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  1. Korman and Maizel families collection

    1. Korman and Maizels families collection

    Contains photographs of the Korman family in Krasnik, Poland, sent to family in the United States before the Holocaust; documents issued by the Committee of Liberated Political Prisoners in Germany, including identification documents issued to Szlama Majzels and Runia Majzels; a driver’s license issued to Szlama Majzels; death certificates for Abraham Korman (Runia’s brother), Kiwa Korman (Runia’s father), Ezril Majzels (Szlama’s father), and Hanna Korman Kucheik (Szlama’s sister), all of whom were murdered in the Budzyn slave labor camp in November 1942; a certificate of eligibility issued...

  2. Eichmann Trial -- Session 114 -- Closing statement of the Defense

    Session 114. The Judges say they are ready to hear the summing up by the Defense. Dr. Servatius says that the accusations of the Attorney General Hausner, if true, would be worthy of a monument to Jew-haters, saying that Eichmann was some superman able to commit all of these atrocities. Instead, he says, it was the top brass that decided that Eichmann would be the scapegoat for their actions (duplicate footage from Tape 2232). 00:04:18 Tape jumps, and the Judges enter the courtroom and tell Dr. Servatius to continue his summing up. Servatius comes to the main count of the case, the charge o...

  3. Alexander Bachnár papers

    The Alexander Bachnár papers consist of correspondence and biographical, photographic, and printed materials documenting Bachnár’s forced work on Sixth Labor Battalion (VI Prapor) in Slovakia during World War II, his confinement to the Nováky labor camp for Jews, his participation in armed resistance with partisans, awards he received for his wartime service, and his work as a journalist after the war. Biographical materials include certificates, correspondence, lists, speeches, and an interview documenting Alexander Bachnár, his forced work on the Slovak Jewish labor battalion, his confine...

  4. Miniature ivory penknife carried by an Austrian refugee family

    1. Elisabeth Orsten family collection

    Miniature penknife given to 13 year old Elisabeth Ornstein by her parents Hilda and Paul after they were reunited in New York in 1940 during the war. Elisabeth and her family were from Vienna where the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 led to severe anti-Semitic persecution. Although they were practicing Catholics and did not identify themselves as Jews, they were Jews under Nazi law. After Kristallnacht in November 9, 1938, Elisabeth's parents decided to send the children out of the country. Elisabeth and Georg, 9 years, were given passage on a Kindertransport to England by the Quak...

  5. Silver locket with an engraved monogram and an infant's photo saved by an Austrian refugee family

    1. Elisabeth Orsten family collection

    Locket with her baby photo and her mother's initials given to 13 year old Elisabeth [Liesl] Ornstein by her mother Hilda after they were reunited in New York in 1940 during the war. Elisabeth and her family were from Vienna where the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 led to severe anti-Semitic persecution. Although they were practicing Catholics and did not identify themselves as Jews, they were Jews under Nazi law. After Kristallnacht in November 9, 1938, Elisabeth's parents decided to send the children out of the country. Elisabeth and Georg, 9 years, were given passage on a Kinder...

  6. Miniature mother of pearl compass carried by an Austrian refugee family

    1. Elisabeth Orsten family collection

    Miniature compass given to Elisabeth [Liesl] Ornstein, 13, by her parents Hilda and Paul after they were reunited in New York in 1940 during the war. Elisabeth and her family were from Vienna where the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 led to severe anti-Jewish persecution. Although they were practicing Catholics and did not identify themselves as Jews, they were Jews under Nazi law. After Kristallnacht in November 9, 1938, Elisabeth's parents decided to send the children out of the country. Elisabeth and Georg, 9, were given passage on a Kindertransport to England by the Quakers in ...

