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  1. Morris Koen photograph

    Contains a photographic print image of Morris Koen [donor] serving in the Greek military during the Greek civil war; image dated March 9, 1949 on reverse and labeled in Greek. Morris Koen was born in 1925 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Upon the Nazi occupation of Thessaloniki, he joined the resistance and remained with them throughout the war. HIs parent and two siblings perished in Birkenau.

  2. Ziskind family correspondence, 1929-1939

    Correspondence from the Ziskind family in Krewo, Poland (today in Belarus) to Sadie Nechama Ziskind, later Alpert, in Chicago, IL. The letters are written in Yiddish, between 1929-1939. In most of the letters the Ziskind family asks for additional correspondence and some financial support. Sadie Ziskind left Krewo in 1915 just being 16 years old. She married William Alpert and they had three children: Edith, Jean, and Louis.

  3. Jancu Nadler collection

    Consists of papers related to the post-war experiences of Jancu Nadler, originally of Bucarest, Romania. Includes one 1947 French train schedule for the Pullman company; one certification from the Jewish community of Paris that Jancu Nadler was born Jewish, dated 1947; one travel visa, 1947; one card with Nadler's dossier number from the "Comité juif d'action sociale et de reconstruction" (COJASOR); and one letter regarding Jancu Nadler from COJASOR.

  4. Leica camera factory; return of musical instruments; survivors arrive in New York

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 56 (part) Title: Industrie im Aufbau [Reconstruction: industry]. Coal mining near Cologne. The coal is manufactured into briquettes, some of which are used to pay reparations while the rest are used by the German people and industry. People at work in the newly reopened Ernst Leitz factory, which manufactures Leica cameras. Shots of people working on microscopes with Leica lenses and 35mm Leica cameras. 02:02:05 Title: Streiflichter aus Deutschland [Spotlight on Germany ?]. Activities at a former old age home that now houses a recuperation home for those wounded in t...

  5. Gerhard Hans Herbert Becker collection

    Consists of an “Ahnenbuch” (ancestry book) with insert used by Waffen-SS member Gerhard Hans Herbert Becker to document his family’s racial purity. A pamphlet advertising the Lebensborn program is also included. Becker fathered a child who was part of the Lebensborn program.

  6. To our homeland, Poland, let us be faithful Arthur Szyk poster for the Polish-Soviet War 1919-1921

    War propaganda poster designed by Arthur Szyk to rally the Polish people against the Bolsheviks during the Polish-Soviet War, February 1919 - March 1921. It depicts wounded Polish soldiers next to a 19th century patriotic poem by M. Romanowski celebrating the Polish Homeland. Szyk was a Polish Army officer and artistic director of the Department of Propaganda for the Polish army regiment quartered in Łódź during this war. In 1921, Szyk moved to Paris where he established his career as one of the greatest modern creators of illuminated miniatures. After the German invasion of Poland in Septe...

  7. "Shakespeare Saved My Life"

    Consists of one memoir, 84 pages, entitled "Shakespeare Saved My Life," by Eva Porges Rocek. In her memoir, Eva describes her family's history, her memories of the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, the antisemitic laws and regulations, her family's deportation to Theresienstadt (Terezin) and then Auschwitz, her liberation by the Russian Army in January 1945, and her life after the war in the United States.

  8. Artwork by communist resistance fighter Boris Taslitzky plus catalogue of Vichy exhibition on "Bolshevism"

    The collection consists of reproductions of a series of sketches and other artwork by Communist resistance fighter Boris Taslitzky after he was deported to Buchenwald, and a photo album of a 1942 Paris exhibit on “Bolshevism against Europe.”.

  9. Occupation and liberation of Rome

    Narrated by Ed Herlihy. Title: Universal Newsreel First Pictures of Rome's Capture. German newsreel footage showing Allied prisoners being marched through the streets of Rome during the German occupation. The narrator notes that the ". . . Italians watch quietly. Note the absence of any demonstration." Shots of Kesselring and fighting around Rome. American tanks enter and liberate Rome to cheering crowds: "Now the attitude of the Italian people has changed." People cheer the soldiers and wave American and Italian flags. American General Mark Clark enters the city in a Jeep. American, Italia...

