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  1. Document collection

    Contains a registration document for Karol Heit; a Fragebogen [questionnaire] for health care provider Moszek Cukier, a dental technician in the Warsaw ghetto; and two legal documents from Tarnów regarding court cases involving repayment of debt; in German and Polish.

  2. Brown tablecloth with a floral design saved during a pogrom in Ukraine and recovered after the war

    Brown floral tablecloth, the only family item recovered by Zeev Raveh Werba in Maniewicze, Poland (Prilesnoye, Ukraine), after the war. It was taken when their home was looted during a pogrom by the local Ukrainian population after the June 1941 invasion by Germany. It was found and saved by a neighbor, who returned it to Zeev. He kept the tablecloth with him during the remainder of his military service. When Zeev left for a displaced persons camp in Italy, he used the tablecloth while conducting interviews for a writer researching stories of Holocaust survivors. In September 1939, Zeev's v...

  3. Jewish soldiers in Palestine perform military exercises

    Palestinian troops wearing helmets and carrying bayonets rush up a hill through an arch in a stone structure (IWM identifies it as an old city castle). LS of troops aiming their rifles from the top of the stone wall. Two soldiers stand sentry beside a Star of David flag atop the stone wall (battlement?). Jewish soldiers, smiling, talking, smoking, one gives the camera a thumbs up. A soldier operates a field phone with a board of international codes hanging on the wall. Soldiers perform various military exercises. Captured German soldiers under guard of the Palestinian troops cross a desert ...

  4. Hanna plays with a camera

    Hanna plays with the photo camera and lipstick case again.

  5. Bernhard clowns around, 1929

    The donor's grandfather, Bernhard Schermeister, in a false beard and dark glasses, clowns around with his wife, Edith, in the yard of their vacation home in Snekkersten. He presents her with various gifts, including a bouquet of flowers and dolls, while she feigns disinterest.

  6. Yocheved Flumenker collection

    Collection of photos of Yocheved Flumenker [donor], her husband and friends, primarily from the displaced persons camps in Stuttgart and Bad Reichenhall. Included are photos of donor’s wedding to Zvi Flumenker, photos from pre-war Lublin, and a photo from the Lublin ghetto, where the donor briefly lived before escaping with her father to live with peasants in the surrounding area. Also includes one identification card and one graduation certificate.

  7. Copper food bowl used in Treblinka concentration camp

    Copper bowl that was used by inmates of the Treblinka concentration and extermination camp in Poland from 1941-1944. In November 1941, the SS and the German police authorities of the Generalgouvernement in German controlled Poland established a forced labor camp for Jews, known as Treblinka. In July 1942, they set up Treblinka II, a killing center where nearly 1 million Jews were killed. Treblinka II was closed in the fall of 1943. As Soviet troops moved into the area in late July 1944, camp authorities shot the remaining prisoners and evacuated the camp. Soviet troops entered the camp in t...

  8. Children ski outside their vacation home in prewar Poland

    Winter scene, snow covers most of the ground. Hanna is bundled up. She and Thomas strap on their snow skis. They get some help from her father Benedikt. Slowly they work their way along a path and down a slight slope, falling once.

  9. Hanna, her mother, and aunt model kimonos on the terrace in prewar Poland

    Hanna walks around in a kimono and holding a sun umbrella on the porch of their home in Jaremcze. Mother Ella and another woman are dressed similarly. Hanna walks around and plays with the umbrella.

  10. Nazi propaganda decorations in Vienna

    March (or early April) 1938. A column with a swastika is being raised. A tramway announcement for Hitler's speech at the Nordwestbahnhalle on April 9. A ruined building. A truck bearing the sign "HJ ZUG Ein Fuehrer - ein Reich - eine Jugend" [Hitler Youth Train One Leader - One Empire - One Youth]. Opera house being decorated. 01:01:38 Museumsstrasse (the square in between the state museums). Shopping window with a Hitler portrait, filmmaker's reflection is partly visible. SS men, informal posture, probably waiting for parade to commence (very likely March 14 or 15), on Schwarzenbergplatz i...

