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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Photograph of Friedl Dicker Brandeis

    The formal studio portrait is of Friedl Dicker Brandeis and was taken in Vienna, Austria, in the 1930s.

  2. Fred Loeb papers

    Two Cuban entry permits issued by Manuel Benitez Gonzales, Director of Cuban Immigration, for members of the Loeb family and members of the Lehmann/Herz family.

  3. Roza Ayzenberg photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs of Roza Aizenberg in Kiev, Ukraine, one taken before World War II and one after.

  4. Photograph of Fanya Martynova as a child

    The formal studio portrait was photographed in Kiev, Ukraine, and depicts Fanya Martynova as a child wearing a sailor suit dress and holding a doll. Caption in Russian on the verso.

  5. Photograph of Charles Radoszycki and his brother

    The image depicts two boys outside in garden, one seated in wheelbarrow and the other standing on the left. The boy standing is the donor, Charles Radoszycki, and the boy in the wheelbarrow is his brother, Maximilien. The photograph was likely taken in Bailleul, Belgium.

  6. Photograph of a family in Homel, Belarus

    The image depicts three men, five women, and five children, seated and standing in front of wood wall. A black ink "x" is inscribed over the head of a woman standing in the last row. The photograph was taken in Gomel (Homel), Belarus.

  7. Fritzi Schiffer photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs depicting a performance on stage in Romania in 1940 and two photographs depicting a group of young men and women on an excursion in Romania in 1937.

  8. Photograph of Mrs. Grove, her sister, and her son

    The photograph depicts the Grove family in Vienna, Austria. The image shows two women and a small boy, identified as Mrs. Grove, her sister, and her son, Fred. Mrs. Grove's husband and family perished during the Holocaust.

  9. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 86, 81, 41, 51 and 53 -- Eichmann creating orders, ghetto visits, children

    Session 86. Eichmann says that he was in charge of organizing things insofar as he would write down the decisions made by his superiors. At the beginning, he says, he wrote down orders and passed them along to the Ministry of the Interior or other departments. He talks about his typist having nothing to do because of this, and he will return to this topic later. 00:14:38 Session 81. Dr. Servatius is submitting a document concerning visits to camps. Eichmann talks about visits from the Head Office of Reich Security happening whenever there were issues that could affect the entire Reich. Ther...

  10. Pomyślna poczta

    Contains a copy of "Pomyślna Poczta," an antisemitic newspaper from Lwów, Poland (Lʹviv, Ukraine).

  11. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 107 and 108 -- Questioning Eichmann's loyalty and character

    Session 107 and Session 108. Eichmann is handed a paper and asked who wrote it. He wrote it recently, and says that he cannot feel completely innocent because his receiving orders is irrelevant thanks to retroactive paragraphs. He says that he has thought over his situation many times, and he decided that he was a tool of others, and at least to himself, he is innocent. 00:10:07 Skip to an earlier sequence duplicated in Tape 2193. Eichmann is asked about his statements concerning being brought to Israel against his will, and later saying that he was relieved to be brought there to justify h...

  12. Zvi Griliches photograph collection

    The collection consists of thirty photographs relating to Zvi Griliches' childhood in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania and after World War II in the DP camp in Feldafing, Germany, and Israel.

  13. Eichmann Trial -- Session 110 -- Prosecution begins closing statement

    Session 110. Waiting for the Judges to enter. 00:04:29 Judges enter and Session 110 begins. 00:05:57 Hausner begins summing up his case. He says that this is the trial of one of the ghoulish personalities which history will forever remember. He reminds everyone of the struggles of the witnesses, of Auschwitz, of religious leaders being degraded, of torturous activities, of murder. He says that man cannot create a nightmare so terrible, and yet it happened, created by Eichmann. He says that after hearing all this, Eichmann got his turn, and 16 years later he does not have one ounce of remors...

  14. Eichmann Trial -- Session 93 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Session 93. Shot of Eichmann and then the Prosecution. 00:01:09 Judges enter. They open the 93rd Session of the trial. Eichmann is reminded that he is under oath. Attorney General Hausner asks Eichmann if it is true that he has a good relationship with Mildner. He says that Mildner claims that Eichmann was in charge of the deportations, the police, and the camps, according to a document submitted by the Defense. Eichmann says that he had to interrupt his Defense concerning this document and said that Mildner was making a mistake, and that this was very provable. Hausner says this is not an ...

  15. Eichmann Trial -- Session 104 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    The footage begins near the middle of Session 104, with Eichmann reading portions of statements from the Wilhelm Sassen document about congratulations Eichmann received for the foot march [death march] which occurred in November of 1944. Some 70,000 men, women, and children were forced to march from Budapest to Vienna. Some of this footage is duplicated on Tape 2181 (at 00:40:35). Eichmann is then asked to describe his role in the implementation of the foot march, which he insists was technical (00:12:55). The camera switches between Eichmann and the civilians sitting in the courtroom. The ...

  16. Friedler family papers

    The Friedler family papers include JDC and HIAS records, biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, writings, and drawings documenting Moritz and Trude Friedler, his parents’ deaths during the Holocaust, her mother’s survival, both families’ efforts to escape Austria before the war, Moritz Friedlers’ work for the JDC and HIAS after the war, and their immigration to the United States. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society materials consist of correspondence, name lists, and reports documenting Moritz Friedler’s postwar work for the JDC in Aus...

  17. Lewis Shabasson collection

    The photograph collection documents the prewar lives of Lewis Shabasson (born Levi Szabason) and his family in Kozienice, Poland; wartime life in the Kozienice ghetto; and postwar life in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp and Munich, Germany. The collection also documents the prewar and postwar lives of Lewis’s wife, Lifcia Najman, and her family, originally from Radom, Poland, and her relatives in the Birenbaum family.

  18. Eichmann Trial -- Session 1 -- Defense alleges court's lack of authority

    Session 1. Film ID 2005 is a combination of the end of Film ID 2001 and the bulk of Film ID 2002. Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius states his first concern to the court. The defense suggests that an Israeli court lacks sufficient objectivity due to biases produced by the circumstances for which Eichmann is being tried. The defense claims that any judge with a personal connection to an individual(s) and/or event(s) involved in the Holocaust would be unable to maintain impartiality when making a decision on Eichmann's involvement. As Servatius begins to express his second concern, Judge ...

  19. Book

    Book on the Terezin concentration camp. Publisher: Mir

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Session 83 -- The Defense submits documents re: Croatia and Greece

    Session 83. Dr. Servatius reads a statement by Rademacher saying that the Jews are not expected to resist after a number of hostages are shot. "In my view, with the necessary firmness and decisiveness, it ought to be possible to keep the Jews in camps also in Serbia. If the Jews there continue to stir up unrest, more stringent martial law must be imposed on them. I cannot imagine that the Jews will continue to conspire, once a considerable number of hostages have been shot." He reads about transferring the Serbian Jews to concentration camps. He then reads a memorandum for a meeting with th...