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  1. Nuremberg Trial ticket and program

    Consists of one program and one ticket for the "War-Crime Trials; Nurnberg, Germany, November 20, 1945-." The program contains biographies of the defendants and a floorplan of the courtroom. The ticket is for Session 118, and there is an illegible black ink signature on the diagonal, and below it, a pencil signature of "Alex Sonheim." Also includes the envelope used to send this material to Mr. Sonheim's wife in the United States in 1945.

  2. Ralf Mielzynski photograph

    Collection consists of one photograph of Ralf Mielzynski as an infant and one large brown envelope, from the City Studio in Amsterdam, with half of a star of David stamped onto the back. Ralf and his parents Siegbert and Alice Mielzynski were deported from Amsterdam to the Westerbork concentration camp in January 1943. In July 1943 they were deported to the Sobibor concentration camp where they all perished.

  3. Scenes from the port city of Gdynia

    LS, EXT, a freight yard as materials are taken off trains, piled in the yard. Workmen move lumber, in the northern port city of Gdynia which is Poland's main port city on the Baltic Sea.

  4. "The Eyes of Jewish Resistance" memoir

    Consists of a memoir, "The Eyes of Jewish Resistance," 71 pages, by Litman Litow, compiled by Leon Litow. The memoir recounts the childhood of Litman Litow in Visheva, Belorussia, his experiences on the run and in hiding from the Nazis, and his subsequent years as one of the leaders of a Jewish partisan unit. It also describes his experiences in Russia after the war, emigration to Italy and then to the United States, and reflections on Holocaust commemorations. The memoir contains black and white photocopies of family photographs. The collection also contains a copy of the memoir on a CD-RW...

  5. Henry C. Senger collection

    Contains a four-page memoir titled "The capture of SS Colonel Commandant Martin Gottfried Weiss the last commandant of Dachau," created in 2003 on the 58th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau. Henry C. Senger describes how he captured the SS Colonel Martin Gottfried Weiss, last commandant of Dachau. Also contains an interview with Mr. Senger published on June 12, 2003, in the "Local" section of a newspaper titled "The Record."

  6. William Horn memoir

    The collection consists of a personal narrative by William Horn regarding the persecution of the Jews of Radom, Poland.

  7. Erika Lewin Weinblum papers

    The Erika Lewin Weinblum papers document the efforts of Erika Lewin Weinblum in her role as the secretary of the Emergency Committee for Parents and Children of European DPs in Shanghai. The Emergency Committee series contains mainly correspondence to members of Congress and various political bodies including the White House, Department of State, and the United Nations. The correspondence concerns amendments to legislation that would permit Jewish displaced persons in China to immigrate to the United States. The personal items series contains various documents for Erika Lewin Weinblum that ...

  8. Heinrich Himmler photograph collection

    The collection consists of four photograph albums including family photographs of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS and head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS; his wife, Marga; and their daughter, Gudrun. Also included are photographs of Nazi officials and gatherings.

  10. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    01:03:45 Men digging in the aftermath of the German military air raids on Warsaw. Several refugees with bundles walk down the street, past where the ditches are being dug. Polish soldiers stand guard; civilians come up to them and question them. Scenes of the chaos in the streets after the German air attack. Two young men are recruited by a Polish soldier to help with the digging. They are all in suits and ties, some in trench coats and hats, and they keep digging. 01:04:18 Railway underpass, a train stuck on the tracks that are now covered with debris, women and men climb out of the railca...

  11. UNRRA supplies

    Boxes of UNRRA supplies from USA stacked. Ship "Falstria", bundles piled high in FG, crane, workers moving bundles. CU "US Mail" on side of bundle.

  12. Beatrice S. Zimmermann memoir

    Consists of one memoir, untitled, three pages, giving the testimony of Beatrice S. Zimmermann, who experienced the Holocaust in the Netherlands.

