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  1. "My European Childhood"

    Consists of one memoir, 92 pages, entitled "My European Childhood," by Adam Zygmunt Szumer, originally of Nieglowice, Poland. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Nieglowice and Jaslo, where his parents worked for a small oil refinery. At the time of the German invasion of Poland, the family temporarily relocated to Stanislawow in eastern Poland, before moving to Drohobycz in late 1939. In 1942, Adam acquired Aryan papers and temporarily went into hiding with two Polish Catholic sisters, but was returned to his parents after a traveling mishap. He describes the Drohobycz ghetto and ...

  2. Gernsheimer family collection

    Contains documents and photographs concerning Theodor and Hilde Gernsheimer and their sons, Fritz and Hans, and their immigration to the United States from Mannheim, Germany, after Kristallnacht.

  3. Unger family bids farewell to relatives in Polish village

    Grainy footage of the Polish Ungers standing by the sitting American Ungers. The little Unger cousins peer at the camera and roam about. Camera pans over the forest in the BG and lumber in the FG. 01:25:47 Monument in the middle of the village of Niebylec. The local constable walks by the camera. A man carrying a sack walks by with a cow; it is Market Day. Kalman Unger walks up a hill towards the camera. Livestock among the townspeople. A woman sells bread out of her wagon. Morris sits among children. A woman stands on the balcony rocking a baby. The Ungers prepare to leave and drive to Cra...

  4. Veszprém Megyei Érseki Levéltár, Veszprém Records of the Holocaust in Veszprém County, Hungary

    Documents from varied archival records: Name lists of Jews in ghetto and camp (Komakut) in Veszprém (1944); and in city of Pápa (1944). Selections from: general records of prefect, 1945‒1946; administrative records of deputy prefect, 1945‒1946; records of Veszprém mayors’ office, 1939‒1946, including certifications of voting rights, enforcement of anti-Jewish laws, appropriation of property of Jews, and dealing with Jews who survived and returned; lists of Veszprém homeowners for 1926 and 1940. Records of other towns and districts: confidential papers of Dezső Sulyok, the mayor of Pápa, 19...

  5. First free vote in Berlin; salvaging remains from the Cap Arcona; mushrooms; furniture donation to needy Germans

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 75 Title: Der Wahltag in Berlin [Voting day in Berlin]. People pass out election literature in the run-up to the first free vote in Germany in 14 years. Election posters and signs (Wahlpropaganda) for the SPD and the SED on buildings, including on the Reich Chancellery. Sign reading: You are Leaving the American Sector. People stand in line to vote and inside a polling place. The vote is observed by Allied military representatives. Voting in a hospital. Shots of the candidates voting. The ballots are counted and the results displayed on a large board. 02:27:52 Title:...

  6. Agro-joint colonies in the Crimea

    The location of the first scene may be Pervomaysk, which Pauline Baerwald Falk, Myron S. Falk Jr., and Evelyn Morrissey visited on June 7. Pervomaysk was the location of an Agro-Joint sponsored colony of Jewish farmers. A group of young children and their minders pose for the camera and play in the open air. One child holds up a book. CU of a child looking into the camera. Two horses tow a wagon piled high with hay. Houses are visible in the background. LS of several people standing in front of a house. The camera pans down to a young boy who smiles at the camera. CU of the hands of a young...

  7. Kalman Linkimer diary

    The Kalman Linkimer diary was kept by Kalman Linkimer from 1944-1945 while in hiding with ten other Jews in the cellar of Robert and Johanna Seduls’ home in Liepāja, Latvia. Kalman began his diary in 1941, but he had to leave it behind when he escaped from the Liepāja ghetto. After he went into hiding at the Seduls’ home, he began a second diary from 1944-1945 and recounts his experiences recorded in his first diary as well as his daily routine and experiences. His last entry is dated 20 February 1945.

  8. Hoover in Berlin; German agriculture; International Tracing Service

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 48 (part) Title: Hoover in Berlin. Herbert Hoover's plane arrives in Berlin. The ex-president is leading the American efforts to fight the world hunger crisis. Hoover gets off the plane, greets American army officers, gets into a car, and leaves the tarmac. 01:34:15 Title: Landwirtschaft im Aufbau [Reconstruction: agriculture]. Factory scenes show fertilizer being produced, farm implements being forged, threshing machine being built, among other things. The last scenes show farmers plowing in the fields with horse-drawn equipment. 01:37:05 Title: 10 Millionen Mensche...

  9. Nazi red flag with a swastika with a price tag found by a US soldier in an abandoned German store

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn36423
    • English
    • a: Height: 46.625 inches (118.428 cm) | Width: 30.750 inches (78.105 cm) b: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)

    German flag with a swastika flag with a price tag found by a US Army soldier in an abandoned department store in Germany near the end of World War II in May 1945. The price tag was for the Kaufhof Department Store, part of a Jewish owned chain of stores founded by Leonard Tietz, whose family had pioneered the department store concept in Germany in the 1880s. The stores were Aryanized in 1933 when the Nazi government forced the family to sell their shares at a reduced value to non-Jewish government approved buyers.

