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  1. German civilians demonstrate and collect funds

    MCU, street scenes in winter. Small demonstration. Man in top-hat collects donations in a tin can. Horse-drawn float. Civilians and soldiers observe a costumed man dragging a costumed "cow". Mostly illegible white banner in BG, "....Handwerk". Illegible sign around the neck of the "cow". Sign for the Carpenter's Guild - "Die Holzwürmer Tischlerinnung". 01:02:17 Berthold Roeckle poses before the horse-drawn float. He feeds birds. CU, a toddler boy dressed up in a white apron and hat with a tin can. Berthold stands behind him along with older men in white with musical instruments. Several Ger...

  2. Wagenaar: Proces Demjanjuk (Fond 272)

    This collection contains records of Prof. Dr. Willem Albert Wagenaar who in 1987 received the request to testify as an expert witness within the court process that the state of Israel had started against Ivan Demjanjuk. Demjanjuk was born in 1920 in Ukraine and immigrated as John Demjanjuk in 1952 to the United States. He was recognized by several people as "Ivan the Terrible" in connection with the murder of 850,000 in the gas chanbers of Treblinka. Wagenaar disputed these testimonies in his statement before the court.These records include correspondence wtih other expert witnesses about t...

  3. Selected records of the County Starosty in Rawa Mazowiecka Starostwo Powiatowe w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1075)

    Statistics, maps and data related to the population and economy in the post-war years, the so-called secret matters related to social life (searching of the perished persons, settlement, collection of money and the like), reports and news concerning the events of the occupation and post-war period, situational reports of individual departments, files of the Federation of Former Prisoners of Nazi Camps and Prisons, materials of associations and trade unions, exhumations, cemeteries, problems of war invalids, and abandoned properties.

  4. Polish Communist Party. Central Jewish Office Komunistyczna Partia Polski (KPP). Centralne Biuro Żydowskie (Sygn.158)

    Selected records of the Polish Communist Party (KPP). Central Jewish Office. The collection contains minutes, resolutions, reports, analyses, instructions, articles, correspondence of the organization, and a list of Jewish communist newspapers in Russian. General reports relate to various districts in Poland: Łódź-Częstochowa-Radom, 1935-36; Ciechanów, Płock, Włocławek. 1932, 1934-35; Wołyn, 1923; Łódź and its district, 1931-1935; Piotrków district, 1932; Radom and Lublin, 1931-1932; Siedlce, 1932, 1934, 1935; Warszawa, 1931 and 1935; Kutno, Włocławek, Płock, Mława, Ciechanów, 1931-1932; Cz...

  5. Oral history interview with Simon Konover

  6. Licco Haim and friends swim in pools in Sofia

    Slow-motion swimming in pools in the Dianabad beach in Sofia (still exist today). High diving and playing in the pool. Man running laps around the pool. Woman with cap swims. 01:10:08 Title with 10 August date and names of friends, Anny, Licco, Hans, Kete, Telko, Rene. The group swims, dives, and plays with objects in the pool. One of the men attempts to balance on a large water wheel in the pool; sign in Bulgarian painted on a building in BG, "Middle depth pool ... for beginners." Diving. AGFA 8 [8 distinguishes the film gauge of 8mm].

  7. Moritz and Therese Paschkes photograph

    Contains a copy print of Moritz and Therese Paschkes (donor’s maternal great grandparents) from Misselbach, Austria and were deported to Minsk on November 28, 1941 and presumed to have been killed there.

  8. Bram family photograph

    The collection consists of a prewar photograph of Yankiel Bram and his extended family in Łomża, Poland, 1939. Included is an annotated list identifying everyone in the photograph and listing their fate. It is believed that all but two family members were killed at Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland.

  9. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  10. Selected records from the Archives of the Tuzla Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    This collection contains selected records related to the prewar, wartime, and immediate postwar history of the Jewish communities of the Tuzla region in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The collection includes selected records of the local administration (councils, Regional People's Committee etc.), judicial bodies (courts), and educational organizations (public schools, trade and technical schools) providing information about individual Jews and Jewish families residing in the Tuzla region. Among the records are personal files of local Jews applying for the restitution of the property confiscated b...

