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Language of Description: German
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  1. Silver medallion with Mary enthroned holding Jesus given to a Jewish girl living in hiding

    Catholic medallion given to 17 year old Roza Kwar in 1944 by a Polish Catholic teenager admirer when she was living under a false identity as a Catholic. He had made a pilgrimage to Czectochowa to see the Black Madonna and bought it there. After Nazi Germany occupied Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) in June 1941, Roza and her parents, Benzion and Tinka, were moved to the Jewish ghetto and assigned to forced labor. In August 1942, Benzion purchased false papers for her. She escaped and went to live with Krystyna Moskalik, a Polish schoolteacher, in Sieciechiowice. That area was liberated by the...

  2. Keitel and Ribbentrop testify at Nuremberg Trial

    04:00:41 (Munich 84) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 3, 1946. MSs, Wilhelm Keitel is sworn in. MLS, visitors in the gallery: Gen. Geoffrey Keyes, former CG, 7th US Army; Gen. Leroy Watson, CG, Nuremberg area; and several Russian officers. Pan from court stenographers to Keitel testifying. Pan from Keitel to his attorney Dr. Otto Nelte at the stand. Nelte interrogates Keitel. The witness provides his family background, telling about his three sons who died serving the German Army. 04:04:46 (Munich 85) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 3, 1946. HAS, spectators rising a...

  3. Selected records from the collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Religion. Directorate for Religious Affairs (Fond 166K)

    Contains records related to the certification of the baptismal certificates issued to Jews in Bulgaria, includes correspondence with the hierarchy of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church regarding baptized Jews, etc.

  4. Oral history interviews of the Czech Roma Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Czech Roma Documentation Project.

  5. German 50 pfennig scrip

  6. Reproduction of a spoon and box smuggled out of Warsaw ghetto with an infant

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn512972
    • English
    • 2002
    • a: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) b: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)

    Reproduction of a silver spoon smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto with 5 month old Elżbieta Kopel (later Ficowska) in a wooden box hidden under bricks piled in a wagon in May 1942. It was given to her by her Jewish parents, Izrael and Henia Rochman Kopel, and is engraved with her nickname, Elżunia, and her birthdate, January 5, 1942. The spoon and case were presented to the Museum on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Zegota's formation because Elżbieta's escape from the ghetto was handled by Irena Sendlerowa and members of that underground organization, which assisted Jewish people in ...

  7. Oral history interviews of the Estonia Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Estonia Documentation Project.

  8. "An Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times"

    Consists of a CD containing a memoir entitled "An Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times" by Michael Cann, written in Amherst, MA in 2006, as well as a paper copy of the memoir. Mr. Cann describes his family's history in Berlin, his memory of National Socialism in his school, and his family's immigration to the Netherlands in 1937, and his immigration to the United States in March 1939. He also includes information about life in wartime New York and New Jersey and his family's attempts to rescue additional family members from Europe. After the war, Mr. Cann joined the military and participate...

  9. Elsa Meyring memoir

    Testimony, 50 pages, photocopy of typescript, written by Elsa Meyring, entitled "Aus dem Leben einer Deutschen Nichtarier."

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 6, 7 and 8

    Sessions 6, 7 and 8. The Court is in recess. The camera focuses on the glass booth, and pans to Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius as he walks to his desk. The Judges enter the courtroom and open the session. Attorney General Gideon Hausner continues his opening statement with Section IX - "The Camps." He asserts: "...as late as the beginning of 1945, on the threshold of the end of the war, Eichmann was still planning to wipe out all the Jews still alive at Theresienstadt in gas installations to be erected there..." Hausner describes the conditions in several concentration camps: Majdane...

  11. Schmelczer family collection

    Collection of correspondence, written between members of the Schmelczer family in the Strasshof concentration camp, as well as from family friends after liberation; dated 1944-1946; in Hungarian.

  12. Fluss and Lipow families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Lipow and Fluss families of Berlin, Germany, including their immigration to the United States. Biographical material includes William and Bertha Lipow’s ketubah, immigration documents, correspondence, restitution paperwork, and photographs. Material related to the Fluss family includes identification documents and postcards.

