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  1. Bernard John Sobczak collection

    Work ID card: "Werk-Ausweis Nr. 58 662" in metal frame, issued to Bernhard Sobczak, born on August 3, 1924; issued by Gerhard Feissler Werke; Kassel; November 4, 1944; Camp Lohfeldden.

  2. Studienbuch (student book)

    Consists of a "Studienbuch" (studies book) issued to Dagobert de Levie by the vice-chancellor of the University of Köln in Germany. Contains courses studied, grades, and signatures of professors. Photograph of student attached to inside front cover. According to the donor, he was, later in life, the University's only American lifetime "Ehrensenator" (honor senator).

  3. Konig and Bressler families collection

    Contains letters, photographs, and other documents related to the König and Bressler family from Pasieczna and Nadwórna, Poland; includes two letters, one written by Chana, searching for her brother Max and the other recommendation letter from US officer, dated June 24, 1946. Also includes documents and photographs; related to Chaim Nieswiecki (donor’s step-father), who was born in Baranowicze, Poland (now Baranavichy, Belarus) on March 23, 1911, including letters written by the Koenigl family in Pasieczna and Nadworna to their son and brother Max in the USA 1933-1938; false documents issue...

  4. Selected records related to evacuation from the State Archive of the Republic of Mari El, Russian Federation

    Contains various records and correspondence files created by the Soviet Government and Communist Party authorities related to the evacuation of civilians to the Republic Mari El during WWII. It includes lists of evacuees, statistical data, information about food and medical supplies etc provided by the above-named authorities to the evacuated population.

  5. Refugee girls at the de Monbrison chateau in France

    Refugee girls living at a chateau owned by Count Hubert Conquere de Monbrison in Quincy-sous-Senart, located about 30 km south of Paris. De Monbrison and the Princess Irena Paley (a niece of the last Russian czar who later became Monbrison's wife) used the chateau to house refugee girls from the Russian and Spanish civil wars. In 1939 de Monbrison was approached by his children's Jewish physician, who was a member of the board of the OSE, and asked whether he would take in a group of forty German Jewish refugee children. The count agreed and the Kindertransport of boys arrived on July 4, 19...

  6. Lola Fuchs and Leon Mazliach papers

    Contains documents and photographs illustrating the post-war experiences of Lola Fuchs [Fuks], born in Szydlowiec, Poland and deported to slave labor and concentration camps including Skarzysko Kamienna, Częstochowa, Bergau, Bergen-Belsen, and Allach; and Leon Mazliach [Masliach], born in Saloniki, Greece and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau-Muehldor. The couple met and married after the Holocaust in the Feldafing displaced persons' camp, and later immigrated to the United States

  7. Goebbels and "Der Angriff"

    Printing press of "Der Angriff." Goebbels speaks (silent) with flag and SA in trucks through streets with election posters.

  8. Verdoner family at the beach in Zandvoort

    Verdoner family on summer holdiay in Zandvoort, Holland, a beach resort town near Haarlem. VS, Yoka and Francisca digging in the sand with their mother and father. Playing in the sand with other children, also older children.

  9. Phillip Drell collection

    Publications and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Philip Drell [donor], sergeant attached to the Special Motion Picture Coverage Unit, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force from June 6, 1944 to May 8, 1945. Collection includes a series of publications and newspapers circa 1930s and 1940s [list below]; letter written by donor from Paris, dated May 15, 1945, addressed to his “Folks” describing in brief detail seeing the newly liberated concentration camp Dachau in Germany; hand-inscribed note asking Parisian photography to develop and process donor’s film for news med...

  10. Jewish family and vacation life in Reichenbach

    Pan, city square with shops: "Gustav Böhm", possibly Wroclaw. Snowing. Clocktower (12:28pm). End 01:00:24 01:00:29 Side view, a woman walks towards the camera with a boy (possibly Helene Fleischer and grandchild Johannes) passing their home in the mountains. Snow. 01:01:07 INT, Else Weyl in a patterned shirt looking at a catalog. [VQ: film is scratched]. She smiles and waves for the camera. 01:01:18 INT, Eric Weyl reading a magazine in the same room, he lights a cigarette. End 01:01:28 01:01:32 Two men and a woman stand around an automobile with license plate "IK-78126 - D". The man with su...

  11. Monument and synagogue in Warsaw

    Monument in city. CU and LSs of street scenes with pedestrians, traffic, trams. Tram passes another building (synagogue?), slow pan up building, crowds exit.

  12. World Union OSE-Paris Union Mondiale OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants)

    Contains administration files of the OSE Main Office Paris. Records relate mainly to the organization activities after World War II, and include: memorandums, correspondence, financial statements and budgets, lists of children treated by the OSE in Belgium, 1945-46, publications and pamphlets from other organizations, OSE newsletters, and audit reports from various countries.

  13. Selected records from the State Archives of the Public Organizations of Ukraine (TsDAGO) (Fond 263)

    Selected records of the of extrajudicial criminal cases, tried by so-called " troika" without public and fair trials during the time of the Stalinist repressions. All defendants were rehabilitated by the Soviet legal system in 1950s-1990s. This collection includes records of criminal investigations (arrest warrants, interrogations, cross-interrogations, indictments, etc) and trials of the Soviet Jews, largely residents of Kiev and Kiev region, accused of various political crimes, such as alleged anti-Soviet activities ( e.g. espionage. participation in the terrorist organizations etc), memb...

  14. Dancing; young people relaxing by the river in swimsuits

    INTs, dancing couples including Győrgy at 01:26 (could be postwar 1945 or 1946). 01:28 Outdoors by the river (prewar summer), includes Bandi Kardos who perished in Holocaust. A man photographs a young woman lying on a boat. A different couple lounges in the grass. Woman in bikini puts on makeup as the man continues to photograph her. The group of young friends joke around on the riverside beach, CUs. HAS, they relax in chairs on a pier. Film ends 03:02

  15. Presentation by Rhoda Kuflik

  16. Medical kit

  17. Socialist Youth parade

    Informal shots of Socialist youth parade along cobbled city street; carrying signs: "Heutigen Tag zur wahl zu gehen" ["Go to the polls today."] Parade is mostly children, with some bicyclists alongside the marchers, and at the very end there are a man and a dog. Nice street scene. View down cobblestone street.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- bridges, ships, coal, street scenes

    Reel 47. 100 feet. Shot on quays Usti, of boy [passing barge marked N.D.B.E. Magdeburg]. Shot of name of barge. Five shots of a Dissel tug marked Tabor Praha, sailing on the Elbe, showing countryside. Shot taken at Brensko, the Elbe frontier station, between Czechoslovakia and Germany. Passengers from ferry coming up steps and showing passport to Czech customs officials. Reel 48. 100 feet. VS, taken showing the Tabor steaming up the Elbe, also showing typical Sudeten village on the other side of the river with mountains in background. Also showing large barge used for exports being towed by...

  19. Bomb damage in Germany

    Various aerial shots of bombed military installations and marshalling yards. Bomb damage in Wiesbaden concentration camp. Damaged buildings in Wiesbaden. MLS trainer parked on airfield. Aerial shots of bomb damage in marshalling yards near Wiesbaden and destroyed town, bridge. Prison camp showing refugees in square. Bomb damaged train and buildings along track. Aerial shot of bomb damage in Durkheim, including town, marshalling yards. Bomb damage in Worms, Germany. Shots of bombed bridges in Frankfurt (hazy). Aerial shot of refugees in prison camp. Bomb damage in marshalling yards, building...

  20. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Czech Army

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. SDP funeral; Czech Army.