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  1. Chaim Kaplan diary

    The Chaim Kaplan diary consists, in its entirety, of a diary that Kaplan maintained in Hebrew, from 1933 to 1942. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum obtained three original volumes of this diary in 2009, consisting of: Book 3, dating from April 4, 1935 to August 4, 1936 (pages 1-390); Book 7, consisting of entries from August 30, 1939 to December 23, 1939 (pages 53-280); and other fragments, dating from May 7, 1942 to July 2, 1942, paginated from 230-309. While earlier entries focus on personal matters and events, Kaplan made a conscious choice to chronicle Jewish life and external...

  2. Horthy at agricultural fair

    The Agricultural Fair in Budapest. Regent of Hungary Admiral Miklos Horthy arrives at the fair with his wife, Magda, and daughter. Horthy shakes hands with Reich Minister Walther Darre. Shots of men riding horses in formation. CU of a building with the words, "M. Kir. Klkereskedelmi Nivatal Kiållitåsa". Shots of some of the pavilions and agricultural machinery on display. CU of a map of Europe with what appear to be trade routes marked as part of a display. Horthy and his party view walk around the fairgrounds. 01:11:30 cameraman filming Horthy is visible.

  3. Ruth Daneshgar collection

    Photographs and correspondence concerning the Alexander family: Simon, Nelly (donor's parents), and Ruth, who were interned in France. Simon and Nelly were deported; Ruth survived by fleeing to Switzerland.

  4. World War I veterans take a trip

    Street scenes with well-dressed civilians and shops (this could be another day-trip taken by Johannes Vosskamp and his contemporaries from Duisburg). Signs show "Schenkwirtschaft Theod. Hünnekens", "Dortmunder...", and "Tivoli Beer". 01:06:15 Johannes Vosskamp, in a dark suit and bowtie, smoking, exits a building with others, including women and a uniformed soldier. Buses line the streets of the unknown city/village with a river. The well-dressed day-trippers (men and women) walk through a park and sit at a long table having refreshments with coffee. The group boards buses, with Vosskamp at...

  5. Liberation of Belgium

    Footage shot by Belgian cameramen. British troops are welcomed by crowds in the streets of Antwerp. A group of people wave to the cameraman from a balcony hung with a Belgian flag. HAS of people running down the street. A fire burns in a building that had been used by the Germans. Firemen attempt to put out the fire. More shots of happy Belgian citizens greeting British troops. Angry people surround collaborators. People on bicycles watch as German soldiers are marched down the street. Firemen spray water into a burning building. A woman pats a dog on a British tank. German soldiers march d...

  6. Fascist recruits from various countries

    Sequence of images of SS volunteers from several countries. The shots change quickly from one location to the next so the time codes given may not be entirely accurate. Estonian SS volunteers at roll call (induction?). Men in civilian clothes and in uniform. CU of a patch on one man's arm that reads "Estland." An older officer wears a cap with a Death's Head insignia. 01:05:29 Ukrainian volunteers stand at attention holding banners. Men holding banners, one written in Ukrainian flanked by two banners with SS insignia. Men, some of them in native dress, march down the street holding swastika...

  7. NOTICE! NOTICE! Text only wanted poster listing people sentenced to death for crimes against the German government in occupied Poland

    Warning announcement issued in Zakapone, Poland, on October 31, 1943, by the Chief of SS and Police in the Krakow District. The poster announces that the 27 listed persons have been charged with various crimes committed against the German government in Poland and sentenced to death. Persons 1-6 for participation in the roving bands, person 7 for illegal weapons possession, persons 8-9 and 11-27 for illegal activities, and person 10 for participation in a terrorist group. Although the sentence has been carried out on the first five people, the remaining people may be pardoned if no further a...

  8. Hitler visits troops in the last days

    A frail-looking Hitler visits soldiers in the East. He greets military officers and sits at a desk with a map in front of him. Hitler exits the building and is greeted by saluting soldiers. Hitler drives off in a car. Deutsche Wochenschau eagle graphic on screen.

  9. Judith Korot collection

    Contains documents, letters, and photographs illustrating the Grunberger and Freimann families in Slovakia during the Holocaust.

