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  1. Dutch Jewish family vacations in France

    The Bed family (Meijer, Kaatje, Henriette Elly (Jetje), and John) leave their home in Amsterdam (?) for a vacation. Windmill from their car. 00:18 Busy street scene in Paris. Bicyclist, cars, streetcar. The Bed family visits Paris landmarks including Sacre Couer and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A group of men wearing exotic military uniforms. John makes faces while standing by a taxi. The Moulin Rouge, including the windmill that sits atop the building. John, Jetje, and Kaatje wave from the sunroof of a car. Street scenes from a moving vehicle. More landmarks and views of the family on ...

  2. Jewish family vacations in southern France

    The Dutch-Jewish Bed family (Meijer, Kaatje, Elly (Jetje) and John) enjoys their vacation in a beach resort town in southern France, probably Juan les Pins. Beachgoers on the sand, under rows of sun umbrellas, and in the water. Jetje and John row a paddleboard/boat. Sand sculpture in the shape of a reclining woman. Sunbathers perform gymnastics. 03:43 Sign that says Hollywood in the BG. Kaatje (in plaid swim dress) walks into the surf while smiling at the camera. Meijer wades in the water. Kaatje rides a bike then sits at an outdoor bar (blurry). WS of a hilltop town. Waterfalls and a strea...

  3. Jewish family visits Switzerland and Italy prewar

    In Switzerland, John and Jetje Bed walk toward the camera from the entrance to the Hotel Gotthard. Passing landscape and a sign reading “Bally” shot from a moving car or train. Views of Lucerne from a ferry. The ferry sails past the Vitznau, Switzerland mountain railway (Rigi Bahn) station. Dog sits on a dock and very steep rocky cliffs. The family exits a train in an (Italian?) town, CUs of each family member as they ride in a horse-drawn carriage. 04:14 John carries a box camera around his neck. John and Jetje play with pigeons in a town square. The family enjoys refreshments at an outdoo...

  4. The Bed family visits Capri and Rome, 1939

    Meijer, Kaatje, Elly (Jetje) and John Bed on vacation. In color, flowers, a house, and the ocean, from high up in the hills of Capri. Jetje, John, Kaatje, and an unidentified little girl hold grapefruits. Capri town square with lots of people. Jetje and John walk toward the camera playing recorders. John on a dock wearing blue shorts, tie and beanie with his camera case around his neck. More scenes of flowers, landscapes. 04:19 In Rome (black and white), landmarks, including the Forum, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Vatican, the Trevi Fountain. 07:45 Dark shots of a column of people march...

  5. Jewish children at Whittingehame Farm School, 1939

    Color scenes of Whittingehame Farm School filmed by an unnamed teacher at the school. Between 1939 and 1941 Viscount Traprain (Robert Balfour, nephew of Lord Balfour, author of the Balfour Declaration) sheltered 160 Jewish children from Austria, Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia as part of the Kinderstransport program. The children lived in the Whittingehame mansion and learned Hebrew and agriculture subjects that would be useful in Palestine, where they were intended to settle after the war. When the school closed in 1941 most of the children were at least 17 and remained in the UK. Some...

  6. J. Herbert Nagler papers

    The J. Herbert Nagler papers consist primarily of letters Nagler wrote to his parents in Philadelphia while he was studying medicine in Berlin, Germany and in Basel and Fribourg, Switzerland. His letters include his impressions of the last years of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi party and Hitler’s assumption of power, the situation of Jews in Germany, and the April 1, 1933 anti-Jewish boycott. The collection also includes an electronic typescript of Nagler’s letters and a digital image of Nagler.

  7. Wasserman family photographs

    Contains three prewar photographs of members of the donor's family in Joniškėlis, Lithuania. Includes one photo dated December 1935 which bears the inscription "Grandma Muzla & Joselsons/All killed except Chaim - upper center." Photos are inscribed in English and Yiddish.

  8. Breisacher family photographs

    The collection consists of three photograph albums documenting the Breisacher family of Breisach am Rhein, Germany. The photographs depict the family's pre-war lives in Breisach am Rhein and their wartime and post-war lives in the United States after emigration from Germany in 1938. Wartime photographs include depictions of Walter Breisacher with the United States Army.

  9. Koplowitz and Shlafer families papers

    Consists of pre- and postwar photographs of Michael and Dina (née Schlafer) Koplowitz and relatives, formerly of Łódź, Poland, as well as documents relating to the couple's experiences while living as displaced persons in Germany and their later immigration to Israel. Included are IRO documents, a copy of Michael Koplowitz's birth certificate, Michael and Dina's marriage certificate, a statement of witnesses attesting to the identity of Dina Koplowitz, a letter in Yiddish, and an Israeli identity document issued to Michael Koplowitz. The collection also includes a photocopy of Dina's sist...

