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  1. Harry Oberyant papers

    Collection of letters sent home by US Army soldier Harry Oberyant (donor's father) documenting his experiences as a liberator of the Dachau concentration camp; 1984 testimony (2 pages) written by Harry Oberyant; 3 photographs of him.

  2. portfolio cover for set of 22 drawings

  3. New Cabinet Meeting in Berlin

    Nighttime march of SS, SA, and stormtroopers. Hitler spotlit in upper window of Reichstag. Soft, murky tracking shots of crowd, torches, flags. A little hard to see, but creates an interesting atmosphere with the sounds and the swarming spotlight. Inside the Hotel Kaiserhof, before the Cabinet meeting begins. Everyone in suits, gathered around, mingling, a bit disorganized. Posing for their first official photograph. Cabinet members include (according to BA documentation): Hitler, Goering, von Papen, Seldte, Gerecke, von Schwerin Krosigk, Frick, von Blomberg, and Hugenberg. More shots of cr...

  4. Leather wallet with embossed images of Egyptian pharaohs acquired by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

    Decorative brown leather wallet purchased by Dr. Edmund Lusthaus in Egypt circa 1943 where he was stationed with the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army, as a medical officer. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Lusthaus was drafted into the Polish Army. Seventeen days later, the Soviet army invaded from the east. Lusthaus was captured and taken to a camp for Polish prisoners of war in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he served as a physician. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet government released the Polish POWs to join the fighting. Lusthaus joined the volunteer...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hitler in Sudetenland

    Hitler in Sudetenland. 03:51:52 MCU on Hitler, acknowledging crowds, cheering throngs. Nazi elite, including Goebbels, behind Hitler, looking pleased. Crowd, policemen four deep. 03:53:13 Hitler, Goering walk down street, in motorcade, town covered with swastika banners. 03:53:40 EXT banquet of Nazis. Himmler at Hitler's left, ring of Nazi soldiers surround them. 03:54:06 Hitler in motorcade. Great shots of crowds and people everywhere: windows, corridors, women crying from joy and chanting. MCU Hitler. Chaos. 03:55:17 Flowers.

  6. Arnold Joseph collection

    The Arnold Joseph collection consists of correspondence to and from defendants at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, which Joseph acquired during his military service as a censor. Incoming correspondence from the general public comes from the so‐called “201 file” of letters not to be delivered to the defendants so as not to upset them. It includes a mixture of praise and good wishes for the defendants as well as insults and invectives, and some correspondence includes prayers, poems, and songs. At least one letter is from a former German soldier, another is from a former political prisoner,...

  7. Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki papers

    The papers consist of documents and 21 photographs relating to the experiences of Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki (donors' parents) during and after the Holocaust. Includes restitution papers and correspondence; testimonies of Jehuda and Pola Stopnicki's and their families' experiences; poems written by Jehuda Stopnicki shortly before her wedding; and family photographs from before World War II, while living as displaced persons in France, and after their immigration to Israel and later to Bolivia.

  8. Jewish family visits Switzerland and Italy prewar

    In Switzerland, John and Jetje Bed walk toward the camera from the entrance to the Hotel Gotthard. Passing landscape and a sign reading “Bally” shot from a moving car or train. Views of Lucerne from a ferry. The ferry sails past the Vitznau, Switzerland mountain railway (Rigi Bahn) station. Dog sits on a dock and very steep rocky cliffs. The family exits a train in an (Italian?) town, CUs of each family member as they ride in a horse-drawn carriage. 04:14 John carries a box camera around his neck. John and Jetje play with pigeons in a town square. The family enjoys refreshments at an outdoo...

  9. Fink Family papers

    Consists of correspondence addressed to Sgt. Gabriel George Fink (1917-1997) while stationed in France from loved ones in the United States, including a letter inquiring about the fates of Raphael (1879-1943) and Sophie Bakhrakh (1908-1943), as well as two photographs. The photographs depict Sgt. Fink while in Nice and the public humiliation of French women accused of collaboration.

  10. Boletín informativo de la Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas

    Contains an incomplete set of the serial titled: Boletin Informativo de la Delegacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (D.A.I.A), published by D.A.I.A., in Buenos Aires, 1935- . One folder also contains newspaper clippings and articles from various Latin American newspapers concerning the 1992 terrorist bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires.

  11. Hauptmann family collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Ignaz, Etta, and Karolina Hauptmann, including their life in the Ulm displaced persons camp from 1946-1949, immigration to the United States in 1949, and testimony in the trial against SS Officer Friedrich Hildebrandt. Included are Ulm DP camp identification cards, Karolina’s report cards, affidavits and testimony about the family’s Holocaust experiences, restitution paperwork, declarations of intention and naturalization certificates, documents and correspondence related to Ignaz and Etta’s testimony during the Bremen county trial agains...

