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  1. George Pick family collection

    The collection consists of a two sets of pressed flowers, a suitcase, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Istvan and Margit Kornhauser Pick, their son Gyorgy, and Malvina Spitzer Kornhasuer and their extended family in Hungary before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust, which they survived by living in hiding in Budapest.

  2. War Crimes Commission: Belsen Concentration Camp

    "Belsen Concentration Camp" British Royal Artillery officers in charge of the camp describe conditions after liberation, "So far, we've buried 17,000. When we came here, conditions were indescribable...no food for six days...none of us are likely to forget what German people have done." 06:02:32 A woman doctor (survivor - Hadassah Bimko, later Hadassah Rosensaft), who was a prisoner in charge of the female section, describes conditions before liberation. She speaks in German, partly translated into English by the film's narrator. "There were no covers, straw stacks, or beds of any kind. Per...

  3. Holocaust commemorative ribbon worn by a Latvian Jewish survivor

    Holocaust commemorative plastic ribbon worn by Esther Lurie issued in 1963 by the Ghetto House Fighter's Museum to be worn at Kibbutz Lohame ha-Getaot. Esther, a professionally trained artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine in 1934. She was visiting her sister in Kovno (Kaunus), Lithuania, in summer 1941 when it was occupied by Germany. She was confined to the ghetto and had to create artwork for the Germans. She also, at the request of the Jewish Council, dedicated herself to recording the daily life of the residents. In July 1944, the ghetto was liquidated. Esther w...

  4. Giorgio Nissim

    La documentazione, esigua e frammentaria, conservata nel fondo è organizzata in quattro fascicoli contenenti carte di diversa natura e riguardanti il carteggio tra Paula Langnas e Israel Meyer rinchiusi in campi di internamento diversi (cfr. b. 1, fasc. 1), le copie dello scritto "Memorie di un ebreo toscano 1938-1948" e da un fascicolo di fotografie. Tra le carte raccolte si segnala principalmente il fascicolo "DELASEM - Azione speciale bambini" (cfr. b.1, fasc. 2) come testimonianza del ruolo di primo piano rivestito da Giorgio Nissim nella DELASEM di Pisa; l'unità archivistica contiene l...

  5. Renee Lisse Sachs family collection

    The collection consists of a doll, documents, an oral history, and photographs relating to the experiences of Renee Lyszka and her family in prewar, wartime, and postwar Poland, France, and the United States.

  6. German newsreel excerpts: Rommel's funeral; German retreat from Finland; Romanian POWs; Siegfried Line

    "OSS-316 Export" Reel 1, Part 1, German amphibious training in Northern Europe. Part 2, Gen. Rommel inspects Atlantic Wall defenses and traels in a scout car in North Africa. Tearful civilians observe Rommel's funeral cortege passing. Gen. Runstedt places Hitler's wreath on the bier. Part 3, the German retreat from Finland: refugees and military supply trains move along the Arctic Highway. Crates of civilian and miltiary equipment are piled on a railway platform and loaded into freight cars. Part 4, antitank guns are fired and German tanks advance in Romania's Grosswardein sector; Romanian ...

  7. German radio communications; Gen. Zorn and German military prepare for advance

    Reel 1: 00:00:00 Klappe 2-Lo 55: German soldiers swinging in a double swing with others looking on. Officers looking at orders. Soldiers walking through a field, with one soldier operating a radio(?) in a trench. Two Russian soldiers surrendering to a German soldier, with their hands raised. The German soldier looks at their papers. German soldiers firing a machine gun as other soldiers advance. Military vehicles moving through a town as soldiers mill around. CU of a soldier holding a map gesturing to other soldiers. German soldiers enter a house to search it. Klappe 4-Lo 57: Several differ...

  8. Kaufman family collection

    Contains photographs, four notebooks (in Yiddish), identification documents, certificates, and correspondence, related to the wartime experiences in France of Kopel Kaufman, originally of Busko, Poland, and Wulf Finkielsztejn, originally of Wilno (Vilnius). Documents attest to the experiences of both men in resistance activities during the occupation of France, their imprisonment by the Germans, and Finkielsztejn's deportation from Pithiviers and his presumed death. The notebooks contain a memoir written by Kopel Charles Kaufman in 1945-1946 describing in detail his experiences in Auschwitz...