  10. Kriegsberichterstattung: Judenherrschaft in Sovj. Russland

    War coverage in French addressing the Jew in the Soviet Union to illustrate that the war is about the Jews or was fomented by Jews. Bertrand Nicole, the war reporter/correspondent, speaking in French with a German accent, talks to a Russian woman who escaped the Soviet Union with her daughter with just the clothes on their backs, finding refuge in a camp run by the Waffen-SS. The Russian woman barely speaks any French (the interviewer finishes her sentences). The conversation is meant to demonstrate that the Jews are responsible for all of the ills that befall Russian citizens. For example,...

  11. Postcard commemorating the 20th anniversary of a Jewish family’s emigration from Austria

    Postcard commissioned in 1958 commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Aliyah of a group of German Jews arranged by the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary organization in Palestine, with the assistance of leaders of the Revisionist Organization in Vienna. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria and created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. The postcard depicts the route a group of Austrian Jews took to escape the country. The journey began in the town of Arnoldstein, located on the border of Austria and Italy. The town was a frequent waypoint for German and Austrian Jews attemptin...

  12. Heinrich Grüber collection

    Contains a typewritten speech, three pages, hand-signed by theologian and Dachau survivor Heinrich Grüber, dated January 1971, entitled "The Chancellor in Front of the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial," referring to the visit by German Chancellor Willy Brandt to a monument in Warsaw. Also contains two letters written by Grüber.

  13. The Jolly Boys recordings

    Side A: Kabootar (Khatibi) ["La Paloma" by Sebastian de Iradier (c. 1860)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 189. Side B: Yasseman (Fakoor) ["Solamente una vez" by Agustin Lara (1941)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 191. An instrumental recording featuring Polish popular jazz band, "The Jolly Boys," exiled to Iran. The performers include Stanislaw Sperber, Sonia Vartanian, Ghanbary, F. Socolow, and Igo Krischer. The Jewish band found unexpected sanctuary in Tehran, where they had been invited to perform at the future Shah’s wedding party (in the summer of 1939), and where they continued to perform as a group ...

  14. Two songs from the Anders' Army Performing Ensemble

    Songs from the repertoire of the 2 Korpus Polski (Anders' Army) Performing Ensemble. Privately recorded in Rome, Italy, 1945. Side A: Czekam (piosenka dla lotnika) [I am waiting (song for an aviator)] Music: Henryk Wars Words: Ref-Ren (Feliks Konarski) Vocalists: Renata Bogdańska; Filip Ende. Performing ensemble of the 2 Korpus Polski: Wydział Dobrobytu Żołnierza (Polish 2nd Corps, Soldier Welfare Department) Music Director: Henryk Wars Plyta Polska - La voce del padrone (BA-5928 N. 205). Side B: Gdzie Najlepiej (piosenka lwówska) [Where was it best (song about Lwów)] Music: Henryk Wars Wor...

  15. Oral history interview with Gershon Yelin

  16. Rose Goldberg Zarembski papers

    Consists of correspondence written by Rose (Rochel) Goldberg, later Zarembski, to family members in the United States. The letters were authored while Rose was living in a displaced persons camp in Straubing, Germany. Rose was a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, Majdanek, and other camps. Also included are newspapers clippings listing Rose as a Holocaust survivor looking for relatives after the war.

  17. Kriegsberichterstattung: Gespraech mit Oberst Papp

    Decelith Folie D. War report by Berthold. "A conversation with Colonel Papp."

  18. Kriegsberichterstattung: Bomben auf Castel Gandolfo

    Decelith Folie D. War report by Jaegesen? "Bombs on Castel Gandolfo." Castel Gandolfo is the seat of the Papal summer residence in Italy which was respected by the Germans and forbidden to go to. In February 1944, the place was bombed by Anglo-American bomber formations, and more than 500 people were killed.

  19. Joseph Greenblatt family photographs

    Consists of three photographs depicting the sisters of Joseph Greenblatt, formerly Josel Narachinsky (Naruszczynski), who perished in the Holocaust.

  20. Kriegsberichterstattung: Wochenbericht 10.9.1944 - 17.9.1944

    Decelith Folie D. War report by Tank? "Weekly Report" describing Soviet - German fighting at the "Weichsel Bridgehead" from September 10 - 17, 1944. "Fierce fighting in the Vistula bridgehead" ...