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Displaying items 19,841 to 19,860 of 55,764
  1. Harry and Clare Lerner papers

    The Harry and Clare Lerner papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, printed materials, reports, memoranda, and subject files documenting Harry Lerner’s work as UNRRA director of Displaced Persons centers in Stuttgart, Hof, Rehau, and Vilseck, Clare’s work alongside him, and their marriage. Biographical materials include assignment and travel orders issued to Harry and Clare Lerner and Clare Lerner’s Occupational Force Travel Permit. Correspondence consists primarily of letters written by Harry and Clare Lerner at the Stuttgart and Vilseck DP centers to Harry’s family descri...

  2. Zaro Calabrese testimony of the liberation of Ohrdruf

    Contains information about the liberation experiences of Zaro Calabrese at Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945.

  3. Edward Benedek collection

    Contains articles, photographs, and various other documents relating to the experiences of Edward Benedek and his wife in Hungary during the Holocaust; their experiences in the ghetto in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944; experiences with antisemitism on a postwar visit to Budapest; and concern about a revival of militaristic nationalism in recently unified Germany.

  4. Erwin Markowitz postcard

    According to Erwin Markowitz, his mother, father, and sister wrote the postcard and mailed it from Nagyberezna, Hungary, in April 1944. He received it while he was a prisoner in a compulsory labor camp called Ujverbas in Transylvania. According to a translation from the Hungarian provided by Mr. Markowitz, the card reads (on one side), "Last time do I write to you. We travel we don't know where. God wanted that way. We say goodbye to you, lots of kisses Sister Sadie"; on other side, "Many Kisses Your Mother followed by illegible translated word" and "Same greetings kisses your father."

  5. Germans in occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 8: 06:10:40 MLS Sheep, boy riding horse ...

  6. Joseph H. Smart papers

    The Joseph H. Smart papers consist of a typed manuscript of his 1991 book Don’t Fence Me In!: Fort Ontario Refugees: How They Won Their Freedom"; a typed manuscript of his 1992 companion volume "The Documents: Friends of Fort Ontario Guest Refugees"; and the original documents that are reproduced in the companion volume. His 1991 book documents his service as the director of the Fort Ontario Emergency Shelter, and his 1992 companion volume comprising copies of the files of the Friends of Fort Ontario Guest Refugees, an organization formed by the Fort Ontario refugees to campaign for their f...

  7. Selected records from the Romanian Ministry of Defense

    Memoranda, lists, charts, maps, correspondence, orders, reports, and other documents relating to Jews in forced labor in Romania; deportations of Jews from Bessarabia and Bukovina to Transnistria (Ukraine); establishment of concentration camps in Transnistria; confiscation of Jewish property; executions of Jews; surveillance of Jews in Transnistria; and Hungarian atrocities in Transylvania.

  8. Records of Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Sygn. 362)

    Contains reports, correspondence, case files, and other materials from the archives of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Amt VII. Included is information about the monitoring of religious groups, churches, political organizations, and other Masonic organizations, as well as of members of the clergy, police, journalists, scholars, and individuals by the Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS. In its totality, the collection reveals much about the interests of Franz A. Six, head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Amt VII. Also included are periodic, special, and situation r...

  9. Records of the Kommandeur der Gendarmerie Lublin (Syg. 156)

    Consists of orders, reports, name lists, and various other documents relating to the activities of the Gendarmerie (rural military police) in and around Lublin, Poland, from 1939 to 1944. Includes information about the structure of the police force; daily orders given to gendarmerie personnel; weapons and ammunition for gendarmerie personnel; cooperation with the SS and Gestapo; living quarters and provisions for gendarmerie personnel; handling of prisoners of war; combatting partisans; and transportation (motor cycles and cars) for gendarmerie personnel.

  10. Joseph Maier collection

    This collection contains sworn testimonies of war criminals tried at Nuremberg, 1945-1946, and various correspondence, memoranda, notes, articles, and clippings relating to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, from circa 1945 to 1946. Also contains the work of Joseph Maier as an interrogator during the trials and a copy of the handwritten confession of Rudolf Hoess concerning the number of Jews killed at Auschwitz concentration camp.

