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  1. Barbie Trial -- Day 17 -- Victims testify

    14:54:11 Fernand Hahn speaks about prison, SS, and explains that during his deportation to Dachau on in June 1944, Barbie identified himself by name to prisoners at the station saying they would never come back. Hahn says he had not seen Barbie clearly enough to be able to recognize his face after 43 years. 14:55? But he says he remembered Barbie, speaking in French while in a group of German soldiers, as saying that the war was lost for Germany, but that he had put aside "booty" and had a plane ready to take him to South America. 15:16 Judge Cerdini asks Hahn how he could be sure the man w...

  3. Arthur Lubinsky diary

    Diary written by Arthur Lubinsky in which he records his remembrances of his experiences during the Holocaust.

  4. Barbie Trial -- Day 11 -- Witnesses testify

    André Frossard continues his testimony. He replies to questions from the Defense regarding comparisons between torture methods in Algeria and those employed by Klaus Barbie. His discourse includes addressing the problematic distinctions between a War Crime and a Crime Against Humanity. His testimony ends, and the President introduces the next witness, Lucien Margaine. 15:01:00 Lucien Margaine's testimony begins. His describes his capture and experience during World War II as well as opinions on the torture strategies used by Barbie. He is questioned by the prosecution and the defense. His t...

  5. Russian prisoners

    Reel 1: 00:00:00 Russian civilian women roasting grain in troughs over fire pits in a wooded area, German soldiers present. Scenes of women running while carrying baskets and sacks; struggling through an opening in a fence, under the watch of a German soldier. Panning shot of long line of women with bundles waiting. Local men and women watch a long column of Russian prisoners (appears to be both soldiers and civilian men) marching; several CUs of the men in the column. Soviet POWs in a camp mend their clothes, one completely naked. Russian prisoners carrying logs, large mass of prisoners vi...

  6. Strafing the German countryside and railroad lines; American Air Force personnel celebrating; V-E Day in London

    Scenes shot from a plane of the strafing of a town and/or a farm in Germany (lots of green space). An airman holds a slate reading: "SFP 186 Johnson [cameraman] Strip Y-73 Group 362 Sqdn 7 Plane [?] Date 19 May [?] Pilot Hunter" Burning fire that seem to spell out "V-E" shot from the air. A group of smiling American servicemen pose for the camera, holding up the V for victory symbol. Two soldiers stand in front of a sign that reads "Hells Angels 303rd bomb group." They read a Stars & Stripes newspaper which displays the headline "GERMANY QUITS." The marching band of the 8th Air Force pl...

  7. Dorette Luedecke papers

    The collection documents Margarethe Luedecke's [donor's mother] experiences as a forced laborer in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust and her brief internment in Theresienstadt concentration camp, from which she gained release through the efforts of her non-Jewish ex-husband. Also included are a last letter from her maternal grandfather before his death in 1942 and post-World War II documentation concerning Dorette Luedecke and her mother.

  8. Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- Victims testify

    Lise Lesevre: Resistance member. She was arrested by the Gestapo on March 13, 1943 while she carried a letter addressed to Didier, the false name of a Resistance leader. She was then interrogated and tortured by Barbie: hung by hand cuffs with spikes, forced under freezing water in a bathtub, and beaten with a spiked ball against her back which broke a vertebrae. She was condemned to death by a German military tribunal for "terrorism" but was placed in the wrong cell and deported to Ravensbruck instead. Her husband died at Dachau and her son was killed in a detention center in Neuengamme at...

  9. Barbie Trial -- Day 4 -- Barbie's activities in Bolivia

    15:15 Witness Gustavo Sanchez describes the takeover of General Banzer in 1970. 15:23 Sanchez discusses the range of crimes Barbie commited while in Bolivia, including illegal drug trafficking. 15:46 Sanchez discusses the action taken by the Bolivian and Italian Governments and Interpol against the organization headed by Barbie, the "Grooms of Death." 15:52 Lawyer Nordmann and Sanchez discuss the Bolivian military identification of Klaus Altmann, a letter written to his bodyguard, and his loyalty commitment.

  13. buildings/churches in Europe

    VS, EXT, establishing shots of buildings, churches, etc. Location is Europe, but a more exact location is not known, possibly France.

  16. Photographic portrait of Vladka Meed

    Color image of Vladka Meed seated before a of painting of her husband, Benjamin Meed.

  17. Barbie Trial -- Day 15 -- Two civil parties testify

    17:22 President Cerdini calls the next civil party, Mr. Isidore Friedler, to the stand; Mr. Friedler presents himself to the court 17:23 The civil party testifies; Mr. Friedler was living in Belgium with his extended family when the Nazis invaded in 1940; they fled for the French free zone, but he was arrested and sent to the Agde work camp before volunteering to go to Germany as a laborer; he worked in Poland as a translator before being allowed to return to France; upon his return to France, he sought to gain entry into the Resistance, and was arrested by the French police and sent to Com...

  18. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

    Bar of soap issued to 15-year-old Erwin Dankner in June 1944 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. The soap was never used. Erwin, his parents, Henry and Catherina, and his brother, Anthony, arrived in Bergen-Belsen by train from Budapest, Hungary, as part of a rescue effort organized by Rezso Kasztner. Later in 1944, the family was transferred to safety in Switzerland.

  19. Heinz Loewy postcard

    The collection consists of a postcard received by Heinz Loewy (later Henry Long), who fled to Shanghai, China after surviving imprisonment in several German concentration camps from 1936-1939. The postcard was written by Siegmund "Israel" Meyersohn in Berlin, Germany and dated 17 April 1941.

  20. Unused Nazi banner with a swastika found by a US soldier

    Unused Nazi banner found by an American soldier, Earl Kinne, in a boxcar near Ludwigslust, Germany, in 1945. Kinne and a fellow soldier were ordered to go to Ludwigslust, a small town in Germany, to take the townspeople to Wöbbelin, a nearby sub-camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, to witness the unburied bodies and other evidence of the atrocities that had been committed there by the Nazi government. The United States Army forced the townspeople to bury the dead. Earl found several newly manufactured Nazi flags, rolled in bundles, in a boxcar near the camp. The flags had never been u...