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  2. Yona and Foa family memoirs

    Two unpublished memoirs, related to the Holocaust experiences of the Yona and Foa families, of Turin Italy: “A Memoir of an Immigrant who Escaped the Holocaust in 1940,” by Eva Yona Deykin, 53 pages, typescript; and“Memoires of David Yona,” by David Yona, typescript, 223 pages. The memoir by Eva Yona Deykin relates the history of the families of both of her parents, David Yona and Anna Foa, their life in Turin after their marriage in 1932, the arrest of Anna Foa's brother, Vittorio Foa, for his anti-fascist activities in 1935, and his betrayal by the writer Pettigrilli (Dino Segre), who had...

  3. Sardine address label

    Label with pre-printed destination address of Lager Birkenau Bei Neubrunn and a typed name, Edita Weissova. One of a set of four Lisbon pre-printed sardine address labels from Gremio dos Exportadores de Conservas de Peixe for registered shipping to different concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen, Lager Barneveld, and Birkenau bei Neubrunn.

  4. Remembrance ceremonies for Heydrich in Prague, Brno, Plzen, and Tabor

    Official Czech newsreel folowing the assassination of Heydrich. The Czech government proclaims their loyalty to the Germans in a remembrance ceremony. “Cesky ZVUKOVÝ TÝDENÍK” “Prag-Praha” “KTULIA AKTUALITÀ” Church of Our Lady Before Tyn in Prague - a mass demonstration in Old Town Square on June 2, 1942. Stage with Czech coat of arms. Crowd. Astronomical Clock Tower. People stand and sit on the Jan Hus Memorial. The square is packed. German officials walk towards the grandstand. Around 60,000 people have gathered in the square (the German minority in Prague was significant). Aerial view. Dr...

  5. Germans Fleeing from the Eastern Territories

    Crowds of people travelling through the snow and elements, ocean, freight ships, fire.

  6. Bund Deutscher Mädel album (Rosenthal, Germany)

    Album, with title page of "Landjahrlager Rosenthal, 1941," and a photograph of an unidentified younog woman. The contents include handwritten texts with the following headings: "Worte für die Fahne," containing quotations from a variety of sources, including Hitler, Nietzsche, Himmler, Hölderlin, Frederick the Great, and Tolstoy, among others, and unattributed verses, "Der 9. November 1923," containing narrative texts and verses about the attempted coup by Nazis in Munich in 1923; and a variety of essays on other themes. The latter part of the book includes a mimeographed about race and gen...

  7. German-American Bund

    German-American Bund (DAB) at Camp Bergwald, New Jersey, in 1939-1940 in color and black and white.

  8. The Frank family celebrates Christmas; children ski; baby

    At home in Schoberhof, the Franks and their nanny exit the doorway of the vacation home. Norman gives the family dog a treat. Nanny with baby. Norman sits near a stack of chairs and furniture. A man takes a picture of Brigitte with baby Niklas (or Michael?), then shows Norman how the camera works. Mother wraps presents; CUs Norman. CUs, toy train. Hans and Brigitte sit together as Brigitte bounces the baby on her knee. A boy lights the candles on the Christmas tree. The family with five children sit for a portrait photo (with a spotlight flash). CU of a record player. Man (father of Hans Fr...

  9. Russian Campaign, private films

    heavy industry, construction, railways, industrial plants, large production hall, horse cart, ferry, airfield, shooting from a flying plane

  10. Western Campaign: France

    Refugees, destroyed tanks, dinghy, military exercise with a smoke bomb, formal service, watch on the Atlantic Ocean.

  11. Primo Levi manuscript collection

    The Primo Levi manuscript collection consists of the typescript text of a working draft of Primo Levi's original manuscript Se questo è un Uomo [If This Is a Man], which recounted his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz, and was later published as Survival in Auschwitz. Contains handwritten corrections and additions in red pencil; and includes 10 of the 17 chapters that were eventually included in the final publication. Many of the texts conclude with the date on which they were written, along with Levi’s name.

  12. Western Campaign

    Soldiers, medals, marching through snow, swastika, soldiers' graves, train, coast guard, pistol shooting drills, military band

  13. Boelke squadron (color film) Russian Campaign

    Russian campaign, Boelcke Squadron

  14. Itzkovitz and Heshkovitz Families collection

    Collection of photographs of the Izkovitz family in Beregszasz (Berehove), Czechoslovakia.

  15. Leo Weinrieb: My many lives

    Photocopy of a transcript, 63 pages, of several interviews conducted by Elizabeth Conant with Leo Weinrieb, originally of Poland, but who survived the Holocaust while in hiding in the Netherlands. Interviews were recorded in 2009 and 2010 in Willliamsville, NY, and were subsequently transcribed by Kathleen Hume, under the title "Leo Weinrieb: My Many Lives."

  16. Private film recordings of a glider group

    With German title cards. "Wir lernen fliegen". "Ein Segelflieger-Film der Fliegerortsgruppe Greven e.V. des deutschen Luftsportverbandes". ["We learn to fly". "A glider pilot film of the Greven e.V. group of pilots of the German Air Sports Association".]

  17. Giorgio Perlasca correspondence with Eva and Pál Lang

    Correspondence, sent between Giorgio Perlasca, of Padua, Italy, and Eva and Pál Lang, of Budapest, Hungary, 1988-1992. and with Perlasca's family, 1992-1997. The Langs, who were among the Jews saved by Perlasca's actions in Budapest in 1944-1945, when Perlasca provided over 5,000 people with safe conduct passes through the Spanish legation in Budapest to prevent their deportation by the Nazis, contacted him in 1988 to express their gratitude. The Langs remained in contact with Perlasca in the following years, visiting him in Italy and hosting visits in Hungary, which are documented in this ...

  18. Replacement Fighter Group 50 at Ossum at Erbenheim (partly in color)

    Replacement Fighter Group 50, airfield, winter, attendance of highschool students

  19. Collection of testimonies of disabled soldiers of World War II Zbiór relacji inwalidów II wojny światowej (Sygn. 1702)

    Collection consists of the memoirs of disabled ex-servicemen from Poland, related to their experiences during World War II and the German occupation of Poland. The volume of individual accounts ranges from a few to several dozen pages. Many cases include personal questionnaires. The main subjects included in the memoirs are: the campaign of September 1939, the Polish Resistance movement, the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, forced labor and imprisonment in concentration camps and prison camps for NCO’s and soldiers in Nazi Germany.

  20. Family of Walther and Erika Lenger: Holidays; children at school; singing and dancing

    Intertitle: “Der Kunze-film II. Teil,” “Weihnachten 1934,” “Vorbereitungen.” Plates of seeds. The older woman from the film before takes a cup full and grinds them up. The man eats handfuls of what appears to be nuts. The woman pours flour into a basin and moves her hands through it. The man carries a board with four fresh breads on it atop his head. He puts coins into his hand and then bows with a tip of his hat and takes the empty board back through a door. The woman sews. A younger woman types on a typewriter. Intertitle: “heiliger Abend,” “Der weihnachtsmann kommt.” A man with a long wh...