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The Dezsofi family collection includes biographical material, correspondence, school notebooks, writings, and magazines relating to the pre-war experiences of twin sisters Dolly and Marianne Dezsofi in Budapest, Hungary as well as during the war while in hiding. Biographical material includes a death certificate and union identification card for Imre Tieberger, Dolly and Marianne’s uncle, two pre-war ...

Documents, correspondence, awards, photographs, ephemera, collected by Joseph Switkes while serving in the U.S. Army in World War II, in France, Belgium, and Germany. Material includes World War I-era French postcards; photographs of Nazi party members from the regions surrounding Aachen, Cologne, and Bonn, including photographs depicting such party members attending rallies in Nuremberg in 1934; photographs ...

Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Robert Kan and his family escaped the Nazis on May 13, 1940 and emigrated to Queens, New York via the Dutch East Indies. He received a BA in Economics from Hofstra Univeristy and worked for thirty years for the US government at the Department of Commerce, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, and the American Embassy in Tokyo. After retiring ...

Israel has honored more than 10,000 men and women who risked their lives, freedom, and careers to save Jews in a Nazi Europe where it was open season for their systematic and random slaughter. The Book of the Just tells the stories of forty of these "righteous among the nations," unsung heroes of the Holocaust, ordinary people who showed extraordinary courage, daring, and simple human decency in the ...

20:20:45 (LIB 6607) WAC Dress Parade, London, England, May 14, 1945. WACs in formation pass in review at 3rd anniversary ceremony. Short scene, Brig. Gen. Koenig, UK Base Commandant, gets out of sedan. SEQ: Queen Elizabeth steps from car and is greeted by Gen. Koenig. The Queen enters Supply Room and inspects five WACs wearing various types of WAC uniforms. WACs in formation on parade ground. NOTE: ...

Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter [Cross of Honor of the German Mother] medal was instituted by the Nazi Party in 1938 as a propaganda measure to promote National Socialist population policy. This medal is a 3rd class order, Bronze Cross. There were three classes of medal: gold, for eight or more children, silver, for six to seven children, and bronze for four to five children. Recipients were nominated ...

George Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. During World War II, Stevens joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946 under General Eisenhower. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day — including the only Allied European Front color film of the war — the liberation of Paris and the meeting ...

Ilse Schoenholz's seven page narrative describes her childhood in Bochum, Germany, antisemitism in her apartment building and at school, how the police and neighbors refused to help when her family's store was vandalized during Kristallnacht, and the forced liquidation of the store and the confiscation of her mother's jewelry and silver. She recounts her journey to England on a Kindertransport and ...