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  1. William L. Ward, Jr. photograph collection

    Collection of 23 photographic prints documenting the Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation. Images include photos of the Dachau death train and prisoner clothing; dated April-May 1945.

  2. Kurt (Chaim) Flaschner papers

    Correspondence sent to Kurt (Chaim) Flaschner, following his emigration to Palestine (1939-1942), from his parents in Vienna, Josef and Regina Flaschner, who were subsequently deported to Maly Trostinec and perished there. Also includes other related correspondence sent to Kurt Flaschner, dating from approximately 1940-1950, from relatives in Czechoslovakia and Austria, and friends in Palestine. Contains news from family members in Austria, descriptions of conditions in Vienna in the months following Kristallnacht, discussions of acquaintances who had emigrated from Austria, and efforts to ...

  3. Moskovits Archive: Publications Archivo Moskovits: Publicaciones

    Contains 139 antisemitic publications published in Argentina between 1919 and 1987.

  4. Simcha Brudno interview transcripts

    Consists of full and incomplete interview transcripts, typed speeches, essays, and notes related to the Holocaust experiences of Simcha Brudno, originally of Šiauliai, Lithuania. The interviews, most of which are undated and were conducted by George Anastaplo and others, include information about Mr. Brudno's pre-war life in Lithuania; life in the Šiauliai ghetto; deportation to Stutthof in 1944; further deportation to Dachau; liberation by the 442nd Infantry Regiment; and illegal immigration to Palestine in March 1946.

  5. Wounded survivors; postwar military parade

    The Allies commissioned this four part documentary from Maurits Schaap after liberation. Titles: "Zeeuwsch Vlaanderen", "Documentaire Film der Verwoesting", "En de wateren warden stil... Genesis 8 1". Flooding, possibly from an irrigation system failing, in an unknown location. Title card: "De watertoren bij axel" Water tower. Title, "En de watertoren van Oostburg". The water tower of Oostburg was destroyed. Title: "Sas van Gent het centrum der suiker en meelindustrie" Grain is loaded onto carts and processed into flour at Sas van Gent. 05:50:26 Title: "Alarm!!! Het Roode Kruis rukt uit" Fe...

  6. Schaaps visit their rescuers after the war

    Title card with graphic of baby in stroller, text "Onze Baby". Maurits Schaap and his family visit the home of the Naeije family who hid him during the war. INT, family home in Axel near Zeeuws-Vlaanderen in the Netherlands. The Naeije infant is fed from a bottle and plays with multiple people. 00:01:50 CU, Salomon Schaap smoking pipe, reading letter, playing with baby. 00:04:05 Geleijn Naeije shows off a piece of art inside his home. The painting is of a woman seated at a table with her hands clasped as if in prayer. 00:04:44 Sister of Mrs. Naeije in a black embroidered top. 00:04:56 EXT, ...

  7. County Department in Rawa Mazowiecka Wydział Powiatowy w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1076)

    Contains minutes of meetings related to the organization of public life after World War II in Rawa Mazowiecka. Includes documents about the selection of members of the City Council, the organization of libraries, schools and hospitals, the care of cemeteries, protection of farmers, livestock, the removal of unexploded munitions from the war, and the establishment of budgets and taxes.

  8. Schaap visits Palestine and returns to Holland

    Continued from Film ID 4101 when Maurits Schaap visited his brother Meijer in Palestine in December 1935. Maurits showed the films to the Jewish community of Rotterdam after he returned. Streets of Tel Aviv, recording signs and activities within the city. Title, "Autotocht naar HEBRON-DOODE ZEE en JERICHO". Visiting Jericho and the Dead Sea. 02:04:51 Man sits down for a haircut and a shave. 02:05:23 Reflection of cameraman Schaap in a mirror inside the barber shop. Architecture of an ancient amphitheater and the campus of a university. Lectures and people working in a laboratory. 02:12:23 T...

  9. "Eleven Days in the Concentration-Camp Buchenwald"

    Contains a five page typescript text titled "Eleven Days in the Concentration-Camp Buchenwald" by Rabbi Dr. G. Wilde. The text recounts Wilde's arrest at his home in Magdeburg on the morning of 10 November 1938, his transfer to a cell in the local jail, and his transport to Buchenwald the following day. He describes conditions in the camp, the torture of other prisoners, the conditions surrounding his release, and attempts to prevent the shaving of his beard upon release. He concludes his account by describing how he and his wife were able to immigrate to England due to the efforst of the c...

