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  1. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of U.S. soldiers standing near pile of bodies outside; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  2. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of a pile of corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French

  3. Glass slide of Hitler and Yōsuke Matsuoka

    Glass slide of Hitler and Yōsuke Matsuoka standing together on a balcony.

  4. Glass slides of photographs from unidentified concentration camp, post-liberation.

    Glass slides (8), containing photographic images of scenes in a liberated concentration camp, depicting liberated prisoners in barracks, United States military personnel, and corpses of victims. One image shows a former prisoner with a United States soldier, pointing toward an oven, and another shows an American soldier addressing a group of civilians, presumably German, standing in front of a crematorium. The provenance of these images is unknown.

  5. Glavarstvo građanske uprave za Dalmaciju u Splitu

    • The Civil Administration for Dalmatia in Split

  6. Glavnoe Pereselncheskoe Upravlenie pri Sovete Ministrov RSFSR (Fond A-327)

    Contains name lists of evacuees, correspondence, minutes, and various reports created by the Main Resettlement Administration regarding resettlement and aid provided to evacuees. Includes statistical reports and information relating to Soviet civilians who were repatriated from Germany, France, Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and China, a list of Soviet citizens residing in Yugoslavia, and lists of Polish citizens returning to Poland. The Main Resettlement Administration was established on February 12, 1942 as the main administrative body of the Russian Federation responsible for t...

  7. Glee club "Loreley"; excursions around Dresden; daily life

    Ascension Day 1937, pub, bus ride, boat ride, Elbe River, Family in Glossen, Lübben, Dresden

  8. Gleitman family collection

    Collection of documents, copy prints, photographs and correspondence documenting the experiences of Joseph Gleitman, his wife Sura (Sally) Lazega, and their friends before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs; a large pre-war school photograph of Polish and Jewish students in Slakow; post-war documentation relating to the marriage of survivors Joseph Gleitman and Sally Lazega, and Joseph Gleitman's work managing a mill after the war; a pre-war letter written to Joseph Gleitman; documentation acquired prior to Joseph Gleitman's immigrat...

  9. Glen A. Chandler Collection

    Letters, clippings, and pamphlets, relating to Gerald L. K. Smith and antisemitism in the United States. Includes pamphlets and photocopies of two letters by Smith, and microfilm of clippings about Smith assembled by the Anti-Defamation League.

  10. Glenn L. Runyan photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly following liberation; images include memorials erected in the camp, survivors, and piles of corpses. Images taken by U.S. Army Corporal Glenn Runyon, who was a member of the 465th Engineer Company.

  11. Gliders

    Private film. Gliding school Leba. Lonske Düne. Pomerania. "Moderne Ikarier". "Ein Tag bei Segelfliegern". "Aufnahmen mit Zeiss-Ikon.Kinamo K.S.10".

  12. Global Structures Convocation panel discussion on global peace

    Panel Discussion: "Global Peace Conference" Global Structures Convocation, Crystal City, VA. February 3-6,1994. (tape 33 in conference series) Panelists include: Patricia Chuse (president of the Center for International Cooperation), Benjamin Ferencz, Taneka Moore (international youth coordinator for the Association for Global Peace Conference), Avon Madison (president of Pathways to Peace), and Denton Musselwhite. The moderator is Walter Hardaway. Panelists discuss developing a Global Peace Conference where nations can sit down and discuss conflict and peace resolution. They propose change...

  13. Global Structures Convocation panel discussion on ICC

    Panel Discussion: "Permanent International Criminal Court" Global Structures Convocation, Crystal City, VA. February 3-6,1994. (tape 10 in conference series) Panelists include: Michael Scharf (law professor at New England College of Law), Walter Hoffmann (president of the Center for UN Reform Education), Melinda Borrell (activist, lobbyist), Diane Orentlicher (law professor at American University), David Kreeger (president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation), and Benjamin Ferencz. The moderator is John McDonald. Ferencz explains the precedent of an international military tribunal set up at...

  14. Global Structures Convocation panel discussion on peacekeeping

    Panel Discussion: "Peacekeeping versus Peacemaking" Global Structures Convocation, Crystal City, VA. February 3-6,1994. (tape 23 in conference series) Panelists include: Ambassador H. Sardenburg (to United Nations from Brazil), Erskine Childers (dedicated life's work toward strengthening peace), Michael Stopford (director of UN Information Center; respresentative to UN Secretary General in Washington, DC), Phyllis Bennis (UN and Middle East correspondent for Pacifica radio), Louis Sohn (distinguished professor of law at Harvard, director of Peace Institute), and Harold Stasin (the only livi...

  15. Global Structures Convocation panel discussion on security council reform

    Panel Discussion: "Security Council Composition Reform Proposals" Global Structures Convocation, Crystal City, VA. February 3-6,1994. (tape 35 in conference series) Panelists include: Sohn (provides an opening background), Scwartzberg (delivers his proposal), Childers (comments on proposal and subject), Ferencz (comments and delivers his proposal). The moderator is Ved Nanda. Ferencz boldly evaluates the present-day Security Council, calling it "tremendously ridiculous." He is outraged at the arrogance involved and the veto power provided. His modification and proposal allows the Security C...

  16. Global Structures Convocation panel discussion on UN reforms

    Panel Discussion: "Case for Comprehensive Reforms of the UN" Global Structures Convocation, Crystal City, VA. February 3-6,1994. (tape 50 in conference series) Panelists include: Benjamin Ferencz, John Logue (director of the Common Heritage Institute; president of World Federalist Association), Tad Daley (executive director of Campaign for a New UN Charter), and Benton Musselwhite (president of One World Now). The moderator is Melinda Burrell. Ferencz discusses his twenty years of dedicated work on trying to create a rational world order. He expresses great concern about the lack of enforce...

  17. Gloria Hartenbaum collection

    The collection consists of wartime and post-war photographs depicting Gizelle Herskovits (later Gloria Hartenbaum), originally of Bixad, Romania, and her sisters Magda Herskovits (later Magda Kramer), Vicky Herskovits (later Vicky Zepnick), and Katya Herkovits (later Katherine Rezak). The photographs include wartime images of the sisters with family and friends in Bixad and post-war depictions of them in the Feldafing displaces persons camp.

  18. Gloria Horwitz collection

    The collection consists of a leaflet and a Star of David badge.

  19. Gloria Klein collection

    Collection consists of records documenting the experiences of George Klein (Gloria Klein’s husband) during the Holocaust. Records include his DP identification card, a medical certificate, a certificate stating that he was a survivor living in the Bad Reichenhall DP camp, documentation regarding the search for George's father, and a partial document regarding medical exams. Also included are two notecards from his presentations about his Holocaust experiences

  20. Gloria L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gloria L., who was born in Du?sseldorf, Germany in 1925. She recalls living in Gerresheim; their affluent lifestyle; being over-protected as an only child; cordial relations with non-Jews until 1933; her father's arrest; his release due to friendship with one of the policemen; moving to Du?sseldorf in 1937, thinking it would be safer; membership in Habonim; attempts to emigrate to the United States; attending a Jewish school; and their emigration to the United States in September 1938. Mrs. L. discusses their strong German identity (her father was a World War I hero);...