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  1. "In Memory of a Great Man"

    Consists of one memoir, translated from the original French into Spanish and English, entitled "In Memory of a Great Man," written by Dr. Boleslaw Ratniewski. Dr Ratniewski, originally of Poland, received a medical degree in France in 1930. He was mobilized into the Polish Army after the German invasion in 1939. In 1941, he was captured by the German Army, escaped from a POW camp, and joined the resistance. Dr. Rainiewski joined the Russian army in 1943, and was transferred to the Polish army in 1944. After the war, he resumed work in a hospital in Poland until his immigration to Mexico in ...

  2. "In the Light of the Memories: The Story of Willy and Orah Bogler"

    Consists of an English-language translation of the Hebrew manuscript "In the Light of the Memories: The Story of Willy and Orah Bogler", originally written and edited by Vered Shakhaf-Golan in 2007. The manuscript describes the history of the Bogler family, originally of Cieszyn, Poland, focusing on Willy and Orah Bogler, who spent the Holocaust in Russia and later immigrated to Israel. The book was translated (save for the last two chapters) by Dalia Frieder, the niece of the Boglers, in 2008. The Hebrew book is available both in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library, and a c...

  3. "Incurably insane"

    Located in an institution for the incurably insane. Shows the "insane" who must be restrained and artificially fed, unaware of their surroundings, incapable of useful work. 'The sins of the fathers are visited on their children. Innocent themselves, broken in body and spirit, a burden to themselves and others!' Individuals with bizarre, typically disturbed movements are shown. Three children tied to their beds 'for the duration of their lives.' 01:05:12 Title in large letters: "Soll es so weitergehen?" [Should it continue this way?] 01:05:40 "Nein! Nein! Niemals!" [No! No! Never!] Three fur...

  4. "Incurably insane"

    A Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"]. Part 1: Nurses and people coming out of door, various, to camera (similar to opening scene of "Dasein ohne Leben"; uses same scenes). Food serving, eating. Title: "Kuenstlich ernaehrt." "Many must be fed artificially...only a few can do useful work." Men outside sweeping with straw. "Erbliche Fallsucht!" "Schizophrene!" "Idioten" - kept alive. "Besondere Schutzkleidung" [protective clothing]. "Erblich Taubstumm" [...

  5. "Incurably insane"

    A Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"]. Part 2: Racially mixed boy, blond, part negroid. Intertitles: indicating cost to state, mother and son - 26 years; epileptic siblings, cost ____ RM (Reichsmark); two brothers. Titles and close views of various related people. Two girls, twins seen before; one holds up the other's head. Kids outside, grass and blankets. "Bloedes, taubstummes" [imbecile deaf mute] girls. "Taubstumme, schwachsinning" [deaf mute, feeb...

  6. "Inside the Nuremberg trials: a prosecutor's comprehensive account"

    Contains drafts of the preface and several chapters from a proposed book by Drexel A.Sprecher, based on his experiences serving with the Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

  7. "Into the No Man's Land"

    Consists of one memoir, 133 pages, entitled "Into the No Man's Land," by Irene Miller, originally of Warsaw, Poland. In the memoir, she recalls her Holocaust experiences when, as a child, she and her family escaped from Warsaw and were told that they would be taken over the border into the Soviet Union. In reality, their possessions were stolen and they were abandoned in no man's land on the border with other Jews who were unable to enter the Soviet Union. Irene, her father Srulik Miller, and sister Halina were able to escape into the Soviet Union, but her mother, Bella Miller, had to pose ...

  8. "Israel Meyer and Mollie Lesin: From Birth in Lithuania to a New Life in America"

    Consists of one book containing a printed copy of a PowerPoint presentation prepared by Dr. Benjamin Lesin entitled "Israel Meyer and Mollie Lesin: From Birth in Lithuania to a New Life in America." The presentation contains family history, photographs, and documents regarding the family of Rabbi Israel Meyer Lesin and his wife, Malke (Mollie) Glatt Lesin, originally of Naumiestis, Lithuania. Rabbi Lesin and Malke Glatt left Lithuania in 1939 and traveled to Switzerland, where they married and Rabbi Lesin worked at a yeshiva as they tried to obtain visas to emigrate to the United States. Fi...

  9. "J'étais une juive allemande: Histoire de Senta Luzie, née en 1926, à Talheim"

    Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, entitled "J'étais une juive allemande: Histoire de Senta Luzie, née en 1926, à Talheim", by Senta Luzie Manesse Victorovich, originally of Talheim, Germany. Orphaned as a child, Senta was deported with her sister and grandmother to the Gurs concentration camp in 1940. She and her sister managed to escape the camp and were hidden for a time before Senta joined a group of Austrian Communist resisters in Lyon, France, with whom she worked until the end of the war. The collection includes a full translation of the memoir into English by Roger Langsdorf.

