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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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).

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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...

  9. Portfolio cover

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

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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...

  15. Dobiecki family papers

    The collection documents Barech and Golda Dobiecki and their daughter Bella’s experiences as they emigrated from Essen, Germany on the MS St. Louis 1939, their disembarkation in England, their immigration to Brazil, and their eventual immigration to the United States. The collection also documents the earlier immigrations of the Dobiecki’s daughters Hella to Brazil and the United States, and Bronia to the United States. Included are identification papers, restitution papers, immigration and travel documents, letters from the Jewish Refugees Committee while they were in England, corresponden...

  16. Albert Palatnik collection

    Collection consists of photographs depicting the Palatnik family in Odessa before the war; all the members of the family were murdered in Odessa ghetto. Also includes a report card issued to Albert Palatnik stating that he is Jewish; issued in Balta, after the war.

  17. Synagogue destroyed by French fascists with the help of the SS

    French police stand in front of a bombed synagogue. CU shots of the destruction, exterior and interior. Panning shots including the Hebrew script over the door. According to the Bundesarchiv, in the night of 2-3 October, 1941, six out the seven synagogues in Paris were bombed by the French fascist Parti Populaire Francais. The attacks were carried out under the initiative and with the support of the SD, which provided the explosives.

  18. Saias family collection

    Photographic print and documents concerning the Saias family's experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes an image of Edith Schneidman-Saias [donor] as a baby in circa 1939 in her brith place Paris, France, where she was hidden. Documents include information about donor’s parents, Isaac and Louna and her ten-year old brother Salomon, all born in Greece, immigrated to Paris before the War and in September and November, 1942 where they are presumed to have perished.

  19. Central Historical Commission : Post-War documentation (M.1.S)

    The collection contains 7793 questionnaires. Information for questionnaires were gathered by the The Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, Munich) from a large number of Holocaust survivors. This data concern the estimated number of Jews before the war in their communities, the number of Jewish victims, destroyed and robbed Jewish property, slave labor, concentration camps, and the like.

  20. Moshe Gershon Frydenzon collection

    Collection of photographs and documents relating to donors family before the war; during the war in the Łódź ghetto, and after the war in DP camps and Paris, France.