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  1. Records of the registry office of the Jewish community in Aleksandrów Akta urządu stanu cywilnego gminy żydowskiej w Aleksandrowie (Sygn. 1390)

    Books of the registry office in Aleksandrów, Poland. Selected records contain registry books with data of marriages, births and deaths of inhabitants in Aleksandrów as well as bound copies of annexes.

  2. Russian Campaign

    Private films. Russian campaign. Luftwaffe, return from combat flight. Burning villages. Ruins. Winter in Russia

  3. Zell Family Collection

    Contains photographs and correspondence illustrating Berek Zielonka and Rachel Jakubowitz and their daughter Jochewed (Julie) in Sosnowitz, Vilna, and their journey across the Trans-Siberian Rail to Japan, and ultimately to the United States in 1941.

  4. Horse race in Austria; thermal baths

    Horses race around a track, pulling jockeys. People lay on lounge chairs at the thermal baths in Bad Vöslau, Austria. A woman in a polka dot dress approaches the camera, speaking to the camera operator. A man and a woman in their swimsuits at outdoor showers. Young boy. Sign at entrance, “VÖSLAU-GAINFARN.” Train station. Rows of train tracks to the right. Woman seen earlier walks down the stairs. Young boy in lederhosen in the background. The rounded colonnade entrance to the thermal baths says “Thermalbad” on the facade. The woman walks towards the camera. INT of the thermal baths. A fount...

  5. Portrait of a Nazi War Victim: #5567 Leon Kliot memoir

    The Leon Kliot memoir includes a copy of Kliot’s unpublished manuscript titled “Portrait of a Nazi War Victim: #5567” and a partial English translation of the memoir. The memoir describes Kliot’s prewar life in Vilna, Poland, in the Vilna ghetto and Vaivara concentration camp complex in Estonia during the Holocaust, and his return home and decision to immigrate to the United States after the war. The memoir also includes several poems written during the Holocaust and after liberation. Translations for pages 395 to 443 are mis-numbered as pages 295 to 342, and translations for pages 295 to 3...

  6. Robert Yanda Sr. photograph collection

    Contains post-liberation photographs of a concentraion camp; images produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, or mass produced US Army photos, labeled on verso by Robert Yanda, Sr. and hand-dated May 1945. Includes an envelope inscribed "Robert Yanda Sr... Save / German concentration camp pictures / Alvin Johnson took these..."

  7. Private Film on the French campaign

    Stills. German soldiers. Marching. Train. Dog in lake. Sports. Train station. Winter hiking, mountains. Festival. Military awards.

  8. Hayat family papers

    The Hayat family papers comprise a birth certificate, residence certificate, driver's license, identification card, two food ration cards and three clothing ration cards.

  9. Cerne Lichtenstein collection

    Contains a Lithuanian passport issued to Cerne Lichtenstein (donor's grandmother), containing transit visas from Kovno, Lithuania through Europe enabling her to leave in 1940. Includes a visa granted by the Japanese Consulate in Kovno allowing Cerne to pass through Japan. Includes three photographs of Cerne, her daughter Esther (Lubocki), Esther's husband Meilach Lubocki, and their two children, all who perished in the Holocaust.

  10. Educational film on the development of rocket, technology, Opel 2 rocket, Opel-Sander-rocket 3

    Text panel: "Valier believed in a steady transition from aircraft to spaceship.": Rockets, rocket car, rocket tests, missile flight

  12. CUKUNFT Socialist Organization of Youth Socjalistyczna Organizacja Młodzieży CUKUNFT (Sygn. 1347)

    Minutes of meetings, reports, questionnaires concerning Jewish youth, proclamations, and a chronicle of 1942.

  13. UFA documentary film on the Reich Labor Service (RAD)

    UFA documentary film on the RAD. Titles in German. Camera by Kurt Stanke; Music by Hans Ebert.

  14. Kahan family papers

    Correspondence, documents, certificates, and related materials, concerning the immigration of the family of Eugene (Jenö) Kahan, originally of Munkacs, Hungary (Mukachevo, Ukraine), and his wife, Gizella, and their daughters, to the United States via Paraguay, after World War II. Documents include identification and marriage documents issued in Hungary following the war, documents issued by the consulate of Paraguay in Czechoslovakia, and correspondence between American agencies, including the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the office of U.S. Senator Theodore Green of Rhode Isl...

  15. Battle Squadron 51 "Edelweiss" France

    “III Kampfgeschwader 51” [Fighter squadron 51] “Edelweiss” in France. Luftwaffe Officers. Paris. Terrible damage in French city. On Yugoslavian assignment. Onwards “nach Lezani” Poland. Russia. 11:03:40, Roma/Sinti. General Alexander Löhr. Luftwaffe men grabbing pigs; relaxing. 11:20:27 Roma girls - palm reading, bare breasts, jiggling for men. Russia. Odessa, Nikolajew, Charkow.

  16. Van Pragh, Polak, Elias, and Wertheim families collection

    The collection includes photographs depicting the Van Praagh and Polak families a photocopy of the journal written by Therese (Tesi) Wertheim. The journal, written immediately post-war, describes Tesi's describers her wartime experiences between May 10, 1940 and April 3, 1945, including when the Germans invaded Enschede in the Netherlands, the arrest of her son, Martin, who was killed at Mauthausen in October 1941, anti-Jewish legislation, life in in the underground in Enschede, and the aerial attacks on the city.

  17. Ship SS France; Visiting Morocco and Spain

    With intertitles in English. “Europe and the North Coast of Africa, 1929. Before sailing on deck of ‘SS France’” Large group of well-dressed men and women gather on the deck of the SS France for a group shot. 1.11 Man leans on the railing looking out. Other groups of people gather for group shots, laughing and embracing each other. A final large group of people form a line, walking on the deck of the ship. 1:47 “Dropping the Pilot.” Overhead shot of a small paddle boat and shots of the open water. 2:18 “Advertising the races during 5 o’clock tea.” Men in uniform carry large cutouts of horse...

  18. Neusustrum camp in the region of Emsland

    Neusustrum was a detention camp for homosexuals and other political prisoners. Filmed by Willhelm Niemann, teacher and member of the SA. Country fields and barn-like structures in Germany. Three children sit in front of a house with a sloped roof. A young boy swings around a horizontal bar set up in the trees. 10:01:43 “Am Grenzgraben.” People work in a hay field while German officers stand nearby. Two officers in a field look through binoculars. Officers walk out of a property entrance. 10:02:52 CU face of a German officer. A stream. Train tracks through fields and trees. Hayfields. Sheep ...

  19. De Kadt family in winter

    Sonja and Louis de Kadt each push Willie on a sleigh on a snowy day, as does another adult (possibly a nanny); Willie plays in the snow; 01:03:03 Indoors, close-up of Willie and a baby (possibly Maarten as the can label indicates); Willie romps in the snow; the village in winter, seen from across rows of fences; Willie and baby (Maarten?) ride in a sleigh.

  20. Russian Campaign

    Russian Campaign, Fuehrer Headquarters Wolfschanze