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  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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...

  7. 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.

  8. 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).

  9. Records of Hungarian Finance Minister Reményi-Schneller (MOL K 280)

    Contains files of the Hungarian Finance Minister Reményi-Schneller, most of the documents are semi-official: letters requesting patronage, jobs, benefits, tax write-off , etc.; the letter from John Sebastian, 1939, proposing to collect and publish regulations and restrictions for Jews; newspaper clippings; miscellaneous records on the "Jewish questions."

  10. Brzeziny ghetto: snow; synagogue; hanging

    Film taken by a German, possibly Propaganda Kompanie 689. Sign: "Wohngebiet der Juden! Das Betreten ist unbefugten verboten...." [Jewish residential area! No unauthorized admittance...] CU, sign with a star marking, pan down to street view. Crowds in the cold snowy streets of the Brzeziny ghetto. Jews walking, bundled up, with yellow stars. Children in FG. VAR shots, street scenes, snowing, children in the windows of wooden homes, Jewish homeowners, filming through a fence. CUs, children with yellow star marking "Jude," elder, baby. Walking up a stairwell. Men pushing ice in the river. Peop...

  11. Hanna Schepps collection

    Collection of four photographs: image depicting Anna Kohane (donor) at age two in Uzbekistan; a studio portrait of Anna and Leon Kohane in Bielsko, Poland in 1946; an identification photo of Leon Kohane, c. 1946; image of Leon Arie Kohane and his small dog on the balcony of the family apartment in Bielsko, c. 1949.

  12. Rivka Feigen collection

    Contains a photographic print showing members of Judiska Ungdom in Jewish Youth Club in Malmö, Sweden; dated 1942.

  13. Forced labor battalion of Hungarian Jews

    George Veres and other Hungarian Jews march at a forced labor group stationed in the Jewish Boys' Orphanage. Jews were forced by the Hungarian government into these battalions prior to the German invasion. George served several periods with the forced labor battalion, beginning in September 1940 and ending in December 1944 when he escaped from the camp. This was filmed by one of George's relatives who worked in the camp office. Jewish workers unload hay from a train and stack piles of chopped wood. George (the worker closest to the barn with the log on his shoulder) smiles at the camera. Sc...

  14. Estate of Fela Maltz photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the Finkelstajn family before the war and in a displaced persons camp.

  15. POW camp (Stalag IXB) near Bad Orb with American and Allied prisoners

    (LIB 5064) Unloading rations from a jeep. Liberated Allied prisoners, of Bad Orb POW camp, CU one with a turban scarf. Carrying boxes of rations. CU, two liberated men. Walking with wheelbarrow, white crosses for deceased along a barracks in the BG. Entering barracks in BG while men sit on a stone wall and read US newspaper with headline "Yanks invaded Ryukyu..." HAS men and liberating officers. Barracks 35. Climbing up to watchtower, removing flag and dropping it. Opening aluminum can with a dog tag necklace. Distributing cigarettes. Men with blankets over shoulders. Various shots of liber...

  16. Unused bookplate with a Star of David rose tree belonging to a Dutch Jewish pharmacist

    Bookplate made for Ephraim Izaak Levie (Eil) Rosenbaum, a pharmacist in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the 1930s. Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940 and, by 1942, deportations of Jews to concentration camps were frequent. In March 1943, Eil decided that his family needed to go into hiding. He sent his wife, Johanna, and son, Max, to Neede and his two year old daughter, Betty, to live with a Protestant family, Berthe and Jan Hageman, in Eibergen. In April 1943, Johanna and ten week old Max were betrayed by a Dutch Nazi and deported and killed in Sobibor extermination camp. In late Apri...

  17. Selected records from the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Administration Office: Chief Clerk's Department and successors: Records (FO 366)

    Contains general correspondence from the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service Administration Office, Chief Clerk’s Department relating to the employment of local Jews in British Middle East missions, 1945. These records consist of accounts and internal affairs of the Foreign Office, the Messengers, and the Diplomatic and Consular Services.

  18. Zyskind Talisman family collection

    Manuscript: titled "Stolen Years," handwritten by Sara Plager Zyskind, in Hebrew, published in Israel in 1977 and in English in 1981; two Manuscripts: titled "Struggle," typed, written by Sara Plager Zyskind in Hebrew, published in Israel in 1985 and in English in 1989; 38 photographs including images of the Zyskind family in Brzeziny Poland before the war, Plager family in Łódź before the war, images of Sara and Eliezer in Łódź immediately after the war, in Germany in a DP camp and in Israel 1948-1955; membership card issued to Itzhak Finkelkraut from the He’chalutz Zionist organization, W...

  20. Guderian's forces in and around Smolensk

    Heinz Guderian's 29th Infantry Division in and around the city of Smolensk during the German capture of Smolensk in July 1941. Dark shots with flames in the distance. Good nighttime shots of German soldiers rushing past the camera as Smolensk burns. Flames everywhere and smoke billows into the sky. 01:24:08 Now daytime: soldiers walk about the city. Posters affixed to a pole: an advertisement for Igor Yuzhin's circus "Segodnja i Ezhednevno" [Today and Everyday]. Another poster features a caricature of Napoleon fleeing with caption "Tak Bylo." [This is how it was] followed by a caricature of...