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  1. Claude Zaidenband papers

    Collection of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of Claude Zaidenband and his family at home in Belgium and as refugees in France and Switzerland during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Documents include a poem titled "Espoir!" by Claude’s brother Henri, dated January 1945, and a letter from an association of former Jewish partisans, dated 1950, presumably responding to a request from Claude’s father Natan that he be added to their membership. One 1945 family photograph bears a 1995 inscription on the back.

  2. Large sepia diazo print of Congress Hall in Nuremberg acquired by a US soldier

    Diazotype reproduction of the architectural blueprints for Congress Hall retrieved by 32 year old Colonel Max W. Goodman, a Jewish American soldier, in Nuremberg, Germany, circa May 1945. The monumental building was designed to be the congress center of the Nazi Party Rally Grounds, for which Speer designed the overall plan. Congress Hall was designed by Ludwig and Franz Ruff. The foundation stone was laid in 1935, but the building was never finished due to the outbreak of the war. Max served for five years in the Quartermaster Corps with the Third United States Army under General George S....

  3. Brandstaetter family papers

    Documents pertaining to the family of Salomon and Estera Brandstaetter, originally of Brzesko and Będzin, Poland. Includes birth certificates for Salomon (issued in Brzesko 1936) and Estera (issued in Będzin, 1980), school certificates for Salomon (1931 and 1935), a ketubah, documenting the wedding of Salomon and Estera in Lwów, Poland (12 April 1940), an envelope that formerly contained a letter (not extant), sent by Salamon’s mother, Malka Brandstaetter to her brother, Arnold, in New York (1941), a certificate issued by the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community in Munich, attesting to the v...

  4. United Jewish Appeal officials visit to Israel, circa 1948

    Interior shots of fabric factory machinery and workers. United Jewish Appeal officials tour the facility, inspect fabric produced, and converse with factory workers. Julian Venezky appears at 01:00:46. UJA men, including Venezky and Sidney Green (?), exit the factory. Some of the officials are women. Point of view shot from interior of a moving car, passing by a checkpoint with a sign in Hebrew. The cars drive past a fenced area, probably a camp for new immigrants. Pedestrians smile at the car. UJA officials, now out of their cars, talk to people on the street. The camera pans down to revea...

  5. Handkerchief received as a Hannukah present

    Handkerchief given to Ilse Meyer as a Hannukah present while at Rotterdam Kloster.

  6. Eisenhower at Ohrdruf; liberated prisoners with radio

    04:31:58 (LIB 5416) General Dwight D. Eisenhower Visits Atrocities Concentration Camp at Ohrdruf, Germany, April 12, 1945. MSs, CUs, Eisenhower looks at dead bodies, GIs standing in BG. Former prisoner (survivor) with scarf talking to officers. CUs, dead bodies of prisoners. MSs, Gens Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. leave camp. MSs, CUs, US soldiers look at dead bodies of camp victims. 04:32:37 (LIB 5562) Liberated Yanks, Russians, and British, Duderstadt, Germany, April 10, 1945. CUs small radio built by one of the prisoners. CU, one of the liberated men cook...

  7. German surrender; Dachau; Rundstedt captured; Landsberg

    (LIB 6263) Surrender of German Army Group, Haar, Germany, May 5, 1945. INTs, German officers meet with Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, CG, Seventh Army; Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, CG, Sixth Army; Lt. Gen. Wade H Haislip, CG, XIII Corps; Maj. Gen. John W. O'Daniel to sign surrender agreement. German delegation includes Lt. Gen. Foertsch, CG, First German Army. EXTs, US Generals shaking hands and congratulating one another. 08:04:16 (LIB 6171) Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, May 1, 1945. MS, CUs, naked bodies of emaciated camp prisoners who had died after their liberation. 08:05:25 (LIB 6179)...

  8. San Francisco conference

    Reel 1: April 25, 1945 and June 26, 1945. Jan Christian Smuts, V. Molotov, Sec. Stettinius, and other delegates to the UN conference deplane and detrain in San Francisco. Shows US war casualties and flags flying at half-mast on Roosevelt's death. President Truman addresses conference delegates via radio. Secretary Stettinius confers with Anthony and V. Molotov. Conference delegates register, attend meetings, speak, browse through the San Francisco art gallery, and look at Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings. Charts the UN organization and shows UNRRA supplies being loaded aboard ships.

  9. Anne Heineman-Beer collection

    Collection of documents, receipts, correspondence and other papers relating to the restitution claims of Anne Heineman-Beer (donor's grandmother) and her family's experiences during the Holocaust.

  10. Bonta and Ronay families papers

    Documents the experiences of the Bonta (formerly Rothschild) and Ronay families before, during, and after the war through letters primarily sent between Rose Ronay (nee Gyemant) and her family from the 1930s to the 1950s. Also includes some documents and photos and an English translation of Janós Bonta's memoir, "A Jewish Doctor Recalls the Past," recalling his experiences when he was forced to work as Josef Mengele's assistant at Auschwitz.

  12. District Authority of Vsetín Okresní úřad Vsetín

    Administrative records of Vsetín, a town in the Zlín region. Features records pertaining to cultural and school affairs, including anti-Jewish measures and the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets.

  13. Jolan Moskowitz collection

    Postcard: sent to Iszak Rottstein in Tasnád, Hungary (nowTășnad, Romania) from his cousin Sali (last name illegible), in a forced labor camp at Waldsee. In the card he states that he arrived in good health, gives regards to relatives, and anticipates a reply, A stamp on recto states that the reply must be 30 words, in German, and sent through the Association of Hungarian Jews in Budapest; not dated; in German and Hungarian.

  14. Prayer book

  15. 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.

  16. Star of David window from Velikiy Komjati / Magyarkomjat synagogue

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn676559
    • English
    • a: Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Diameter: 35.375 inches (89.853 cm) b: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) c: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)

    Star of David window from Velikiy Komjati / Magyarkomjat synagogue. The local Jews were rounded up in the synagogue before they were transported to the regional ghetto. They were eventually deported to Auschwitz.

  17. To you all: Merry Christmas WWII Public Utilities Commission broadside

    Broadside, "Keep Calm/Keep Cool/Jitters Help Hitler" on one side, and "To you all: Merry Christmas" on the other side.

  18. Yidisher ṿisnshafṭlekher insṭiṭuṭ YiVO Institute in Wilno (Fond 287)

    Various records related to the activities of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (YiVO) in Wilno (Vilnius), including correspondence with Jewish organizations and private individuals in Poland, Germany, United States, Austria, Latvia and other countries; records related to the activities of various Jewish organizations and political parties (Zukunft, Bund, Po'alei Zion, Keren Kayemet, Keren Hayesod, etc.); copies of Jewish newspapers published in Poland; financial records, and registry for incoming and outgoing correspondence etc.

  19. Hungary & Yugoslavia

    Private film of the Batschka region in Hungary and Serbia

  20. Vienna tourist sites

    UFA logo. Official film of buildings in Vienna, introduced with German titles (this was not filmed by Maexie). Includes shots of St. Stephens Church, Ringstrasse, bustling street scenes, Rathaus, Burgtheater, pedestrians/street scenes, State Opera, traffic, Stadtpark, art/statues, tram, fountains, amusements, and crowds. Ende.