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  1. Janina Ecker collection

    Photographs (24) and identification cards (3) relating to experiences of the donor's extended family in Krakow, Poland, from World War I through occupation of Poland in World War II.

  2. Life in German-occupied Paris; Wehrmacht

    A Saturday in Paris, drive along the Seine, Wehrmacht art exhibition

  3. Private Papers of Frieda Rosenthal Nachlass Frieda Rosenthal (P 240)

    Frieda Rosenthal (born circa 1900), was an author in Vienna who wrote under the pseudonym "Sulamith; Ef. Er." The collection consists of private papers of Frieda Rosenthal: a diary, poems, manuscripts, articles written for the Vienna edition of the Jüdische Jugend, Neue Freie Presse, A.B.Z.-Zeitschrift sowie Israelisches Familienblatt, on a variety of topics such as Zionism and emigration. Also features teaching materials, children’s' song texts, and event programs.

  4. Eichmann Trial -- Session 11 -- Israeli police interrogation of Eichmann

    Session 11. Court is not in session. Camera focuses on the prosecution as they discuss among themselves. The Judges enter and there is a blip at 00:04:13. An audio reel of Eichmann's pre-trial interrogation (in German) is being played. Following a blip at 00:06:43, the court translates the recording into Hebrew/English which discusses child deportation in 1942. During the interrogation, witness Avner Less presents Eichmann with a document concerning child transports. Eichmann's reponse is choppy, and he claims a faulty memory. District Attorney Gideon Hausner requests the tape be played fro...

  5. German occupation of Kharkov; daily life

    Soldiers in Kharkov, busy city street scene, marketplace, etc. German soldiers and military vehicles throughout. Shot of German women crossing street, probably nurses (they wear military uniforms and white caps). Signs in German, including "Soldatenheim." Germans and civilians in busy marketplace. German soldiers walk past a bedraggled Soviet soldier (?) sitting in the marketplace. One of the Germans asks for and is given the man's cigarette. German soldier talking with old man, who removes his hat and refuses the cigarette offered to him by the German -- the old man appears a bit crazy. PO...

  6. Spangenthal family papers

    The collection primarily contains the correspondence of Ludwig and Kurt Spangenthal, who immigrated to the United States in 1936 and 1938 respectively and settled in Baltimore, with their mother Marianne Spangenthal (née Schönemann) in Kassel, Germany prior to her deportation in 1942. Also included is correspondence between Ludwig, Kurt, and Marianne and Marianne’s brother Robert Schönemann, who immigrated to the United States in 1939. There is biographical material related to Ludwig which includes his German passport, photographs, scattered notes, and identification papers mostly related t...

  7. Uri Hirschmann papers

    The Uri Hirschmann papers include a photo album, travel pass, and Palestinian naturalization certificate documenting Hirschmann’s family in Frankfurt am Main before the war and his relocation to Palestine. Photographs depict Hirschmann’s family, their home, bar mitzvah and Purim celebrations, and Hirschmann at a Hachschara camp in Germany, and a Youth Aliyah camp and a kibbutz in Palestine.

  8. Eichmann Trial -- Session 92 -- Madagascar Plan

    Attorney General Gideon Hausner cross-examines Eichmann about the Madagascar Plan. The Madagascar Plan predated the Nazi period but was revived during the war. Under this plan, Europe's Jews were to be deported to the island of Madgascar, which belonged to the French. Hausner asks the accused what measures were taken towards promoting the plan (00:02:35). Eichmann testifies that it would have developed once a peace treaty with France was signed but that the treaty never happened so the plan was shelved. This is duplicate footage also found on Tape 2135 (01:04:23). The footage on Tape 2135 i...

