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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Medical kit

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

    Sessions 6, 7 and 8. Hausner discusses Bulgaria's hesitancy to cooperate with Jewish deportations: "Bulgaria did not want to throw its Jews to the wolves..." Despite Bulgarian efforts, Jews were transported to labor camps. The prosecution describes Nazi actions against the Jews in Greece: "Brutality, arrests, plunder, the loot of property accompanied the German conqueror...and the establishment of ghettos." Hausner also mentions Theresienstadt, a temporary collection camp; at Theresienstadt, executions were used as punishment, newborns and pregnancies were terminated, and children were sepa...

  3. Eichmann Trial -- Session 101 -- Cross-examination of the Accused: Lidice children & Sonderbehandlung

    Session 101. Attorney General Hausner changes topics, asking about the Lidice children and a phone call associated with it. When Eichmann says that he cannot remember any such conversation, the Attorney General attacks him, saying that such a thing was not a normal occurrence and could not escape his memory. He says that when it concerns the children, he does not remember, though he remembers the assassination of Heydrich. Why Eichmann was contacted about any of this becomes the primary question, considering his claims that he was not competent to make any of these decisions. This becomes q...

  4. Memories of my childhood in the Holocaust

    Collection contains information regarding Judith Jaegermann's Holocaust experiences in Karlsbad, Germany. Judith describes her experiences at Auschwitz, including the shaving of her head, receiving her tattoo, and the smells and scenes at Auschwitz. and her experiences living in Hamburg, Germany.

  5. Lipski family collection

    Consists the personal papers of Wlodzimierz (Vladimir) Lipski and Debora Lipski, originally of Vilno; papers document the Lipskis' movements around Europe after the war which include work in Poland and Italy, residence in France, and emigration to the United States; correspondence and statements describe Lipski's Holocaust experiences. Also contains pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Lipskis and post-war photographs taken at an ORT facility where Vladimire was employed, 1945-1951. Also includes photographs of the family of Hersch and Berta Raskin. Mrs. Raskin was the aunt of ...

  6. Holocaust experiences of Adela Kestenberg Manheimer

    The collection consists of a five-page typewritten personal narrative of Adela Manheimer's (nee Kestenberg) experiences in prewar Poland; as a forced-laborer in the Grünberg subcamp of Gross-Rosen working for the German army weaving blankets; on a death march lasting from January 1945 to May 1945, when she escaped from the march; and in postwar Germany and the United States. Includes a photocopy of a photograph of Adela circa 1945.

  7. Tola Goldblum postcards and letter

    Contains two postcards and one letter, all written by Tola Goldblum to Hanka Sara Wajntraub from February 25, 1942 to April 9, 1942, while Wajntraub was in the Jewish women's labor camp at Gruenberg.

  8. Gertrude S. Ogushwitz collection

    Contains photocopies of a deportation list of Hungarian women taken to Auschwitz concentration camp and computer print outs of genealogical information for Janka and Etelka Weisz.

  9. Starzynski family collection

    Contains Judal and Szajndla Starzynski's legal documents pertaining to their Holocaust experiences and health problems for their restitution claims.

  10. William Powell collection

    Contains a 1997 audiocassette and copy of a newspaper article about William Powell's experiences as an American military survivor of Buchenwald.

  11. Congregation Hakafa letters

    Contains English translations of letters from individual survivors describing the ordeals that they experienced in the Minsk ghetto or as partisans hiding in the forest during the Holocaus.

  12. Eugenia Pinski papers

    Contains three memoirs entitled, "Class Reunion," "The Last Days of War," and "The Last Days of the Bedzin Ghetto."

  13. Paul Flesch collection

    Contains two letters, a telegram, an envelope, and a black and white photograph from Paul Flesch's parents in Hungary.

  14. Joseph Brill papers

    Contains twenty-five letters, five postcards, three bank receipts, and one application for location service pertaining to the futile attempt of a Jewish couple to leave Germany, and immigrate the United States, notification from financial institutions concerning transfer of funds, and bank account booklet about the funds they raised to facilitate their settlement, and the last will of Mr.Henry Brill, grandfather of the donor.

  15. Eichmann Trial -- Session 90 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    The footage begins in the middle of the session. Attorney General Gideon Hausner cross-examines Adolf Eichmann about threats he made to Josef Loewenherz, head of the Jewish community of Vienna. Eichmann warned Loewenherz that if he did not comply with Eichmann's demands, Eichmann would bring back the horrors of Kristallnacht. Eichmann examines the document that contains the statement made by Loewenherz (00:02:43). Hausner asks the accused again to look at the document. The accused begins to answer and Hausner, visibly agitated, yells at Eichmann for a clear answer (00:05:27). Hausner presen...

  16. Ezra Siff oral history interviews

  17. Imre Ylles Hegedus postcards

    Contains three postcards from Imre Ylles Illes? Hegedus to his family which were mailed from a labor camp, mailed through the postal service, and hand delivered.

  18. Leibowitz family papers

    Contains one meal card for Samuel Leibowitz from IRO Area 7 Munich Resettlement Center, one baggage check ticket, four registration documents, one certificate for Saul Leibowitz from Munich-Freimann DP Center, an affidavit declaring Saul and Rachel Leibowitz, registration for Military Government of Germany for Saul and Rachel Leibowitz, one program for concert, and witness statements for reparation payments.

  19. Victoria Herron papers

    Contains a memoir about Victoria Herron's Holocaust experiences, Victoria Herron's passport, death certificate, and a decree from the director of the Interior of the Canton of Zurich.

  20. Margaret Klein Goetz family correspondence

    The Margaret Klein Goetz family correspondence consists primarily of letters, telegrams, and postcards to Margaret Klein from her parents and sister in Heidelberg and then Gurs, Les Milles, Nexon, and Masseube. The correspondence documents the family’s efforts to immigrate to the United States, money and parcels received by the family members in the camps through Quaker and Swiss relief agencies and an uncle in Switzerland, daily camp life, and news of family members and friends. Additional letters and postcards are addressed from Heinrich Klein in Masseube, Gurs, Noé, and le Vernet to Dr. ...