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  1. China Clipper airplane lands in Manila

    Interisland boat departs from pier (destined for Mindinao?), people wave ribbons. Aerial views of the first China Clipper plane flying low and landing in shallow water near the busy Pier 7 in Manila on November 29, 1935. 01:22:32 CUs, Frieder family and friends smile for the camera aboard a ship meeting the clipper.

  2. Поименни декларации на лица от еврейски произход, съгласно чл. 26 от Закона за защита на нациата Bulgarian People's Bank, Sofia (Fond 285K, Opis 7). Personal declarations of financial accests and property submitted by Bulgarian Jews.

    Personal declarations of financial assets and property submitted by the Bulgarian Jews in accordance with the Law for the Defense of Nation. Each file consists of detailed questionnaire providing information about person's financial assets, property etc. declared in accordance with the Law for the Defense of Nation effective from 23 January 1941 to 27 November 1944.

  3. Frank A. Tuman papers

    Collection of papers relating to Corp. Frank A. Tuman during his service with Company L, 304th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division of the US Army during WWII. The collection includes a certificate of Merit issued to Tuman for Conspicuously meritorious and outstanding performance of military duty against an armed enemy and a Commendation issued to Tuman from Maj. Gen. Wm. R. Schmidt and Col. Wallace A. Choquette regarding the work Corp. Tuman and Pfc. Harold Levine performed in Mumsdorf, Germany regarding the reburial of victims of Nazi atrocities and the forced confrontation by the lo...

  4. Bund Deutscher Maedel in Ostmark

    Bund Deutscher Maedel (BdM) girls in uniform bike along country road. Girls on boat, singing with Hitler Youth (HJ) boys. Stone gate in Hainburg an der Donau adorned with swastika and eagle. BdM girls line the road, local Austrians in front of shops in BG. BDM girls come through on bicycles and shake hands. Girls march through town streets, banner (illegible) hangs above the street in the BG. They continue along country roads and wave to farmers. Pan down of white building in another village, most probably located in Burgenland. Girls wash and drink from a well and continue biking. Austrian...

  5. Testimonies collected by the Association of the Polish Victims of III Reich Relacje zebrane przez Stowarzyszenia Polaków Poszkodowanych przez III Rzeszę

    Contains testimonies of Polish victims of II Reich. These accounts constitute mostly the answers to a questionnaire sent by the Association of Polish Victims of the Third Reich (SPP) and edited by the Foundation of Polish-German Reconciliation (FPNP) in 1989. Many of accounts contain photographs, poems and personal documents. The contest declared by SPP was entitled: “We commemorate the evidence of the suffering of the Polish people-slaves of the 20th century” („Utrwalamy świadectwa cierpień Polaków-niewolników XX wieku”). 195 accounts were sent, unfortunately not all of them survived.

  6. Visiting Switzerland

    People smile and wave for the camera aboard a boat. People smoke and talk aboard a train platform and wave from the train cars. Tour group in Arth-Goldau, Switzerland. Scenic views of the town and a river. Back on the boat, people pose for the camera.

  7. Isenberg family greets townspeople

    Unknown people in a carriage in an unknown location. Isenberg family gets out of a car. Artur, Sigmund, and others gather in the street, talking to folks through windows of brick homes.

  8. Tamara Manela and Isaac Sherman papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence, identification papers, and passports relating to Tamara Manela and Isaac Sherman and their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes Latvian passports, other travel documentation relating to their immigration to the United States via Germany, Italy, and Cuba, and English translations of Izak Sermanis' (Isaac Sherman) divorce papers from his first wife in Latvia, 1938, as well as a letter relating to a restitution claim filed by Mrs. Sherman in 1968.

  9. Dr. Howard Hoffman collection

    Consists of correspondence, a clipping, and copies of testimony related to Dr. Howard Hoffman. As an American soldier, he was a member of the 102nd Infantry Division and witnessed the aftermath of the Gardelegen atrocity. The collection includes a copy of Hoffman's recollections and information about his corrections to the exhibit text in 1978 at Yad Vashem which had misidentified Gardelegen as a concentration camp. Also includes text written by Hoffman's wife, Dr. Alice Hoffman, about her husband's experiences.

