Archival Descriptions

Displaying items 1,901 to 1,920 of 55,764
  1. Arthur Mendel collection

    The collection consists of Jewish prayer books owned by a prisoner at Gurs concentration camp in France.

  2. Salzmann family collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, medical bags, a prayer book, and smoking pipes that relate to the experiences of Berthold Salzmann, his sister Ernesta Spieler, and their family in Austria, and Germany before and during the Holocaust and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  3. Lilly Morawetz collection

    The collection consists of a photograph case carried by Lilly Morawetz, a Jewish Austrian refugee, from the Czech Republic through France, including while in Gurs and a jewelry case carried by her when she was deported by the French police from Paris to the Gurs internment camp in 1940 and during her flight through Spain and Portugal. When the family was imprisoned in Spain, this case was taken from Lilly, but because she had lost the key, they couldn’t open it and her jewelry remained safe. She carried the case with her to the US in 1941.

  4. Schatz and Bonder families collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and documents pertaining to the Schatz and Bonder families previously of Berlin and Warsaw. Both families survived the Holocaust in Italy and were united through the marriage of Henry Schatz and Rischa Bonder when the couple were married in the United States. The collection also includes teffilin and embroidered teffilin bag belonging to Jacob Schatz prior to the Holocaust. The teffilin was given to Henry Schatz by his father Jacob and kept through interment at Ferramonti.

  5. Vladimir Lewin collection

    The collection consists of a mortgage book (Ksiega Hilpofeczna) cover, photo, documents, letters, medals and a Hanukkah lamp.

  6. Oral history interviews of the Michael Schwartz collection

    Oral history interviews with Edgar Ansten and Marian Ansten

  7. Peter Tabaracci photograph collection

    Consists of nine photographs. Eight of the photographs depict scenes of the Gardelegen Massacre. The ninth photograph is identified as an aerial view of a former labor camp near Braunschweig. All of the photographs include original English inscriptions on the versos and are associated with the service of Peter Tabaracci, who served with the 4th Signal Battalion.

  8. Hamel family collection

    Contains two photographs and a document related to Marion Hamel and her parents, Hilda (Pincus) and Frederick Hamel who came to the United States from Germany. Contains a birth register certificate for Hilda Hamel.

  9. S.L. Shneiderman papers

    Material related to the experiences of author Samuel L. Shneiderman (donor's father). Includes genealogical records and biographical information; photographs; newspaper clippings; and writings including on the Holocaust and Warsaw ghetto, Israel soon after 1948, and Arthur Szyk.

  10. Anniversary of Munich Putsch

    Anniversary of the 1923 Munich Putsch. Reenactment of the burial of the party members killed in the Putsch, at the Feldherrnhalle in Munich. Horse-drawn hearses carry coffins into the Feldherrnhalle. The event appears to be taking place at night and is lit by torches. Good views of the hall, including two large stone lions flanking a staircase. Flag-draped coffins line a wall; above them are banners bearing the names of the dead. A uniformed man stands behind each coffin. The scene switches to a solemn outdoor parade headed by Julius Streicher. Streicher stops, salutes. A wreath is laid. Hi...

  11. Bronislaw Zbigniew Bulkowski collection

    Collection and memoirs illustrating the experiences of Bronislaw Bulkowski, born Roman Catholic on July 11, 1920 in Ostrowiec, Poland, surrounding the Holocaust. Bronislaw was a forced laborer for the Nazi occupying authorities and was conscripted to the German Rail Authorities in Altena, Germany. Between 1942 and 1945, he slave labored alongside other forced laborers. Included is a diary ("Wartime Log") he kept in which he references other slave laborers as well as abuse they, endured, the group digging a tunnel, working all night, lack of food, overpriced bread and accidents that hurt and...

  12. Louise Lawrence-Israels collection

    The collection consists of a wicker chair and two books relating to the experiences of Louise Lawrence-Israels and other family members in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

  13. British propaganda: anti-German

    Jiri Weiss assembled this documentary footage which he brought from Czechoslovakia to Britain after fleeing German occupation. Film shows images of agriculture, people in folk costumes, and a church Sunday. The narrator describes Czechoslovakia as a "nation of freedom and peace" for nearly 1,400 years. Scenes of Prague during narration about the development of a Czechoslovak democracy in 1918 under Pres. Masaryk, similar to Great Britain's. Czechoslovakia's virtue as a "bastion against fascism" is demonstrated by its "education for freedom, education for peace". Images of the social project...

  14. Polish YMCA and rebuilding in Prague, 1946

    CU on the book "Beyond Tragedy" by Reinhold Niebuhr. A woman holds the book and turns several pages in the book. EXT, VS Prague, buildings under reconstruction; town square; EXT of the YMCA;CU of sign that reads: "Polska YMCA"; adolescent boys coming out of the swimming pool in their short, tight trunks, lots of horseplay and other things popping up. 01:04:40:11 to 01:05:02:00 Young men and women gathered in a hall for a social, and then seated to watch a musical performance; band on stage, several cuts back and forth between musicians and audience. 01:08:25:20: Swimming pool, the boys how ...

  15. Boys view posters; propaganda

    CU, hand at vending machine for postcards and stamps, putting in coin and getting postcards. Sign indicates price of postcards is 6 RPF (Reichspfennig). EXT, VS, four young boys looking at posters on iron fence. Left to right: Wehrmacht Manoevers 1937; front page of "Der Stuermer" with antisemitic caricature of a Jewish face and headline: "4000 Year War"; and "Berliner Illustrierte," the special issue on Mussolini's visit to Germany. The boys backs are to the camera, they turn briefly and face the camera before moving on; one boy has a school satchel, one is holding a metal jug, one is hold...

  16. Jack and Sonia Rubin collection

    Consists primarily of 24 photographs. Many have inscriptions in Yiddish, and include many pre-war images of Jack Rubin's family from Bransk, Poland. The donor, Jack Rubin, immigrated to the United States under the sponsorship of his Uncle, Arthur J. Sussel.; Mr. Sussel appears in some photographs while visiting relatives in Bransk before the war. The collection also includes Torah scroll fragments.

  17. Kurt Weiser collection

    Collection of documents, photograph albums, and correspondence related to Kurt Weiser's experiences during World War II. Born in 1922 in the Czech Republic, Kurt was raised in Chorzow, Poland and deported or forced to flee to Siberia and further east into the Soviet Union. After the war, Kurt settled and worked in the New Ulm displaced persons camp, and eventually immigrated to Buffalo, NY.

  18. 1936 Hungarian Olympic team returns to Budapest for a grand welcom parade

    Magyar Híradó 652. Intertitle: “ITTHON. A fóväros közönsége határtalan lelkesedés-sel fogadta a dicsósé-gesen szerepelt magyar olimpiai verseny-zóket. M.F.I.” People walk in a parade. Some women hold a flag bearing the symbol of the Olympics. Others hold bouquets of flowers. Men walk in a line holding on to one another. Police in pointed helmets stand at the front of the crowd. Young boys in the crowd wave. The attention is focused on a small circle of men speaking in the middle. People celebrate the olympians. Some are lifted onto the shoulders of their family and friends. One holds a flag...

  19. Barbie Trial -- Day 2 -- Crimes committed by Barbie in France

    14:45 A clerk lists various submissions by civil and related parties concerning crimes committed by Barbie. 14:53 The clerk lists components of crimes against humanity and war crimes. 14:59 Barbie's career in the SS. 15:03 The character of the criminal Nazi organizations. 15:06 Barbie's actions in Lyon.