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  1. Eichmann Trial -- Session 70 -- Screening of films

    Session 70. Cuts between the film footage entered as evidence and shots of Eichmann in the courtroom watching the footage. 00:01:06 The scene opens on the courtroom, there is no sound. 00:02:58 Eichmann is brought in. 00:06:09 Film footage is shown of people walking through a camp covered in snow (Auschwitz). Cut to Eichmann then back to footage of a crowd walking through the camp; inmates looking through barbed wire; another shot of the camp covered in snow. Eichmann in courtroom. Film: building with scaffolding around it, snow, train, industrial town. 00:07:17 Aerial shot pans across snow...

  2. Eichmann Trial -- Session 112 -- Prosecution continues summing up

    Session 112. People milling about the courtroom. Eichmann waiting in his booth for the session to begin. 00:07:50 Judges enter. They open Session 112. Hausner begins listing the proofs that Eichmann had direct control over the camps. He discusses the many things Eichmann did relating to Theresienstadt, including issuing orders, which was opposed to Himmler's approach. 00:16:54 The visits of Eichmann to various camps are detailed, as well as deception of the prisoners. He says that Eichmann's admittance to transporting Jews to the east was proof he was directly involved, despite his testimon...

  3. Antisemitic flyers

    Collection consists of two antisemitic flyers. The first bears an image of the star of David and a caricature of a Jewish man printed in black ink; verso: two columns of text, in Russian. The second flier has an image of man being shot and an image of a man being struck by two men; verso: text printed, image of Nazi eagle with swastika in upper right.

  4. Eichmann Trial -- Session 83 -- Servatius examines Eichmann re: Denmark, Norway, Serbia

    The footage begins in the middle of the session. Judge Raveh questions Eichmann about the reaction of his department to the failure of the attempted deportation of Danish Jews. The judge also asks Eichmann whether he and others in his department attempted to shift the blame for the failure of the operation, and why Eichmann traveled to Denmark. Servatius begins his presentation of documents about Norway (00:05:12). The documents cover the compulsory registration and deportation of Norwegian Jews as well as the transfer of Jews to Sweden. Judge Landau adjourns the session (00:15:45) and all ...

  5. Bianca S. Lloyd papers

    The collection consists of documents related to emigration of Maks (Max) and Zofija Sztejn and their children Jakob and Bianca (later Bianca Lloyd), originally of Białystok, Poland, from Kaunas, Lithuania in 1940. Included are a safe conduct pass issued by Japanese diplomat Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara, a certificate in lieu of passport, and an Argentinian tourist visa.

  6. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 1 and 2 -- Indictment reading of 15 counts

    Sessions 1 and 2. Begins during Session 1 as Attorney General Hausner is countering the Defense's assertion that the Israeli court lacks objectivity. There is a blip at 00:03:04 and the tape skips to Hausner discussing his agreement to accept affidavits from the Defense witnesses and forego his right to cross-examination. 00:05:19 There is another blip and the footage jumps to Session 2 as Hausner is reading international statutes as points of evidence for holding the Eichmann trial in Israel. 00:06:33 Another blip and the footage skips to Hausner discussing Eichmann's extradition from Arge...

  7. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 73 and 74 -- Sassen document legality and value; Bergen-Belsen liberation; savior of the Arabs

    Sessions 73. Tape jumps often, but does not seem to lose any footage. Attorney General Hausner describes the Sassen memoirs, saying that he does not deny it, and thus it can be considered created by Eichmann. He says that the Defense says that the document is incomplete, but this does not affect the submission of the document, and it must be determined what value that missing portion has. He cites precedent, saying that the court must warn itself that this is not the entire document. The Judges discuss problems with the corrections to the document, the validity of the document, and other re...

  8. Sam Katz photographs

    The collection consists of 11 photographs taken at Zeilsheim displaced persons camp near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Three of the photographs depict a Zeilsheim demonstration for the independence of Israel, and one photograph depicts the police department at Zeilsheim.