  10. "Jablonka Family History, 1941-1945"

    Consists of one manuscript, 56 pages, entitled "Jablonka Family History, 1941-1945" by Philip Zion. The Jablonkas were Polish Jews who immigrated to France in 1929. In 1941, Boruch Jablonka was imprisoned in Pithiviers and was eventually deported to Auschwitz, where he perished. His wife, Helen, and children, Paulette, Rachel, and Raymond, were eventually able to escape into Spain and subsequently to the United States; Paulette and Raymond in 1943 and Helen and Rachel in 1945. Includes copies of photographs and documents. Also includes one DVD-ROM oral history interview with Helen Jablonka,...

  11. "Janina's Story" memoir

    An autobiographical memoir by Janina Spinner Mehlberg, edited by Dr. Arthur Layton Funk; the memoir includes photocopies of photographs of Janina Mehlberg and her husband Henry. The testimony describes the experiences of Mehlberg and her husband as refugees in hiding in Lublin, Poland, during the Holocaust and their involvement with an underground movement to assist the prisoners of Majdanek.

  12. "Jew on the Run: Marion's Story"

    Consists of one binder, entitled "Jew on the Run: Marion's Story," written by Melysa Wilson as part of an Adopt-a-Survivor project. Ms. Wilson interviewed Marion Lewin, originally Malka Pasternak of Wyzsogród, Poland, and describes her experiences posing as a non-Jew and escaping imprisonment. Malka, one of nine children, lost her parents and five siblings in the Holocaust.

  13. "Jewish congregation of Damboritz in the years of 1870-1900"

    Contains an article entitled "Jewish congregation of Damboritz in the years of 1870-1900" by MUDr. Adolf Huber; translated by Fred and Leon Deutsch.

  14. "Jewish Prisoners of the Concentration Camp 'Red Cross'"

    Consists of one manuscript, 41 pages, entitled "Jewish Prisoners of the Concentration Camp "Red Cross", written by Zoran Milentijević in Niš, Yugoslavia, in 1978. The manuscript, which is an English language translation, describes the history of the Jewish families of Niš, life in the "Red Cross" concentration camp, an escape from the camp on February 12, 1942, and the mass murder of those who remained in the concentration camp. Includes copies of photographs and documents as well as footnotes and a list of names of the Jews of Niš.

  15. "Jews & Freemasons Out" sign on Fasching parade float

    Amateur footage of 1939 Fasching (pre-Lent carnival) celebration. 01:08:25 Float marked "Fernsehsender." (TV) CU, float in parade with antisemitic and anti-Freemason slogan reading "Juden und Freimauerer Hand in Hand Nun zieh'n sie ins gelobte Land..." [Jews and Freemasons, hand in hand, go off (migrate) to the promised land.] Two views: 01:10:29 - 01:10:36 and 01:13:13 - 01:13:18.

  16. “Joden en vreemdelingen”.

    Dit bestand is cruciaal voor wat de reconstructie van de Jodenvervolging in de regio Antwerpen betreft. Het bevat hoofdzakelijk uitgaande en ingekomen briefwisseling van gouverneur Jan Grauls en zijn kabinet, met onder andere de verschillende gemeentebesturen in het arrondissement Antwerpen, de Feldkommandantur 675, de Feldkommandantur 520 en diverse organisaties (vb. het Rode Kruis), over onderwerpen zoals: het opstellen van de ‘vreemdelingenlijsten’ (o.a. lijsten met Joodse inwoners van diverse nationaliteiten), de uitwijzingsbevelen voor Joden, de Jodenverordeningen, de uitsluiting van J...

  17. "Jodenkliek" anti-Semitic propaganda leaflet

    "Jodenkliek" anti-Semitic propaganda leaflet; "Yankee - Engelsman - Blosjewwiek / Dansen naar de pijpen / van de / Jodenkliek" [The Yankee, the Englishman & the Bloschevist - all dance according the flute of teh Jewish Clique] intended to be thrown from airplanes.

  18. "Jossele"

    Consists of an English language, bound, copy, 433 pages, of "Jossele" by Princess Alexandra de Beauharnais, of Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France, written in 1948. Accompanying documentation (publishers onesheet, and handwritten letter) suggest that this copy is the Princess' own. The title and author are hand-painted on the front of the book, and the book is dedicated to Joseph Wajncweld "in affectionate memory of those days of suspense in 1943." The publishers onesheet writes that the Princess opened her home to the children of Beaulieu, and that she hid Jewish families and children seeking to esca...

  19. "Journal of Hungarian Jews" Magyar Zsidók Lapja [Newspapers]

    A Jewish weekly newspaper "A Magyar Zsidók Lapja" issued in Budapest, Hungary, 1939-1944.

  20. "Journey Over Glass"

    Personal recollection of Kristallnacht in Berlin, Germany, printed in the Chicago Tribune, Sunday magazine.