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  1. 1935 Inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth

    Inauguration of the Philippine Commonwealth (of the United States). The Commonwealth was created by the Tydings-McDuffie Act, which was passed by Congress in 1934. When Manuel L. Quezon was elected president in September 1935, he became the first Filipino to head a government of the Philippines. The Commonwealth Government was inaugurated on the morning of November 15, 1935, in ceremonies held on the steps of the Legislative Building in Manila. The event was attended by a crowd of around 300,000 people. 01:18:03 American flag. Large crowd (mostly Filipino) seated for the ceremony. High-leve...

  2. Sztorchan family photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting members of the Sztorchan family including pre-war in Sosnowiec, Poland and a post-war portrait.

  3. Szapiro family photographs

    Consists of photographs (45) from the collection of Leib Szapiro, originally of Pruz︠h︡any, Poland (now Belarus), and his wife, Jenta Dobes Szapiro, originally of Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). Consists of pre-war photographs of Leib and Jenta's extended families, and life in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, including photographs of Jewish life in the camp. Includes a 1947 certificate of identity in lieu of a passport for the couple and copies of the American naturalization papers.

  4. Weisz and Suryáni family papers

    Photographs, correspondence, diploma, and related documents pertaining to experiences of Ilona (Lili) Weisz and her husband, Imre Suranyi, of Sarkad, Hungary, from approximately 1935 to 1950. Included is a Certificate of Doctor of Philosophy issued to Imre Suryani in Budapest, 1959; photographs that belonged to Lili Weisz Suryani who survived Auschwitz, included is portrait of her daughter Agnes who perished at Auschwitz; letters written to the donor's mother Olga.

  5. Tea party at Frieder estate

    Back in Manila, views of the dining area outdoors near the tennis courts at the Frieder family estate. Servants prepare for a tea party. 00:06:25 Peggy and Jane eat at one of the white-clothed tables. Morris walks down the stairs. 00:06:50 Jane plays with her father Morris. 00:07:01 Peggy and Jane in the pool at the house in Manila with their mother. The girls swing.

  6. Helen Rotenberg Goldberger manuscript

    Consists of one manuscript, 10 pages, written by Dr. David Goldberger about his wife, Helen Rotenberg Goldberger. In the text, he describes the facts he knows of his wife's early years, though she did not speak often about that period. Originally from Malecz, Poland [now Belarus], she was sent to the ghetto in Pruzhany after the German invasion of eastern Poland in 1941. Helen managed to escape the ghetto and spent the war in the forest [possibly the Pripet marshes]; after the war, she learned that the majority of her family had been killed. Helen emigrated to the United States; married an ...

  7. Carl and Robert Gamer papers

    This collection is clearly delineated into two parts, each potentially very valuable for future scholarship. The Dr. Carl Gamer papers cover the coursework, research, and writing of his 1940 doctoral dissertation at the University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana, “Freedom of Religion in Germany: A Study of Theory and Practice Under the National Socialist Regime, with Special Attention to Free Churches of American and English Origin.” The term "free churches" referred to the non-established churches that historically had been either churches stemming from the Reformation but (in the early 19th ...

  8. Mozis family collection

    Correspondence to Marthé and Silvio Mozis (donor’s parents) in France, from Marthé’s uncle Julius Kauffman and aunt [married to Marthé’s maternal uncle Nestor] Charlotte Kauffman. Correspondence dates 1941 and then 1945-1947. The 1941 letters ask that Marthé consider moving her family to the United States and implores her not to return to Paris. The postwar letters express happiness that Marthé’s immediate family [husband Silvio and children Claude and Nicole] are safe, unknown information about Marthé’s parents, Rosa and Francois Kauffman as well as other friends and family. In English and...

  9. 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.

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. Selected records from the State Archives of Fermo

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

  13. 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.

  14. 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

  15. 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...

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. 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.

  19. 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...

  20. 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...