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  1. Trunk brought to the United States by an Austrian-Jewish refugee

    Trunk brought to New York in January, 1940 by Bertha Lifschutz when she immigrated to the Untited States. Bertha's son Fred had come to the United States the previous year as part of the "50 children" transport led by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus.

  2. 51st Field Hospital at camp, visiting ruins, and advancing into Belgium or Germany

    Two women sunbathe while other personnel of the 51st Field Hospital relax at camp, either in Belgium or Germany in early fall 1944 [The 51st Field Hospital entered Belgium on September 9 and Roetgen, Germany on September 16]. Beatrice digs a hole, perhaps a latrine (probably not a foxhole since there is no combat). A soldier plays a violin and sings by the hole. 01:15:21 51st Field Hospital personnel pose for the camera. Ruins of buildings in the countryside. Pan across the landscape and the remains of buildings, including one still smoldering and an untouched church. Some civilians in BG a...

  3. Contemporary painting by a Holocaust survivor

    Painting created by Jiri Konta in 2007. Dr. Konta was a political prisoner in Mauthausen concentration camp from 1943-1945 and liberated there. The painting depicts a prisoner in concentration camp uniform carrying a large stone covering his face.

  4. Jack and Sylvia Heisler papers

    The Jack and Sylvia Heisler papers contain correspondence, forms and other records pertaining to the Holocaust-era restitution claims of Jack Heisler and Sylvia Stern Heisler, filed against the West German government between 1958 and 1970, and related to their internment as forced laborers at Auschwitz, Sömmerda, and other camps. Jack Heisler’s earliest compensation claims in these files date from the late 1958 through 1961, when he filed claims on behalf of himself and his brother Edward, at the office that handled compensation claims for the state of Rheinland-Pfalz in Trier, Germany. He ...

  5. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Rawa Mazowiecka Sąd Grodzki w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1011)

    Files of the Court of the First Instance in Rawa Mazowiecka, such as: correspondence, financial reports, notary files, files of the bailiff, Władysław Nagórki, and civil cases (litigations) investigated by that court, such as: conferring judicial authorization to a draft, paying off debts, evictions. The Jews from Rawa Mazowiecka town and county were the parties in those lawsuits; there are many personal data about the participants of those lawsuits.

  6. Selected records from the State Archives in Thessaloniki, Greece

    Selected records related to the interwar and postwar history of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, Greece (1912-1968). Consists three subject series: 1.Thessaloniki Criminal Court; 2. Thessaloniki Court of First Instance; 3. Records of Jewish organizations and companies. It includes records of Thessaloniki Criminal Court records related to postwar trials of local German collaborators; Thessaloniki Court of First Instance records related to the postwar restitution of Jewish property. The collection also includes records related to the activities of the Jewish organizations and professiona...

  7. Yidisher ṿisnshafṭlekher insṭiṭuṭ YiVO Institute in Wilno (Fond 287)

    Various records related to the activities of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (YiVO) in Wilno (Vilnius), including correspondence with Jewish organizations and private individuals in Poland, Germany, United States, Austria, Latvia and other countries; records related to the activities of various Jewish organizations and political parties (Zukunft, Bund, Po'alei Zion, Keren Kayemet, Keren Hayesod, etc.); copies of Jewish newspapers published in Poland; financial records, and registry for incoming and outgoing correspondence etc.

  8. Charles W. Alexander photograph collection

    The collection consists primarily of photographs documenting the Nuremberg trials taken by Charles W. Alexander. The photographs depict the participants in the Nuremberg trials both in the courtroom and behind the scenes, smaller war crimes trials, and scenes of Germany. The collection also includes two books of similar photographs and captions of the personal experiences of Charles and his wife Anne Alexander in Germany in 1945-1946.

  9. Selected records of the City Biała Rawska Akta miasta w Białej Rawskiej (Sygn.1023)

    Inventory book of the Jewish Religious Community in Biała Rawska, 1935. The book contains registers of the buildings, as well as property owned by the Jewish community.

  10. Selected records from the collections of the Argeș branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Records relating to the confiscation of Iron Guard goods, the Iron Guard rebellion, neo-Protestant Churches, prisoners of war, Romanies sent to Transnistria; confiscation of properties of Romanies; taxes and goods for Jews, the hunt for those accused of war crimes, the round up of nomadic Romanies, refugees, deportation to Transnistria of Jews, deportation of Romanies, and Jewish affairs. Included are lists of properties of Romanies, and lists of Jews.

  11. Selected records of the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Radomiu (Sygn. GK 179)

    This collection contains selected files of the District Commission in Radom and its agencies in Busko Zdrój, Iłża, Jędrzejów, Kielce, Końskie, Kozienice, Lipsk, Opatów, Ostrowiec, Pińczów, Skarżysko-Kamienna, Starachowice-Wierzbnik, Staszów and Stopnica and includes correspondence, circular letters, ordinances, reports, indexes and reports of investigations. The records consist of questionnaires concerning executions and mass graves; statistics concerning loss of civilians by individual counties; lists of the murdered and places of crimes; investigations related to camps (of young male labo...

