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  1. Loeb and Gundel family photographs

    Consists of 21 pre-war photographs of the family of Rudolf and Caroline Loeb of Boppard, Germany, and the family of Emil and Trude Gundel, of Ulm, Germany.

  2. Anna Hershey collection

    Consists of photographs and documents from the collection of Anna Hershey. Includes documents and photographs related to her mother, who was one of four sisters from Łódź: Dina, Pola, Ruta, and Bela (the donor's mother). This portion of the collection includes copies of Dina Tazlowiczowa's diploma's from the Warsaw Conservatory of Music, a photograph of Pola taken in the Łódź ghetto, and a pre-war photograph of Ruta and Dina. Of the sisters, only Bela and Ruta survived the war. The collection also contains material related to Anna's husband, Gecel Herszlikowicz (later George Hershey), origi...

  3. Frieder estate in Manila; family visits Baguio

    Pan of the Frieder family villa exteriors in Manila, including gardens, grounds, lush vegetation. People work in the large garden. View of Manila beyond the estate from roof(?) of villa. 00:02:56 Brief shot of the girls at play followed by views of the grounds at Camp John Hay in Baguio City in 1933. Jane and Peggy Frieder with their nanny and toys. 00:03:58 The girls pose with their dolls by a decorated Christmas tree in the garden. 00:04:08 An American flag waves, mountains visible in the distance. HAV of camp's amphitheater. 00:04:19 Jane, Peggy, and their Filipino nanny walk down a stee...

  4. Selected records from the State Archives of Fermo

    This collection contains records and correspondence relating to concentration camps for prisoners of war, 1915-1919.

  5. Lt. Col. Martin Joyce collection

    Consists of Dachau documents, scrapbook, military files and photographs created by and for Lt. Col. Martin W. Joyce, the American commanding officer of Dachau following liberation. Includes an album presented to Joyce from the Yugoslav prisoners committee which includes original prints and annotations of photograph of Dachau that were later mass-produced.

  6. Auschwitz-Birkenau O/S / The Largest Destruction Camp of the World

    Contains a typed, mimeographed copy of an undated report, written by an unknown author; 7 pages (note: pages are numbered 2-8). Acquired by Joseph M. Washburn (donor's father) while with the US Army during WWII, where he served as a member of War Crimes Investigating Team 6829

  7. Parade in Switzerland; Isenberg family visits Klosters

    A crowded square in Graubuenden. People in traditional costume parade through the street. Bank in BG. 01:31:29 Norbert, Artur, Helmut, and Erna walk together past outdoor tables and benches in Klosters. Sally Isenberg joins them. Erna and the boys exit a home and walk through a park with a seesaw, umbrellas, lounge chairs, giant wheels. Helmut and Norbert salute Sally as he walks over. Sally motions for the camera to follow as he leads the boys to the seesaw. Sally gets on one end of the seesaw as the boys climb on the other end. The boys do handstands and somersaults in the grass. Sally si...

  8. Selected records of the Comité inter-mouvements auprès des évacués (La Cimade)

    This collection contains selected records of the Comité inter-mouvements auprès des évacués (La Cimade) (Inter-movement Committee for Assistance to Refugees) related to rescue of Jewish refugees in France.

  9. Bumek and Gruber families photograph collection

    Photographs: wedding portrait of Abraham Bumek Gruber (donor's maternal uncle) and Bluma Gruber; portrait of their daughter Liba; and image of Bluma Gruber walking in the street of Drohobycz; Bumek Gruber was a butcher and he was employed by the Germans in the Karpaten Öl forced labor camp; his wife and small daughter were murdered in a mass execution in 1943 in Drohobycz; Bumek met Tusia, a seamstress who had a small daughter, and took care of them. He took them into hiding with him and paid the peasant hiding them with a ring with a glass stone. When the peasant wanted to sell the ring to...

  10. Handmade newsletter/card

    Handmade newsletter/card sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst. The card was written and illustrated by Heyne, who dated the card 1950.

  11. Charles Deibel collection

    This collection relates to an attorney with the United States military who served as a defense attorney at the Dachau War Crimes trials, which were run by the Judge Advocate General’s Department of the United States Third Army. Charles B. Deibel, Jr. served in this role between 1945-1946, spanning the trials of personnel from the Dachau, Mauthausen, and Flossenbürg concentration camps. The collection includes original photographs and photographic negatives of images taken during the trials and candid photographs of Deibel and the rest of the defense team. The collection also includes intere...

