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  2. Donald Molofsky collection

    The Donald Molofsky collection contains mainly correspondence sent from Donald to his parents, from 1947-1948. Molofsky served as an engineer on the SS Exodus, but the correspondence does not contain much information about the voyage itself. The correspondence concerns details from Donald’s time spent on vacation in Haifa, Na'an, and in France. Also included are correspondence from the Molofsky family to Donald, letters from Donald’s friend Zeev “Vivy” Siegel’s parents to the Molofsky family, and various other letters. The Donald Molofsky collection contains mainly correspondence sent from ...

  3. Crowning of "King of the Gypsies"

    Janusz Kwiek is crowned "King of the Gypsies" in an outdoor ceremony before a large crowd of onlookers. He wears a crown and receives a blessing from an Eastern orthodox (?) priest. A group of Roma sing a song in celebration.

  4. Sophie Zajd Berkowitz photograph collection

    Sophie Zajd Berkowitz photograph collection consists of nine photographs documenting the experiences of Zofia Zajd Berkowitz and of Cecia Berkowitz (Zofia's niece) during the time period surrounding the Holocaust dated 1930-1946. Zofia Zajd Berkowitz survived the war working forced labor at the Hasag labor camp in Czestochowa. Her niece Cecia Berkowitz survived in hiding with the assistance of Genowefa Starczewska-Korczak, a Polish Christian woman who was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1986.

  5. Dachau crematorium and museum

    EXT, Dachau camp. Sign displayed in front of Dachau's first crematorium, "This area is being retained as a shrine to the 238,000 individuals who were cremated here. Please don't destroy." Slow pan of camp buildings and large white cross marking the old gallows stand. INT, crematorium, ovens (overexposed). MS, sign in four languages: "Old Gallows Stand." EXT, Barrack X with crematorium and gas chamber. MS, wood platform, cross, coffin on gallows stand. INT, exhibition in the crematorium-gas chamber building (Barrack X) with life-size mannequins dressed in prisoner uniforms demonstrating tort...

  6. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Côte-d'Or

    Contains records pertaining to the systematic expropriation of property belonging to Jews and Freemasons in the Côte-d’Or. Also contains information regarding the harassment, internment and deportation of Jews and Freemasons from the Côte-d’Or.

  8. Giovanni Palatucci collection

    Collection consists of four vintage photographs and one document relating to Giovanni Palatucci [donor's maternal uncle].

  9. John and Barbara Helman papers

    The John and Barbara Helman papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting the Helman and Wiewióra families from Łódź, John and Barbara’s survival of the Łódź ghetto, John’s survival of the Auschwitz and Görlitz concentration camps, and the couple’s postwar marriage and refugee and immigration status. Biographical materials include identification papers, certificates, and correspondence documenting John’s status as a survivor of the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, and Görlitz; his marriage to Bronia Wiewióra; her survival of the Łódź ghetto; and the couple’s refugee and immigr...

  10. Speeches on the occasion of the opening of the antibolshevist exhibition in Nuremberg

    Coverage of the opening of the Great Antibolshevist exhibition in Nuremberg. The narrator announces the exhibition, which shows the danger to the world posed by bolshevists and Jews. A group of men in uniform are greeted by Julius Streicher. The narrator introduces the guest of honor, General Maggiore (? Melchiori?), leader of the fascist delegation. The camera pans over the uniformed men and spectators. The delegation and the spectators salute as a band plays. 01:02:26 The general gives a speech in Italian. The camera pans over uniformed Nazis as they listen. 01:05:00 The camera pans aroun...

  11. Isaac Berneman collection

    The Isaac Berneman collection consists of an identification card and a residence cards issued to Isaac’s father, Dawid (David) Berneman (b. Kozienice, Poland, 1913-1980), and his mother, Cecylia Berneman (b. Rajcza or Zywiec, Poland 1923-1981). The documents were issued in displaced person camps in Austria following the Holocaust and indicate that David was a Polish Jew living in New Palestine DP Camp and that Cecylia was a slave laborer in Gabersdorf, the Czech Republic. Isaac was born in Salzburg in 1947, the family immigrated to the United States in 1951, and Isaac’s brother and sister w...

