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  1. Jewish Legions gramophone record

    Jewish Legions gramophone record with recording of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and John H. Patterson on the subject of Jewish battalions; New York. John Patterson (1867-1947) commander of the "Zion Mule Corps" and later commander of the "38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers" was a lifelong supporter of the Zionist Movement. After his military service he maintained friendships with his battalion colleagues, including Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who became his close friend. In 1940, while Jabotinsky was in the United States on a mission of the New Zionist Organization, Patterson was there as well, and they took ...

  4. Selected records of the County Starosty in Pińczów Starostwo Powiatowe w Pińczowie (Sygn. 732)

    Pre-war records related to Jews in the county of Pińczów, including are layouts of estates, certificates of citizenship, court verdicts, and recruitment to the army.

  5. Mayerson family papers

    The Mayerson family papers consist of identification and immigration papers documenting the family of Polish Holocaust survivors Jose and Felicia Mayerson and their migration from Zeilsheim Displaced Persons Camp, to France, Bolivia, and Chile.

  6. German military power on display at Nuremberg stadium

    Parteitag 1936 (Nazi Party Congress) in Nuremberg in September 1936. Nazi soldiers with armbands march up a narrow street. Crowd gathers for the events, numerous large Nazi banners, marching band, WWI vet with still camera. Street views. SS soldiers run beside stadium decorated with swastika flags. Hitler youth, crowds and military fill the stadium. Hitler, Goebbels, other Nazi officials converse on the podium. Hitler is introduced, and begins his speech to the troops in neat rows on the field. 05:34 CUs, Nazi officials in the stands. Pan of stadium grounds with spectators, grandstand, Nazi...

  7. Sammlung Benjamin Murmelstein (P151)

    Personal papers of Benjamin Murmelstein and his family: correspondence, official reports and documents from the Jewish Community Vienna, family photographs, articles and manuscripts written by Benjamin Murmelstein.

  8. Fundraising poster depicting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Poster and mailing tube created as a fundraiser for the Committee for the Ghetto Memorial Museum in Montreal circa 1960. The poster features an imagined scene of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Christo Stefanoff.

  9. Hanff Family Papers

    Contains passports, a marriage license, and other documents concerning the experiences of Kurt Hanff and Frieda Hirschfeld Hanff, who were married in 1936 in Berlin, before fleeing to Shanghai, China and eventually to the United States.

  10. Striped prisoner pants worn by a concentration camp inmate

    Prisoner trousers worn by Laszlo Nussbaum while an inmate of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps from May 1944-May 1945.

  11. Greta and Fred Burg papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Manfred (Fred) and Greta (née Neumann) Burg, both originally from Vienna, Austria, who separately fled Europe to Sosúa, Dominican Republic during World War II. The collection includes letters to Fred in England and Sosúa from his family in Vienna and Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine); two immigration documents regarding Fred’s attempts to bring his mother and brother to Sosúa; Greta’s birth certificate and naturalization certificate; and photographs of the Burg and Neumann families, including depictions of family life in the Dominican Republic.

  12. Norbert Krasnosielski photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting Norbert Krasnosielski and his experiences while serving with the Polish Army and Russian Army during WWII.

  13. French Campaign

    Luftwaffe pilots, Paris, Red Cross nurse, officers, overflight, airfield (color film), Fieseler Storch, military cemetery

  14. Guggenheim and Goldman families collection

    Collection of photographs depicting Erna Guggenheim (donor's mother), born December 22, 1917 in Hamburg, Germany, with her family and friends, during activities in "Kadima Blau-Weiss" Zionist Youth movement, and family vacations; wedding photographs of Erna and Moshe Martin Goldman, born May 14, 1914 in Dessau; Erna and Moshe met in the youth movement but Moshe immigrated to Palestine in 1933; Erna and her mother Rosa Guggenheim immigrated to Palestine in 1935 after the death of Theodor Guggenheim in 1934; Erna and Moshe married in 1935 in Tel Aviv in "Palatin Hotel."

  15. Nazi officials dining; January 1940 document

    People descend stairs of stone building, the Berglandschaft in the Tatra mountains, a place for high-ranking German officers during the Nazi occupation. Pan up to Nazi flag. Women and children enter through a door. Nazi officials drink beer and eat in a large dining room with patterned curtains. 01:08:39 CU, handwritten document 2749-PS signed by Heinrich Himmler dated 28 January 1940. 01:08:44 Frank and two other men (possibly Bühler to the left and Dr. Karl Lasch to the right) in civilian clothes eat dinner in same dining room. Quick shot of spire (possibly the Kressendorf castle).

  16. German soldiers in Karelia and Lapland

    Winter, soldiers, sauna, patrol, dead man on sledge, motorcycle in snow, lake, wounded man on stretcher.

  17. Oral history interview with Ruth Kohner

  18. 93 Infantry Division private films

    93rd Infantry Division. People, horses, gun scenes, French prisoners of war. Short sequence in color: grooming horses in a stream.

  19. Oral history interview with Hanna Green

  20. David and Dora Ruskin collection

    Collection of materials documenting the experiences of David and Dora Ruskin (donor’s parents) and their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes a manuscript entitled “The Journey Home” by Michael Ruskin about his his parents experiences during 1939-1945 during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe, Kaunas, Lithuania and the Kovno ghetto; post-war documents from the International Red Cross; marriage certificates; copy of a certificate of incarceration; and certificates from the International Refugee Organization Displaced Persons Professional Testing Board and the Central Committee of Li...