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  1. Prewar family films

    INTs, office. Well-dressed couple on city street. Woman in bathing suit, she showers. Church. Women in outdoor park, walking along a path, eating tea cakes. The women walk small dogs in the city.

  2. Hitler Youth sports festival 1944 (color)

    Large, green banner with a black bird holding a sword and a hammer in its claws; there is a white swastika on its belly; in red lettering: “N.S.D.A.P. Hitler-Jugend Gebiet Oberdonau. Gebiets Sportsfest 1944.” Rows of girls in dirndls march past the sign. Swastika flags hang from a clock tower. A boy with an armband rides on a horse in a circle. Girls in short white dresses throw medicine balls and hoops as well as bowling pins. Several boys ride horses in a field. Girls try high jumping while a crowd watches. Boys and girls try to long jump. Boys try shotput. Some of them wear white tank to...

  3. Joseph Bishop collection

    Consists of four photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of corpses, a cart carrying bodies, and barracks.

  4. Theresa Duello collection

    Contains copies and translations of eight doctoral dissertations on eugenics and sterilization by candidates from German universities; the originals are archived at the University of Wisconsin. Includes translations into English completed by donor: Dissertations include: "Bericht über 210 weibliche Sterilisationen," by Erich Bacher, Pforzheim 1940; "Über Tubensterilität und die Erfolge ihrer operativen Behandlung," by Werner Kilthau, Mannheim 1940; "Das Erlebnis der Unfruchtbarmachung bei weiblichen Erbkranken," by Gertrud Koch, Freiburg 1937; "Bericht über 480 weitere eugenische Tubensteri...

  5. Commercial for ladies stockings

    Title card: “Perlen der Ostmark | Ein Rudolf Mayer Film.” Clouds over mountain tops. Snowy mountains. People skiing. A village in the valley of a tall mountain. A boy rock-climbs. Village in the valley. Panoramic shot of a village spanning across a river. A procession of people in fancy dress. People sailing sailboats. Men drill into rocks. A crane moved the rocks. Smoke billows out of a factory. Industrial shots. A boat goes down the river between mountains. Buildings in the village in the valley. Grapes. Various shots of the Stephansplatz in Vienna, Austria. The Belvedere Palace. The Frey...

  6. Nehama family photograph collection

    Contains photographs depicting the Nehama family in Athens and their relatives in Salonika. Isaac Nehama joined a partisan unit and survived the Holocaust; Isaac and his father Dario Nehama, survived in hiding in Athens, but Sarah Kolonomos Nehama (donor's mother) and Nehama Norman Nehama (donor's youngest brother) were murdered in Auschwitz in August 1944; Samuel Nehama (donor's brother) survived the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

  7. Ruth DeVries photographs

    Consists of two photographs of Ruth DeVries as a young child in France between 1937-1941. In one photograph, Ruth is held by her mother, and in the other, she is playing with a doll.

  8. Franz Morawetz correspondence

    Contains correspondence primarily from Franz Morawetz (donor's grandfather) in Vienna, Austria to his family in the USA, specifically to his wife Theresa (Reserl) and their children who immigrated to Brooklyn, NY and settled in Philadelphia, PA. His letters document efforts to immigrate and his attempts at fleeing to Cuba or Japan. Franz Morawetz was deported from Vienna, Austria to Theresienstadt concentration camp on July 28, 1942, then to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on May 15, 1944. He is presumed to have perished on July 11, 1944.

  9. Srul (Sam) Peretsman correspondence

    Contains two copies of a letter written to George Peretsman (donor's uncle) from his relative Srul Israel Peretsman from Ostrog, Ukraine, in which Peretsman describes his experiences during the Soviet occupation of Ostrog, the German invasion, and his escape to the Ural region.

  10. "A Rejected Stone: My Life"

    Memoir by Ben-Zion Schuster, originally of Jezierzany, Poland (Ozeri︠a︡ny, Ukraine), entitled "A Rejected Stone: My Life." The memoir is a printed draft from November 1990, and translated from the Yiddish by Professor Robert Moses Shapiro. The memoir describes Ben-Zion’s prewar family life in a shtetl, his studies at a yeshiva in Łuck, Poland (Lutsk, Ukraine), his wartime experience under Soviet and Germany occupation, the fates of his family members, his postwar experiences in displaced persons camps, and his immigration to the United States. 279 pages.

