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Language of Description: English
  1. György Ránki collection

    Consists of color copies of materials related to György Rosenberg (later György Ránki), who was fourteen years old when he was deported from Budapest. The collection includes copies of the note he threw from the train addressed to his father; identity papers he received after his liberation in Lübeck, Germany, and later in Sweden; a Red Cross search card; and other documents.

  2. Educational film on the development of rocket, technology, Opel 2 rocket, Opel-Sander-rocket 3

    Text panel: "Valier believed in a steady transition from aircraft to spaceship.": Rockets, rocket car, rocket tests, missile flight

  3. Burial at Belsen

    LS (very jumpy at first) of scattered bodies, Nazis push two truckloads through field while British troops urge them on. Nazis look very haggard. MS to female SS in trailer, followed by a trailer with British troops. Crowd of women ex-prisoners gathered, clapping, rush after Nazis, angry. MLS of bulldozer digging communal grave. Lorry passes with female SS and accompanying British guard. SS women unload corpses from truck and carry bodies to edge of communal grave where they are dropped in. Male SS doing the same at the other end of the grave. MS of women carrying and swinging corpses into ...

  4. Isenberg family greets townspeople

    Unknown people in a carriage in an unknown location. Isenberg family gets out of a car. Artur, Sigmund, and others gather in the street, talking to folks through windows of brick homes.

  5. Gusen liberation document

    Contains a document summarizing the prisoner population at the Gusen concentration camp on May 3, 1945. According to the document on 3 May there were 21338 prisoners; 72 prisoners died and 21266 prisoners remained.

  6. Eigil Jorgensen papers

    The Eigil Jorgensen papers consists of a framed original letter from the Danish bishops to the supreme authorities of the Nazi occupation forces in Denmark.

  7. German speaking Jewish community in Bolivia

    Records of the German-Jewish community in Cochabamba, Bolivia, consisting of newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscripts of articles, photographs of the synagogue inaugurated in 1947, and other documents from several different Jewish assotiations and institutions, including the Landesverband der Jüdischen Gemeinden Boliviens, Federación Sionista Unida en Bolivia, Comunidad Israelita Cochabamba, and Asociación Israelita Cochabamba.

  8. Lepehne family papers

    Includes identification documents such as two Reisepass, or passports, for both Max Georg (Georg Israel) and Caecilie (Fran Georg) Lepehne that names their daughter, Renate Lara Lepehne, before they fled Cologne, Germany in 1939. There are also two Kennkarten, or identification cards, for both Caecilie and Renate. Also included are notarized copies of Max Georg's German Medical degree and certificate of his position as a medical doctor.

  9. Więzienie w Będzinie (Sygn. 1589) Prison in Będzin

    Personal files of prisoners of Jewish origin convicted of various crimes, e.g. theft, fraud. In addition, other materials, e.g. lists of prisoners, statistic data. Personal files contain the prisoner's personal data and characteristics, as well as an accusation and official correspondence.

  10. Flag

  11. U.S. soldiers inspect debris in small town

    Panoramic shots of countryside, steeple, trees are bare, most likely shot in winter. Peasant walking in fields, cow sitting in the grass. High angle views, agricultural town. MS, US soldiers inspecting building debris, many brick buildings, sign for "Huile" (Oil) in French. VS, unidentified town, civilians moving about, soldier or police officer (dark colored uniform, wearing high boots, unable to identify uniform). CU, memorial/monument to soldiers of WWI, inscription in French. VS, American soldiers exiting building, smiling for camera, descending steps. US flag is flying on a flagpole on...

  12. Nuremberg Trial - Robert Servatius, defense counsel

    (Munich 195) Sauckel's case was presented on May 28 - 31, 1946 Robert Servatius, defense counsel for Fritz Sauckel, examines Sauckel (Sauckel is not seen). Thomas Dodd sits at the table behind Servatius. The questions Servatius asks and Sauckel's answers are translated in English voiceover. 19:32:09 shots of prisoners in the dock. Several of the defendants are taking notes. 19:34:49 May 27, 1946 Defense counsel Fritz Sauter questions witness Hartmann Lauterbach about his service with Baldur von Schirach. There is an English voiceover, this time the voice of a woman.

  13. Contemporary footage of Treblinka

    Contemporary film showing a transport to Treblinka. Point of view given by a passenger from the train, over which a woman sings. Arrival at the former death camp.

  14. Barbie Trial -- Day 12 -- Victims accuse Barbie

    Jean Gay - does not appear in person, deposition is read by the bailiff re: Resistance, arrest, interrogation, torture, and deportation to Neuengamme. Klaus Barbie enters the courtroom at 18:48:14, visible at upper screen right. He sits next to two interpreters: Margit Lipsker and Martine Billaud. 18:48:35 Lucien Margaine says "One cannot be mistaken. Look at that grin. You cannot forget; it is not a sane man." Barbie reads a short statement asserting that he is being tried illegally and that he was brought into court today by force: "Because I am judicially absent, I will not reply." Cerdi...

  15. Braun and Rosenfeld families collection

    The collection consists of a linen and photographs relating to the experiences of the parents and family of Dina Rosenfeld in Munkacs, Dej Orhei, and Bystrica, Hungary, and Romania.

  16. Hebrew Scouts with bikes

    Jewish scouts: boys with bikes in mountain region, sit by side of road, look at map, eat, repair bikes. Sign in BG reads "Fussen 5 km." Ride off [soft focus].

  17. Ery Magasanik collection

    Consists of US naturalization certificates, identification documents such as Iranian passports and "Shenasnameh," or Iranian identity booklets similar to birth certificates, for the donors' parents, Michael (b. 1900) and Judith Magasanik (nee Bromberg, b. 1908) who left Bucharest in 1940 using the Iranian passports they obtained in the late 1920s as citizens of Iran. They eventually immigrated to the Miami and then settled in New York in 1942.

  18. Isidor Urbach family collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor, correspondence, documents, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Isidor Urbach and his family before, during, and after the Holocaust in Poland.

  19. American nurses attend to wounded German POWs

    Campsite with Red Cross vehicles. The 51st Field Hospital attends to a massive number of wounded soldiers in early September 1944, most likely in St. Erme in Northern France, where the 51st Field Hospital had too many German POWs to treat under tents.