  7. Silver floral embossed candlestick acquired by a former Kindertransport refugee

    1. John and Gisela Marx Eden collection

    Silver embossed candlestick, one of a pair, with 2013.476.4, owned by John Peter Eden (formerly Hans Eibuschitz), who escaped Czechoslovakia on a Kindertransport in 1939. The candlesticks were possibly brought to the United States before the war by John’s grandmother. After Germany invaded and annexed Czechoslovakia in March 1939, 12 year old Hans, and 9 year old brother Steven were sent to Great Britain on a Kindertransport. Hans was placed in private boarding schools. After graduation, he attended the London School of Economics to study actuarial science. In 1944 or 1945, he began trainin...

  8. Silver floral embossed candlestick acquired by a former Kindertransport refugee

    1. John and Gisela Marx Eden collection

    Silver embossed candlestick, one of a pair, with 2013.476.3, owned by John Peter Eden (formerly Hans Eibuschitz), who escaped Czechoslovakia on a Kindertransport in 1939. The candlesticks were possibly brought to the United States before the war by John’s grandmother and given to him later. After Germany invaded and annexed Czechoslovakia in March 1939, 12 year old Hans, and 9 year old brother Steven were sent to Great Britain on a Kindertransport. Hans was placed in private boarding schools. After graduation, he attended the London School of Economics to study actuarial science. In 1944 or...

  9. Royal Air Force sweetheart's wings pin acquired by a Czech Jewish Kindertransport refugee

    1. John and Gisela Marx Eden collection

    Sterling silver Royal Air Force sweetheart's wings pin acquired by 17 year old Hans Eibuschitz, a Jewish Czech refugee, while he was in training with the British Royal Air Force from about 1944 to 1945. A sweetheart pin was given to loved ones by soldiers, and were not issued by the RAF. After Germany invaded and annexed Czechoslovakia in March 1939, 12 year old Hans, and his 9 year old brother Steven were sent to Great Britain on a Kindertransport. Hans was placed in private boarding schools. After graduation, he attended the London School of Economics to study actuarial science. In 1944 o...

  10. Pair of scene stills for the film “Reason and Emotion” (1943)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn693090
    • English
    • .1: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .2: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)

    Two scene stills from the animated short film, “Reason and Emotion,” released by RKO Radio Pictures in August 1943. Scene stills are photographs relating to the film and used as marketing and advertising tools. The film was nominated for the 1943 Academy Award for best cartoon short. Created by Walt Disney Productions, the film features the characters “Reason” and “Emotion,” personified by stereotypes of an intellectual and a caveman. They are introduced in the mind of a toddler, and accompany him into his adult years. Reason and Emotion are also shown in the mind of a woman, and in an idea...

  11. Set of three scene stills for the film “I'll Never Heil Again” (1941)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn693061
    • English
    • .1: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) .2: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) .3: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)

    Set of three scene stills for the Three Stooges short satire, “I’ll Never Heil Again,” released by Columbia Pictures, in July 1941. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and are then used as marketing and advertising tools. The film was the Stooges’ first sequel, a follow up to the 1940 short, “You Nazty Spy.” In “I’ll Never Heil Again,” the Stooges (who were Jewish) play parodies of Hitler, Göring, and Goebbels, as Dictator Heilstone, Field Marshal Herring, and the Minister of Propaganda. They have taken control of the country of “Moronica,” and along wit...

  12. Set of three lobby cards for the film “Espionage Agent" (1939)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn693052
    • English
    • .1: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .2: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .3: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)

    Lobby cards for the American feature film “Espionage Agent” released by Warner Bros. Pictures in September 1939. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. In “Espionage Agent,” Barry Corvall is a rookie diplomat who discovers that his new bride has been serving as an undercover agent for the Germans. He resigns from the diplomatic service, and the couple travels to Europe to expose a German spy ring. This was the first American film to utilize the premise of compromised ...

