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  1. Susie Greenbaum Schwarz papers

    The Susie Greenbaum Schwarz papers consist of a diary, false identification papers, and photographs documenting Susie Schwarz and her parents’ experiences in hiding on Christian farms in the Netherlands during the Holocaust as well as tracing correspondence documenting the deportations of Carolina Pagrach and her husband Mozes Levisson from Westerbork to Sobibor and their deaths. Susie wrote her diary in hiding in the form of a cookbook. In it, she complains of boredom and intersperses recipes with personal observations about her experience in hiding and news she hears about the war’s progr...

  2. Pogroms, gold fillings, murders in Latvia and Lithuania described in Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 443) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 13, 1945. RVs, Major Walsh, US prosecutor, reading original Nazi letters which describe pogroms and other actions taken against the Jews in Latvia and Lithuania. He further reads documentation on the removal of gold teeth and fillings from the mouths of Jews before their annihilation. "Actions," burning of synagogues, etc., in Riga and other areas. LS, courtroom, waiting. Reading of memo by SS Brigadefuehrer Stahlecher to Himmler (10/15/41) reporting a pogrom, "Aktion Gruppe" : "To our surprise, not easy at first, to set in motion ...

  3. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  4. Oral history interview with Richard Korngold

  5. Stills of Romanian fascist atrocities; pogrom

    A film showing photographs of Romanian fascist atrocities. Intertitle reads, POGROMUL DE LA BUCURESTI. Document, 2? January 1941 (text in French). Photographic stills illustrate atrocities, mangled faces, corpses, portraits. VAR images of devastation. Talmud/Torah. INT, destruction of synagogue, chairs, debris, rubble. CUs, documents with Jewish names. 01:10:56 Document, 29-30 June 1941 (text in French). More stills of atrocities. Corpses dead in the streets. Some images include soldiers and civilians. Corpses lined in fields. CU, document (text in French). More corpses. Trial stills. Prepa...

  6. Card

  7. Book

    Medical book

  8. Die Voraussetzungen der Ersten Russischen Revolution 1894-1899 [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  9. The Prelude Das Vorspiel [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  10. Nazi flag

  11. Tallit

  12. Elisabeth L. Winn papers

    The papers consist of two identification cards for foreigners and stateless persons issued to Elisabeth Winn (b. Gessler).

  13. Christening of New Great German Aircraft

    "Christening of New Great German Aircraft." Goebbels addresses the crowd which also sings a party song at the christening of a new great German aircraft in presence of Cabinet members. Goering officiates the launching of the "von Hindenburg". MS, Cabinet members. CU, back view, speech by Goebbels at airfield. LS, aircraft. CU, Hindenburg and others in crowd. Cover removed from plane, bottle smashed on plane, name on plane revealed "von Hindenburg". LS, crowd heils in unison.

  14. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case, judgement and sentencing

    (Munich 619) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Sentencing of defendants in the Nuremberg "Medical Trial." Most are sentenced to death by hanging or life imprisonment. Slate reads: "Army Pictorial Division. War Crimes Trials. Sentencing. 20 Aug. Last 700. Case #1. CAM 369, MAG 522. Nuremberg War Crimes Trials: "Medical Case" " MHSs, defendants individually step into prisoners' dock to hear sentencing (expressionless faces). Camera remains on defendants as voice of presiding judge is heard sentencing each one. Sentences are handed dow...

  15. Sachsenhausen map

    Map showing ground plan of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen. Purchased from the Organisation "Stichting '40-'45", 1946. Plan shows site of the camp and surrounding area of Oranienburg, existing and planned barracks for the SS, the main office, vehicle storage and the information office.

  16. Book

  17. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  18. Die Revolution Von 1905-1907 [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  19. [Newspaper]

    Newspaper published by NSDAP.

  20. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of four men moving a corpse with tongs in front of oven; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.