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  1. Hirschhorn family collection

    Collection of letters written by members of the Hirschhorn family during the war. Included are letters written by Kurt Siegfried Hirschhorn (donor's brother) to Hermann and Hedwig Hirschhorn (donor's parents), letters from the parents to both sons, a letter from Kurt to Richard, and a letter from Richard to his parents. Hermann, Hedwig, and Kurt Hirschhorn did not survive the war.

  2. David Gur collection

    Collection of copy prints of Hashomer Hazair, Dror, Bnai Akiva and other youth movements who participated in underground Zionist activities during WWII in Hungary. Includes one vintage photographic print; image of Miriam Renyi, David Grosz [donor], and Ezra Reichman; dated March 1944.

  3. Erika Samel Neumann collection

    Contains a "Fremdenpass" issued to Erika Samel (donor), with large red ink "J" stamped on inside front cover; photograph of child (bearer) attached on page 3; nationality listed as "stateless." Erika was born on October 22, 1932 in Vienna; in 1939, Erika left Vienna for Havana, Cuba, where she lived until 1941.

  4. Roger S. Heidenheim collection

    Consists of an anonymous account, dated 18 April 1945, Weimar, Germany offering first hand observations of atrocities at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Also includes 30 edited negatives and 30 prints of the 166th Signal Corps unit and their documentation for disbursement of German concentration camps directly after liberation. The photos document the conditions of survivors, mass graves, and corpses of victims persecuted by the Nazis in German concentration camps; dated April 1945.

  5. Rabbi Armin Frieder papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Rabbi Armin Frieder and his family in Nové Mesto, Czechoslovakia (now Nové Mesto, Slovakia). Included are biographical materials of Armin including his passport and death certificate, his son Gideon’s report cards, and his sister Gittel’s school exercise book. The bulk of the collection consists of Armin’s writings and sermons, many of which were written during the Holocaust. The photographs include pre-war and wartime depictions of the Frieder family. There also some photographs related to Gideon’s wife Dalia’s family, the Boglers, ...

  6. "Thoughts prior to revisiting Frankfurt"

    Consists of one essay, 4 pages, entitled "Thoughts prior to revisiting Frankfurt" written by Marianne Horkheimer Lewis in July 1993. In the essay, Ms. Lewis talks about her feelings prior to, during, and after a trip to Frankfurt, where she had spent her childhood. Ms. Lewis left Frankfurt on a Kindertransport in 1939 and lost her father in the Holocaust (her mother had passed away in 1937).

  7. Training of female police in Berlin; ceremonies for the victims of fascism; athletic event at the Olympic stadium in Berlin

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 69 Training of female police in Berlin. Female recruits in physical training, watched by a laughing group of male policemen. After being issued uniforms, the women perform traffic control duties such as admonishing a young boy for riding his bike in the street and helping a group of children cross the street. 02:13:06 Title: Britische Zone: Gedenkwoche fuer die Opfer des Faschismus [British Zone: Memorial Week for the Victims of Fascism]. Commemoration activities for the victims of fascism (the narrator provides the statistics of 11 million people who died in almost ...

  8. East Prussia; Tannenberg Memorial; summer resort in Koenigsberg

    "Kurhaus Nikolaiken" sign along the water in East Prussia. Film is heavily scratched. Traveling in a boat, woman standing on bridge. 01:10:06 The Tannenberg Memorial in Hohenstein where Hindenburg was buried in 1934. Various shots of the complex with two large statues of soldiers, wreaths. Tourists wander around. Brief shot of HJ boys exiting doorway of memorial. 01:11:21 Painted German eagle on EXT of restaurant, civilians (tourists?) gathered around. Cemetery with gravesites, crosses. 01:12:12 Beach resort in Cranz (modern Zelenogradsk) near Königsberg. Crowds sunbathe, walk along the boa...

  9. Rudolf and Helga Hauptmann Bettsack collection

    Consists of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Rudolf and Helga Hauptmann Bettsack (later changed to Bessac). Includes the Bettsack family Stammbuch, paperwork identifying them as stateless displaced persons, documents (with photos) in lieu of passports, and travel information for their immigration from Shanghai to the United States in 1947. Also includes paperwork for restitution claims and receipts for restitution claims for Helga Bessac.

  10. Gilda Moss Haber photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken at the White House youth hostel in Great Chesterford, England. Most of the children living at the youth hostel came to England on Kindertransports.