  13. Set of Canadian newsprint advertisements for the film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” (1939)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn693030
    • English
    • 1939
    • .1: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) .2: Height: 7.375 inches (18.733 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)

    Canadian newspaper advertisements for the American feature film “Confessions of a Nazi Spy” released by Warner Bros. Pictures in May 1939. The film was chosen as Best Picture of the Year by the National Board of Review in 1939. Based on articles written in the New York Post by ex-agent Leon G. Turrou, the film recounts a fictionalized version of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Rumrich Nazi Spy Case (1938). The film follows FBI agent Edward Renard’s investigation of Nazi spies affiliated with the German-American Bund as they work to steal American military secrets in the late 193...

  14. English-language international herald for the film “The Last Chance” (1945)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    British-Indian herald for the film, “The Last Chance,” originally released in March 1945 in Switzerland as, “Die Letzte Chance.” Heralds were small, inexpensive flyers usually included as part of a film’s press kit. The film won the Grand Prize and the International Peace Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946, the first after the end of the war. Great Britain ruled three-fifths of the Indian subcontinent from 1858 to 1947, and during World War II, received monetary and military support from their allies in the region. The film is set in German-occupied Italy in 1943, and focuses on thre...

  15. Window card for the film “None Shall Escape” (1944)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Window card for the film, “None Shall Escape,” released by Columbia Pictures in 1944. Window cards were mass-produced promotional materials used until the mid-1980s. They included a blank section at the top for individual theaters to write in dates and show times, and were placed in locations outside of the theaters. “None Shall Escape” was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Story. The film jumps between a fictionalized post-World War II war crimes trial of a Nazi officer from Poland, and the events leading up to and during the war. The man is embittered after Germany’s defea...

  16. Pressbook cover for the film “A Yank in the R.A.F.” (1941)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Cover to a pressbook for the American film, “A Yank in the R.A.F,” released in September 1941 by 20th Century-Fox. The film tells the story of a young American pilot who, after ferrying a warplane to Great Britain, runs into his ex-girlfriend, who has joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. To remain close to her, the pilot volunteers for the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.), and is assigned to the squadron of a competing suitor. He is eventually shot down during the Battle of Dunkirk, but manages to survive and return to his love. Not only did the R.A.F. provide the studio with stock footage, but ...

  17. Trade advertisement for Warner Brothers films, including “Sergeant York” (1941)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Double-page British trade advertisement for Warner Bros. films, including “Sergeant York,” released in July 1941. Movie manufacturers send trade advertisements to exhibitors to increase the distribution of a film to as many theaters as possible. “Sergeant York” was the top grossing film of 1941 and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning two, for Best Film Editing, and Best Actor for Gary Cooper’s portrayal of the title character. The film was based on the life of Alvin York, a veteran of World War I who lived in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee. Initially a pacifist, whose regi...

  18. Lobby Card for the film “A Yank in the R.A.F.” (1941)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Lobby card for the American film, “A Yank in the R.A.F,” released in September 1941 by 20th Century-Fox. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. The film tells the story of a young American pilot who, after ferrying a warplane to Great Britain, runs into his ex-girlfriend, who has joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. To remain close to her, the pilot volunteers for the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.), and is assigned to the squadron of a competing suitor. He is eventually ...

  19. U.S. re-release advertisement for the film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin" (1939)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Re-release advertisement for the American feature film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin,” originally released by Producers Pictures Corporation in October 1939, and re-released in 1942. After encountering opposition from censorship boards, the film was alternatively called “Goose Step,” the title of the adapted novel, and eventually released as “Beasts of Berlin.” In the film, Hans Memling, his wife, and his brother-in-law are members of an underground Nazi-resistance movement. He is arrested and ends up in a camp as a political prisoner. Hans and the other prisoners are interrogated, beaten, and f...

  20. Scene still from the film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin" (1939)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Scene still from the American feature film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin,” originally released by Producers Pictures Corporation in October 1939, and re-released in 1942. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and are then used as marketing and advertising tools. After encountering opposition from censorship boards, the film was alternatively called “Goose Step,” the title of the adapted novel, and eventually released as “Beasts of Berlin.” In the film, Hans Memling, his wife, and his brother-in-law are members of an underground Nazi-resistance movement. He is a...