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  1. Portrait of a Polish female inmate drawn by a fellow inmate in a Soviet labor camp

    Pencil portrait of Roza Holcman created by Jozia Berko in March 15, 1944, when both women were political prisoners in a Soviet labor camp in Samarka (Temritau), Kazakhstan. Jozia was an underground delegate for the Polish Government in Exile. She was imprisoned by the Soviets at the camp by 1944 and died there in the late 1940s. Roza was arrested by the Soviets in 1942 for doing military recruitment for the Polish Home Army in the east and sentenced to fifteen years. She had a daughter, Aurelia, in November 1944, with an American medic, Phillip Rosenblith, who was later transferred to Mosco...

  2. Transport squadron, JU 52

    Greek buildings, palm trees, open car in desert camouflage paint, German Afrika Korps, overflight over mountains, aerial photographs: city, industrial plants, large airfield, houses, soldiers in swimwear, woman at the loom, Greek village

  3. Card file index of Jews, Slovakia Kartotékové listy Židov

    General card file index of Jews living in Slovakia, circa 1942-1944. This card file index probably covers those Slovak Jews who had not yet been transported by the Slovak authorities to the border of the Government General or the German Reich and turned over to the German SS and police, and who still lived in the territory of Slovakia. A majority of the cards carry a date stamp (either from 1942 or 1944, starting with September 1942) in the top margin as well as a location stamp, which might indicate a forced labor camp. The cards provide personal data on each person and in some cases also ...

  4. Would you Tell Secrets to Spies? Then Don't Talk About Military Matters WWII Public Utilities Commission broadside

    Broadside, "Buy Defense Bonds! Your Buying Keeps 'Em Flying", on one side, and "Would you Tell Secrets to Spies? Then Don't Talk About Military Matters" on the other side.

  5. Russian Collaborator General Vlasov in Czechoslovakia

    Russian General Vlasov visits Germany and Czechoslovakia Reel 1: 4:47:35 German Air Force ace Maj. Walter Novotny receives award, visits Hitler with his parents, in military parade, then shot of his casket at funeral, CU of inscription (looks like "Hero"). 4:49:00 MS Soviet General Vlasov reviews troops in Prague. 4:49:07 LS Large hall in Prague full of officials (Gen Vlasov is walking through, seated officers include (Karl Frank?). LS Vlasov reading statement, CUs of various officials, CU Vlasov. 4:49:46 CU Flags LS Vlasov enters thru audience, banner in balcony. LS and CUs as Vlasov makes...

  6. The Striker, October 1937, 15th year 1937 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Issue of Der Stürmer, a viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Julius Streicher, an early Nazi Party member, from 1923-1945 in Germany. The newspaper's slogan was "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" [The Jews are our misfortune]. The paper thrived on scandal, and preferred sensational stories of Jews committing disgusting, evil acts. It was also infamous for its antisemitic cartoons and staff cartoonist Fips. Streicher was arrested by the US Army in May 1945. He was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed per the ruling that his repeated articles...

  7. Norman Bentwich collection (P174)

    Private papers of Norman de Mattos Bentwich (1883-1971): Correspondence with refugees from Germany and Austria including name lists (organized alphabetically), as well as correspondence with the various refugee aid organizations such as the Central British Fund, London, the Comité voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen, Amsterdam, the Comité voor Bijzondere Joodsche Belangen, Amsterdam, the American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation, the Comité Allemand, Paris, the Comité National Tchécoslovaque pour les réfugiés provenant d'Allemagne, Prague, the Vereeniging tot Vakopleiding van Palestina Pionier...

  8. Lutz travels with others on a train

    Unknown date. Carl Lutz and a woman sit in a train car. Another woman travels with them. CU, Mother Lutz with the woman. Man with a mustache. Carl and two women look out the window at the passing landscape, pointing at things. Carl puts his arm around his mother. They gesture out the window. Off the train, there are various close shots of the different woman smiling. The mustached man. CU, elderly woman. Carl. He tips his hat several times. They pose in front of a monument with lots of domes. Carl with the elderly woman. He gestures behind him. Group shot. They wear hats and fur coats, and ...

