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  1. "The Holocaust Years"

    Consists of one memoir, 20 pages, entitled "The Holocaust Years", written by Morris Gliklich, originally of Nisko, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Gliklich describes pre-war life in Nisko, the German invasion of Poland, anti-Jewish legislation, and their escape into Russian territory. While in Russian territory, the family was reunited with Mr. Gliklich's father, whom they had believed to have been killed during the German invasion. The family was forced onto a train headed east and arrived in Siberia, where they lived in the areas of Synia and Kirinsk until 1943. The family slowly made their wa...

  2. Richard H. Ennis photograph collection

    Contains six photographs from Richard. H. Ennis (donor's father), a member of the 10th Armored Division during the liberation of Landsberg, Germany in 1945. Images depict medics and US Army personnel examining corpses in the front of burnt huts which the inmates were forced into; later burned by German military before retreat from the advancing 7th Army.

  3. Invasion of Poland

    An American female narrator speaks over German newsreel footage showing the bombardment of the port of Danzig by the German ship Schleswig-Holstein. Polish and German officers confer as the Polish garrison surrenders. German soldiers hand out cigarettes to Polish POWs. German infantry advance on foot into Polish territory, accompanied by horse-drawn artillery. German troops advance across a field, under cover of artillery fire. Large numbers of Polish POWs marching and then eating in a large enclosure. Some look suspiciously at the camera. Polish refugees (probably Volksdeutsch) receive sou...

  4. Paulette Daser collection

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Piroska Schwartzova [donor] born in 1924 Negrovo, Czechoslovakia (present day Ukraine) and moved to Belgium in July 1938, but was unable to return to Negrovo; materials include identification cards for Piroska in Belgium and later, Southern France, where she was forced to flee in an effort to escape Nazism. Also included are postcards and letters from her parents and family who were unable to escape, and were eventually deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where they are presumed to have perished.

  5. Cpl. Joseph C. Dumps photograph

    Contains a photographic print, black-and-white image of two men speaking to group of American soldiers; inscribed in verso by Cpl. Joseph C. Dumps (donor’s father) that “These men were just telling us of the large ovens in the prison camp Dachau. In these ovens over 3000 people were burned to death.” The soldiers are with the 6th Air Disarmament Group,9th Air Force; Ebermanstadt, Germany; in English; 1945; sent by Cpl Dumps to his wife living in Baltimore, Maryland.

  6. Second Unger family visit to Polish village

    The Unger family and townspeople stand around a car in the village of Niebylec. They stand in a group with Yankel; Morris sports a straw hat. Sitting in a car, Ethel poses with Kalman. The family departs in a buggy to visit friends in the countryside. The family is greeted by their friends. CU of Kalman and his friend conversing. 01:12:19 HAS, people gathering to go to synagogue. Men dressed in religious garb. Little children stand in the courtyard looking up at the camera, shooting from inside the window of a house. Ethel in a long dark coat and light dress and Sy stand together and look u...

  7. Postwar destruction in Germany

    Aerial views of a German city, probably Stuttgart, along the river with collapsed bridges and bomb sites. Pan of the twisted metal of bombed rail cars and railroad tracks. VAR shots of massive destruction and rubble. 01:09:30 CU, "Photographieren Verboten!" sign. Soldier talks to a woman on a bike, gesturing and trying to show her something on a piece of paper. Piles of rubble on street. 01:09:53 Two young boys (orphans?) in oversized coats and boots look up at the camera. Three walls of a warehouse barely stand amidst the rubble and debris. Some buildings in BG remained untouched and undam...

  8. Hoess and others arriving in Warsaw for trial; snapshots from Germany

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 60 Title: Vor dem Warschauer Prozess: Ankunft der Hauptangeklagten [Before the Warsaw trial: arrival of the main defendants]. Nazi defendants disembark from a plane under guard by Polish soldiers. The narrator says that they are guilty of countless crimes against justice and humanity. Some of the men are made to stand posed for the camera as they are identified: Josef Buehler, Hans Frank's deputy in Poland; Ludwig Leist, mayor of Warsaw; Jaeger, the police president of Posen, Beckmann, former head of the Krakow Gestapo; Polnikow, head of the Posen Gestapo, Daume, rep...

  9. "We Are Here"

    Consists of one DVD, entitled "We Are Here", written and produced by Harrison Heller. The documentary tells the story of Helen Bronstein and Harry Shabas, who participated in a Jewish partisan group from 1942-1945 and later married. Helen Bronstein, who is interviewed on the documentary along with her sister, Dorothy, was originally from Drohiczyn, Poland, and survived in various hiding places until joining the partisan group. Also interviewed is Boris Kotler, who, like Harry, was originally from Siemiatycze, Poland, and who recounts the story of the formation of the partisan group. Harry a...

