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  1. German Jewish family life prewar and postwar

    01:00:00 Roll 18. People wait to board COBRA ship in Cuxhaven, Germany in Summer 1931. Otto films as their boat passes by the German archipelago, Heligoland, and the distinctive Lange Anna. Otto smiles as he looks at the newborn twins. Otto and proud mother Hanna. 01:05:05 Roll 19. Farming. Women and children in traditional dress in Volendam, Holland. Plaut family by their car. Continuation of beach visit to Zandvoort in June 1932 from roll 15 in Film ID 4108. Hanna writes at a table. Renate cries and plays with other children on the beach. 01:09:30 Roll 20. Renate, Otto, Hanna, and others ...

  2. Louis G. Melillo photograph collection

    Photographic print: image of victims found in the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation, captioned "Bodies / Buchenwald / German"; Photographic print: image of two American soldiers seated on top of stone sign that reads "Buchenwald," appears that image was printed in reverse, captioned "Katz & me / Buchenwald / 7 June 1945"; Photographic print: image of field with large building in background, captioned "Fulda, Germany - field opposite offices"; captions handwritten on verso; in English; Taken from photo album of Louis G. Melillo who served with the US Army in Germany during W...

  3. US anti-Nazi boycott stamp with a Star of David and a Nazi wolf

    Red, white, and blue single poster stamp or sticker issued to promote a boycott of Hitler. It depicts a snarling Nazi dog barred from entering a chained gate marked brotherhood of man, guarded by an American eagle. After Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933, several organizations in the United States sponsored campaigns urging people to not buy or support Nazi related products. Among the groups calling for boycotts of Nazi Germany were the American League for the Defense of Jewish Rights, the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, and the Joint Boycott Council.

  5. District Court in Częstochowa Sąd Okręgowy w Częstochowie (Sygn. 300)

    This collection comprises selected materials concerning civil cases and criminal cases. The largest group of records concern litigations, including cases relating to mortgages, property, estates, indemnities, and related subjects, and cases not in litigation, including sales of estates, death certificates, rectification of registry acts, and adoption of a child. Additional files relate to criminal activity, mostly concerning theft. Selected files refer only to Jews, and contain records with personal data (apart from merits of the case).

  6. Poster, "Deliver us from evil" Buy War Bonds

    American WWII poster, "Deliver us from evil"/Buy War Bonds. Black and white photograph of a child's face superimposed on a swastika.

  7. G. Michael Eisenstadt family papers

    The G. Michael Eisenstadt family papers consist of certificates, a ship ticket, and correspondence from Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and the Warsaw ghetto documenting Isidor Eisenstadt's training as a master tailor from 1901-1921, the immigration of his wife and sons to the United States in 1939, conditions in the Warsaw ghetto, and his efforts to immigrate.

  8. Bulgarian forced labor camp photographs

    Photographs of Jews in a Forced Labor Camp in Bulgaria, 1943

  9. Pirika Hershkowitz collection

    The collection includes a calendar in which Pirika Hershkowitz noted significant dates after her and her cousin, Matilda Herz, escaped from a death march from Auschwitz-Birkenau on February 2, 1945. The collection also includes pre-war family photographs in Gherla, Romania and post-war photographs from Cluj and Gherla, Romania where Piri Hershkowitz married Karoly Klein on July 27, 1945 as well as an identification document issued by the Romania authorities to Piri Klein and two letters and a note sent from Bucharest to Piri Hershkowitz.

  10. Otto J. Kahn photograph collection

    Consists of a copyprint depicting members of the Counter Intelligence Corps, including Otto J. Kahn (born in 1906) in uniform (second from the left). Otto, who was born Jewish in Germany, left Stuttgart in 1926 and lived in Chicago. The photograph was taken during the war, though the exact date and location is unknown. Also includes a copyprint of rubble, likely in Germany.