  10. Bratman and Herszlikowicz family collection

    Consists of post-war identity documents, and pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Bratman and Herszlikowicz families. Includes family portraits, a photograph of the Hasag camp, and documents from displaced persons camps in Lamptheim and Fulda.

  11. Nazi rally photographs

    Consists of a collection of black and white professional photographs taken at an unidentified Nazi rally (possibly more than one rally). Includes images of parades, ceremonies with speeches, a cookout, and laying memorial wreaths. Most of the images are dated in May 1937, and some of the participants came from Gelnhausen and the Rhön district, and the events may have taken place in Fulda.

  12. Alfons Van San photographs

    Consists of four photographs from the collection of Alfons Van San, who was hidden at the Chateau de Beloeil children's home in Belgium during World War II. The photographs depict groups of boys, including a photograph of a female scout leader with her troop of boys gathered behind her.

  13. Hulda Cassel correspondence collection

    Contains five letters written by Holocaust survivor Hulda Cassel after her liberation from Theresienstadt. She wrote the letters from a refugee camp in Switzerland to her family in Manila between July and December 1945.

  14. Plaut family papers

    Correspondence, affidavits, receipts, business cards, and other related documents, related to the efforts of members of the Plaut family, including Seymour and Estelle Plaut of New York City, Ralph Plaut, of Miami Beach, Florida, Edward Plaut, of Jamaice, NY, and Rutherford Plaut, of Norwich, Connecticut, to help their relatives emigrate from Frankfurt, Germany, between 1938 and 1943. Initially efforts were centered on obtaining visas for Ricka Schaumberg, Karoline Weinberg, and Hannchen Stern, all listed as cousins of the Plauts. Following the deaths of Schaumberg and Weinberg in 1940 and ...

  15. Shalom Cholawski personal archives (RG-95-82) שלום חולבסקי, ארכיון אישי

    Consists of correspondence, articles and drafts related to Cholawsky's research on history of Belorussian Jews during the Holocaust, partisans movement in Belarus, Jewish underground and the Jewish uprising in the ghetto of Nieswicz, including testimonies recorded by residents of the Nieswicz ghetto. Also includes documentations on Holavsky's work as a teacher in the kibbutz ʻEin Hashofet and his activities in United Workers Party (MAPAM), and his testimony at the trial of Adolf Eichmann.

  16. National Investigatory Commission Decree-Law 479/55. Commission 2: Administrative irregularities alleged against the deposed President Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Decreto-Ley 479/55. Comisión 2: Irregularidades administrativas imputadas al Presidente depuesto

    The collection consists of official materials related to the investigation of Peron regime during his second presidency.

  17. "If Not for Him..."

    Consists of one memoir entitled "If Not For Him..." written by Jakob Yovel (Volovelski, now Yaakov Yovel), originally of Pruzhani, Poland (now Belarus). The memoir, originally written in Hebrew in 1945-1946, when Mr. Yovel was a teenager, documents the friendship between Mr. Yovel and Kalman Grossman, their deportation, and their experiences together in the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, and Melk concentration camps. Includes photographs of the original Hebrew text as well as an English language translation of the same.

  18. "Fliegen und Siegen"

    Consists of a set of stereoscopic prints entitled "Fliegen und Siegen" produced by the Raumbild-Verlag Otto Schönstein K.G., which depict scenes, planes, and military officials related to the Luftwaffe. The set includes images 2-100.

  19. Beat the Jew Nazi propaganda handbill encouraging desertion from the Red Army

    Nazi propaganda flier distributed during the German Army's invasion of Soviet controlled Ukraine, beginning in June 1941. Cartoons show Soviet soldiers being shot, beating civilians, and surrendering while the text explains that the Soviet position is hopeless and encourages soldiers to desert the Red Army.

  20. Strafanstalt in Schieratz Prison in Sieradz Zakład karny w Sieradzu (Sygn. 200)

    This collection contains a selection of 507 cases of personal files of Jewish prisoners, who were sentenced for various “crimes” committed during the occupation, and were imprisoned in the prison in Sieradz. Typical reasons for sentencing Jews to prison were: illegally crossing the country border, illegal trade and craft manufacture, illegal slaughter, hiding goods, smuggling into the ghetto, trading foreign currency, and other crimes of economic character, leaving their whereabouts, bribery, falsification of documents, theft, receiving of stolen goods, and beggary. The files contain the fo...