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  1. Oral history interview with Harry Toporek

  2. Concentration camp uniform jacket with purple triangle worn by Jehovah’s Witness

    Concentration camp uniform jacket issued to Max Hollweg, a Jehovah’s Witness imprisoned in Buchenwald and Wewelsburg concentration camps from 1938 to 1945. It has a purple patch marking him as a Jehovah’s Witness above a white patch with his prisoner number from Wewelsburg, 13573. The Nazi regime persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses, who refused to put any authority before God. On July 7, 1938, Max was arrested for illegally distributing Jehovah’s Witness materials. He was sent to Buchenwald September 23, put in a punishment commando, and severely beaten multiple times. He had intestinal surgery ...

  3. Łódź ghetto scrip, 5 mark note

    5 mark note receipt created in the Łódź ghetto in Poland, renamed Litzmannstadt by the German authorities following their occuaption of the city in 1939. When the Germans transferred Jews to the ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols.

  4. Forced Resettlement of Krakow Ghetto

    Street scenes. Men and women moving their belongings into the ghetto. People are burdened, carrying many bundles. Armbands with Jewish stars are noticeable. Horses and wagons.

  5. Abraham Zuckerman papers

    The papers consist of four sheets of paper bearing Austrian postage stamps along with postmarks commemorating the first anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp (May 5, 1946).

  6. Presentation by Gabrielle S. Edgcomb to Howard University

  7. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center

  8. Lorraine and Fred Sulmer photograph collection

    Contains five photographic images, including negatives, relating to Victor Neckarsulmer and his family in Germany, France and Palestine, dated from circa 1920 to 1942.

  9. Concentration camp uniform dress worn by a Jewish Czech inmate

    Concentration camp uniform dress worn by Leopoldine “Poldi” Langer in Leipzig-Schoenfeld concentration camp from August 4, 1944, until she was on a death march in late April 1945. On March 15, 1939, Germany annexed the region of Czechoslovakia, including Orlau, where Poldi lived with her husband Hans. Hans was arrested in April, escaped after two days, and the couple fled to Prokocim, Poland, near Krakow. That September, Germany invaded Poland. In January 1941, Poldi and Hans were arrested and sent to Prokocim labor camp. In November 1942, they were transferred to Płaszów slave labor camp. ...

  10. Stalin Receives Medal of Honor for Moscow Defense

    Shots of Stalin in the Kremlin building and shots of the Medal of Honor he received.

  11. Jews are forced to wear stars

    Jewish children in the street wearing Jewish stars. Shots of Jewish women working in a sweatshop sewing on machines, also wearing stars. The women's stars are very big and may be possibly propagandistic.

  12. Liberation scenes

    05:17:59 Title: LIBERATION Allied camera teams from Russia, Britain, and the US filmed the liberation of the camps from 1944-1945. 05:18:04 Various camps. Bones. Passports, scissors, shoes, eyeglasses, zyklon B canisters. 05:19:06 Majdanek. 05:19:32 Mauthausen: Corpses on ground. Emaciated survivor walking, posing next to barbed wire fence. People in uniforms, grabbing potatoes from truck. Inmates offer food to liberators. Woman kisses hands of liberating soldier. 05:20:38 Bergen-Belsen: Bodies lying out in rows. Civilians tour camp. Women bury the dead. Bulldozer covers mass grave. 05:21:2...

  13. Aron Grynwald papers

    The Aron Grynwald papers consists of a certificate confirming that Aron Grynwald was a prisoner at Mauthausen; photographs of the ghetto in Będzin, Poland, photographs of Aron and Gucia Grynwald at a Holocaust memorial in Poland in 1958; a booklet from the Zydowski Instytut Historyczny W Polsce; and newspaper clippings about the Holocaust.

  14. Striped concentration camp jacket worn by a young Polish Jewish inmate

    Striped concentration camp uniform jacket issued to 20 year old Abraham Lewent in November 1944 in Buchenwald concentration camp and worn in several other camps until his liberation by American troops in April 1945. After the collapse of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943, Abraham and his father Raphael were deported to Majdanek concentration camp where his father was killed. After two months, Abraham was transferred to Skarżysko-Kamienna slave labor camp, then to Buchenwald concentration camp, a month later to a subcamp, Schlieben, then back to Buchenwald. He was transferred to Bising...

  16. Jewish schoolchildren

    Children posing outdoors, stone and mud houses. Some children in Caucausian dress (boys sheepskin hats, head scarves on girls). Outdoor classroom, shots of children studying, at primitive blackboard. Exercising. FG boys study (looks like davening) with bearded man; children exercise in BG. EXT, shots of school sign in Yiddish (?) and Russian (?). Shots of teenage girls in modern dress exercising. INT of classroom, older children studying (modern dress). CU of Hebrew algebra textbook (in Birobidjan?).

  17. I. J. Kaufman photograph collection

    Contains approximately 44 photographic prints of images taken of various scenes in Warsaw, Poland, in January 1947. Includes images of early monuments erected on the Warsaw Ghetto site.

  18. Hugo Cohen passport

    German passport issued to Hugo Meyer Cohen (donor's friend), September 1938, Hamburg, Germany. "Deutsches Reich Reisepass"; letter "J" stamped in red ink; contains immigration visa for United States dated December 9, 1938; German border stamp issued at Hamburg on December 21, 1938.

  19. Ukrainian crimes against humanity

    Ukrainian Newsreel and Documentary Film Footage about the crimes committed by Ukrainian fascists--bourgeois nationalists-who murdered Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews in September 1942 near Lake Pisotska in the Vollin area. Shots of criminals and the commandant of Ukrainian police. It is forty years since their crimes, but since there is no statute of limitations for crimes against humanity, the Soviets bring the Ukrainian fascists to trial. Trial footage, including testimonies, witnesses, and shots of civilian audience. Narration argues that Zionists and the Jewish Defense League trai...

  20. Engraved commemorative plaque