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  1. Oral history interview with Helen Mastbaum

  2. Eichmann Trial -- Session 81 -- Examination of the Accused re: Office of Reich Security, visiting a camp, Polish Jews, executions

    Session 81. Dr. Servatius talks, citing pieces from a letter and asking Eichmann if they are valid. Eichmann says that a different conception arose in the SD circa 1938 with respect to the Jewish question. Emigration was encouraged, and creating organizations in favor of that were created. Eichmann says that he had to inform those in Vienna about this new mentality. 00:14:42 Tape jumps. Dr. Servatius submits a letter from Eichmann. It concerns Dr. Loewenherz and his interventions at Eichmann's office, working for the release of arrested persons. 00:19:23 Tape jumps. The judges ask if there ...

  3. Pre-war Poland

    Wilno: pre-war views. Architectural landmarks. Narrow, curved streets. Cemetery on outskirts where Marshal Pilsudski's heart is buried. Arabian horses in Janow. Narrated by Eva Curie.

  4. Photograph of liberated concentration camp

    Image of an allied soldier standing in front of a pile of corpses in a liberated concentration camp. Caption on verso: "May 1945, somewhere in Germany."

  5. Devotion Book for Mourning and Death Anniversaries Andachtsbuch für Trauer und Jahrzeit [Book]

    Jewish mourning book to commemorate death of a relative.

  6. Chelmno (CH)

    Interviews with local Polish people in and around Chelmno, as well as location filming. FILM ID 3767 -- White 72 CH 48-49 Lettre May. CL lit Lanzmann reads a letter from Mr. May regarding operations at Chelmno. FILM ID 4602 -- Foret Chelmno FO 1-4 Interview Uniquement Interview with two men in the forest near Chelmno. The Poles brought SS guards to the forest at night in order to exterminate Jews. Lanzmann asks the men to describe Polish women who worked for the Germans, Jewish victims' belongings, and the occasions when Goering hunted in the forest near Chelmno. FILM ID 4629 -- White 31 CH...

  7. Marx family collection

    Contains twenty postcards written by Adolf and Hilde Marx (donor's parents) and their daughter Ilse (donor's sister), addressed to Hilde's sister Emmy Quade in Cologne, dated 1941-1942; two postcards addressed to Emmy Quade from Theresienstadt, dated 1943; one postcard sent to Erich Marx in Brighton, England from his parents and sister in Germany, dated 1939; twelve photographs depicting the Marx family in Cologne, Germany, c. 1932-1941; a school certificate issued to Erich Marx on March 30, 1939 by the Yavne Jewish School and signed by he director, Klibansky, who arranged for Eric to leave...

  8. Selected records of the City of Pińczów Akta miasta Pińczowa (Sygn. 2363) : Wybrane materialy

    Selected fragments of the tax books from the inhabitants of Pińczów, 1940-1942, and records of estate taxes, 1945-1949. Only a small part of files of the town Pińczów survived. About 3,500 Jews live in Pińczów before World War II in 1939.

  9. Joel Elkes collection

    The collection consists of original and typescript copies of letters sent by Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, head of Kaunas [Kovno] ghetto, to his children in England. It also includes a drawing of Dr. Elkes on his deathbed in the Dachau concentration camp, uniform trousers worn by Dr. Elkes in Dachau, and a memorial book of the Schwabbe Gymnasium.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Tito; Yugoslavia

    LS of the village of Kumrovec with sign in FG. CU of sign. General view of the house where Marshall Tito was born (the house is open to the public); one sees the room where he came to life. MS of Tito's house entrance with visitors entering. CU of the plate reading: "To our dear chief Josip Broz Tito, Marshall of Yugoslavia, member of honor of the Motor-car club of St. Peter on the mountains." Shots of Marshall Tito at his home in Dedinje, Belgrade. Marshall in field uniform walking into his study and sitting at desk. Various shots of Marshall Tito going through his morning mail and dictati...

