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  1. Claudia Leder Bookspan collection

    Collection of documents relating to Lore Felsenthal (donor's mother) and Toni Stein (donor's grandmother); their flight from Germany through Belgium; their imprisonment in the Gurs concentration camp; and their arrival to the US in June 1941. Also includes documents and photographs relating to Eugenia Leder Mayer (donor's paternal aunt), who was deported from Italy to Theresienstadt in 1943 and did not survive.

  2. Anti-fascist and anti-racist educational film made by US Army Signal Corps

    An American film dramatizing the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the US Armed Forces. Reel 1: shows a fake wrestling match and crooked gambling games with narration: "There's a good old-fashioned word for people like this. We call them suckers." An agitator addresses a street crowd; he almost convinces an American man in the audience until he begins to talk to a Hungarian refugee from Germany. A Nazi speaker harangues a crowd in Germany denouncing Jews, Catholics, and Freemasons. Reel 2: A German unemployed w...

  3. Doll hat

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

  4. Gernsheimer family collection

    Contains documents and photographs concerning Theodor and Hilde Gernsheimer and their sons, Fritz and Hans, and their immigration to the United States from Mannheim, Germany, after Kristallnacht.

  5. Funeral for Ernst vom Rath

    Views from the funeral train as it passes military troops at attention, civilian crowds at train stations, bridges adorned with swastikas and flooded by saluting military and civilians; occasional views of flower-draped casket on the train. View of train pulling into Dusseldorf station; swastika on front of engine. Views of soldiers, dignitaries at the station. Swastika-draped casket is carried from station and placed on a rolling carriage. VAR views as massive funeral cortege proceeds down wide avenue: swastika banners draped above the street; crowds pack the sidewalks; all levels of milit...

  6. American military moves through Germany

    Reel 13: (1945) Germany; Air trip to England; Remagen Street scenes, soldiers marching, gathering in the road amongst crowds of civilians. Church. Planes landing in a field, soldiers conversing next to trucks in the airfield (possibly, the Frankfurt airstrip). Soldiers at leisure outside a home (temporary HQ?), play with a small dog, open a metal trunk, and wave to the camera from trucks. Nice CUs of men. Street scenes and views from moving vehicle. In town, soldiers talk with civilians and children, and hang a sign, "534 QM GP". They pose for the camera. Two soldiers in front of the home p...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Brussels during liberation

    Riots in Brussels. Leftist rioting on streets of Brussels, trying to prevent meeting of "Royalists." People, trying to enter Flemish Theater for the meeting, being pushed away and chased by the crowd. Gendarmes stationed along street. 01:03:10 Charles de Gaulle visiting Brussels, with Prince Reginal. Taking to crowd from Royal Palace balcony.

  8. Munich Agreement

    Events related to Munich Pact, whereby France and England acceded to Hitler's demands to annex the Sudetenland. Neville Chamberlain arrives from plane. He walks past stormtroopers, a brief shot of the British and German flags flying together. Chamberlain and another man (in civilian dress -- perhaps another Englishman?) in the first car of a motorcade, riding down a street and waving to the crowds, who give "Heil" salutes. INT at meeting. Hitler, Himmler, Hess, Goering, Mussolini, Daladier, etc., talking, studying papers. Signing and official stamping of documents.

  9. US propaganda poster reminding Americans of the urgent need to support the war

    Propaganda poster A-25 designed by Ben Shahn for the US War Production Drive to promote popular support for World War II. The colorful lithograph has an image of men with their hands raised in the air. The poster protests the oppression of worker's by the Vichy government in unoccupied France, and warns, one worker to another, of even more terrible things to come. The workers stand before a broadside of the Official Vichy Decree which forced French workers to perform any work which served the interest of the nation. The US government originally supported this regime, established in 1940 und...

