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  1. Peter Prosaw scrapbook Jewish D.P./In The UNRRA-Camp Team 1027/Berlin

    Scrapbook entitled “Jewish D.P./In The UNRRA-Camp Team 1027/Berlin” created by Peter Prosaw (born Pinkus Proszowski), a survivor of Auschwitz originally from Łódź, Poland. Peter, who also had training as a graphic designer, ran the orphanage in the Düppel Center displaced persons camp in Berlin-Schlachtensee. The annotated scrapbook includes depictions of staff members, residents, buildings, schools, programs, and cultural activities. Many of the pages incorporate photograph collages as well as original documents. A separated blue cardboard cover with adhesive tape on binding is also included.

  2. Aaron Tunick papers

    The collection primarily consists of family correspondence received by Aaron Tunick, originally of Stołpce, Poland (Stolbsty or Stowbtsy, Belarus), after he emigrated from Poland in 1934. The bulk of the letters (1936-1941) are from his siblings, and in particular Henja and Yitzhak. The letters discuss a deteriorating situation, loss of their businesses because they are Jewish, a rise in antisemitism, and an urgency to flee Poland. A small amount of biographical material consists of a birth certificate and a Zionist Organization of Poland identification card. Also included are photographs d...

  3. Esther Rosen Werner collection

    Fifteen (15) letters from Aron Rosen (the donor's great-grandfather) in Slutsk, Belorussia, to his daughter Esther Werner (nee Rosen) in Bridgeport, CT. These range from 1930-1941, with the bulk from 1939. Material includes English translations of the letters by Roberta Newman and a copy print of a photo of Aaron Rosen.

  4. Cohen family photograph collection

    The collection consists of seven photographs taken by Bina Cohen Spielman's father in Warsaw, Poland, before World War II and documents the experiences of the Cohen family before the Holocaust.

  5. Nazi propaganda: anti-US

    The prologue indicates this film shows authentic American documentary footage from the 'paradise of freedom'. The film starts with images of the Statue of Liberty as narration tells that it was erected on a field of gallows. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is accused of preaching the 'phrases and slogans' of freedom, democracy, and religion while practicing oppression. Police squads and army troops are shown fighting with teargas, clubs, and pistols against strike riots in this 'freest democracy of the world'. The fate of millions of honest and poor American workers and peasants is contrast...

  6. Book

  7. Burning buildings, probably in Saarland

    Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. German soldier walks toward the camera. Caravan of military vehicles. 10:08:05 Several fires destroy buildings, probably in the Saarland, a region along the southwest French-German border where the 257th Infantry was positioned after their time in occupied Poland. Their post in the Saarland was unusual as few battles between the French and German armies occurred along this Western Front between October 1939 and April 1940. Destruction was likely caused by Frenc...

  8. German educational film: birds: egg laying and hatching

    Opening title: Die Lachmowe. VS of birds in a marshy area, flying, sitting in the water, etc. VS, of the birds in their natural habitat, laying and hatching eggs, socializing, etc. Several good CU's of chicks hatching from eggs.

  9. German Newsreel selections

    Hitler and Goering meet Keitel, Doenitz, and others at small, formal military occasions. Long coats, big brass buttons, triumphal music in BG. CU, Hitler in cap, saluting. MCU, all walking in a group. German fighters take off to fight bombers. Shots of submarine, military air base, taking off into the sky. Young women and men interpreting maps on table, lots of air to air shots. Hospital patients are directed to shelters. Everything is "under control." American flyers taken prisoner. American POWs talking to Nazis, being "interviewed" for injuries, head bandaged. American plane "Sunshine" a...

  10. Liberation of Belgium and capture of collaborators and POWs

    Civilians gathered in a city plaza welcome Allied soldiers arriving in trucks. A joyful crowd of Belgian men, women and children ride on a tank and wave Belgian and American flags. Interior shots of German soldiers and Belgian collaborators kept in animal cages lined with straw at the Antwerp zoo (shots are dark), including CUs of a German officer looking through the bars. Belgian collaborators are led down the street by armed Belgian resistance fighters, members of the L'Armee Blanche. German soldiers are escorted to waiting trucks by troops from the 4th Battalion King's Shropshire Light I...

