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  1. Robert Gray photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken by Lt. Robert Gray, a member of the 7th United States Army, after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The photographs, which are described by Lt. Gray on the verso, depict the Dachau death train, SS guards who had been summarily executed, and corpses prior to burial.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Communist protest in New York City

    Title onscreen says that "50,000 "Reds" gathered in New York City." Police on horseback ride amongst a crowd of protesters. Demonstrators carry signs protesting unemployment. 03:23:16 Signs with caricatures of Hitler and Mussolini. Nice wide shot of the large crowd. Leaflets blow in the wind.

  3. Arieh Lewinnek collection

    Collection of glass-based negatives taken in Switzerland in 1934 of Arieh (donor), his sister, and mother when they escaped and sought refuge; after six months they returned to Berlin. Contains a Reisepass (numbered 1285) issued to Rosa Halbreich Lewinnek.

  4. Stephen Weiner collection

    Contains letters from Bella Flora Wach (donor's mother) to her parents Fajga and David Wach while all them were in hiding in Belgium during the Holocaust; dated December 1943 to June 1944.

  5. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  6. Jozef Weiler papers

    The Jozef Weiler papers include biographical material, a diary, and photographs relating to Jozef and Helena Weiler’s pre-war and wartime experiences in Poland. The collection includes a repatriation card issued to Jozef, Helena, and their son, Ryszard, for moving from Drohobycz, Poland to Wrocław, Poland, a certificate stating that Jozef arrived from Drohobycz and was sent to Boza Gora (Mszana, Poland), and pre-war photographs of Jozef and Helena taken in Drohobycz, Poland. The collection also includes a diary written by Jozef on the back of 1939 lab reports from a Galicja oil company docu...

  7. Nazi party activities in 1939 and 1940 in Bruchsal

    Title: Staatsrat Spaniol besichtigt nach der Rede in einer Grosskundgebung Bruchsals Kleintierzucht, 28 Februar 1940 [Councilor Spaniol visits the small animal breeding facility after a speech at a rally in Bruchsal, February 28, 1940]. Spaniol inspects the farm and one of the rabbits. 01:18:16 Title: Mit Flugblaettern glaubten die Franzosen den Krieg zu gewinnen November, 1939 [The French believed they would win the war with leaflets]. Men examine a package of leaflets attached to a hot air balloon that has landed in a field. 01:20:03 Title: Rueckkehr der siegreichen Truppen in Bruchsal, 2...

  8. Interrogation of suspected war criminal

    (LIB 6312) and (LIB 6313) Two German civilians, a man and a woman, enter a room and cremate a body, feeding the corpse into the flames. The narrator indicates that this is the crematory of the city cemetery of Hanover (Hanover-Ahlem, a subcamp of Neuengamme), where the bodies of slave laborers were cremated. The man has been doing this work [Heizer] since 1924 and will be interviewed by US Captain D.C. Nolan and an interpreter, Lieutenant A. Ackerman. An American soldier carrying a movie camera is briefly visible in the frame. After the body is cremated Nolan and Ackerman ask questions of t...

  9. Matchbook advertising Gentiles only US business

    Matchbook issued for use on the east coast of the United States between 1930-1960. It is printed with an advertisement that declares that the establishment is for Gentiles only.

  10. Letter, Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandel to Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, 1950

    One autograph letter from Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandel, addressed to Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung of Manhattan's Jewish Center, on letterhead of the Yeshiva Farm Settlement, Mt. Kisco, NY, 1950.

  12. Torah scroll fragment from the Remu Synagogue

    Fragment of Torah scroll from the Remu Synagogue in Krakow, Poland.

  13. Uri Inbal collection

    The Uri Inbal collection consists of photographs and documents relating to Miriam Beitner Nebel and Ernst Nebel in the Cham DP camp in Germany after the war, as well as reparation documents. Also includes photographs depicting Miriam and Ernst Nebel in the DP camp with their first born son Uri, dated circa 1947.

  14. Einsatzgruppen shooting of Jews, Latvia

    An Einsatzgruppe execution between late July and mid-August 1941. Jewish men being shot by Germans, in dugout pit. 01:00:38 Two brief shots of German Kriegsmarine standing along the bank near the bushes (screen left) washing himself. Footage includes executions of three groups of men. Soldiers and others, including Kriegsmarine personnel and civilians, stand around. Also visible are many people watching from an embankment above. Jews jump out of open truck and are herded, running, towards open pit. They wear "yellow badges" on their chests and backs. SS men, local Latvian militia, and Germa...

  15. Israel's independence war, produced by the United Palestine Appeal

    Shots of Jerusalem as the narrator says that despite the U.N. truce, Glubb Pasha (John Bagot Glubb) continues to arm the Transjordan Arab Legion. Looters in Jerusalem. King Abdullah of Transjordan pays a visit to the Dome of the Rock (Mosque of Omar). 01:01:07 Count Folke Bernadotte in Lake Success, New York, to report to the U.N. on the truce. Interior shots of delegates meeting to discuss the Arab Legion's defiance of the truce, June 11th, 1948. Shots of urban warfare after the May 15, 1948 declaration of the state of Israel. Women carry a wounded man on a stretcher; women and men prepare...

  16. Armband with a royal coat of arms worn by Danish resistance fighter

    Blue, red, and white armband with a medallion worn by Mogens Høirup, a Danish resistance fighter, after the war. This style of armband was issued by the Danish Freedom Council on May 4 and 5, 1945. The armbands, which appeared abruptly throughout Denmark, were issued by the Danish Freedom Council, Denmark's unofficial government-in-exile in England from July 1944 to May 1945. The armbands were meant to identify resistance members as legitimate combatants, rather than guerilla forces, to ensure they were protected under Geneva Convention rules defining combatants and how they should be treat...

  17. Steen Metz photograph collection

    Contains seven photographs of Axel and Magna Metz and their son Steen in Denmark during the World War II in Denmark. Includes pre-war images of Steen, his parents, and paternal grandmother Betty. All were deported to Theresienstadt where Axel died in March 1944. The remaining family members were liberated in May 1945.

  18. Cloyd Lewis Hershberger photograph collection

    Consists of photographs taken or given to Cloyd Lewis Hershberger, a member of the 45th Tank Battalion of the 13th Armored Division of the Third Army. The images depict the liberation of Buchenwald, the aftermath of summary justice, the destruction of various buildings and the buildings at Berchtesgaden.

  19. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  20. Arthur Fishman collection

    Photographs, photograph album pages, and a letter documenting Arthur Fishman’s experiences as a soldier in the United States Army visiting the Dachau concentration camp shortly after its liberation in April 1945. The photographs include depictions of corpses in the camp and the Dachau death train, survivors, German prisoners, and camp architecture. There are also photographs of a 3rd anniversary celebration of the 2829 Engineers “C” in Flintsbach, Germany, and of Arthur Fishman in uniform. The Dachau photographs include original photographs in the album pages and loose contemporary copy pri...