  11. World War II era Ukrainian newspapers from the Ivano-Frankivsk State Archive

    Contains the collection of Ukrainian newspapers published in German occupied Ukraine during the Second World War. Most of the newspapers were published in Ukrainian, however, some were published in German or even Hungarian. The collection contains the following newspapers: “Ukrainskoye Slovo,” “Stanislavskye Slovo,” “Samostima Ukraina,” “Rogatins’kye Slovo,” “Krakauer Zeitung,” “Ostanni Visti,” “Kalus’kii Golos,” “L’vivskii Visti,” “Nasha Sila,” “Ukrains’skii Visnik,” “Do Zbroi!,” “Ternopil’skii Golos,” “Do Peremogi,”, “Nashi D’ni,” “Ukrainskii Dobrovolets,” “Achrichtenblatt der Gruppe Puch...

  12. Celebrating May Day

    Crowd marching (summer attire), swastikas, acrobat on high-wire at Prater Garden (most likely). Maypole. Fireworks.

  14. George Mandel-Mantello collection

    Consists of approximately 1000 unauthorized Salvadoran citizenship papers prepared by George Mandel-Mantello, honorary first secretary to the Salvadoran consulate in Geneva. Also includes an English language 1944 copy of the Auschwitz Protocols (also known as the Vrba-Wetzler report) with cover letter sent to Mantello, as well as additional correspondence and clippings. Accretion received October 2015: transcription of June 6, 1979 interview for the Oral History Collection of Columbia University; typewritten copy of manuscript "The Rise and Fall of Hungarian Jewry," by George Mandel-Mantell...

  15. Eiffel Tower and Paris street scenes, postwar

    Outtakes from the RKO feature film "Berlin Express," an anti-Nazi film about the search for a German emigrant turned US secret service who fights a conspiracy of Nazis in postwar Germany. This reel contains location shots in London and Paris. Paris. Pan up the Eiffel Tower. Views of the streets surrounding the Eiffel Tower, bicycle vendor, civilians on the grounds, a flower vendor, women with baby carriages, park. MS, tank in square. City street scenes with pedestrians, a bus filled with civilians passes by. Notre Dame, Seine riverside with fisherman, park benches, street traffic. More stre...

  16. French anti-Bolshevists

    Crowd of people outside an anti-Bolshevist rally. Camera pans across a sign that reads "Le peuple Russe contre le Bolchevisme." Dark interiors in a crowded lecture hall. A representative of the Vlasov army (?) speaks (Gelow?). He speaks from a podium in front of a row of uniformed women standing with arms crossed. The crowd applauds enthusiastically. 01:04:19 French volunteers march down the street singing a song. Shots of their suitcases at the train station and the volunteers boarding the train. The sides of the train feature hand-drawn swastikas. One soldier is embraced by an older woman...

  17. David Rich collection

    Contains an arbeitsbuch (labor book) for foreigners, issued to Johann Kussmenn (Ivan Kuzmenko, b. 1926) in Hannover, Germany, on June 26, 1943. born in 1926. Also includes an arbeitskarte (labor identification card) issued June 12, 1942 to Marie Romanenko (b. 1921) from Chernin, Ukraine and deported for forced labor to Kaltenhof, Germany.

  18. Gabryela Bromberg collection

    The Gabryela Bromberg collection consists of seven pre-war family photographs of the Bromberg family in Lublin, Poland and Berlin, Germany, and the testimony of Regina Jabłońska who hid Gabryela Bromberg from October 1942 until their liberation in July 1944.

  19. Children play in a park in prewar Olomouc

    Hanna and Harriet (a cousin from her mother's family?) stands at the edge of Olomouc City Park, jumping off a small stump. A post sign appears at 01:48:54 but it is illegible (Terez Gate).

  20. Sledding in the yard of the Lieberman family vacation home in prewar Poland

    Hanna is sledding down a small hill in a runner sled, runs back to the top, and repeats. She then treks down a snowy path between houses and walks with Thomas. She begins sledding again.