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Language of Description: English

  1. Oral history interview with Isaac Kraicer

  2. Theodor Herzl; Zionism

    Honoring the anniversary of the birth of Theodor Herzl, the father of the 20th century Zionist movement, this short documentary film gives a brief history of Herzl's life and work.

  3. Kazimierz, Jewish district

    Intertitle reads: "At the foot of 'Wawel' Kazimierz, 15th century Jewish district." Kazimierz of Krakow. Buildings and Jewish pedestrians. Very brief intertitle: "The Sukiennice The Old Cloth Hall in the Center of Ryrek."

  4. Adolf Hitler cigarette card

    1 cigarette card, image of Adolf Hitler inspecting quarters of German soldier

  5. Painting

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Fall of Paris. American GIs marching on road in Etamps (outside Paris), holding pictures of Hitler and Goering on bayonettes. Road sign, "Paris 50." People waving at passing Americans. GIs in jeep unfurling American flag, crowd cheers. US tanks enter Paris, pass Eiffel Tower. Civilians building sandbag barricade. Tanks firing at snipers in Paris outskirts. Street fighting in Paris outskirts. Jeepload of prisoners, crowd tries to mob them.

  7. Reference work

    Photocopy of a register of Jewish citizens located in Berlin, Germany, in 1947 that was copied by John Finke in Chicago in 2000. John (then Hans) was a concentration camp survivor who became an aid worker after the war. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. Jews were forced out of their jobs and their businesses were confiscated. In February 1943, Hans, 23, an electrician by trade, was a forced laborer for Siemens when he was hospitalized with appendicitis. On February 29, his parent...

  8. Book

  9. Ketubah

    Contains a Ketubah issued for the marriage of Sara Gitel Pollack (Gitta Pollack) and Yehuda Lev Goldberg [Leo Goldberg] married December 12, 1946 in Milan.

  10. Book

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- factory; interrogations; concentration camp liberation

    1251 L: The Fall of Schweinfurt. German soldier who wished to surrender and was hung by the SS. Wrecked ball bearing factory. German civilians being interrogated. Group of German boys (16-18 years old) being questioned. They are dressed in German uniforms and they fought against the Allies. 1251 O: 01:20:24 Liberated Buchenwald concentration camp; inmates in striped uniforms; barracks. MS of crematorium building. Swiss Red Cross trucks. Large drawing at Stalin hanging outside of barrack.

  12. Torah scroll fragment in a wooden frame

  13. Corpses on sidewalks, passers-by, loading coffins

    Jewish-mortality chart. Shots of people walking by corpse on the sidewalk; some are running. Coffin wagon in street stops, men carry out plain coffin and drag body into it. Group of men carries and then loads coffin into wagon and walk it away. Two emaciated corpses laid out on sidewalk, people pass by. Men bring cart to bodies and begin to load them.

  14. JDC response to Nazi advance in Europe

    Fundraiser showing international refugee assistance programs of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Rights of Jews in the United States contrasted to the plight of Jews in Europe during the 20th century. "Jude" painted on store window. Focus on Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Images of pre-Nazi times with Jews celebrating, dancing, etc. develop into images of confinement to ghettos, refugees, and post WWII restoration. Focus on Lithuania, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France. Shots of Nazi occupation and refugees. Focus on Balkans includes statistics of Je...

  15. Liberation - Yugoslavia

    Rear views, MSs Yugoslav? soldiers on horses, soldiers marching. Civilians waving. CU, elderly woman and child. CU, another child. MSs, young peasant women. Tito and other Yugoslav military personnel meeting, discussing around a table, smoking, looking over documents. Men exiting the building. Tito getting on a horse, riding. Peasants and children waving. Soldiers on horses marching through fields, towns. Civilians waving. Some aerial shots.

  16. Airplanes; VE Day in London

    (18 SFP 9500) Pilots, planes taking off for Operation Chowhound/Operation Manna Project, in which Allied bombers dropped food and supplies to the population of the Netherlands. (18 SFP 9501) 01:01:32 Sir Winston Churchill, Mrs. Churchill, Queen Mary, King George exiting limo, entering St. Paul's. Large crowd on London street on VE day, buses, Big Ben in BG. Trafalgar Square. Crowds gathered for VE Day, cheering. VAR shots, crowd, artist. 01:05:51 Planes flying over mountains, planes dropping leaflets.

  17. Pair of tefillin taken from a concentration camp by an inmate at liberation

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn514930
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.477 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 4.125 inches (10.477 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)

    Set of tefillin rescued by Yaakov Apelovitch, a 15 year old Jewish inmate in Auschwitz concentration camp, after the Soviet Army liberated the camp in January 1945. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Yaakov took the pair from the Canada warehouse where confiscated belongings were stored. The inmates called it Canada because they imagined that country as a place of great riches. He gave the tefillin to Rachel Kutner in 1945, who later gave them to Morris Rosen. Morris was int...

  18. Antisemitism; Solidarity; Communism

    Silent feature film, originally produced in 1927(?) and restored in 1991 by NCJF with English intertitles. No opening or closing credits. See Soviet film under the title "Yego prevoskhoditelstvo". This film's plot deals mainly with ethnic peasants, banding together in solidarity against the regime. Also includes a requisite love story between a Rabbi's daughter and a struggling revolutionary.

  19. Large diazo print of Westerbork transit camp

    Diazotype print of the plan of Westerbork transit camp in German occupied Netherlands in 1944.

  20. Poster