  10. US Army poster for public display of war news for May 1-8, 1945

    News poster arranged for display by Tina Gioffredi Battani in the ordnance plant in Ankeny, Iowa, where she worked during World War II. She changed the posters on a regular basis as they were issued weekly by the United States Army Information branch to explain and update the public on the status of the war in Europe and Asia. This 2-sided poster, issued May 14, 1945, depicted events from the week May 1-8. One side, titled: Victory in Europe, has an image of captured German soldiers and a map pointing out Japan with an explanation of the danger posed by the escalation of their military forc...

  11. Fanny Ben-Ami collection

    Contains photographs, correspondence, and documents illustrating the experiences of Fanny Eil [donor], and her sisters and parents before and during the second World War in Germany, where Fanny was born; France, where the Eil family fled in 1933; and Switzerland, where Fanny and her sisters were smuggled after her parents were separately arrested and deported in 1943 and 1944.

  12. Wieslaw Dobrowolski collection

    Manuscript: written by Wieslaw Dobrowolski (birth name: Izaak Dreiman) [donor's father] in 1964 in Walbrzych, Poland. Translated into English from the original Polish "Five Years in the Crosshair" describing his experiences in the Warsaw ghetto, Lublin ghetto, Majdanek concentration camp, his many escapes and life on false papers as Wieslaw Dobrowolski.

  13. Embroidered white pillowcase used in hiding in Poland

    Pillowcase that belonged to Helena Amkraut Lusthaus, embroidered with the initial's of her maiden name. She used the pillowcase while she and her daughter, Elzbieta, lived in hiding under assumed identities as Catholics in Milanowek in German occupied Poland. When the war began in 1939, Helena and Elzbieta were living in Tarnow in German-occupied Poland with Helena's mother, Sophie Lieberman Schiff. On June 11, 1942, the Germans came to the house searching for Jews to deport to the concentration camps. Four year old Elizabeth hid, but her grandmother was taken by the Germans and shipped to ...

  14. Records of various financial institutions (MOL Z)

    The collection contains records of Aryanization of various Hungarian financial institutions following the first anti-Jewish law in 1938, (various record groups MOL Z). Since the collection contains personal files, some records were created prior to 1938.

  15. Eisenberg and Strauss family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs, negatives, and booklets documenting the experiences of the Eisenberg and Strauss families before, during, and after the Holocaust. Oscar and Gisela Eisenberg Strauss fled Nazi Germany to the United States in 1936 after facing persecution and their inability to work due to Nazi-imposed restrictions.

  16. Donald Deane collection

    Consists of photographs documenting the Nordhausen concentration camp after liberation; taken by Donald Deane, while serving in the US Army during WWII, as a member of the 663rd Engineer Topographic Company; captions typed in English on verso. Sent by Deane to T.E. Rose (donor's grandfather), who was Deane's employer at the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries and Game.

  17. David Joseph Brill collection

    Collection of materials relating to David Joseph Brill (donor's father). Includes photographs taken in Erlangen, Germany, when David returned there in 1935 to convince his parents to immigrate; photographs taken in 1980 of David with the Bittners, a couple who assisted his parents after their arrest following Kristallnacht; a copy of a newspaper article about David's 1980 return trip to Erlangen; a letter from Alex Bauer to David Joseph Brill about Erlangen following the publication of the article, dated February 8, 1981; and a photographic print of a letter sent by Hans Weber, a hairdresse...

  18. John Scott collection

    Consists of documents, correspondence, loose photographs, photograph albums, and film related to the wartime and post-war experiences of John Scott. Includes correspondence, documents, and photographs related to his work with the Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) and his experiences stationed in Frankfurt, Germany in 1962-1963 as a member of the intelligence service.

  19. Froehlich family collection

    Contains letters and telegrams from Artur and Frieda Froehlich in Cologne, Germany to their daughter Lilo in New York, relating primarily to immigration efforts. Also includes letters from Martin and Hertha Noah [Frieda's brother and sister-in-law], dated 1940-1941, and an album and single photographs of the Froehlich family from WWI until c. 1938 in Cologne, Germany.

  20. Loewy, Kohorn, and Messinger families papers

    Collection of documents and photographs that regarding the experiences of the Loewy, Kohorn, and Messinger families in Europe before and during the Holocaust; includes pre-war photographs and writings, and post-war documents and correspondence, identification papers, and materials relating to immigration and naturalization.