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  1. Goering visits wounded soldiers on train along his route, Eastern front.

    A map shows the location where Hermann Goering is visiting wounded soldiers on the Eastern front. The men are on a train travelling back to Germany. CUs of Goering and smiling wounded troops. Goering is accompanied by a large entourage of officers and several nurses.

  2. Estate of Leo J. Lewin photograph collection

    Collection consists of 59 photographs taken in the children's home of La Hille. Leo J. Lewin [donor] was part of a group of children who was moved from children's home in Seyre to La Hille by Secours Suisse.

  3. Kazimierz Laski collection

    Collection consists of photographs and documents relating to the Cygler and Wolfowicz families before the war in Częstochowa, during the war in hiding, and after the war in Warsaw, Poland. Cygler was Professor Kazimierz Laski's original last name, and Wolfowicz was Professor Laski's late wife's maiden name.

  4. Bernard Rosenthal photograph collection

    Contains three photographs of the donor's sister-in-law, Rachel Krygier Gottleib (b. February 10, 1926, Warsaw, Poland) and her experience on the "Exodus" ship, 1947.

  5. Jehudit Batelman collection

    Collection consists of photographs documenting the experiences of the Surkis and Pressman families during the Holocaust in Romania.

  6. Print 8, Kosciol Sw. Jana w Toruniu, a church in town

    Print 8 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  7. Erich Oppenheim collection

    Contains a passport issued to Erich Oppenheim upon his leaving Germany in January 1935, and documents and photographs relating to Mr. Oppenheim's family in Nentershausen, Germany. His parents and two brothers were murdered, and his sister left Germany on Kindertransport in 1939.

  8. Pamphlet

    Pamphlet of poetry by Joost van den Vondel, a pseudonym used by Albert Helman. Helman was a member of the Artist's Resistance in the Netherlands and wrote poetry about the Resistance. Joost van den Vondel was a famous poet in 17th century Holland. Helman wrote "Rei van Smeeckelingen" in the style of a 17th century poem and it deals with the deportation of the Jews, names of occupiers and leaders in Germany and collaborators in Holland. It also has religious undertones like Joost van den Vondel's poetry. Helman did this because if his writings were published and displayed under Joost van den...

  9. Gloria Klein collection

    Collection consists of records documenting the experiences of George Klein (Gloria Klein’s husband) during the Holocaust. Records include his DP identification card, a medical certificate, a certificate stating that he was a survivor living in the Bad Reichenhall DP camp, documentation regarding the search for George's father, and a partial document regarding medical exams. Also included are two notecards from his presentations about his Holocaust experiences

  10. Print 10, Deby Rogalinskie, depicts trees

    Print 10 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  11. Serbian POWs and returning soldiers

    Color. Serbian POWs in a POW camp in Belgrade. The prisoners receive food and look at the camera suspiciously. CU of raggedly dressed civilians who have been taken prisoner. Returning Serbian soldiers look for their families.

  12. Sol and Arlene Sturm collection

    Contains six postcards and two envelopes from letters written to donor's mother, Helen Schreiber, in New York City, from Herman Schreiber and his wife, Netta Horowitz-Schrieber of Stanisławów, Poland, dated 1939-1941.

  13. Ljubica Sarolic papers

    The Ljubica Sarolic papers consist of a November 2, 1944 mailing label from a package sent via the Slovenian Red Cross to Ljubica in the Auschwitz concentration camp by her mother Kati Rozman in Ljubljana; a copy print of a portrait of Ljubica shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 16; and a photocopy of a September 18, 1944 list of prisoners selected by Dr. Josef Mengele for his medical experiments and signed by him. Ljubica appears as prisoner number 75744 at place 45 on the list.

  14. Cesia Fater collection

    Collection of photographs, papers and brochures (including music scores) pertaining to the life of Issachar Fater, cantor, composer and music teacher before the war. In 1940 he was a refugee in Soviet Baronovice and worked as an inspector for teaching of music. After being freed from labor camp in Siberia he became the director of the State Philharmonic Orchestra in Tadjikistan. Returning to Poland, he moved to Paris, Belgium, Rio de Janeiro and in 1962 immigrated to Israel. Includes a birth certificate in the name of Elizbieta Ritkowska issued August 27, 1938 and used by donor during the war.

  15. Isidor Becker collection

    The collection consists of one visitor's gallery pass and one program for the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial issued to Captain Isidor Becker of the United States Air Force Dental Corps for March 13, 1946.

  16. Oral history inteview with Morris Salzberg

  18. Main technology office, NS Reich administration of the association of German technology Selected records of the Hauptamt für Technik, Reichswaltung des Nationalsozialistischen Bundes Deutscher Technik (NSBDT) (NS 14)

    The records contain correspondence with different offices of the Reichswaltung des Nationalsozialistischen Bundes Deutscher Technik (NSBDT) and documents about the education/propaganda-work. The collection also contains records related to prohibition of Jews in the BDT; list of Jewish engineers; technical publications by Jewish publishers; and some files mention Jewish participation in various fields on engineering or science.

  19. NS-Schul-Dias glass slides

    Contains approximately 280 glass slides produced by the Nazi government as educational tools.

  20. Jews with armbands in destroyed Warsaw

    Jews wearing armbands on the heavily bomb-damaged streets of Warsaw. People on foot and in horse-drawn carts pass in front of bombed out buidlings.