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  1. Michael Grauman collection

    Contains documents and photographs relating to the Graumann family's pre-war life in Germany and their immigration to the United States. The collection includes passports, identification cards, birth and marriage certificates, certificates of good conduct, Buchenwald release documentation for Erwin Graumann (dated November 16, 1938), and other documents compiled to support the family's emigration efforts.

  2. Yoram (Joram) Bar papers

    Contains one memoir written by Jacques Bar entitled, "Many Like Me," describing the Russian campaign 1941 along with handwritten notes, and the Polish military archives response to Yoram Bar's query regarding antisemitism in the Polish army.

  3. UJA/JDC appeal for relief for Jewish DPs

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Against a background of authentic newsreel footage showing the condition of the remaining survivors, the audience is urged to give to the campaign. The funds will allow these people to immigrate, either to Palestine, or the United States, where they can resettle. The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) executives' appeal to bring DPs from Europe to Palestine or to the USA. Remnants of Warsaw Ghetto ruins, DP survivors, people in rags, walking aimlessly. Concentration ca...

  4. Book

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- German POWs; concentration camp liberation

    1251 J: (mute) Arrested Nazi officers entering car with sign "Securite Militaire." Large group of German POWs. 1251 M: 01:29:16 (sound in French) Liberation of a concentration camp in Germany. People behind barbed wire. Very sick people lying in bunks; emaciated, starved. Bodies lowered into graves. Tattoo on the arm of one inmate.

  6. Ghetto conditions; soup kitchen; eating in street

    Various ghetto scenes: people, including children, eating in muddy and garbage-infested building courtyard. People line up for food at soup kitchen. Woman washes clothes in small tub. Woman sells food from stall heated by charcoal. Child takes food from wired street vendor box.

  7. Thomas Allen papers

    Contains seven documents: two pieces of stationery, one ration card, one magazine clipping, one copy of "Yank" magazine, one copy of "Warweek" newspaper, and one partial 1 scrapbook.

  8. Larry Rebacz collection

    Contains nineteen original letters and postcards written by the Atterman family in Nazi-occupied Poland to their children in the United States, dated 1939-1941.

  9. DPs; German prisoners; VE Day in Paris; German civilians

    VE Day in Wiesbaden, Germany (April 19, 1945). MCUs, long line of Russian displaced persons, marching and carrying Stalin's picture and red flags (with inscription in Russian). Speeches in courtyard (slates indicated date of February 24, 1945), women marching. Bomb damage, town streets, ruins, civilians & military, US military jeeps passing by. Fast aerial shot of road crowded with German prisoners and surrendering Germans, trucks. Railroad damage. 01:06:37 VE Day in Paris. Waving US, British and French flags. MCUs, huge crowd greeting de Gaulle, marching. Aerial shots, strafing in fore...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- De Gaulle in Paris

    1251 TTT: Snipers Panic De Gaulle Reception in Paris, September 11, 1944. Mob cheering. Moving shots of vehicles. German snipers open fire, fire returned by GIs. Crowd panics. People race for shelter. 1251 UUU: 01:15:07 De Gaulle Receives Paris Ovation, August 26, 1944. De Gaulle and his aids approach the Eternal Light. Traveling shots of vast crowds cheering, applauding. Crowd outside Champs Elysee, outside Notre Dame. Sniper fire. Police carrying one of the snipers.

  11. Yugoslavia during liberation: sports; wounded soldiers; parade; Tito

    Reel 1: Partisan sport event in Belgrade stadium. Soccer game at Belgrade Stadium. Crowds in stands. Army guards in FG. Girls' 100 meter race. Injured girl assisted off track. Man congratulates winners. Crowd cheering.Young Yugoslavian soldiers with machine guns in crowd. Young boys selling soft drinks. Girls finishing race. Winner and runner up. Crowds in stands watch boys' 100 meter race. Attendant at grill selling food. Spectators eating. Beginning and finish of race. Crowd singing at half-time. Soccer game in progress. Refugee children marching to river boat for transport to test camp. ...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- street scenes, urban life

    Life in Czechoslovakia, street scenes, urban life. General views of Prague. Vltava River, bridges and towers of Prague. Suburbs, men and women working in the arena of the new Sokol Stadium. VS of modern buildings, Gothic Powder Tower with Community Hall, Old Town wall. Huss statue with Tyn Church in background. Old arcades on the Rathaus Platz. Charles Bridge, statues, people crossing the bridges.

  13. JDC: Relief efforts for Jewish DPs

    Notes from NCJF documentation: "This is the story of 2,500,000 Jews in Europe and Moslem lands on the road to survival." "Against the background of authentic footage showing rescue missions from Europe, Cyprus, Aden, the film shows the importance of aid to the new immigrants. The dramatic effect of the poor living conditions in contrast with the hopefulness of their new life in Israel serves as a powerful message to the audience." Trains with Jewish DPs leaving Germany for Israel (reference to trains leading to concentration camps). People saying goodbye (but many are still left behind afte...

  14. Sephardic Jews

    Documents on the Sepahardim collected by Ernesto Gimenez Caballero. The following notes come from intertitles from the film, restored by NCJF in 1994: The Jews lived in Spain, more or less tolerated, from the time before Christ until March 31, 1492, the date of the national consolidation of Spain. And in this land of "Galud" (Exile), they produced a rich culture for centuries. For this reason Spain, apart from Zion, is the Sephardi's most sentimental homeland. The ancestral home of their most respected ancestors whose descendants are the aristocratic Sephardim--The Jews of the Spanish Homel...

  15. Corpses carried in wagons, piled in shed, buried in pit

    Men load bodies onto wagon, pushing wagon down street by wall; little boy helps. More shots of corpses, loading on wagons. Wagon brought to central, primitive morgue, bodies unloaded. CU of piles of bodies. Line of hand carts with corpses brought to burial ground, bodies put into pit, as religious men look on. Putting layer of paper and dirt on bodies.

  16. Book

  17. Book

  18. Book

  19. Oral history interview with Donald N. Brandin

  20. Oral history interview with Sidonia Bein Weinberger