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  1. Selected records from the Central State Archives of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Documentation, Tashkent, Uzbekistan related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII.

    The collection contains documents of the Ministry of Health of Uzbekistan and medical hospitals, Tashkent Medical Institute, medical reaserch centers and other state medical agencies active on the territory of Uzbekistan during WWII. It includes records related to the medical assistance given to evacuees, the improvement of the sanitary condition of places where evacuees are resettled, and the measures taken by local medical personnel to maintain and improve the health of the evacuated population. Among the records are financial reports, statistical information, and annual presentations abo...

  2. Drypoint etching created by David Friedman of Jewish Prisoners in KZ

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn737794
    • English
    • pictorial area: Height: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Width: 8.880 inches (22.555 cm) overall: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm)

    Drypoint etching depicting Jewish prisoners in a concentration camp by David Friedman.

  3. Postwar devastation; opening of Nuremberg Trial; early Nazi party history, events, leaders

    Part 1 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 1 & 2] "Europa 1945" Panorama of war devastation: buildings and cities laid to waste, rubble, mother climbing out of trap door shelter with naked baby in arms, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters, children running down steps, clambering for food, poverty, homeless people, begging for food, weeping woman. "Nuremberg 21 November 1945" EXT and INT Nuremberg Palace of Justice. CU, document announcing trial and listing the accused. Seating of International Military Tribunal. Chief US prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson pres...

  4. Gestapo Brno (B 340)

    Investigative and arrest files as well administrative records of the Gestapo Brno. The investigative and arrest files concern mostly Czech individuals arrested on a variety of charges such as making anti-German remarks, listening to foreign radio broadcasts, sabotage, malingering, anti-social behavior, possession of arms, miscegenation, and other charges. The records also contain documentation pertaining to Gestapo actions against Czech resistance groups and Jews, the disbandment of Czech organizations, the confiscation of properties and assets, and situation reports including from Czech in...

  5. Pair of candlesticks given to a neighbor in Antwerp for safekeeping

    A pair of candlesticks that originally belonged to the paternal grandparents of the donor’s father, Leon Messer. They were given to a neighbor in Antwerp for safekeeping during the war. Leon survived multiple camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau and Sachsenhausen, and the candlesticks were returned to him after the war.

  6. Drawing,"Because They Were Jews" created by David Friedman

    Pencil drawing by David Friedman.

  7. Gabriel Schutzengel papers

    The Gabriel Schutzengel papers include Gabriel’s Hungarian identification card and two diaries describing his experiences. The first diary, 1939-1949, is a handwritten account, in Hungarian, about German occupation. The entries include his time in a forced labor camp, the deportation of his mother and sister, as well as details about the fate of Jews in Hungary, particularly in Komárom and Budapest. Gabriel’s memoir, titled "Machzor” is typewritten in English and categorized into sections. The memoir describes the German presence and occupation and includes family trees.

  8. Reuben family papers

    Contains correspondence and forms related to Mrs. E. Reubens, of Cardiff, Wales, and her efforts to assist Jewish displaced persons at the Bergen-Belsen refugee camp, 1945-1946. Includes pre-war correspondence regarding her involvement in Jewish organizations in Britain that sought to assist German-Jewish refugees, dated 1933-1938.

  9. Documentation of the Jewish community in Brzesc nad Bugiem, from the years 1938-1939

    Documentation of the Jewish community in Brzesc nad Bugiem, from the years 1938-1939 In the Collection: - List of members of the Jewish community in Brzesc nad Bugiem, 1938; - Lists of Jews who paid a membership fee to the Jewish community, 1938-1939.

  10. German advance; officers confer; German wounded; mail and packages at the front

    Reel 2: 00:00:00 German military advance with horse-drawn camouflaged artillery. Men digging holes. Troops advance on horseback. German soldier operates a radio; views of/from the radio tower. The camera pans across the landscape from the radio tower, a large column of smoke is visible in the distance, figures moving across an open field. Panning shots of a small military camp at the edge of a tree line; soldiers dig a trench, operate a radio. CU of a Russian prisoner (Asian features) digging a trench. 00:02.18 Group of men taken prisoner, in civilian clothing, caps. Marched off under guard...

