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Alexander Shatton (1924-1995) was born Alexander Szatensztejn on February 18, 1924 in Warsaw to W. Joseph and Anna Szatensztejn. He and his family left Warsaw in 1939 to immigrate to the United States via Vilna the Soviet Union, and Japan. They arrived in Hawaii and settled in New York City in 1940. He joined the United States Army, trained at Camp Ritchie, and served as a translator in Europe. From ...

Town Hall in Białystok in Poland, a commercial district. Woman and young girl on a narrow street as an older woman and man approach along the side of the left building. Horse drawn cart carrying a man and barrels moves through town. Pans right on the town and a row of houses on a tree-lined street. A lake with with floating wood rafts. 01:00:27 CU of four women and one man all smiling and waving to ...

Compilation of footage from the tenure of Pope Pius XI (Pius XII's predecessor) on the occasion of his death. Title onscreen: "Universal Newsreel Vatican City Impressive Scenes Mark the Passing of Beloved Pontiff." Crowds outside the Vatican. Priests and others attend to Pope Pius XI as he lies in his bed. Pius XI visits the king and queen of Italy. 02:01:23 Pope Pius XI on the balcony at the church ...

Dr. Alfred Pfister, was born in Germany of Swiss parents. He immigrated to the United States with his wife Paula in 1906 and lived in New Jersey where he founded a chemical manufacturing company which bore his name. His granddaughter, Jackie Davidson, is a resident of Deer Isle, Maine, and donated Dr. Pfister's films to Northeast Historic Film.

Interior shots of fabric factory machinery and workers. United Jewish Appeal officials tour the facility, inspect fabric produced, and converse with factory workers. Julian Venezky appears at 01:00:46. UJA men, including Venezky and Sidney Green (?), exit the factory. Some of the officials are women. Point of view shot from interior of a moving car, passing by a checkpoint with a sign in Hebrew. The ...

The collection includes family photographs of the Stein family in Turaszowka, Poland, dated 1934, taken on the occasion of the visit of Joan Stein (now Joan Diamond) and her parents from the United States and a postcard sent to Ben Stein from his family in Poland telling him that the situation there is not well, dated May 26, 1940, in German. Also included are two travel journals kept by Olga Stein, ...

Clogs: found in the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany by donor who was a member of the United States Army Ambulance Corps and was visiting Buchenwald after liberation. He found them in Buchenwald and sent them back to his family in New Jersey.

Laci Schiffer visits home in Budapest around 1930 for the first time since emigrating to US in 1921. His father, Jonas, is in the garden. He walks with a cane and sits with his wife, Jenny, in garden chairs. Laci kisses them both. Erzsébet prepares to serve them cakes. Ernö helps his father stand; he waves. Trademark Pathex logo.

Testimony, news clippings, text of speech, photocopied documents. Relate to Harry Rowe, and a speech he gave at the newly reopened Neue Synagogue in Berlin in 1995, a news account of his visit, the text of a speech he gave there at his bar mitzvah in 1937, and his testimony of his wartime experiences, as well as photos of him and his wife visiting the synagogue in 1995.

The collection documents Barech and Golda Dobiecki and their daughter Bella’s experiences as they emigrated from Essen, Germany on the MS St. Louis 1939, their disembarkation in England, their immigration to Brazil, and their eventual immigration to the United States. The collection also documents the earlier immigrations of the Dobiecki’s daughters Hella to Brazil and the United States, and Bronia ...