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  1. Sadowski family collection

    Photographs depicting Ania Sadowski (born Ania Zilbiger, later Ania Drimer) and her parents Adolf Zilbiger (later Adam Sadowski) and Ernestine Berglas, originally of Krakow, Poland, in a labor camp in Kharitonov, Archangelsk district, Soviet Union, circa 1944, and in Kharkiv, Ukraine, circa 1944-circa 1947.

  2. Dachau liberation collection

    Consists of six photographs of corpses taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The photographs, one of which depicts a victim with a detached prosthetic leg, are described on the verso. Also includes a letter dated 29 June 1945 from an American soldier to his family enclosing the Dachau photographs. The American soldier, unnamed, is depicted in the seventh photograph.

  3. Man speaks to the crowd of DPs protesting in Italy

    HAS, pan, of man speaking to a crowd, “UNRRA Camp“ sign [possibly a protest in Bari, see more on Film ID 4155].

  4. American nurses in Belgium

    Complex of brick buildings with the 51st Field Hospital, probably shot in December 1944 or January 1945 (perhaps in Huy, Belgium or Lierneaux, Belgium). 01:18:44 Beatrice poses with her camera by a guard station decorated with the Belgian flag motif. Medical trucks are parked outside and covered with snow. Men carry the sick and wounded on stretchers. 01:19:09 Beatrice poses with a friend. The men and women of the 51st Field Hospital play in the snow and walk around camp. 01:20:19 Beatrice and another nurse make a snowman and have a snowball fight.

  5. Londner family collection

    Collection of documents, identification cards, and correspondence relating to Gedalia Londner (b. 1912 in Bedzin, Poland) and his wife Maria Mania Silbiger (b. 1918 in Oświęcim, Poland). The collection includes correspondence regarding reparations; a certificate stating that Mr. Londner was a Polish citizen; a certificate stating that Mr. Londner was a political refugee; a Ketubah of their wedding, dated March 12, 1948; a German ID issued to Maria Silbiger (later Londner) dated February 1947; and a UN certificate for Mr. Londner.

  6. Trunk brought to the United States by an Austrian-Jewish refugee

    Trunk brought to New York in January, 1940 by Bertha Lifschutz when she immigrated to the Untited States. Bertha's son Fred had come to the United States the previous year as part of the "50 children" transport led by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus.

  7. 51st Field Hospital at camp, visiting ruins, and advancing into Belgium or Germany

    Two women sunbathe while other personnel of the 51st Field Hospital relax at camp, either in Belgium or Germany in early fall 1944 [The 51st Field Hospital entered Belgium on September 9 and Roetgen, Germany on September 16]. Beatrice digs a hole, perhaps a latrine (probably not a foxhole since there is no combat). A soldier plays a violin and sings by the hole. 01:15:21 51st Field Hospital personnel pose for the camera. Ruins of buildings in the countryside. Pan across the landscape and the remains of buildings, including one still smoldering and an untouched church. Some civilians in BG a...

  8. Contemporary painting by a Holocaust survivor

    Painting created by Jiri Konta in 2007. Dr. Konta was a political prisoner in Mauthausen concentration camp from 1943-1945 and liberated there. The painting depicts a prisoner in concentration camp uniform carrying a large stone covering his face.

  9. Jack and Sylvia Heisler papers

    The Jack and Sylvia Heisler papers contain correspondence, forms and other records pertaining to the Holocaust-era restitution claims of Jack Heisler and Sylvia Stern Heisler, filed against the West German government between 1958 and 1970, and related to their internment as forced laborers at Auschwitz, Sömmerda, and other camps. Jack Heisler’s earliest compensation claims in these files date from the late 1958 through 1961, when he filed claims on behalf of himself and his brother Edward, at the office that handled compensation claims for the state of Rheinland-Pfalz in Trier, Germany. He ...

  10. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Rawa Mazowiecka Sąd Grodzki w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1011)

    Files of the Court of the First Instance in Rawa Mazowiecka, such as: correspondence, financial reports, notary files, files of the bailiff, Władysław Nagórki, and civil cases (litigations) investigated by that court, such as: conferring judicial authorization to a draft, paying off debts, evictions. The Jews from Rawa Mazowiecka town and county were the parties in those lawsuits; there are many personal data about the participants of those lawsuits.

  11. Selected records from the State Archives in Thessaloniki, Greece

    Selected records related to the interwar and postwar history of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, Greece (1912-1968). Consists three subject series: 1.Thessaloniki Criminal Court; 2. Thessaloniki Court of First Instance; 3. Records of Jewish organizations and companies. It includes records of Thessaloniki Criminal Court records related to postwar trials of local German collaborators; Thessaloniki Court of First Instance records related to the postwar restitution of Jewish property. The collection also includes records related to the activities of the Jewish organizations and professiona...

