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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Yugoslavia: theatre performance

    Reel 5: Dancers performing on stage at National Opera Theater for the production of "Prince Igor."

  2. Yugoslavia: theatre; ancient ruins; wreath-laying; riverside; factory

    Reel 2: Dancers performing on stage. Yugoslavian Army officers walking toward Avala Memorial; walking up stairway; officers saluting the Tomb of Yugoslavian Unknown Soldier; US Ambassador Richard C. Patterson, military and navel attaches, walking up stairway to terrace; Patterson carrying wreath, entering tomb; shaking hands and talking with Yugoslavian soldiers and peasant girl near the memorial. Belgrade: scenes include the meeting of the Sava and Danube Rivers, bridge destroyed by the Germans and Zemun Bridge used for foot traffic. Pan across concrete bridge destroyed by the Germans; dam...

  3. Yugoslavian Partisan collection

    The collection consists of certificates, identification papers, medical records, photographs, medals, and guns relating to the experiences of Dudo Montiljo, Vladimir Carin, and Dr. Lavoslav Kadelburg with Yugoslavian partisans during World War II.

  4. Yuliy Yamin photograph collection

    The photograph collection consists of two black and white photographs taken in Belarus. One photograph depicts a woman and three children in a kitchen. The remaining photograph depicts a boy in Minsk, Belarus.

  5. Yves Masson collection

    Group of black and white photographs: 26 mounted on two album pages and 2 loose photographs. Three photo reproductions from newspapers. Photographic prints: two pages, possibly removed from photograph album, bearing 26 captioned images, post-liberation in concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald, taken by Pierre Jean Louis Masson (donor's father) who was part of Red Cross (in France) attached to American 3rd Army. Five loose 5 x 7 black and white images, two depicting stacked corpses in Buchenwald and three are photographic reproductions of vintage newspaper articles, in French, also depic...

  6. Yvette Farnoux collection

    Consists of clippings from Le Combat newspaper of an article written by Yvette Baumann Bernard Farnoux with a cover page in Yvette's handwriting and an English translation of the article. There are also copy prints of Yvette and her family during the war, as well as post-liberation, when she reunited with her second cousin Rene Bine, Jr, MD (the donor's father) in Paris in 1945.

  7. Yvette Farnoux collection

    Consists of copies of two letters, in English. Dr. René Bine, Jr wrote the first letter to his parents, René Bine, Sr., MD and Alma Bine, in San Francisco after visiting his relative, Yvette Baumann Bernard Farnoux, and her family in Paris in September 1945. In the letter, he describes Yvette's experiences as a high-ranking member of the French Resistance, her activities in the French underground, her arrest, and her experiences in Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and a forced labor camp near Dresden. She was given the rank of Captain in the Reserves as an honor after her return from the camps. Yvet...

  8. Yvonne Kohen Bourla correspondence

    Contains a letter sent by Yvonne Kohen Bourla (donor’s grandmother) in Istanbul to her cousin Estherina Scaloni in Salonika, Greece, dated April 9, 1942; Estherina’s reply on verso dated June 10, 1942. The letter is written on Vatican Embassy paper, which Yvonne Bourla was able to use courtesy of Julia Foskolo, a Catholic woman who was taking care of Yvonne's daughters.

  9. Yvonne Rothschild Redgis and Gertrude Fraenkel (Fränkel) family collection

    The collection consists of pins, an audiotape, documents, memoirs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Yvonne Rothschild Klug and her family before and during the Holocaust in France, until she was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, and after the Holocaust when she emigrated to the United States as well as correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gertrude Fraenkel and her family before and during the Holocaust in France and Poland and her postwar emigration to the United States. Collection also includes a portrait of Yvonne Redgis (Rothschi...

  10. Z. Grinberg speech

    Contains a translated transcript of a speech given by Z. Grinberg at the "Concert in St. Ottilien" on May 27, 1945. Grinberg was the "head doctor of the hospital for political ex-prisoners in Germany at the liberation."

  11. Zachariasz family photographs

    The collection consists of four photographs of Judit Popinski (born Judyta Zachariasz) and her family while in the Łódź ghetto, Poland.

  12. Zachary Gruzin collection

    The collection consists of a photographic postcard and a photograph of Zachary, Edward, and Charles Gruzin and their mother, Dora Gruzin in Kovno, Lithuania, a pass issued to Zachary Gruzin authorizing him to return to Lithuania from Landsberg, Germany, and a cloth prisoner identification badge embroidered with 13268.

  13. Zahava Stessel collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Zahava Stessel during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. Zaiband family collection

    Oral history interview with Morris Zaiband. Oral history interview with Ruth Finder Zaiband and Morris Zaiband.

  15. Zaifman family photograph

    Framed portrait of the Zaifman family from Łódź, Poland. Sigmond Zaifman is standing in the rear to the right of his sister. Inscriped on verso of the frame: "Zaifman family from Łódź, Poland/Victims of the Holocaust's 'ethnic cleansing'/Ziggy Zaifman, right rear, survived."

  16. Zajaczkowska family collection

    Collection of photographs and documents, with photographs depicting Basia Rubinstein Zajaczkowska (donor's mother) in Solberga, Sweden where she was recuperating after surviving the Kielce ghetto, Pionki forced labor camp and Ravensbrück concentration camp. Documents include two telegrams, one of them regarding the house in Kielce, sent to the New Palestine DP camp in Austria and the other sent to Sweden notifying Basia that her brother, Leon Zajaczkowski, in a Polish Army camp, and that her husband is in Italy. It also includes pre and post war photographs, vaccination cards, baggage claim...

  17. Zajonc family collection

    THe collection consists of a suitcase from Hinda Zajonc (Hilda Kreuzer in the United States), photos of liberation of Dachau and Dachau postcard in red photo holder, and copies of documents related to Zelda Zajonc (Sophie Morris in the United States).

  18. Zalc family collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of the Zalc family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  19. Zalcberg family collection

    Consists of documents and photographs relating to the post-war experiences of Morris, Regina, and Chana Zalcberg. This includes emigration documentation from the Feldafing Displaced Persons camp, a photograph of the family, and six audiotapes of the oral testimony of Morris Zalcberg, recorded in 1981, who was in the Polish army before the war.

  20. Zalcgendler-Caspary family collection

    The collection consists of archival materials and three-dimensional objects related to Abram Zalcgendler's donor's father and Ruth Caspary's [donor's mother] emigration to Shanghai, China, from Europe during the Holocaust