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  1. Records from the Archives of the Jewish Community of Iannina, Greece

    Records of the Jewish Community of Ioannina (1947-2014), one of the oldest Jewish communities in Greece, whose members are predominantly Romaniot Jews. 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: l...

  2. Daily life of a Belgian family during World War II; hidden Jews; religious celebrations

    Family home movies of the de Brouwer family at their home in St Denis-Westrem, near Ghent, Belgium. Summer 1943, the children push a cart loaded with hay. Jean-Marie holds a cow's tail while it is milked before returning to the house. The neighboring de Hemptinne house. Yvonne Hemptinne and her mother-in-law walk down the stairs before posing with Joseph for the camera. The children rush to greet Aunt Edith as she arrives from the train station. Carl and his mother arrive in the de Hemptinne's donkey-drawn carriage. 00:43:17 Jacques with a swollen eye caused by a bee sting. Denise, Jean-Mar...

  3. Dressing and burial of corpses at Falkenau

    Card: "V-E +1, MAY 9, 1945." Card: "Produced in Falkenau Concentration Camp." Card over Nazi swastika and eagle: "in choslovaki [sic, probably meaning Czechoslovakia]" Shot of a handgun, Card: "OST Russia." Card: "Presented by 16th Infantry Regiment." Card: "1st U.S. Infantry Division." Card: "Supervised by Capt. Kimball Richmond." Card: "Photographed by Cpl. Samuel Fuller." Men carrying tools walk down a village street. Soldiers stand in front of barbed wire. Well-dressed, healthy men walk and carry shovels and pitchforks, soldiers watch from the side of the road. Two men stand behind barb...

  4. Murray Bucher collection

    Photograph album titled "Buchenwald/or a Glance at German 'Kultur'" by Murray Bucher (donor's uncle), creator of the album and a member of the United States Army Air Force, in 1945. Album was created in a blank book notebook, originally from Russia, and contains photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. Album contains clipped newspaper articles about the camp, all in English, as well as photographs that depict American forces delousing former victims, remains of victims who did not survive, group photographs of child survivors, Jewish ...

  5. Illustration 5 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.

  6. Oral history interview with Abe Hill

  7. Lt. Preston Amble Reed photographs

    Consists of photographs and photographic negatives taken at the liberation of the Langenstein concentration camp by Lieutenant Preston A. Reed in April 1945. Reed was a trained professional photographer in Minneapolis who, during the war, served with the 168th Signal Corps in the Ninth Army. Also includes a copy of Reed's shot sheet, the original photograph sleeve, and a copy of a photograph which was taken by an unknown photographer at the Holzen concentration camp.

  8. Goldstein and Bursztyn family papers

    The Goldstein and Bursztyn family papers consist of Elie Goldstein's and Hela (Chajcia) Bursztyn Goldstein's diaries, written in Yiddish, describing Nazi occupied Poland, the liquidation of the Siennica ghetto, their time at the Mienia labor camp, and their experiences hiding in the Polish countryside with Christian families, on farms, and in fields. The collection also includes photographs documenting the Goldstein and Bursztyn families and their friends before, during, and after the war in Poland and Germany.

  9. Szpitalnik family papers

    The collection includes immigration material, identification document, biographical material, and photographs including documents issued to Rubin Szpitalnik, Lisette Hirsch's father, by the French government after the war recognizing his experiences during the Holocaust in France, Auschwitz, and Mauthausen. Other documents include a Ketubah issued to Rubin Szpitalnik and his bride Miriam Wald on December 31, 1939 in Paris and a Polish passport as well as a collection of photographs depicting the Szpitalnik family in Warsaw, Poland including Rubin Spitalnik, his wife Margula Wald Szpitalnik,...

  10. Handmade card sent to Walter Fuerst in 1950

    Handmade card sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst in 1950. The card was written and illustrated by Heyne.

  11. Elevator ascends the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Exposition

    The 1900 Paris Exposition filmed from the new elevator in the Eiffel Tower showing the ascent of the elevator and an aerial shot of the Champs de Mars and the exposition. The tops of pavilions, the iron structure of the Eiffel Tower. Entire buildings can be seen. Lanterns inside the Eiffel Tower. The tops of buildings, people walking along the Champs de Mars. Aerial shot of the busy Champs de Mars.

