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  1. Central Jewish Committee in Poland, Education Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Oświaty (Sygn.303/IX)

    Contains files of the Central Committee's Education Department, including correspondence, reports, inspection reports, minutes of meetings, statistics, I.Q. tests, school programs, text books, song lyrics, programs for community centers, school certifications, index cards of surviving Jewish children, indexes of found and hidden children in Germany and other European countries, adoption documents, index cards of children in orphanages, and financial statements. Accretion of 2018 includes documentation of several departments: Organizational files (1717-1756): Lists of childcare facilities, i...

  2. Josef Fišera Archive Archiv Josef Fišera

    The collection primarily consists of documents related to Josef Fišera, a Czech national, and his involvement as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and with the French Resistance during the Second World War.

  3. Elvin Smith collection

    Contains two sound cassettes entitled, "Corrie ten Boom telling of saving lives of Jews, Rose Price concentration camp survivor" and "Diet Eman: saving Jewish lives during World War II."

  4. Central State Archive Selected records from the Archivio Centrale dello Stato

    This collection includes documents, correspondence, lists, permits, and reports relating to concentration camps, arrested individuals, visits to prisoners, the help committee for German Jews in Italy, Jewish refugees, Jewish property, racial laws, communists, anti-Fascists, the Italian police, the Ministry of the Interior, interned foreigners, people applying for decisions about their racial origin, and the Direzione Generale Demografia e Razza.

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Session 109 -- Slawik affidavit and related questioning

    Session 109. Shots of Eichmann's empty booth. He enters. 00:06:35 Judges enter the courtroom. They begin the 109th Session of the trial. The Slawik affidavit is read for the Defense. The witness, Alfred Josef Slawik, was a servant of Eichmann's in Budapest. He says that he never heard of any cases where a Jew was mistreated. He discusses numerous things that Eichmann has been accused of doing in his time at the villa, and says that all of them are false. 00:19:51 Hausner points out that Slawik says he was employed by Eichmann for only a few months in a single place. 00:20:48 Dr. Servatius s...

  6. Israel Joe Sachs photograph collection

    The collection consists of 28 photographs showing pre-World War II Jewish life in Poland and displaced persons camps in Germany after the war.

  7. Escort magazine

    Publication entitled "Escort: Occupation Edition," from "Inter Education Office," 357th Fighter Group, U.S. Army Air Force, Summer 1945.

  8. collection of trading cards and a photograph

    The collection consists of two trading cards with black and white photographs of athletes from the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany, and one black and white photograph with the caption on verso: "Nazi Troops in an Eastern Europe Village Early 1940's."

  9. Jesef Herzel photographs

    Five large format negatives; nine photographs depicting Jewish cemetery in Poland after the war; one photograph showing inspection of Auschwitz after liberation; two photographs showing activists in the Jewish Community in Krakow; four photographs of elderly Jewish men; envelope pre-printed name and address of photographer.

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Session 75 -- Eichmann's testimony

    The footage begins in the middle of Session 75 with the defense's submission of documents. The first document concerns Eichmann's dismissal from the Austrian Vacuum Oil Company. The defense attempts to show that he was released not because of his membership in the NSDAP but because of his marital status. Eichmann is questioned by defense attorney Dr. Robert Servatius about another document recognizing him as a "specialist." Eichmann states that this designation referred to his experience in the field of emigration (00:06:16). The footage cuts out from 00:06:46 to 00:06:57 then resumes with ...

  11. Singer family papers

    The papers consist of four photographs of Estera Singer [donor], her father, Friedrich, and her sister, Sandra, in the Esslingen, Wasseralfingen, and Feldafing displaced persons samps in Germany as well as two identification cards issued to Friedrich and Estera Singer in Wasseralfingen DP Camp and one affidavit issued on behalf of Friedrich Singer.

  12. Berish and Paula Gurtman photographs

    The collection consists of six photographs depicting Berish and Paula Gurtman and other refugees in Kibbutz Hatikvah in Hofgeismar, Germany, and in a displaced persons camp in Badgastein, Austria, after World War II.

  13. Photograph of Tripartite Pact

    Black and white photograph of the signing of the Tripartite Pact between Germany, Italy, and Japan in Berlin, Germany, on September 27, 1940. Hitler is seated at the table in the middle of the group.

  14. Fundraising newsreel for postwar rehabilitation in the Netherlands

    Volkshertsel Amsterdam, 1945. Dutch newsreel containing retrospective footage from throughout WWII, aimed at inciting the Dutch public to give money to support government postwar rehabilitation programs. Narration of the misery of war, accompanied by scenes of people pushing their belongings in the street, soldiers scrambling, burned out buildings, and blindfolded corpses. A train arriving, followed by men walking out of the station under a Dutch flag, changes the tone to the present, and scenes outline various government programs ("Joodische Ontvangst Commissie"-- "Jewish Reception Committ...

  15. Mordka Jonas Holcman identification card

    The identification card ("Arbeitsamt-Getto Legitimations Karte") was issued to Mordka Jonas Holcman in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, by the ghetto labor office.

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 100 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins early in the Session 100. Attorney General Gideon Hausner asks the accused whether he read Friedel's report on the Bialystok matter and notes that Friedel stated that the order to liquidate the ghettos came directly from department IVB4 (00:00:45). Eichmann testifies that Bialystok was part of the incorporated Eastern Territories and his section merely had to carry out the deportations ordered by Heinrich Himmler (00:00:58). Hausner asks Eichmann to indicate on a map (hung on the wall to the left of the accused's booth) the territories incorporated into the Reich (00:02:21). ...

  17. Kader family photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Symcha and Eda Kader (Harvey Kader's parents), Moishe and Lola Kader (Harvey Kader's uncle and aunt), and Anna and David Kader (Harvey Kader's twin cousins) in a refugee camp in Stuttgart, Germany, after World War II. Also included are two Rosh Hashana greeting cards bearing images of Anna and David Kader as infants.

  18. Medical kit

  19. Roza and Rafal Lekach photograph collection

    The collections consists of 13 photographs depicting members of the Lekach and Itman families, Rafal Lekach and other soldiers of the First Division of the Polish Army, Roza Lekach with the Belorussian partisan group of Denisow, and a visit to a monument memorializing the 3,200 Jews who perished in the ghetto in Dzisna, Belarus.

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 6, 7 and 8 -- Opening speech of Attorney General

    Sessions 6, 7 and 8. Begins during Attorney General Gideon Hausner's opening statement. He discusses the death of children during the Holocaust: "But no part of all this bloody work is so shocking and terrible as that of the million Jewish children whose blood was spilt like water throughout Europe." Hausner compares the suffering of Jews who died to Jews who lived. He asserts no one can determine "... who suffered the more terrible fat: those who died or those who concealed themselves in every conceivable hiding place and crevice, who lived in perpetual terror of expulsion..." There is a b...