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  1. Lola Fuchs and Leon Mazliach papers

    Contains documents and photographs illustrating the post-war experiences of Lola Fuchs [Fuks], born in Szydlowiec, Poland and deported to slave labor and concentration camps including Skarzysko Kamienna, Częstochowa, Bergau, Bergen-Belsen, and Allach; and Leon Mazliach [Masliach], born in Saloniki, Greece and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau-Muehldor. The couple met and married after the Holocaust in the Feldafing displaced persons' camp, and later immigrated to the United States

  2. Sammlung Schumacher collection on the History of National Socialism Sammlung Schumacher zur Geschichte des Nationalsozialismus

    The Schumacher collection contains very diverse files of German government and NSDAP offices between 1933 and 1945, including documents of NSDAP branches abroad, the Office of Racial Policy, the SA, the SS, Hitlerjugend, and other agencies. It includes examples of Nazi propaganda, orders by Heydrich and other officials, documents on the Freemasons and similar associations, and documents relating to Austria, Italy, and other countries.

  3. Black velvet embroidered tefillin bag buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding

    Black velvet pouch used to hold his tefillin, prayer boxes worn by Jewish males during morning prayer services, buried for safekeeping with other religious items by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. It originally belonged to her husband, Bernhard, who died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. She brought it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and soon there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewish landlady who hid he...

  4. Cheryl Mordfin collection

    Collection consists of a record book containing the meeting minutes of the Zduńska Wola Relief Organization; written and kept by Anna Katzowsky, donor's grandmother, who was recording secretary. Also includes a blank postcard sent out for meeting notifications inserted inside front cover; dated 1940-1957, in Chicago, Illinois. Anna Waksman Katzowsky immigrated to the U.S. from Zduńska Wola, Poland in the 1920s. She and others would meet regularly to collect money to send along with packages to family and friends still living in Zdunska Wola during WWII and after liberation when some had mov...

  5. PK cameraman heads to the Yugoslav front

    Titles: "Frontbericht 1941 von Gottfried Kessel Im Banat" [Report from the front 1941 by Gottfried Kessel: In Banat (the name of a geographical region which includes Pancevo)] Shots of Kessel with his Kodak camera in Neuruppin, Germany after the French campaign. Kessel's narration says he studied photography and enlisted in the Propaganda Kompanie. Scenes shot by Kessel out the window of a JU 52 plane as he heads to the front.

  6. Stanley Jacobson collection

    Collection consists of documents, identification papers, and correspondence relating to Jacob and Frieda Jacobson (donor's grandparents) and their son Michael Jacobson (donor's father) and their experiences during the Holocaust, dated 1941-1950. The family was sent from their home in Holland to Vught, Westerbork, and Theresienstadt.

  7. Zev Siegel collection

    Collections consists of photographs taken by donor when working as a crew mamber on the refuge ship which came to be known as the "Exodus." Includes photos at Haifa port and photos from ships other than the Exodus. Postcard sent by Zev Siegel to his parents in the United States after arriving at Marseille aboard the Exodus. Identity card for Zev issued by Government of Palestine, Haifa, December 21, 1947; "Pinchas Sherut" (Navy ID card) issued May 4, 1948; Cyprus crew pass for "Pan Crescent" ship for Zev Siegel; Honduran seaman's ID for Zev Siegel's service aboard SS President Warfield/"Exo...

  8. Goebbels speaks about the antisemitic Swedish film Petersson and Bendel

    Shots of huge numbers of people gathered at the Essen airfield. Joseph Goebbels speaks at the 10th Gauparteitag in Essen. Goebbels speaks, from 01:28:02. Celebrating the 10th year... 01:28:18 "Wie unrecht haben jene..." 01:28:26 "Judentum es wagte in der Reichshauptstadt gegen einen antisemitischen Film offen zu protestieren . Da allerdings ist der Augenblick gekommen wo wir sagen, 'Bis hierher und nicht weiter!' Nicht die Auslandspresse sondern wir regieren Deutschland. Und wir sind nicht dem Ausland sondern wir sind nur unserem eigenen Volkes dafuer verantwortlich. Fuehrer befiehl, wir fo...

