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  1. Oral history interview with Paula Ruthling

  2. Oral history interview with Marianne Schwarz

  3. Oral history interview with Charles Rotmil

  4. "The story of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob"

  5. Oral history interview with Adele Strummer

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Arrival of Romanian Jewish refugees in Palestine

    Arrival of 600 Romanian Jewish refugees (liberated by Russians) near Haifa [coming from concentration camp in Trans-Dniestrie]. LS ship docked. 05:21:27 MS refugees wave handkerchiefs. Authorities go aboard. LS ship with soldiers carryng arms; ambulances in FG. Unloading baggage with Commandant Morgan, Sea Transport Naval Officer, in FG. 05:22:35 Refugees exit ship down gangplank; elderly, mothers with children. 05:25:08 Filled baggage wagon passes in front of ship. Young refugees dance the "Hora" on the bridge of the ship. Refugees pass crowded train and board another. Arrival of train in ...

  8. Pin made in the Łódź ghetto

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Cemetery in Łódź; dead honored

    October 18, 1947: Polish authorities at funeral of American soldiers in a Catholic Polish church. Clergy, US military, people on pews in church. 03:01:17 Coffin with American flag over it. Religious ceremony, including American Ambassador Stanton Griffis, Mr. and Mrs. Crocker, and Edward Raymond, Agricultural Attache at the Embassy. 03:02:14 American soldiers salute. Polish soldiers and Polish flag. Wreaths carried out. Clergy leave. 03:03:19 Putting wreaths in hearse. Polish officers shaking hands with American officers. 03:04:16 Military procession, coffin on road in Warsaw. 03:05:15 Nove...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Clearing ruins/rubble of Warsaw

    LS ruins of Warsaw. In FG, Polish cart. 06:01:56 German prisoners of war clearing the ruins of the Ghetto. 06:04:10 German prisoners of war working on future tram line which will cross the ex-Ghetto as a prolongation of the main street of Warsaw. 06:05:13 A detachment of the garrison of Warsaw marching among ruined houses with shovels on their shoulders. 06:09:06 In FG, civilians working among rubbish. Soldiers marching and singing. Soldiers loading lorries with rubble. LS at sunset, ruins of highest concrete building in Warsaw. 06:09:27 Men and women clearing the ruins of Warsaw.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Einstein speaking in California

    Einstein outside at microphone speaking from notes, hair blowing, big crowd, California

  12. Postcard from the Theresienstadt Ghetto

    Postcard sent from Theresienstadt Ghetto to Basel, Switzerland, during World War II. Inscribed on both sides; recto, address on right side; return address upper left corner: "Ms. Elli Schachiau/Theresienstadt" [writing partially illegible].

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees; Jewish shelter; London, England

    Jewish shelter on Mansell Street, Whitechapel, London, England. Permanent institution for helping poor Jews, housing approximately 120 refugees (mostly Austrian). Dining hall, crowded, free meals. Adolph and Sarah Michaelson, the Superintendant and Matron of the shelter from about 1912 until 1940, appear in this sequence (Adolph is the gentleman with the mustache standing at 04:00:05 and at right at 04:00:26. Sarah wears a lace collar in the doorway at 04:01:31. Their daughter, Esther (known as Elsie, b. 1915), is the third serving person in a white coat who comes into the dining room at 04...

  14. Kobrinski and Chrystowska family photograph collection

    Consists of pre-World War II photographs of the Kobrinski family of Wilno (Vilna), Poland, and of the Chrystowska family of Pabianice, Poland. Many of those pictured perished during the Holocaust. Also includes one displaced persons identification card issued by the IRO (International Refugee Organization) in Austria to Emanuel Kobrynski on September 29, 1948.

  15. Michael V. Roth photographs

    The Michael V. Roth photograph collection consists of photographs of relating to the Holocaust experiences of Michael (Miklos) Roth of Ricse, Hungary. The pre-war photographs include photographs of children in Ricse, Hungary, Michael Roth as a child, and members of the Roth family. The post-war photographs include the exterior of the Kloster Indersdorf children’s home and a group of children at the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp. There are also photographs of a group of people in New York City in 1955.

  16. Burdowski family photographs

    Consists of mainly pre-war photographs of members of the Burdowski family, originally of Klodava, Poland, in various group portraits; includes photographs of David, Moshe, and Hersch Burdowski.

  17. Leon Leserkiewicz photographs

    Consists of a photoprint of the Leserkiewicz family, originally of Kraków, Poland, and photographs of post-war exhumations, taken by Anthony Simone, a member of the 8th Armored Division. Leon Leserkiewicz [donor] has listed the members of the Leserkiewicz family; only the donor and his brother Viktor survived the war.

  18. Josef Zlatkin identification card

    The identification card was issued to Josef Zlatkin from the Selfaid of the Jewish Former Concentration Camp Inmates Upper Austria in Linz, Austria. The card has a red upside-down triangle on the front and the serial #458.

  19. Susan Grosser papers

    The papers consist of a summons ("Borladung") from the state police ("Staatspolizei") in Vienna, Austria, issued to Karl Grosser donor's father and the envelope that held the summons.

  20. Ernst Rothstein affidavit letter

    The letter concerns an affidavit of support for Ernst Rothstein, a victim in a concentration camp, and was written to Hertha Shickler by a member of the firm Bendix, Luitweiler & Co.