  12. Yidisher ṿisnshafṭlekher insṭiṭuṭ YiVO Institute in Wilno (Fond 287)

    Various records related to the activities of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (YiVO) in Wilno (Vilnius), including correspondence with Jewish organizations and private individuals in Poland, Germany, United States, Austria, Latvia and other countries; records related to the activities of various Jewish organizations and political parties (Zukunft, Bund, Po'alei Zion, Keren Kayemet, Keren Hayesod, etc.); copies of Jewish newspapers published in Poland; financial records, and registry for incoming and outgoing correspondence etc.

  13. Charles W. Alexander photograph collection

    The collection consists primarily of photographs documenting the Nuremberg trials taken by Charles W. Alexander. The photographs depict the participants in the Nuremberg trials both in the courtroom and behind the scenes, smaller war crimes trials, and scenes of Germany. The collection also includes two books of similar photographs and captions of the personal experiences of Charles and his wife Anne Alexander in Germany in 1945-1946.

  14. Selected records of the City Biała Rawska Akta miasta w Białej Rawskiej (Sygn.1023)

    Inventory book of the Jewish Religious Community in Biała Rawska, 1935. The book contains registers of the buildings, as well as property owned by the Jewish community.

  15. Selected records from the collections of the Argeș branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Records relating to the confiscation of Iron Guard goods, the Iron Guard rebellion, neo-Protestant Churches, prisoners of war, Romanies sent to Transnistria; confiscation of properties of Romanies; taxes and goods for Jews, the hunt for those accused of war crimes, the round up of nomadic Romanies, refugees, deportation to Transnistria of Jews, deportation of Romanies, and Jewish affairs. Included are lists of properties of Romanies, and lists of Jews.

  16. Selected records of the District Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Radom Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Radomiu (Sygn. GK 179)

    This collection contains selected files of the District Commission in Radom and its agencies in Busko Zdrój, Iłża, Jędrzejów, Kielce, Końskie, Kozienice, Lipsk, Opatów, Ostrowiec, Pińczów, Skarżysko-Kamienna, Starachowice-Wierzbnik, Staszów and Stopnica and includes correspondence, circular letters, ordinances, reports, indexes and reports of investigations. The records consist of questionnaires concerning executions and mass graves; statistics concerning loss of civilians by individual counties; lists of the murdered and places of crimes; investigations related to camps (of young male labo...

  17. Litke family papers

    The Litke family papers document the experiences of Chaim Litke and Frida Hoffmann Litke in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and their post-war lives in the Eggenfelden displaced persons camp, Eggenfelden, Germany from 1945-1949. The collection includes papers from Eggenfelden, immigration and naturalization documents, restitution papers, Frida’s testimonies about her time in Auschwitz concentration camp, and photographs. The biographical materials primarily consist of papers documenting Frida and Chaim Litke’s experiences at the Eggenfelden displaced persons camp, 1945-1949. These...

  18. Lifschitz family photographs

    Two (2) pre-war family photographs: black and white portrait of Chaya Sara and husband Zeev Gorin (donor's father's sister), both of whom perished on October 24, 1927; black and white portrait of Aharon Lifschitz (donor's father) and his younger brother Leibl, 1937, who perished in the Holocaust.

  19. Frank Caplan collection

    Contains a typewritten statement given by former political prisoner Rudolf Hess of Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart), Germany, to Lt. Frank Caplan (donor’s father) at Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, on May 18, 1945. The report documents former Hess’s arrest by Nazi authorities in 1943 and his imprisonment in the Dachau concentration camp, where he was subjected to medical experimentation. Hess was then transported to another concentration camp and, after an eight-day journey, arrived at Neuengamme concentration camp where he was a forced laborer. Hess was transferred to Stuttgart to be interrogated and t...

  20. Ethnic Germans; German invasion of Poland

    German intertitles. Title on screen: Ozaphan 10/39 Monatsschau [Loosely, October 1939 monthly show]. von Brauchitsch speaks to workers in arms factory in Dusseldorf in August 1939. Tanks. Swastikas. War preparations in London in August 1939. Men load materials in boxes onto a vehicle, dig ditches (street traffic in BG), and move a large gun. Volksdeutsche [ethnic Germans] with suitcases, eating. German soldiers (SS-Heimwehr) prepare to defend Danzig from Polish control by mounting and camouflaging weapons. Shell damage of buildings and homes near the border as the German offense advances. G...