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  1. Robert Carty photograph collection

    Consists of five photographs taken by Robert Carty in April 1945 depicting dozens of victims of Nazi atrocities laid out on the ground near row of buildings. Some of the photographs are labeled "Nordhausen" on the verso. Carty took the photographs while a member of the 1st Platoon, Company A, 750th Tank Batallion, 104th Infantry ("Timberwolf") Division, United States Army.

  2. Lucille Weener collection

    Consists of one photograph, which depicts Rifka Rochel Orlinsky seated and surrounded by her eight grandchildren. All of those depicted in the photograph perished in the Holocaust, except Marsha Senderowski (now Taplin) who is seated at the far left in the center row. Inscription on verso in Yiddish.

  3. Roza Szarfharc Zederman collection

    The collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs depicting the Szarfharc family in Lodz, Poland. The photographs depict Dawid Szarfharc, his wife, Tola, and their daughter Rojza Szarfharc, Ewa Szarfharc, Roza, Celina, and Dorota Szarfharc, and Felek Tobiasz.

  4. Tine Thevenin collection

    Antisemitic flier stating that the Jews should be sent to Madagascar; image of Madagascar with a Star of David in the center; quotes above, below, and to left of image; "Issued by Ray. K. Rudman, Box 497, Pietermaritzburg" across the bottom.

  5. Anna Kfare collection

    The papers consist of three school reports, two photographs, and correspondence from Tema Dąbek relating to Anna Kfare's life in Makow Mazowiecki, Poland during the time period of the Holocaust. The photographs depict Chaja Lillienthal, Pesia Goldstein, Relcia Amiel, Ester Sobol, Tema Dąbek, Unger, Zaklinowicz, Fredka Fejga Blum, Surusia Laska, Sara Lasker, Fela Rekant and Fruma Perlberg.

  6. Judith W. Adler collection

    Consists of eighteen photographs, which depict Judith Adler's experiences in Kibbutz Tikva in Aschau am Inn, Germany; after her journey on the Exodus 1947 on board the Ocean Vigour; in Pöppendorf internment camp; and in Emden, Germany.

  7. Jozik Wolman photograph collection

    Consists of two photographs, which depict Jozef Orski's maternal uncle, Jozik Wolman, working in the ghetto pharmacy in Łódź, Poland.

  8. Sign excluding Jews from a property

    Enameled, metal sign prohibiting the presence of Jews. Such signs were often present in shops, restaurants, and other public buildings during the Nazi regime. While there was no singular law requiring the physical segregation of Jews from other Germans, a series of over 400 laws enacted throughout the 1930s increased restrictions for Jews in every aspect of their lives. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. The German government began instituting laws the following April, which began negatively defining and segregating Jews f...

  9. Clips from the propaganda film about the 1934 Reich Party Day

    01:04:00 to 01:05:27 Clips of party leaders giving speeches. There are a few different clips but they are cataloged here as one clip. The name of the party leader appears on the screen, followed by an excerpt from each man's speech. The following leaders speak: Fritz Reinhardt, Robert Ley, Joseph Goebbels, Konstantin Hierl. 01:05:30 to 01:05:44 Brief CUs of men from the Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labor Service) who are lined up in formation in front of Hitler at the Nuremberg rally grounds. This clip cuts off the first part of the scene, in which one of the RAD men asks another, "Woher stam...

  10. Helen Silver photograph collection

    The collection includes a photograph, dated October 1945, taken in Wtoszczowa, Poland depicting a woman wearing a coat standing outside and a photograph, dated May 1938, taken in Gorki Nad Wisla, Poland depicting a woman seated on a bench.

  11. Photograph of Rakhil Shkolnik

    The photograph taken in Ukraine depicts Rakhil Shkolnik wearing a head scarf with text printed above the portrait and a drawing of a train at the bottom. Inscription on verso: "Rakhit sic Shkolnik / 1945 / Chernevetzy / Vinnitskiy."

  12. Photograph of two women

    The photograph was taken in Minsk, Belarus, and depicts two women.

  13. Photograph of a young woman and her grandfather

    The photograph depicts a young woman standing behind a seated man with her hand on his shoulder, "grandfather" written in margin below image. Inscription on verso: "Grandfather / he was a survivor too sic / from the geto [sic] bershade."

  14. Photograph of three girls standing on a balcony

    The photograph depicts three girls standing together on balcony; blue ink "X" inscribed over the girl on the right; blue ink inscription crossed out on the verso.

  15. Leo Kern photograph collection

    The collection consists of six photograph of members of the Kern family in Suceava and Kimpolung (Cîmpulung Moldovenesc), Romania, before, during, and after World War II.

  16. Simon Frydman collection

    Consists of a photograph taken in Otwock, Poland, in 1941 of Rifka Regina Frydman, Simon's younger sister who perished in the Holocaust; and a photograph taken in Świebodzice, Poland, of two Jewish men (on the left: Mr. Mogielnicki who survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and on the right: his brother-in-law who was killed by Poles in 1945).

  17. Clara Grossman collection

    The photograph depicts Yitzchok and Pasia Spector and their eight children on their farm in Szabrockrycky, Poland.

  18. Lola Kamien photograph collection

    The collection includes photographs depicting members of the Kirszenbaum family who perished during the Holocaust and two photographs depicting Lola and Noah Kamien during memorial services in Majdanek, Poland, on 21 September 1947. The family photographs were taken in Berlin, Germany, and Mielec and Domacyny, Poland.

  19. Amalia Kurland Spiegelman photograph collection

    The collection consists of 18 photographs of the Kurland family, taken mostly in Sosnowiec, Poland, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  20. Colette Flake-Bunz collection

    Consists of a photograph of Colette Flake-Bunz, originally of France, which was taken after liberation when she was 15. Also includes a wartime photograph of Marie-Therese Maunier with her daughter, Genevieve Maunier-Valentini, and a wartime copyprint of Henri and Simone Voisin with Henry's mother, Albertine Voisin. The Maunier and Voisin families hid Colette Flake-Bunz during the war, saving her life.