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  1. Baran family papers

    Collection of documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of the Baran family in pre-war Vilna, Poland; Nancy, France; hiding near Vilna; and after the war in Łódź, Paris, and Israel during the years 1929-1950.

  2. Colette Flake-Bunz collection

    Consists of a photograph of Colette Flake-Bunz, originally of France, which was taken after liberation when she was 15. Also includes a wartime photograph of Marie-Therese Maunier with her daughter, Genevieve Maunier-Valentini, and a wartime copyprint of Henri and Simone Voisin with Henry's mother, Albertine Voisin. The Maunier and Voisin families hid Colette Flake-Bunz during the war, saving her life.

  3. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection

    Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. Materials also document Martha Sharp’s postwar campaign for Congress, activities in Israel, continuing work for the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia, family and personal life, and work with the Cogan Foundation and other charitable agencies. The collection includes Martha’s unpubli...

  4. Charles Jordan case (ÚDV-76/VvK-95). Investigation of Charles Jordan's death by the Office of the Documentation and Investigation of the Crimes of Communism (ÚDV)

    Consists of the records of the investigation of the death of Charles Jordan, the executive vice-chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, who was found drowned in Prague’s Vltava River on August 20, 1967.

  5. Irmgard Baum papers

    Consists of a transcript of an oral history of Irmgard Baum; a Jahrzeits book; a passport issued to Baum; poems; a memoir written by Baum's Uncle Ernst; and photographs of Baum's experiences before World War II

  6. Ronald Cohen collection

    Program for Die Zauberfloete [The Magic Flute] performed under the auspices of the "Reichssender Berlin" the Nazi-controlled radio. Stated at the bottom of the program is the sentence "JUDEN haben Keinen Zutritt!" [Jewish not admitted]; dated December 13, 1937; Four (4) Photographic postcards of three of the performers: Willi Domgraf Fassbaender, Erna Berger, Herbelt Alsen, and a New Years card of Tiana Lemnitz bearing her photograph.

  7. Koch family papers

    Consists of personal letters; Swiss protective passes (Schutzpasses); a report to the police about crimes committed by the Arrow Cross in Budapest; and other documents related to the Koch family.

  8. Patricia Concannon collection

    Consists of a photograph of women in the process of having their hair forcibly shaven and a photograph of the now-bald women standing and talking. The donor believes that the photographs were taken in France in 1945, and the women were likely being punished for collaboration with the Nazis.

  9. Jews hanged in town square near Minsk

    A group of Jews who have been hanged and left on display in a town square near Minsk. A sign posted on the gallows reads: (in German) "Diese Juden haben gegen die deutsche Wehrmacht gehetzt" and (in Russian) "Eti zhidy agitirovali protiv germanskogo pravitel'stva". [These Jews have agitated against the German Army!] Panning shot along the eight or so corpses, all of whom wear large Stars of David on their coats. CUs of some of the faces (slowed down and retouched?)

  10. Amos Lavyel collection

    Contains a copy of a diary kept by Dr. Amos Lavyel (Markus Leibel; donor’s late husband) from January 1, 1942 until July 18, 1943, before and during his service in the Anders Army; includes five maps. Also includes original photographs and copyprints depicting the Leibel family in Tarnów before the war; doctors and nurses in a Jewish hospital in Tarnów; a birthday party for Henryk Leibel; Jewish soldiers during WWI; an image taken during Dr. Lavyel’s studies in medical school in 1947; and poatwar images of Tarnów.

  11. Janina Zimowodski collection

    Collection of documents and photographs of the donor during World War II with her rescuers Marussia and Leokadia Navwrocka, with whom she lived. Includes photos of Janina receiving her first Communion; a baptism certificate in name of "Janina Nebel" (donor's family name); a vaccination certificate issued to "Hanie Nawraw"; a post war medical prescription; two telegrams; and two letters, one written to Marussia and Regina by the donor and the other to her sister.

