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Contains a memoir about Dina Freilach Bolimovsky's experiences before World War II, Dina Freilach Bolimovsky's life in a labor camp in Czechoslovakia, and later emigration to Israel; information about how Winston Churchill negotiated with Germany for the release of Leah Frumer and her three young sons.

Papers consist of three documents, two passports, and two letters illustrating the efforts of Hermine and Eduard Artz [donor's parents] and their children, Heinz and Evelyne [donor], to flee Vienna, Austria following Eduard's arrest and subsequent internment in concentration camp Buchenwald; his release and the family's flight to Italy; their internment in the Ferramonti-Tarsia camp; and then in hiding, ...

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 12, No. 879, Part 2. Release date, 05/27/1940. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 12:35:09 Part 2A: "On the War Front" Milan, Italy. As war fever soars in Italy, Count Ciano, Il Duce's son-in-law and foreign secretary, appears before a huge throng of 100,000. Alexandria, Egypt. Ready to move the minute Italy enters the war, French and British warships stand guard, ...

Esther Toporek Finder donated the oral testimony to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 1991. Release signed 1989.

The records connected with the camp at Majdanek produced by different offices functioning in the Lublin region during the German occupation. The group of the most important materials in this collection includes notifications of prisoners’ deaths sent by the camp headquarters to Lublin’s Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic parishes (2777 documents) and orders of release from the camp issued by order police ...

Photograph albums, documents, correspondence and writings illustrating the experiences of Hans Wolfgang Lindemann (a German) and Ethel McGloclin (an American) who met in the United States and moved to Germany around 1929 where Hans eventually became a Wehrmacht captain as an automotive engineer. He was discharged in November 1944 and later became a prisoner of war of the Americans in France and after ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 703, Part 2. Release date, 09/19/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: 11:32:19 Part 2A: "War Crisis Shakes all Nations" Washington, DC, USA. In the face of a possible new world conflict abroad, President Roosevelt summons his cabinet officers for a conference on the European crisis. 11:33:04 Part 2B: "War Crisis Shakes all Nations" Paris, France. Premier ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 431. Release date, 09/06/1945. According to UN advance information, "Tokio [sic], The Desolate City." As Yanks occupy the Japanese capital they see that Tokio is a ruined city. The antiquated Jap fire-fighting equipment was unable to save immense areas which were burned out by fire bomb raids. Yet, most of the buildings in the Mikado's compound are untouched.

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 432. Release date, 09/10/1945. According to UN advance information: "Hiroshima-Atomic Bomb Target No. 1" When Col. Paul Tibbetts, Jr. winged his Superfortress over Hiroshima, that metropolis became the first target city for the new destructive terror--the Atomic Bomb. This single bomb, equal to 20,000 tons of TNT in explosive power, levelled 70% of the city, killed ...