• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn75115
• English
• 1 CD, WAV
• Updated 1 year ago

1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn712156
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

18 sound reels including Polish radio broadcasts of Kulisiewicz and his performances. Reel 1 - APR 1 Polish radio broadcast, "Choral ze piekla dna" [Songs from the depths of hell]. Side A includes various camp songs and fragments of camp songs sung by Aleksander Kulisiewicz (A.K.) such as "Elzunia," "Agonia Staszka," "Kostus moja," "Kolysanka dla synka." An a cappella choir sings "Marsz Pasiakow'' and "List." A.K. and Burski recount experiences surrounding musical activity at the camps. Side B includes a recording of a concert at Auschwitz from 1967. A.K. sings "Birkenau," with accordian ac...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500598
• English
• 1938
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

On November 14, 1938, Alf Landon made radio remarks concerning the treatment of Jewish people under the Nazi regime in Germany. From the radio station WIBW symposium under the auspices of Council of Churches, Landon spoke out against the cruelty and intolerance that was being displayed toward Jews in Europe, and how Americans should protest this treatment, stating that it went against the principles of freedom and tolerance.

1. Music study collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn620174
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Two performances of "Memorial" Op. 118 by Anatol Vieru (1926-1998). Vieru composed "Memorial" in 1990 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Iasi pogrom of June 1941. 1) 0:00-16:32 by the Orchestra del Studio Radio-Bucharest; conductor: Ludovic Bacs. 2) 16:54-end by the Israel Sinfonietta Beersheba; conductor: Mendi Rodan (also a survivor of the Iasi ghetto). Places, dates and venues of performances unknown.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn698751
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

April 8, 1943 broadcast by Robert Henry Best, an American journalist who issued anti-US propaganda broadcasts from Berlin.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514357
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Narrator introduces himself as Jack Parker, with the Seventh Army in Germany and describes the “Dachau death camp” which he had entered the previous Monday, April 30th. Parker is a correspondent for some American radio network but does not name which one. Parker and his colleagues had been in Munich, where there was still fighting, and was on his way back to their “press camp” when they got word that Dachau had been liberated. He describes in some detail as he and four other correspondents approached and then entered the camp: the death train (Parker describes it as well as the journey from...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn702472
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

"The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto" Episode 756 of radio program "The Eternal Light." Originally broadcast on December 12, 1943 and rebroadcast on April 26, 1959. Script by Morton Wishengrad. Production details: C08680. Link to the script: https://archive.org/details/BattleOfTheWarsawGhetto.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516428
• English
• 1944-1959
• 24 microfilm reels, 35 mm 859 digital images, PDF
• Updated 1 year ago

This collection contains documentation concerning the activity of the Department of Culture and Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKZP) headed by Henryk Szner (beginning in 1948), then by Hersz Smolar. The documents are mainly in draft form, such as reports and texts of radio broadcasts with hand-written corrections or censorship stamps. Accretion of digital images, files 71-75, contain radio broadcasts including texts of Yiddish broadcasts in 1945 from Lublin. Note: This collection changed Sygn. number in ŻIH from Sygn. 308 to Sygn. 303/XIII.

1. Music study collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn720780
• English
• 1980
• Updated 1 year ago

Side A, Track 1, BBC Radio Newsreel Overseas Service. May 5, 1945. 15.31 Mc. Interviews with the British soldiers who liberated Belsen Concentration Camp, recordings made inside the camp with Robert Gordon Walker, BBC correspondent. Side B, Track 1, WOR Newsreel. April 24, 1945. Mutual net. Interview with a liberated G.I., an ex-prisoner of the Nazis. A description of prison conditions in Germany. Side B, Track 2, Released American Prisoners. April 28, 1945. Mutual net. Paul Killiam from Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, interviewing soldiers who have just returned to the United States from Nazi Pri...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn702468
• English
• 1942-1943
• Updated 1 year ago

Dutch radio broadcasts: CD 1: Stemmen Des Tijds 1942-1943 (a Radio Nederland documentary) CD 2 and 3: Radio Oranje broadcasts transcribed in occupied Netherlands. Includes signature tune, speeches by Dutch royalty and politicians, cabaret, music. Audible noise as Germans attempt to jam broadcasts.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn712216
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Excerpts from "The Robinson Newscast" and "Bedtime Story" broadcast by Eddie Cantor on his radio show "It's Time To Smile" (the show was sponsored by a toothpaste manufacturer) broadcast on March 31, 1943. Apart from Cantor, the voices heard belong to Harry Von Zell (track 1) and Edward G. Robinson (track 2). This full broadcast was "dedicated" to Hitler (for details of the full broadcast, refer to www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/variety/eddie-cantor-its-time-to-smile/guest-edward-g-robinson-1943-03-31). Robinson played prominent role in the touring pageant "We Will Never Die," also in 1943 (...

