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  1. Felice Zimmern Stokes collection

    Consists of copies of correspondence and post-war documents related to the experiences of Felice Zimmern Stokes. Includes copies of correspondence (with English translations) written by members of the Zimmern family in 1939-1942, including letters written in the Gurs internment camp. Also includes documents related to Felice Zimmern Stokes' membership in hidden children organizations, information related to the fate of her parents, David and Lydia Zimmern, both of whom perished, and correspondence with memorial associations. Suitcase carried by Felice Stokes when she immigrated to the Unite...

  2. John S.C. Peck, Jr. collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of John S.C. Peck, Jr. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Juan Jorge and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer collection

    Documents, photographs and artifacts relating to the experiences of Juan Jorge Schäffer (b. Vienna) and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer (b. Mannheim), both of whom fled Nazi occupation and immgrated to Uruguay. The collection includes photographs of the extended Schäffer family, school documents, restitution papers as well as a clock brought to Uruguay by a German Jewish refugee and a pre-war Viennese dance card.

  4. Baer family collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Lore Baer and her family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. Harry L. Konar collection

    The collection consists of a set of Old Testament scriptures given to Harry Konar by an unidentified elderly woman in 1945 in Stuttgart, Germany.

  6. David and Lucinda Pollack collection

    The collection consists of American, French, Hungarian, and German propaganda, war bonds, recruitment, and election posters produced during World War II.

  7. Fonds Monneray (MDXXXV)

    Records related to Military Tribunal in Nuremburg, the creation of the U.N., work on humanitarian aid and human rights with international organizations, Monneray's work as a jurist, as well as books and articles, and his involvement with the Jewish community.

  8. District Authority Velké Meziříčí Okresní úřad Velké Meziříčí

    Administrative records of Velké Meziříčí, a town in the Vysočina region, including anti-Jewish measures and decrees and the aryanization and expropriation of Jewish properties and assets. Records pertaining to the emigration of Jews. Post-war records pertaining to the restitution and confiscation of expropriated Jewish properties.

  9. Kreishauptmannschaft Warschau Selected records of the County Starosty in Warsaw Starostwo Powiatowe Warszawskie (Sygn. 486/II)

    Selected reports by Kreishauptmann, Sonderdienstkommando, and gendarmerie, orders concerning police hours, identity and cards (Kennkarte), as well as records relating to administrative borders, propaganda, changes of names of towns and streets, appointments of mayors, heads of communes and villages, name lists of employees of offices, confiscation and housing assignments, matters of organization, maintenance, training and duties of the Polish Police, matters of confiscated properties including those relating to buildings in the Warsaw ghetto, confiscation of Jewish assets, as well as cases ...

  10. Agro-Joint colony of Mulatov

    LS of hospital run by a German Jewish refugee doctor. An intertitle notes that over 112 refugee physicians were placed in Russia during 1935. MLS of electrical tractor being operated (devised by one of colonists). CU of Morris Troper talking to a man. More shots of the tractor at work.

  11. Photogaph album belonging to a United States soldier

    Contains a photo album compiled by a US soldier, handed to Lt. Colonel Hands, US Army during WWII.

  12. Germany advances into Poland; Polish POWs

    Part 3 (Reel 1): German assault troops land on river edge and advance rapidly through city streets. LS, bombed buildings explode as soldiers move forward along streets. HS, harbor. MCU, CU, heavy artillery fire. Telescopic view of area which is being shelled. LS, battleship in harbor fires directly upon port city. MS, civilians of Poland exit from shelters. Travel shot, troops and mobilized equipment move through streets and over bridges. Hitler in car rides through streets and is saluted by German soldiers. German soldiers rush forward, surround car and greet Hitler and high command. Hitle...

  13. Barban family papers

    Consists of Reisepass passports issued to Andreas, Heinrich, and Olga (née Margulies) Barban of Leipzig, Germany prior to their immigration to Shanghai. Also included is the Reisepass of Bronislawa (Betty) Berljawsky, later Barban, formerly of Vienna, Austria. Original notes found within the passports of Heinrich and Olga discouraging the inclusion of the names "Israel" and "Sara" in future identity documents are also evident.

  15. Oral history interviews of the Lebow family collection

    Oral history interviews with Hildegard Lebow

  16. Dave Williams slide collection

    Collection consisting 14 positive image cut, mounted, and taped between two pieces of glass depicting "Jewish ghetto" scenes, identified in some cases as Kozienice, Poland and Russia, and as being photographed by "Konrad Berge of Infantry Regiment 43."

  17. Laszlo Bohm Collection

    Photographs, marriage license, postcards, and other correspondence relating to the experiences of Laszlo Bohm in Fonyod, Hungary.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Marshal Petain; Vichy deputies; Laval, Herriot

    Marshal Pétain watching wreath-laying at memorial statue, parade, and Pétain reviewing. EXT, Chamber of Deputies. Pierre Laval, Edouard Herriot and others arriving. Chamber in session.

  19. PK cameraman heads to the Yugoslav front

    Titles: "Frontbericht 1941 von Gottfried Kessel Im Banat" [Report from the front 1941 by Gottfried Kessel: In Banat (the name of a geographical region which includes Pancevo)] Shots of Kessel with his Kodak camera in Neuruppin, Germany after the French campaign. Kessel's narration says he studied photography and enlisted in the Propaganda Kompanie. Scenes shot by Kessel out the window of a JU 52 plane as he heads to the front.

  20. Henrikas Kurlavicius photograph collection

    Collection of 25 photographs depicting Jews from Butrimonys, Lithuania. Lisa Lainer-Fagan received the photographs from Henrikas Kurlavicius in Butrimonys, who found them after WWII. The photographs belonged to Domicele Kuralviciene, who was a caregiver for Jewish families in the town from the time she was 10 years old.