  12. Dina Buchler Chen collection

    Pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Dina Buchler [donor, now Dina Chen] and her parents. Includes are photos of Blanka First, with whom she lived after her mother smuggled her out of a concentration camp, and photos of the Beretics family, who hid her during the war. Includes a false baptism certificate; letters written by Dina's mother to her uncle Bela Weiss, who escaped to Shanghai; and a scrapbook and other materials pertaining to Paula Sitzer, an opera singer in Zagreb.

  13. Belsen Concentration Camp on the 9th day after liberation

    Little girl and other female inmates look beyond barbed wire at a lorry and a trailer filled with dead. In the trailer there are two SS prisoners, including Dr. Klein. MS of little girl watching female bodies being dragged/buried (on other side of barbed wire). Cut to waiting trucks with bodies and diggers. MLS across open grave where British guards and Burgermeisters stand around pit. MS local dignitaries listening to address next to grave. MSs of women of SS administration - Charlotte Klein, Gertrude Feist, Herta Enlert, etc.

  14. Corpse; children begging; roundup/beating (Aktion?)

    Bodies in street. Man walks along pavement, begging. Two men struggle to put body into wooden casket, then place casket onto cart with black box. Two girls huddled in the street, crying or begging. 14:37:37 Jewish police beating and driving people through streets; people running. Mix of men, women, children. (related to single shot in Story 2546 b)

  15. Walter Stier

    As a Reichsbahn official, Walter Stier scheduled the journeys of special trains to different death camps. He claims he knew nothing of the destination. Lanzmann used a false name and filmed this interview with a hidden camera. FILM ID 3800 - Stier 1-4A [CR 1,4,2,3] CR1 (silent) INT minivan with video transmission of the interview with Stier on a television monitor. 01:00:57 Volkswagon van on street approaching camera, parking. 01:01:39 CR4 (sound) Van parked next to residence. Zoom, CUs. White/red minivan with plate 307CAE75. 01:03:01 CR2 (sound) Side view of the van, exteriors. CU of the m...

  16. Max Schmeidler family collection

    The collection consists of a pin, six pieces of currency, correspondence, documents, newspapers, negatives and photographs relating to the experiences of Max Schmeidler who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.

  17. Hadassah Rosensaft photograph collection

    The papers consist of one photograph of Benjamin Bimko-Preizerowicz, son of Hadassah Bimko-Rosensaft [donor] and Josef Preizerowicz, who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, on December 3, 1937 and died at Auschwitz-Birkenau on August 4, 1943. The papers also include a photograph of a group of Jewish men with raised hands that was taken in Będzin, Poland, in September 1939.

  18. Selected Records of the commune Skorosze Akta gminy Skorosze (Sygn.167)

    Vital records, including the marriage certificate of Hannah Drajer, and the registration books of Jewish residents.

  19. Paula Biren

    Paula Biren was a young Jewish woman living in Łódź, Poland when the Germans invaded in 1939. She survived the Łódź ghetto and Auschwitz. In her interview with Claude Lanzmann, Biren describes the occupation of Łódź, ghettoization, the children's Aktion of September 1942, and her deportation to Auschwitz. FILM ID 3105 -- Camera Rolls #1-4 -- 03:00:09 to (03:00:09) Biren and Lanzmann are seated outdoors. Lanzmann begins the interview by asking her to start at the beginning, the moment the Germans entered Łódź, what her feelings were, and if she knew at that time what would be at stake. She s...

  20. Collection of photo albums Zbiór albumów fotograficznych (Sygn. 1624)

    Two German albums: The first album consists of 140 photos taken in Warsaw, the photographs are documenting the activity of German officials, public celebrations of German events, 1942-1943. The second album contains 50 photographs taken in Warsaw in 1939-1944. It was donated by a citizen of the GDR in 1972, Hermana Nickel from Schoenebeck.