1. Music study collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn600074
• English
• 1947
• Updated 1 year ago

Cassette dub of Lehavot Ba’Eifer (Flames in Ashes) Orchestral suite from a radio play on Vilna Ghetto (1947) by Israeli composer Shabtai Petrushka.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn628374
• English
• 1933-1944
• 1,355,371 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 1 year ago

Case files of individuals arrested by the Gestapo in the Rhine Land region, consisting of questionnaires, protocols, internments and dismissals, Schutzhaft orders, arrest orders, flyers, photographs, and biographical information with particular focus on the Communist Party in Germany and associated political organizations (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD), Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (KJVD), Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus, Roter Frontkämpferbund (RFB), Revolutionäre Gewerkschaftsopposition (RGO), Rot Sport, Aufbruch-Arbeitskreis, Ringbolschewisten); the Communist move...

1. Image Collection NIOD

• NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
• 114489
• Dutch
• 1938
• Updated 5 years ago

Heel veraf, boven de hoofden uit, het duo Johnny & Jones, spelend voor de vakbondsmenigte van NVV, Breda, 1938. Te zien zijn hun witte jasjes en de ene speelt de guitar met links!

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503323
• English
• 1942-1978
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Includes various documents written by Herbert Luft. Among the documents are stories of life in concentration camps and shortwave radio transcripts of broadcasts conducted by Herbert Luft in 1942. The broadcast messages target the German people and give praise to the American government and military for their aid to the people of Europe. The broadcasts were recorded by the US Department of Agriculture, Division of Information, for Shortwave Broadcast of the O.W.I. to Europe. A later accretion to the papers includes a photograph of Herbert Luft and a letter written inside Birkenau concentrati...

1. Image Collection NIOD

• NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
• 161109
• Dutch
• Updated 5 years ago

Het artiestenduo Johnny & Jones (Nol van Wesel (1918-1945) en Max Kannewasser (1916-1945)) met Appie de Booy voor Hotel Gottschalk in Zaltbommel, circa 1940

1. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn620828
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

On April 6, 1941 Anton “Ajax” Carlson spoke with Ugo Carusi, Executive Assistant to the Attorney General, about what America means to him. Carlson shares his rags to riches immigration story. He tells of Americans' first impression of him. The professor also explains how he chose a career in physiology and his passion for teaching American youth. Dr. Carlson believes listening to a dictator’s false promise of security through the degradation of others will not build a better America. He shares his opinion on the events in Europe and the destiny of America. Dr. Carlson says the greatest gift...

1. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn615679
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

On May 25, 1940, Dr. Anton Lang spoke with Marshall E. Dimock, Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, on the NBC radio broadcast about the power of democracy. The two men discuss America’s resilience and its rating of “the happiest country in the world”. Lang reveals to Dimock, that unlike America, status and opportunities in Europe are fixed. To him and many other migrants, life in America can bring achievement and freedom. Dr. Lang states democracy is like religion because it is an experience. He says naturalized citizens are eager to learn new ways of living, however Americans criticize an...

1. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn615682
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

On June 15, 1940, Attilio Piccirilli spoke with Marshall E. Dimock, Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, on the NBC radio broadcast about being a naturalized citizen for 50 years. Piccirilli tells Dimock he forgot he was born abroad. He confesses he feels like a foreigner in his birth country because he thinks and speaks like an American. Attilio Piccirilli shares with Dimock his first thoughts of America as his boat docked in the harbor. He explains why had to become an American immediately and why he will forever be tied to the land. Attilio Piccirilli says the greatest gift America has g...

1. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn620817
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

On January 19, 1941 Dr. Béla Schick discussed democracy and healthcare with Dr. Henry B. Hazard of the US. Department of Justice. Schick claims, “Only once you have seen the effects of war on children can one understand what it really causes.” He refers to stories of starving Austrian refugee children being brought to Hungary during WWI. He compares the environments of minors living in war-torn Europe and tranquil America. He explains the reason for growing medical advancement in America as opposed to Europe. Dr. Schick warns that although the United States is safe, has resources, high livi...