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  1. Chaim Kamelmacher collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to the experiences of Chaim Kamelmacher (later Harry Kamel) in displaced persons camps after World War II. Includes photographs taken at Kibbutz Tarnow in 1945; photographs taken at the Lechfeld, Landsberg am Lech, Wasseralfingen, and Wetzlar/Lahn displaced persons camps; workbooks, photographs, and certificates from ORT training; and documents attesting to Mr. Kamelmacher's wartime experiences as a Polish Jew inducted into the Red Army. Also includes several pre-war family photographs and material related to the commemoration of the Jews of Man...

  2. Ruth Heller Slater collection

    Documents, photographs, and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Ruth Heller (donor) in Vienna, Austria throughout the World War II. Included in the collection are documents for Edith Hollander (donor's mother), Heinrich Heller (donor's father) as well as Anna Schneid and Moritz Hollander (donor's maternal grandparents), all of who survived the Holocaust. Ruth, Edith, and Anna remained in the Vienna Jewish community and Heinrich survived multiple concentration camps over a six year period. Also included are documents for extended family who did not survive or who passed away befor...

  3. Swiss watch taken from the body of an SS guard by a concentration camp inmate

    Swiss wrist watch with a contemporary band taken by 21-year-old Abraham Lewent, possibly from the body of a dead SS guard, around April 1945. After the collapse of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943, Abraham and his father Raphael were deported to Majdanek concentration camp where his father was killed. After two months, Abraham was transferred to Skarżysko-Kamienna slave labor camp, then to Buchenwald concentration camp, a month later to a subcamp, Schlieben, then back to Buchenwald. He was transferred to Bisingen, a subcamp of Natzweiler-Struthof for about 8-10 weeks, and then sent t...

  4. Alexander Pechersky article

    Consists of a typed onion skin copy of an article, in Russian, written in 1955 by Alexander Pechersky, related to his memories and experiences at Sobibor and during the Sobibor uprising. Pechersky inscribed the copy to Masha Rolnikaite.

  5. Jewish family at leisure

    Pan, farm/field and manicured gardens. People on the balcony of house wave at the camera. 01:30:12 Sally Isenberg waves to camera. Train pulls into station. Group disembarks and walks along streets. INTs of train, Erna reads newspaper. 01:32:00 In city, Sigmund and Erna approach the camera. Sally takes off his hat. Traffic officer stands in the middle of a busy intersection (maybe Zurich), bikes and cars pass. Pan of city life with shops, cars, pedestrians, trees lining the street. Sigmund and Erna walk past the camera and wave. 01:32:48 View of train tracks from the train window. Signs: "F...

  6. Panorama of the Eiffel Tower at the Exposition

    Panoramic footage of the 1900 Paris Exposition and exterior views of the Eiffel Tower. People walk under the Eiffel Tower. MS, base of the tower. Camera pans up showing the rest of the tower and back down to the base. Man takes his cap off and smiles into the camera. A man gestures toward the camera playfully.

  7. Visiting Frieder Films, Incorporated in the Far East

    Alex Frieder and two men smoke cigarettes by a doorway with movie posters. Pan up to "Frieder Films. East Indies, Inc, Distributors of Republic Pictures In The Far East" sign. The men walk past the building and turn a street corner. Alex takes a ride in a rickshaw. The Frieder family and children relax at a swimming pool. Note the film camera case and yellow Kodak box on the coffee table. Farms. The South Bali Airport. Alex shakes hands with a women and two men. CUs, locals in colorful traditional dress wading into the water and riding in boats. A cock fight. Views of green landscape. Farme...

  8. Sigi Ziering memoir

    Manuscript, 12 pages, by Siegfried "Sigi" Ziering, written in the form of a letter to his father, from Holsbybrunn, Sweden, June 1945, and describing what Ziering had experienced from the time of his deportation to the Riga Ghetto in December 1941, until his liberation through a prisoner exchange arranged by the Red Cross in northern Germany in May 1945. Included are descriptions of the rounding up of Jewish residents of Kassel, the deportation from there to Riga, and Ziering's experiences as a prisoner and forced laborer in the Riga Ghetto, and in the Kaiserwald, A.B.A. 701, and Fuhlsbuett...