  9. Doll purse

    Julia Schor played with the doll purse while in hiding during the Holocaust.

  10. Weiner family collection

    Contains pre-war photographic images of the Weiner family (donor's immediate family) in Veľké Ripňany, Czechoslovakia (present day Slovakia); and pre-war photographs of the Flaschner family (donor’s husband’s immediate family) in Austria. Also included are post-war photos of Isabella Wiener at the Feldafing DP camp in Germany. The pre-war Weiner family photos were entrusted to non-Jewish neighbors by Malvina Weiner (donor's mother) right before her deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942 where she perished; Isabella survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Płaszów concentration c...

  13. Ethnic groups of Trancarpathia - Travelogue of Czechoslovak Travel Agency

    Silent with Czech intertitles. Opens with MCU of water wheel and river. VS water wheel and its mechanisms. MLS peasant family standing in front of a thatched roof house. VS, LS, countryside, hills and valleys, trees and the river running through the valley. MLS, log cabins, some may form part of a dam that harnesses the water power from the river. Title: "Vychodni' hranice Czeskoslovenska tvori' pohranicni pas cernohorsky." LS, pan, snow capped mountains. 00:12:24 MLS, a group of Jews and Roma-men women and children. Several women in traditional peasant costumes at Czech border. MS, Roma wo...

  14. Jacob Silvermintz papers

    Documents related to the post-war experiences of Jacob Silvermintz (aka Jakob Silberminz), originally of Szkosin, Poland; issued while he was living as a displaced person in and around Munich, Germany, 1945-1949. Includes identification cards, including those certifying that he had previously been a prisoner at Buchenwald; residence permits; health documents; and letters of reference related to his apprenticeship as an auto mechanic at a number of German companies after 1945, including Robert Bosch, GmbH. Includes his typescript memoir, 71 pages, entitled "I'm Still Here: The Story of Jacob...

  15. Historical Committee of the Temporary Social Insurance Board in Warsaw Komisja Historyczna Tymczasowej Rady Zakladu Ubezpieczeń Społecznych w Warszawie (Sygn.158)

    Questionnaires and analyses of the Historical Committee of the Temporary Social Insurance Board in Warsaw. The Committee conducted special surveys directed to insurance workers. The collection contains the responses of the insurance workers to the questionnaire on the fate and activity of social insurance during the occupation and its summary and analyses. Answers to the questionnaire concern the following data: place of work and the position of the author of the answer; organizational changes in insurance investments; staffing; healthcare; property and financial matters. Included are worke...

  16. Frank Bearse collection

    Contains a document marked “…large examination document of the confessions of the former Camp Commander, Mauthausen, Standartenfuerhrer Franz Ziereis”; 3 pages typed recto and verso; dated 24 May 1945. Also includes a two-page typed document titled “Record of Events Co. “E” 260 Infantry”; an envelope addressed to German Jewish Children’s Aid in New York, NY, postmarked May and November 1940, with some stamps have detached from the envelope, thought to have been used to send birth certificates of Jewish children for immigration or purposes.

  17. Family in Dahlem 1932

    In Dahlem, Germany, the family goes for a walk. CU baby in a pram. Street scenes, automobile traffic. They walk and skate on a frozen pond. A child runs around the yard with a toy. The children ride on scooters. More CUs of the three children with their mother.

  18. Obersitzker family papers

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Siegfried Obersitzker (a Polish born German Jew) and his wife Charlotte Reuter Obersitzker (a German born non-Jew) who fled from Berlin with their son Horst in December 1938 to Havana, Cuba where they remained until ultimately immigrating to the United States in 1941. Included are affidavits of support for the Obersitzkers, German passports, landing permits for Havana, as well as immigration correspondence for Charlotte's mother Franziska Reuter who emigrated from Berlin to the United States in 1947.

  19. Arthur Ruden collection

    Contains photographs documenting the scenes at various concentration camps shortly after liberation in 1945. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  20. Journal

    Journal with leather cover.