  11. Mina Colton photograph collection

    Three photographs. One taken approximately 1936 of five school girls who attended Hochstein Gymnasium in Łódź, including from left, Mina Reiss Colton, Bronka Rheingold, Marysia Sheinberg, Mira Poznanska and Bela Ginzburg. One group portrait of women released from Ravensbrück concentration camp and brought to Sweden for recuperation taken in Annaberg, May 1945. One group photo of donor's brother Natek, aunt Ruth Goldman and her two daughters in the Cyprus detention camp in 1946.

  12. Hana Engel photograph collection

    Consists of two photographs: one a prewar image of Ania Szymkiewicz Engel (donor) and her mother, Regina, walking in the street in Łódź, Poland; the second an image of Hana Engel in Tel Aviv, dated 1948. Ania attended Abba Gymnasium before the war and the ghetto high school. In August 1944, she and her mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Regina was murdered. Hana was liberated in May 1945 in Theresienstadt and in 1946 she arrived in Palestine where she was reunited with her father.

  13. Large Nazi banner with swastika acquired by an American soldier

    Large red Nazi banner with mobile swastika brought back from the war by Ernie Pels, a soldier in the United States Army in Europe during World War II (1939-1945).

  14. Agro-Joint in Simferopol

    CU of a plane ticket, dated 1936. Plane takes off. Map of Crimea. Morris Troper is shown arriving in Simferopol. Intertitles describe Troper's activities. He leaves for a trip to Jonkoi via car with Mr. Zaichek, the chief agronom.

  15. Ketubah

    Contains a Ketubah issued for the marriage of Sara Gitel Pollack (Gitta Pollack) and Yehuda Lev Goldberg [Leo Goldberg] married December 12, 1946 in Milan.

  16. Helen and Willie Abraham photograph collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Helen Abraham (born Hencia Wagner) of Dąbrowica Mała, Leżajsk, Poland in the Ainring displaced persons camp and Willie Abraham of Vel'ky Rakovec, Czechoslovakia (present day Velykyi Rakovets, Zakarpat'ska Oblast, Ukraine) in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp. Included are photographs of Helen at Ainring and the munitions factory in Menden, Germany where she worked under a false identity; a letter written to Helen from her brother David Wagner in 1943 while he was in hiding before he was discovered and murdered by the Gestapo; photogr...

  17. Oral history interview with Anonymous

  18. Keith Suter interviewed on nuclear arms and peace

    Radio interview with Dr. Keith Suter from the Trinity Peace Research Institute. Host: Jenny ? 6UVS-FM Perth, Australia. Suter explains the importance of an American publication by US Armed Forces General Kidd, "Strategic Cooperation Initiative" (1990). Kidd argues that instead of going ahead with "starwars," Americans should opt for an alternative strategy which would emphasize cooperation with the Soviets. Suter received the book via mail from Benjamin Ferencz at the Peace Research Center at Pace University, NY. Suter continues to lecture on the campaign to end the arms race.

  19. Einsatzgruppen shooting of Jews, Latvia

    An Einsatzgruppe execution between late July and mid-August 1941. Jewish men being shot by Germans, in dugout pit. Two brief shots of German Kriegsmarine standing along the bank near the bushes (screen left) washing himself. Footage includes executions of three groups of men. Soldiers and others, including Kriegsmarine personnel and civilians, stand around. Also visible are many people watching from an embankment above. Jews jump out of open truck and are herded, running, towards open pit. They wear "yellow badges" on their chests and backs. SS men, local Latvian militia, and German police ...

  20. Herzberg family papers

    The Herzberg family papers include biographical materials and photographs documenting the family of Jacob and Margaret (née Bloch) Herzberg, and their daughter Rachel, originally of Fulda, Germany. Included are family photographs and documents, including birth certificates, and certificates related to religious ceremonies and weddings, extending back to the late 1890s. Also included are forms and correspondence related to the efforts of the Herzberg family to emigrate from Germany, their successful arrival in the United States, Jacob Herzberg's application to not be considered as an enemy a...