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  1. February strike Februaristaking (Fond 254)

    This collection contains mainly reserch materials related to the Dutch February strike, 1941. Materials was collected by B. A. Sijes (Sijes) for his publication "De Februaristaking, 25-26 Februari 1941" ('s-Gravenhage 1954).

  2. Hugo Zulawski papers

    Consists of photographs, a photograph album, documents, and correspondence, owned by Hugo Zulawski, originally of Vienna, Austria. Mr. Zulawski immigrated to the United States in 1939 on a transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus (the "50 children" transport). Prewar, wartime, and postwar family photographs include those Hugo took while in the United States military (1944-1947) and images of his parents while they were at the Kitchener Camp in England. Documents include restitution paperwork for property confiscated in Poland.

  3. Selected records from the State Archive of Foligno

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

  4. Selected records of the city of Mińsk Mazowiecki Akta miasta Mińska Mazowieckiego (Sygn.35)

    This collection contains materials related to social welfare, tributes and taxes on civilians (1940-1941), as well as information regarding sending people to forced labor in Germany, lists of real estate, workshops and manufactures belonging to Jews (from 1941), lists of Jewish inhabitants of Mińsk Mazowiecki (above the age of 14), announcements of the German authorities, documents related to the ghetto, post-war specifications on the so-called abandoned property, i.e. previously belonging to Jews. Documents from the pre-war period: indexes of the registers of inhabitants (1935-1939), the e...

  5. "As I Recall"

    Consists of one memoir, approximately 60 pages, entitled "As I Recall," written in 2009 by Albert Erlebacher, originally of Karlsruhe, Germany. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Germany, deportation in 1940 to Gurs, transfer to Rivesaltes, and being removed from the camps by the OSE. He describes life in the Villa Mariana and Chateau de Chabannes OSE homes, crossing the Swiss border on foot, and his life in Switzerland. Also includes information on his post-war emigration to the United States and later educational, personal, and professional experiences.

  6. Dozia Altschuler Mehl photograph collection

    The Dozia Altschuler Mehl photograph collection consists of 11 photographs depicting the family of Dozia Altschuler in Ukraine, and the family of her husband Wolcio Mehl.

  7. 1949 Independence Day parade in Israel; family visit to the zoo

    Continuation of parade [in RG-60.1803 at 08:49 - probably 1949 Independence Day in Israel] with Israeli soldiers, a marching band, someone in the crowd holding an Israeli flag, airplane flyover, more defense forces. 12:19 Circular pan of harbor, clouds (Israel?). Moshe in suit steps down off of a ship. 12:50 Family members walk towards the camera, monkeys at zoo, children play on a swing. Women on patio, baby feeds a small dog and plays with children outside a home (probably in Israel).

  8. Rosanna M. Gatens photograph collection

    Collection of black and white photographs depicting victims and survivors found in the concentration camps immediately following liberation, and other scenes around the camp; includes images from Mauthausen concentration camp and it’s sub-camps; dated circa May 1945.

  9. Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR Związek Patriotów Polskich w ZSRR (Sygn.130)

    Selected records of the Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR (ZPP) and the Organizing Committee of Polish Jews in the Soviet Union Included are minutes, correspondence, personal files of organization activists and members, various name lists, newsletters related to the repatriation of the Polish population, statistical data on field work, regional and local units of the Union of Polish Patriots, memories, albums and photographs of Polish emigrants in USSR.

  10. Jewish quarter in Suwalki; Market in Filipow

    The Jewish quarter of Suwalki including Schul Gasse, the Big Synagogue of Suwalki. Market and Wesola streets with locals. The bi-weekly outdoor market in Suwalki. 00:03:02 Harold Brenner in dark jacket and hat holding birds with another young man. Pan, good CUs. 00:06:32 Herman, Lottie and Harold stand underneath the fishermen's stalls, conversing with the locals. Farmers bring in goods for the market by horse and wagon. An ice cream vendor's machine and a market stall containing horse shoes, wooden wash tubs, peat and logs for heating. 00:09:41 Livestock market scenes outside of Filipow. H...

  11. Bodies at Nordhausen

    At Nordhausen shortly after liberation in April 1945, pan across piles of dead victims, focusing on the body of a small child. Civilian men carry a body on a stretcher. Pan of destroyed buildings, as soldiers and Red Cross personnel oversee the camp. Personal effects and civilians preparing to bury bodies near the moat. Pan across bodies. Brief shot of a soldier taking a photograph with a still camera.

  12. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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...