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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Society of the Survivors of the Riga Ghetto Conference (New York)

    Lanzmann films at a New York conference for survivors of the Riga ghetto in 1978. Includes an interview with several former Jewish policemen from Riga, Latvia who describe the division of the ghetto into sections for Latvian Jews and German Jews, dealing with the Nazi discovery of a secret weapons cache, and responsibilities as Jewish police. Lanzmann raises the question of collaboration and acknowledges the survivors’ openness as they talk. He also interviews veteran frontline soldier, Friedrich Baer. The reels also generally show the conference proceedings inside the New York hotel. FILM ...

  2. Samuel Kramer papers

    Consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs and similar materials collected by Samuel Kramer, an attorney who was legal counsel to Agudas Chasidei Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and who worked closely with Rabbi S. Gourary and his father-in-law, the Lubavticher Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, in attempts to secure visas for several dozen rabbis and students of the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva, first so that they could leave Lithuania for Japan, and then from Japan onward, 1940-1941. The “Correspondence” series is the largest component of the collection, and consists primarily of letters fr...

  3. 56th Armored Engineer Battalion arrives at Mauthausen to bury the dead

    The 11th US Armored Division advances through Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. Includes scenes of surrendering enemies and the 56th Armored Engineer Battalion at the liberation of Mauthausen. Color: Countryside from moving tank. Liberation of German town: flames, civilians, some waving white flags, church. Views of German civilians from tank as US army passes through, 2 men with armbands carry a Red Cross flag. US soldiers marching along road (dark) and through town. Shots of farm animals and barns on fire. 01:22:26 Group of men - brewery workers - exiting building with arms raised. Wo...

  4. Trip to Italy, 1930s

    Ponte Vechhio, the Duomo, The David, Colosseum, fisherman sitting at the harbor, various Italian sites

  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. Peasants

    Peasants [in the Caucusus?] on ferry, horses eating hay. Women with white kerchiefs sitting on wooden carts on the ferry. VAR shots of peasants.

  7. Hitler, Speer, Karl Brandt, Himmler, Heydrich, Ribbentrop

    Reel 1 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). Film titles/locations include: Am Chiemsee, Wolfgangsee, Aschauer Weiher [pond], Woerthsee, Punktchen am Berg. B/W. Eva Braun swims with her parents and others at the Koenigsee, near Berchtesgaden. Scenes at waterfall. Munich, inside Eva Braun's home at Wasserburgerstrasse 12. INT, Eva Braun with family and friends, seated in front of large fireplace. Includes Ilse Braun and CU of Herta Schneider, her husband, and her oldest child. Koenigsee: The Schneiders pose on the edge of the lake for camera. INT at Berghof, Ber...

  8. Guta Dafner Frydenzon collection

    Collections consists of photographs and correspondence relating to donors family before and during the war, including their time in the Łódź ghetto.

  9. Oral history interview with Bela Blau

  10. Marek and Bronislawa Redner collection

    Documents for Marek and Bronislawa Redner (nee Shrenzel); papers related to the ownership of property in Lvov; Marek Redner's armband from the Lvov Ghetto where he was a medical doctor; Marek Redner's "W" patch; photo of Bronislawa Redner; document for Benjamin-Hersch Lustig (copy).

  11. Bertha Teitelbaum Schwarz collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of the Teitelbaum family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. King Lear in Yiddish; Habima Players

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. Prominent actor, Solomon Mikhoels, of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, in his dressing room, applying makeup. Starkly lit closeup of Mikhoels as King Lear. Another prominent Jewish theater group in the Soviet Union, the Habima Players, perform an ancient Hebrew dance.

  13. 11th US Armored Division Advances

    The 11th US Armored Division's advances through England, France, and Germany. Includes scenes of burning villages, surrendering enemies, tanks in fields. Black and white: US Army headquarters in England, pan of buildings. Skyline, factory, US soldiers on boat. Woman bicycling on path. LS, from train, Southhampton waterfront, warehouses, Cherbourg harbor, countryside. 01:03:45 Handing cigarettes and candy to women on train. City, shops, traffic in Paris, dark. 01:04:56 Color: In Bestogne, civilians on dirt road, snow, military vehicles in field, postwar destruction, dead animals, makeshift g...

  14. Postwar devastation; opening of Nuremberg Trial; early Nazi party history, events, leaders

    Part 1 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA Reels 1 & 2] "Europe 1945" Panorama of war devastation: buildings and cities laid to waste, rubble, mother climbing out of trap door shelter with naked baby in arms, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters, children running down steps, clambering for food, poverty, homeless people, begging for food, weeping woman. "Nuremberg 21 November 1945" EXT and INT Nuremberg Palace of Justice. CU, document announcing trial and listing the accused. Seating of International Military Tribunal. Chief US prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson pre...

  15. Prayer book imádságok zsidó nők számára

    The prayer book belonged to Ibolya Ungar and was saved by Cecilia Ungar, Ibolya's mother during the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary.

  16. Lviv city life

    Lvov, Poland. People on the sidewalk by Mickiewicz Square. Monument dedicated to Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz. Polish officers walk by on the sidewalk. Two men set up a camera on tripod. People on the streets of Lviv. Foot traffic by Mickiewicz Square. KINO building. Two young boys walk towards the camera. Bronze monument to Count Aleksander Fredro. A monument to Kornel Ujejski with a bust of Ujejski at the top. Pedestrians. “PLUTON” shop. Two men carry a banner for the Hungarian-born American actress and singer, Marta Eggerth: “MARTA EGGERTH. PALAC FLANDE” with a photo of one woman’s face o...

  17. Murray and Hana Lustig Greenfield collection

    Collection of pre-war photographs of Hana Lustig Greenfield (donor's late wife) from Kolin, Czechoslovakia. Included are several documents. Hana survived Terezin and Auschwitz. Collection of photos and two negatives pertaining to donor's participation in MACHAL - "Overseas Volunteers" who came in 1947-1949 to fight for the nascent State of Israel during its struggle for survival and independence.

  18. Selected records of the Amtsgericht Mielau Sąd Obwodowy w Mławie (Sygn. 646) : Wybrane materialy

    A criminal case of Poles and Jews accused of illegal trade. They were sentenced to fines and prison.

  19. Oral history interview with Zofia Flajszman

  20. Elmer Jesse Fisher papers

    Contains a multi-paged report titled "We Saw Dachau" (V. 1 No. 6) dated "Mon. 14 May 1945." Report written by numerous soldiers, but primarily by Elmer J. Fisher (donor's grandfather). Signed by him, upper left corner of cover. Includes three photographs of post-liberation of trains with corpses, taken near the Dachau camp, dated May 1945.