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  1. Frima Laub papers

    The Frima Laub papers consist of photographs of Frima Gleiser (later Frima Laub) taken in 1945 and 1947. Four of the photographs were taken at the Schlüpfing displaced persons camp in Bavaria, Germany and shows Frima with an unidentified friend. Also included is a poster featuring a photograph of Frima and announcing a performance sponsored by the Association of Jewish Women in Havana, Cuba, in 1949.

  2. Betty Weissberger Lauer papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Betty Lauer (born Berta Weissberger), originally of Hindenburg (Zabrze, Poland). Consists of an identity card (kennkarte) issued to Krystyna Zotkos, the false identity Betty used in the Generalgouvernement in September 1942. Also included is a document, dated October 5, 1937, confiscating the property of Oskar Weissberger, Betty's father, who was able to immigrate to the United States, and a good conduct certificate for Berta Weissberger dated January 4, 1939. Also includes a story entitled "Friends 1940-1942" written by Betty Lauer in 1...

  3. Overseas visits of UJA Women's Commission

    Featuring Barry Sullivan and Myrtle Kemp. Film intends to tell the story of the work of the UJA through the experiences of American women who went abroad as UJA representatives. Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Barry and Myrtle meet on the studio lot, go to the projection room to view footage and talk. CU, 6 women in Myrtle's group that went abroad representing the Women's Commission of the UJA. Eiffel Tower, scenes at orphanage, eating, drinking, playing. North Africa, clinic in the Mellah. Trachoma and ringworm treatments, school, hot meal in soup kitchen, kindergarten in Casablanca, ...

  4. Yugoslavia: farming; villagers; military vehicles; railroad yards

    Reel 8: Farmer plowing field, women sowing seed; sheep grazing. Man sitting on bench reading newspaper, soldier on crutches, woman resting on steps, street car motorman, woman with child in park. Belgrade Hospital, entrance gates. Man smoking cigar, man with beard, partisan boy soldier saluting, Serbian girl and Roma beggar sitting on walk. Military vehicles, troops and civilians boarding ferry, crossing Danube River and departing ferry. Pan, across destroyed German tanks and guns, destroyed Sava Bridge, railroad yards and town. Railroad yards in Belgrade, locomotives moving down tracks.

  5. Hagana Troops

    Men walking through streets of Jerusalem. Suitcases sign on wall of old city. CUs, woman and her children. Crowd gathered in square. Hagana troops on jeep. CUs, moving villagers on truck, boat. Dead bodies. Aerial shot of buildings. Soldiers on truck with thumbs up. Boys walking towards camera with guns. Weapons moved onto cart. Sandbags block streets. Civilians searched. Hagana officer guards captured Palestinians. Villagers interrogated. Walking with belongings in streets. HAS, city. Civilians walking on streets. Holding portraits. Women with belongings carried on top of their heads. Sold...

  6. Freiburg market and Corpus Christi Day parade

    “MARKET FREIBURG” Sellers and shoppers in the Munsterplatz Market in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. A man looks over goods in a large basket. “CORPUS CHRISTI DAY FREIBURG” Religious procession for Corpus Christi Day. Marching band. Young girls in white dresses wear flower wreaths on their heads. A large reliquary is carried down the street. German bishops, friars, and other clergymen march. Canopy. Marching band, men walking, and flag bearers.

  7. Albert Süsskind collection

    This collection contains a transcript of Albert Süsskind's report and related correspondence to the Australian High Commissioner of the UK on the conditions on board the HMT Dunera, on which internees and prisoners of war were transported to Hay internment camp in New South Wales, Australia, from England in 1940. Süsskind requested an investigation into the material damage and humiliating treatment endured by the internees on board the ship and payment of compensation. Also included is his identity card for commercial travellers.

  8. Emilie Bergmann: correspondence from Otwock ghetto

    This collection consists of correspondence from Emilie Bergmann who was deported to Otwock ghetto, sent to her daughter Käthe in Hamburg and later in England. She describes her life in the ghetto, the scarcity of food and requests for food parcels, her health problems and her longing to be released.Correspondence from Emilie Bergmann, who was deported to Otwock ghetto, sent to her daughter Käthe in Hamburg and later in England.

  9. Schwartzman family postcards

    Contains photocopies of six wartime postcards sent to Uzbekistan, Stalingrad, Novosibirsk, and Gorkii by members of the Schwartzman family, some of whom fought in the Red Army and some of whom were evacuated to Central Asia. Postcards display anti-fascist graphic art typical of World War II.

  10. Deutsche Botschaft Paris

    Geschäftsbetrieb; Besetzung von Präfektenstellen; Kriegsschäden; Kirchenangelegenheiten.

