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  1. Alice Lonsdale collection

    Collection consists of 18 pre-war photographs from Austrian Jewish families, Loeffler [donor's immediate family] and Loeb [maternal relatives]. Depicted in the images are the Alice Loeffler, her brother Hans, and her parents, Alfred and Dora Loeffler, who did not survive; dated circa early 20th century; mainly in Vienna, Austria. Alice went on the Kindertransport to the United Kingdom in 1939.

  2. Kippah buried for safekeeping while the owner lived in hiding

    Yarmulke, a skullcap worn by observant Jewish males, 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 her in her attic. In December 1944, a few months after the li...

  3. Page listing contents of portfolio

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

  4. Eric Sommer collection

    Collection consists of two false ID cards issued to Eric Sommer’s parents, David and Hilde Sommer, German Jews who were able to survive the Holocaust in France passing as non-Jews. The cards were issued to "Emile Schwebel" and "Henriette Schwebel" in March 1943 in La Mure and February 1943 in Sainte-Colombe-la-Campagne, France. Also included with the collection is a copy of a handwritten memoir.

  5. Fasching [Carnival] parade with antisemitic float

    Carnival in Munich. Shots of large crowds watching the parade. A group of men wearing wine barrels march down the street. One float shows a huge caricature of a man holding large letters spelling "Kolonien." Marching men hold letters spelling "KDF." Raucous carnival celebrations in Mannheim. Men on horseback hold signs reading "Ufa." Crowds cheer loudly and parade participants yell and play to the camera. One of the floats contains a caricature of a Jew brandishing a quill pen and wearing a Star of David on his chest. A sign on the float reads "Die Luegentante der Weltpresse." [The lying au...

  6. Army broadcast regarding the liberation of Dachau

    Narrator introduces himself as Jack Parker, with the Seventh Army in Germany and describes the “Dachau death camp” which he had entered the previous Monday, April 30th. Parker is a correspondent for some American radio network but does not name which one. Parker and his colleagues had been in Munich, where there was still fighting, and was on his way back to their “press camp” when they got word that Dachau had been liberated. He describes in some detail as he and four other correspondents approached and then entered the camp: the death train (Parker describes it as well as the journey from...

  7. Plastic Star of David button worn to identify a Bulgarian Jew

    Star of David button made of Bakelite that Linka Nathan, or her mother, Rebecca, were required to wear to identify them as Jews in Sliven and Sofia, Bulgaria, from 1942-1944. Her father, Jacques was issued a circular, yellow button to identify him as a veteran of World War I. Beginning in July 1940, the Bulgarian government initiated anti-Semitic legislation that prohibited Jews from holding certain jobs, living in certain areas, or marrying non-Jews. Linka's father was one of the attorneys selected to interpret the new legislation to members of the Jewish community in Sofia.

  8. Wistreich and Tragarz families papers

    Wistreich and Tragarz families papers include documents and photographs relating to the Wistreich family during the Holocaust, including their escape from Krakow to the United States via the USSR, Japan, and Shanghai and photographs and documents relating to the Tragarz family in France. Dora and seven of her siblings survived in hiding in Corez, her sister Perlette survived Auschwitz, her oldest brother Charles was killed at Auschwitz, and their parents were also killed in the Holocaust. Charles’ baby son Daniel survived. Dora and her twin sister Miriam used the aliases Denise and Marie Ta...

  9. 'Tran und Helle' dialogue re. listening to foreign broadcasts on radio

    Tran and Helle admire Tran's radio. Helle notes that Tran can hear all sorts of great programs from throughout the Reich. Tran says that he can also hear foreign news broadcasts, to which Helle replies that Tran could go to prison for such behavior. Even if Tran is not caught, says Helle, good Germans do not do such things. Helle continues to berate Tran for believing that foreign broadcasts tell the truth. Tran answers that he is old enough to tell if something is true and he turns on the radio. The voice of the radio announcer says that someone was just sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison ...

  10. John Kaufmann album "Deutschland, England, Australien"

    Album entitled "Deutschland, England, Australien" created by John Kaufmann (born Hans Werner Kaufmann), originally of Heidelberg, Germany. The album includes writings, drawings, and photographs chronicling his family and his Holocaust experiences as a German refugee who fled to England in August 1939, was sent to Australia in July 1940 aboard the HMT Dunera as an enemy alien, and interned in the Hay internment camp in New South Wales.