  11. Aylah Rottenberg collection

    Consists of copyprints and copies of correspondence from the collection of Aylah Rottenberg, originally of Tel Aviv. Includes copyprints depicting Ambassador James Grover McDonald with Ms. Rottenberg and correspondence, dated 1949, between them.

  12. "Memories and Regrets"

    Consists of one memoir, 27 pages, entitled "Memories and Regrets" by Haim Teicher, 27 pages, in Hebrew. The memoir, written in Tel Aviv on June 28, 1992, describes Mr. Teicher's Holocaust experiences, including witnessing the liquidation of the Stanislavov ghetto, the murder of his family in the Dolina ghetto, and his escape into Romania with the assistance of the driver of the local SS official.

  13. Selected records from the State Archives of the Orel Region, Russian Federation

    Contains records of the Extraordinary State Commission to Investigate Nazi crimes within Orel region. Includes records relating the crimes committed by the Germans and their allies during WWII occupation of the Orel region.

  14. Selected records from the State Archives of the Bryansk Region, Russian Federation

    Contains selected records related to the partisan warfare and the local administration during and after WWII of the Bryansk region. Includes documents of the local administration established by the Nazis during WWII and by the Soviet Union after WWII . The records of the Soviet administration pertain to investigation of crimes committed by the Nazis during the occupation. Includes also a small collection of records related to the history of the Jewish population before WWII (1917-1941).

  15. Selected records from the State Archives of the Novgorod Region, Russian Federation

    Contains selected records relating to German occupation in the Novgorod region from August 1941 to January 1944. Includes records relating to the extermination of Jews, Roma, Soviet civilians, and prisoners of war; records of evacuation, and lists of population. Also contains pre-war records on liquidation of synagogues and their transformation into medical facilities.

  16. Selected records from the Central State Archives of the Republic Mordovia, Russian Federation

    Contains selected records related to evacuation of various groups of Soviet citizens and relocation to Republic of Mordovia from 1939 to 1944. Includes various lists of evacuated Jews, communists, political refugees, specialized workers and members of their families. Also includes correspondence pertaining to allocation of food, improvement of living conditions, and maintenance of orphanages etc.

  17. Selected records from the Central State Archives of St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

    Contains records of the St. Petersburg City Evacuation Commission related to the evacuation of the Soviet civilian. It includes various lists of the evacuees, correspondence of local authorities regarding evacuation, reports and plans for evacuation etc. Also contains small collection of correspondence files of the representative of the Jewish Distribution Committee ( Joint) in Petrograd ( 1923-1925) related to the assistance provided by this organization to Jewish communities in Moscow, Kiev, Odessa etc.

  18. Selected records from the Central State Archives of Historical-Political Documentation in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

    Contains records related to the partisan warfare and situation in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) region, activities of the underground regional Committee of the Communist Party. Also contains a small collection of the captured German records and publications, German flyers and posters. Includes records of the Jewish population (statistics, EvSekt︠s︡ii︠a︡ records, working plans and reports) pertaining to the history of the Jewish population of the region before WWII (1920s-1930s).

  19. Administration of KL Lublin Administracja KL Lublin

    Contains records of the KL Lublin Administration on prisoners and staff: the orders of chief officers, statistics of prisoners, reports of transports of prisoners, death notices, name-lists of transported prisoners, card files, lists of labor commands and prisoners who died in the camp, lists of prisoners hired by the German Arms Works on Lipowa St. in Lublin, documents on deliveries of Zyklon B, correspondence regarding contacts with the trade enterprise in Reich III, reports of the number of camp staff, and personal files of SS officers. Also contains card files listing goods taken from p...

  20. Records of Israel police, Bureau 06, in charge of the investigation and interrogation of Adolf Eichmann

    Contains evidentiary material and the audio recordings of the interrogation of Adolf Eichmann conducted by Captain Avner Less of the Israeli Police. The interrogation took place during a period of nine months in a fortified police station in Yagur, near Haifa in northern Israel. The audio recordings of the interrogation cover the period from May 29, 1960 to February 02, 1961. This collection is a sub-collection of the larger RG 79 Israeli Police, 1948-1985.