  11. G.H. Plekkringa, 1940-2000

    De heer Plekkringa is geboren op 19 juni 1924 te Leiden. Van september 1939 tot mei 1945 was hij werkzaam in het bedrijfsleven. Daarna trad hij in overheidsdienst, namelijk bij de Politieke Opsporingsdienst Leiden en daarna bij de Politieke Recherche Afdeling Leiden. Ook op maatschappelijk terrein heeft de heer Plekkringa diverse functies bekleed. Zo was hij 20 jaar lang secretaris van de Stichting 1940-1945 van de Afdeling Leiden. Eenmaal werkzaam bij de gemeente Ede, onderzocht de heer Plekkringa, samen met de heer Lagerwij, de gebeurtenissen in de gemeente Ede tijdens de Tweede Wereldoor...

  12. Aranka Fuchsova papers

    This collection contains documents relating to Aranka Fuchsova and her husband Jan (Hanusch) Fuchs.

  14. Районные чрезвычайные государственные комиссии по установлению и расследованию злодеяний и убытков, нанесенных немецко-фашистскими захватчиками во время оккупации - Сарненская, г. Сарны

    Представлены списки еврейских жителей городов и местечек Ровенской обл., пострадавших в период немецкой оккупации, и данные о размере нанесенного им ущерба; показания очевидцев массовых расстрелов еврейского населения, географические координаты мест захоронений, акты вскрытия могил и осмотра трупов. Имеются также сведения о материальном ущербе, нанесенном синагогам, перечень разграбленного имущества и др.

  15. Papers of the Council for the Amelioration of the Legal Position of the Jewess

    Minutes of council meetings, 1922-30; general committee, 1930; and executive committee, 1930-1. Correspondence with organisations and individuals, 1923-46, including the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women, 1919-27; the Board of Deputies, 1920-8; American organisations, 1919- 27; Palestinian organisations, 1922-6; Czechoslovakian organisations, 1924-5; and Balkan organisations, 1925-6; correspondence with Mrs Constance Lesser, 1921-30, and Mrs Henrietta Irwell, 1923-9. Annual reports, 1922-8; off-prints and translations of articles by Miss Hands; posters and corresponde...

  16. Glacier National Park; military parade

    Mountain shots, road, truck, lake. Pans across river/lake, houses on water front. Sign for park. 01:03:05 road, car. Dark shot - possible bear walking around. Military van passes. 01:04:39 sign for Apgar Cabin Camps. Log cabins, American flag. Sign for Lake McDonald Ranger station. Man walks past camera. 01:08:13 "Tom B Moore. W.M. Wayman" title. 3 women leave house. Then woman, man stands staring at camera. Cherries for sale. Sign for Robbinwood. Man and woman picking cherries. 01:10:35 woman taking picture of man in uniform. House shot, American flag, people outside. 01:12:29 Man in unifo...

  17. Archief Gemeente Ezinge, 1932-1989

    Het archief bevat de neerslag van taken en activiteiten van de gemeente Ezinge, 1932-1989. In 1990 is de gemeente Ezinge samen met de gemeenten Adorp en Baflo in de gemeente Winsum opgegaan. Inventarisnummers 1, 34-48 en 49 bevatten respectievelijk notulen van vergaderingen van burgemeester en wethouders (1931-1941), notulen van raadsvergaderingen (1932-1989) en notulen van besloten vergaderingen van de raad (1892-1965). Presentielijsten van raadsvergaderingen (1887-1989) en driemaandelijkse gemeentelijke verslagen (1944-1945) zijn te vinden in de inventarisnummers 50-51 en 54. Onder invent...

  18. Deutsches Konsulat in Czernowitz

    Geschäftsführung; Wirtschaft, Handel, Devisen; Personalangelegenheiten.

  19. Zemaljska komisija za utvrđivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača Hrvatske

    • The state commission for the establishing of the crimes of the occupying forces and their helpers

    Established in 1944, the institution collected data on crimes, perpetutors and their accomplices, the type of crime, place and manner the crime was conducted. Results of its work the Commission forwarded onto the public prosecutor's office. The punishment was determined by the courts at the end of the judicial process, or after the final judgment. On the lower levels there were county, municipal and city commission. In 1947 its work was replaced by the Investigation Department of the Public Prosecutor's Office of People's Republic of Croatia. The material on Jews (9 boxes) contains details ...

  20. Rev. James Burwell Ficklen III papers

    The Rev. James Burwell Ficklen III papers consist of photographs and a letter sent by Ficklen, Chaplain in the United States Army, to his wife relating to the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. The photographs and letter provide details of the camp and descriptions of what he witnessed.