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The Lucy Lipiner papers includes mounted photographs with captions indicating they depict the brewery where the Sucha ghetto was located and the deportation of Jews from Sucha to Auschwitz in 1942; a photocopy of a list of people in Sucha who made charitable donations, including Lipiner’s grandmother Frymet Mandelbaum; a photocopy of a detailed typewritten account in Polish of what happened to the ...

Samuil Manski (1920-2011) was born on 11 October 1920 in Lida, Poland (modern day Lida, Belarus) to Isaac (1894-1967) and Riva (1898?-1967, née Jerzewski) Manski. He had one sister, Mira (later Mira Appel), and one brother, Saul. His father was a veteran of World War I and a volunteer firefighter. He and Riva married in 1919, and the couple owned a grocery store in Lida. As a child and young adult, ...

Scenes showing a group of Jewish orphans leaving Prague for England under a British Home Office plan to transport one thousand orphaned concentration camp survivors to recuperate in Britain before their resettlement. This footage shows some of the 300 children, mostly boys, who were liberated from Theresienstadt and flown from Prague to England on August 14, 1945. They were initially settled at a hostel ...

The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories arranged by structure and document type. Most of the materials in this collection originate from the 1920s and 1930s. The collection includes the charter of the Central Association and its local chapters; minutes of meetings of the Central Association's committee on drawing up a new charter (1926-28); minutes of the Central Association's ...

Begins in color: A hydroplane is docked on the water in Trinidad. "Pan American Airlines" logo and lettering, crew members work on propellers and engine, walking along the wing, in the FG a young boy looks at the camera and watches the men on the "deck" of the plane. Several passengers board the plane, both men and women, all seem to be American or European. INT of plane: the cargo hold. MCU, camera ...

Bella Zucker (1925-2007) was born Bella Kuligowska in Serock (near Warsaw) to bicycle mechanic Bezakel Kuligowski and Chaya Kuligowska (née Cohen). She had five brothers: Abraham, Israel, Joseph, Benjamin, and Vigdor. After the German invasion, the family was forcibly moved to the Biała Podlaska ghetto. Benjamin was in Russia at the time, and Bella never saw him again. In 1940, she hid as a Catholic ...

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 ...

Drafted into the U.S. army in 1943, Robert Peters was a shy and devout eighteen-year-old from a remote and impoverished Wisconsin farm. Now one of our leading poets, he has written a lyrical memoir of a young man coming of age in the middle of World War II, making his way through personal land mines of morality and sexuality. In this sequel to Crunching Gravel, his celebrated account of a rural boyhood, ...

INT, A Yugoslavian family is seen in their own quarters at the DP camp (staged). The extended family is gathered around a woodburning stove in their makeshift home, UNRRA crates serve as their coffee table, and a tapestry hangs on the wall in the BG above the metal frame cot. One of the young men packs his suitcase as all the family gathers round to view their newly created identity papers and make ...

The collection consists of photographs of friends and family of Adam and Irena Gilert from Warsaw, Poland, and photographs documenting the Gilerts' escape from German-occupied Poland. The photographs also depict memorial services commemorating the Warsaw ghetto uprising and Jewish members of a Communist youth organization called the "Young Pioneers."

811 K (04:40:13): July-August 1940 The Ministry of Family and Youth. LS, Minister Jean Ybarnegaray with his chief collaborators. From left to right: ex-Davis Cup player and Wimbledon champion Jean-Robert Borotra, Commissioner for Physical Education and Sports; Gen. d'Harcourt, General Secretary of the Ministry; Minister Jean Ybarnegaray; Serge Huard; Cortot. CU, Borotra and Ybarnegaray. CU, looking ...

United States Navy Lieutenant E. R. Kellogg certifies motion pictures of Nazi concentration camps in an affidavit presented in the "Nazi Concentration Camps" film by the Americans as evidence during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Kellogg had expertise in motion picture and photographic techniques through his employment with Twentieth Century Fox Studios in California from 1929 to ...