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  1. Willy Hilse (audio only)

    Willy Hilse, a railroad worker at the Auschwitz train station, describes his work and transport arrivals at Auschwitz, shipments of Jewish property, his postwar difficulties, and his reluctance to speak about his experiences again in the future. This interview was recorded in Germany without image or picture. FILM ID 3634 -- Hilse 1 Hilse describes transport arrivals at Auschwitz, including technical details such as the location of the ramp, train platforms, and the separation of men and women and witnessing the arrival of Hungarian Jews in 1944. He goes on to list the nationalities of Jews...

  2. Charles Ansenberg collection

    Collection of documents, map, clipping, brochures, photographs, envelopes, and negatives acquired by Charles Ansenberg during his service with the American Army in Europe during World War II.

  3. DPs boarding truck with luggage

    Displaced persons boarding truck with luggage. Men kissing. More boarding/luggage.

  4. Sonja Alaimo collection

    Contains a manuscript, unpublished, written by Sonja Alaimo, describing her experiences fleeing Novi Sad in Yugoslavia and being interned on the island of Korcula under Italian occupation. Born Sofia Backman in 1927 to Jakob and Maria Backman, Sonia and her mother fled to Korcula in 1941. Sonia’s father, Jakob, was interned until late 1941 and then also came to Korcula. In 1943, they were then sent to Italy where the family remained until they came to New York in 1947.

  5. Wiesel family collection

    Collection of family photographs documenting Frieda and Louis Wiesel (donor's parents) and their sons Jacques and Irving (donor and his brother) while living in Belgium and Casablanca during World War II.

  6. Touring Germany

    Scenes of the German countryside filmed from a train. 01:00:52 Busy square in the city of Dresden with a church, market and crowds, including the Katholische Hofkirche with an ornate façade and figurative statues and a nearby tower. Along the Elbe River, a boat named "Leipzig" is docked. 01:02:02 Street scenes and a large building. 01:02:09 The Cologne cathedral with the Rhine River in the BG. Boat tour along the Rhine, Nazi flag waves from the boat, castles and architectural ruins among the cliffs. Quick view of a boat labeled "Bayonne" passing by on its way to or from France. Sights inclu...

  7. UFA Anschluss footage

    Case XI, Ministries-Keppler, "German Entry into Austria" (UFA Newsreel), Vienna, Austria, 1938. German Narration: "UFA Heldengedenktag" Ceremonies to honor war dead. Large wreaths laid. CU Goering lays wreath for Hitler at soldier's memorial. CU, iron cross on banner. Goering delivers address. View of St. Stephen's cathedral; Vienna; cheering and saluting crowds; waving kerchiefs, kids clinging to statue; crowds. Animated map shows Austria joined to Germany: "ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer." Various shots of Nazis taking over towns; German soldiers cross the border to enthusiastic welcome...

  8. Crematorium tag

    Consists of one cylindrical clay disc of the type which were attached to deceased prisoners' bodies during cremation to easily identify the ashes. Though the original origins of this disc, numbered 8745, are unknown, such discs were used at Theresienstadt, Sachsenhausen, Majdanek, and similar discs were also discovered at Belzec.

  9. Oral history interview with Herbert Meyer

  10. de Jong family testimonies

    Photocopies of two declarations made by the donor’s parents, Joseph and Celina de Jong, originally of Amsterdam, at the Rijksinstitut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (present-day NIOD), describing their experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, and their arrest and deportation to concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. Donation includes English translations of the Dutch texts, created by the donor.

  11. Selected records related to the history of the Jewish communities of the Lʹviv region

    The collection includes records of the history of Jews and the Jewish communities in the region of L'viv before World War II. Most of the collection contains records of the Council of the Jewish Community, the Board of Trustees of the School District in L'viv, regional schools, the publishing houses and literary magazines. Included are correspondence with local and government authorities, and other documents of the Jewish Community relating to Jewish businesses (the Soap Factory and other), probate court cases, decrees of inheritance, Jewish organizations (e.g. Serce Żydowskie, Agudas Jesch...

  12. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

    Jacket belonging to Chaim Smitskovitz from the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  13. Sketch

  14. Viktor Venouziou Archive, Jewish Community of Kavala, Greece

    Archives collected by the President of the Jewish Community of Kavala, Victor Venouziou. Contain a collection of photographs of Jewish old gravestones, an alphabetical guide to gravestones with personal data about persons who were buried in Kavala (Excel database), and a historical essay about burial places for Jews in Kavala.

  15. Drucker family papers

    Consists of correspondence sent to Max Sukman in Chicago, IL, primarily from the Drucker family, his wife Adele's family, in Berlin, Tarnów, Poland, and Ljubljana. Also includes five envelopes. Letters: Ascher Jonas Drucker in Berlin, on June 26, 1938 Israel Drucker in Tarnow, July 14, 1938 Ascher Jonas Drucker in Berlin, on October 24, 1938 Israel Drucker in Tarnow, January 7, 1939 Ascher Jonas Drucker in Berlin, on January 21, 1939 Mina Mandel ? in Tarnow, December 27, 1940 Ester Drucker in Berlin, on June 6, 1941 Postcard: Ruth Drucker in Lubljana, Italy (today Slovenia), September 4, 1941

  16. Watercolor of Auschwitz painted by a Polish Jewish artist after the Holocaust

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn618170
    • English
    • 1955-1980
    • overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 24.375 inches (61.913 cm) pictorial area: Height: 15.875 inches (40.323 cm) | Width: 21.875 inches (55.563 cm)

    Watercolor painting of Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland painted by Holocaust survivor Fred Veston in Albuquerque, New Mexico after his immigration in 1955. Fred was a jeweler who lived in Kraków, Poland, with his wife and two daughters, when Germany invaded on September 1, 1939. Within a week, Kraków was occupied and the Germans initiated immediate measures aimed at persecuting the Jews of the city. They took Fred’s store, the family’s apartment, and their valuables. The Germans began searching for Fred after learning he dealt in Jewish jewelry. Fred’s neighbor, a Ca...

  18. Stefan Kowalinski letter

    A letter written by Stefan Kowalinski in Gross Rosen concentration camp is addressed to his wife Marie Kowalinski and their family, dated May 7, 1944. The letter thanks Marie for the package she sent him and inquires about other acquaintances.

  19. Hermansdörfer family papers

    The Hermansdörfer family papers consist of correspondence relating to the efforts of Jennie Hermansdörfer Bieber and her daughters Sophie Acker and Dorothy Nomberg to bring the Hermansdörfer family from Łąka, Poland (Luka, Ukraine) to the United States before the Holocaust. Correspondence includes letters of support from Adra Day, Elise Gilman, and Philip Acker to the American Consulate in Warsaw; a letter from Leon Hermansdörfer to the Acker family; a rejection letter from the Consulate; and a postwar letter from a cousin in Poland indicating that none of the Hermansdörfer family survived ...

  20. Ha Shomer Hazair in Poland, Galicia (RG-2-1) השומר הצעיר בפולין, גליציה

    Contains records of the Histadrut (trade union of Jewish workers) of the Hashomer Hatzair in Galicia, includes census data of movement members, name lists of candidates for the "Youth Aliya", a diary of "Shalhevet" group (branch "Vilna") in the years 1924-1935, census data of graduated members of the movement according to the regions: Baranovichi, Białystok, Grodno, Włoclawek; records of the Central leadership in Warsaw in 1935: forms of referendum and circulars, minutes of meetings of the Chief Council, correspondence of the Central leadership in Lviv with its branches (kenim).