945." Report written by numerous soldiers, but primarily by Elmer J. Fisher (donor's grandfather). Signed by him, upper left corner of cover. Includes three photographs of post-liberation of trains with corpses, taken near the Dachau camp, dated May 1945.

  11. Romanian photograph collection

    Photographs include Jewish hostages shot in the Soborului Vechi park/garden in Balti, Romania; a Zeppelin; a non-Jewish burial, and an unidentified building in Romania, undated.

  12. Basic training, German soldiers in Ukraine

    Basic training in tank reconnaissance, motorcycle riding, German soldiers. Jassy 1944 (Southern Ukraine). Bazooka. Tank mine. German-Romanian. Gen. Radulesci. Dead civilians. Stanca 1944. Panzer IV, counterattack. 01:29:50 - 01:42:00 Same as M 2574 (http://www.archiv-akh.de/filme/2574#1).

  13. Carl Schurz Tour of American professors and students through Germany in summer 1934

    REEL 1. Portrait bust of Carl Schurz. Title: “The Vereinigung CARL SCHURZ Berlin presents GERMANY 1934. Directed by O.V. Bothmer, Photographed by Erich Menzel, Music by Walter Winnig, Sound by Erich Dolle, Recorded on Klangfilm apparatus Afifa Sound Print Material Agfa.” UFA Rolling title: “This film is a pictorial record of the ‘Carl Schurz Tour’ of American professors and students, representing 26 American universities and other institutions, through Germany in the summer of 1934. With the object of furthering the friendly relations between America and Germany on the basis of mutual under...

  14. Oral history interview with Tania Lefman

  15. Nazi Germany; evacuation of German children from urban areas; sports; Hitler

    With German titles. Various cuts. 1944. Christmas 1941. Food stamps. Evacuation of German children from urban areas. Saar status referendum, 1935. Relay race. Rudolf Hess. Adolf Hitler

  16. Russian campaign; burning villages

    Russia. Mud. Smolensk. Winter Russia. German soldiers. Fires. Attacks. March 1943. Civilians. Simferopol. Romania 1944. Entertainers. 01:09:36 Seven hanged Jews (two women, five men) wearing yellow stars, near Minsk in November 1941. WS, MS, MC, CUs. With a printed sign: "Diese Juden haben gegen die deutsche Wehrmacht gehetzt!" (see RG-60.1281). Brief views of Roma camp in Tiraspol.

  17. Gertrude Buff Spangler papers

    Collection of documents, photographs and notebook illustrating the pre-war and wartime experiences of Gertrude Buff's and her mother and father, Elsa and Berthold Buff. Also included is a Deutsches Reich Reisepass [German passport] for Paul Spangenthal [Gertrude's husband, Paul Spangler]. Collection contains Arbeitsbuch [worker's book] for Gertrude, who was forced as a Jew to leave school and work for private German companies until she and Elsa emigrated in 1939. Includes German documents concerning confiscated family property and post-war restitution efforts; a handwritten German cookbook ...

  18. Lorna Adelman photographs and papers

    Contains photographs and copy print images of Gil and Lorna Adelman in various displaced persons camps, primarily Zeilsheim, Lindenfels, and Wiesbaden. Incudes a pamphlet for the dedication of Synagogue Center of Wiesbaden, December 1946, and a document entitled “Programm der Purimfeier” by the Jewish Community of Wiesbaden.

  19. Polish campaign; Lukow; Jews with armbands; Russian campaign; Holland

    Various private films beginning in France, beach life. 10:14:51 March 23, 1940: Poland: City of Lukow, Polish farmers. 10:15:14 Jews with armbands, Jewish children offer goods for sale (veal tray). 10:16:44 At the squadron of II / RR 22: Village idyll, ducks, horses are examined. 10:16:49 Sign: "Wehrmacht block. No one is allowed to enter without permission for anyone not belonging to the Wehrmacht". Germans and Poles. 10:18:06 Veterinary Staff. 10:18:18 Polish women farmers beat flax, drawing well, threshing on the threshing floor. 10:19:21 Obstacle riding: Colonel von Bruch, Lieutenant Mi...

  20. Katzenberg and Ermann families collection

    Contains photographs, postcards, identification cards, and other documents concerning the Ermann and Katzenberg families. Includes a photograph of Elza Ermann Kolvitz and her son Hans; two postcards sent to Switzerland from Lidi Katzenberg, who was on a kibbutz; one postcard from Leo Ermann to his wife, dated July 7, 1944; one postcard sent to Toni Katzenberg (donor's mother) in Brissago, Switzerland from Leo Ermann on April 30, 1944; one Ausweis (identification card) issued to Toni Katzenberg, Saarbrucken, December 17, 1934; one Ausweis (identification card) issued to Henriette Ermann, Saa...