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Julius Blatt (1917-2002, Jewish) was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army from 1942 to 1946. He served as Plans and Intelligence Officer. He led an advance party into Nuremberg and into Munich to obtain National Socialist Party secret documents and for this service was awarded a Bronze Star medal. He was also part of the crew that liberated Dachau. After combat, he served as commander in ...

This diary of an anonymous young man was written on the blank pages and in the margins of the novel "Les vrais riches", alternately in English, Polish, Hebrew, and Yiddish. (A facsimile is appended on pp. 101-159.) He describes the torments of hunger and expresses the despair that makes him wish for his own death and the destruction of the whole world. News of the alleged assassination of Hitler and ...

(Munich 41) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 11, 1946. LSs, rear views, courtroom as German attorney questions Erhard Milch (in German). Milch confirms that the German Luftwaffe had not been prepared in 1939, no cooperation or agreements (ROE, command structure) existed with other parts of the Wehrmacht, at least he did not know of any and he should have been informed. Cooperation within ...

The excerpt opens on a group of well-fed people around a table eating a sumptious dinner. They complain about rationing as they eat. A young boy dressed in a Hitler Youth uniform comes in and stands at the door listening, where he is joined by the maid. She says that if people don't give things up for the war, then it will end up as it was in 1918. The boy says, "yes, and they are waiting for that ...

David Mellows was secretary of the Association of Jewish Youth and subsequently secretary of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, Bevis Marks.

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 ...