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  1. Agro-Joint colony of Politodielec

    Electrical lines leading to an electrical water pump. LS of water pouring from a pipe. CU of pipe and water pouring into irrigation channel. Pan over cotton field, CU of cotton plants.

  2. Evelyn Levin papers

    The papers consist of documents concerning two ships, the President Warfield and the City of Lowell. Included are documents and other correspondence between Louis Levin, Evelyn Levin's husband, representing the Potomac Shipwrecking Company from October 18, 1946, and the Chinese American Industrial Company, purchasers of the aforementioned ships. The bill of sale for the President Warfield (later known as the Exodus) is also part the collection as is an inventory from the U.S. Maritime Commission delivered to the Potomac Shipwrecking Company. Also included are additional correspondence from ...

  4. Guta Jean Kryger papers

    The papers consist of documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to Guta Jean Kryger's experiences during the Holocaust and her claims for restitution after her immigration to Canada.

  5. Watercolor

    Watercolor on paper depiction of a royal figure in a suit of armor and a cape, and holding a sword.

  6. Selected records of state security investigations of Hungarian war criminals (ABTL)

    Contains records of interrogations of suspected war criminals by the investigative branch of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Hungarian Police State Protection Department (Magyar Államrendőrség Államvédelmi Osztálya, ÁVO), and later by the independent Agency for State Security State Protection Authority, (Államvédelmi Hatóság, ÁVH), primarily confessions and witness testimonies.

  7. Records of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Political Department (MOL K 63)

    The collection contains selected records relating to Hungarian foreign relations and policies. Includes reports submitted in 1944 by Hungarian diplomatic missions in Arad (Oradea), Bucharest, and Brasov (Brassó) in Romania to the Foreign Ministry in Budapest about incidents concerning Jews; a speech of the priest Áron Márton at St. Michael's Church, May 1944, condemned the prepared deportation of Romanian and Hungarian Jews; also contains Hungarian German press article and clippings.

  8. Records of the Hungarian Prime Minister's Office: Bureau of Exemptions (MOL K 466)

    Under German occupation in Hungary, in 1944, Regent Miklos Horthy established an office to exempt prominent Jews from particular measures such as wearing the yellow star, ghettoization, or deportation. This collection contains lists of people eligible for exemption status and individuals applying for this status.

  9. Dunson family at Christian mission; church; children playing in the park

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. MCU, two gentlemen in suits pose in front of a parked car. VS, men in suits, women and children on streets, walking, talking, playing, etc. MS, panning shot- high angle of church pews, some people are seated in the church. MCU, church choir in robes, posing for group portrait on steps of building. VS, children playing together and playing with a puppy. VS, children with a teacher on a school playground. Older children, in park, also elderly people seated on ...

  10. Agro-Joint colonies of October and Maifeld

    LS of two-story houses at Kolkhoz (colony) October. Pan of grape vineyards in the Maifeld colony. CU of leaves and grapes. MCU Morris Troper with an older man who works with the grapes. Field of Agro-Joint experimental agricultural station. CU of some workers. LS poorly framed shot of new high school.

  11. Emily Bordin papers

    The papers consist of a death certificate and two photographs that document the experiences of Emilie Bordin who was purportedly killed in 1940 in the Sonnenstein über Pirna Institute in Germany, which practiced euthanasia during World War II.

  12. Cesia Ritter papers

    The papers consist of 53 photographs of Cesia Ritter (née Honig) as a child before World War II and post-war photograph of her rescuers; an employment certificate for her father Naftali Honig in "Deutsche Dachpappenfabrik - Papapol" in Tarnow, Poland, in 1942; and identification card for Cesia Honig issued by ORT in Anvers, Belgium, in 1947; a copy of a letter written to Cesia's uncle in Palestine after the war; and a newspaper article from the New York Post on August 31, 1987.

  13. Łódź ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note

    Scrip with a receipt value of 50 cents issued in 1940 in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans following their invasion and occupation of Poland in September 1939. When the Germans transferred Jews to the ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for scrip that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] of the Łódź ghetto, and includes traditional Jewish symbols.

  14. Freikorps troops in Munich after the Spartacist uprising.

    Government, Freikorps, and Stahlhelm troops march along the streets of Munich after crushing the Spartacist uprising. Crowds of people line the street to watch. An armored car drives down the street; soldiers unload muntitions from horse-drawn wagons; a long line of soldiers and wagons march through an archway. The next scenes show various buildings, riddled with bullet holes and otherwise damaged by fighting.

  15. Partially embroidered tablecloth made by a Belgian Jewish woman recovered postwar

    White tablecloth partially embroidered by Salomea Fejnman Poler circa 1940-41, in Anderlecht, Belgium, and recovered by David Poler, her father-in-law, after the war. The persecution of Jewish persons in Belgium by German authorities after the May 1940 invasion, made it extremely difficult for Salomea, 33, to care for her five children, ages ten to two: Jeannine, Lilian, Rosette, Fanny, and Abraham. Salomea sought safe hiding place for them, and Abraham was placed with Catholic priests and the girls in a convent. In September 1942, Salomea was sent to Mechelen (Malines) transit camp and the...

  16. German soldiers advance by boat

    A small fleet of German boats crossing a sea. Panning shot of German soldiers fanned out across a field, crossing a fence. The German soldiers enter and search through several different country houses. Several boats crossing Lake Ladoga in northwest Russia. Panning shot of a row of portable outboard motors (used in rubber raft-like boats-see end of reel for example). German soldiers getting into a small boat. Two opposing shots of German soldiers signaling each other with spotlights. Short clip of a rubber boat using one of the outboard motors.

  17. Barbie Trial -- Day 11 -- Witnesses testify

    The President of the Circuit Court, André Cerdini, enters and the session begins. Witnesses are called from the viewing public and brought out of the court room to a separate chamber. One witness is not present as a result of travel complications. The session is temporarily suspended as the witnesses exit. 13:44:42 The President enters and the session restarts. The first witness, André Frossard, is called. He describes the conditions within the "Jewish Barracks" at Montluc, the meaning of the alleged crimes against humanity, and his personal relationship with Barbie. Frossard says that he n...

  18. Münzer family papers

    The Münzer family papers consist of photographs and documents relating to the Holocaust experiences of the Münzer family. The photographs include pre-war photographs of the Münzer family in the Netherlands, Alfred Münzer’s brit milah, Mary Madna performing in an operetta by Fritz Hirsch, the Fritz Hirsch Company performing an operetta, and two colorized portraits of Eva and Liane Münzer. The Red Cross documentation describes the fate of Simche Münzer and Eva Münzer. Simche Münzer died on July 25, 1945 shortly after his liberation from the Ebensee concentration camp. Eva Münzer perished at t...

  19. "Kehilot Salish"

    Consists of one book, 76 pages, entitled "Kehilot Salish." The book contains a description of the Jewish community of Salish (a.k.a. Nagyszolos, Hungary or Vinogradov, Ukraine), and its destruction in the Holocaust.