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  1. Sue Mayes collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Sue Mayes's family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  2. Sue Yarnelli collection

    Consists of 10 black-and-white photographs of Ebensee and survivors and victims thereof issued by the United States Army.

  3. Suffering of Germans in Czech; Nazi occup. of Czech

    A Nazi propaganda film that depicts the suffering of the Sudetendeutsche in contrast to the laziness of the Jews who agitate the Czechs into war against Germany. Because of the film's relatively minor quality, it was only screened at internal party events. Produced by Reichspropagandaleitung. Bohemia/Moravia. Map. Narrator, "Before the Slavs...Germans...the German Kaisers built..." WS, lovely Prague views. September 10, 1919, maps, Bolsheviks. 3.5 million Germans driven out of Czechoslovakia? Reichsgrenze. Sudetenland, industry, mining, hot springs in Karlsbad, people, lace-making. (6"37) "...

  4. Suffering of Romani people after 1943

    Roma encampment, mostly women and children prior to being moved into enclosed (fenced) camp. Smoky campsite, VS of tents with women cooking, children look at camera. One women lights cigarette, pan to group of children, another tent. Woman in colorful blouse with water container. Tents in BG. Kids smile as she goes by, CU of container. MLS pan of campsite area, soldiers in BG. Women and children lined up for group portrait. MS of large badly damaged building.

  5. The Sugihara family in Bucharest, Romania, 1942

    8mm film is severely compromised by mold. WS, pan of buildings in the city streets of Bucharest (Patriarchate Hill), pedestrians. Sugihara's official car with a small Japanese flag in FG. Driving along the city street in the car with tall buildings in BG. Toddler boy and mother, Yukiko Sugihara, pick flowers from the garden adjacent to the Japanese diplomat's residence. Sister Setsuko and two siblings join, one on a tricycle. The toddler runs towards the camera along the home's walkway and returns to his mother behind. The children play in the yard, the car is parked in front with the resid...

  6. Suitcase

  7. Suitcase

    Suitcase carried from Eastern Europe to Italy by a family of Jewish Displaced Persons.

  8. Suitcase

    Found by Kurt Baum while working in a warehouse at Buchenwald DP camp, Germany. Used by Kurt Baum during his emigration to the United States, 1950.

  9. Suitcase carried by a Jewish girl on a Kindertransport to the United Kingdom

  10. Suitcase carried by a man emigrating from Nazi-occupied Germany

  11. Suitcase used by a Jewish family for their flight from Germany

    Suitcase carried by Ruth Arnoldi when her family fled Nazi Germany in October 1941 for Santo Domingo. They had to have the suitcase made to the order per government regulations. A German official supervised the packing of the suitcase, which was then sealed.

  12. Suitcase with handmade cover

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn698902
    • English
    • 1948
    • a: Height: 7.630 inches (19.38 cm) | Width: 29.500 inches (74.93 cm) | Depth: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) b: Height: 29.500 inches (74.93 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) c: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)

    Suitcase that Cesia and Kuba Zaifman brought with them when they immigrated from German DP camp to Canada in 1948, and cover for suitcase as well as a Cunard White Star luggage label. The cover was made by Kuba Zaifman, a tailor, after he arrived in Canada.

  13. Sulamif Moiseevna Bogoslovskaya papers

    Contains photocopies of an autobiographical statement, employment records, personal letters, official documents, school and work identification cards, and death certificate of Sulamif Moiseevna Bogoslovskaia.

  14. Sulamita Simenauer Konar collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Sulamita Simenauer Konar’s mother Chana Pomerancblum Simenauer and grandmother Mina Zalcman Pomerancblum, both of whom survived in hiding under false identities in Jeleśnia, Poland. Included are a registration form (Meldebestaetigung) issued to Chana under her false identity of Maria Kolodziejczyk, and two occupancy registration forms (anmeldung) issued to Mina under her false identity of Luzie Wilczynska. The form issued to Maria Kolodziejczyk stated that Maria, maiden name Szczepan, was born on June 20, 1918 in Skala, in the Lvov regi...

  15. Sulia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sulia R., who was born in Nowogro?dek, Poland in 1924. She describes her affluent family; their move to Vilna when she was four years old; returning to Nowogro?dek; her father's Zionist beliefs; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization and public executions; forced labor cleaning rubble and digging ditches; obtaining an easier job with assistance from a German official; escaping mass killings with her family in 1942; housing "visitors from the forest" to make contact with the partisans; beatings and interrogations after an escape attempt; esca...

  16. Summary and Judgment of Goering at Nuremberg Trial

    Judgment rendered at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. MSs, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop. British Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence speaking of Goering. British prosecution table showing Sir Hartley Shawcross and Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe. Shot of Fritz Sauckel. MS, Shawcross and Thomas J Dodd, US Executive Trial Counselor. MS, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach. MS, CUs, Justice Birkett continuing the reading of the aggressions of the German Army. MS, Maxwell-Fyfe at table.

  17. Summary of 1935 events

    Men carrying shovels marching down a steep incline, martial music in the background. Narrator announces that 1935 brought a further lowering of unemployment. Shots of Nazi eagle, flags, Adolf Hitler in profile. Scenes of industry: interior of a factory, road building. Narrator: since the seizure of power unemployment has been reduced by more than half. Scenes of Hitler riding on the Autobahn; ships being launched (one named "Potsdam"). Inspiring music over shots of newly built buildings in Berlin. Panning low-aerial shot of the Olympic stadium under construction. Shot of sign reading "Die S...

  18. Summary of Himmler at Nuremberg Trial (SOUND ONLY)

    SOUND ONLY. Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. Decisions reached on how the charges will be grouped. Description of Heinrich Himmler and the operations of the Gestapo.

  19. Summary of trial judgment in Medical case

    (Munich 619) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Judgment and Sentencing, Nuremberg, Germany. LS, MS Army photographer setting up camera in booth. LS, MS Judge Beals giving a summary of the trial and how the defense and prosecution conducted the case and what points the defendants were tried and convicted on.

  20. Summations of prosecutors at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 323) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. HS Defendants in dock. HMS, Goering, von Ribbentrop, Doenitz in dock. Pan, von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg; pan back to Goering. Pan, from prisoners' dock to Shawcross speaking. Note: Voice of Sir Hartley Shawcross is heard throughout reel summing up. HMS, Shawcross, Rudenko, and unidentified woman conversing at the end of the trial. Chief US prosecutor Jackson insists that although some of the defendants are more guilty than others, the magnitude of the crime committed is such that any differentiation between them is not ...