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  1. J.S. ("Jim") Willis photograph album

    Contains a photograph album owned by U.S. military serviceman J.S. ("Jim") Willis, possibly captioned by his wife Sally A. Willis. Includes wartime photographs of England, immediate postwar photographs of Bergen Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau and Gardelegen, and postwar military activities.

  3. Sightseeing in Germany and Austria

    Boat dock, the shore from a river boat. 09:36 Street scenes and views of churches and public buildings. 09:51 Views of the Sanssouci palace in Potsdam and of the manicured gardens. 10:25 More city views and countryside views. 11:25 Street signs for “Dresden”. Street scenes of an outdoor market, covered wagons. 12:28 Vienna State Opera and other sights on the Ringstraße and Vienna more generally.

  4. Poster protesting Nazi threat to Christianity

    Office of War Information poster 76 titled "This is the Enemy" depicting a Nazi supporter thrusting a sword through a bible.

  5. Collection of posters Zbiór afiszów (Sygn. 204)

    This collection contains German propaganda posters distributed in Poland during World War II (including those of antisemitic and anti-communist character), as well as announcements of the orders of the occupation authorities and of executions of death penalties.

  6. Selected records of the city of Skierniewice Akta Miasta Skierniewice (Sygn. 894)

    Various records of the period before World War II, as well as records from the German occupation and the postwar period, from the City of Skierniewice. Pre-war records relate to residents of Skierniewice: e.g. the register books of inhabitants, lists of owners of the properties, lists of issued passports, card files of the unemployed covered by the social welfare, lists of owners of the vehicles, an index file to the list of Skierniewice residents of 1939 (names from A to G and from S to Z), personal files of the Jews employed by the Municipal Council, besides, the plan of towns belonging t...

  7. RCAF 39th Reconnaissance wing photographs

    Consists of photographs taken after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; of the destruction of ships near Lübeck, including corpses washed ashore; of destruction in Hamburg; and of members of the Royal Canadian Airforce's 39th Reconnaissance wing. The liberation photographs include images of the burial of corpses, of SS women behind barbed wire, and of a female survivor in the Belsen hospital. Also includes a card listing sleeping quarters assignment on a troop ship.

  8. Ruth Schachter Morgenthau oral history collection

    Consists of oral history transcripts and related documentation created and compiled by Henry Morgenthau III, circa 1976-2003. Includes material related to the Schachter family and their extended family, including the Altstadter, Laufer, Szuster, and Weitman families, all regarding their various Holocaust experiences.

  9. Licco Haim and friend ski and climb mountains

    AGFA 8 1939. Handwritten title "Winter 1940." Title over with the date 25 February 1940 over a still image of the group with their names. Two men tie skis to the roof of a car. CUs, of women as they walk on a city sidewalk to join the ski trip to the winter resort at Borovets. Good MS of the group skiing on the slopes. 01:03:46 Title with date 21 April 1940, "On the South Side of Black Peak" at Vitosha Mountain. Mountaineering and skiing. 01:07:25 Title with 21 April 1940 date, "Anny and Licco on the Wall", a skiing track on the south side of Black Peak. Zinka, Kiro, Anny, and Licco (the ba...

  10. Forced labor battalion in Lakatnik, Bulgaria, Summer 1941

    Jewish forced laborers as part of the Bulgarian Army, First (Jewish) Labor Battalion, 4th Construction Company carry heavy buckets and receive food rations in Lakatnik, near Gara Bov, 40km northeast of Sofia, Bulgaria. They wear standard labor soldier's uniforms and hats. The laborers eat in a mountainous region by a river. 01:00:41 VAR shots, tools (shovels and axes) are distributed and the men march off to work. 01:01:28 Two Bulgarian officers review drawings and survey the land. Laborers build in the mountains according to the plans. Barely-dressed men at work, digging and clearing area ...

  11. Military personnel return home

    High views of military personnel packed tightly on the deck of a large ship at sea. A trio of a bassist, a drummer, and a pianist entertain soldiers on a crowded ship deck. Scenes from the boat deck. American flag at mast. Captain Beatrice Wachter departed Europe for the United States on November 21, 1945.

  12. Michael Schwartz memoirs

    Consists of one typed memoir, 85 pages, entitled "Memoirs," written in 2006 by Michael Schwartz, originally of Debrecen, Hungary. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Hungary; his father's disappearance while part of a forced labor battalion, his deportation to Auschwitz, where his mother, sister, and grandmother were murdered; his subsequent deportation to Dachau with his brother, Tibor; their liberation in April 1945 and return to Hungary; their immigration to the United States in 1947; and their post-war lives in America.

  13. Aron Lutwak photograph collection

    The collection contains photographs and photograph postcards depicting the deportation of Jews from Coesfeld, Germany to Riga, Latvia on 10 December 1942; post-Holocaust memorials and historic sites in Germany and Poland, including the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp; and a tunnel for an unidentified camp.

  14. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Żyrardów Sąd Grodzki w Żyrardowie (Sygn. 21)

    Records of criminal cases involving offenses committed by Jews.

  15. Kahn family collection

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to Fanny and Werner Kahn (donor's grandmother and father) documenting their life in Gemmingen, Germany and their immigration to the United States via Italy in 1939-1940. Collection includes pre-war family photographs, their German passport (Deutsches Reich Reisepass), and a receipt attached to the passport.

  16. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Nowe Miasto on Pilica river Sąd Grodzki w Nowym Mieście nad Pilicą (Sygn. 1836)

    Court civil cases related to repayment of debt, eviction, theft and other matters. The cases relate to Jews, inhabitants of Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą during the occupation of Poland. The files contain personal data about participants of lawsuits.

  17. Court of the First Instance in Zwoleń Sąd Grodzki w Zwoleniu (Sygn.1054)

    This collection contains selected so-called “Zg.” files; that is, cases of declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes those who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including those arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of two witnesses filled out on standard forms, and the correspondence and sentence of the court. The law dete...

  18. Selected records of the Commune of Korabiewice, located in Puszcza Mariańska Akta gminy Korabiewice z siedzibą w Puszczy Mariańskiej (Sygn. 902)

    Records include ordinances and official correspondence from the period of the German occupation, statistics, lists of the Jewish and German population in the commune of Korabiewice, and records pertaining to the establishment of the Jewish Council and ghetto in Skierniewice.

  19. Sieraczek family papers

    The Sieraczek family papers include biographical material, correspondence, and photographs relating to Henryk Sieraczek and his son Jerzy Sieraczek’s (Jerome Sears) experience living in the Warsaw ghetto, going into hiding, and living in the Zeilsheim DP camp. The collection also includes papers relating to their immigrating to the United States. Biographical materials include Henryk’s passport for stateless persons and identification card as well as Jerzy’s identification card for his school in Lodz. Correspondence include letters from Henryk to his family about his experiences during the ...

  20. Selected records of the City Pruszków Akta miasta Pruszkowa (Sygn. 87)

    This collection includes register books of identification cards issued in 1936, and a register of deaths in 1939 and 1940; files of properties in Pruszków, 1941-1944, and a book of the permanent inhabitants of Pruszków, 1837-1927.