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  1. Unused Star of David badge

    Unused Star of David badge with Jude for Jew of the type that the Jewish population of German speaking countries was required to wear during the Holocaust.

  2. Upper Silesia

    Occupation, Freikorps, Images, posters, film

  3. John Bogdan papers

    The John Bogdan papers consist of identification documents, passports, and about biographical documents about the life and career of John Bogdan (born Iancu Berman), originally of Bucharest, Romania. The collection includes certificates documenting Bogdan’s work as a Jewish forced laborer for the Romanian National Railway during the regime of Ion Antonescu from 1941-1944, his post-war career working in the Romanian ministry of commerce, his later work as an administrator for the Jewish Federation of Romania, and his immigration to the United States in 1980.

  4. Life in German-occupied Paris; Wehrmacht

    A Saturday in Paris, drive along the Seine, Wehrmacht art exhibition

  5. Erntedanktag Parade; Hairstyles; Carnival

    KODAK. Titles: “Allerlei vom Tage” “Erntedanktag.” A military parade with a marching band, a flag bearer carrying a Nazi flag, and women dressed in traditional German garb. Various floats in this festival for the “Erntedanktag,” an official holiday in Germany celebrating the harvest. "Frisuren 1938" Mannequins displaying 1938 hairstyles. Carnival rides at the fairgrounds. Man reading newspaper.

  6. Kaplan family photograph

    Contains a studio portrait of Chaim Aron Kaplan (on left wearing bow tie and glasses) [donor's paternal great uncle], Sarah Kaplan Trobovich [donor's paternal great aunt, half-sister of Chaim and Harry], and Harry Kaplan [donor's paternal grandfather and brother of Chaim]; dated 1921; Brooklyn, NY.

  7. Collection of manuscripts Zbiór rękopisów (Sygn. 205)

    The collection contains memoirs, manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, clippings documenting the experiences of Poles and Polish Jews who lived in Poland during the German occupation in World War II. Includes the memoir of Tadeusz Hilarowicz about the Nusbaum-Hilarowicz family, the memoir of Bronislaw Maul-Hochber about his life and fate in Warsaw, 1906-1945, a portrait of Rabi Rabin Załman Boruchowski from Łożnia, materials concerning masonic lodges in Warsaw (the Jewish masonic lodge B'nai B'rith), 1799-1936, and various memoirs and essays relating to participation in the resistance move...

  8. UNRRA selected records AG-018-006 : Balkan Mission and Middle East Office.

    Selected records of the Albania Mission, Bureau of Relief Services, 1944-46: correspondence, registration cards, statistics, policy and procedures, repatriation, and tracing and inquiry forms and other records relating to displaced persons, Albanian Prisoners of War, Albanians employed during the war, forced labors and deportees; Records of the Bureau of Requirements and Supply-Greek Relief Series-Joint Relief Commission 1944-1949: reports on medical supplies, food and care; Records of the Bureau of Finance and Administration-Central Registry Series, 1944-1949: correspondence, and intellige...

  9. Trip to Kaunas with Abraham Resnick

  10. "My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant"

    "My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant" by Dr. Rudolph (Rudy Keimowitz) is a 19 page manuscript. The manuscript includes information about Henry Keimowitz's childhood in Hungary, time in the Hungarian Army during World War I, capture and imprisonment by the Harlem Hellfighters during the Battle of Verdun, experience as a POW in France, and his illegal immigration to the United States as a stowaway around 1922. He married and started a family in the United States, and, during World War II, was investigated as an enemy al...

  11. Roza Schwartz collection

    Contains a British Zone PWX/DP registration/identity card for Roza Schwartz, and modern copy prints of corpses at concentration camps.

  12. Romanian troops in Czechoslovakia

    Romanian troops parade on the outskirts of the city of Humpolec. Man plays the cymbals next to a drummer. Local Czech children in traditional folk outfits walk through the streets in front of a marching band. 06:57 CU of two Romanian officers, one tips his hat. More soldiers in a field, they salute as officials walk by. One addresses the crowd from a platform with flags. They salute and march and the band plays. 08:00 glimpse of a cameraman. CU, official. Military parade, ceremony. Automobiles drive away.

  13. Blima Sicherman papers

    Contains documents concerning Blima Sicherman, born in Breslau, Germany [present-day Wroclaw, Poland] in 1905. Includes a Polish postwar passport issued in the Czech Republic and documents for vaccination, immigration documents, and translations attesting to Blima's internment in the Auschwitz concentration camp and then "Brnenc" [Brunnlitz] concentration camp, where she survived due to the actions of Oskar Schindler. From there, Blima went to Sweden and immigrated to the United States. Her husband, Oskar Sicherman and children [names unknown] did not survive the Holocaust.

  14. Book, Missals et Vesperals

    Missal given to Jacques Lajbman by Father Philippe Laurent Cleeremans (1878-1944) while he was in hiding in the Belgian village of Tourinnes-St. Lambert.

  15. Officer with family; Assault gun in the snow

    Occupied France, life in Paris, market, newspaper dated May 8, 1942: "German Submarines in the Mississippi"

  16. Sport at Messerschmitt factory; Luftwaffe

    AGFA 1940. Company group marches in step in Regensburg at the Messerschmitt aircraft factories. In the outdoor swimming pool with diving platform. Company group marches in column on sports field. Physical exercises. Outdoor pool: young woman with swimming cap swims. Teenagers take a shower. Jump off the one-meter board. "Kraft durch Freude" [Strength through Joy]. 06:00 Luftwaffe officer (black and white)

  17. Berger, Flescher and Tepper families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs, photo albums, passports and certificates documenting the experiences of the Berger and Flescher families during the Holocaust era. Hella Berger fled Germany to the US in 1938 with her two sisters. Sam Flescher fled Vienna after the Anschluss to Holland, and was able to get a visa to the US. He joined the US Army in 1942. His brother Henry, survived multiple concentration camps. The brothers were reunited in September 1945 when Sam returned to Europe as a member of the occupied forces. Includes Nazi propaganda publications that Lester Tep...

  18. UNRRA selected records AG-018-037 : South West Pacific Area Office (SWPAO)

    Selected files of the UNRRA Headquarters Office-Subject Files: Mainly files on the displaced persons and war relief matters.

  19. Hungary & Yugoslavia

    Private film of the Batschka region in Hungary and Serbia

  20. German troops

    Mountain troops