  12. Brandstaetter family papers

    Documents pertaining to the family of Salomon and Estera Brandstaetter, originally of Brzesko and Będzin, Poland. Includes birth certificates for Salomon (issued in Brzesko 1936) and Estera (issued in Będzin, 1980), school certificates for Salomon (1931 and 1935), a ketubah, documenting the wedding of Salomon and Estera in Lwów, Poland (12 April 1940), an envelope that formerly contained a letter (not extant), sent by Salamon’s mother, Malka Brandstaetter to her brother, Arnold, in New York (1941), a certificate issued by the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community in Munich, attesting to the v...

  13. Cesia Frymer diary

    Diary written by Cesia Frymer after she reached her hometown of Krakow, Poland, after liberation from Lichtenwerde. Frymer began the diary in Krakow in January 1945, and compiled entries there and elsewhere in Poland and Czechoslovakia until May 1947. Frymer survived the Krakow Ghetto, Płaszów, and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps. She participated in an attack on the Cyganeria Cafe in December 1942 in Krakow. She was a member of Hashomer Hatzair.

  14. Richard J. Lembach letter from Dachau

    Letter and envelope sent by PFC Richard J. Lembach who served in the Medical Corp, 1st Battalion, 47th Infantry, United States Army, and who was posted at Dachau after the liberation of that camp in 1945. In the letter, dated August 9, 1945, and addressed to Anne Lembach in Milwaukee, Lembach described what he saw in Dachau and what he heard had happened to the prisoners there.

  15. Records from the Archives of the Jewish Community of Volos, Greece

    The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence files of the Community Council as well as documentation related to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust. Among the records are the minutes of the Community Council’s meetings; notes, memoranda, reports, correspondence with other Greek Jewish Communities, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, institutions inside and outside the country; financial documents: lists of expenses, invoices, acknowledgements of receipts of various costs covered by the Community; petitions to and correspondence with the Greek autho...

  16. Deutsche Arbeitsfront booklet

    Consists of one Deutsche Arbeitsfront booklet, which was issued to Karl Röder in Koblenz, Germany, in 1938. The booklet notes his administrative post as Altenkirchen 02. Aside from the identification information and printed text, the booklet is almost entirely blank.

  17. A family's daily life in Belgium during World War II

    Family home movies documenting the de Brouwer family at their home in St Denis-Westrem, near Ghent, Belgium. A man in a suit poses while sitting on the ground near a gathering of trees. A woman rides her bike and looks at the camera. The man and woman ride together in the countryside. 00:00:34 Denise and Carl de Brouwer and their 5 children ride bikes to Ghent to view the bomb-damaged Bellem church in September 1940. CUs of church spire and niche statues. A crowd gathers. 00:00:59 The de Brouwers' Jersey cows graze in the yard. Carl bought the cows to independently produce milk and surplus ...

  18. Memoirs. Contest: "Preserve Memory Project" Wspomnienia. Materiały konkursowe "Zachować pamięć"

    Collection of 589 Polish testimonies along with photographs, letters and other personal documents. It contains accounts of Polish victims of WWII, their experiences of German atrocities in Poland and as forced laborers in Germany. The testimonies were sent for the contest "Pomóżcie Nam Zachować Pamieć" organized by the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) and Polska Unia Ofiar Nazizmu in 2005. Contains also other WWII materials collected by the foundation: as photographs, audio and video records. The most interesting materials were published by FPNP in two volumes under a title: “Za...

  19. Itzhak Nachmani papers

    The Itzakh Nachmani papers include two diaries Nachmani composed in 1942 and 1943 describing his family’s escape from Poland, his internment in a Soviet labor camp, his release into the Polish Army, and his service in Palestine, Egypt, and Iraq; a misdated Palestine Identity Card issued to Nachmani; and photographs depicting Nachmani and his Rumpler and Krzepicki relatives in Poland before the war and in Israel after the war as well as with fellow soldiers in Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine during the war. Itzakh Nachmani began his diaries on August 4, 1942, during his military service in Palest...

  20. V-E day celebrations in Germany; newspaper; discovery of important documents

    (LIB 6468) V-E DAY CELEBRATION, Idar-Oberstein, Germany, 8 May 1945. 00:00:07 Soldiers line up for flag-raising ceremony. An official military photographer shoots pictures. 00:00:34 Major General Hugh J. Gaffey speaks to troops. 00:01:10 Troops salute the US flag. 00:01:40 (LIB 6469) V-E DAY, Dusseldorf, Germany, 8 May 1945. Slate indicates cameraman R. Joyce. US troops enjoy free coffee and doughnuts. 00:02:14 Men and women crown around a radio. Troops salute an arriving military vehicle. Troops line up outside opera house. 00:02:50 Slate showing cameraman Crossley of the 159th Infantry Re...