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  1. Poster celebrating America's diversity

    Poster illustrated by Emma Bourne for the The Council Against Intolerance in America.

  2. America Trip 1930

    German intertitles. Trip to America made by Karl May, Frau Klara May, Dr. Just, Herr und Frau Lieberknecht.

  3. Jordan family collection

    Collection of photographs relating to the Jordan family from Miskolc, Hungary. Gyula Itzhak Jordan (b. Nov. 30, 1895) and his wife Aranka Zeisler Jordan (b. January 29, 1904), parents of Judit, (b. June 13, 1929). The Jordan family moved to Budapest in 1932, where Judit attended Scottish missionary Burgerschule, but in September 1943 she was transferred to a Jewish Gymnasium. In March 1944, with German invasion of Hungary, Jewish children were not allowed to attend school. The Jordan family had to move to a building marked with a Star of David. Gyula worked in the basement of the building, ...

  4. Marianne and Josef Schömann portrait

    Portrait of Marianne and Josef Schömann, parents of three daughters who immigrated to the United States from Germany before the war. Mr. and Mrs. Schömann managed to reach Holland; on October 30, 1942 they were arrested and taken to the Westerbork transit camp, and deported to the Auschwitz death camp on November 2, 1942.

  5. Selected records of the Municipal School Council in Kielc Rada Szkolna Miejska w Kielcach (Sygn. 248)

    Records of the Municipal School Board, which supervised the activities of all schools in Kielce before the war. Included are numerous lists of Polish and Jewish schoolchildren. The Board granted and withdrew licenses for teaching and corresponded with the schools. Among the materials are documents related to Jewish private schools in Kielce.

  6. Marta Goldschmidt Neuhaus collection

    The collection contains two diaries written by Marta Goldschmidt Neuhaus in Esslingen, Germany. One diary, dated 1935-1936, describes her life in Germany including her family’s efforts to leave. The second diary, dated 1936-1937, begins at the point of the family's departure in January 1936 through July 1937.

  7. Edwin Hinrichs photograph collection

    Collection of photographs captured by Edwin Hinrichs (donor's father) Master Sargeant in the 17th Cavalry Squadron under General Patton, from a German POW, depicting German soldiers during their military operations; c. 1941-1942. Some of the photographs depict concentration camps.

  8. Selected records of the city Ruda Pabianicka Akta Miasta Ruda Pabianicka (Sygn. 223)

    Minutes, resolutions, regulations, statistics, indexes of inhabitants, correspondence and ordinances of the town of Ruda Pabianicka (today a district of the city Łódź). Contains records of the local slaughter house and artisan guilds related to trade and craft of the 1930s. Majority of records consist of statistics of the town dwellers, books of permanent inhabitants and their properties, indexes and books of control of migration. Extensive lists of Jewish people of 1939-1940 are located in the File 434a.

  9. Nuremberg demonstration

    AGFA 1938. Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, 1938. Crowds. HAS, parade in streets. Demonstrations in the stadium. Street scenes. Swastika flags.

  10. stamped envelope

    Stamped envelope sent to inmate Louis Goldmann at Internment Camp "N", Ottowa, Canada. The return address is in Quito, Ecuador and the sender is Federico Goldmann. The envelope includes 4 stamps. The envelope is postmarked 29 April 1943.

  11. Touring Northern Spain and the French riviera

    With intertitles in English. Shots from up above of the coast and a village below. 0:41 “Cathedral of Notre Dame de la Garde at Marseilles- France.” Shots of the cathedral, two fashionably-dressed women pose and smile for the camera in front of the beach. 1:02 “In the Courtyard of a former Count’s Estate.” The same two women and a man stand before a building with a large rose window. 1:19 “Hotel D’Angleterre in Biarritz.” A well-dressed woman and man exit the Hotel D’Angleterre and walk around the gardens. 2:00 “A drive to St. Jean Pied de Port.” Shot of a flowing river. Car stopped on the ...

  12. Dachau photograph collection

    Contains post-liberation photographs identified as the Dachau concentration camp. The photos belonged to a medic who was donor's great uncle (name unknown). Some images are labeled on verso; one is addressed to "Eddie" [Edward Galarneau, donor's paternal grandfather]. The images were likely taken clandestinely and show various scenes of victims in rail cars and on horse-drawn carriages.

  13. Gliders

    Private film. Gliding school Leba. Lonske Düne. Pomerania. "Moderne Ikarier". "Ein Tag bei Segelfliegern". "Aufnahmen mit Zeiss-Ikon.Kinamo K.S.10".

  14. Trommer and Geldmann families collection

    Contains documents and photographs relating to the Trommer and Geldmann families from Copenhagen; documents include marriage certificate of Moses Diament of Copenhagen, Denmark and Pesa Geldmann of Łódź, Poland, issued in Zbaszyn, Poland on April 22, 1939; Ketubah of Josef Geldmann and Kaja Diament, dated October 27, 1935 in Copenhagen. Josef, son of Moses Geldmann (donor's grandfather) was born on September 9, 1914 in Łódź. Josef's sister Pesia Geldmann married Moses Diament and was able to come to Denmark just before the outbreak of the war. In 1943 the whole family was able to escape to ...

  15. Ford-Eifel automobile

    Ford "Eifel" is a car manufactured by Ford Germany between 1935 and 1940. NSKK men conduct cars during off-road driving, Hitler salute from moving cars, subtitles: "The third day started with rain", car collection point, Wehrmacht soldiers, salute from car at the destination, celebration at Kynsburg, award of the winners (Werner Huth, Breslau), " Exit from Silesia ”, detailed list of the winners. Ford end titles. Pictures by Rolf-Dietrich Nath, Agfa cameraman, later PK film reporter. 10:07:30 gas station, repair Ford, Kynsburg, Lower Silesia, Wroclaw 10:11:06 Nazi women support the driver 1...

  16. Card catalog of evacuees from Latvia

    Card index of citizens evacuated from Latvia in 1941.

  17. Russian campaign

    Russian campaign, June-July 1941. Lithuania, Lithuanian para-military organizations. Russia.

  18. Military maneuvers

    Parade in Berlin, Polish Campaign, French Campaign

  19. Berlin in Color

    Old Berlin, stroll through city, "Reich capital Berlin 1936". The recordings are from the years 1941/42, shot by the professional cameraman Frederick Fuglsang. East-West axis, decorated with swastika flags, traffic towards Brandenburg Gate, Uniformed. Unter den Linden, Radio tower, exhibition halls at the radio tower, Cafe, Hitler Youth, Old library, Hedwigskirche, Scharnhorst monument, Old St. Mary's Church, Theodor Körner Residential building, where Körner lived as a student.

  20. Massacre of Serbs; emaciated children

    Shooting of Serbs, Communists, and Jews in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia in January or February 1942. In 1941, Nazi groups of Croatian Ustasha conquered the city and prepared to slaughter the Serbs in the city. According to historians, the group of people in the film were either accused for black market activity or part of the "politically unfit" Serbian population. 10:00:57-10:03:20 Emaciated children.