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  1. Rosa Grosz and Deszo Goldstein collection

    Contains two identification documents issued by the Allied Military Government to Rosa Grosz and Deszo Goldstein in the Landsberg am Lech Displaced Persons camp, photograph of bearers attached, states that they were liberated from the Dachau concentration camp; issued July 12, 1945. Invitation to the wedding of Rosa Grosz and Dezso Goldstein on November 24, 1945 at Landsberg am Lech; in German.

  2. United States Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations (USDOJ-OSI), Denaturalization Cases Transcripts and Decisions

    Consists of paper copies of transcripts of more than 40 denaturalization and removal cases that OSI and/or, in some instances, other components of the Department of Justice, litigated to trial, as well as the transcripts of hearings in the two contested extradition matters in which OSI participated. These transcripts are uncorrected stenographic transcripts. The OSI decisions consist of copies of published and unpublished decisions relating to the final dispositions of OSI’s denaturalization, removal and extradition matters, as well as interim decisions and orders on a variety of important ...

  3. Dratcu (Dratwa) family collection

    Consists of the family history of the Dratcu (Dratwa) family, originally of Hotin (Chotyn), Romania, written by Dr. Luiz Dratcu in 2005. In the history, Dr. Dratcu describes his family's experiences on a forced march from Hotin into Russia and how his father, David, and uncle, Ephraim, managed to escape from the march. They were imprisoned in the Popowitz labor camp in Transnistria, but Ephraim managed to escape to Palestine. David was liberated by the Soviet Army, which he then joined for the remainder of the war. After the war, the family reunited, and by 1952, were all living in Brazil. ...

  4. Uprising in Prague; Looted art discovered; Children in Holland

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 7 (part) Title: Aufstand in Prag [Uprising in Prague] The citizens of Prague rise up against the German occupiers. People tear down a German-language street sign, throw leaflets from windows, and burn a German flag. They raise British, American, and Soviet flags. Shots of captured German POWs. Czechs retake the radio station and citizens build barricades and hand out weapons. Fighting in the streets. The narrator says that while the free world celebrated the capitulation of Germany, Prague still lay in darkness. More fighting, German POWs taken prisoner. Male and fem...

  5. Freudenthal family papers

    Collection includes writings by Rabbi Joseph Freudenthal of Worms, Germany, and documents relating to the Freudenthal family and their relatives during the Holocaust in Bergen Belsen, Theresienstadt, Izbica, and Amsterdam.

  6. Oral testimony of Henrietta Bendik

  7. Braf family papers

    Collection of pre-war and post-war photographs of Kosice and Bratislava; 2 Identity cards: “Flüchtlingausweis/Livret pour réfugiés” issued to Alexandre and Helen Braf; dated October 13, 1944; Berne, Switzerland. Itzhak Braf and his parents were on the Kasztner train from Hungary; 1 Registration card (repatriation) for Ernest Braf; dated September 5, 1945.

  8. Charles E. Pollak collection

    Contains documents relating to the Rosenberg family of Vienna, Austria. Includes a German passport stamped with the red letter "J," issued to Margarette Rosenberg in October 1938; correspondence written by Sofie and Karl Rosenberg in Vienna to their daughters Gertrude Rosenberg Pollak and Margarete Rosenberg Roberts in the United States, dated 1941; and family photographs from Vienna, dated 1920s and 1930s.

  9. Red Cross Tracing Service in action; Berlin receives aid; UN meeting in New York

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 78 Title: Suchdienst fuer Kinder und Eltern [Tracing service for children and parents]. Women in nurse uniforms and civilian clothing work in a busy office. Two nurses look through boxes of alphabetized cards. The narrator explains that the Red Cross is attempting to reunite parents and children torn apart by the war. Several people work at a large table, looking through boxes of cards. The main bureaus of the tracing service are in Munich and Hamburg. The next scenes show orphaned children living in a children's home that was formerly an SS Lebensborn center. Variou...

  10. Estate of Jack Weston Wood collection

    Contains photographic prints showing post-liberation scenes of the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, dated circa April 1945. The photographs were potentially taken by Major General Jack W. Wood of the United States Air Force, who was in command of the 20th Bomb Wing of the Eighth Air Force and later executive of the 14th Combat Bomb Wing.

