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  1. Ethel Davidson photographs

    Contains 26 photographs of pre-war Poland, including from resort areas Szczawnica and the Pieniny mountains, and post-war displaced persons camps in Germany, including Zeilsheim.

  2. Herzberg family papers

    The Herzberg family papers include biographical materials and photographs documenting the family of Jacob and Margaret (née Bloch) Herzberg, and their daughter Rachel, originally of Fulda, Germany. Included are family photographs and documents, including birth certificates, and certificates related to religious ceremonies and weddings, extending back to the late 1890s. Also included are forms and correspondence related to the efforts of the Herzberg family to emigrate from Germany, their successful arrival in the United States, Jacob Herzberg's application to not be considered as an enemy a...

  3. Jews hiding in a nightclub in Amsterdam (with text)

    Film with text. The film (as seen in Story 1315) repeats with added intertitles in Dutch (see linked document). Image rolls at 01:16:19 with an older couple stands and converses. An adolescent boy comforts a young woman [this scene is clearly acted out with the characters wearing stage makeup]. An older man then opens the door, enters the room, and converses with a girl. Several people arrive and are greeted warmly. They all wear yellow stars. INTs of the apartment. The table is set. A girl sits and knits. People lounge about; others arrive. The boy and young woman look out the window onto ...

  4. Springtime in Vienna

  5. Bruchsal Kreistag 1938

    Footage shot at the 1938 Kreistag in Bruchsal, showing scenes of athletic and social activities combined with marching and speeches. Agfa 1938 logo. Shot of a building heavily decorated with Nazi paraphernalia, with a sign reading "Kreistag Bruchsal". Quick shot of a parade of SA men marching in the street, followed by street scenes with many Nazi flags blowing in the breeze. Children splash each other in a fountain. Four uniformed men walk toward the camera. LS of a man standing at a podium with uniformed Bund Deutscher Maedel girls facing him. An officer arrives in a car and is saluted by...

  6. Prayer book

    Megillat Esther, the scroll of Esther, read on the Jewish holiday of Purim carried by Anton Spitzer when he moved to Iasi, Romania, in 1931. Shortly before he was taken away by the Nazis in 1944, Anton hid the scroll in a cellar in the Iasi ghetto. He recovered it when he returned to Iasi after the war in 1945. The family would read from this scroll on Purim in Iasi until they immigrated to Israel in 1950.

  7. World War II Iron Cross

    Iron Cross that may have been awarded to Franz Schneider, a policeman in the German auxiliary police force in the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the former Czechoslovakia.

  8. Michael Flack papers

    Collection contains texts of songs and poetry written by Flack during his internment at Theresienstadt, including typescript copies and a leather-bound diary containing hand-written poetry by Flack, dated 1940-1941. Collection also contains correspondence, news clippings about Flack following his immigration to the United States, and materials related to the play "Ester," by E.F. Burian, which was produced at Theresienstadt, including a performance that was directed by Flack, and which received renewed interest in the 1990s.

  9. Judit Schichtanz collection

    Photo album and documents relating to the Schichtanz family's experiences in Hungary before, during, and after WWII. Included are images of Judit Schichtanz at her First Communion after her mother Ella and she converted to Roman Catholocism in 1941; baptismal certificate for Judit Schichtanz; pre-war photographs of Judit's father Lorand, who was later deported to a Hungarian forced-labor battalion in 1944 is presumed to have perished in Mauthausen.

  10. Amateur shots: Austrians welcome Hitler in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau and Austrian family life

    Private film of a Nazi rally during Hitler’s journey from Linz to Vienna. Outdoor shots of a large home with painted swastikas and several Nazi flags. Tanks drive down a street. Nazi soldiers walking down the street. Hitler gives the Nazi salute from his car driving down the street with many onlookers on the sidewalks. Austrians shake hands and kiss cheeks. Nazi flags hanging from buildings. Trucks and tanks with swastikas on them driving down the street. Cut to women tending to plants in a greenhouse. INTs in a house, focusing on a cat. The women walk the cat on a leash. They hold and dote...

  11. Portfolio

    Title page, table of contents, and introductory information for a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  12. Max Shattner photograph collection

    The Max Shattner photograph collection consists of photographs related to the wartime experiences of Max Shattner, who survived the war in a Swiss internment camp. The photographs depict Shattner with other refugees living in the camp, and the collection also includes copyprints of his post-war life and family. Also includes a 1972 recording of Mr. Shattner singing German and Hebrew songs, including opera arias, liturgical songs, a Bialik poem, and "Die Uhr."

  13. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  14. HJ in Salzburg

    Parade with music (drums and horns). Marching procession of uniformed Hitler youth in Salzburg, singing in unison. Pan to clock tower adorned with Nazi flags, time show 10:40 AM. Apartment buildings and retail shops. “Haltes Bazar” sign. Spectators watch. Filming rear of parade from a Nazi car.

  15. Helena Minzer letters

    The Helena Minzer letters concern Helena Minzer, a Polish Jewish woman, and her experiences during the Holocaust. Forced to live in the Lwow ghetto, Helena Minzer escaped under a false name and went into hiding with the Szychlińska family in Mosty Wielkie before entering a forced labor camp. Her papers are comprised of 8 letters written by her to Janina Szychlińska while in the camp and immediately after liberation in 1945.

  16. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  17. Frederick E. Jaeggi photographs

    Consists of four photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, including images of corpses gathered for burial and of survivors of the camp.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Popes Pius XI and XII

    Compilation of footage from the tenure of Pope Pius XI (Pius XII's predecessor) on the occasion of his death. Title onscreen: "Universal Newsreel Vatican City Impressive Scenes Mark the Passing of Beloved Pontiff." Crowds outside the Vatican. Priests and others attend to Pope Pius XI as he lies in his bed. Pius XI visits the king and queen of Italy. 02:01:23 Pope Pius XI on the balcony at the church of St. John Lateran. Pius XI blessing the Alpine Chausseur (French mountain troops), followed by footage of Pius XI being crowned pope. 02:01:58 Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (Pope Pius XII) walks to...

  19. Valentine and Politzer family papers

    Correspondence and documents pertaining to the extended family of Teodor Valentin and Vilma (Politzer) Valentin. Includes a memoir written by Vilma Valentin titled "Kalište Report," which details the family's experiences from 1942-1945, while in hiding in the partisan-controlled village of Kalište, Slovakia, near Banska Bystrica

  20. Joseph and Josie Peretz papers

    The Joseph and Josie Peretz papers comprise documents and photographs concerning Joseph and Josie Peretz, a Jewish couple living in Antwerp, Belgian who survived the Holocaust. Joseph, after being released as a prisoner of war with the Belgian army was deported to a labor camp in northern France and escaped after procuring false French papers, while Josie, a Polish-born Jew, lived with a couple in Tourcoing, France under a false identity. Included in the collection are documents pertaining to Joseph’s service in the Belgian military, ration coupons from the labor camp, and poems he wrote wh...