  13. Dienemann family collection

    Photo album and loose photographs depicting the Dienemann family from Breslau and Waldenburg, Germany, sent to Lilo Dienemann (donor's mother) who left Germany on a Kindertransport to Sweden; photographs showing Lilo in Sweden. Includes a partial envelope in which the photo album was sent to Sweden. Documents include original and copies of birth certificate for George Dienemann (donor's maternal grandfather) (b. Boguszyce on 10/29/1895); birth certificate of Liselotte Dienemann (b. 10/3/1929 in Breslau); marriage certificate of George and Emma Johnsan Dieneman, married on 3/18/1926 in Walde...

  14. Resort in mountains; Family poses

    Pan of a spa town in the mountains, cafes. Views of the mountains and a stream. The village is likely Bad Gastein in Austria. 02:17 Views of a busy street. More views of the mountains and the town. A group of well-dressed people pose for the camera outside a building, one smokes a cigar. 03:36 An assembly of people in the street, likely Budapest, Gellért tér (square) 4:00 Two men sit at a table smoking on board a ship, a man in uniform (perhaps the captain) climbs the stairs and waves to the camera.) Views of the deck of the ship, people walk towards the camera. 4:46 Three young girls exit ...

  15. Licco Haim and friends on a late winter ski trip

    AGFA 8 1939. Title in Bulgarian with 1941 date, "Spring Snow on Maliovitsa" (a peak in the Rila mountains). A photo of the group of friends posing in ski clothing with names and the dates 22-25 March, Anny, Vasko, Shatsi, Licco, Ruska, Maria. Cross-country and downhill skiing on a mountain. Beautiful scenery. 01:11:20 Title with the group of named friends with the dates 5-7 April, Ruska, Vasko, Shatsi, and others. Additional skiing shots and mountain vistas, including the Rila monastery at 01:12:41. AGFA 8 1939 [8 distinguishes the film gauge of 8mm].

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Speeches by US officials re: defense

    Official Motion Picture Release - Bureau of PR #1593 Washington, DC. Speech by General Jacob L. Devers, Chief of the Army Ground Forces. Annapolis, MD. Address by Admiral Sherman to midshipmen. Washington, DC. Secretery of Defense Louis Johnson speech on five percenters, re: procuring government contracts.

  17. Reproductions of Sachsenhausen and Siberia letters

    Reproductions of two letters. One was written in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in November 1940 by someone named Bronek to his parents asking them to intervene to ensure a debt is settled. The second was addressed to someone's brother from Siberia in May 1941.

  18. Ferencz lecture: Wiesenthal Holocaust Center

    Ferencz lecture. Wiesenthal Holocaust Center, Los Angeles, CA. Second in five part series on Nazi war crimes trials. Ferencz discusses how the Nuremberg proceedings informed his life, his involvement in major restitution programs, and his understanding of "Never Again" through developing international law, an international criminal court, and defining aggression. He explains the legal precedents established at Nuremberg, including a) crime of aggression; b) crimes against humanity; c) trying heads of state; and d) guaranteeing rights to every prisoner (innocent until proven guilty in a cour...

  19. Defendants enter courtroom during Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 426 and 430) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 7, 1945. Various angles of defendants entering prisoners' dock prior to the start of the trial, the first six shake hands. Shot of Erich Räder talking with Hess and Goering. MS, Wilhem Keitel and Alfred Jodl speaking to one another in the dock. Repeat entry scene from a second camera angle - head-on. Some close views. Defendants say "Guten Morgen" to each other. Frank enters and smiles, doesn't like the light so puts on shades. 23:34:00 More close views, brief.

  20. Street scenes during Anschluss

    Distinct shots of a swastika (mirror-flipped) on a house bearing an official sign near entrance (unknown street, presumably near Schwarzenbergplatz, house has the #13) with Wehrmacht guard. 01:07:45 Street corner with prominent building, street sign unreadable. 01:07:50 Secession building with swastikas. 01:07:57 Crowd in front of Opera House, saluting.