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  1. Sali Berl Bogatyrow collection

    The collection consists of an ashtray, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Sali Berl after the Holocaust in Sweden and the United States.

  2. Tax records of racially persecuted persons Steuerakten rassisch Verfolgter

    Contains tax records of racially persecuted persons, held by the Staatsarchiv München.

  3. Archive of Ministry of Internal Affairs. Refugees from Germany Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken (BiZa)/Vluchtelingen Duitsland

    Records of the Bureau General Secretariat and Compatibility, the Bureau Armwezen/Vluchtelingen and the refugee camps Westerbork, the Lloyd-hotel (later Oostelijke Handelskade) in Amsterdam, the quarantine station Beneden-Heyplaat in Rotterdam and the Koninginnehoofd refugee camp in Rotterdam. The collection consists of records relating to financial and personnel matter, the construction and the layout of the camps. There are also weekly reports and strength records of camp residents, personal cards, sightings etc., and records relating to the Committee of Jewish Refugees, concerning the med...

  4. Prison at the Daniłowiczowska Street in Warsaw Więzienie przy ulicy Daniłowiczowskiej w Warszawie (Sygn.210)

    Records of the Centralny Areszt w Warszawie-"Centralniak" at the Daniłowiczowska Street in Warsaw. Includes a register of persons detained in the prison, the book of prisoners, lists of arrests, prisoners' index, file of Janina Serafin and Noech Lejba Troper.

  5. Tony Carbone collection

    Photographs of a deportation action in Russia, Jewish children, Germany military activities, and a landscape.

  6. Schiffer family relatives in a village in Slovakia

    Goats walk through village of Gelnica, Slovakia. (00:44) Three adults (including Ernö and Laci Schiffer’s sister Lola and her husband Nathan Engel) walk on the street. (00:59) Boats in a lake. Golnic River nearby. “Danubius r.t. Budapest Pathé 9.5”

  7. Oral history interview with Olimpia

  8. Wooden rack wagon, yolk, and pole typical of those used in prewar Poland

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn13573
    • English
    • a: Height: 45.000 inches (114.3 cm) | Width: 54.000 inches (137.16 cm) | Depth: 138.500 inches (351.79 cm) b: Height: 150.250 inches (381.635 cm) | Diameter: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) c: Height: 32.125 inches (81.598 cm) | Diameter: 2.875 inches (7.302 cm)

    Wooden farm wagon, handle, and pole of the type used by many Polish farmers and refugees before and during World War II. Poland was invaded by Germany on September 1, 1939. Many Polish Jews and non-Jews fled to eastern Poland in an attempt to escape the advancing German Army. On September 17, the Soviet Army occupied eastern Poland, per the German-Soviet Pact, signed on August 19, which included a secret agreement to partition Poland. Approximately 300,000 Jewish refugees were trapped in eastern Poland when it was annexed by the Soviet Union. In 1940-1941, the Soviets arrested and deported ...

  9. German Army waits; Officers consult maps

    Officers and soldiers sit, stand on lawn, smoke, read, confer with maps.

  10. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  11. Dedication of land for Jewish refugees in the Philippines, 1940

    Dedication of Mariquina Hall in Manila on April 23, 1940. President Manuel Quezon offered this private land (called Mariquina Hall) to the Jewish Rescue Committee in order to provide housing for Jewish refugees. Guests gather outdoors. 01:02:51 Alex Frieder speaks to the audience, while President Quezon sits at the table to the side. 01:03:05 President Quezon addresses the crowd, Herbert Frieder in back. Quezon shakes hands with some men on the stage. Alex Frieder and President Quezon walk together through the crowd to survey the land. CUs, side views of President Quezon speaking. The camer...

  12. Hitler speaking in stadium

    Title: "All Germany rises to Hitler's call - 120,000 Westphalians meet in stadium at Dortmund to cheer stirring appeal by the fiery Chancellor." Hitler arrives and gets out of a car. Aerial shots of crowds. The narrator states that a united Germany is Hitler's rallying cry as he tours Germany. Hitler speaks, beginning by saying that those enemies who laughed on the 30th of January are not laughing anymore. He speaks further and ends with crowds saluting.

  13. Roma/Sinti in Berlin

    Romani group in Berlin filmed by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in 1932. 00:00:40 Horse grazing near camp. Overhead shots of wagons, horses near by. Child in courtyard. 00:01:11 Woman washes child in wagon doorway. Children comb hair. CUs children. 00:01:42 Children play with banners. 00:02:04 Shots of wagons and horses, men with horse, slap hands. Men into wagons. 00:02:36 CU of woman. Wagon along road. Men drive off in cart. POV cart, leaving camp. 00:03:02 Berlin street, wagon. 00:03:18 Horse market. 00:04:01 Girl in wagon at market, CU. More horse market. 00:04:36 CU man, profile, boy with horse. 0...

  14. Apron

    The apron was made for Julia Schor while she was in hiding as a child in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

  15. Courtroom interior during session at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 211 and 222) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. MS, Russian, British, American, and French justices on bench. MS, stenographers and stenotypists at work. Different shots of correspondents seated in courtroom during trial. Shots of visitors seated in courtroom. MS, American and Russian prosecution staffs in court. HMS, Justices Birkett, Biddle, Parker, and Lawrence.

  16. Buchenwald negatives

    Contains thirteen original negatives documenting the liberation of Buchenwald.

  17. Judith Rosenbluth-Mogendorff papers

    Contains a postcard sent by Josef Mogendorf (donor's father) in the Netherlands to his grandson, J. Rosenbaum, in Switzerland; dated September 7, 1942. Also contains a telegram, dated December 23, 1943, sent to J. Rosenbaum in Switzerland from family in Tel Aviv, related to their efforts to assist Josef Mogendorf. Josef Mogendorf was deported from Holland and killed in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on July 16, 1944.

  18. Stovall collection

    The collection consists of two prints.

  19. Wuhlfel burial of Russian POWs

    (LIB 6231) Disinterment, Reburial of Russian Prisoners of War, Wuhlfel, Germany, May 2, 1945 Head-on shots, several Russian civilians riding bicycles; red flag on handlebars of first bike. LSs, city hall building in Hanover. MSs, CUs, German civilians dig up bodies of 250 murdered Russian prisoners. MSs, bodies are wrapped in white sheets, placed in trucks, and transported to reburial grounds. VAR, released Russian slave laborers observing reburial. Pan from German civilians carrying bodies to Russian flag flyings atop pole. CU, Russian flag lowered to half-mast. MCU, US chaplain conducting...

  20. Gabi Rosberger collection

    Consists of photographs of the Lederer and Bruck families ca. 1938-1940, including photographs of Nina Lederova, whose watercolor is featured in "I Never Saw Another Butterfly." Also includes documentation for Mr. Kurt Reitler, who emigrated from Prague to Shanghai, and a 1940 Czech passport, receipts, Chinese identity cards, and other vaccination certification; including four multi-colored telegrams in Czech sending familial greetings. Also contains film reels of b&w and color Kodachrome with home movies of the Lederer and Bruck families in Prague, Plana Nad Luznici, Pacov, and Stechov...