  11. General Antonescu meets with Hitler

    Romanian General Antonescu with Hitler. 05:00:03 MS high contrast Antonescu arrives in car to visit Hitler. INT shot as Hitler rushes across room to greet him. MS, group of 4 men talking including Hitler and Antonescu. Camera follows as they walk over and sit at sofa around table. 05:00:34 Antonescu enters conference room; Hitler at door, they salute, walk to large map on table with other officers including Keitel and von Ribbentrop.

  12. Cabec used by refugees escaping France

    Cabec, a grape harvesting tool, carried by refugees when escaping France. A cabec is a pick that is used to till the soil during grape harvesting. This tool is used only in Cerbere, Port Vendre and Banyuls.

  13. Excerpted pages from the diary of Alton G. Brown concerning Dachau and Munich

    Contains information about the aftermath of World War II in the vicinity of the town of Dachau, Germany, the crematoria in the Dachau concentration camp, the various types of prisoners held at Dachau, and the destruction in Munich, Germany, due to Allied bombing.

  14. UFA Anschluss footage; Parade; Hitler speaks

    Case XI, Ministries-Keppler, "German Entry into Austria", Vienna, Austria, 1938. German Narration. German army motorcade up country hill road, people salute from roadside (wearing swastika). POV car, into Vienna. A procession of cars and trucks enters Vienna. The Nazis are cheered and saluted as they pass public buildings. Crowds, HJ. Civilians parade also, chanting Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer. HAS crowds at city center, German soldiers control crowd, CUs, children wave small Nazi flags. Hitler rides in open car through the streets with Seyss-Inquart in some shots, in other shots Seyss...

  15. Inauguration of Synagogue in Munich

    "Muenchen: Einweihung der Synagoge" Opening of rebuilt synagogue. U.S. General Lucius Clay is present and speaks. A tablet is unveiled in commemoration of Jews who died in Holocaust. LS of rabbi at podium, ark behind him, music playing. MLS from back of room, large audience. CU of General Clay. MS Clay goes to podium. CU of three men in top hats in pew. MS shot of religious officials. LS Clay speaks, "Men of many nations and of many faiths have gathered here today to pay tribute to you and be with you in the opening of your new synagogue." MS of audience. Clay leaves podium and returns to h...

  16. Szmugiel Na Wage Zycia = Smuggle worth the life

    Contains information about Polish history, life in the Warsaw ghetto, the assistance to Jews by non-Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust, and assistance to Jews in escaping from the Warsaw ghetto.

  17. Florian de la Comble collection

    The Florian de la Comble collection consists of a photocopy of a map dictated by M. Jean Simon and drawn by Colonel Florian de la Comble of the route used by Banyuls people to assist refugees into Spain. Also includes three large copyprints of photographs: one of an image from the top of a mountain in the Pyrenees showing a beachfront town below; one of the train station in Banyuls-sur-Mer (undated, possibly 1930s) with the town in the background; and one of the plaza in front of the train station with four people and a horse-drawn cart (undated).

  18. Mutti

    Consists of a photocopy of "Mutti" by Ilse M. Thompson. The memoir is an English-language translation of a German-language diary that Ilse Thompson kept from 1940 to 1946, while living as a German-Jewish refugee in the United Kingdom. Included are Thompson's reactions to news about her mother, who had remained in Germany, and to Holocaust events.

  19. Miriam Mordecai memoir

    Consists of a photocopy of a typescript memoir, which describes how Miriam Mordecai and her family, Greek Jews, survived the Holocaust. She gives credit to gentiles in Greece who helped save members of her family. Also included is information about World War II in Italy and Albania and the deportation of several of Mordecai's relatives to Auschwitz.

  20. Hitler meets Admiral Horthy

    Hitler meets Admiral Horthy of Hungary; German troops in Budapest: MS then CUs. Admiral Horthy disembarks and is met by Hitler and Von Ribbentrop and others. Lots of handshakes. MS Hitler and Horthy walk into conference room. Hungarian foreign minister Sztojay talks to German officer. Hitler and Horthy walk through room greeting others as camera follows. (Handshaking and bowing among uniformed officers.) German troops roll into Budapest as roadside civilians wave and smile. As tanks and equipment move through streets many civilians seem noncommittal. German talks to Hungarian policeman. MS ...