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  1. Eller family collection

    Two letters and one envelope from Leon "Melamet" (donor's paternal uncle, brother of donor's father Charles), Sabina (donor's paternal aunt, sister of Charles and Leon) is mentioned in the letters. Three photographs: one of Sabina and the other two are unknown. Marriage certificate: for Fritz and Dora Feiler (Charles's second wife/donor's step mother) issued in Vienna, Austria in 1938

  2. Hospital; German POWs march; SA headquarters; Russian captain with US military and Germans

    (LIB 6276) Former POW hospital complex now occupied by American troops from the 666th Medical Collecting Company. The CUs of patients are former Soviet soldiers. Malnourished former prisoners of war stare at camera from hospital beds. CU of emaciated body. 00:00:27 Wounded man with amputated leg lies crying in bed. CU of injury. Former prisoner still in striped uniform in bed. 00:01:00 Hospital complex. Soldiers relax on lawn. One has a bandage covering his eye. Group posing. Soldiers look at sky. The complex. 00:02:04 Sign reads "Prov. PWX Hospital Hamm." The letters "PWX" overlay the orig...

  3. Harold Burson collection

    Collection consists of 44 typescript and mimeograph texts of the radio scripts authored by Burson, summarizing each day's proceedings of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which were broadcast each evening over the American Forces Network (AFN). According to Burson, most scripts were written in the evening following the day’s trial proceedings and in preparation for a 9:00 p.m. broadcast over AFN. The scripts cover the period between 19 November 1945 and 29 March 1946, and while typically consisting of brief summaries of the day's events in the courtroom, they sometimes also ...

  4. Berlin 1900

    Berlin from the turn of the century. EXT of the Reichstag, Bismarck Memorial. Automobiles pass, men walk along the street. Statue/fountain. Horse and buggy, pedestrians, and cyclists pass. A group of men stand around a cannon and look toward the camera. Two boys pose while a crowd forms in the BG. Berliner Dom. A busy street. Crowd looks at cannon outside. Richard Wagner statue in the Grosser Tiergarten. Busy street, trams, pedestrians, carriages. Victory Column. EXT of the Reichstag. Albrecht von Roon statue. Busy street, "Friseur" [hair salon]. Crowded train station. Train pulls into the ...

  5. Preskovsky family papers

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to Chana Tykocka Preskowski (donor’s mother) who together with her two small daughters, Bella (b. 1933) and Lea (b. 1935) travelled in the spring of 1939 from Tel Aviv to Grajewo, Poland to visit her parents, Mordechai and Ryvka Tykocki. With the German invasion of Poland and the Soviet annexation of Eastern Poland, Chana and her daughters were unable to leave. Jacob Preskovsky, Chana’s husband and the father of the two girls, was a Palestinian citizen, and he managed to arrange for “Emergency Certificates” for his wife and children. They rea...

  7. Lola Goldsmith family papers

    Correspondence, travel documents, alien registration forms, naturalization papers, photographs, photo albums, prayer books, belonging to the family of Lola Goldsmith (née Hannelore Goldschmidt) and her parents, Walter and Else Goldschmidt, documenting their emigration from Hildesheim, Germany in July 1939, their stay in England from 1939 to 1947, and their immigration to the United States. Additional documents relate to the parents of Walter Goldschmidt, Albert and Marta (Ochs) Goldschmidt.

  8. Selected records related to evacuation from the State Archive of the Republic of Mari El, Russian Federation

    Contains various records and correspondence files created by the Soviet Government and Communist Party authorities related to the evacuation of civilians to the Republic Mari El during WWII. It includes lists of evacuees, statistical data, information about food and medical supplies etc provided by the above-named authorities to the evacuated population.

  9. Philip and Marta Beckman collection

    Contains photographs and documents concerning the Holocaust experiences of Philip Beckman and Marta Roth Beckman. Consists of photographs and documents about Philip Beckman and Marta Roth Beckman. Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Malka Roth Beckman [donor's wife] and Rafael (Rafal) Beckman [donor] after their liberation from concentration camps as displaced persons in Italy, specifically, Cesaria Santa Maria de Leuca and Bari. Malka, born 1929 in Sighet, Romania, was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and transferred eventually to camps in Germany where she wa...

