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  1. Emergence of East & West Germany after WWII

    OMGUS censorship slates state that the film has been approved for public screening in the American zone of Germany. Words superimposed across an aerial view of Berlin state that this film is dedicated to the men women and children of Berlin, without whose loyalty it would not be possible to relate the following. Over scenes of the destruction of Berlin and people working among the rubble the narrator says that without an architect, without a plan somehow something new and strong emerged from the ruins in the summer of 1945. Crowds of West Berliners and a shot of SPD representative Franz Neu...

  2. Festive scene in Berlin nightclub ("Casanova")

    Title on screen: "Festive Season in a Berlin Nightclub - The "Casanova" attracts a bright clientele in new city of gaiety." Crowds dancing, holding balloons that say "Casanova" Probably New Year's Eve. Camera pans up to mirrored ceiling, that reflects the scene below. The music ends and the dancers return to their seats. The scene switches to two dancers, a man and a woman, who perform a seductive (Spanish/Gyspy) dance, which includes some tap dancing.

  3. Rabbi David Eliach collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the "Teheran Children," a group of approximately seventy observant children out of a group of 861 Jewish orphans, who were placed in the "Motza" children's agricultural colony under the leadership of David Eliach.

  4. Safe Haven, Inc. collection

    Safe Haven, Inc. conducted the interviews as part of a project documenting the testimonies of refugees from the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, NY.

  5. Louisa J. Hext collection

    Louisa Hext conducted the interviews as research for her thesis at Ohio State University, "Jewish Women's Survival During the Holocaust: Family Kinship and Community Ties."

  6. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of over 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, toys and everyday household items decorated with depiction...

  7. Holocaust Documentation and Education Center collection

    Oral histories from the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center

  8. Professor David Bloch collection

    Archive of Professor David Bloch, musicologist, founder and director of the Terezin Music Memorial Project, and Israeli institute devoted to the documentation and study of music and music making at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia and at other localities under German occupation during the Second World War.

  9. Romanian Roma Survivors Project collection

    Oral history interviews with Romanian Roma survivors

  10. German Christian Resisters collection

    Oral history interviews of the German Christian Resisters collection.

  11. Varian Fry collection

    Oral histories from the Varian Fry collection

  12. Jacky and Lisa Comforty collection

    Oral histories from the Jacky and Lisa Comforty collection

  13. Oral history interviews with Joseph and Lottie Weindling

    Oral history interviews with Joseph and Lottie Weindling

  14. Western Association of Holocaust Survivors, Families and Friends collection

    Oral histories from the Western Association of Holocaust Survivors, Families and Friends collection

  15. Magda Trocmé papers

    The Magda Trocmé papers comprise a letter and a framed photograph. The letter was written by Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig in 1944 in New York after the liberation of France, describes how much Elizabeth misses the Trocmé family, and tells them about her experiences as a recent refugee to the United States. The framed photograph depicts Magda Trocmé's children, Nelly and Jean Pierre, and their dog Fido at the door of the Rectory in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Magda Trocmé described this door as "one that let through many refugees and was never closed."

  17. Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive collection

    Oral history interviews of The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive collection

  18. Sonja Schulmann Schwartz collection

    The collection consists of documents, publications, and a brief case relating to the experiences of Hirsch Schulmann.

  19. Frances W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances W., who was born in Kon?us?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1918, one of eight children. She recalls living in Uz?h?horod; training as a seamstress; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; all her brothers, except the youngest, being drafted into Hungarian slave labor battalions; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation with her parents, sister, sister-in-law, and their children to Auschwitz; separation from her family (she never saw them again); volunteering as a dressmaker; a death march, then train transport to Bergen-Belsen in...

  20. Teatrul Baraşeum and Elly Roman collection

    The Teatrul Baraşeum and Elly Roman collection consists of documents, photographs, and a wooden box documenting Elly Roman’s work with the Teatrul Baraşeum in Bucharest during World War II.