  12. Warsaw ghetto uprising and postwar immigration to Israel

    00:01:16 Credits on screen in Yiddish. Yiddish narration. Young men in Hashomer Hatzair uniforms march up a hill carrying torches as part of a nighttime commemoration of the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. One of the members sings to the group. 00:03:50 Footage of the Warsaw ghetto: a sign over a wooden fence warns of the danger of epidemics. A uniformed German looks into a passing car. Panning shot of the brick ghetto wall dividing the ghetto from "Aryan" Warsaw. The narrator says something about the Umschlagplatz, from which Jews were deported to death camps. Shots of Jews hurrying alon...

  13. Provincial Court in Kielce Sąd Wojewódzki w Kielcach (Sygn. 306)

    Contains selected files of the Provincial Court in Kielce during the years 1945-1956. These trials refer the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of Nazi criminals and their collaborators guilty of murder and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. Selected files mostly refer to crimes committed against Jews, but the collection contains also files related to Polish and Russian victims. The “Sierpniówka” was one of the world's first legislation...

  14. Eva Weiss collection of Heinrich Grüber correspondence

    Correspondence, news clippings, postcards and printed material sent by pastor Heinrich Grüber of Berlin to Mrs. Eva Weiss of Givatayim, Israel, 1965-1975. Includes responses by Grüber to birthday wishes and other honors he received, and open letters by Grüber about events relating to Israel during the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the Six Day War in 1967, the murder of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in 1972, and the Arab-Israeli War of 1973. File also includes his obituary in 1975 and a letter from his family in response to condolences received.

  15. The Isenbergs visit family in Gilserberg

    Cows in field. Bertha and Margot Greif, Rosa, Julie, Erna, Hermine, Sophie Stern, and her sister walk down the country road. Men with horses and wagons. Pan of village and piles of wood. Women walk in the street. 01:36:46 In Gilserberg, INT, Julie in the kitchen, another washes rags. Erna leans out of the window. Street activity, mail truck drives past. 01:37:36 Young girl with a backpack poses for camera. Men with a pig. Margot and Bertha Greif, Sigmund, Rosa, Juile, Erna, and Sigmund Stern walk down stairwell of house. Pan of village streets with animals, people, houses, wood. Motorcycle ...

  16. Print

    Print from a set of eight reproductions of lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  17. Wolf Bulanski papers

    Photograph album, loose photographic prints, documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Wolf Bulanski (donor's father) who was born in Telechany, Poland [present-day Belarus] in 1912. Included is an extensive photo album and loose photographs spanning the 1920s and 1930s in Poland and then later in Belgium where Wolf studied and earned a medical degree. Documents illustrate his education in Poland and Belgium, and war-time in Belgium working as a physician and surviving under the false name "Henri Joba." Also included are WWI postcards from "Oswei Bilansky" (donor's patern...

  18. Edith Beer collection

    Photographs (99) of the Borger family in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia: Alfred Borger, Hermina Geduldig Borger and their children Karel (b. 1925) and Edith (b. 1929). In July 1939 Karel and Edith were sent to the UK by their parents on the Kindertransport organized by Sir Nicholas Winton. Both parents and Hermina's mother Ruzena Geduldig were deported to Theresienstadt on September 30, 1942; Alfred and Hermina Borger were deported to Treblinka death camp on October 10, 1942. Edith returned to Czechoslovakia in 1946 and immigrated to Israel. She married Pavel Zvi Beer (b. 1923) who survived Auschw...

  19. Frieders golf and swim

    Corinne Frieder and one of the Frieder children register at the Baguio country club golf course. A sign reads: "Players Absolutely Prohibited Unless Wearing Flat-Heeled Shoes." Corinne, Alex and their children practice at the driving range. 01:16:07 Louise pushes Alice on a swing in their front yard in Baguio. The Frieder teens and friends swim in the pool in Manila (probably for Edna's birthday). 01:17:10 Alice and cousins Jane and Peggy run down the stairs and play in the pool in Manila.

  20. Deportation of Jews

    Deportation at railway station in Poland (unknown location). CU, women with glasses and kerchief on the train platform. MS, families of Jews, some with bundles and armbands dressed in suits, walk towards the camera beside railway cars. SS-Schutze and tall Polish Blue policeman escorts another column by gunpoint.