  11. Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter [Cross of Honor of the German Mother] medal, 3rd Class Order, Bronze Cross

    Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter [Cross of Honor of the German Mother] medal was instituted by the Nazi Party in 1938 as a propaganda measure to promote National Socialist population policy. This medal is a 3rd class order, Bronze Cross. There were three classes of medal: gold, for eight or more children, silver, for six to seven children, and bronze for four to five children. Recipients were nominated by Nazi Party or government officials and had to be pure Germans, of good character, politically and socially. The first awards were in 1939 to some 3 million German mothers, the last in 1944.

  12. Postwar devastation; opening of Nuremberg Trial; early Nazi party history, events, leaders

    Part 1 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA Reels 1 & 2] "Europe 1945" Panorama of war devastation: buildings and cities laid to waste, rubble, mother climbing out of trap door shelter with naked baby in arms, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters, children running down steps, clambering for food, poverty, homeless people, begging for food, weeping woman. "Nuremberg 21 November 1945" EXT and INT Nuremberg Palace of Justice. CU, document announcing trial and listing the accused. Seating of International Military Tribunal. Chief US prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson pre...

  13. Electric power plant in Kalinindorf, Ukraine

    Russian intertitle. Interior scenes of the new electric power plant in the national Jewish region of Kalinindorf in southern Ukraine, organized by the Soviet organization OZET (Society for Settling Working Jews on the Land) and funded at least in part by the Agro-Joint. Workers check the machines. High angle shot of the station's interior.

  14. Nuremberg Trial proceedings; summation and verdict

    Part 4 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 7 & 8] Courtroom scenes, questioning various defendants, showing various views of the courtroom and trial proceedings. Questioning Jodl and von Ribbentrop. Prosecutor asks Goering: "Do you still say that neither Hitler nor you knew of the policy to exterminate the Jews?" Goering: "I already had said that not even approximately did I know to what degree this thing took place." Prosecutor: "You did not know to what degree, but you knew there was a policy which aimed at the liquidation of the Jews?" Goering: "No, not liquidation ...

  15. Sadie Rigal Waren photograph collection

    Collection of 36 photographs pertaining to Sadie Rigal's experiences during World War II. Included in the collection are photographs of dancing scenes, dance practices, and a trip to Berlin to perform with Edith Piaf and Charles Trenet for French POWs.

  16. Esther Menaker photograph collection

    Collection of 11 photographic images depicting the donor's life after liberation, including her work in the Rosenheim displaced persons camp; her wedding to Ephraim Menaker, who she met on the ship "Exodus"; and a portrait of her parents taken after their release in 1953 from a Russian prison.

  17. Sightseeing in France: Paris & Versailles

    Title: "Streets of Paris. Cafes on the Champs-Elysees. Arc de Triomphe. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Place de la Concorde." Sightseeing in Paris, including street scenes, cafe with red tables and chairs, Arc de Triomphe, Eternal Flame for Unknown Soldier (WWI) with wreath and flowers, French police, Eiffel Tower, Place de la Concorde, statues, cars on Champs d'Elysee, and aerial views from the Eiffel Tower including the Seine. 01:09:36 Title: "Malmaisson. Home of Josephine." LS, palace and grounds with tourists. 01:09:56 Title: "Versailles. Its Beautiful Gardens and Fountains." Tourists vis...

  18. Abraham Breski testimony

    Contains six pages of translation (pages 5 and 6 are both numbered 5) of first hand account of Abraham Breski, who was a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The account documents Breski's experiences being deported from Pruzana, Poland to the Birkenau killing center in Poland in 1943.

  19. Visiting family and sights in Budapest

    In Budapest, street scenes, Kornhauser family (Marie's family) walking past shops, posing for camera. LS, city across Danube. Policeman on horse. More shots of the Kornhauser family.

  20. Twentieth Century Fox version, Reel 3: Anschluss; Munich Pact; Hitler speeches

    Reel 3 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. Title: "1936." "Reoccupation of the Rhineland 7 March 1936." Newsreel footage and brief audio of troops marching into the Rhineland. Title: "Minister von Neurath expresses confidence all Germans will vote approval of Hitler's policies 29 March 1936." Von Neurath speaking. Hess, Frick, Goebbels vote and speak briefly. Title: "Address to Krupp Munitions Plant Workers 28 May 1936." Hitler speaking at podium. Shots of munitions workers. Title: "Eighth Party Congress 8 - 14 September 19...