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  1. Officers oversee training and exercises at a Hitler Youth camp

    In Groedig, Austria, the Hitler Youth camp's site manager gives commands to the organized troop. He has a death's head emblem on his cap. A HJ member with SS patch practices giving orders. The troops run drills. A senior Hitler Youth officer with glasses reviews the men and gives orders. He wears a Hitler Youth uniform, with the rank of Obergebietsfuehrer, as well as an infantry assault badge and the ribbon for the Iron Cross, Second Class. 01:01:07 SS Oberscharfuehrer at left. The officer, second from left (shorter man), is an army Unteroffizier (roughly a corporal). He wears a buttonhole ...

  2. Nazi propaganda film on eugenics

    Part of a Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Nazi Party's Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"]. German mental hospitals and its patients including Jews. Text discusses "causes" and possible "solutions." Uses intertitles and graphics to discuss genetics of idiocy, unfair burden German people must bear to pay costs, and danger of ever increasing numbers of mentally ill. Patients supposedly live in luxury while many "normal" hardworking Germans live in substandard conditions.

  3. Tick, Norwind and Milchberg families collection

    Collection of photographs of the Tick, Norwind and Milchberg families in Nasielsk, Poland before the war, and after the war in several displaced persons campsin Germany, including Rosenheim. Faiga Milchberg Tick and her husband Shmuel Tick fled their hometown Nasielsk to Bialystok in the Soviet zone. In July 1940 the Soviets deported them to Vologda forced labor camp. They were able to return to Nasielsk, where their daughter Malka was born in September 1945. Soon after, they left Poland for a DP camp in Germany and immigrated to Canada in September 1948. The collection also includes photog...

  4. Board of the Jewish Community, Wilno (Fond 1232)

    Records of the Council of the Vilnius Jewish Community in Lithuania, reflecting the inter war period and beginning of World War II. The collection includes correspondence with local and government authorities, the Bureau of the Rabbi, the Chief of Police of the City of Vilnius, the Jewish Community Committee for Refugees, and Jewish communities across Lithuania regarding budgets and tax collection. Also includes reports, statistics, budget proposals, salaries of Jewish community officials, minutes, and certificates of war refugees.

  5. Morris and Rachel Zeif documents

    The collection includes post-war identity documents issued to Morris and Rachel Zeif (Mordka and Ruchla Zaif) in Bielawa, Poland and in a displaced persons camp in Italy.

  6. Albert Craig Levinson collection

    Consists of one typed testimony, three pages, dictated by Dr. Kurt Grunwald, a Czech physician, related to his Holocaust experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Ohrdruf. The testimony was typed by Albert Craig Levinson, a member of the 8th Infantry Division, after the liberation of Ohrdruf. Dr. Grunwald later reunited with his surviving son, Misa (Frank), whom he mourns in the testimony, believing Misa to have been killed at Auschwitz. Also includes a copyprint photograph of Albert Craig Levinson.

  7. Rosenwald family papers

    The collection contains letters sent to Fritz Rosenwald (Fred) in the United States from his parents Karl and Johanna Rosenwald along with his sister Liesel Rosenwald in Köln, Germany from 1938-1941, prior to their deportation to Riga, Latvia. Along with a small amount of correspondence from others, there is also correspondence, affidavits, and other documents regarding Fred’s unsuccessful efforts to secure a United States visa for Liesel.

  8. Frieder family with locals, greeting a boat, and preparing to depart Manila in 1936

    On the beach in the Philippines in Spring 1936. Sisters Edna and Louise Frieder play with local children and pass out candies. Younger sister Alice rides a horse. 01:04:52 Dark INT shots of people on a boat, then outdoors on deck where they (likely Frieder family relatives and Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria) wave and blow kisses to the camera. 01:05:45 CUs, guests on a ship. 01:05:47:11 - Corinne Rosenberg Frieder 01:05:49:12 - Louise Frieder 01:05:54 - Edna Frieder 01:05:56 The Frieders play with and feed monkeys in Ceylon. 01:06:29 CUs as friends and members of the Frieder famil...

  9. Selected records from the collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Religion. Directorate for Religious Affairs (Fond 166K)

    Contains records related to the certification of the baptismal certificates issued to Jews in Bulgaria, includes correspondence with the hierarchy of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church regarding baptized Jews, etc.