  12. Ellis Gordon collection

    Invitation Card to a Gala Concert to aid the Danish Refugees in Sweden at the Metropolitan Opera House held on Thursday evening, February 17th, 1944. Lists participating artists, prices, special guests, contact for tickets. "There are about 11,000 Danish Refugees in Sweden who have fled Gestapo terror, they must be fed, clothed, housed until Denmark is free again. Denmark is not yet in the Nation-wide National War Fund Drive, as this unfortunately was closed before the latest tragedy to our country occurred, therefore this Benefit Concert has been arranged by Lauritz Melchior to help reliev...

  13. Baia Mare glass slide collection

    Collection of over 400 glass slides of portraits of Jews from Baia Mare, Romania, most taken between 1935-1940.

  14. Documentation of the local authority in the Mogilev Podolskiy district, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the local authority in the Mogilev Podolskiy district, 1941-1943 Included in the collection: - Documentation regarding the situation of the Kolkhozy in the district; - Correspondence with the Romanian authorities regarding the employment of Jewish skilled professionals; - Correspondence with the administration of the concentration camp for political prisoners in Bronnytsa and the Romanian authorities in the district, regarding the situation of the camp.

  15. Lwow compilation: video finding aid

    Compilation of footage on wartime Lwow, including the Lwow pogrom in 1941. Scenes show Jews being rounded up and beaten. 01:00:05 to 01:04:52 RG-60.3121 Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos & Sound, 2440 R.1 (1939) 01:04:54 to 01:06:12 RG-60.3122 Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos & Sound, 2440 R.2 (1939) 01:06:14 to 01:15:04 RG-60.3112 Liberation of Ukrainian and Belorussian land from Polish landlords Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos and Sound, 539 R.2 (1940) (in 00:14:59 out 00:23:40 of original tape) 01:15:05 to 01:25:15 RG-60.3119 Soviet...

  16. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: occupational therapy at hospital

    Reel 4 of 8: "Noch eine Karteikarte eines Schizophrenen" (woman). Natural sound during occupational therapy. Nun encouraging young woman. VAR scenes of women and occupational tasks. CU of nun with moustache. 00:17:53 Greenhouse and surroundings. New plants, men working, MS transplanting to baskets. 00:18:43 Kitchen, cabbage, vats of soup. 00:19:41 Women in laundry, wooden tubs, hands working. 00:20:27 WS ironing. Sewing machine. Women at work; look quite normal; work at looms. Nun working alongside. Men in woodshop: sawing, sanding, building furniture, making mats. Women: weaving, spinning.

  17. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Embassy in Bucharest Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Bukareszcie (Sygn.487)

    Correspondence, studies, publications and other materials related to the condition of national minorities in Romania, Hungary and Poland; records related to education of Jewish and Ukrainian communities, emigration to Palestine, re-emigration to Poland; and reports and statistics representing a numbers of Jewish teachers and students in Poland.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- German-American Bund; office, meeting

    563 E: In office of German American Bund - staff at desk, going through papers. CUs, Fritz Kuhn. Sign, "Reichsgruendungs Feier." Staff prepares recruitment mailing. Folding pamphlets which read, "Purpose and Aims of German American Bund." "JOIN" letters. CU, poster for Bund event at Yorkville Casino on January 16, 1938. Men reading newspapers in office. VAR takes, man walks into office, communicates with secretary and uniformed German American Bund, heiling. 03:05:11 563 F: In office of German American Bund, file cabinets, staff, mailing, answering telephone, typing. MSs German newspapers a...

  19. Berlin in Color

    Old Berlin, stroll through city, "Reich capital Berlin 1936". The recordings are from the years 1941/42, shot by the professional cameraman Frederick Fuglsang. East-West axis, decorated with swastika flags, traffic towards Brandenburg Gate, Uniformed. Unter den Linden, Radio tower, exhibition halls at the radio tower, Cafe, Hitler Youth, Old library, Hedwigskirche, Scharnhorst monument, Old St. Mary's Church, Theodor Körner Residential building, where Körner lived as a student.

  20. Text only flier advertising the sale of three antisemitic books

    Text only circular advertising three antisemitic books published by Hammer-Verlag in Leipzig, Germany, in 1936: “Guidebook for the Jewish Question” by Theodor Fritsch, “The International Jew” by Henry Ford, and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” It has an excerpt from a November 28, 1930, letter from Hitler to Fritsch that describes Fritsch’s book as essential for the Nazi movement. The publishing house, Hammer-Verlag, was founded by Fritsch (1852-1933) in Leipzig in 1902. His son, also Theodor Fritsch (1895-1946), was a bookseller and Nazi Party member. He inherited the publishing hous...