  12. Litke family papers

    The Litke family papers document the experiences of Chaim Litke and Frida Hoffmann Litke in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and their post-war lives in the Eggenfelden displaced persons camp, Eggenfelden, Germany from 1945-1949. The collection includes papers from Eggenfelden, immigration and naturalization documents, restitution papers, Frida’s testimonies about her time in Auschwitz concentration camp, and photographs. The biographical materials primarily consist of papers documenting Frida and Chaim Litke’s experiences at the Eggenfelden displaced persons camp, 1945-1949. These...

  13. Lifschitz family photographs

    Two (2) pre-war family photographs: black and white portrait of Chaya Sara and husband Zeev Gorin (donor's father's sister), both of whom perished on October 24, 1927; black and white portrait of Aharon Lifschitz (donor's father) and his younger brother Leibl, 1937, who perished in the Holocaust.

  14. Frank Caplan collection

    Contains a typewritten statement given by former political prisoner Rudolf Hess of Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart), Germany, to Lt. Frank Caplan (donor’s father) at Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, on May 18, 1945. The report documents former Hess’s arrest by Nazi authorities in 1943 and his imprisonment in the Dachau concentration camp, where he was subjected to medical experimentation. Hess was then transported to another concentration camp and, after an eight-day journey, arrived at Neuengamme concentration camp where he was a forced laborer. Hess was transferred to Stuttgart to be interrogated and t...

  15. Ethnic Germans; German invasion of Poland

    German intertitles. Title on screen: Ozaphan 10/39 Monatsschau [Loosely, October 1939 monthly show]. von Brauchitsch speaks to workers in arms factory in Dusseldorf in August 1939. Tanks. Swastikas. War preparations in London in August 1939. Men load materials in boxes onto a vehicle, dig ditches (street traffic in BG), and move a large gun. Volksdeutsche [ethnic Germans] with suitcases, eating. German soldiers (SS-Heimwehr) prepare to defend Danzig from Polish control by mounting and camouflaging weapons. Shell damage of buildings and homes near the border as the German offense advances. G...

  16. Kurt Schwarz papers

    The Kurt Schwarz papers consist of correspondence, photographs, telegrams, and documents related to the immigration of Kurt Schwarz, originally of Vienna, Austria, to the United States by way of Italy and Cuba, 1938-1940; as well as extensive correspondence from his mother, Helene Schwarz, in Vienna, 1938-1941. Includes telegrams from the American theatrical producer, Billy Rose, as he sought to help Kurt Schwarz immigrate to the United States, 1938-1939. Also includes later correspondence with Idy Sherer, the daughter of Kurt Schwarz, as she researched the fate of her grandmother, Helene S...

  17. Selected records of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki Akta gminy Żyrardów-Wiskitki (Sygn. 3)

    Consists of selected records of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki, Poland, e.g. registers of foreigners; files on inhabitants of Teklinów, Feliksów, Henryków, Kozłowice, Ruda Guzowska and Wiskitki; a list of 937 Jews from Wiskitki, 1937-1940; various correspondence of the municipality Żyrardów-Wiskitki; registers of homeowners; birth and death certificates; records of the "Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy" in Wiskitki, 1941-1942; records of Jewish community in Wiskitki; records of Judenrat and registers of Jews permitted to travel, 1940; correspondence relating to Jewish Holocaust survivors, reco...

  18. Rotter family collection

    Photographs illustrating the experiences of Zbiegnew [Samuel/Steven] Rotter, born in Bielsko Biala, Poland in 1917 and interned in multiple concentration camps, including Mauthausen and its subcamp Gusen in Austria, and Aida Weinberg [alias Eugenia Domanska] born in Miedryzec, Poland in 1921 on false papers and their child Marian, born in the Degerlach displaced persons camp in Stuttgart, Germany in 1946; images primarily postwar.

  19. Jewish family after the war; DPs prepare for journey to Israel; new babies at DP camp

    Dark shots of Menachem, INTs. Street scene in Bari, Italy, horse and buggy, Hannah pushes Menachem in pram. Nice group shots of local children (Italian? DPs?) on a residential street. Moshe makes a face to the camera. Window displays of dolls, Hannah and Menachem walk on the city street towards a truck marked “Sica, Milano.” 01:35 Men carry rafts over their heads and lower them into the water at a beach near Santa Maria di Leuca DP camp in Italy. VAR shots of Menachem, Moshe and Hannah at DP camp in Italy (similar atmospheric shots as Film ID 4152). Barracks/huts. Hannah feeds baby with a s...

  20. 51st Field Hospital at Normandy and other sites

    The 51st Field Hospital campsite in a dusty landscape, probably in France. They laugh and tease one another as they walk along the road. A plane flies low to the ground. LS, pan of tent camp grounds with some military men, vehicles, and wooden stakes (gravesites?). 01:09:17 Large ships docking close to the Normandy shore on June 12, 1944. People wait and unload boats. The 51st Field Hospital nurses arrived at the Normandy beaches on D-Day plus 6 (June 12, 1944). 01:09:28 Beatrice waves to the camera by a tent. Pan of a campsite with grass after the Normandy invasion, probably in the summer ...