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  1. Paul Friedhoff collection

    Contains materials created or compiled by Paul Friedhoff, including material about his experiences during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. I Believe

    3 grooved discs inside a disc jacket. "I Believe" A Collection of Songs by Emma Schaver (soprano) in Yiddish and Hebrew. Repertoire performed by Schaver during her UNNRA-sponsored tour of Jewish DP camps in occupied Germany. Disc contents include: Disc 1 Side A: Kaddish Disc 1 Side B: Ani Maamin Disc 2 Side A: Partisan Song (Zog nit keynmol) Disc 2 Side B: Yugend Hymn Disc 3 Side A: Es Brent Disc 3 Side B: Eyns, tsvey, dray

  3. Treblinke

    Arnold Friedman performs "Treblinke" ["Treblinke dort"], the song probably created in the Warsaw ghetto, in the original Yiddish and in his own English translation. Piano accompaniment by Laura Paglin.

  4. Habibi | Im hupalnu

    Side A: Habibi (Hebrew Tango). Music: E. Egan, text: S. Fisher; published 1945. Side B: Im hupalnu - a Hebrew song that references the refugee ships Struma and Patria. Music, Menashe Baharav, text: Ya'akov Orland; published 1946. [disc label on this side is misprinted with the song title, Madagascar] Piano (both sides): Jascha Galperin. RCA Victor recording.

  5. Kurt Frederick interview

    Radio interview with New Mexico Symphony conductor Kurt Frederick broadcast on November 19, 1979 over KHFM (Albuquerque, NM). Mr. Frederick discusses his Viennese upbringing, flight from Europe and subsequent career in the United States (58:46). Brief introduction by Mrs. Gladys Frederick.

  6. Avreml Marwijer | Katariniach

    Yiddish performance of "Avreml Marwijer" (A Side) and "Katariniach" (B Side). Yiddish transcription: "Katarinyakh" ; "Avreml der marvikher" or "Aveiml Marwijer." Elwira Boczkowska with accompaniment of orchestra directed by Simon Tenovsky N° 1331. Songwriter credit for Avreml Marwijer: Mordecai Gebirtig. Published: Buenos Aires, 1950.

  7. Oral history interviews of the Forum Institute, Samorin, Slovakia/Zoltán Kőrös collection

    Oral history interviews, photos, and documents related to the experiences of ethnic Hungarians and former soldiers (WWII combatants) in Slovakia who witnessed events that impacted Jews during the Holocaust and/or have memories of prewar Jewish life in Slovakia. The collection also includes testimonies about the lives of ethnic Hungarians under the Czechoslovakian regime.

  8. Institute of National Remembrance collection

    The collection consists of a rail car used to deport victims to concentration camps, railroad tracks and components that led to Treblinka killing center, and a chain.

  9. Libbey Sansanowicz collection

    Contains materials donated by Libbey Sansanowicz regarding her family's experiences during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. H. Frank Brull Collection

    Correspondence, photographs, maps, travel brochures, printed materials, documenting the immigration of Hans Frans Brull (later H. Frank Brull) to the United States as a child, correspondence from his parents in Berlin, travel itineraries and brochures from the cruise ship line on which he traveled to the United States; photographs of Brull as a child, his parents, and classmates in Berlin; and booklets and printed material from his military career, as well as a transcript of opening statements at one of the Allied military tribunals held in Nuremberg, 1947. 7 additional pieces of scrip are ...

  11. Otto and Ruth Landman collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Otto Landman and his family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. Thomas W. Miles collection

    Contains materials collected by Thomas W. Miles or related to his experiences as a soldier in World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  13. Goldstein and Thebner families collection

    The Goldstein and Thebner families collection consist of biographical material, correspondence, a diary, and photographs relating to Ruth Goldstein and Arthur Thebner’s families pre-war and wartime experiences. The collection includes a large amount of correspondence among family members relating to their attempts to emigrate from Germany as well as pre-war family photographs. The collection also includes a diary written by Ilse Szinberger, Arthur’s cousin, during her time in London from 1942-1958, and a prayer book.

  14. Gershon Perecman collection

    Collection of materials documenting the experiences of Gershon Perecman (donor's father) before, during, and after the Holocaust; includes newspaper "Our Hope" from the displaced persons camp (dated 1947), Perecman's memoir on a notepad and loose pages, translation of the memoir, envelopes of watchsprings and other watch repair parts from his time in the DP camp, oral history interview with Gershon Perecman on VHS, and one German coin.

  16. Betsy S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betsy S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1928. She recounts that her parents were Polish immigrants; German invasion in May 1940; her father continuing his business until 1942; meeting her future husband who was involved in the Resistance; going into hiding with her family; their arrest in June 1944; incarceration in Malines; deportation to Birkenau; separation from her father and brother (they did not survive); the trauma of not recognizing her mother after they were shaved; singing French songs while marching to Auschwitz; separation from her mother (she did n...

  17. Raphael Allie photograph collection

    Collection of photographs, copy prints, and photographic postcards documenting the Dachau concentration camp and other locations, and American GIs after liberation. Possibly images of the 3rd Armored Division. First Sgt. Raphael "Ray" Allie, a member of the 3rd Armored Division, brought these photographs home after his military service during WWII.

  18. Trial of David Frankfurter Prozess David Frankfurter Bestand

    Contains records of the trial of David Frankfurter in Chur, Switzerland, 1936. Includes personal documents of Frankfurter, correspondence, press articles, reports and protocols. The Jewish student David Frankfurter, shot to death the German Nazi official, NSDAP state party leader for Switzerland, Wilhelm Gustloff, on February 4, 1936, in Davos in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland. He was sentenced to a long prison term; pardoned in August 1945 and released.

  19. Louis Rubin photograph collection

    Contains photographs taken by Louis Rubin (donor's late husband) of Bergen Belsen and elsewhere in Germany during his military service in Europe.

  20. OSE home for Jewish boys

    OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) home for Jewish boys in Ecouis, France. The teenage boys had been liberated from Buchenwald just three months prior. The boys dance. 00:02:46 The boy carrying a suitcase is Israel Meir Lau. The teenage boys engage in sports, visit the city and some board a bus and wave goodbye, perhaps emigrating to Palestine or other places. A memorial service/parade and display of models the boys made in a woodworking class. They socialize with girls and build a fire.