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  1. Records of Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Sygn. 362)

    Contains reports, correspondence, case files, and other materials from the archives of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Amt VII. Included is information about the monitoring of religious groups, churches, political organizations, and other Masonic organizations, as well as of members of the clergy, police, journalists, scholars, and individuals by the Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS. In its totality, the collection reveals much about the interests of Franz A. Six, head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Amt VII. Also included are periodic, special, and situation r...

  2. Lena Fishman Fagen collection

    The Lena Fishman Fagen collection consists of original documents Fagen collected while working as a chief document screener for the prosecution at the Nuremberg war crime trials. Most of the records are original signed correspondence addressed to Alfred Rosenberg or his adjutants, Adolf von Trotha or Werner Koeppen. Correspondents include high-ranking Nazi party officials such as Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Hans Frank, and Joseph Goebbels. The collection also includes four Nuremberg trial briefs and a 1951 report on the sentences of Nuremberg-convicted war criminals.

  3. Ceramic figurine of a Jewish man with a boutonniere

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Ceramic figure of a stereotypical Jewish man in dilapidated top hat and suit, wearing a boutonniere. On the pedestal is the phrase: Habn Sie Nicht den Kleinen Cohn gesehn [Have you seen the little Cohn]. The text uses the name “Kleinen Cohn” (sometimes “Kleine Cohn” or “Kohn”) meaning Little Cohn, which was a pejorative term for Jews used in Germany around the turn of the twentieth century. The term is thought to have originated in an 1893 German military pamphlet. It was popularized after German humorist Guido Thielscher sang a satirical song about the character in 1902, and quickly became...

  4. Comical figurine of a Jewish soldier, Austro-Hungarian Army

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Comical bronze figurine of a young, not especially promising, Jewish soldier. He appears to wear an Austro-Hungarian Army uniform, post-1908 Hechtgrau [pike gray] issue. The figurine was likely made a few years after this or in the early months of World War I (1914-1918). The figurine is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.

  5. Inscribed postcard of a Jewish man in red coat and hat near a tailor shop

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Postcard, with a handwritten greeting and reply, mailed to Cincinnati with a cartoon of a Jewish merchant attracting business to a Russian tailor shop. This postcard is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

  6. Propaganda posters

    A German propaganda poster depicts a tank with a Nazi swastika banner in the BG. It reads, in Russian, "Growing every day." Another propaganda poster depicts a German soldier in the FG, turning back to face local peasants, who are standing behind him and waving to him. It reads, again in Russian, "The German Army, your protector and friend!" A third propaganda poster shows a farmer tending to his field, and reads: "Now, I work in peace". A fourth poster shows a farmer planting seeds, but the caption is illegible, as the time code was burned in on top of it in a moment of dazzling brilliance...

  7. Records of the city of Lublin Akta miasta Lublina (Syg. 22)

    Contains maps, building plans, architectural drawings, minutes of meetings, permits, registers, and various other documents from the city administration of Lublin, Poland, from 1939 to 1944. The records relate to a prisoner of war camp in Lublin, constructions of streets in Lublin, construction of factories and buildings for industry in Lublin, plans for the crematoria in Lublin concentration camp, housing for factory labor, the role of the Waffen SS in Lublin, plans for structures in the Dachau and Auschwitz concentration camps, payroll for the Lublin city administration, establishment of ...

  8. Werner Katzenstein postcards

    1. Werner and Inge Berg Katzenstein family collection

    The Werner Katzenstein postcards include one postcard addressed to Katzenstein while he lived in the Netherlands; postcards addressed to unrelated people including Hans Bornemann, Robert Heinemann, Wilhelm Schaefer, and others; and blank postcards documenting the 1936 Olympics, bear Deutsches Reich stamps and Nazi imagery, and one advertising "Der ewige Jude."

  9. Bodnar family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs which document the experiences of the Bodnar family of Vienna, Austria, who fled through Switzerland, Italy, and France before arriving in the United States. Includes a recording made by Fani Bodnar (Jacque's mother), and a visa signed by Hiram Bingham IV allowing Jacques to travel to the United States.

  10. Nuremberg Rally 1934

    Reel 10: Goose-stepping Nazi Labor troops parade in streets of Nuremberg. Hitler, standing in car, salutes each unit as they pass. CU, German high command including Hitler, Raeder, Goering, Hess, General Von Brauchitsch and others. CU, Hitler's arm extended in Nazi salute. Pan to face of Hitler. Various Army Corp units, MSKF, Women Driver Corps, and Hitler Youth passing in review before Hitler standing in open car. Cut- ins, populace leaning out of windows watching review. Various parade scenes: Himmler leads Gestapo troops, greets and shakes hands with Hitler. Soldiers carrying pick-axes p...