  12. Berlin, 1936

    Traffic, bus with Persil advertisement, traffic conductor, automobiles, street scenes in Berlin. Buildings decorated for 1936 Summer Olympics. Nazi banners with swastikas. Traffic. Multiple country flags erected for Olympics. MS, Reichstag.

  13. Vienna scenes; Helen Baker; dogs

    Street scenes of Vienna. People in Austrian dress, streetcars, bicyclists. Helen Baker talks to a young man who sells bread from a large basket on his back. She inspects a large round loaf of bread and then tosses it into the air. The donor, Stan Baker, who was sixteen at the time, feeds a bird and then a squirrel. More street scenes, including several chimney sweeps and people who carry large bundles of wood on their backs. Helen, Stan, and Raymond (Stan's twin brother) appear again at 01:02:27. The camera follows a woman who crosses the street with a huge bundle on her back. Ground level ...

  14. Celia and Arthur Stern papers

    The Celia and Arthur Stern papers comprises mainly of identification and travel documents relating to Celia and Arthur Stern, a married Jewish couple living in Vienna, Austria during the Kristallnacht, and their subsequent immigration to the United States. Within the collection are passports, identification cards, a marriage certificate and a naturalization certificate for Chaim (Arthur) and Celia Stern. Also included report cards from when Celia was attending school in Vienna, a certificate of apprenticeship for dressmaker’s guild of Vienna, and a police document pertaining to Celia. In ad...

  15. Meeting of the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee, 1944

    A meeting of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee at the Kolonny zal [Columnar Hall] in the House of Unions, possibly on July 26, 1944. The meeting was meant to raise funds for the Soviet war effort. Members of the committee and military officers sit on the stage beneath a huge portrait of Stalin. Long shot of Solomon Mikhoels as he reads a speech (mute). Pan across the other men on the stage. Participants, in high spirits, sign a petition: David Bergelson signs at 01:07:08, Mikhoels signs at 01:07:33, Abraham Sutzkever signs at 01:07:52 and Ilya Ehrenburg signs at 01:07:58 At a meeting on Jul...

  16. Raffaelle Salom identification card

    Raffaelle Salom's identification card was issued to him by the Italian Fascists' Registro di Popolazione (Population Registry) office in Split, Croatia, on August 22, 1943. The card is stamped "ebreo," the Italian word for Jew. Raffaelle Salom was a Bosnian Jew from Sarajevo who escaped deportation by the Croatian Ustaše by relocating to a region of Croatia under the Italian occupation.

  17. Frida Gefen family papers

    Correspondence regarding the Holocaust experiences of Jacob Szmulowicz who fled Lida, Lithuania (Lida, Belarus) with his son Samuel to Shanghai in 1939. His wife Liba, daughter Frida, and son Eliezer were deported to Siberia in 1940.

  18. Waffen-SS Muslim red fez found by a US soldier at Ohrdruf concentration camp

    Red fez with a swastika and Death's head found by James Howard Edwards, a US army soldier, in Ohrdruf concentration camp, following the liberation of the camp by the United States Army on April 29, 1945. He found the fez in the commandant’s barracks. The red fez was part of the dress uniform of a Waffen-SS military detachment composed of Muslims from Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzegovina in occupied Yugoslavia. There was a field gray one for combat. The creation of this unit was authorized by Hitler in 1943. The original purpose was to combat Tito’s partisans. Through recruitment and conscriptio...

  19. Jews in Livny with Soviet soldiers

    Two Soviet soldiers converse with a group of local Jews in the town of Livny, 1942. One Jew shows the two soldiers an armband with "Jude" written on it. Close-up on the armband.

  20. Le Havre harbor and on board Normandie ship to the U.S.

    Title: "Havre. Homeward Bound on the 'Normandie'." Le Havre harbor. HAS. Capsized hulk of the French Lines' ship PARIS, which burned and rolled over at Le Havre in April 1939. View of another ship, possibly the French Lines' ship CHAMPLAIN docked in Le Havre, seen from the deck of 'Normandie.' On deck, people on red chaise lounge chairs, man in swimming pool behind. Good view of the Statue of Liberty.