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Language of Description: English

  1. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  2. [Newspaper]

  3. Manual

  4. Manual

  5. Manual

    Handbook for the Nazi Storm Troopers and the Nazi Schutzstaffel elite military forces.

  6. Hannah Wolpert letter

    Consists of two envelopes and one letter written by Hannah Wolpert from Kelme, Lithuania, to cousins Jean and Sophia in New Jersey, describing life in Kelme in 1931. The letter is five pages long on two pieces of paper, and the donor recovered the letter from the attic of the Wolpert family home in Palisades Junction, NJ.

  7. Eichmann Trial -- Session 76 -- Eichmann's testimony

    Session 76 (approximately midway): Defense attorney Dr. Robert Servatius questions Eichmann about whether it was possible for him to act against the instructions of higher SS leaders in Hungary, to which Eichmann responds that it would not have been possible. Servatius questions Eichmann about a statment made by Huppenkothen at Nuremberg. Eichmann denies that he had a special position, as Huppenkothen had asserted. He says that documents he has seen since the beginning of the trial convince him that there were special duties assigned directly to Günther (Eichmann's deputy) by Müller (Eichma...

  8. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  9. Files of the bailiff in Mogielnica Akta komornicze w Mogielnicy (Sygn.1326)

    Files of the bailiffs of Mogielnica, Poland, related to the recovery of Jewish debts. Selected cases relate to Jews from different towns and villages of the Grójec county, mainly from Mogielnica. The files generally contain documents typical for the execution of debt: a motion to the Court of Peace, the statement of a defendant, the claim of execution, i.e. the Verdict and Sentence of the Court of Peace, the warrant for execution, requisition of an estate on account of a debt, announcement of selling by auction, payment of the debt.

  10. FDR and Churchill confer on Atlantic Charter

    FDR and Churchill confer on Atlantic Charter aboard ship HMS Prince of Wales. Churchill hands letter to FDR as both stand at ship railing of Presidential yacht. Members of British and American staffs present. Back aboard Prince of Wales, several shots of FDR and Prime Minister Churchill seated on deck in presence of many staff officers including General Marshall, General Arnold, Sumner Welles, Harry Hopkins, Admiral King, Sir Dudley Pound and others. They listen to sermon on deck. Nonessential Segments (mute): 01:29:48 to 01:30:42, French troop train moves thru North African countryside; go...

  11. Selected records of the State Archive in Levoča

    Selected records of the post-war trials and investigative cases of the District People's Courts and the Local People's Courts pertaining to Slovaks and former Hlinka guard members accused of collaborating with the German security forces. Includes the trial records of individual Slovaks accused of denouncing their Jewish neighbors, the trial records of regional Hlinka Guard commanders responsible for the deportation of local Jews, as well as the trial records of major political defendants. Also consists of wartime files of the local gendarmerie stations pertaining to the arrest and roundup o...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Iran, reel 3

    Reel 3: Iran. Anti-malaria operation. US soldiers, shovels to natives. Children. Spraying the village. Water lab (US army). US tank/supplies.

  13. Robert Slack collection

    Consists of 26 original photographs of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp. Contains images of clothed and unclothed bodies in mass graves, local townspeople forced to move bodies from mass grave sites, and live prisoners in bunks. Taken by Robert Slack during his service with the US Army during WWII.

  14. Goering's birthday

    Hermann Goering; Emmy Sonnemann; Edda Goering; Hitler. Goering's birthday

  15. Decree regarding the use of public transportation by Jews... Broadside announcing travel restrictions for Jews

    Order (Anordnung) concerning use of public transportation by Jews in area inside the district of Cholm (Chelm).

  16. Jewish farmers in the Carpathian mountains

    Scenes of Jewish farmers, carpenters, lumbering in the remote Carpathian village of Vysni Apsa. Interior of cheder. CUs of people. Basket making. Various pople pose/work in fields. CUs of orthodox men. Interiors of girls in school. Exteriors of houses. Crossing river. Cattle. Scenes are scattered. Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, an Orthodox Jewish farmer, tanner, and father of eleven children appears from 12:33:50 to 12:34:11 and 12:35:54 to 12:36:00. He was killed at Auschwitz in 1944. In 1938, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) commissioned Roman Vishniac to make three films...

  17. German Weeks Review

    CU, Hitler Youth applauding. LS, Heinrich Himmler enters hall, youth stand and salute him. CUs, faces of HJ. MCU, Himmler handing out medals. MSs, two boys pinning medals on. LS, Goebbels speaking (not heard). CUs, audience. LS, flags. CU, German soldiers and machine guns in foxholes. CU, machine gun fired. LS, explosions. German soldiers retreating. German engineers standing in depression. German soldiers on pontoon, drinking. LS, snow-covered mountains. CU, German mountain soldier climbing up mountain. LS, German soldiers descending from mountain. MS, men peeling potatoes. CU, German offi...

  18. German invasion, occupation of Low Countries

    Reel 3: German troops invade Holland, cross the Maas, cycle thru a village, capture Fort Eben Emael using flamethrowers. German troops guard Belgian and Dutch POWs, cross the Albert Canal, advance with tanks, dig fox holes, eat, man tanks and fire artillery. German planes bomb allied positions. Maps the German advances in Belgium and Holland. Shows the formal Dutch surrender and masses of German vehicles.

  19. Warehouse operations in the Dutch East Indies

    In Batavia, the former capital of the Dutch East Indies [Batavia is now Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia] EXT white stucco building from across a street. People in a wagon and riding bicycles pass from right to left. CU, building with the name Lehmann and Co. above the doorway. Black car pulls up to the side of a building and a man, dressed in white with a safari hat, exits the car. He talks to someone in the car, looks at the camera, and waves before entering the building. Another car pulls up and three men in white suits exit the car and enter the building. Again a car pulls up and anoth...

  20. A translated poem

    Contains an untitled poem written circa 1941-1942.