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The papers consist of documents concerning two ships, the President Warfield and the City of Lowell. Included are documents and other correspondence between Louis Levin, Evelyn Levin's husband, representing the Potomac Shipwrecking Company from October 18, 1946, and the Chinese American Industrial Company, purchasers of the aforementioned ships. The bill of sale for the President Warfield (later known ...

The collection relates to Murray Aronoff and his role as a volunteer on the SS Exodus (SS President Warfield), during the British siege of the vessel as it carried Jewish refugees to Palestine in 1947. The SS Exodus was an excursion boat transporting Jewish displaced persons to Palestine. It was rammed and boarded by British naval vessels. The passengers were forcibly evacuated by the British to France ...

Side A: Habibi (Hebrew Tango). Music: E. Egan, text: S. Fisher; published 1945. Side B: Im hupalnu - a Hebrew song that references the refugee ships Struma and Patria. Music, Menashe Baharav, text: Ya'akov Orland; published 1946. [disc label on this side is misprinted with the song title, Madagascar] Piano (both sides): Jascha Galperin. RCA Victor recording.

Jewish refugee children, many from internment camps in unoccupied France, gather in Portugal to embark on the SS Mouzinho for the United States. The voyage, including hundreds of Jewish refugees, was arranged by the JDC, with assistance from the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM), HICEM, OSE, and the American Friends Service Committee. 01:00:03 At a children’s colony ...

Bookburning in Berlin, SA men and university students, throwing books into the fire, Hitler Youth march past, one view of university exterior beyond the bonfire, Goebbels speech (mute), fire scenes. (some scenes match the pre-title sequence of the completed film) 07:11:36 DIE DROHUNG. Still photographs of men. Shots out of Nazi train, men heiling, swastikas. At Dusseldorf train station. CU, drums, ...

Betty Sklow (née Behrendt, 1880-1961) was born on October 30, 1880 in Magdeburg, Germany to Adolph and Rosa Jeanette Behrendt. Hermann Sklow (1870-1938) was born on March 14, 1870 to Wolf and Pauline Sklow. Betty Behrendt married Hermann Sklow on July 6, 1927 and had two daughters while in Gera, Germany. Charlotte (Lottie) was born in 1905 and Helene (Leni) was born in 1907. From 1896-1933, Herman ...

Three short/complied films collected or made by Carl Lutz: Nr. 334 Kurzfilme zu Palästina und der Schweiz [1935 to1956] (01:06:11) Nr. 335 St. Moritz (Wintersport) [ca. 1928] (00:15:06) [videotape only; this film wasn't shot by Carl Lutz] Nr. 336 USA (Washington DC, New York) [1930s] (00:13:38) [videotape made around 1990 - the film version is now missing at source archive] Detailed description of ...

Reel 47. 100 feet. Shot on quays Usti, of boy [passing barge marked N.D.B.E. Magdeburg]. Shot of name of barge. Five shots of a Dissel tug marked Tabor Praha, sailing on the Elbe, showing countryside. Shot taken at Brensko, the Elbe frontier station, between Czechoslovakia and Germany. Passengers from ferry coming up steps and showing passport to Czech customs officials. Reel 48. 100 feet. VS, taken ...

Maurits Schaap visited his brother Meijer in Palestine in December 1935. Maurits showed the films to the Jewish community of Rotterdam after he returned. "ROTTERDAM-PALESTINA vice-versa, Camera: Mau Schaap. Caricaturen: Joseph Rosenberg. Chanoekah 5696" Title card: "VERTREK STATION D.P. met opnamen van Rotterdam - Parÿs - Milaan - Monza - Venetië - Triëst". Busy train station after 11AM. People moving ...

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/