  10. Bier and Koppel families papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence, papers, clippings, and other assorted materials that document the experiences of the Bier and Koppel families, primarily in Austria, France, Cuba, and Yugoslavia before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  11. Illustration 2 from a handmade portfolio of illustrations by Herbert Heyne and Erich Kästner

    Book of illustrations sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst. The book was a gift from Heyne to Furst and was written with Erich Kästner in 1945. It features color illustrations by Heyne and offers a comical and critical depiction of National Socialism and Nazi militarism.

  12. Henrikas Kurlavicius photograph collection

    Collection of 25 photographs depicting Jews from Butrimonys, Lithuania. Lisa Lainer-Fagan received the photographs from Henrikas Kurlavicius in Butrimonys, who found them after WWII. The photographs belonged to Domicele Kuralviciene, who was a caregiver for Jewish families in the town from the time she was 10 years old.

  13. Burger family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, clippings, correspondence, an English translation of a diary, and other materials documenting the experiences of Solomon Burger from Vienna, Austria and his children: Herman, Alfred, Joseph, and Steffi and their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  14. Meir Shapiro family photographs

    Photographs relating to the experiences of Meir Shapiro and his family surrounding the Holocaust in Poland and Germany. Included are pre-war photographs of Meir's mother Jenta and father Chaim as well as post-war photographs of Meir and his sister Judith in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany. Also included is an image of David Ben-Gurion speaking to a group at the Zeilsheim camp in 1947 and group photographs of a Zionist youth organization, or kibbutz in Łódź, Poland, in which both Judith and Meir are pictured as well as a photograph of Miriam and Musia Brodzky, Meir’s cousins,...

  15. Swiss village no.2 at the Paris Exposition

    The Swiss village at the 1900 Paris Exposition after the Swiss drove home a herd of cattle. Women in Swiss national costume walk in a line. Man tips his cap to the camera as he walks toward it. Women and men grasp hands, form a circle, and dance.

  16. Leo Sadinsky photograph collection

    Consists of three photographs taken in the spring of 1945 inside the Dachau concentration camp. The photographs, which Holocaust survivor Leo Sadinsky remembered taking off the body of a German soldier, depict a pile of corpses, a body next to a wall, and a group of prisoners in uniforms behind a barbed wire fence. The photograph of the pile of bodies is dated April 15, 1945 on the verso.

  17. Romuald Goralski letter to Sylvia Lawrence

    Letter: sent to Sylvia Lawrence (Sara Zylbersztejn) [donors’ mother] dated January 12, 1946, in Bialystok, Poland, by Romuald Goralczyk, a former neighbor of the Zylbersztejn family in Bialystok. In his letter Mr. Goralczyk described the war years and notified Mrs. Lawrence that her mother Fruma was shot and killed in her house courtyard and that her father Dawid was deported to the Treblinka death camp.

  18. Lantzer family photograph collection

    Collection of photographs (15) depicting Yochevet Lantzer (Jochewet Doba Lanzer, b. October 2, 1947) as a child, along with her parents, in the Ulm displaced persons camp in Germany, and one picture of them in Israel (1950). Her parents, Alta Alal Bergrefreund Lanzer (b. December 12, 1923 in Bilgoraj Lubelski, Poland) and Szyjie Lanzer (b. April 15, 1914 in Tomaszow Lubelski, Poland) survived the Holocaust in the USSR. The Lanzer family immigrated to Israel on March 21, 1949.

  19. Selected records from the State Archives of the Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan

    Records related to the evacuation of civilians to Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan during World War II. Includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. This collection contains various lists of evacuees arriving to Karaganda from various regions of the former USSR: Communists and specialists arrived in Karaganda Region, persons arrived from the front line; the list of Polish citizens living in Karaganda Region, lists of Polish-Jewish citizens traveling to Poland; correspondence, statistics, reports, materials relate...

  20. Ava Schonberg photographs

    Consists of twelve original photographs and five copies of photographs of Ava Schonberg, her mother Roza, and sisters Celine and Alice, while they were living in wartime Switzerland and in post-war Belgium. Includes photographs of large school gatherings, of Ava alone and with friends, and of the post-war Tiefenbrunner children's home in Antwerp.