  9. Nazi flag with a swastika in white circle captured by US soldiers and later signed by battalion

    Nazi flag captured by soldiers of the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion, United States Army, in Nuremberg, Germany, in April 1945. There are signatures, addresses, and short phrases handwritten on the reverse of the flag by several members of the battalion and other units present at the capture. This flag belonged Melvin Mouw (1924-1995) and his signature is on the flag. The battalion fought in many campaigns before crossing the Rhine River into Germany in March 1945 and participating in the capture of Nuremberg.

  10. Ms. Vered Kater photographs

    Black and white photographs of Vered Kater’s family before and after the war in Eindhoven, Netherlands, hiding in Hoofdorp during the war, and at a tree planting at Yad Vashem in honor of Joanna Kuiper-Henkelmans (1915-1998).

  11. Maxine Winn collection

    Contains two copy prints and one copy of a letter written by father's brother-in-law during the war. The donor's father, Nathan Kenig, was in the Kutno ghetto before he escaped and was captured and sent to the Majdanek concentration camp, from which he also escaped. He eventually became head of the Polish division of the Russian army where he remained untill the end of the war.

  12. Walter and Martha Ellenbogen collection

    Collection consists of 18 photographs relating to the Ellenbogen and Lenzer families in Dorna, Gura Humora, Transnistria and Cyprus DP camp. Also includes four memoirs written by the donors.

  13. Misha Avramoff and Adele Brechner collection

    Contains 12 photographs pertaining to the lives of Menashe Avramoff and his sister, Adele Brechner, in Sofia, Bulgaria. Menashe and his mother left Sofia for Ruse during World War II, where his mother's family lived. Adele was born there in December 1944. Photos depict prewar and war years including forced labor of father.

  14. Prewar Warsaw: street and family scenes

    The camera pans across a bustling street scene, including lots of people, streetcars (one is marked with the number 21), buildings, and a horse-drawn buggy. The large building which dominates the background is the Grand Theater. The streetcar runs along Senatorska Street. An older Jewish man makes faces at the camera and several younger men wrestle with him briefly. Another elderly Jew smiles. He is instructed by the young men around him to look at the camera. 01:01:11 More crowded street scenes in Nalewki Street in the Jewish quarter. Many shop signs visible, including one sign with Hebrew...

  15. Portfolio cover

    Portfolio cover for book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  16. Engelmann family papers

    Contains a memoir, correspondence, and legal documents pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of the Engelmann family. Originally from Berlin, Germany, the family emigrated to Turkey in 1937, where Peter, his Jewish father, Konrad, and Christian mother, Ilse, remained for the entirety of the war. Includes articles and narrations by and about various family members, with a focus on Dr. Susanne Engelmann, the donor's aunt, who wrote "From the Golden Horn to the Golden Gate" about her experiences.

  17. Olga Wachtenheim collection

    Collection consists of two composite photographs from the Munkacs Jewish Gymnasium, one of the last graduating classes in 1943 and the fourth grade class from 1943. Olga Wachtenheim is pictured in graduating class photograph; her brother was a teacher of the fourth grade class. Also includes one photograph of the Wachtenheim family after the war; 1946.

  18. Luftwaffe decorations presented next to Goering's special train headquarters on Eastern front

    Goering's train stopped in a wooded area. Luftwaffe ace Werner Moelders receives a medal. Goering awards the Ritterkreuz to a pilot named Rudolf Nacke, who has flown over 100 missions against the enemy. Werner Moelders, Adolf Galland, Major Oesau, and several other men are also present. The group enters a building, where Goering reviews a map with General Konradt. Brief shot of two soldiers at a switchboard.

  19. Doris (Dee) Muschel Schwartz collection

    Collection of papers, identification cards, a ship passenger list, clippings and correspondence documenting the experiences of Isidor, Ida and Doris Muschel [donor's parents and donor] and their journey fleeing Vienna, Austria to the United States in 1938.

  20. Boycott of Jewish businesses in Halle

    Pedestrians on a very crowded sidewalk. SA men hold signs reading "Die Juden sind unser Unglueck", although the signs are very hard to read. Another shot of SA men with signs. The camera pans up to show that the name on the shop is "Sobel." A large number of pedestrians pass in front of a business named "D. Hammerschild." The signs the SA men hold read, "Die Juden sind unser Unglueck, kauft nur bei Deutschen." Another sign reads, "Keinen Pfennig dem Judenkapital, kauft nicht in Warenhaeuser und Einheitspreislaeden." SA men with signs stand outside Wohlwerth (Woolworth's), Sponner, and the f...