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A farm building, fence, cows. The camera is very shaky. Circular pan of pine trees. 02:07:56 Possibly the Lieberman House in Nahariya, Palestine? Three men talking to each other. Woman stands in front of a car. Man in a straw hat holds a baby on top of a brick structure (a well?).

Jacob Herz immigrated to the United States from Poland in 1912. He had two daughters - Judith Hirsch (nee Herz) and Belle E. Moser (nee Herz, the donor). Jacob's father was a farmer in Wola, Poland. Later, he was shot in front of his home because he was unable to climb into the wagon used to deport the rest of the family.

Rachel Slagter was born on April 3, 1940, in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Her father, Lion Slagter, was the rabbi of her hometown synagogue before and after World War II. Rachel's mother, Rebecca Slagter, cared for Rachel, her sister, Chaja, and her brother, Samuel. Rachel's family was forced into the ghetto in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1943. They were spared from a round-up when German forces failed to ...

An oral history of the women who took part in the war effort on the home front. 1st ed. xvii, 283 pages : portraits ; 24 cm.

Contains name lists, correspondence, diaries, reports, and trial documents. Documents concern the Soviet prisoners of war, including Soviet Jews, kept in Finnish camps during World War II; the organization of the Office of Prisoners of War within the Home Front headquarters of the Finnish Army; the personal diary of Walter Horn, Finnish military attaché in Berlin, from September 1940 to October 1944; ...

Documentation of the German authorities in Belorussia, 1941-1944
 
 Included in the Collection:
 
 - Reports and instructions regarding the confiscation of Jewish property and the attitude of the local population towards the Jews;
 
 - Instructions given by the commander of the Military Home Front Commander, Major-General von Schenkendorff;
 
 - List of inmates ...

In March 1942, Eerkens' father was a ten-year-old boy living in the Dutch East Indies. When the Japanese invaded the island he, his family, and one hundred thousand other Dutch civilians were interned in a concentration camp. After the Japanese surrendered, Mieke's father and his family were set free in a country that plunged immediately into civil war. Across the globe in the Netherlands, police carried ...

German Catholicism at War explores the mentalities and experiences of German Catholics during the Second World War. Taking the German Home Front, and most specifically, the Rhineland and Westphalia, as its core focus German Catholicism at War examines Catholics' responses to developments in the war, their complex relationships with the Nazi regime, and their religious practices. Drawing on a wide range ...

Contains photocopies of personal letters, a report card, and school compositions of Vladimir Weinstein from an orphanage for gifted children in postwar Kiev. Also included is a photocopy of an unsigned, untitled drawing and a (later) undated clipping about Vladimir’s brother and renowned painter Mikhail. While their father fought in the war, the Weinsteins were evacuated to the Urals with their mother, ...

Schermeister family in Denmark before WWII, walking in and out of the door to their small wooden vacation home in Snekkersten. A mezuzah is affixed to the doorway. The donor's great-grandmother, Franzisca Josies Cohen, wearing a large striped scarf. Her daughter Ida, a professional violinist, plays the violin. The other woman in a trenchcoat in front of the house is Asta Cohen, another daughter. [Another ...