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  1. Boxing matches at Neu Freimann

    Boxing matches in the Neu-Freimann DP camp. Quick pans of DPs in audience.

  2. Fondo Silvio Wolf

    Il fondo, in formato digitale, è stato prodotto da Silvio Wolf. Esso documenta le varie fasi della vita di Mojzesz Aron Wolf, padre di Silvio: nato in Polonia nel 1915 ed emigrato in Italia nel 1935. Laureato in Medicina presso la Regia Università di Modena, nel 1941 viene internato nel campo di Ferramonti di Tarsia come ebreo straniero e successivamente trasferito a Casale Monferrato in confino libero. Nel dicembre 1943 Mojzesz Aron Wolf fugge in Svizzera dove esercita come medico in tredici diversi campi profughi. Nel dopoguerra, tornato in Italia, si è stabilito definitivamente a Milano ...

  3. Selected papers of Marcel Nyns

    Contains selected papers of Marcel Nyns and the Secretaires Generaux (Committee of Secretary-generals), the highest representation of the Belgian administration under German occupation. This department was responsible for education, including the implementation of excluding Jews from the educational system under German occupation. Records include correspondence, minutes, and reports relating to the faith of the Jews living in occupied Belgium, especially concerning their education.

  4. Erlich family papers

    Contains a group of photographs, postcards, calling card and document relating to the Erlich family in Kutno, Warsaw and Bedzin and Ida Kowal (donor) in Palestine.

  5. American soldiers in Paris; Louvre Palace

    From left to right: Hymie Green, his older sister Zelda Blatt (wife of Julius Blatt) and their mother Ada Green. Zelda wearing a fur coat speaks. Large ship with steam rising from its two funnels. Pans right along the dock. Hill with various buildings. Views of the sea from a boat. 01:20:33 Julius and friend talking and laughing along the edge of the boat. Julius lifts a cigar to his mouth. Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in front of the Louvre Palace. A young girl in winter clothing leans on a stroller. A bearded man sits on a bench in the garden feeding the birds food from his pocket. Anothe...

  6. Hillel Storch papers

    The Hillel Storch papers consist of correspondence, photographic negatives, personal papers, printed materials, and subject files documenting Storch’s work on behalf of the World Jewish Congress in Sweden to rescue Jews during the Holocaust and to resettle survivors after the Holocaust. Records document his missions, activities, and meetings with Nazi leaders to save Jews from the extermination camps, and include materials about his work with Heinrich Himmler’s assistant Franz Goering and physical therapist Felix Kersten, and SS Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg about the “White Buses” oper...

  7. Rosenzweig family collection

    Telephone directory, dated November 1939, of immigrants in Shanghai, China. Alphabetical directory containing the names of each Shanghai resident, their original city [such as Vienna, Austria], their profession and their Shanghai address. Also included are the names of the Shanghai Jewish committee. Used by Nuta and Dina Rosenzweig [donor’s paternal grandparents] who fled with their son from Frankfurt, Germany in winter 1938-39 for Shanghai after Nuta was arrested and imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp.

  8. Selected records of the United States Lines. Branch in Warsaw Linie Stanów Zjednoczonych. Oddział w Warszawie (Sygn. 247)

    Registers of passengers departing from Poland in the 1930s by the American lines, finacial documents of Nathan Pearlmutter (1939), identity documents and passenger’s passports, a weekly newsletter for emigrants: "Wiadomości dla Emigrantów" (1930-1939) and a publication: "Emigration and Colonization" (1938).

  9. Command of the uniformed Government police in Brno Velitelství uniformované vládní policie v Brně (B 327)

    Administrative matters, including anti-Jewish and anti-Roma measures; directives and orders; records pertaining to forced laborers, partisans, prisoners-of-war, the deportation of Jews, and other relevant records.

  10. Berlin street scenes (1936 Olympics)

    Various shots of Berlin street scenes during the 1936 Olympics. Olympic rings, banners. CU, statue. Flags. Sign: "Der Gruessen, Die Gaeste, Der Welt." Olympic rings. Flags. Torch, flame. Flags. Motorcade. Double-decker bus. Decorations erected in Berlin for Olympic ceremonies. Underground subway station. Flags. Putting flags up. Band playing. Crowd. Bicycles. Torch. MCU, street scene. Flags. Shot of street through reflection on automobile headlight. Auto traffic. CU, license plates. CUs, cars moving slowly, shot at street level (tires). Policeman directing traffic. Civilians walking, CUs fe...