  11. Petzal family collection

    Contains a Red Cross letter sent by Grete Werner in Palestine to her sister Lotti Bieber in Piaski, Poland, dated August 27, 1942, and returned with annotation: "Address moved away"; a letter written by Hilde Petzal in Piaski, probably in 1940, describing the terrible conditions the family was in after their deportation from Stettin in February 1940; letters written by the Petzal family in Piaski to their cousins in Washington, DC, dated c. 1940; letters written by Ingeborge Petzal in Germany to her brother Horst in Palestine, dated c. 1939; an identification certificate issued to Ingeborg ...

  12. Wolman family collection

    Consists of family documents related to the Wollman (Wolman) family, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Includes the pre-war passport of Robert (Sam) Wolman, who emigrated to the United States in 1924, as well as correspondence with the family who remained in Poland. Includes written vignettes about life in the United States and in Poland, as well as correspondence from the late 1930s about getting aid from relief committees and about helping the Mandelsberg family (who were Polish and living in Berlin) with their immigration paperwork.

  13. Blum family collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the Blum family from Berlin. Richard Blum, a high fashion tailor, was arrested on Kristallnacht and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. Includes an example of Richard's business cards; Betty Blum's German passport; various identification documents related to immigration efforts; and photographs taken aboard the MS St. Louis. Richard and Betty left Germany on the MS St. Louis in May 1939 and disembarked in Belgium when the ship returned to Europe. They were briefly imprisoned in the Gurs internment camp in France, and survived the war ...

  14. Olympics -- Berlin 1936

    The first title says, "Short cross-section of the 11th Olympiad Berlin." The film seems to have been produced on orders of the Reichssportfuehrers or Reich Sport Leader. Another title on the screen says, Olympic Berlin (Olympisches Berlin). Scenes of the streets of Berlin decked out in flags and other paraphernalia for the Olympics and crowds in the street. Various famous locations, including the Lustgarten and the Brandenburg Gate. Shot of the Olympic flame and flags, including the American flag. The next scenes show the Olympic village, including shots of athletes. The next title says "Th...

  15. Pressburger family collection

    Contains ten photographs of Pressburger family in Bratislava, Luhacevic and Prague before the war and after liberation. Includes an identification card issued to Alexander Pressburger (donor's father) in Bratislava on July 18, 1945. Alexander Pressburger served as a chairman of a Jewish council in the slave labor camp Sered in Slovakia.

  16. Sara Schieber collection

    Contains a letter written by Leon Drusine (donor's brother), a member of the US Army's 139th Evacuation Hospital, to his sister Sara (donor) in which he describes the liberation of the Ebensee concentration camp and the experiences of the camp's survivors; dated June 11, 1945.

  17. Spring in Germany; American fertilizer for Europe's fields; Commemoration of liberation of Dachau; Reichsbahn is rebuilt

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 50 (part) Title: Fruehling in Deutschland [Spring in Germany]. A woman smiles out of her open window at a blossoming tree. People sunbathe and enjoy themselves among the ruins of Berlin. People ski down a grassy slope in Garmisch. Celebration of a religious festival in Traunstein. People at a very crowded fair/carnival in Munich, with a ferris wheel and a puppet show. Title: Fuer die Fluren Europas [For the fields of Europe]. Workers mine phosphate in Florida for use as fertilizer in the fields of Europe. Shots of the phosphate as it is processed. Title: Dachau Geden...

  18. Bloch family collection

    Contains letters and postcards written by Ingrid and Hannelore Billigheimer, their parents Irma and Kurt Billigheimer, and grandmother, Marie Hochherr, from Fürth and Karlsruhe in Germany and later from Gurs and Rivesaltes internment camps in France, and from an OSE children’s home in Le Couret, dated October 29, 1939 to April 5, 1943; the last letter was written by Marie Hochherr on June 11, 1945. All the letters were addressed to Drs. Bloch in Zurich, Switzerland. Includes receipts for food packages sent by Dr. Charlotte Bloch to the Billigheimer family, and a copy photograph of a group p...

  19. Brecher family collection

    Consists of one pre-war photograph of the Brecher family of Sighet, Hungary; a one-hundred kronen piece of scrip from the Theresienstadt camp; and four post-war Czech stamps commemorating Jewish history and the Holocaust.

  20. Ginz family collection

    Contains twenty photographs depicting Otto Ginz, his wife Marie Mancinka, and their two children, Petr, born 1928, and Eva (Chava), born 1930. Includes a postcard sent to Otto Ginz in Prague from Theresienstadt from his friend Freudenfeld, who write about meeting Petr there, c. 1942; and three documents issued to Eva Ginz in Theresienstadt in March 1945.