  11. Zygielbaum family collection

    Contains a certificate issued to Ruven Zygielbaum allowing him to immigrate to Palestine, issued in Italy on October 31, 1945; a photograph portrait of Rivka Zygielbaum, daughter of Szmul Artur Zygielbaum, who was murdered in the Warsaw ghetto; a photograph of an unidentified boy; correspondence relating to naming a street in Petach-Tikva, Israel and a park in Cote St. Luc, Canada in memory of Arthur Zygielbaum; and a photograph depicting Holocaust Memorial Day in Johannesburg, South Africa, where Ruven Zygielbaum was the Yiddish speaker during the ceremony, dated c. 1970.

  12. Sources of the Rhein river

    Line drawn map showing the course of the Rhein and the major cities along its route. The first title says that the Rhein originates in the Swiss Alps. Shots of clouds and snow-covered mountains. The next title says that the snowmelt from glaciers is the source of the river. Shots of rushing water flowing down from the glaciers. Title: The water streams from all slopes (?)." More shots of rushing water and valleys. Title: "Chalets are the indication of the settlements of the anterior Rhine." Small dwellings or farm buildings, cows grazing on a hillside, long shot of a small group of dwelling...

  13. Jehuda Feitelson collection

    Consists of documents illustrating Jehuda Feitelson's experiences immediately following his liberation from concentration camps, 1945-1947.

  14. Silviu Brucan collection

    Consists of the Silviu Brucan collection, which contains records of III-directorate of Securitate (counterespionage) relating to the surveillance of Silviu Brucan, his family and friends, and of foreign diplomats who were in contact with him between 1987-1989. (A small part of the documents cover the same subject from 1976 to 1986.) The documents mainly relate to the activities of Silviu Brucan, the Ceausescu government in connection with the workers' strike in Brasov of 1987, and "the letter of the six" written against Ceausescu.

  15. Selected records from the Gesandtschaft Rio de Janeiro

    Contains records from the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives) located in Vienna, Austria, pertaining to the Austrian Embassy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Most of the records are NSDAP files relating to persons, organizations, and institutions in South America with Nazi associations or connections. Also includes information on anti-Austrian and anti-Nazi activities abroad, the Vaterländische Front, propaganda, and expulsions.

  16. "The Freeman Legacy: Their Past, His Future, One Survival"

    Contains one booklet entitled "The Freeman Legacy: Their Past, His Future, One Survival", by Michelle Freeman. In the paper, she describes the Holocaust experiences of her grandparents, Joseph and Helen Freeman, both originally of Radom, Poland, and their post-war life in the United States. She also profiles her father, Louis Freeman, and his experiences as the child of two Holocaust survivors. Includes photographs of the Freeman family.

  17. Anna Grun manuscript

    Anna Grun's manuscripts include one Polish and two English versions entitled, “Remembrance,” about Anna's childhood in Kraków, Poland, her experiences in the Kraków ghetto and Płaszów concentration camp, and working at Oskar Schindler's enamel factory.

  18. Badge with a yellow Star of David on a black circle worn by a Romanian Jewish woman

    Star of David badge that 20 year-old Simona Weissmann was forced to wear in Piatra Neamt, Romania from 1941-1945. In November 1940, the fascist government of Romania of General Antonescu joined the Axis Alliance. They immediately put in place polices to persecute Jews, such as the requirement that Jews wear a Star of David badge2 on their clothing at all times. The antisemitic regime also supported increasingly violent attacks and pogroms against the Jewish population.

  19. Agata Tuszynska-Dasko collection

    Collection of Rosenberg and Kaplan family photographs, and of Henry Dasko [donor's late husband's family] who survived the Holocaust on false papers in Warsaw and vicinity. The Rosenberg family was originally from Łódź, Poland, and Rywa Kaplan, Henry's mother, was from Vilna. Professional identification card issued to Wladyslaw Daszkiewicz (real name, Mojesz Josl Rozenberg), stating that he is a member of lawyer's association.

  20. Ottenheimer family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Ottenheimer family including photographs taken in pre-war Germany, a book on the genealogy of the Moos family, a pre-WWII advertisement for Ludwig Ottenheimer's clothing store, a photocopy of the same advertisement after the Aryanization of the store, postwar correspondence. and a small siddur (daily Jewish prayer book) carried by Ludwig Ottenheimer during his military service during WWI and with him to the United States. Ludwig Ottenheimer was arrested after Kristallnacht and spent one month in the Dachau concentration camp. Aft...