Second anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The celebration at the synagogue in Roma (Rome?), the Polish soldiers of Anders Army fighting in the West take part.

O. 64.2 - Theresienstadt Collection: Original documentation from the Theresienstadt Ghetto
 
 The Documentation Collection from the Theresienstadt Ghetto is comprised of three principle collections: 
 
 A. The Zeev Sheck Collection, also known as the Dokumentační Akce-Praha (Prague Documentation Project) Collection [Files 1-110];
 
 B. The Hermann Weisz Collection [Files ...

Discusses the persecution of Jews in Italy during World War II, noting that 8,500 Jews were deported, mostly to Auschwitz. During the nine-month Nazi occupation of Rome, which began in September 1943, 2,000 Jews were deported, 1,800 of whom did not survive. Anti-Jewish persecution was accepted by Italians and tolerated during the entire period of the war. There was no protest against the adoption of ...

Revised translation of Il ghetto sul Tevere. xiv, 487 p. : illus. ; 21 cm.

O.64.2/SCH - The Zeev Scheck Collection
 
 Provenance of the Collection:
 
 Born in Olomouc (Czechoslovakia) in 1920, Zeev (Wilhelm) Sheck was active in the Maccabi Hatzair youth movement, and worked as a Hebrew teacher in Prague. On 19 November 1943, he was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, and from there to concentration camps. He was liberated in the spring of 1945 and he ...

Janina Rejzin née Szereszewska (b. 1922) was born and brought up in Warsaw. In 1940, when the Nazis occupied the city, she and her family were forced to move to the ghetto, where they lived until 1943. In January of that year Janina managed to obtain a forged birth certificate via her sister, Annemarie, who had already managed to flee the ghetto, in the name of a former school friend, the non-Jewish ...

 Aleksander Dyzenhaus (born c1923), the donor's father, was resident in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940, where he wrote to his friend, Richard Pipes. The Pipes family had left Poland initially for Rome where they eventually obtained US visas, and they settled in the US where Pipes became Professor of Soviet History at Harvard. In his autobiography, “Vixi :Memoirs of a Non-Belonger”, Professor Pipes ...

Between 1933 and 1945 Nazi Germany systematically destroyed an estimated 100 million books throughout occupied Europe. Examination of this dark chapter in the history of printing, reading, censorship and libraries. Topics include the development of Nazi censorship policies, the celebrated library of the Vilna ghetto, the confiscation of books from the Sephardic communities in Rome and Salonika, the ...

Eugenia Shrut (1925-2003) was born Gina Tabaczyńska on May 20, 1925 in Kłodawa, Poland to grain merchant Naftali Tabaczyński and his wife Rozalia Szczecińska. Gina had two older brothers, Paweł and Mietek. From 1936 until 1939 Gina lived with her uncle’s family in Warsaw and attended the Mirlasowej gymnasium. In November 1940, the Tabaczyński family fled Kłodawa and was later forced into the Warsaw ...

Contains photographs of the Krakow ghetto which show the donor’s mother; a photo of a Rosh Hashana card from transit camp in Bari, Italy, 1948-49; a post-war letter written in Yiddish, 1946; a postcard sent to donor’s father living in a Joint Distribution Committee facility in Rome; and a Rosh Hashana card produced by Keren Kayemet in Italy, 1950-51.

The photographs depict Mordechai (Motek) Weinryb [donor] and his friends during their years of organizing illegal emigration to Palestine and later during his internment in Cyprus. The images consist of studio portraits of the donor and friends as well as one informal group photograph.

The photographs include one photoprint depicting George Salton at age 17 in Lubeck in June 1945; one a copy print depicting Salton’s parents soon after their marriage; two photoprints depicting members of Bricha in Łódź in 1947; one photoprint depicting members of Bricha in Szczecin in 1947, and one photoprint of survivors in front of the Kibbutz DROR in Szczecin in 1947.

The Lazowski family papers consist of photographs documenting Philip Lazowski’s postwar years in Austria, primarily in the Bad Gastein displaced persons camp; photographs documenting Ruth Lazowski’s postwar years in Italy, primarily in Santa Maria di Leuca and Rome; and the letter Philip Lazowski wrote in 1953 to Miriam Rabinowitz, whom he credited with saving his life during a selection in the Zhetel ...

The collection consists of a typed copy of a travel log kept by Fannie Stern Selig from 3 November 1947 through 8 December 1947 during her visit to Europe and Palestine as a representative of the Jewish Federation. During her travels she visited DP camps, concentration camps, and children's homes in France, Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland, Italy, and Palestine. The diary focuses on topics such ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, ...

Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, ...

Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, ...

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The Kurt Schwarz papers consist of correspondence, photographs, telegrams, and documents related to the immigration of Kurt Schwarz, originally of Vienna, Austria, to the United States by way of Italy and Cuba, 1938-1940; as well as extensive correspondence from his mother, Helene Schwarz, in Vienna, 1938-1941. Includes telegrams from the American theatrical producer, Billy Rose, as he sought to help ...

The Leah Press Kalina photographs contain photographic prints, photographic postcards, and Rosh Hashanah cards documenting the post-war experiences of Leah Press Kalina, her sister Ruchel, and friends. The majority of the images in this collection depict Leah in the Deggendorf displaced persons camp between 1946 and 1947. Images include daily activities within the camp, friends, weddings, and Leah ...

"Le dernier des injustes, qui a son origine dans le film du même nom, est le plus extraordinaire témoignage sur la genèse de la solution finale. Il permet de comprendre comment les nazis passent en deux ans de l'expulsion impitoyable des Juifs d'Autriche, de Tchécoslovaquie et d'Allemagne à la mort de masse dans les chambres à gaz. Benjamin Murmelstein est le personnage central de ce livre, témoin ...

The Henry Dressler papers consists of biographical material, writings, restitution material, photographs, and correspondence related to the Holocaust experiences of Henry (Heinz) Dressler and his family. Joachim and Martha, along with their children Henry and Susi, survived the war by working in Oskar Schindler’s factory. The collection consists of Henry’s wartime and post-war diary, the family’s work ...

Session 36. Ms. Henriette Samuel is brought up and sworn in. She was born in Berlin, but her husband was appointed as chief Rabbi in Norway, so they moved there in 1930. 00:03:38 Tape jumps. Ms. Samuel describes a surprise action at 5am where the women and children were taken from their home and deported. She describes the Norwegian government warning the Jews that danger was coming and they must flee. ...