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  1. Ordnungspolizei in Moravia; Daluege

    Title card reads: “1938 Wiener Schutzpolizei in Südmähren.” Title card: “Wille und Tat des Führers ermöglichen die friedliche Heimkehr des Sudetenlandes in das Groẞdeutsche Reich.” Title: “Ein starker Gurtel von Betonbunkern und Hindernissen sollte deutsche Menschen ewig trennen. Volksbewusstsein und Opferwille überwanden auch diese eiserne Grenze.” LS, then pan, of a fortification in the countryside. Fortification building with the words “Pravda vitezi” [“Truth prevails”] painted on it. Two Ordnungspolizei walk into the building. More shots of the fortification. Buildings in Podyji Nationa...

  2. Leonard Teski photograph collection

    Four photographs depicting Leonard Teski's parents, Maria Szelagowska Teski and Edward Teski, their daughter Joanna, and Janek Kon Konorski, a Jewish boy whom they hid during World War II. The first photograph depicts Maria and Edward with friends in 1938 a few months before their wedding. The second depicts, from right to left, Maria, Janek (age 7), and Joanna, the third depicts Janek and Joanna, and the fourth depicts Janek, all in August 1942 in Międzylesie, Poland.

  3. Abraham Ackerstein collection

    Consists of two documents from the SS Marine Flasher, thirty photographs, and three small photograph albums from the displaced persons camp in Föhrenwald, Germany, relating to Abraham Ackerstein.

  4. Esther Brookmeyer collection

    Five letters and one envelope written by Fischel Kirschenbaum to his uncle Bernard Kirschenbaum dated 1935-1939. Six photographs depicting family members of donor's father, Beni Kirschenbaum and one postcard with Jewish New Year wishes sent to donor's father from Fischel Kirschenbaum.

  5. Abraham and Simone Slowes collection

    Consists of 27 family photographs, two photo album pages, five documents relating to Abraham Slowes' family in Vilna (Vilnius) before the war, 45 copies of documents relating to Abraham efforts to secure his family's emigration to Palestine during the years of 1940-1945, and a copy of a family history written by Simone Weil Slowes.

  6. Sandor Berko collection

    The collection consists of eighteen original photographs depicting Sandor Berko and his family before the war in Tiszalök, Hungary; his father in a forced labor battalion; Sandor and others in displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria; after the war in Tiszalök and in Sweden; and one Ketubah (marriage contract) of Sandor 's parents-in-law.

  7. Rose Strauss collection

    Contains two photographs. The first photograph is an image of men and women seated in deck chairs and also standing behind them aboard the MS St. Louis dated May-June 1939. The second photograph is an image of men and women seated in deck chairs aboard the MS St. Louis dated May-June 1939.

  8. Abrasza Feldman collection

    The collection related to the life of Abrasza Feldman during the time of the Holocaust and includes certificates, letters, photographs, and medical reports.

  9. Esther & Myer Liebersohn collection

    The collection consists of nine vintage copies of correspondence written on "V-Mail" stationery between Myer Liebersohn, while stationed in Europe, and his wife Esther (donor), living in Baltimore.

  10. Gertrude Gutman collection

    Consists of an eighteen-page newspaper created by displaced persons on their journey to New York. The cover bears an image of a ship with “IRO” written above and “U.S.A.T. Gen.C.H. Muir/No. 29/31.10.49/Bremerhaven/[image of life preserver]/New York/9.11.49.”

  11. Joe Lombardi collection

    Consists of a typed letter dated 16 May 1939, by David Godel who discusses his family and their situation and requests assistance and a family permit. The letter was sent to England to Nicola Curwin's family (donor's wife) who did not know Godel or his family.

  12. documentary film about Babi Yar

    Documentary film about Babi Yar including archival footage and interviews. At times, the narration does not accurately support the footage, images are sometimes misused. Captured Nazi footage, photographic stills, and newsreel footage were obtained from various Russian archives (see notes for more details). Scenes show Kiev, Hitler, Hitler Youth, Nazi flags with swastikas, US protest posters, neo-Nazi scenes, deportation, piles of victims' belongings, Dina Pronicheva's testimony at the war crimes trials in Kiev, Jewish boycotts, undressing sequences, the chief of Kiev Ukrainian Police Kajva...

  13. Trudy Reich collection

    Consists of a letter written by Sophie Reich, the donor's mother-in-law, in Brooklyn, NY, to her family in Gorlice, Poland. The letter was returned to sender due to suspension of mail service.

  14. Dola Kestenbaum Körbel Kleinman collection

    The collection consists of family photographs of Dola Kestenbaum in Przemyśl and Jelenia Góra, Poland, and Semipalatinsk and Riazan, Soviet Union; letters and telegrams sent to Dola while she was in Semipalatinsk from her friends and relatives, including soldiers in the Polish Army, in Samarkand, Soviet Union, Jerusalem, Palestine, and elsewhere in the Middle East; letters written to Dola from Great Britain and Warsaw, Poland, after the war; documents relating to Dola's return to Poland; and legal documents relating to Dola inheriting property left by her relatives who perished in the Holoc...

  15. Victoria Borejdo poetry collection

    The collection consists of a series of poems written in the Warsaw Ghetto for Victoria Inwald Borejdo, donor's mother, by a judge she befriended in the ghetto. The first poem is hand written, housed in a small green notebook cover. The second poem, or series of poems, is type-written on nine pages.

  16. Palestine Post newspaper article about the Nyassa

    The newpaper clipping is an article entitled "Refugees sing 'Hatikvah' as ship comes in," written by Ernst Aschner, discussing the arrival in Haifa of 750 men, women, and children who fled to Portugal and sailed from Lisbon to Palestine aboard the ship Nyassa; the newspaper is identified as "Palestine Post" and dated 1 February 1944.

  17. Selma Blick papers

    The papers include one identification card and eight photographic prints relating to Selma Wahrhaftig and her experiences in the Saalfelden Displaced Persons Camp.

  18. Stephanie Mayer collection

    The Stephanie Mayer collection consists of three photographs with inscriptions. The photographs show Stephanie Pringheim Mayer with friends on board the MS St. Louis in May 1939.

  19. Certificate of Naturalization for Max Herz

    Contains a "Certificate of Naturalization" issued by the United States Government to Max Herz (donor's uncle); states that he is 54 years old, former nationality is German, married; issued September 24, 1945.

  20. Robert Weinberg papers

    One two-page undated typed document, entitled "Ist eine Assimilation der Deutschen Juden in Amerika möglich oder wahrscheinlich?" The first three-page typed letter is dated 7 November 1939. The second two-page letter is dated 13 Dec.1939. Both letters were sent from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.