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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Emergence of East & West Germany after WWII

    OMGUS censorship slates state that the film has been approved for public screening in the American zone of Germany. Words superimposed across an aerial view of Berlin state that this film is dedicated to the men women and children of Berlin, without whose loyalty it would not be possible to relate the following. Over scenes of the destruction of Berlin and people working among the rubble the narrator says that without an architect, without a plan somehow something new and strong emerged from the ruins in the summer of 1945. Crowds of West Berliners and a shot of SPD representative Franz Neu...

  9. Jews and other refugees moving into the USSR

    Shot of a Soviet border guard on a bridge at the border between the Soviet Union and Romania after the Soviet Union seized northern Bukovina in 1940. Long shot of a mass of refugees waiting to cross the border into the Soviet Union. Refugees, including Jews, move across a bridge from Romania to what is now the Soviet Union. Close-up on a Jewish family as they show their papers to a guard before they cross the bridge. The guard smiles and shakes hands with the couple. Shot of refugees running across the bridge.

  10. Liberation of Ozarichi and Minsk

    Wounded people, mostly children, are taken off a train that was intercepted on its way to Ozarichi, a concentration camp in Belarus. They are placed on a cart by Soviet soldiers. Soviet investigators inspect corpses lying in the snow. They perform an outdoor autopsy of sorts on a dead child. Shots of survivors at the camp. Liberated people struggle down the road. Interior scenes of the sick being treated in a hospital. Barbed wire around camp (still Ozarichi?). Scenes of German-occupied Minsk. Germans regulate traffic and check papers of civilians in cars. German soldiers break into a house...

  11. Mannsbach and Goldschmidt families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Mannsbach and Goldschmidt families, originally of Beverungen and Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The collection primarily documents the emigration of Lilly Goldschmidt (née Mannsbach), her husband Bernhard Goldschmidt, and their son Fred to the United States in 1938, the emigration of her brothers Heinz, Otto, and Richard to South America, and her parents Karl and Luise Mannsbach, who remained in Leipzig, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of official documents, including birth, marriage, and death certificates; pre-war, wartim...

  12. Duquesne spy case; enemy agents in the US; Private Snafu cartoon

    Title on screen: Duquesne Case: Secret. The word "Secret" has been crossed out. Grainy footage, shot clandestinely, shows a New York City street and the interior of an office. Hoover's narration tells of Harry Sawyer [pseudonym for William Sebold], a naturalized German citizen who became a double-agent after he was approached by the Gestapo (in reality the Abwehr) in 1939. The footage shows Duquesne entering Sawyer's office. Spies talk with Sawyer and give him money and the blueprints to the ship SS America. Duquesne, "the most cautious of them all," looks around the room before removing di...

  13. Ben Shahn poster of a hooded chained man issued to protest Nazi destruction of Lidice

    Poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information as a response to the Nazi-led annihilation and destruction of communities throughout the Czech Republic, including Lidice. It also protests the retaliatory measures taken for the attempted assassination by Czech resistance members of Reinhard Heydrich, director of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, under the Nazi occupation.

  14. Henia Lewin photographs

    Contains eight pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs depicting Henia Wisgardisky and her family of Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania.

  15. Selected records from the Reichsforschungsrat (R 26 III)

    Contains records pertaining to Nazi research including racial and medical research, physics, plant genetics, livestock, aviation, pest control, malaria control in Auschwitz, and typhus control in Dachau. Also includes correspondence concerning confiscation of the Bohr Institute, Einstein, waste material from Dachau, forced labor prisoners, status of war prisoners with scientific knowledge, and the budget of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

  16. Oscar Wasyng collection

    Consists of one photograph of Oscar Wasyng's family in Sighet, Romania; one "Amicale des Milices Patriotiques;" four post-liberation photographs of Nazi collaborators; seven identification cards for members of the "Front de L'Independance;" four wartime receipts for money donated to the resistance movement; and one letter regarding Emile Dehin from the Front de L'Independance.

  17. Marguerite Birnbaum collection

    Contains post-war photographs of Marguerite Birnbaum with her parents on the streets of Belgium. Marguerite was hidden child in an abbey in Limbourg with the help of Father Armand Elens; Father Elens' sister, Marie-Josephe Dincq, took 7-8 month old Marguerite and raised her for the next two years until the family was reunited in 1945. Marguerite's parents also survived the war in hiding in Belgium.

  18. Mauthausen liberation photographs

    Contains 11 photographs of the Mauthausen concentration camp post-liberation. Photographs include depictions of survivors and victims.

  19. Natalie Gonenn photographs

    Consists of pre-war photographs of the childhood and extended family of Nechama Rendler, originally of Chełm, Poland; also includes post-war photographs taken at the Templehof displaced persons camp. Nechama and her family spent the war in Siberia.

  20. Dr. Gunnar Vetne survivor photographs

    Consists of six photographs of female concentration camp survivors transferred to Halsingborg, Sweden. The photographs appear to be of three different women in hospital beds and show severe emaciation and malnutrition. They were taken by Dr. Gunnar Vetne, MD, in the spring of 1945.