  9. Goering, Hess, others at Nuremberg War Crimes Trial

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 1946. 02:16:05 CUs, Hermann Goering. Goering looks directly at camera, then away; blinking; speaks to man to his left (off camera) calmly; inattentively grins; smiles as if there was a joke. 02:16:24 CUs, Hess. Stares at the camera, then downward; grim expression. 02:17:03 CU, Goering nervously tugging at scarf tied beneath collar of uniform. 02:17:28 CU, Goering resting his chin on his hand. 02:18:00 CU, Hess stroking his face with his hand. He is looking downward, pulls at his lip, rubs face, squashes cheek, picks at his cheek. 02:19:10 CU, Wilhe...

  10. Man and silence

    Man and silence, Fishermen Hunting in Trakehnen, Folk art, The German Order’s land

  11. "Budapest, Auschwitz, Sydney: Magda Altman Philip's Journey"

    Consists of one memoir written by Magda Altman Philip entitled "Budapest, Auschwitz, Sydney: Magda Altman Philip's Journey." The typed memoir details accounts of her family's life in pre-war Hungary, her arrest in Budapest, Hungary, as well as her time in Auschwitz and Oranienburg where she was liberated. The memoir includes copies of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs.

  12. Fred Mittler collection

    The collection consists of 7 banners used by a Boy Scout troop in Shanghai, China during World War II.

  13. The Palestine Post clipping

    Newspaper: Front page from extra edition of The Palestine Post dated May 7, 1945 with banner headline "ALL GERMANS SURRENDER: Doenitz Announces Unconditional Capitulation."

  14. Klapholc and Shoval families photograph collection

    The Klapholc and Shoval families photograph collection consists of twenty-four family photographs depicting the Klapholc family from Oświęcim, Poland and of Henryk Heniek Wasserlauf from Kraków and after the war in Wrocław.

  15. Sami Djalilov papers

    The collection consists of a Red Army booklet issued to Sami Djalilov, originally of Leninabad in the former Soviet Union (present-day Khujand, Tajikastan). Sami kept the booklet with him throughout his Holocaust experience including his capture in 1944 near the Czech border, his transfer to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and a death march where he was liberated in Brescia, Italy. Also included is a 1946 photograph of Sami in Italy.

  16. Oral history interview with Eugene Kohan

  17. Fred Tausig papers

    Contains photographs and documents regarding the experiences of Fred Tausig and his family from Vienna, Austria. Includes certificates from the Technische Hochschule in Vienna issued to Fritz Tausig; report cards from the Shanghai Jewish Youth Association School; numerous prewar and World War I era family photographs; identification cards and newspaper clippings related to Fritz's experience as a Pathfinder Scout in Austria and Shanghai; identification cards; postcards; and postwar photographs from Vienna including many of the family's housewares business.

  18. Police Disciplinary Chamber 221-9 Polizeidisziplinarkammer

    Administrative records of the Polizeidisziplinarkammer (Police Disciplinary Chamber). Consists of files of Johan Zawadzki, Carl Schmahl, Gerhard Leonard, and Friedrich Karl Wurster.

  19. Selected records from the National Archives of Estonia in Tartu, Estonia related to the history of the Jewish communities of Estonia

    Schools records, correspondence, various regulations and reports related to the activities of the Jews in Estonia from 1890s-1941. The bulk of the collection consists of personal records of Jewish students who attended Jewish elementary schools in Tartu (Dept), regulations and instructions of the Ministry of Education, the Jewish Cultural Board and other organizations on the school and extracurricular activities, educational tentative plans, and personal files of the Jewish university students, and appointments of lecturers of the Tartu University in Estonia during the interwar period.

  20. Oral history interview with Anna Wolf