  11. Employment card issued to F. Galicka, Łódź, Poland, 1942.

    One document, titled "Beschäftigungs-karte" (Employment Card) issued to a woman with the last name of Galicka (née Wyzner), first name illegible, by the Arbeitsamt Litzmannstadt (Employment Office, Łódź, Poland), in March 1942, at which time the bearer of the card was declared to be unemployed. Last, stamp on document is 25 August 1942.

  12. Paul Frank postcard

    Contains a postcard, dated January 8, 1940, sent by Paul Frank to his family, stating that he is happy his family avoided his fate and he will write again when he will receive permission to do so. Paul Frank was deported from the Ostrava region in Slovakia in the so-called Nisko Plan, in October 1939.

  13. Materials collected by the Foundation of Polish-German Reconciliation (FPNP) concerning forced labor in III Reich Materialy zebrane przez Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) dotyczące pracy przymusowej w III Rzeszy

    The collection contains various records collected by the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation (FPNP) during the project related to the payment of indemnities to Polish citizens for their forced labor on the territories of the Third Reich. Records include questionnaires, accounts, memoirs, diaries, interviews, correspondence, press cuttings; some photographs or other related documents are attached to the forced laborers files.

  14. Rabbi Samuel and Ella Freilich papers

    Consists of wartime and post-war photographs, documents, correspondence, and letters relating to Rabbi Samuel Freilich and his wife, Ella (Wieder) Freilich. The photographs depict Rabbi Freilich and his family in Prague and Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia after the war. Included in the documents and correspondence are identity paperwork; paperwork to establish Rabbi Freilich’s professional credentials; a handwritten notebook of testimony related to Holocaust experiences, written in 1945; emigration paperwork; restitution claims; correspondence with attorneys; and medical papers, which assisted...

  15. American occupation of European towns: daily life; reconstruction; Red Cross

    EXT, large building, broken windows. Two young women smile at the camera, sign behind them: "Off Limets" [sic]. Cows pull a wagon through village street. Men on bikes. Post with a swastika on top. Pedestrians walking, smiling at camera. Ruins of a building. Two women inspect the debris. Airplane in the sky. People walking past bombed out buildings. Rubble. Rooms of a house exposed due to bombing damage. Boy stands outside. 30:35 American soldier looks at bombed homes. Sign: "Danger, Base, Athletic Field" with an arrow. Soldier walks in the direction of the arrow past a dilapidated shed. Sol...

  16. Records of the Jewish community of Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine) (Fond 325)

    Contains records relating to activities of the Jewish community of city of Chernivt︠s︡i (Czernowitz, Chernivtsi, Cernauti) and Bukovina region in Ukraine. Included are Jewish correspondence of community officials’ with local authorities, financial and budget reports of the Jewish community of Chernivt︠s︡i, inventories of the property of the local synagogues, reports of their activities; bylaws of the local Jewish public organizations and charitable foundations, applications of the Jewish students requesting financial aid, correspondence regarding the budget allocations for the stipends for ...

  19. Pesl Pola Melamed Dichter papers

    Pesl Pola Melamed Dichter papers consist of Pesl’s handwritten Yiddish memoir about her life in Rożyszcze, Poland, her experiences in the Rożyszcze ghetto and in hiding during the Holocaust, and her postwar life with her husband Izak Dichter and their daughter Klara in the Eschwege displaced persons camp in Germany before they immigrated to Israel in 1948. The papers also include a photograph of Pesl and Izak, a photograph of the couple with their daughter and Izak’s mother, and a photograph of Pesl and Klara with other survivors at Eschwege.

  20. Selected records of the Directorate of Police, Bulgaria (Fond 370K)

    Letters, correspondence, articles, deportation lists, applications, and reports related to situation of immigrants, eviction and displacement of the Jewish population in Bulgaria and other various issues. Included are letters from the county governors for the deportation of Turks, Greeks, Jews, and others; correspondence about migrant issues, 1934-1940; articles about Palestine and the Jewish question; correspondence with the Directorate of Religious Affairs and the district police chiefs to extend the residence of the Catholic, Jewish and Armenian priests, monks and nuns, 1937-1943; press ...