  10. Oral history interview with Alexander Rezmovits

  12. German coalition government, 1928

    German coalition government, 1928. Members of the Mueller Cabinet posing with one row seated and another standing behind them. They are talking amongst themselves. MCU, Hermann Mueller (left), Germany's new Chancellor, and Wilhelm Groener, Minister of Defense; pan left to Erich Koch-Weser. MLS showing most of them. Sitting, from left to right: Erich Koch-Weser, Hermann Mueller, Wilhelm Groener, Rudolf Wissell? Standing: Rudolf Hilferding, Julius Curtius, Carl Severing, Theodor von GuTrard. This was a grand coalition, reaching across the political spectrum, of the parties Sozialdemokratische...

  13. Selected records of the Sondergericht bei dem Landgericht Zichanau Sąd Specjalny przy Sądzie Krajowym w Ciechanowie (Sygn. 644/III) : Wybrane materialy

    Criminal cases against Poles and Jews for theft, smuggling, fencing, illegal trade of meat, bread, and helping Jews. The accused people were sentenced to very severe punishments: death penalty, concentration camp, a prison camp, and a fine. Most of the prisoners did not survive.

  14. UNRRA selected records AG-018-023 : Hungary Mission

    Consist of correspondence, reports, statistics, newspaper clippings, and articles relating to welfare programs of various agencies, displaced persons in Hungary, and repatriation of Hungarians from Palestine, welfare institutions and projects in Budapest, and to Hungarian journalists.

  15. Selected records of the Cooperative Credit Bank Ltd. in Kielce Bank Kredytowo-Spółdzielczy z o.o. w Kielcach (Sygn. 1547)

    Selected records of the Jewish Cooperative Credit Bank Ltd. in Kielce: minutes of sessions of members of the Supervisory Board, membership declarations, books of register, shares and funds.

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  17. Political prisoners' concentration camp

    Political Prisoners' Concentration Camp, Langenstein, Germany, April 18, 1945. MSs, sick prisoners are removed on litters from barracks and placed in ambulance. MSs, CUs, unburied bodies of the dead lie in an open pit. MSs, Maj Gen Raymond S. McLain, CG of the XIX Corps, looking into the pit. VS, group of US officers and Gen McLain inspect camp. MS, Pan, deceased prisoners lying in open pit. MSs, several thin, starved-looking prisoners talk to US officer and a doctor. VS, sick prisoners on litters are carried from ambulances to the 20th Field Hospital tents in Halberstadt. CUs, medical offi...

  18. Records from the Archives of the Jewish Community of Volos, Greece

    The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence files of the Community Council as well as documentation related to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust. Among the records are the minutes of the Community Council’s meetings; notes, memoranda, reports, correspondence with other Greek Jewish Communities, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, institutions inside and outside the country; financial documents: lists of expenses, invoices, acknowledgements of receipts of various costs covered by the Community; petitions to and correspondence with the Greek autho...

  19. Arnoldi and Kohn families collection

    The Arnoldi and Kohn families collection consists of documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Ruth Arnoldi and her family, who fled to Sosua, Dominican Republic, from Berlin, Germany. Also illustrated is Herbert Kohn (Ruth's future husband) who fled Austria and settled in Sosua, where he met and married Ruth.

  20. Kessler family life in 1931

    Lizzy Film Produktion. Mitglied des Klubs der Kinoamateure Osterreichs. Bringtz. “Kino” “Achtung” “Sie sehen: Momentbilder” “Von Sommer 1931” “Herbst 1931” “Winter 1931” “Sommer” (00:00:57) “Jm Voslauer Strandbad”. Families sit on the beach. Aunt Hilde [Hilde Altmann?] hands something to Hans Otto Kessler and smiles at the camera. “Mit Tante Hilde ins Wasser” Aunt Hilde [Hilde Altmann?] and Hans walk down the stairs into the water. Aunt Hilde helps him swim and lightly splashes the water. “An der Quelle” Hans play with the water coming out of the fountain and then walks around in the water ...