  10. Wertheimer and Reich families photograph collection

    Contains photographs depicting the Wertheimer and the Reich family from Znojmo in Moravia, Czechoslovakia.

  11. Lena Lipchiz papers

    The Lena Lipchiz papers document relatives of Lena Lipchiz who remained in Poland when she immigrated to the United States. Records include one 1920 photograph of Moryc Baumgarten in Łódz; an admission card allowing Basia Baumgarten visitors at a Chojny sanitorium; a 1940 letter from Basia in Łódz to Lena in New York; a 1940 postcard from A. Dziaba in the Łódz ghetto to Lena; and a 1946 postcard and empty 1947 envelope from Isak Kleber in the UNRRA DP camp at Grugliasco to Lena.

  12. Rosendahl and Blasbalg family papers

    Correspondence, telegrams, passports, immigration and naturalization documents, birth certificates, educational records, and other documents, related to the immigration of Ernst and Jenny Rosendahl (Blasbalg) from Germany to France, and then the United States; the immigration of Mrs. Rosendahl's sister, Gerda Miller, first to Palestine and then to Britain and the United States; and attempts to help their father, Fritz Blasbalg, emigrate from Germany, and then from German-occupied Netherlands, which were ultimately unsuccessful. The files concerning Fritz Blasblag primarily contain correspon...

  13. Deutsches Gericht Warschau German Courts in Warsaw Sąd Niemiecki w Warszawie (Sygn.1207/III)

    This collection contain selected criminal and civil cases related to crimes or offences against German ordinances committed by Poles and Jews on the territory of the Generalne Gubernatorstwo (GG). The German court held absolute jurisdiction over all matters involving illegal residence on the "Aryan" site; absence of the prescribed armband (which was normally associated with attempts to disappear into the crowd on the other site of the ghetto walls); black market transactions (including non-compliance with the regulated prices); sexual contacts with gentiles, most specifically with German ge...

  14. Sailing on the SS Normandie in 1938

    People on board the SS Normandie sailing from Le Havre, France on October 5, 1938, including Erna, leaning against the rails, reading papers. More views of ship passengers and Sally at 01:44:39.

  15. Kedar (Krausz) family photographs

    Contains two photographs: one showing Dr. Samuel and Dr. Lydie Krausz (donor's parents) in Nitra, 1936; the second depicting the donor's parents before their marriage in Prague, 1930.

  16. Max and Sara Stodel papers

    Documents and photographs surrounding the experiences of Max (Mozes) Stodel and his wife Sara, Halberstadt-Carels. The collection includes a photograph of Mozes Stodel, a photograph of two unidentified women (likely Sara Halberstadt-Carels), a repatriation document for Mozes Stodel, and a medical clearance certificate and displaced persons registration card for Sara Halberstadt-Carels.

  17. Paul W. Himan Jr. narrative

    Narrative typescript text, one page, written by Paul Himan, a soldier stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army, describing his responses to his visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp following its liberation. The text, dated 6 May 1945, and sent to his mother in the United States, describes the living conditions of prisoners at the camp, how a liberated prisoner gave him a tour of the camp and described his own experiences there, the crematoria at the camp, and Himan's feelings about Germans following his tour of this camp.

  18. Frieder children at play

    Morris and Julia Frieder's children in Cincinnati, Ohio in the early 1930s. Jane (b. 1927), the oldest daughter of the family, and her classmates climb on a jungle gym on a rooftop playground at the University of Cincinnati nursery school. 00:02:00 Jane, with the short, dark hair, plays in the sandbox. Jane and her younger sister Peggy (b. 1930) play outside their home wearing bathing suits.

  19. Abstract contemporary painting

  20. Frieders travel home via China

    The Frieder family stops over in Hong Kong (like the brief shot in Film ID 2956 at 00:02:46) - Corinne and the children ride in rickshaws, locals in the street. The Frieder family tours a park with massive Buddha statue. More street scenes with locals. 01:08:52 Rickshaws with the Frieders. Crowds next to a large docked ocean cruiser with confetti. Pan of ships in the harbor, glimpse of an American flag on the large ship, and parked rickshaws and automobiles on the dock. The cruiser departs, confetti breaks, people wave. 01:10:54 Morris Frieder shakes hands with men. Two young women and some...