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  1. Army talks

    Contains an issue of "Army Talks" magazine, dated November 11, 1945.

  2. Burying the dead

    Bodies of Latvian Nationalists murdered by GPU in or around Riga. Men carrying dead bodies on stretchers. Placing bodies into coffins. CU, woman mourning. CU, two young boys dead on ground. Woman with kerchief on head wailing over a dead man, wringing her hands, her wailing is audible.

  3. Pető family papers

    The Pető family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, a personal narrative, photographs, property records, a newspaper, and a ticket documenting Judith Pető Leiber and her family, her early career in handbag design, her uncle’s experiences as a refugee in Nice, her family’s survival in Budapest, the confiscation or loss of her relatives’ property, and efforts to recuperate it. Biographical materials include birth and marriage certificates; education and employments records; and identification papers documenting Judith Pető Leiber and her parents, sister, grandparents, an...

  4. Bar of soap stamped RIF produced in occupied Poland

    Bar of soap produced around 1942 in a soap factory near Buna-Monowitz concentration camp in Monowice, Poland.

  5. Bernard Chessman papers

    Includes military manuals, military orders, and articles concerning the activities of the 29th the U.S. Infantry Division in Germany during World War II. Also included are materials concerning the 115th U.S. Infantry Division of the Maryland National Guard from Towson, MD.

  6. Anklageschrift gegen Lensch and Dr. Struve

    Contains documents relating to the war crimes cases of Friedrich Karl Lensch and Gerhard Kurt Struve, who were accused of acts of “euthanasia.” Included are witness statements, testimony by physicians, biographical information about Lensch and Struve, and information about various mental health institutions in which the defendants allegedly carried out the killings.

  7. Destruction of synagogue

    Dresden synagogue taken down.

  8. Process of isolating, labeling, deporting, murdering Jews

    DER KRIEG. Germans enter Poland. Lwow pogrom amateur footage; stills. Nazis entering towns via truck; Hitler speeches; clips from Nazi propaganda and newsreels, Jews forced to work for Germans in occupied territory, roundups in Jonava, Latvia. Hangings in occupied territory. German raid, checking papers, in various Polish locations. Riga scenes of harassing Jews. (locations and images intermixed) Jews in Balti, Romania, moved in large numbers along road. Krakow ghetto created, Jews moving in, others moving out. 10:06:45 [01:06:12] DAS GHETTO. Warsaw Ghetto scenes (includes b/w version of sc...

  9. Stefania and Helena Burzminski photograph collection

    Contains two photographs of Stefania and her sister, Helena Burzminski. The two sisters hid thirteen Jews in their attic in Przemysl, Poland, during World War II.

  10. Dachau concentration camp photographs

    Contains eighteen photographs of the Dachau concentration camp at liberation.

  11. Goebbels re: bookburning and boycott; crowds in street; Reichstag fire trial; Nuremberg Laws; vom Rath's funeral

    05:02:43 Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, speaks at bookburning, Berlin Opernplatz, at night: brief clip of his speech referring to Jewish intellectual domination . . ." Followed by shots of men throwing books into the bonfire. People, mainly civilian, march past behind the fire and the flames roar. "Berlin, May 10, 1933" . To 05:03:08 05:03:09 Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, speaks from podium at Lustgarten to assembled crowd, announcing boycott of Jewish businesses. Pan of masses as Goebbels speaks with some passion, using his hands. Crowd responds "Hei...

  12. Jews mistreated; Russian prisoners

    Chaos. Jewish men beaten in street, dragged around. CU, faces of Russian prisoners.

  13. Perl Lea Grossman family papers

    The collection primarily consists of letters and photographs documenting the extended family of Perl Lea Grossman from 1917 through World War II. Included are letters sent from Poland to Esther Rifka Beer Tucker in Pennsylvania from 1928-1945. Also included is a prepaid passage contract for Gdynia-American line No. 24295 and the passenger list for the ship M/S Piłsudski which left Gdynia, Poland on Wednesday, November 16, 1938.

  14. Polish Jews; excerpts from Nazi newsreels and Eternal Jew film

    Shots of terror and harrasment by SS soldiers. Quick cuts of EXT of synagogue, INT of synagogue (scrolls and scroll covers). CU Jewish men. SS men line up Jewish men against a building and check their papers. Two Jewish men walking in a rural area followed by two soldiers. Street scene and five haggard Jewish men lined up against a wall; one of them has a stick. Men crammed into an open top wooden wagon. "Der Ewige Jude" outtakes, INT, pan of faces of the Jewish men against the wall.

  15. 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...

  16. Address by Leo Laufer to his liberators at the Reunion of the 602nd Tank Destroyer Battalion Association

    Consists of a speech given by Leo Laufer at the Reunion of the 602nd Tank Destroyer Battalion Association on Sept. 20, 1986. Leo Laufer was was liberated from Ohrdruf concentration camp by the 602nd Tank Destroyer Battalion.

  17. Helen H. Waterford manuscripts

    Consists of the original manuscript of "Commitment to the Dead: One Woman's Journey Towards Understanding" (251 pages) and a revised first draft (139 pages) of the same by Helen H. Waterford. The manuscript is Helen Waterford's personal testimony of persecution and suffering during her imprisonment in Auschwitz and Kratzau (a.k.a. Chrastava). Inserted into the text are questions and comments for Waterford's many lectures. Both the original manuscript and first draft are marked heavily with notations by an editor.

  18. Gerda Schild Haas papers

    The Gerda Schild Haas papers include Gerda’s notes on her experiences of Jewish persecution in Berlin from 1940‐1943 and correspondence among Gerda’s family members documenting their efforts to leave Germany from 1939‐1941 and to trace Gerda’s mother and sister from 1945‐1946. Gerda Haas compiled her notes “Das Leben der Juden in Berlin in den Jahren 1940 bis 1943” in 1945 after arriving in Switzerland from Theresienstadt. The notes describe her memories of life in Berlin during the Holocaust, the Jewish hospital where she worked as a nurse, the organization of transports to Theresienstadt,...

  19. Survival oral history, 1933-1945

  20. "The Crystal Night"

    Contains information about the experiences of Lore Metzger during Kristallnacht and during other episodes of persecution as a young Jew in Nazi Germany.