  10. Wedding gown with green embroidery worn by Raya Kirschner Feig in Barletta DP camp

    Wedding dress with green, thread embroidery worn by Raya Kirschner (later Feig), 19, for her May 27, 1948, wedding to Micky Feig, 22, in Barletta displaced persons camp in Italy. In August 1941, after Germany invaded Lithuania, Raya was interned with her father Meyer, a rabbi, her mother, who ran an orphanage, and her brother Beno in the Kovno ghetto. In October 1942, her father was selected for deportation to Riga, Latvia,and Raya's mother insisted the family go also. They were placed in Spilve camp and Raya, Meyer, and Beno were assigned to hard physical labor. In 1943, Beno was caught sm...

  11. Linda Mattioli collection

    Contains photographic prints of images taken immediately following liberation of concentration camps, including images of victims as well as mass individual grave sites. The photographs were possibly taken by Armando Mattioli, an American soldier stationed in Europe during the Second World War, dated circa 1945.

  12. Allach gold-ringed porcelain vase with presentation box found in the Reichstag, Berlin

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35878
    • English
    • 1945
    • a: Height: 14.620 inches (37.135 cm) | Diameter: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) b: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Depth: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm)

    Allach presentation vase, model # 500, found by Colonel Ronald M. Hubbs in an office in the Reichstag in Berlin following the capture of the city in May 1945 at the end of World War II. The Allach porcelain factory was one of the SS's (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) first industrial enterprises, under the direct control of Heinrich Himmler. The factories were sub-camps of Dachau concentration camp, with camp inmates supplying the forced labor. Although the Reichstag was not used for Parliament sessions after the infamous 1933 fire, it was used for ceremonies. Himmler was believed to h...

  13. Marx family collection

    Contains nine postcards, dated July18-23, 1942, written by Salli, Eva, Helma and Alfred Israel (donor’s paternal great uncles), to their governess Sibilla Klaus, a non-Jewish woman, during their last journey from Cologne, Germany to Minsk where they were murdered in Maly Trostinetz upon arrival. The first postcard was sent from Cologne and the rest were sent on route: Berlin, Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Warsaw, Brest Litovsk at the Russian border, and after arriving in Minsk. Includes an envelope in which Albert Marx (donor’s father) kept these postcards, bearing an inscription: “The last regards...

  14. The Striker, Number 16, April 1938, 16th year 1938 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    One issue of the antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, from April 1938 with the headline: Die habsburger und die Juden.

  15. Frankfurt -- city views

    A variety of nice quality city views of Frankfurt, including houses, the Main river, a busy café, landmarks (the opera, the university) and townspeople. 03:03:56 People buy wurst and bread from vendors, followed by a scene in a beer garden. 03:06:20 Nazi flags are visible in the street, dating this film to the Nazi period (probably early on). Interior shots of the Goethe House museum. Staging of Goethe's play "Goetz" and other works outdoors in front of the City Hall. Title: "On the way from yesterday to today." Shots of streetcars. Interiors of the art museum. Title: "The face of today." H...

  16. Weiner family collection

    Contains pre-war photographic images of the Weiner family (donor's immediate family) in Veľké Ripňany, Czechoslovakia (present day Slovakia); and pre-war photographs of the Flaschner family (donor’s husband’s immediate family) in Austria. Also included are post-war photos of Isabella Wiener at the Feldafing DP camp in Germany. The pre-war Weiner family photos were entrusted to non-Jewish neighbors by Malvina Weiner (donor's mother) right before her deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942 where she perished; Isabella survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Płaszów concentration c...

  17. Obersitzker family papers

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Siegfried Obersitzker (a Polish born German Jew) and his wife Charlotte Reuter Obersitzker (a German born non-Jew) who fled from Berlin with their son Horst in December 1938 to Havana, Cuba where they remained until ultimately immigrating to the United States in 1941. Included are affidavits of support for the Obersitzkers, German passports, landing permits for Havana, as well as immigration correspondence for Charlotte's mother Franziska Reuter who emigrated from Berlin to the United States in 1947.

  18. Olympics -- Berlin 1936

    Title: "The Games Begin." Scenes show various events interspersed with crowd scenes. In most cases there is a title after the event that names the winners and gives their times. The games begin with a warm up (or a first heat?) sprint, won by a man name Borchmeyer. Tilly Fleischer throws the javelin, winning the first gold medal for Germany. Hitler and Hermann Goering congratulate the athletes on the podium. 01:13:38 Jesse Owens wins the 100 m sprint in 10.3 seconds. Slow motion of the women's 100 m sprint, won by the American Stephens. The footage of the two men's and women's races is repe...

  19. Dennis Lynch collection

    Contains seven black-and-white photographs taken in a concentration camp following liberation. Some of the images are identified as being at the Ohrdruf concentration camp, and depict prisoner retaliation against their captors, as well as American soldiers viewing rows of corpses. Some of the photos have typed captions on verso.

  20. KPD demonstration

    Drummers, low-angle with flags, women marching and holding sign, "Hinweg mit der Paragraph 218." This is a KPD demonstration regarding unemployment. Striking Paragraph 218, which punished women for having abortions, was a main plank in the KPD platform. Narration: "both leftists and Nazis were victims of unemployment; KPD was subordinate to Stalin." Other signs: "...Neukoellns" ; "Ruhrgebiet." Large crowd scene. Narration: "SPD are the main enemies of the KPD."