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  1. Edna Aridor collection

    Consists of three photographs of members of the Royal Army Service Corps between 1941-1943. Depicted are Shmuel Ben Zvi, who was born in the Ukraine, and Shimon Madursky, who was killed on March 15, 1943.

  2. Olympic City of Berlin Poster with maps of Berlin and the 1936 Berlin Olympics stadiums

    Poster featuring 5 maps of districts of the city of Berlin with the 1936 Olympic stadium venues highlighted for spectators of the games.

  3. Stuart Cohn collection

    Consists of one handwritten manuscript, in Yiddish, of the Holocaust testimony of Jack Greenspan. Also includes one photocopy of a prewar postcard sent by Mendel Kane to his son, Jake Cohn. Mr. Kane perished in the Holocaust.

  4. Records of the Mayor of Budapest (BFL IV. 1402-1429)

    Collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, applications, decisions, letters of denunciation, and other documents. Topics include the military, commerce, public health, and transport; the Jewish community and Zionist organizations; citizenship and residence questions; appointments, dismissals, and retirements; disciplinary actions; charitable work; and the confiscation and redistribution of Jewish property.

  5. Steinberger family collection

    Contains passports issued by the Hungarian Consulate in Berlin to Salomon Steinberger and to his wife Regina Sicherman Steinberger (donor's parents) in July 1938; a driver’s license issued to Inez Steinberger in December 1937 in Frankfurt; an international driver’s license issued to Inez Steinberger in Frankfurt; vaccination certificates; documents issued to Salomon Steinberger during WWI; a letter from a moving company regarding transport of furniture from Frankfurt to London dated January 1939; and a manuscript written by Salomon Steinberger describing family history.

  6. Times Square

    Times Square in New York city. Traffic, pedestrians. Criterion building. Neon signs: Chevrolet, Whelan, Nedick's, Coca-Cola, Palace Theater, Hotel Astor. Marquee: "Pat Franco, Give Me Your Heart" Football poster: "Sunday, October 18, Giants vs. Cardinals"

  7. Roma Becher collection

    Collection of postcards and photographs documenting the experiences of Baruch Hershstyn (donor's step father). Includes postcards written by Chana Hershstyn (Baruch's wife) from the town of Kransnytav (near Lublin) to Baruch, who had been sent to Sverdovskaya Oblast for forced labor. He survived the war, but his wife and children perished.

  8. Eric Frisch collection

    Collection of materials relating to Eric Frisch (donor's father) who was a torch runner in the 1936 Olympic Torch Run and was a coach of the Austrian women's track team at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. Eric Frisch was a Jewish athlete in Austria and a well known and respected runner. He was asked to oversee the runners in the fourth stage of the torch relay through Austria, was the final runner of that group. He fled Europe in November 1938 and immigrated to the United States. Includes several newspaper articles: "Track Star Jesse Owens, U.S. Hero In Berlin Olympics, Dies of Cancer" by Bob...

  9. Betty Trebitsch passport

    Contains a Deutsches Reich Reisepass issued to Betty “Sara” Trebitsch; stamped with red ink J on first page; includes American immigration visa issued in October 1939; passport issued August 26, 1939, Breslau, Germany.

  10. Trench warfare; German surrender in WWI; captured Germans

    View of World War I warfare from the trench, smoke rising from bombings in the field. Soldiers charge forward in grassy fields. 01:18:07 "Kamerad" (slate with Donald C. Thompson inscription) German troops surrender to Americans, taken into trenches. 01:18:51 "And still they come" More enemies are captured. 01:19:22 "Removing buttons to prevent escape" Cutting suspenders out of pants. Captured men behind barbed wire enclosure. 01:19:57 "Searching German officer" U.S. military inspect a German's notebook. 01:20:20 "Germans forced to abandon ammunition" MS, weapons abandoned in a field. 01:20:...

