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  1. Photographic portrait of Vladka Meed

    Color image of Vladka Meed seated before a of painting of her husband, Benjamin Meed.

  2. Barbie Trial -- Day 15 -- Two civil parties testify

    17:22 President Cerdini calls the next civil party, Mr. Isidore Friedler, to the stand; Mr. Friedler presents himself to the court 17:23 The civil party testifies; Mr. Friedler was living in Belgium with his extended family when the Nazis invaded in 1940; they fled for the French free zone, but he was arrested and sent to the Agde work camp before volunteering to go to Germany as a laborer; he worked in Poland as a translator before being allowed to return to France; upon his return to France, he sought to gain entry into the Resistance, and was arrested by the French police and sent to Com...

  3. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

    Bar of soap issued to 15-year-old Erwin Dankner in June 1944 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. The soap was never used. Erwin, his parents, Henry and Catherina, and his brother, Anthony, arrived in Bergen-Belsen by train from Budapest, Hungary, as part of a rescue effort organized by Rezso Kasztner. Later in 1944, the family was transferred to safety in Switzerland.

  4. Heinz Loewy postcard

    The collection consists of a postcard received by Heinz Loewy (later Henry Long), who fled to Shanghai, China after surviving imprisonment in several German concentration camps from 1936-1939. The postcard was written by Siegmund "Israel" Meyersohn in Berlin, Germany and dated 17 April 1941.

  5. Unused Nazi banner with a swastika found by a US soldier

    Unused Nazi banner found by an American soldier, Earl Kinne, in a boxcar near Ludwigslust, Germany, in 1945. Kinne and a fellow soldier were ordered to go to Ludwigslust, a small town in Germany, to take the townspeople to Wöbbelin, a nearby sub-camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, to witness the unburied bodies and other evidence of the atrocities that had been committed there by the Nazi government. The United States Army forced the townspeople to bury the dead. Earl found several newly manufactured Nazi flags, rolled in bundles, in a boxcar near the camp. The flags had never been u...

  6. Barbie Trial -- Day 15 -- Elie Wiesel and two other witnesses testify

    15:02 Witness Elie Wiesel testifies, describing the particular emotional challenges of life in the camps as a child; Prosecutor Jakubowicz asks the witness to give his opinion on the definition of a crime against humanity 15:09 Mr. Wiesel describes genocide as, "a philosophy, more than a war strategy." He describes the uniqueness of the Nazi genocide, and explains his opinion that we should never compare it to other genocidal acts, because "to compare is to minimize." He comments on France's complicity in the Holocaust, saying that France's actions should be put to trial, but not in conjunc...

  7. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Consists of four photographs taken after the liberation of the Nordhausen labor camp. They depict bodies of victims, the remains of a fire used to burn victims, and a cemetery erected after their burial. The photographs are from the collection of James A. Melka, a Private First Class in the United States Army during World War II.

  8. Dunson family at Christian mission

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. EXT, couple posing in countryside. Young blonde girl (the donor, Joy Marshall) posing. EXT, shots of trees, etc. Footage changes from color to black and white. Group of men working in a garage on a car. MS, man on horse and three children on mule (all three on the same mule). Children then start taking turns on horse and mule. MS, MLS, man at river's edge, VS of river, switches back to color footage. VS, men building structure in a clearing. Various generati...

  11. Barbie Trial -- Day 2 -- Barbie's career in the SS

    The examination of Klaus Barbie's career in the SS continues.

  12. Frankfurt radio station at a Hitler Youth camp

    A clip from a film about the government-run Frankfurt radio station. The "radio wagon" traveling down the streets of Frankfurt, then down a dirt road. The vehicle arrives at a Hitler Youth camp and records the boys at various activitities, including exercise, eating and singing. Good shots of the youth, including one of a young boy holding a shield with an SS symbol on it.

  15. Barbie Trial -- Day 16 -- Three civil parties testify

    15:51 President Cerdini calls a civil party, Mrs. Alice Arnault, née Zohar, to the stand; the civil party presents herself to the court 15:52 Mrs. Arnault describes her arrest in July 1944, by a member of the Gestapo; he explained to her that she had been denominated by someone called 'Le Boiteux,' and that there was a 5,000 franc prize on her head; she was quickly transferred to Montluc, and then sent on the August 11 transport to Drancy and then to Auschwitz; the witness was then transfered to a forced labor camp in Kratszau, where she worked in a factory 15:58 President Cerdini comments ...

  16. Gabriel Schutzengel papers

    The Gabriel Schutzengel papers include Gabriel’s Hungarian identification card and two diaries describing his experiences. The first diary, 1939-1949, is a handwritten account, in Hungarian, about German occupation. The entries include his time in a forced labor camp, the deportation of his mother and sister, as well as details about the fate of Jews in Hungary, particularly in Komárom and Budapest. Gabriel’s memoir, titled "Machzor” is typewritten in English and categorized into sections. The memoir describes the German presence and occupation and includes family trees.

  17. German advance; officers confer; German wounded; mail and packages at the front

    Reel 2: 00:00:00 German military advance with horse-drawn camouflaged artillery. Men digging holes. Troops advance on horseback. German soldier operates a radio; views of/from the radio tower. The camera pans across the landscape from the radio tower, a large column of smoke is visible in the distance, figures moving across an open field. Panning shots of a small military camp at the edge of a tree line; soldiers dig a trench, operate a radio. CU of a Russian prisoner (Asian features) digging a trench. 00:02.18 Group of men taken prisoner, in civilian clothing, caps. Marched off under guard...

  18. Agro-Joint in Simferopol

    CU of a plane ticket, dated 1936. Plane takes off. Map of Crimea. Morris Troper is shown arriving in Simferopol. Intertitles describe Troper's activities. He leaves for a trip to Jonkoi via car with Mr. Zaichek, the chief agronom.

  19. Lea Berkman photograph collection

    The Lea Berkman photograph collection consits of 22 photographs depicting twins Lucyina Cuker and Irka Cuker and the Cuker family in Radom, Poland, prior to World War II.