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  1. Licco Haim and friends on a ski adventure in 1941

    Handwritten title "Hochwinter 1941". Title with 9 February date, named friends, and a figure on a ski slope, "The Black Peak". Group with Anny, Belka, Vania, Shatsi, Konovaliko, and others climbs up a slope. Mountain hostel on Black Peak. Snow-covered hills. Skiing. 01:06:53 Title with 16 February date, "On the Jumping Hill" (?), Shtainke and Licco. Snowy mountainous scenery. Licco and his friends ski, some in slow motion. 01:14:18 [COLOR] Skiing. CUs of the group of friends, including a young girl. 01:20:17 [B/W] More skiing. 01:23:28 Title with 8 March date and two names, "Istene Kal", An...

  2. Jewish family at DP camp in Italy

    CU of toddler Menachem Shapiro in driver’s seat of a truck. EXT of the truck with a star and young men, playing and posing for the camera. 01:05 INT, Menachem and another baby play with a ball. 02:22 Outside, the toddlers run after birds, Menachem picks fruit with his parents, Hannah and Moshe, and experiments with walking. VAR shots of children at play outdoors in the street, and adults with bicycles, smiling. Three small children seated on a blanket and in a crib (at DP camp?). 06:22 Children hold hands outside the stairwell. 07:03 “Gelati” stand, children eat ice cream, ECU of Menachem w...

  3. Herbert Klein papers

    The Herbert Klein papers consist of identity, education, employment, and immigration records related to Herbert Klein of Vienna, Austria and his parents and pre-war, wartime, and post-war financial and restitution documents regarding the expropriation of the family's automobile garage and repair shop in Vienna, "Berthold Klein and Co."

  4. New York American newspaper issue

    Partial newspaper, "New York American"; headline states "Hitler Lists 46 Dead in 'Blood Purge,' but Estimate Number Slain at 200"; dated July 8, 1934.

  5. Oral testimony of Fanny Fogel Hollander

  6. British dignitaries visit DC; FDR and Churchill join the Morgenthaus at their farm to relax; Henry Morgenthau films a spot on war bonds

    The Morgenthau family vacations in Hawaii in 1937 - hiking, waterfall, horseback riding, the beach. 00:36:35 Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and his wife Elinor pose for photographs, perhaps upon their return from France aboard the SS Normandie. Horseback riding, back at the Morgenthau family farm. Scenic views of Hawaii from a ship; a speedboar. 00:38:11 In June 1939, King George and Queen Elizabeth arrive at Union Station, Washington, DC, and are formally greeted. The Queen and Mrs. Roosevelt enter an automobile for transit to the White House. President Roosevelt and his guests b...

  7. Oral history interview with Sam Neger

  8. Selected records of the Province of Łódź Urząd Wojewódzki Łódzki (Sygn.166)

    Correspondence, reports and other documents relating to granting of Polish citizenship, passport matters, religious matters, establishing cemeteries, Jewish religious community of Łódź, some hundreds of associations or federations or other Jewish organizations from Łódź and its entire province (mainly of mutual help, education and sport), as well as physicians’ personal files and from the Department of Social and Political Issues, Voivod’s reports of 1926-1939, which constitute documentation of the social and political life of the entire region of Łódź, including Polish-Jewish relations dur...

  9. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Culture: Second World War Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto: Segunda Guerra Mondial

    Diplomatic dispatches, cables, and confidential reports sent by the Argentine embassies and consulates in Europe to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Relations and Culture in Buenos Aires during World War II and in the immediate postwar years. Includes information about Jewish refugees and visa applicants, the political relationship between Argentina and Nazi Germany, a list of the crew of the German battleship "Graf Spee", and situation reports from various Argentine diplomatic posts around the world. This is an ongoing digitization project.

  10. Chaim Feierman photograph collection

    Photographic postcard: black and white image of four men wearing matching caps, star of David badges and cuff band reading “Ordnungsdienst” visible on three of the four; dated verso June 15, 1941; Łódź ghetto, Poland; Chaim “Hy” Feierman (donors’ father) stands second from right Photographic print: black and white image of large group of men and women seated and standing together, American soldier seated in front center; presumed to be in the Landsberg DP camp; Chaim Feierman stands to the right of the woman standing behind the soldier with a “3" visible over his shoulder; not dated.

