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Language of Description: Polish

  1. Anne Löb Marx papers

    The Anne Löb Marx papers contains a blank color postcard of the MS St. Louis and a black and white photograph of passengers boarding the MS St. Louis in Hamburg, Germany, May 1939. Pictured in the photograph are Anne Löb Marx’s grandfathers, Solomon Lehmann and Isidor Löb. Both men disembarked the MS St. Louis in Belgium and perished at Auschwitz concentration camp.

  2. Eichmann Trial -- Session 12 and 13 -- Testimonies of A. Less and S. Baron

    Sessions 12 and 13. The courtroom is out of session. Eichmann enters the glass booth and exchanges papers with his attorneys. The tape skips at 00:01:43 from a shot of Eichmann to a shot of the audience during the trial. Presiding Judge Moshe Landau asks witness Avner Pakad Less (Israeli police Captain who conducted the pretrial interrogation of Eichmann in 1960) to present his evidence to the court. Court officials organize documents with serial number 1491. There is a blip at 00:04:01 and the story moves to Attorney General Gideon Hausner asking Less about the questions he asked Eichmann ...

  3. Medical kit

  4. Medical kit

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 6, 7 and 8 -- Hausner's opening statement

    Sessions 6, 7 and 8. Footage of an empty courtroom. It is before session 8; the camera focuses on the audience members as they take their seats. Attorney General Gideon Hausner sits at his desk readying himself for the next session. The Judges enter the courtroom and open the trial. Hausner continues his opening statement with Section 7 - "The Extermination in Northern, Western, and Southern Europe." He details the anti-Jewish campaign in Western Europe, instigated by Eichmann's department: "...anti-Jewish legislation, depriving the Jews of human and civil rights; identification of Jews by ...

  6. Medical kit

  7. Eichmann Trial -- Session 76 -- Eichmann's testimony

    Session 76 (approximately midway): Defense attorney Dr. Robert Servatius questions Eichmann about whether it was possible for him to act against the instructions of higher SS leaders in Hungary, to which Eichmann responds that it would not have been possible. Servatius questions Eichmann about a statment made by Huppenkothen at Nuremberg. Eichmann denies that he had a special position, as Huppenkothen had asserted. He says that documents he has seen since the beginning of the trial convince him that there were special duties assigned directly to Günther (Eichmann's deputy) by Müller (Eichma...

  8. Das Ziel

    Magazine; “Das Ziel”; cover image of bride seated at table; article about Jewish DP wedding on pages 14-16; dated June 1948; in German

  10. Rabbi Nathan Landman collection

    Consist of a copy of Nazi illustrated magazine "Signal," published by Deutscher Verlag, Berlin.

  11. Pnina Blum photograph collection

    Consists of a photographic print; monochromatic black and white image of Jewish man being forced to cut the beard of another Jewish man to publicly humiliate them; men with beards, all wearing long coats, standing on left and center, man on far left getting his beard cut, two German soldiers, one wearing armband reading "Deutsche/...ehrmacht" standing on right; verso: brown ink stamp in center "FOTO ZEISE/C817/REICHENBACH." Also includes a photographic print; monochromatic black and white image of close up of corpses, some wearing striped prisoner uniforms, others unclothed, "JUGO..UTO" at ...

  12. Lonnie E. Linderman photographs

    Consists of fourteen photographs taken or received by Lonnie E. Linderman in either Buchenwald or Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation.

  13. Jack Dygola collection

    The collection consists of seven loose photographs of Jack Dygola with other children at the Landsberg displaced person camp in Germany.

  14. Gita Feuerwerger photographs

    The collection consists of 27 photographs of Gita Feuerwerger and her time spent at the International Children's Center at Prien on Chiemsee [PCIRO Team 1069] children's camp after the war.

  15. Hanoch Gerstel papers

    The Hanoch Gerstel papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence files, photographic materials, printed materials, and sermons documenting the life of a Vienna‐born pastor who was arrested by the Gestapo in Vienna and his family members in Austria, Sweden, and Hungary. Biographical materials include birth certificates, a Ketubah and marriage certificate, a certificate of origin, a certificate documenting non‐Jewish status, identification cards, and passports documenting the lives of Hanoch and Ester Gerstel, his father Carl Gerstel, and his grandparents Julius and Charlotte Gerst...

  16. Marion Schultz collection

    Consists of one black and white photograph of Nazi war criminal defendants seated during proceedings at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, and accompanying original signatures of each defendant.

  17. Jerry Shmoys collection

    Consists of six postcards and two letters sent to the Jerry Shmoys' parents from friends and relatives in Warsaw and Łódź, Poland.

  18. Coupon

    Consists of a Prämienschein, or coupon, issued to Samuel Katzman for good work in the Gross Rosen concentration camp.

  19. Maximilian Landau collection

    Consists of 323 photographs and 17 documents relating to Maximilian Landau and his work in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp, Germany. Relates in part to the development of sports activities in the camp and includes photographs by George Kadish.

  20. May Schechter collection

    Consists of two black & white photographs: an image of Union of Artisans members honoring Gershon Kotliar [donor’s uncle and central larger image], 16 Aug.1928, Romania; and an image of Union of Artisans of Soroka, Romania group portrait, honoring Mayer Roitman’s emigration [donor’s father, seated 3rd row, 7th from left], and also present is Melech Kotliar [donor’s uncle seated behind him], 14 Apr.1930.