  9. Solomon Manischewitz photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs taken in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Most of the photographs depict the students and staff of the Henrieta Szold Hebrew School in Zeilsheim where Solomon Manischewitz taught and the Zeilsheim High School. The collection also includes images of festivities held at Zeilsheim on May 15, 1948, when Israel was proclaimed an independent state.

  10. Photograph album

    The photograph album contains images from the Priory children's home in Selkirk, Scotland, for refugee children that arrived on a Kindertransport in 1939. Many of the photographs show Gunther Abrahamson, who lived in the home, and Netta Pringle, assistant matron in the Priory home, who took the majority of the pictures and assembled the album. In 1996 Netta gave the album to Gunther and he added some captions and photographs of his own. The album also includes newspaper clippings referring to sale of the Priory in 1991.

  11. Judith R. Adler papers

    The papers consist of an envelope and a letter, dated May 22, 1939, written by Walter Weinberg aboard the MS St. Louis and addressed to Alfred Weinberg of Chicago, Il.

  12. Helen Greenspun papers

    The papers consist of a doctor's certificate issued in Berchtesgaden, Germany, attesting that Josef Greenspun in 30% disabled as a result of being shot under the arm and a receipt issued in 1949 in Boston, Mass., to Hanka Garfinkel [donor] who arrived on the "US General W. Haan."

  13. Siege of Warsaw, reel 3 - trims and outs

    German footage with Portuguese commentary. German Labor Corps marching through streets. Sign: "ADOLF HITLER IST DEUTCHLAND." Band, officers. Ceremony- turning square into "ADOLF HITLER PLATZ". AV, shot from plane of bombed out areas. Polish conscripts, Polish POWs along road marching in a long line, they march pass peasants. VS, city and country scenes, small tank, truck passing by.

  14. Margaret Marflow papers

    The papers consist of a poem and envelope sent to Margaret Weiss from Ruth Rosenbaum, who went from Germany to England on a Kindertransport on January 19, 1939, dated 1945. Also included is a newspaper clipping that mentions Margaret Weiss, S.R.N., as a recipient of a Distinction Certificate after successfully completing her final examination.

  15. Henry Maschler papers

    The Henry Maschler papers consist of Henry Maschler’s identification documents. The documents include a German stateless passport issued in Berlin, Germany on November 1, 1938; an identification certificate issued in London, England on October 23, 1939; and an identification card issued in London, England on June 1, 1940.

  16. Greta Meier papers

    The papers consist of one certificate of registration for the Perse School for girls in Cambridge and one ration book issued to Greta Lowenstein.

  17. Anna Meyer collection

    The collection consists of one photograph of a group protrait of German Jewish children who left Germany on a Kindertransport to Belgium, and one room card from "Hotel Albert" given to the Anna Meyer after her arrival in Belgium on "Kindertransport."

  18. Betty Mae Pasternak papers

    The collection consists of photographs documenting the US Army Corps of Engineers' path in Germany from April to May 1945, including images of victims in Dachau concentration camp. The collection also includes two postcards, one pamphlet entitled "The Story of The Corps of Engineers," and one envelope addressed to Miss Betty Shenk in Pennsylvania, dated June 4, 1945.

  19. Janina Prot papers

    The papers consist of 68 photographs relating to Janina Prot's family before, during, and after World War II and 6 photographs relating to Janina's maternal aunt, Jadwiga Deiches Beres, and her son, Krzysztof Beres. The collection also includes a Kennkarte, an Ausweis, a certificate, an Ausweis that belonged to Janina's cousin, a document cover and a praying card.

  20. Herbert Siperstein papers

    The Herbert Siperstein papers consist of correspondence and photographs documenting the Pick family from Vienna, Josefine Siperstein and Elise Pick’s unsuccessful effort to emigrate aboard the S.S. St. Louis, family members’ efforts to help them immigrate to the United States, and efforts to locate Josefine Siperstein after her death at Auschwitz. Correspondence includes letters to Herbert Siperstein from his mother aboard the S.S. St. Louis and then settled in Mirabeau, correspondence with the U.S. State Department and refugee aid agencies, a carbon copy of a letter from Helen Grossman to ...