  11. Floyd "Pete" Joslin photograph collection

    The collection contains photographs and an envelope. The photographs are of the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation, and are believed to have been taken by Floyd "Pete" Joslin (1916-2007), a U.S. serviceman in the 94th Division Artillery.

  12. Postwar wedding of a German soldier and American POW

    EXT, couples with flowers walk towards camera to celebrate the wedding of Theo's eldest son Gerald, a soldier for Germany and POW of the Americans. INTs, celebration, gifts, and the couple dancing. Family gathers around the bride and groom for portraits. Woman (bride?) in sequined jacket and top-hat dances with balloons labeled "Ratskeller Steglitz" in the Berlin area. Others dancing drunkenly. Little girl turns and dances and uses potty. Family continues to celebrate. Girl plays outdoors.

  13. Mountaineering in Bulgaria

    HAS of roads, housing, and mountaineers. Different views of the men climbing, full trees, a river and the environs. Quick view of filmmaker, Licco Max Haim at 01:09:45 - bald, with glasses, smoking a cigarette.

  14. Szajndla Rajs work card

    Consists of one forced labor work card from the Łódź ghetto, on onion skin without backing. The signed card, which is missing a photograph, was issued to Szajndla Rajs, born in 1935, listed as an apprentice milliner. The card is undated. Szajndla (Szaindla, Szaindle) Rajs perished in the Holocaust.

  15. Olec As told to Anne Marie Davies

    Memoir, typescript, 47 pages with photographs, as dictated by Alex Kozlowski to his niece, Anne Marie Davis. In the memoir, Kozlowski describes his childhood in Lwów, including his life there during the German occupation, his escape with his aunt to Warsaw, liberation, life in post-war Krakow and in displaced persons camps in Austria and Germany, and his immigration to the United States. He also describes his service in the United States Air Force from 1948 to 1968, including tours of duty with counter-intelligence corps in West Germany during the Cold War, and with a unit that rescued down...

  16. American nurses attend to wounded German POWs

    Campsite with Red Cross vehicles. The 51st Field Hospital attends to a massive number of wounded soldiers in early September 1944, most likely in St. Erme in Northern France, where the 51st Field Hospital had too many German POWs to treat under tents.

  17. Selected records of the General Jewish Labor Federation "Bund" in Poland Ogólno Żydowski Związek Robotniczy Bund w Polsce (Sygn.1214)

    Records of the activities of the the Central Committee of the Jewish Workers Federation "Bund" in Poland and abroad between 1900-1948. The collection contains circular letters, proclamations, reports, posters, appeals, photographs, press articles, a list of confiscated newspaper “Fołkscajtung”, correspondence, minutes, testimnonies, bulletins, accounts, memoirs, and card files.

  18. Lea Blumenkrantz Fried collection

    Contains photographs, documents and correspondence relating to the wartime experiences of Lila Blumenkranz, who survived the war in hiding in a convent in Przemyśl.

  19. UNRRA selected records AG-018-040 : Office of the Historian

    Selected files of the UNRRA Office of the Historian. Consists of publications and monographs: UNRRA monthly reviews, the Facts and Figures, Operational Analysis Papers, the Director General's Report to the Central Committee-Supply Operations, Documents of the Central Committee of the Council, Indexes to the Council Documents, United Nations Committee on UNRRA, the President Roosevelt's message to the First Council, reports to the Allied Governments, various agreements; Subject files: agreements, Richard Brown's diary of trip with congressmen, reports, correspondence, displaced persons files...

  20. Jewish Community Board, Skuodas (Fond 1235)

    Collection contains records of the Board of the Jewish community of Skuodas (Shkud in Yiddish) in Lithuania. It includes minutes of the Board's meetings, correspondence and other records related to the activities of the Jewish community of Skuodas (Shkud) before WWII.