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  1. Selected records from the State Archive of Venice

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the community of Venice.

  2. Charlie Dunnam photograph collection

    Collection of nine black and white photographs which document victims found in the Ohrdruf concentration camp after liberation and their burial, American GIs and captured German soldiers in Austria, and a candid image of Charlie Dunnam (donor's father) at Fort Benning, GA; inscriptions and captions on recto and verso

  3. Celebration and Christmas ski holiday in early 1941

    [VQ: some damage at head] MCU, three women playfully tussling and snowball fighting. 00:00:10 The group of friends sign and dance arm-in-arm on a makeshift stage. Pan of people, including a man pointing out his striped pants, a forced laborer or soldier in uniform (possibly), and a couple with white flowers attached to lapel and adorned as a crown. The cameraman throws snow. 00:02:03 Skiing in the mountains. 00:05:52 Title with picture of skiiers and 5-8 January 1941 date, "Christmas 1941 Aleko" (Aleko is the name of a chalet in the Vitosha mountains near the Black Peak; Greek Orthodox Chri...

  4. "L'histoire de Bernard et Bronka: La famille Friedman de Chrzanów"

    A biography and family history of the mother and uncle of Eliane Ungar, Bronka (Brandla) Friedman (1925-2002) and Bernard (Berek) Friedman (1927-2015), both originally of Chrzanów, Poland. Included is a description of the history of the Jewish community of Chrzanów, the extended members of the Friedman family there and abroad, the history of the German occupation of Chrzanów and subsequent persecution and deportation of the Jews there. Also described are the wartime experiences of Bernard and Bronka as forced laborers in a number of sub-camps of Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Flossenbürg, Buche...

  5. Oral history interview with Irving Bashevkin

  7. Nancy Phillips Collection

    Contains material pertaining to Nancy Phillips (donor's mother), an American college student, and her bother Wharton Phillips's travel in Europe, including 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

  8. Jewish families in Israel; marching in Independence Day parade

    Two children dressed in costume dance and play on a balcony (possibly Menachem’s cousins). 06:46 Pan, harbor with cranes, Moshe walks in front of the camera. Children walk and ride their bicycles on a residential street with apartments (Israel?). 07:15 Airplane, well-dressed people waiting in line to board, El Al marked on portable stairs. People in FG wave to the camera. 08:12 [poor VQ] Dark, Moshe with two small pails in either hand, INT shots. CU of Menachem in a carriage, the baby and Hannah play. 08:49 Marching on the street (possibly Independence Day in Israel in 1949), parade, women ...

  9. Prayer book

    Prayer book with an anti-Nazi inscription found in the Schnelle home in Germany.

  10. Demonstration at DP camp

    A large group gathers outside in a field carrying hand-made flags of Israel and other countries. The demonstration begins, people march in uniform, carrying signs in Hebrew. (See brief shot of same event in RG-60.1811)

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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.

  14. 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...

  15. Oral history interview with Simon Konover

  16. 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].

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  20. 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...