  10. Hanna plays with a camera and lipstick case with her father Benedikt

    Hanna has a photo camera, her father Benedikt looks over her shoulder and sticks his tongue out at the camera. He begins explaining it to her, helping her to use it. She also plays with a lipstick case.

  11. Petain and Leval receive the Vichy diplomatic corps

    Henri Petain and Pierre Laval receive members of the Vichy diplomatic corps, who give them New Year's greetings. Very dark shots of Petain, Laval and Papal Nuncio Valerio Valeri.

  12. 100th anniversary of the German railway

    Hitler arrives at the ceremony to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Reichsbahn at the train station in Nuremberg. The narrator says there are 3,000 spectators. Nazi flags wave in the wind. Hitler walks past a train, accompanied by a large contingent of railway officials, including Julius Dorpmueller (in bowler hat). They walk across a field crisscrossed with train tracks. Hitler salutes a group of railway workers and receives cheers from a stage in front of a huge crowd. Views of new trains rolling down the tracks. 01:04:31 Dorpmueller stands beside Hitler. More views of new trains, ...

  13. Sephardic Songs of Monastir Kantigas de los Sefardes a Monastir

    Sephardic songs of Monastir, Macedonia. CD 1 contains forty tracks of music sung by Avram Sadikario, recorded in 2004. CD 2 contains a document with the text of the lyrics.

  14. Lieberman family relaxes on the terrace in prewar Poland; Hanna and Thomas bathe

    The family is in the yard. Hanna and Thomas run around unclothed. High angle shots looking down at the porch, where the family eats. Includes Thomas, Benedikt, Heinrich, Hanna, and Magda. CUs, Emanuel (with glasses) and Nelly. The children bathing in the wash tub with Benedikt.

  15. Peter Kauf collection

    Contains thirty-eight original photographs of the Kauf family before the war in Berlin, during the war in Belgium, and after liberation. Peter Kauf survived the Holocaust in hiding; his older brother was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered upon arrival; his parents were hiding most of the time, but at the end of the war, they were arrested and imprisoned in a transit camp in Belgium.

  16. Otto Kundert collection

    Identification card issued to Otto R. Kundert (donor's father), War Crimes Duty Officer for the 7708 War Crimes Group of the United States in Germany; two (2) photographic prints - black and white images identified on verso by Otto Kundert as atrocities from Buchenwald used as evidence in war crimes trials in Germany in 1945 and 1946; both images are dated November 8, 1945, Wiesbaden, Germany, inscriptions are in English.

  17. "The Holocaust Years"

    Consists of one memoir, 20 pages, entitled "The Holocaust Years", written by Morris Gliklich, originally of Nisko, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Gliklich describes pre-war life in Nisko, the German invasion of Poland, anti-Jewish legislation, and their escape into Russian territory. While in Russian territory, the family was reunited with Mr. Gliklich's father, whom they had believed to have been killed during the German invasion. The family was forced onto a train headed east and arrived in Siberia, where they lived in the areas of Synia and Kirinsk until 1943. The family slowly made their wa...

  18. Richard H. Ennis photograph collection

    Contains six photographs from Richard. H. Ennis (donor's father), a member of the 10th Armored Division during the liberation of Landsberg, Germany in 1945. Images depict medics and US Army personnel examining corpses in the front of burnt huts which the inmates were forced into; later burned by German military before retreat from the advancing 7th Army.

  19. Invasion of Poland

    An American female narrator speaks over German newsreel footage showing the bombardment of the port of Danzig by the German ship Schleswig-Holstein. Polish and German officers confer as the Polish garrison surrenders. German soldiers hand out cigarettes to Polish POWs. German infantry advance on foot into Polish territory, accompanied by horse-drawn artillery. German troops advance across a field, under cover of artillery fire. Large numbers of Polish POWs marching and then eating in a large enclosure. Some look suspiciously at the camera. Polish refugees (probably Volksdeutsch) receive sou...

  20. Paulette Daser collection

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Piroska Schwartzova [donor] born in 1924 Negrovo, Czechoslovakia (present day Ukraine) and moved to Belgium in July 1938, but was unable to return to Negrovo; materials include identification cards for Piroska in Belgium and later, Southern France, where she was forced to flee in an effort to escape Nazism. Also included are postcards and letters from her parents and family who were unable to escape, and were eventually deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where they are presumed to have perished.