  10. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Weingarten photograph collection

    Collection of photographs taken in displaced persons camps immediately following the Holocaust; includes images taken in the Landsberg DP camp in Germany, and images of survivors standing near memorials commemorating the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

  11. Selected records of the Holocaust in Nógrád County, Hungary

    This collection contains three group of records: I: Records of deputy prefect of Nógrád County, 1934-1944 (bulk 1938‒1944); mayor of Salgótarján city (1939‒1944); people's court (no date), and lawsuits (1945‒1946); government commission for "abandoned" properties in Balassagyarmat; commissions of Nógrád-Hont county (1945‒1949) and Salgótarján city (1945); political screening committees of Salgótarján, Szecseny, Nógrád-Hont, and Szirak counties, and of Salgótarján city; orphans court of Nógrád county (1940‒1943) and Nógrád -Hont county (1946‒1948); deputy prefect of Nógrád -Hont county (docu...

  12. Samuel Behar papers

    Two documents including a Turkish passport issued to the Behar family. The Behar family held Turkish citizenship while living in the Netherlands. They were deported to Westerbork transit camp and later to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in September 1944. In March 1945 the Behar family and 50 other Turkish Jews were released from the camp and shipped to Istanbul, Turkey. The collection also includes a food ration book issued to the Behar family in Holland in 1946 upon their return.

  13. Memorial service for victims of Lidice; German troops leave Holland; Threat of plague in Germany

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 10 (part) Title: In Memory of Lidice. A large crowd of people, many of whom are weeping, at a memorial service for the victims of Lidice. The narrator provides the story of the Lidice massacre: the Germans destroyed the town of Lidice and killed most of the inhabitants in reprisal for the assasination of Reinhard Heydrich in June, 1942. Czech president Edvard Benes walks in a procession. Shots of many wreaths and flags at half-mast. 01:10:08 Title: German Troops Leave Holland. German troops on a ship and on land as they leave Holland to return to Germany. Dutch citiz...

  14. Black family collection

    Consists of a postcards of pre-war Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, which were sent by Benzion Joseph Black to Ruth (Rachel) Saiger Black around 1909. Also includes numerous studio portraits of the Black family as well as other Jewish youth in Kovno between 1900-1912.

  15. Sgt. Keith Bryan photographs

    Consists of 11 photographs taken by Sgt. Keith Bryan, a member of the 348th Engineer Combat Battalion, of the liberation of the Woebbelin concentration camp in Ludwigslust, Germany.

  16. Suzanne Weil collection

    Collection of photographs and documents pertaining to Suzanne Weil's pre-war and wartime experiences in Slovakia and Hungary. Ms. Weil [donor] was in hiding in the countryside in Slovakia using a false identity and in 1944 escaped to Budapest where she was sent to Bergen Belsen on the Kasztner transport. Included is a pre-war photo album which belonged to Jan Weil, a photocopy of a list of Kasztner Train passengers, photocopy of a report of testimony of one of Kasztner's witnesses, daily report of what happened in Bergen Belsen (in Hungarian) by Eugene Kolb, and a photocopy of "accusations"...

  17. Various touristic views of Nazi Germany

    COLOR. Outdoor café with red awnings. Airplane at airfield, hangar, swastika on tail. Shots of a small town built into the mountains. Sign for a guesthouse, "Gasthaus Braeuerei...Phillipp Sturdorf". Pan up to a castle overlooking the town, probably Lahneck Castle. Large Nazi flag hanging from "Hotel Turm". Another view of the castle. Narrow streets, corridors. Mountains. Aerial views of the riverside, vineyards, "Die Pfalz" - a fortified castle on a tiny island in the middle of the Rhine River. Rooftops, bridge. View from hilltop. A pontoon bridge, 1 section floating separate from the rest....

  18. Ray Kaner collection

    The collection includes four notebooks and loose pages by written by Rachela Bryk, survivor of Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, immediately after the war. In the diary she recalls events from her past and records incidents and feelings related to her state post liberation, dated July 1945 to spring 1946. Photographs depict Rachela Bryk's family before the war and after the war in a DP camp in Germany, dated 1945-1946.

  19. Joshua Cohen collection

    Notes pertaining to course on "Emergency Medicine and Surgery & First Aid" written by Dr. Joshua Cohen [donor] in France, where he was stationed before embarking on the "Exodus 1947" as the ship's doctor.

  20. Dora Fischbein Cohn photographs

    Consists of 21 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Dora Fischbein and her family. Dora Fischbein was born in 1936 and spent most of the war hiding as Haneczka Holowiecka with the Koszarski family. Her parents, Osias and Feiga were able to visit her in hiding a few times, and after liberation the family was reunited and emigrated to Venezuela in 1949.