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  1. Smietanowski family papers

    Contains fifteen photographs, identification documents, and one postcard, documenting the experiences of Jozef and Irena Smietanowski, of Warsaw. Includes German-issued identification card for Irena Smietanowska (1942), two identification cards issued to Jozef in 1939, and one issued to the couple in 1938. Also, one postcard sent to Irena Smietanowska from friends in Rovno, 1940.

  2. Wolff family papers

    The collection documents the childhoods of siblings John and Marianne Wolff in Berlin, Germany, their immigration to England via Kindertransport in 1939, and eventual immigration to the United States in 1945. Included are documents and photographs.

  3. Blinshteyn family papers

    Correspondence, documents, and photographs related to Semyon and Velya Blinshteyn, and their children Naum, Zhanna, and Fanya, originally of Odessa, Ukraine, and pertaining primarily to the experiences of the Blinshteyn family in the Soviet Union during World War II. Includes poems written by Naum Blinshteyn and correspondence related to Zhanna (Blinshteyn) Berina's search for the grave of her brother Naum, and the placement of a headstone there.

  4. Suitcase carried by a Jewish girl on a Kindertransport to the United Kingdom

  5. German officers roundup hospital staff and patients

    German officers gather hospital staff and patients outside hospital. MCU, all standing around, emotionless mood. Some wounded men. Germans interrogate one man.

  6. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 pfennig coin

    Coin used in the Łódź [Litzmannstadt] Ghetto during the Holocaust.

  7. German industry, Duesseldorf, Berlin. Famous kindergarten. Farming. Cologne

    BP fuel truck on Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. Lufthansa plane "Obersalzburg". Crowd of German civilians. Planes flying above. "Stanavo" fuel truck. Side view of plane named "Eduard Dost..." "Shell" fuel truck. 00:11:09 Scenes driving on Autobahn between Cologne and Dusseldorf, going under bridges, signs reading "Tankstelle" and "Dusseldorf". 00:12:15 Germans at outdoor fair/industrial exhibition in Dusseldorf, crowd. Sign, "Gepaeck-Abgabe." 00:12:41 Street scene in Berlin, tram, well-dressed people. Loeser and Wolff shop on corner. News sellers with "Berlin Illustrierte" late edition: "Jap...

  8. Lida Duciak and Wasyl Iszczenko collection

    Contains an “Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer” (employment record book for foreign workers) issued to Lida Duciak (donor’s mother), who was forced to work on a farm in Germany; an “Arbeitskarte” (worker’s ID card) issued to Lida Daciuk on May 13, 1942; a birth certificate (copy), issued for Lida Duciak, certifying that she was born on September 12, 1922 to a Ukrainian Orthodox family, issued on August 3, 1942; a “Good Conduct Statement” for Wasyl Iszczenko and Lidia Iszczenko, residing in a Stephanskirchen DP camp, issued on October 20, 1949; a copy of a birth certificate issued to Wassyl Iszczenk...

  9. Warshawiak family collection

    Contains photographs, documents, and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Regina Szajnbek and her husband Beresh Warshawiak, who both survived multiple concentration camps and then met and married in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons camp, where they gave birth to their daughter Blima (donor).

  10. Fanny Ben-Ami collection

    Contains photographs, correspondence, and documents illustrating the experiences of Fanny Eil [donor], and her sisters and parents before and during the second World War in Germany, where Fanny was born; France, where the Eil family fled in 1933; and Switzerland, where Fanny and her sisters were smuggled after her parents were separately arrested and deported in 1943 and 1944.

  11. Prison camp, slave labor, atrocities

    Slave labor, workshops, atrocities and leaders of camp are highlighted during war and at liberation. 01:07:10 Sign. MLS of large group of male prisoners with heads shaved. Siren and clock, men trudge up hill against big sky, men with horse-pulled carts as others work under observation. CU, men struggle with wheelbarrow full of stone and dirt, mixing cement, go up plank barefoot, watchtower guard, men at bread and water break. 01:09:27 Ustasa propaganda headlines regarding resettlement of Roma when they were being killed, CU of corpses of victims. Roma/Sinti men and women in field pulling ap...

  12. World War I: German retreat & Battle of Arras

    Parts 1, 2, and 3. World War I scenes. (Double Intertitles: German and French) "2me partie" [Part 2]. Artillery at Mons front (British). Arras railway station, heavy damage. Three soldiers smoking. [Part 3] Battalion of London Stock Exchange en route to Arras. German prisoners carry wounded Brits on stretchers. Long, close to camera. Germans in both caps and helmets. Up and past camera (to left). Other stretchers in background. Rough, wet, muddy ground. Difficult work of Sam ..... in trenches. Trenches and explosions. Artillery fire. Distant fog. Explosions at horizon (strange effect on fil...

  13. Eichmann Trial -- Session 99 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins with a shot of Attorney General Gideon Hausner and Assistant State Attorney Gabriel Bach seated at the prosecution table. Dr. Robert Servatius, counsel for the defense, enters (00:00:26) and the camera cuts to a long shot of the courtroom. Servatius walks over to the defense table and is seated. The camera cuts to another angle and Adolf Eichmann enters the booth (00:00:39) carrying documents and accompanied by three Israeli guards. He bows to Servatius and is seated. There are various shots of Servatius and Eichmann preparing for the session. All rise as judges Halevi, Landa...

  14. Book

  15. Hitler returns to Berlin in July 1940

    Camera pans over Upper Rhine. Hitler's motorcade crosses pontoon bridge eastwards; tracking shot shows children in swimsuits waving near a customs post and adults showing signs of love, loyalty and gratitude. Hitler, now aboard train, accepts flower from girl and shakes hands of HJ boy. Train journey continues past Marbach (Neckar), peasant on his plow, and stops at stations where Hitler autographs postcard portraits of himself. Camera shows Hitler in profile. Berlin prepares welcome; swastika flags fly, BDM girls spread flowers along route from Anhalter Bahnhof to Reichs Chancellery, polic...

  16. Sutin Family Collection

    Collection of photographs, documents, negative film, and moving images documenting the experiences of the Sutin family in displaced persons' camp Neu Freimann-Siedlung in Germany. The moving images and still photography were shot by Jack Sutin donor in his capacity as photo journalist for the Yiddish newspaper Jidisze Cajtung. The film footage features daily scenes and sporting events in Neu Freimann, Sutin family footage, and a meeting of the Third Congress of the Shearit Ha-Pletah in Munich

  17. Menachem Bader personal archives (RG-95-23) מנחם בדר - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Menachem Bader (1895-1985) contains documents with his biographical information, memoirs, records on the mission in Turkey and activities of the Rescue Commettee in Istanbul, articles, speeches, poems in Hebrew, Yiddish and Polish.

  18. Cap worn by a young girl in a concentration camp

    Cap was given to Ruth Blocher upon arrival in Stuthoff Concentration Camp.

  19. Jews and POWs rounded up

    Soldiers and Jewish civilians behind barbed wire, being arrested (hands up in surrender). Marched onto truck, some are injured, all have shaved heads. Jewish men and others seated in barbed wire area, being loaded onto truck. At end of reel: Jewish men being separated from other prisoners and put onto back of truck.

  20. Ernest J. Gunther collection

    Contains a photo album containing black and white copy prints of images by Lt. Ernest J. Gunther, head of a military intelligence interrogation team with the US Army 12th Armored Division, at the Kaufering IV concentration camp. Includes images of American soldiers, scenes from around the camp, and images of victims found in the camp.