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  1. Records of the Israelite Community of Uruguay Kehilá Ashkenazí (Comunidad Israelita del Uruguay Kehilá Ashkenazí)

    Marriage and death registers, minutes of the General Assembly, (Yiddish), minutes of the Board of Directors, proceedings of the General Council, records of the Commission of Education, and minutes of the Plenary Council,.

  2. Oral history interview with Folke Schimanski

  3. Oral history interview with Leo Kramár

  5. Jewish family in Chechinov and Belzec, Poland before WWII

    Probably in Chechinov, Poland where the Furman family lived. Men, women and children walk towards the camera. Horses pull a wagon. A group of men and women walk in the street and look at the camera. More townspeople. The footage of townspeople repeats, flipped right to left. Men, women and children are fascinated by the camera and keep trying to be filmed. The women smile. Men with long beards approach the camera. More women walk up. The footage again repeats, up to the shot of the bearded men. Dark shots of people in a townsquare with a market in the BG. A man picks up a basket. A bearded ...

  7. An American relative visits Schiffer family in Budapest

    “Danubius Pathé Baby Budapest.” Family group sits at a table for a meal on a hillside overlooking city of Budapest (could be Janoshegy). Laci Schiffer’s wife, Marcsa (nee Fried), on a visit to Budapest to meet the family (in 1933?). She waves from an upper level of a building. Two groups walk down the sidewalk past a building (sign with “... Adolf Fiai…” is barely visible) in Budapest and wave to the camera, including Marcsa, János, Ernö, Bözske, Gyuri, and Alice. Nice LS of city street with this building. CUs the group walks in the cobbled street and waves. Pathé 9.5mm logo with rooster.

  8. Violet Daniel papers

    Contains a document titled "Provisional identification card for civilian internee of Mauthausen," in two parts, issued to Ibolya Feuerstein, a Hungarian Jew, on June 9, 1945 in the former Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria stating that she was liberated there on May 4, 1945. Also includes a Hungarian statement for Violet Daniel, born "Feuerstein Ibolya," by the Hungarian Jewish Community, attesting in 1968 that Violet had been deported to Mauthausen in 1944, liberated in Gunskirchen in 1945, and then returned to Budapest in July 1945.

  9. Peter Kossowsky family papers

    Photographs, documents, German passport, letter, wedding ketubah, invitation, scrapbook, mourning book and report cards documenting the experience of Peter Kossowsky and his family.

  10. Authority for Folklore, Church and Art 363-5 Behörde für Volkstum, Kirche und Kunst

    Selected records of the Behörde für Volkstum, Kirche und Kunst (Office for Administration of Folklore, Church and Art). Records relate to admission of non-Aryans to the Adult Education Center (1934-1936), concerning Olga Cronheim and Oskar Lion; exchange of librarians by the Academic Exchange Service and dismissal of Julia Curjel from the service of the Public Bookshop (1935-1939).

  11. Tunisian Jews removing star badges

    Contains a black-and-white press photograph of Jews removing the yellow Star of David badge from their lapels, overseen by Allied soldiers, in Tunisia; "MG 97C47" [or 97647] in lower left corner of image. The verso includes a newspaper clipping adhered with caption "In a Tunisian village, Allied soldiers watch little Jewish boys taking off the yellow stars they'd been made to wear as if they were lepers.' Handwritten inscriptions in pencil on verso correct caption "Note: Jews but NOT PALESTINE or ISRAEL" as well as subjects; stamped "USED / MAR 24 1944" and multiple stickers adhered with ba...

  12. Paris sights and the Folies Bergere

    Paris street with crowds of pedestrians moving on the sidewalk. Cars drive along the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Pans left on the crowded sidewalk. One woman speaks to two men in the street. An American soldier enters and exits a public restroom, smiling at the camera. WS of the Arc de Triomphe. 01:01:13 Julius Blatt walks towards the Arc de Triomphe as the camera pans left, tilts up, pans left and tilts back down to focus on Julius again. Julius walks across the busy street, looking at the camera as bikers and cars go past. Julius lights a cigarette with the Eiffel Tower in the background. ...

  13. "Sunday's Child"

    Contains a manuscript entitled "Sunday's Child," by Lili R. Andrieux.

  14. Oral history interview with Gesualdo Gorini

  16. Creney-près-Troyes execution photograph

    Photographic print: black and white depicting members of the resistance who were executed by the Gestapo; captioned on verso “fusillés de Creney (49) / le 23 aout 1944”

  17. Oral history interview with Dov Marmur

  18. Oral history interview with Peter Pollak

  19. Norman R. Stupp collection

    Photograph of Dachau at liberation, from the donor's father, Norman R. Stupp, PFC, 82nd Airborne Division. The photograph depicts a pile of corpses of camp prisoners.

  20. Nazi propaganda poster

    Nazi propaganda poster entitled, "Ein fauler Trick," issued by the "Parole der Woche," a wall newspaper (Wandzeitung) published by the National Socialist Party propaganda office in Munich.