  9. Lists of deported persons of Judeo-Spanish ancestry deported from France

    Contains digital reproductions of lists of deported persons of Judeo-Spanish ancestry who were deported from France. These are provisional lists and include information forms, some with photographs, on individuals, as well as people names found on lists at the Spanish Consulate in Paris, 1940.

  10. Klajner and Taubman family papers

    Collection of photographs of the Klajner family in Boryslaw, Poland before the war; the Taubman and Klajner families in the Soviet Union during the war and after the war in Boryslaw, Walbrzych and other localities in Poland; Documents and correspondence: letter written to Dolka and Jurek Taubman in 1945 and December 1945, in Russian; School report card and student ID cards issued to Dora Kleiner and Jerzy Taubman in USSR

  11. Facsimile of a 70th anniversary Stolperstein for a Jewish Italian teenager

    Facsimile of a plaque created in 2012 to honor the memory of Amelia Levi, age 17, who was deported from Saluzzo, Italy, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German occupied Poland and murdered. The plaque was created by students of the Art Institute G.Solei-Bertoni, in Saluzzo, as a Stolperstein [stumbling block] for possible placement at the site of the home where Amelia had lived. Stolpersteine were originated by Gunter Demnig as an ongoing art project to memorialize victims of National Socialism in front of their last place of residence. On January 26, 1944, Amelia was arrested by...

  12. Jerzy Głowacki and Ludwika Lacheta papers

    The collection includes documents relating to the official name change of Lota Lam, Marzena Rola’s grandmother, to Ludwika Lacheta; a letter from the Swiss Bank Association to Jerzy Głowacki, Marzena Rola’s father, in which the Association agreed to search for the Swiss bank deposit by Simon Hubner on the condition that the petitioner will provide a death certificate and other documents; and a photograph depicting Jerzy Głowacki with a group of other liberated prisoners.

  13. Propaganda posters and flyers produced by the German authorities on the occupied territory of the former USSR

    Contains various German propaganda posters and flyers created and produced by the German authorities during the occupation of Ukraine and other territories of the former USSR.

  14. Memoirs. Forced Labor in III Reich Pamiętniki. Przymusowa praca na terenie III Rzeszy

    Collection of testimonies submitted for a contest "Przymusowa Praca na Terenie III Rzeszy" (Forced labor in the Third Reich). The contest was organized in Poland in 1965 by the weekly "Zielony Sztandar", the publishing house Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza , and the Główna Komisja do Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce (Main Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes). 334 testimonies were accepted for the contest but only 125 were preserved (winning testimonies are missing, except a testimony of Jan Uskwarek).

  15. Aenni and Eric Kaufman papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war lawsuits brought forth by Aenni and Eric Kaufman, originally of Berlin, Germany, to recover ownership of shares of I.G. Chemie (later known as Interhandel and Societe Internationale) owned by Aenni’s mother Paula Ehrlich who was killed at Auschwitz in 1942. Included are legal documents and correspondence covering several lawsuits from as early as 1943, through 1966. There are also legal documents regarding a lawsuit filed by Eric against his lawyers from the firm of Graubard and Moskovitz filed around 1966. Also included are immigration papers...

  16. Eva Friedman collection

    Consists of letters, dated between August 21, 1939 and March 14, 1940, from family members Paul, Herman, and Clara, to Martha, who had escaped from Czechoslovakia to Palestine with her family. In the letters, the family (likely siblings) inform Martha of their imprisonment, fears, and the increasing German persecution, as well as their inability to escape. Clara, who was Martha's sister, sent her letters from St. Nazaire, France, and while Herman and Paul's letters do not include a location, Herman was likely writing from Prague, while Paul was imprisoned in an unnamed camp. Also includes o...

  17. Print

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

  18. Elizabeth Rosenbaum Pilossoph photographs

    Consists of 14 photographs and photographic postcards depicting life in prewar Kolno, Poland, as well as pre-war photographs of members of the extended family of Betzalel (Charles) and Tzipporah (Faye) Olek Rosenbaum of Kolno.

  19. Artie Kaufman photograph collection

    Contains three photographic prints depicting the Dachau death train soon after liberation; captioned on verso in English.

  20. Robert Lee McLaughlin photograph collection

    Contains 21 photographs taken around the Dachau concentration camp shortly after liberation. The photographs were taken by U.S. Army soldier T. Chappell, and entrusted to Lee McLaughlin, another solder in Chappell's unit.