  9. German invasion and capture of Antwerp, Leuven, and Brussels

    MCU, German troops during street fight. MS, pan, German soldier on motorcycle in city streets. MS, German troops firing in harbor. LS, shells exploding across bay. 02:02:44 German troops crossing river Schelde in small boats, with the cathedral of Antwerp in the background. MS, pan, German troops on dock with equipment. LS, oil refinery under fire and burning, large oil tanks, black smoke. 02:03:37 Boerentoren, Antwerp. MS, city streets captured by Germans. Group of German soldiers, looking down canal. MCU, German troops sleeping in city streets. 02:04:12 Central train station Antwerp. LS, ...

  10. Train shots; German industry

    Open train (from above) with equipment, cargo, etc. partially camouflaged. German industry. The narration indicates that the material is headed for the front. Perhaps for use in putting down the Warsaw Uprising, given the date.

  11. Trunk brought to the United States by an Austrian-Jewish refugee

    Trunk brought to New York in January, 1940 by Bertha Lifschutz when she immigrated to the Untited States. Bertha's son Fred had come to the United States the previous year as part of the "50 children" transport led by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus.

  12. Berlin AJDC Tracing Office, 1945-1947 [Book]

    An American Joint Distribution Committee Publication in memory of the Jewish Holocaust survivors of Berlin, Germany.

  13. Gyorgy Kadar collection

    The collection consists of seventy-three original works of art created by Gyorgy Kadar depicting the experiences of Kadar, his family and friends in Budapest, Hungary, and multiple concentration camps and Budapest, Hungary during the Holocaust. It also includes materials relating to the art collection, such as condition books, press clippings, exhibition materials, and slide sheets.

  14. Soviet Lviv, Ukraine

    Lvov, 1929-1939 (Polish Production). An intertitle reads, "Fragment from a parade: presentations: a) Municipal Guard of old Lwow, b) Riflemen's* Company." Polish King. Procession of the King through the city streets; he is proceeded by a band and honor guard (to whom the intertitle refers) in old fashioned dress. The King rides in an elaborate horse drawn carriage, waves to bystanders, large crowds of well-dressed civilians line the streets, they smile, wave and clap for the King. VS, landmarks, Jesuit monastery, monument to Mickiewicz. *The Polish word is strzelec, which is a musketeer.

  15. Leo Glenn photograph collection

    Photographs illustrating the post-war life of Holocaust survivor Leo Glenn who temporarily lived in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany.

  16. Ration Coupon

  17. Robert Reams - Fish(ing Party)

    Ambassador Robert Borden Reams was interviewed about American diplomats during a fishing and golfing trip in Panama City, Florida. Ambassador Reams agreed to meet with Lanzmann on the condition that there would be no formal interview, and that topics such as the Bermuda Conference, governmental policies and the State Department during World War II would not discussed. He refuses to tell Lanzmann why he doesn't want to talk about them. Much of Lanzmann's and the Ambassador's time together is spent fishing and golfing, although he eventually opens up to Lanzmann's questions. FILM ID 3875 -- C...

  18. Postwar: Barn in Woodstock, NY

    EXT, MS, Kurt Sluizer wearing a red plaid barn jacket and hat, walking up to pet a horse, pan to a large sheepdog named Toby running in the grass towards Esther Sluizer coming out of the house to their yard in Zena, NY, near the artist colony of Woodstock. Kurt is the brother of Hilde Verdoner-Sluizer and brother-in-law to the cameraman, Gerrit Verdoner. Kurt and Esther left Europe in 1936, thereby escaping the Holocaust. They lived first in Pueblo, Colorado, and then in Zena. Kurt was an oil painter, Esther a nurse and a weaver. Their home dates to colonial times, originally a roadside inn...

  20. Krys family papers

    The collection primarily contains prewar photographs and wartime postcards of the Krys family of Skierniewice, Poland. Included are prewar photographs of Martin and Anna Krys prior to immigrating to the United States, Martin’s sisters and brothers, and other relatives including the Munkabotzki family. There is one postwar photograph of Miriam Ordenas’s (Krys) son Yitzchak (Jack) and his wife in a DP camp. Correspondence consists of two prewar postcards and six wartime postcards addressed to Martin Krys in the United States from his sisters Miriam in Skierniewice and Roiza in Warsaw, both of...