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  1. Hélène Cantkier Goldflus collection

    Photographs, ration card, tickets, ship’s passenger list and menus, school composition notebooks, related to the experience of the Cantkier family, of Paris, France, from the years following the immigration of the Cantkier’s from Poland to France in 1930, until their postwar immigration to Canada. The photographs include images of Natan and Taube (Therese) Cantkier from their wedding, a copy print image of Taube’s parents (original photo was from 1899), photographs of Natan and Taube’s children in France, and pictures of Helene with family and friends in postwar France. Documents include va...

  2. Henrietta Rosenzweig Kestenbaum photographs

    Consists of four pre-war photographs of Maximillian and Aranka Gluck Rosenzweig, and their children, Henrietta and George, of Kezmarok, Czechoslovakia. Includes portraits and also a photograph of a child's birthday party.

  3. Ruth Lisak Call photographs

    Consists of two photographs of Ruth Lisak as a child, posing with her parents in a park in Brussels, Belgium. Her father, Maurice Lisak, perished in Auschwitz, and her mother, Esther Lisak, in Bergen-Belsen. Ruth survived the war as a hidden child in a convent in Belgium.

  4. Strzemieszyce Wielkie photographs

    Consists of four pre-war photographs taken in Strzemieszyce Wielkie, Poland. Includes a photograph of the Hashomer Hadati Zionist youth group.

  5. Coenraad Rood collection

    Consists of photographs taken in the Staphorst Rouveen labor camp, in the Netherlands in the summer of 1942; also contains photographs of Elisabeth Rood-Kooperberf and Coenraad Rood, including a wedding photograph from their marriage in 1940; also includes postcards written in 1942 from Coenraad Rood to Elisabeth Rood letting her know his whereabouts.

  6. Silberman-Rachkauskas family photographs

    Consists of eight pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Silberman and Rachkauskas families. Chone and Beila Silberman Rachkauskas, originally from Telšiai, Lithuania, fled from Kaunas to Frunze (Bishkek), Kyrgyzstan. They remained there until April 1946, when they returned to Lithuania. None of the Silberman family, with the exception of Beila, survived the war.

  7. Georg Kalisz papers

    Consists of 11 photocopies of documents regarding the wartime experiences of Georg Kalisz. Mr. Kalisz was born in the women's camp of Auschwitz, sometime at the beginning of September 1944. In the documents, the Museum in Oswiȩcim verifies that he was born not before August 1944 and his tattoo (which was administered to his left thigh) (199784) was issued between September 20th-25th, 1944. The International Tracing Service verifies only that he remained in the women's camp until liberation in late January 1945. He does not know his mother's name. The documents also show that it is likely t...

  8. Nicole Rose collection

    Consists of a photographic postcard written from the Pithiviers concentration camp, 1941, by Wulf Salomon Finkielsztejn; a photograph of prisoners in the Pithiviers concentration camp, 1942, including Wulf Salomon Finkielsztejn; and one copyprint depicting Kopel Kaufman in a concentration camp uniform clutching a bowl. This copyprint is of a recreated scene in a concentration camp.

  9. Anka Warszawska photographs

    Collection consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs taken in Kazimierz, Kokandre, Druskianiki, and Warsaw, Poland.

  10. Beniek Klugman photograph

    Consists of portrait of Beniek Klugman, son of Shabtai Klugman and Leosia Rozen Klugman.

  11. Rubin Wagner photographs

    Consists of pre-war photographs of the family of Rubin Wajner (now Wagner), originally of Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) and post-war photographs taken in the Heidenheim displaced persons camp. Many of the copyprints are duplicates of the photographs.

  12. Nowy Dwór photograph

    Consists of a photograph of a fifth anniversary commemoration of the destruction of the Jewish community in Nowy Dwór, Poland. The photograph depicts a large group of people holding a banner and was taken in the Pocking, Germany, displaced persons camp.

  13. "Surviving the Death March" memoir

    Consists of a memoir, 15 pages, relating Sam Silberberg's memories of a death march, between the Blechhammer concentration camp and the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, that took place in late January 1945. Mr. Silberberg managed to escape the death march after one week and reunited with his mother, who was hiding in Neisse, Germany (Nysa, Poland), as an Aryan. His father, who was also on the march from Blechhammer, perished before reaching Gross-Rosen.

  14. Training film for German sharpshooters

    First title slate: "Oberkommando Des Heeres Chef des Ausbildungswesens im Ersatzheer Abteilung Lehrfilm in Zusammenarbeit mit Generalstab des Heeres Ausbildungsabteilung zeigt: Lehrfilm Nr. 468 hergestellt Fruehjahr 1944" "Scharfschuetze im Einsatz" [Sharpshooters in action] Next slate: "Die im Film gezeigten Entfernungen entsprechen zum Teil nicht der Wirklichkeit. Sie sind durch film technische Notwendigkeiten bedingt." [warning that some scenes in the film are recreations]. Title slate: "Die Unsichtbare Waffe" [The Invisible Weapon]. An obviously staged scene of soldiers in a forest sett...

  15. Felicia Carmelly papers

    Consists of Felicia Steigman Carmelly's drafts and notes from her research on the history of Transnistria during the Holocaust. She includes a detailed account of her own wartime experiences. Includes two drafts of "After 50 Years of Silence: Transnistria Remembered," and two drafts of "Shattered! 50 Years of Silence: Voices from Romania and Transnistria," both by Felicia Steigman Carmelly.

  16. Aaron Shapiro liberation photographs

    Consists of 20 contact prints of photographs from the collection of Aaron Shapiro, taken upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Mr. Shapiro is pictured in a number of these photographs.

  17. Twentieth Century Fox version, Reel 5: 20th July bomb plot; Hitler's 55th birthday

    Reel 5 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. (The order of this reel is slightly different that the version shown in the Nuremberg courtroom - see RG-60.2465). Title: "1944" "Conference after Hitler's escape from the bombing plot 20 July 1944." Hitler with Mussolini and others at the Fuehrerhauptquartier (FHQ). Mussolini leans out of a train window and speaks to Hitler. Goering, Funk, Sauckel, Speer, Dr. Sauer, Lammers, Himmler, Goebbels, Guderian, Fegelein, Bormann, Jodl are all present. The narrator notes that Goebbels was ...

  18. Chateau La Hille photograph

    Consists of a photograph taken at the Chateau La Hille children's home. The photograph was probably taken in 1940 and depicts young adults eating at a table outdoors.

  19. "My Life-Story": Ruth Marks memoir

    Consists of memoir, 66 pages, entitled "My Life-Story," by Ruth Marks (Roma Glowinski). Originally from Kalisz, Poland, Ruth spent the war in hiding as Vislava (Viesha) Serafinska in Pruszków, Poland. Her parents and sister were deported from the Sandomierz ghetto in 1942 and perished in Belzec. Ruth Marks emigrated to Israel in 1947.

  20. "My Escape and Survival during the Nazi Occupation of Yugoslavia"

    Consists of memoir, 48 pages, entitled "My Escape and Survival during the Nazi Occupation of Yugoslavia," by Henrietta Mayer-Juhn. In the memoir, she describes her experiences during the years 1939-1942 regarding her family's escape from Yugoslavia, including her memories of her husband's arrest, deportation and of learning of his death in the Jasenovac concentration camp in 1942. She and her daughter, Brankica, went into hiding, escaping the deportations through which she lost the rest of her family.