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  1. Photograph

    Photograph portrait of a man with mustache and closely cropped hair dressed in suit; grey border, adhered to green cardboard backing with printed words: "BUDAPEST/Szekelyes Tarsa/ANDRASSY-UT29" on recto, lower edge; verso bears print: "FIOEK MUETEREM POESTYENBEN/BUDAPEST/Szekelyes Tarsa/ANDRASSY-UT 29 sz./Utanrendelesek/evek mulva is eszkoezoeltetnek./.K.KRZIWANEK.WIEN. [in small print]"

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees to Canada

    Refugees to Canada. Good scenic shots, mountains, trains and wheat fields. 04:31:24 Title: "Great Four-Engine Freights Creep Up the Wilderness Grades" 04:31:28 Train, title: "Twilight" 04:32:00 Title: "Wheat" 04:32:35 Title: "Wheat - Dim Horizons Across Endless Prairie"

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ship en route to South America

    SS Brazil (tendered by the US Maritime Commission to North and South American diplomats, bankers, and businessmen to initiate the "Good Will Service" to South America). On deck playing, in swimming pool, sunbathing. 01:23:16 People sit around table with sailor. 01:23:59 Games. 01:25:24 Standing around pool, diving. 01:26:40 Breckinridge Long, George Messersmith, and other diplomats relaxing on deck, talking. 01:28:35 Practicing a play on Neptune deck. 01:30:39 Fooling around. 01:31:18 Eating, buffet.

  4. Topas family papers

    The Topas family papers include identification documents and photographs relating to George Topas and the Topas family of Warsaw, Poland. The papers include Sura Etta Topas’ Polish passport, 1939-1941; a photostat copy of Sura Etta Topas’ birth certificate; a photostat copy of the marriage certificate of Sura Etta Topas (née Ferszt) and Icek Jakob Topas; and a letter of recommendation for George Topas written by Max B. Harding, Major, 345th Field Artillery Battalion, November 25, 1945. The Topas family photographs include a group photograph of the Topas family and the Goldfarb family, Sura ...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Belgium

    In Ghent, EXT of Castle of the Knights. Monument with statue, cathedral in BG. Church, horse and carriage. 04:11:09 Canal, boat unloading. 04:11:45 Square with Hotel de Ville at St. Niklaas (halfway between Ghent and Antwerp), with wedding procession arriving, crowd outside church, bride proceeds up Town Hall steps. 04:12:11 Pan of riverside to Belgian Congo Line Quay, ship unloading, more ships. 04:13:13 Hotel des Boulevard, outside Gare du Nord, at night time. Neon signs, "Colonies" and "Splendid". 04:14:00 INT, Rotisserie Ardennaise (bar/restaurant). 04:14:50 INT, Malines Cathedral. Brid...

  6. Ray Buch photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs and one copy print of the Mauthausen concentration camp near Vienna, Austria, at the time of liberation. The photographs were compiled by Ray Buch, a sergeant in the United States Army who assisted in overseeing the reburial of victims at Mauthausen after the war.

  7. The memoirs of Tova Klein Sego during World War

    Contains Tova Klein Sego's account of her experiences in Kassa, Hungary, (until 1938 known as Košice, Slovakia) during the Holocaust; her life in the ghetto; her escape to Slovakia where she was reunited with her sister, Margaret; the arrival of her parents and brother, Michael, a few weeks later; their life in hiding in various villages and in the mountains; their liberation by the Russians in February 1945; and their reunion with other members of their immediate family and return to Košice.

  8. NSDAP pin

    National-Sozialisteische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ("N.S.D.A.P.") National Socialist German Workers Party membership pin worn by Nazi SA man.

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Rotterdam - Spring 1939

    703 J: April 20 and 21, 1939. German boats with Nazi flag on the River Maas at Rotterdam, railway bridge in BG. Other boats. 05:43:48 Canal between Dutch houses. Barges at River Maas and liner "Statendam" in BG. Church. 05:44:27 View of Colingselstraat in Rotterdam, the main shopping street. Handing out flyers. Barges in Lloyd harbor with factory and ship in BG (used for taking merchandise from Dutch colonies to small towns). Docks. 05:45:16 Cargo and sacks, unloading boxes. Produce of Dutch East Indies on bale, bamboo canes. 703 O: 05:46:04 Dutch Army in North Brabant, May 1, 1939 statione...

  10. Bracelet found by an American soldier

    Bracelet found by GI during tour of duty.

  11. Pamphlet

    Booklet depicting Nazi atrocites in the former concentration and slave labor camp Dachau.

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Soldiers; Munich Pact

    667 KK: Hilly countryside. 03:32:45 Underground bunker with barbed wire. 03:32:54 Group of soldiers going underground with rifles. 03:33:29 Beds. Removing gear. Shaving, barechested. 03:34:13 Pouring water from large bucket (preparing food?). 03:34:26 Ladder. Switchboard. 03:34:45 Nazi Party Rally. 03:35:24 German horses, tanks, boats, submarines, planes. 667 MM: 03:35:46 Heston Airport with Chamberlain leaving for Munich. Cabinet members at airport. 03:36:44 Plane taking off. 03:37:02 London street scenes, sandbagging. Marines jumping off truck. 03:38:08 Mussolini arriving with Adolf Hitle...

  13. [Magazine]

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Red Cross operations in Switzerland

    International Red Cross (IRC), Central Agency for War Prisoners. Mail arriving (the Agency received 3,000 letters a day from prisoners, refugees, missing persons, or governments and are sorted by object or country). Meeting of the IRC Committee. Etienne Clouzot, head of the IRC secretariat, has his back to the camera. To his left is Rodolphe de Haller, treasurer of the IRC, Lucie Odier, principal of the Home Nursing Service of the Geneva Red Cross, Carl J. Burckhardt, ex-High Commissioner for the League of Nations, Jacques Cheneviere, head of the Central Agency, Max Huber, former President ...

  15. Zelda Deitell memoir

    Contains Zelda Deitell's handwritten memoir, six pages, describing life in Warsaw, Poland, before and after the German invasion; her marriage in December 1939 and move to Otwock, Poland; the help given by a Catholic friend caring for her young daughter and in finding a hiding place for her and her husband;and immigration to the United States in 1949.

  16. Book

  17. Book

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Amsterdam - May 1939

    May 9, 1939: General activity on Muntz Plein, in the center of Amsterdam. Trams, bicycles, busy. Sailors. Policeman directing traffic. 05:34:44 View of square, street scenes. 05:35:26 Cases unloaded from barges on the River Amstel. Barges. More materials unloaded. 05:37:37 View of canal, tour boat, Dutch houses in BG. 05:38:12 Policeman directing traffic. Boat unloading. 05:39:09 Sailing boats at dusk, going down canal. Amsterdam station. People entering. 05:39:30 April 18, 1939: View of Kalverstraat, the main shopping street of Amsterdam. People getting on trams, street scenes, shop window...

  19. Loeb family papers

    The Loeb family papers consists of materials relating to the emigration of Olga Loeb and her son, Hans Otto Loeb, aboard the MS St. Louis. The papers contain telegrams, telegram receipts, correspondence from family members, a document relating to identity papers for Hans Otto Loeb, menus from the MS St. Louis, and an untitled poem written aboard the MS St. Louis. The collection also includes Loeb family photographs and photographs of Hans with classmates from the Jüdische Anlernwerkstatt, a Jewish vocational school, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The Loeb family papers consists of material...

  20. Book