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  1. Four Freedoms postal cover

    Envelope, first-day issue of envelope and stamps commemorating the "Four Freedoms." "Freedom of Speech and Religion, Freedom from Want and Fear" hand-cancelled on February 12, 1943. Envelope bears silk-screened imagery and four stamps in upper right corner bearing repeated statement "Freedom of Speech and Religion…" as well as postage-sized photograph of the Statue of Liberty and world flags and statement "The United Nations Fight For Freedom," addressed to Jack Middleton in Hubbard, Ohio.

  2. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  3. US War Bonds poster of three small children under the shadow of a swastika

    U.S. War Bond poster designed by Lawrence Beall Smith in 1942, after America's entry into World War II. It features three young children, apprehensive and fearful, as they are enveloped by the large, dark arm of a swastika shadow. The poster was distributed by the United StatesTreasury Department and implied that purchasing war bonds would keep the children safe from the Nazi threat. War bonds were offered by the United States Government for purchase by the public; purchasers would keep the bond and be reimbursed for its return at a later date. Purchasing bonds was considered patriotic and ...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Experimental fighter planes

    Experimental fighter planes, Muroc Air Base, CA. The aircraft shown in the footage is the prototype of Northrop's XF-89.

  5. London

    London street scenes with automobile and bus traffic, circa 1935-1939 when Kurt Ehrenfeld had been living there to attend high school while his family remained in Nazi Germany. MS, in Hyde Park on Oxford Street. Bus advertising "Give Havana Cigars" passes the Marble Arch. Crowds at Speakers' Corner. Camera follows a tall man with a hat as he crosses the street. CU of Kurt's mother, Alice, smiles as she walks toward the camera in Hyde Park. Families feeding the birds from the Old Stone Bridge at the lake in the Hyde Park. Quick LS of a group gathered in front of a gated house, cars parked al...

  6. Nurse's apron worn in Theresienstadt

  7. Touring Germany

    Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. In Germany, along the Rhine, tourist shots of river, a boat, crane industry on the shore, sailors. CU, Herz girl with camera. LS, chalets on shore, bridges. Street scenes with civilians on bicycles, steamboat, chalets in the mountains. In German town (Nuremberg?), street scenes, MS of food and ice cream vendor. CU Coca-Cola sign.

  8. Oral history interviews of the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, and other eyewitnesses, recorded by the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project throughout the 1980s and 1990s in the San Francisco, CA area

  9. Jewish Philanthropic Association : Minutes of the Board of Directors Asociación Filantropica Israelita : Reuniones Comision Directiva

    Minutes of meetings of the board of directors of Asociacion Filantropica Israelita, organized by year.

  10. Die Brennessel (Munich, Germany) [Magazine]

    Benjamin and Sophie Esterman were American citizens who were traveling in Europe, and visited Germany in order to see for themselves and to inform others where Nazism was going.

  12. Javorkovsky family photographs

    Collection of photographs documenting the Yavarkovsky family in pre-war Riga, Latvia.

  13. The Call Print 2 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting prisoners, including those that had died, being accounted for during roll call at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat ...

  14. Selected records of the District Court in Łódź Amtsgericht in Litzmannstadt Sąd Obwodowy w Łodzi (Syg. 899)

    German court cases of the District Court in Łódź, Civil Department, relating to the confiscation of Polish and Jewish property, Germanization of Polish children, sending youth to the Reich for forced labor, as well as personal data of the Nazi officials, which was useful for the investigation of the Main Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes, especially the Commission of Łódź. Majority of records relete to Germanization of Polish children in Łódź. The collection is incomplete and lack of general files, as well as repertories and indexes of cases, it consists only records of one of fiv...

  15. Ariege collection

    Contains a copy of Vichy registration of Jews in Ariege, twelve copyprints, and oral history interviews with Jeanne Rogalle, Claude Delpla, and G. Ane.

  16. Reading of indictments at Nuremberg Trial

    Reading of indictment at Nuremberg Trial. Courtroom at rest (pre-trial). Court rises as Tribunal enters. Dock showing Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, etc. 01:01:58 Hess stares stonily (at camera). Hess looks around room, smirks and smiles as MP picks up Hess' earphones for him to hear. MS, MLS, defendants, judges, courtroom audience listening as Justice Lawrence (voiceover) speaks about giving defendants access to documents that will be used as evidence during the trial. (poor image quality-scratches on film, underexposed footage) 01:02:39 Lawrence continues stating, "Indictment shall now be rea...

  17. Anna Sved Blum collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences Anna Sved Blum and her parents Dezső and Ernesztina (Segő) Sved of Budapest, Hungary. Included are birth, death and wedding certificates, photographs, report card, identification cards, immigration papers, family history documents, a personal narrative by Anna describing her Holocaust experiences, and a narrative/claim in German regarding the confiscation of belongings. Additionally, there are digital audio recordings of interviews of Anna conducted by her son.

  18. Oral history interviews of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre collection

    Contains interviews with 49 Holocaust survivors in the Montreal, Quebec, Canada area

  19. Hedva Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hedva Z., who was born in Maria?nske? La?zne?, Czechoslovakia. She recounts living in Jas?o, then Przemys?l; attending university in L?viv; antisemitic harassment; working as a nurse in Kolomyi?a?; marriage in December 1939; living in Kosiv; Soviet occupation; confiscation of her husband's businesses; moving to Kolomyi?a?; German invasion; mass killings; sheltering orphaned children; ghettoization; supervising an orphanage; a former maid smuggling food to them; hiding the children during round-ups; assistance from the head of the Judenrat, Mordecai Horowitz; her paren...

  20. Albert D., Chai?m D., and Henri D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of brothers Albert D., Chai?m D., and Henri D. who were born in Kozienice, Poland, in 1917, 1919, and 1923, respectively, to a family of five children. They recall their family's orthodoxy; participating in Betar; antisemitism in school; German invasion; briefly fleeing to a nearby village; hiding during round-ups for forced labor; ghettoization; Chai?m's and their father's transfer to work in Pionki; their father's return; Chai?m's marriage to Pola D.; Albert's and Henri's deportation to Pionki concentration camp (they never saw their parents and younger sister again); ...