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  12. Chamysz family photograph collection

    The collection contains pre-war photographs of brothers Jacob, Josef, and Samuel Chamysz and their families in Lwów, Poland (present day Lviv, Ukraine). Also included is a letter with multiple authors dated 27 April 1921.

  13. Veith family photographs

    Consists of Veith family photographs depicting Julius and Marie (née Oppenheimer) Veith and their son Franz Veith. Julius and Maria resided in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and were the parents of two sons, Franz and Erwin. All four Veith family members attempted to flee from Europe and from Nazi persecution. However, while Franz and Erwin were able to immigrate to the United States and England respectively, Julius and Marie remained in Netherlands as refugees for several year before they were deported to Sobibor in July 1943.

  14. Verdicts on Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Streicher, Funk at Nuremberg Trial

    Verdicts delivered on Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. MLS of prisoners dock as Justice reads conclusions on the cases of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Hans Frank, Alfred Rosenberg, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, and Walter Funk: Unidentified defendant (in Russian): ? Ribbentrop: Guilty on all 4 counts (the main foreign policy advisor to Hitler & Ambassador to Britain) Keitel (in French): Guilty on all 4 counts (no attenuating circumstances accorded) [screen goes black] Kaltenbrunner: Guilty under counts 3 and 4 Rosenberg ...

  15. Esther Schimmel collection

    Contains receipts for monies sent to Aron Siedlecki in Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland and to Amalia Kresch in Sanok, Poland, sent from Esther Schimmel in Saint Louis, Missouri. Small green receipts included in collection indicate monies being sent to Poland as early as 1935. The relationship between the three people is unknown.

  16. Shmuel Hupert collection

    Contains photographs and documents relating to Shmuel Hupert from Pabianice, Poland, who survived in Czarna Wieś near Bialystok together with his wife Mina Klein Hupert.

  17. Ethnic Germans; German invasion of Poland

    German intertitles. Title on screen: Ozaphan 10/39 Monatsschau [Loosely, October 1939 monthly show]. von Brauchitsch speaks to workers in arms factory in Dusseldorf in August 1939. Tanks. Swastikas. War preparations in London in August 1939. Men load materials in boxes onto a vehicle, dig ditches (street traffic in BG), and move a large gun. Volksdeutsche [ethnic Germans] with suitcases, eating. German soldiers (SS-Heimwehr) prepare to defend Danzig from Polish control by mounting and camouflaging weapons. Shell damage of buildings and homes near the border as the German offense advances. G...

  18. Truman aides sworn in

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 419. Release date, 07/26/1945. According to UN advance information: "Vinson, Sec. of Treasury." Fred M. Vinson is sworn in as Secretary of the Treasury by Justice Groner as Henry Morgenthau, Jr. stands by. "John W. Snyder Sworn In." Ex-Federal Loan Administrator John W. Snyder is sworn in as director of War Mobilization and Reconversion. According to UN monolog: "Both these officials will be backed by the American spirit."

  19. Kurt Schwarz papers

    The Kurt Schwarz papers consist of correspondence, photographs, telegrams, and documents related to the immigration of Kurt Schwarz, originally of Vienna, Austria, to the United States by way of Italy and Cuba, 1938-1940; as well as extensive correspondence from his mother, Helene Schwarz, in Vienna, 1938-1941. Includes telegrams from the American theatrical producer, Billy Rose, as he sought to help Kurt Schwarz immigrate to the United States, 1938-1939. Also includes later correspondence with Idy Sherer, the daughter of Kurt Schwarz, as she researched the fate of her grandmother, Helene S...

  20. Marokus family collection

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the efforts of Leon Marokus, who immigrated to the United States in 1938 from Poland and worked to bring over his wife Lajcia and daughters Henryka and Pola, who were in Lwow, Poland and unable to leave. Includes pre-war correspondence between Leon and various organizations including the US Department of State as well as post-war correspondence concerning his youngest daughter Pola, who was hidden in Lwow and potentially survived. The correspondence documents Leon's exhaustive but unsuccessful efforts to find Pola or her rescuer Anna Chodek over mor...