  13. Modern Poland before World War II

    English intertitles. Film taken prewar. Bridge. City streets and important buildings in Warsaw. A modern country: pedestrians reading newspapers, posters advertising arts and culture, vendors, trams, tall buildings, man with balloons and schoolchildren, storefronts. Cherished old quarters of Poland with ornate signs. Marketplaces - women selling flowers. City parks - women with baby carriages, CUs. High-rise apartment buildings and other modern housing structures. Jewish quarter, including arched street made famous by Roman Vishniac, geese transported in a wooden cart, the market in Krakow,...

  14. Shlomo Adler papers

    The Shlomo Adler papers include documents and photographs relating to Shlomo Adler's family in Bolechow, Poland (now Bolekhiv, Ukraine) before, during, and after World War II. Photographs include pre-war images of Shlomo, his parents Dolek and Sara, and his sister Musia in Poland and at the Tarbut school in Bolechow, wartime photographs depict the Bolechow ghetto, and post-war images depict Zionist youth groups such as Gordonyah (Gordonia) in Bielsko-Biała, Poland and Noàr ha-Tsiyoni (Hanoar Hatzioní). Also pictured in pre-war photographs are Salim, Pepcia, and Alta Diamand and Jozik Adle...

  15. By the Dar Pomorza Yacht to Stockholm

    Sailors on board ship, hoisting sails, very busy. The Dar Pomorza at sea. Life on board, including exercise and interacting with the ship's mascot, which looks to be a lemur or similar animal. Ship at anchor, sailors in dress uniforms stand at attention. Civilians on board inspecting the ship.

  16. KdF performance in occupied Paris

    A dance or circus performance of some kind, on a stage, including acrobatics, juggling, ice skating, and a comic routine with man dressed as a cowboy riding a bucking "horse". This was most likely a Kraft durch Freude (KdF) variety performance to exhibit German artists.

  17. Economic recovery activities in Europe

    The Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) was a U.S. government agency set up in 1948 to administer the European recovery program (Marshall Plan). EXT building with several narrow smokestacks. CU man. Row of bicycles and motorcycles under a shelter, man rides a bicycle away. Woman leans out a window, speaking. Cycling down different streets. INT men enter a room full of large stacks of wound wire. Man walks across factory floor. Upside down slate reads “DAY 28 INT 1 ECA.” Two men carefully lower a large spool of wire onto something. Damaged brick building. Ruins People and clothing line...

  18. Invasion of France

    German military vehicles winding down a road in France. Soldiers on bicycles pass a sign that reads : Sacy-Le-Gr__" The rest of the town name is cut off in the frame. Soldiers conduct house-to house searches in order to secure the town. The narrator makes reference to World War I and what that means to the soldiers as they fight in France once again. Soldiers get into a small inflatable boat and cross a river, under enemy fire. Scene switches to show a road sign indicating the direction in which Paris lies. German soldiers on horseback ride toward the camera, and the narrator states that th...

  19. Robert Ley in Italy

    Black screen with the words: "...mit Frontaufnahmen der Kriegsberichter: Elsaesser, Ertl, Hardacker, Huth, Hans Jacobi, Kester, Kramer, Meisenkothen, Oberhoff, Olesko, Paulsen, Rolf Richter, Schiffko, Waldmann." Presumably these are the names of the journalists/cameramen reporting from the front. Heroic music. Celebration of 20th anniversary of the March on Rome, which occurred in October 1922. Troops marching, playing drums, at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, which is where Mussolini's offices were and the location of the balcony from which he gave his famous speeches (not shown). Robert Ley ...

  20. Black and gray checked blanket given to Kindertransport refugee

    Wool checked travel blanket given to 13 year old Mimi Alice Schleissner by her mother Berta to keep her warm when she left on the Kindertransport in May 1939. Mimi's parents Berta and Julius and her brother Edi, 18, stayed behind in Kolin, Czechoslovakia. Until October 1938, the family resided in the spa town Marienbad [now Marianske Lazne], in the Sudetenland region. It was annexed by Nazi Germany in October 1938 and most of the Jewish population fled. In November, the Marienbader Zeitung ran the headline "Marienbad is Jew-free." After arriving in Great Britain, Mimi joined Hachshara, a Zi...