  11. Otto Herskovic memoir and papers

    Diary, handwritten, composed by Otto Herskovic, at the age of 15, immediately following the end of World War II. In it, he recounts his family's experiences during the German invasion of Belgium, his family's flight to southern France, and the experiences of him and his sister while at an O.S.E.-administered children's home, and later, as part of a convoy of children who were sent to the United States via North Africa in July 1942 with the help of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM). Included are hand-drawn maps of places referenced in the diary, photograph...

  12. Selected records of the County Starosty of Rawa Mazowiecka Starostwo Powiatowe w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1074)

    Situational reports of the State Police: reports about Jewish organizations, Jewish political activists, a list of aldermen from Rawa, Biała and Nowe Miasto, a list of companies and their owners.

  13. Kornspan family collection

    The Kornspan family collection consists of documents, photographs, and correspondence from Leon and Mendel Kornspan and others from Poland and Palestine to Fannie Ebert and her husband Sam. Fannie and her brother Joseph (Yusha) immigrated to the United States before 1926 but Mendel and Leon did not, and they did not survive.

  14. Major Julian S. Perry collection

    Consists of one anonymous typed poem, circa spring 1945, describing the liberation of Buchenwald from the point of view of a liberated prisoner. The poem was given to (or typed by) Major Julian S. Perry while he was serving in the European Theater as part of the 516th Quartermaster Truck Battalion. Also includes correspondence, photographs, and narrative documenting Perry's experiences during World War II.

  15. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  16. Przewodniczący Rady Żydowskiej w Warszawie The Chairman of the Jewish Council Warsaw Der Obman des Judenrates in Warschau (Sygn.483)

    This collection consists of records created by the Office of The Chairman of the Jewish Council in Warsaw (Der Obmann des Judenrates in Warschau), 1940-1942. Included are numerous statistical documents (diagrams and tables), records of population, reports, correspondence, information about forced labor, food supply, deaths, financial and economic plans, taxes payments, etc. The most valuable is a set of reports of the Chairman of the Judenrat from Oct. 7, 1939 through Feb. 27, 1941. Other materials of the Warsaw Judenrat are available in the Ringelblum Archive from the Jewish Historical Ins...

  17. The Narrow Bridge Remembrance of a Jewish Childhood during the Second World War

    Consists of one typed memoir, 631 pages, entitled "The Narrow Bridge: Remembrance of a Jewish Childhood during the Second World War," written in 2014 by Dr. Zwi Barnea (born Herbert Zwi Chameides), originally of Katowice, Poland. In the memoir, Dr. Barnea describes going into hiding under the direction of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Metropolitan's brother, Klement Sheptytsky, head of the Studite monastic order. He reflects on his childhood before the war; the family's move to Shchyrets' in 1939; life under the Soviet occupation; learning of the aktions, particularly in Lviv and S...

  18. Ucko, Eisner, and Tonne families collection

    Contains photographs, documents and correspondence relating to the Ucko family and Eisner family. Includes a photograph and correspondence relating to Salomon Tonne in Telgaua, Latvia, his sister Sara Tonne Boord (donor's grandmother).

  19. Rob Mandel Collection

    Collection of pre-war photographs, copy prints and photographic postcards primarily of the Jankielewicz, Mankiewicz and Reiches families in Lithuania; and a family history book entitled "Roots, Trees, Branches, and Burls" by Michael Jankielewicz (donor's cousin).

  20. Schmerzler and Igel family collection

    Collection of photographs and correspondence relating to the Schmerzler family from Stanisławów and the Igel family from Solotwina. Also includes correspondence, documents and photographs relating to Shemer family in Yerevan, USSR, Dzierzoniow, Poland and Israel, 1935-1952.