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  1. Einstein in Caputh and Oberwesel

    Horse-drawn cart piled high with logs moves down the street. Couple in a horse-drawn wagon. CU, sign: “KINDER LANDHEIM CAPUTH, Gertrud Feiertag.” Bavarian home decorated with flower boxes. Women pose for camera. Albert Einstein, clad in pajamas, stands with a woman on the front porch of his summer house in Caputh, Germany. She ushers two younger ladies into the shot. They hold notebooks in their arms. View from the second story of the Einstein house of the surrounding property, homes, and gardens. Woman tends to crops. An older woman carries a basket full of goods on her back. Dining at a r...

  2. Luftwaffe film on a Stuka (dive bomber) unit

    donkey, well, occupied trails, German soldiers in Greece, dogs, Acropolis, cyclists, military band, civilians (Jews?) constructing roads, construction of wooden hut in a forest, Eifel Tower, aerial shots of snow, mother and child, groups of Carbines marching

  3. Jidiszer D.P. Lager in Schwäbish Hall

    Contains a book entitled "Jidiszer D.P. Lager in Schwäbish Hall," containing photographs of various aspects of camp life in the Schwäbisch Hall displaced persons camp, with transliterated Yiddish captions.

  4. Marine fellowship

    German warships, Marine day in Berlin, Naval submarine

  5. Ephraim Urbach collection

    Circular letters, reports, and newsletters, and related materials, collected by Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach, during the time when he served as a chaplain with the British Army, ministering in displaced persons camps in Italy, circa 1944-1947. Includes two mimeographed reports issued by the Hechalutz Ha-Echad in Bari, Italy, 1946-1947; letters sent to various institutes in Palestine requesting medical supplies, books and teaching materials for use in displaced persons camps in Italy, 1944; typescript copy of a report filed by a representative (L. Bernstein) of the Central Committee of...

  6. Edward Rutkowski collection

    Contains photographic prints showing destruction due to wafare but also immediate post-liberation images of concentration camps, likely the Ebensee subcamp of Mauthausen.

  7. Broadside

    Broadside: Announcing a memorial gathering in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the recently deceased Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzenski of Vilna. Sponsored by Merkaz Chorev of America at the Tifereth Yisrael Synagoge, in which Rabbi Eliezer Silver will speak and prayers recited for those murdered in the current outrages in Europe; New York, 1940

  8. stamped envelope

    Stamped envelope sent to inmate Ernst Otto Weisz at Camp "N", Ottowa, Canada. The return address is in Montevideo Uruguay and includes a 5 centesimos stamp. The envelope is postmarked 29 April 1943.

  9. Color private films of Germany

    10:00:00 Color: 8-mm private film from Upper Silesia / Peiskretscham, 1938 10:33:51 Color: Private film: Nuremberg, shoveling snow, young people, fair, garden

  10. SA and Ernst Roehm in Bayreuth, 1934

    SA March of the SA Brigade 77 in Bayreuth on May 13, 1934. Men march in columns. They then stand side by side, Nazi flags billowing in the wind beside them. WS of the soldiers in a field with long rows of motorbikes. Officers on horseback do the Nazi salute. 10:01:30 Ernst Röhm, a Nazi Party founder, leans over to speak to a soldier. They salute, before the officer continues down the line of men. Three men on horseback carry flags bearing the symbols of the Nazi party. The officers ride away down the field. Soldiers stand still in rows, looking right towards the camera. The men bring their ...

  11. Pair of straw boots with felt liners

    Straw boots with felt liners acquired by Ruth Felzer, a member of the Women's Army Corps [WACs] stationed in Europe, primarily in Germany.

  12. Gerstel family collection

    Contains identity cards issued to the donor's grandparents and father in Belgium; a Bar Mitzvah invitation for Simon Gerstel (donor's father); and copyprints illustrating their flight from Belgium through France, Casablanca, and Cuba.

  13. German family in city, riverboat tour

    1938-1939. Color - Young boy plays ball. Family walks along path in the woods. They smile and play. B/W- the women perform for the camera. Men run and jump over a string tied between two trees. Color - The family walks around the city and enter their apartment. Street scenes. Building under construction. B/W - EXT, boy sits in a motorcycle sidecar on the street with the apartment. A woman takes his place and they take off. Boy waves at the camera. Color - Family boards a boat and sails, Nazi flag at the back of the boat. “BISMARCKWARTE.” They arrive at “Marienlust. Besitzer Paul Pozin” port...

  14. Train station and sights in Krakow; Nazi motorcade

    Handwritten film title card reading "Krakau." A train pulls into station. German soldiers carry bags down the stairs. Men unload luggage and cargo from the cars. A child sells newspapers in Krakow's main square. Troops and civilians mull about. Horses and carriages are lined up for passengers. Telegraph offices, St. Mary's Basilica, and the Podgorze Church. Street scenes including a tram and horses and carriages. A Polish civilian in a business suit crossing the street heils for the camera. Peasants exchange goods at the marketplace. Polish women smile at the camera. CUs of money and food e...

  15. German soldiers move through Morsbach and Hornbach

    With German intertitles. Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. “Am Divisions-Gefechtsstrand in Morsbach.” Soldier on a motorcycle, camera pans to the trees and hill beyond. A car moves along a dirt road, tree-covered hills in the distance. WS of a building at the base of a hill. “Morsbach und Umgebung” Morsbach and the surrounding area. Houses at the top of a hill. “Zugang zum Divisions-Gefechtsstand.” Soldiers at the Division Command Post. Two soldiers help a man get his motorcycle started by runn...

  16. Luftwaffe

    Luftwaffe unit, Me 109E, light anti-aircraft gun, trucks, laughing officers in the snow, Alps, boat party, Innsbruck, Luftwaffe Panzer, Romania (?), Women visit squadron, Schiffer piano, doctor, cow slaughtered, Russia, Russian civilians, food, Luftwaffe, Dam in Russia, camel. North Africa: 01:53:47, 01:54:00 and 01:54:35 ELT Adolf Dickfeld 02:01:26, 02:03:28 and 02:03:50 Schwerterträger Günther Rall

  17. Jewish Legions gramophone record

    Jewish Legions gramophone record with recording of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and John H. Patterson on the subject of Jewish battalions; New York. John Patterson (1867-1947) commander of the "Zion Mule Corps" and later commander of the "38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers" was a lifelong supporter of the Zionist Movement. After his military service he maintained friendships with his battalion colleagues, including Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who became his close friend. In 1940, while Jabotinsky was in the United States on a mission of the New Zionist Organization, Patterson was there as well, and they took ...

  20. Selected records of the County Starosty in Pińczów Starostwo Powiatowe w Pińczowie (Sygn. 732)

    Pre-war records related to Jews in the county of Pińczów, including are layouts of estates, certificates of citizenship, court verdicts, and recruitment to the army.