  11. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of U.S. soldiers looking at corpses lying on ground; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  12. Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

    Street scenes of the Warsaw ghetto. Pedestrians cross a bridge over the street. Special attention is given to reverse rickshaws--bicycles with benches on the front--in which people are carted around. Jewish men have their documents examined. Some elderly men then meet in a well-decorated hall, possibly a restaurant. Jewish police, all in jackets and ties, stand at attention in two lines, then march down the street. One is shown chasing children away with a baton. A corpse is shown on a sidewalk; pedestrians pass it by. The interior of a luxurious home, with hardwood-paneled floors, floral w...

  13. Klara Stempler Greif family collection

    The collection consists of booties, silverware, tablecloths, a table runner, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Klara Stempler Greif and her sons Maximilian and Ignatz, and Ignatz’s wife, Izi, before and during the Holocaust in Romania, and after the Holocaust in Romania and the United States.

  14. Morgenthau family leisure activities at their farm in New York

    At the Morgenthau family farm called The Homestead - Fishkill Farms, ca. 1926, Henry III, Robert and Joan play in a pool. They play with a puppy outside. Father Henry Morgenthau Jr. and his wife Elinor Fatman Morgenthau, hold hands with Henry III, Joan, and Robert while walking outside, then play baseball. 00:01:25 Joan talks to Henry Jr. as he films her sitting at the beach in Weekapoag, Rhode Island, probably in August in the mid-1920s when visiting the Weekapoag Inn where the family rented a cottage. The three children sing. Henry and Robert on a rented sailboat called the Mahogany. The ...

  15. Bulgaria adheres to Axis Pact

    Crowds celebrate Bulgaria's adherence to Tripartite Pact. 5:06:35 Lots of flags. MS, buglers marching toward camera with banners and church in BG on Sofia street. CU, Eagle and swastika. 5:06:49 MLS, Man in uniform other people on frame edge. LS, Man on balcony, tops of banners lower frame. 5:06:57 LS, crowd, many in military regalia looking up at balcony. MS, unidentified Bulgarian leader saluting from balcony. More marching (may be Bulgarian youth brigade of some kind) then LS of large crowd gathered in front of building. 5:07:19 to 5:08:16 Tank crews demonstrating ruggedness and power of...

  16. Russian News (1944)

    On the siege of Warsaw. Russian and Polish troops assemble near the Vistula; tanks are drawn up; Gen. Kozakov inspects a map. A night artillery barrage is begun. Russian bombers fly over demolished German tanks. Field guns are fired. Tanks emerge from a forest and roll across fields; infantry follows. Bombs are dropped on German installations. Shows abandoned equipment and German fortifications outside Warsaw. Officers examine the scene. Artillery tanks and infantry move through the suburbs. Shows house-to-house fighting. Wounded are treated at an aid station. Poles greet the Russian troops...

  17. Jewish family in Poland

    INTs, the Blands socialize with friends and their families, possibly in Warsaw as can indicates. Bland relatives pose for the camera outside, probably in Suwalki. They attempt to get their dog to pose with them. More family and friends posing. 00:11:45 Harold chases ducks, Herman apprehensively visits a wooden outhouse in Suwalki. More family portraits and close-ups.

  18. Kyiv (Kiev) does not surrender

    Women with shovels, working, men erecting barricades and makeshift fortifications. VS of soldiers working. A newspaper headline reads: "The Fascists shall not be allowed to take the capital of Soviet Ukraine. Everything for the defense of our home, of all we love!" A sign (possibly at a movie theater) reads "Showing: Reports from the Front of the Patriotic War". People stand in street, looking at the sky. German planes. Soviet guns aimed at the sky. Another intertitle reads "Helios Pavlovich Mykhailyuk: a participant in the defense of Kiev". Street life. It would seem that this footage was ...

  19. Volksempfaenger radio

  20. Streicher testifies and prosecutors at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 133) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 30, 1946. HAS, MS, Dr. Hans Marx at lectern. Julius Streicher is heard (but not seen) testifying. HAS, prisoners accompanied by MPs taking their places in the dock. MS, Robert H. Jackson and Thomas J. Dodd at the prosecution table. Pan, members of Russian staff at table. MS, Justices Robert Falco and Henri Donnedieu de Vabre. Pan courtroom, Dr. Rudolf Dix at lectern. LS, Streicher testifying.