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  1. Heymann and Frank families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, papers, and other materials primarily relating to the Heymann and Frank families before, during, and after the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Collection includes, but is not limited to: pre-war documents, ration cards, cookbook, poesie book, certificates, report cards, notes, correspondence, identity documents, passport, prayer books, small portfolio, a family book, and a booklet.

  2. Bill Leftwich collection

    Contains the Sgt. Bill Leftwich story and one drawing relating to the liberation of the Landsberg camp. The story describes how the American Army broke the camp, Hurlach #4, near Landsberg on 28 April, 1945, and had liberated 2800 allied prisoners. The graphic, singed by Bill Leftwich and dated June, 1945, shows two camp prisoners with an American tank; and on the other site: one prisoner in a dark room.

  3. Illustration 2 from a handmade portfolio of illustrations by Herbert Heyne and Erich Kästner

    Book of illustrations sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst. The book was a gift from Heyne to Furst and was written with Erich Kästner in 1945. It features color illustrations by Heyne and offers a comical and critical depiction of National Socialism and Nazi militarism.

  4. Leaflet about the French boycott of German products

    Leaflet concerning the French boycott of German products printed by Le Comite de defense des Juifs/persecutes en Allemagne.

  5. Ernst Deutsch collection

    Contains material related to Ernst Deutsch (donor's father) and his efforts to emigrate from Vienna, Austria. Includes a certificate of residence issued in July 1937; a German passport with a red in stamp of the letter "J"; and a document from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community of Vienna) certifying that the bearer is a "full Jew" for military recruitment authorities in post-Anschluss Vienna. Also includes a Jewish prayer book belonging to the family of Ernst Deutsch, and an armband acquired by Ernst Deutsch at the Dachau concentration camp immediately following its lib...

  7. Abstract painting by Jimmy Ernst

    Allegorical oil painting created by Jimmy Ernst in memory of his mother, Louise, who was killed in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during the Holocaust.

  9. Nazi banner captured by an American soldier from a flag factory

  11. Invasion of Denmark

    A harbor in Copenhagen, Denmark, with German ships, troops, and military vehicles. Troops raise a German flag atop a citadel. Germany invaded Denmark on April 9, 1940, meeting almost no resistance from the ill-prepared Danes. German planes fly overhead and drop leaflets stating that the Danish population should view the Germans "not as enemies, but as friends" and that the Germans are only occupying Denmark to protect Danish neutrality. This was the official reason given by the Germans for the invasion; they claimed they were protecting Denmark from an imminent British attack. An expanse of...

  12. DPs in Germany

    Reel 1: "Displaced Persons" Displaced persons in Germany are herded into a field; given food, clothing, and medical care; interviewed by officials of the American Military Government.; and assigned billets in a camp. "By Request" Shows brief shots of Charleston, WV; Springfield, IL; Newark, NJ; Tucson and Winslow, AZ; Whiteville, VA; and Fall River, MA.

  13. Pilpel family papers

    The Pilpel Family papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and documents related to the family of Franz Josef and Marion (Stern) Pilpel (later Pell), their daughter Nina, and their son Ronald, chiefly related to the family's immigration from their native Austria to India, and their subsequent immigration to the United States. Includes personal and biographical documents, correspondence between members of the Pilpel family, predominantly from the post-war era but also some pre-war correspondence, and correspondence with extended family members and friends in Australia, Israel, and the ...

  14. Tanks in combat in seaside town

    Contemporary town, bombed buildings, American jeeps, civilians wandering through ruins. Bombed out pharmacy (Pharmacie-French language sign). Local men doing cleanup. Several explosions going off in BG. Men firing mortars. Shot of three tanks crossing scrubbed brush field with troops following. Tanks are firing. More shots of men going through green brush with tanks firing. Armor firing, considerable smoke. Stevens, William Mellor and two other men swimming in ocean. Stevens swims ashore and walks toward camera. Combat shots of tanks clearing frame to reveal troops with rifles running behin...

  15. Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities collection

    The collection consists of three broken tombstones recovered from a desecrated Jewish cemetery on Sevastopol Street in Bucharest, Romania, that was destroyed during World War II.

  16. Court of the First Instance in Pabianice Sąd Grodzki w Pabianicach (Sygn. 2103)

    Selected files of the records so-called “Zg”. Records relate to declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes persons who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including persons arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of witnesses filled out on standard forms, correspondence and sentences of the court. That entry enabled one to subm...

  17. The Pilberg family collection

    Collection of documents of the Pilberg family relating to immigration from Poland to Argentina. Includes photographs, passports, certifications and letters.

  18. Prague uprising; American soldiers

    Unassembled Czech newsreel material from the May uprising in Prague. A lone tank in the Old Town Square of Prague. Shots fired, smoke. WS, another tank in the square. Both fire. Jan Hus Memorial Monument in the center of the square. German tanks. Czechs use pickaxes to dig away at the stones in the street for use in barricades. Three men emerge from a car, two in uniform. People continue working away at the sidewalk. Crowds of Czechs at Wenceslas Square. Officers, pistols in hand, lead a man out of a building with his hands raised above his head, loaded into a car. People carrying bags of g...

  19. Film crew in action at Theresienstadt - cabaret, soccer

    Shooting film at Theresienstadt in 1942, prior to the famous 1944 footage. Interior cafe scene. Three uniformed German cameramen and cameras seen in action. Sign: Theresienstadt Terezin Kreis: ------ 3 cameramen with camera and tripod set up; all into automobile with SS license plate, drive away. One armed guard (local police?) patrolling, near sign: "Juedisches Siedlungsgebiet, Stehenbleiben verboten!" / Jewish settlement area, No loitering! Cabaret performed on stage, assorted costumes; accordionist. Painted scenery. Woman in flowered dress performs alone on stage, dance movements. Two me...

  20. French refugees; German convoy

    Refugees leaving town using various modes of transporation. Couples walking, women pushing prams, one pram has a rabbit in a cage atop. Horse-drawn carts with people and possessions in the back. One of the carts has a flat tire but continues anyway. A couple of cars, one with bicycles atop, stuffed so full of belongings that the passengers ride, stanidng, on the side bumpers. More shots of refugees moving slowyly down a road. Empty, destroyed town, dead horses in the street. Refugees on side of road, German Army trucks on the other. (Good sense of dislocation and movement.)