  12. Kurz family collection

    The Kurz family collection consists of six photographs depicting Salomon Kurz and his children: Izak, Moshe, Helen, and Abraham, all from Kosice, Czechoslovakia. Also included are eight documents relating to Izak Kurz and his father after the war in Regensburg, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Karlove Vary, Czechoslovakia, dated circa 1945-1951.They survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and other concentration camps.

  13. Maria Seidenberger papers

    Collection of photographs of Dachau prisoners and death marches on Münchenerstrasse in Hebertshausen, Germany; and documents concerning Maria Seidenberger's post-war history in Prague

  14. Ginny Helgeson collection

    Consists of five enlarged Signal Corps photographs taken by Claude Edward McGraw, a member of the United States Signal Corps. The photographs depict survivors demonstrating the use of the crematorium or photographers after the liberation of Dachau; Red Cross tents at Mauthausen; and prisoner portraits, including one of a Soviet prisoner with his name and prisoner number tattooed on his chest. Also includes one smaller photograph with caption describing the image of the reburial of bodies taken from a mass grave in Wetterfield, Germany.

  15. Chaplain Harry V. Hamblen photograph collection

    Contains photographic black-and-white prints documenting the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation. Includes close-up images of victims, piles of bodies stacked behind the crematorium with memorial wreaths hanging on the wall above them, and the crematorium ovens. The photos were brought home from the war by Chaplain Harry V. Hamblen (donor’s father) who served with the 5th Corps of the U.S. Army during WWII.

  16. Nowe Miasto nad Pilica ghetto

    Shots of road signs: Litzmannstadt 88 km, Rawa 29 km, Radom 58 km, Tomaszow 48 km, Warschau 81 km. German soldiers and two women walk past a row of German trucks. Scene changes to show LS of children playing in front of buildings, presumably in the ghetto of Nowe Miasto nad Pilica. An older man carries a basket into a building. Two men wearing armbands sit in a doorway. Dark shot of man smiling at the camera. Wide shot of a street - a man and a small child push a baby carriage toward the camera. Two men with bicycles can be seen behind him. Young girls stand in front of a house and smile at...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Colmar offensive; Maginot Line; Liberation of Vittel Internment Camp

    Two French soldiers studying map in field in Colmar Offensive, smoke behind. CU men on ground looking through binoculars, firing machine guns, throwing grenades, explosions, running through smoke. French troops in village with damaged buildings. Captured German prisoners of war, being marching off. Tanks and jeep on narrow village street, body, soldiers running. U.S. tank passes, soldier gives V-sign. Armored vehicles. French advance along houses. 01:03:18 Silhouetted Gen. Montsabert and another study snowy battlefield from hilltop observation platform at the Maginot Line. They study a map ...

  18. Paul Dahan collection

    Consists of five blank pieces of French wartime identification paperwork, including a laissez-passe, a carte de sinistre, a fiche de sinistre, and two récépissés de déclaration de véhicules. Also includes one antisemitic manuscript, undated, published by the Christian Nationalist Crusade in Los Angeles, CA, in Italian, entitled "Il Manoscritto del Mistero: una cronologia del piano Sionista per la conquista del mondo." Also includes four pamphlets: "Le Cinquantenaire du Fonds Nation Juif," published in 1951; "Judentum, Christentum und Islam," by Dr. Leo Baeck, published 1956; "Le Gouvernemen...

  19. Center of Financial Institutions of Hungary (MOL Z 91-93, etc.)

    Files of the Pénzintézeti Központ (Financial Institutions Administration): reports, board minutes correspondence; records on violations of the anti-Jewish laws, deposits of valuables, loans, deposits; records of the Jewish Community of Pest for 1944; records of pension funds; documents of various departments and offices.

  20. The National Land Mortgage Bank (MOL Z 133, etc.)

    Documents relating to loans to individuals, and postwar restitution cases the Financial Office, the Office of Estates (1942‒1945); Wartime Land Acquisitions (1942‒1945), the Clug, branch of the Bank (1941‒1947); the Office of Labor and Wages (1936‒1947), and the Secretariat (1936‒1947).