  10. Frances Cutler Hahn collection

    Consists of digital images of documents and photographs related to Frances Cutler Hahn, who was born Fanny Lindenberg Kahan in Paris, France, in 1938. Includes photographs of her parents, Schlomo Zalman Kahane and Cyla Lindenberg, letters to their family in Poland, photographs of Fanny in wartime childrens' homes and post-war orphanages, and documents related to her immigration to the United States with the assistance of HIAS.

  11. Eva Weinberger Cohen collection

    Consists of photographs, postcards, a photograph album, photographic negatives, documents, and postcards from the collection of Eva Weinberger Cohen, originally of Kusnice, Czechoslovakia [now Ukraine]. Though her family remained in Kusnice and was deported to Auschwitz, where only two sisters survived, Eva obtained false papers and posed as a Catholic in Budapest. She was able to obtain a spot on the Kastzner train and was deported to Bergen-Belsen in July 1944; she was released in December 1944 and sent to Switzerland. Includes pre-war family photographs; post-war photographs of Eva's sur...

  12. "Naki's Story"

    Consists of one typed story, 8 pages, written by Jack Samarias in the voice of his aunt, Naki (Esther) Touron-Fais, and describing her Holocaust experiences. In the story, "Naki" describes the wartime bombing of her hometown of Larissa, Greece; the family's decision to leave Larissa for Vizitsa, Greece, where they felt they would be safer; her visit to Larissa in March 1944, where she was arrested and taken to an internment camp outside of Larissa. She and a friend, Julie, lied about being Christians and convinced the German guards to release them as long as they could provide proof. Julie ...

  13. Eugenia Goldberg testimony

    Consists of testimony, 26 pages, in German, written in 1993 in the form of a letter by Eugenia Goldberg, originally of Liepāja, Latvia. She describes life under Russian occupation in Liepāja and in Riga, the German invasion, and her wartime attempts to survive. She also mentions the experiences of her extended family, as well as of George Schwab, who her husband, Julius Goldberg, aided.

  14. Houston Deford photographs

    Consists of six photographs taken by Houston "Dee" Deford, a member of the 104th Infantry Division, after the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp The photographs depict the preparation of corpses for burial. Includes handwritten description on the verso, giving the date of the photographs as "April 1, 1945" [likely May 1, 1945].

  15. Kenneth C. Myers photograph collection

    Consists of two original photographs and two enlarged copyprints of the same images, which were taken by Kenneth C. Myers, a mechanic with the 12th Armored Division, which participated in the liberation of Dachau. One photograph depicts the landscape of the camp and barbed wire, while the other depicts corpses on a cart.

  16. Mendel and Marta Miller family papers

    Contains photographs, immigration documents, and identification certificates, related to the period when Mendel and Marta Miller lived in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, and their subsequent immigration to the United States. Also included correspondence relating to Marta Miller's restitution claims against the West German government from 1982.

  17. Scrapbook of the Invasion of France

    Consists of one scrapbook, bound with fabric and a red wooden spine, containing mounted aerial military photographs of areas of France, circa 1940, likely taken during the May 1940 invasion of France by a member of the German military. Also includes photographs of the aftermath of ground warfare; many of the images are captioned and some of the aerial photographs are marked.

  18. Dora Pinkus Staub papers

    Consists of documents and correspondence related to Dora Pinkus Staub, originally of Gleiwitz. Includes correspondence from Dora, who was elderly and living in Berlin, Germany, from 1940-1941, prior to her deportation to Theresienstadt. Also includes a confirmation of her 1862 birth from a registry and notes regarding family genealogy.

  19. P. Victor Morse photograph collection

    Consists of eight photographs taken by United States Army serviceman P. Victor Morse near Essen, Germany, in May 1945. The photographs depict German civilians reburying the corpses of slave laborers who were murdered in a nearby wooded area. Also includes an image of the destroyed Krupp Works factory in Essen, taken in June 1945.

  20. Jacqueline Bernadet collection

    Consists of photographs taken of the forced reburial of corpses in Germany (possibly in Lüneburg) in the spring of 1945. Also includes color copies related to the wartime and post-war experiences of Jacqueline Bernadet, who was a member of the French Resistance, including a photograph, her portrait and French passport, and documentation related to her work with the Allied occupying forces in France.