  11. Naftali F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naftali F., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1924, the youngest of nine children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending a Polish-Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; membership in Gordonyah; siblings emigrating to Palestine, Bolivia, and Netherlands; German invasion in 1939; one brother's flight to Soviet-occupied territory; deportation in 1942 to Sakrau, Ottmuth, then Gogolin; slave labor building a highway; factory work with British POWs; transfer to Marksta?dt in 1943; slave labor in a Krupp facility; learning his parents had been deported (he never saw them ...

  12. Mark F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark F., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in approximately 1919. He recalls many older siblings who were married; his family's orthodoxy; attending yeshiva; learning typesetting; joining his brother-in-law's business; military forced labor in Podolinec; buying his way out; confiscation of the business; forced relocation; coworkers hiding him, his brother, and two friends; arranging train transportation to Switzerland; betrayal; moving to another town with his friends; exposure as Jews; deportation to Sered; exemption from transports due to his brother-in-law...

  13. Dov F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov F. who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1927, one of four children. He recalls his family's move to ?o?dz? when he was eight; his father and older brother fleeing when the Germans were approaching (his father never returned); his brother's return a few months later; his mother running his father's factory; her efforts to find his father's body and the subsequent burial; moving to Warsaw with his family to join his grandparents; ghettoization; starvation and extreme cold; attending synagogue with his grandfather on his bar mitzvah, but no festivities; his mother sendi...

  14. Larry K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry K., who was born in Z?H?uprany, Poland in 1925. He recounts childhood antisemitic harassment; attending schools in Salos, Smorgon?, and Oshmi?a?ny; Soviet occupation in 1939; attending Russian school; German invasion in 1941; a mass killing including his father (his mother "bought him out"); transfer to the Oshmi?a?ny ghetto; a mass killing; transfer with his family to a camp in Lithuania; slave labor constructing roads and railroads; transfer to Stutthof about a year later; the deaths of his mother and siblings; transfer to Dachau a month later; working as an e...

  15. Roman B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roman B., who was born in L?viv, Poland in 1929. He recalls living in Katowice; his father's successful practice as an eye surgeon; attending Polish public school; his family's strong Polish identity; visiting his wealthy grandparents in Pidhai?t?s?i; assisting German Jewish refugees in 1938; visiting his grandparents in summer 1939 with his mother; his father's recall into the Polish military (he ended up in England); Soviet occupation; his grandparents' and relatives' deportation east as capitalists (it saved their lives); attending Soviet schools; moving to L?viv i...

  16. Harry F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry F., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1924. He describes emigrating with his mother and brother to Belgium in 1933; the family moving to Zaandam; adjusting to school; his bar mitzvah; German invasion; obtaining Palestine visas; a brief arrest in 1940; anti-German riots in Amsterdam in 1941; internment with his parents and brother in Westerbork; building barracks; reluctance to leave his parents and brother when he had the opportunity to escape; avoiding deportation due to their Palestine visas; deportation in 1944 with his family to Bergen-Belsen to a special ...

  17. Reuben N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Reuben N., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920. He recounts his parents' deaths; living with relatives in M?awa; visiting his sister in P?onsk; antisemitic harassment; participating in Betar; volunteering for the Polish military during the German invasion; traveling to P?onsk, then Ciechano?w; a public hanging; forced labor; assistance from a Pole in escaping; joining Armia Ludowa in Praga; obtaining false documents and authentic baptismal papers; capture in Pu?tusk in spring 1943; imprisonment in Pawiak and Szczecin; deportation to Auschwitz; learning his sister w...

  18. Martin G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin G., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. He recounts his maternal grandparents' anti-Nazi activities; joining them when they moved to Holland, Switzerland, and Czechoslovakia; returning to Berlin; his father's death; joining his grandparents in Milan, with his mother and brother, in December 1939; his mother's remarriage; his mother's and stepfather's emigration; joining an uncle in Brussels; internment with his grandparents and brother in Marneffe as illegal immigrants; his bar mitzvah; German invasion; returning to Brussels; he and his brother deciding no...

  19. Karl K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karl K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1916, one of two brothers. He recounts attending public school, then gymnasium; playing sports for Maccabi; his older brother's emigration to Palestine in 1935; military draft in 1937; the Anschluss; expulsion from the army with other Jewish soldiers two months later; increasing antisemitism; round-up with his father on Kristallnacht; his father's release due to his age; deportation to Dachau; slave labor cleaning nearby houses; assistance from the non-Jewish blockaltester; release on June 6 based on his pledge to emigrate w...

  20. Maren F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maren F., who was born in Kiel, Germany in 1938, the second daughter of a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father. Her war memories are primarily of bombings and running. She tells of her maternal family's emigration; her father's military service protecting them; her mother wearing a star, doing forced labor, and observing all the laws and regulations; destruction of their home in a 1943 bombing; hospitalization; hiding on a farm; leaving, fearing exposure; returning to Kiel; living in the apartment of evacuees; believing if her father returned, everything would be fine;...