  11. Nela Warsagier Stanik memoir

    Memoir written by Nela Warsagier Stanik (donor's mother) about her flight from Lvov in June 1941 and years in the USSR in Kazgarkishvak in Uzbekistan. In 1943 Nela was summoned to Moscow to assist in organizing the Polish Army. She became disillusioned with Communism in 1949 and immigrated to Israel in 1968. Includes photographs depicting Nela Warsagier Stanik with her baby daughter Olga in Lvov in 1941 and Moscow in 1945.

  12. Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) [Newspaper]

  13. Stock market crash

    Title: Morgan Heads Group that Halts Market Panic: Announcement of support from leaders of finance stops wild trading in Wall Street. Brief shot of crowds on Wall Street. Also on this newsreel: 02:32:59 Title: Hoover Leads New Waterways Celebration: President and party cruise down Ohio River to dedicate 180,000,000 to project. Mute footage with intertitles of riverboat journey. Identified personalities: Secretary of War Good, Speaker Longworth. Title: Italy's Naval Cadets in Mid-Air Ship Drill [Spezia, Italy]. Italian cadets perform exercises on board ship. 02:36:45 A blimp sails over Londo...

  14. Samuel Halber collection

    Documents and correspondence concerning Samuel Halber (donor’s father). Born June 22, 1914 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he fled Nazi-occupied Europe in 1941 through Spain and Portugal were he applied for a US visa, ultimately arriving in New York City in 1941. He was drafted into the United States Army and was a Military Intelligence Interpreter, translating German, Dutch, and French in England until 1945, when he was assigned to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) and supervised the denazification of German railroads in the US Zone.

  15. Lorenzen family collection

    Contains documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Hans and Berta Lorenzen and their daughters Ruth [donor] and Anne Marie, a Jewish family who remained in Feudenheim and Mannheim, Germany through the Nazi era. Hans Lorenzen converted to Judaism; his wife and daughters evaded deportation, and Berta labored in a brush factory while Hans continued to work for Daimler-Benz until 1946, when the family immigrated to the United States.

  16. German soldiers return from WWI

    German soldiers return to Berlin from World War I. Different views of the soldiers marching in the streets. CU, soldier kisses a little girl. HAS, marching, a vendor hands something to the soldiers.

  17. Roman Witkowski collection

    Contains a blank "Ausweiss" identity form for right-of-movement in the town of Ostrowiec, Poland, and a photographic ID portrait of Roman Witkowski (born August 10, 1906), who resided in Ostrowiec with his wife, Irena.

  18. Kamerman family collection

    Contains an “Arbeitsbuch” [workbook for foreigners] issued to “Irena Kruczewska” the false identity of Ida Kamerman [donor’s mother] in Katowice, Poland on January 8, 1944; four photographic images of Erna Kamerman [donor] taken while she was living in a rectory under the false name of “Danka,” where her mother was assigned to work as a slave laborer, dated 1944 in Katowice, Poland.

  19. Battle of Britain

    Title: Yesterday's Big Story. Footage from the Battle of Britain, which began August 8, 1940, with pro-British, pro-Churchill narration. Stukas bomb supply convoys but are in turn shot down by shore batteries. Fires caused by bombs rage in London. Children are evacuated from London. Civilians reinforce buildings with sandbags. Panning aerial shot of the Great Fire of London, sometime between September and November, 1940. Churchill tours the devastation. Cheering Londoners. Also on this newsreel (beginning at 01:34:08): Title: Decathalon Record: UCLA Champ Sets Mark in 10 Events. Chinese ath...

  20. Herbert Klaber collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the donor's early life in Borken, Germany, and later experiences in the Netherlands, where his parents sent him for school and to avoid persecution in the late 1930s, and where he eventually physically went into hiding to avoid deportation. Includes the last letter of his parents Max and Regina Klaber, stating that they are being sent to "Theresin" [sic]; also included are a Dutch Jewish identification card issued to Herbert as well as his report cards, which he buried while he was in hiding.