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1. Repatriation of POWS: Female entertainer; marching
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Film | Accession Number: 2000.620.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3336 | Film ID: 2500
Date:
Event: April 15 to May 1945
Duration:
00:09:07
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… singer, dancer, and juggler. Singing "Indian Love Call." Russian lieutenant drilling the men.…
2. Robert Treuer family papers
1999.A.0282 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0282
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1997
… organization, Indian community organization, and government service. Fritz Treuer’s memoir describes his grandfather’s childhood in Ungarisch Ostra (now Uherský…
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 … life in Ohio, and his careers in labor organization, Indian community organization, and government service. Fritz Treuer’s memoir describes his…
3. English-language international herald for the film “The Last Chance” (1945)
2018.590.151 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.151
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1945 May 26
publication: 1946 August 28
…British-Indian herald for the film, “The Last Chance,” originally released in March 1945 in Switzerland as, “Die Letzte Chance.” Heralds were small…
4. Regensburg; Generals meet; liberated Allies; Hungarian slave laborers
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2016 | Film ID: 840
Date:
Event: April 24-27, 1945
Duration:
00:10:32
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… including American, British, French Moroccans, Poles, Slavs and Indians. VS, partially destroyed bridge of Wurzen as ex-prisoners scramble over wreckage in…
5. Regensburg; generals meet at the river; liberated Allies
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0918 | Film ID: 900
Date:
Event: 1945 April 27
Duration:
00:10:34
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… including American, British, French Moroccans, Poles, Slavs and Indians. VS, partially destroyed bridge of Wurzen as ex-prisoners scramble over wreckage in…
6. German POWs; liberated French soldiers; DPs on the road; German civilians loot a warehouse.
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Film | Accession Number: 2005.486.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4382 | Film ID: 2800
Date:
Event: 1945 April 05
Duration:
00:15:46
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… of the men appear to be wearing Indian-style turbans) walking along a road. Liberated French prisoners march through a town, waving at the camera…
7. Richard Schifter family papers
2016.502.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2016.502.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1994
bulk: 1939-1948
… Mexico, the Nez Pere Tribe of Idaho, and the Metlakatla Indian Community of Alaska and became a specialist in Federal Indian law, serving on the Presidents…
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 …, and the Metlakatla Indian Community of Alaska and became a specialist in Federal Indian law, serving on the President’s Task Force on American Indians…
8. Liebschütz and Rozsa families papers
2015.574.1 Box 5 Folder 1 Image 74
Document | Accession Number: 2015.574.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2009
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… working for the Indian Red Cross in Basra, but the events in the war in North Africa, including the Battle of El Alamein, led the British colonial…
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 … next few years in Iraq with Imre contributing to the war effort through the Ministry of Defence in that country and Lisa working for the Indian Red Cross…
9. Salomon Slowes papers
2002.477.10 Oversize Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2002.477.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2003
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 …, Mosze and Malka, approximately 1907-1937 1.33 Slowes, Salomon, 1935-1944 1.34 Staff of the Indian hospital in Mosul, Iraq, 1943 1.35 Szarecki, Bolesław…
10. Tamar Lazerson-Rostovsky diaries
2017.103.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image 44
Document | Accession Number: 2017.103.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 … growing. They are shipping 200 [700] women out to Palemonas. The work there is very difficult. The weather is beautiful. Indian summer has begun. The food…
11. A Czech scientist and Wendell Birmingham, an American soldier, examining a shrunken head in Buchenwald after liberation.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 45081
Date:
1945 April 11 - 1945 May 01
… according to the method used by the Jivaro Indians of Ecuador. Visible behind them are pieces of tanned, tattooed human skin and organs, all stored in the…
12. Jewish Brigade soldiers pose next to a pyramid while in training in Egypt.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 74685
Date:
1945
… the refugees to Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean and kept them there for the duration of the war. In 1945 Hersh and Israel Makowski enlisted in…
13. Jewish Brigade soldiers who had previously been interned on the Isle of Mauritius train in Egypt.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 74668
Date:
1945
… the refugees to Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean and kept them there for the duration of the war. In 1945 Hersh and Israel Makowski enlisted in…
14. Jewish Brigade soldiers in Kenya line up for a roll call.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 74686
Date:
1945
… the refugees to Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean and kept them there for the duration of the war. In 1945 Hersh and Israel Makowski enlisted in…
15. Group portrait of members of the Makowski family from Danzig during their internment on the island of Mauritius.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 08753
Date:
February 1945
… the refugees to Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean and kept them there for the duration of the war. In 1945 Hersh and Israel Makowski enlisted in…
16. Group portrait of 52 former Jewish internees of Mauritius in an army unit in Mombasa, Kenya. They would later officially become part of the Jewish Brigade.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 08749
Date:
April 1945
… Wellisch family. The 1780 Jewish refugees arrived two weeks later in Beau Bassin on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The men were interned in a…
17. Group portrait of soldiers in the Jewish Brigade who had formerly been interned in Mauritius.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 59943
Date:
1945
… Wellisch family. The 1780 Jewish refugees arrived two weeks later in Beau Bassin on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The men were interned in a…
18. Driver's license issued to Chuna Grynbaum, a Jewish displaced person living in the Zeilsheim camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 18563
Date:
1945 - 1946
… teachers in Austin, Texas, and audiences in Fort Campbell, Kentucky as well as at an Indian Reservation.…
19. Two couples pose together at a party in the Zeilsheim displaced person's camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 12678
Date:
1945 - 1946
… teachers in Austin, Texas, and audiences in Fort Campbell, Kentucky as well as at an Indian Reservation.…
20. Jewish young people interned on the island of Mauritius.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 59939
Date:
February 1945
… Wellisch family. The 1780 Jewish refugees arrived two weeks later in Beau Bassin on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The men were interned in a…