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  1. Avraham Millo collection

    Contains Holocaust related statements made by Avi Millo, the Israeli ambassador to Romania and correspondence and attachments sent to Ambassador Millo by an Orthodox priest, Mr.Valeriu Voineag from Brasov, who wanted to convince the Embassy of Israel to rehabilitate General Iosif Iacobici, condemned for war crimes in Odessa.

  2. Eichmann Trial -- Session 77 -- Questioning Eichmann

    Adolf Eichmann is examined on the Madagascar Plan, the Würzburg Files and the Düsseldorf Files. The footage begins shortly into Session 77 as Dr. Robert Servatius asks Eichmann about a letter dealing with the Jewish Question. While the translator speaks, the courtroom is shown and Eichmann sits in a booth looking over documents. In his response, Eichmann states that he "never took part in any discussion in the Foreign Ministry," and suggests that there was a rivalry between Heydrich and the Reich Minister over the Madagascar Plan. It is then clarified that "Territorial Final Solution" refer...

  3. Eichmann Trial -- Session 98 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins in the middle of Session 98 during cross examination of the accused by Attorney General Gideon Hausner concerning the death of deportees during transport. Eichmann denies being involved in round-ups and, in particular, the Stettin Affair. When asked by Hausner who did carry out the deportations from Stettin, Eichmann states that it was the local authorities (00:01:28). A document is cited noting that at a meeting in January 1940 it was decided that section IVD4 would deal with deportations (00:03:19) and Eichmann maintains that their job was only to draw up timetables. Hausne...

  4. Eichmann Trial -- Session 71 -- Testimony of G. Ben-Zvi and M. Chen

    The tape begins in the middle of Session 71, with testimony from Gedalia Ben-Zvi. Ben-Zvi describes his attempt to get into the commando unit in "Canada" and his duties in that unit. "Canada" was the nickname for the looted property taken from arriving transports, and referred the supposed riches possessed by people who lived in Canada. A portion of the last segment is repeated. Ben-Zvi gives an account of seeing Zyklon B gas, its usage in "Canada" as a disinfectant, and the storage of the gas in a Red Cross truck. The witness goes on to describe the types of clothing received in "Canada" (...

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Session 91 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    The camera fades in on Eichmann's empty booth. Defense counsel Dr. Robert Servatius is visible in the foreground. The camera cuts to the lawyers' tables. Servatius is seated in the foreground and Attorney General Gideon Hausner, Assistant State Attorney Gabriel Bach, and Assistant State Attorney Ya'akov Bar-Or are seated in the background. Eichmann enters the booth (00:01:53). He sits and cleans his glasses. There is an overhead shot from the balcony of Eichmann sitting in the booth. The camera begins to zoom in. The camera cuts to various shots of the courtroom and the audience. All rise a...

  6. Eichmann Trial -- Session 108 -- Affidavits concerning Reich Security office and emigration

    Session 108. Dr. Servatius reads the affidavit from witness Herbert Kappler, an Obersturmbahnfuehrer who was charged by Himmler to round up the Jews of Rome. Eventually the order extended to an unlimited area. He says that he never heard of Eichmann in any of these orders. 00:14:18 Attorney General Hausner begins reading selections when a matter of procedure is raised with one of the mentioned documents, a cable. Questions arise involving certain affidavits from there. The Judges consult for some time about whether or not to admit the affidavit and book of a lawyer from Holland, Mrs. van Ta...

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

    The camera fades in onto Eichmann seated in the booth during recess. There is a shot of the prosecution desk with Hausner, Bach, and Assistant to the Attorney General Ya'akov Robinson seated (00:00:48) followed by various shots of the accused, the prosecution, and the courtroom. Assistant State Attorney Bar-Or enters and walks to the prosecution table (00:02:14). Servatius is shown arranging documents on his table (00:05:15). All rise as the judges enter the courtroom (00:06:45) and the attorneys bow to the judges (00:06:52). Attorney General Gideon Hausner resumes cross examination of Eich...

  8. Gerd Siegel photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Kurt, Elsa, and Werner Stein [donor's paternal aunt, uncle, and cousin] a few months after Werner's birth and a photograph of Kurt, Elsa, and Werner Stein on a tricycle in Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands on June 20, 1940.

  9. Medical kit

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 6, 7 and 8

    Sessions 6, 7 and 8. Hausner discusses Bulgaria's hesitancy to cooperate with Jewish deportations: "Bulgaria did not want to throw its Jews to the wolves..." Despite Bulgarian efforts, Jews were transported to labor camps. The prosecution describes Nazi actions against the Jews in Greece: "Brutality, arrests, plunder, the loot of property accompanied the German conqueror...and the establishment of ghettos." Hausner also mentions Theresienstadt, a temporary collection camp; at Theresienstadt, executions were used as punishment, newborns and pregnancies were terminated, and children were sepa...

  11. Eichmann Trial -- Session 101 -- Cross-examination of the Accused: Lidice children & Sonderbehandlung

    Session 101. Attorney General Hausner changes topics, asking about the Lidice children and a phone call associated with it. When Eichmann says that he cannot remember any such conversation, the Attorney General attacks him, saying that such a thing was not a normal occurrence and could not escape his memory. He says that when it concerns the children, he does not remember, though he remembers the assassination of Heydrich. Why Eichmann was contacted about any of this becomes the primary question, considering his claims that he was not competent to make any of these decisions. This becomes q...

  12. Memories of my childhood in the Holocaust

    Collection contains information regarding Judith Jaegermann's Holocaust experiences in Karlsbad, Germany. Judith describes her experiences at Auschwitz, including the shaving of her head, receiving her tattoo, and the smells and scenes at Auschwitz. and her experiences living in Hamburg, Germany.

  13. Lipski family collection

    Consists the personal papers of Wlodzimierz (Vladimir) Lipski and Debora Lipski, originally of Vilno; papers document the Lipskis' movements around Europe after the war which include work in Poland and Italy, residence in France, and emigration to the United States; correspondence and statements describe Lipski's Holocaust experiences. Also contains pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Lipskis and post-war photographs taken at an ORT facility where Vladimire was employed, 1945-1951. Also includes photographs of the family of Hersch and Berta Raskin. Mrs. Raskin was the aunt of ...

  14. Holocaust experiences of Adela Kestenberg Manheimer

    The collection consists of a five-page typewritten personal narrative of Adela Manheimer's (nee Kestenberg) experiences in prewar Poland; as a forced-laborer in the Grünberg subcamp of Gross-Rosen working for the German army weaving blankets; on a death march lasting from January 1945 to May 1945, when she escaped from the march; and in postwar Germany and the United States. Includes a photocopy of a photograph of Adela circa 1945.

  15. Tola Goldblum postcards and letter

    Contains two postcards and one letter, all written by Tola Goldblum to Hanka Sara Wajntraub from February 25, 1942 to April 9, 1942, while Wajntraub was in the Jewish women's labor camp at Gruenberg.

  16. Gertrude S. Ogushwitz collection

    Contains photocopies of a deportation list of Hungarian women taken to Auschwitz concentration camp and computer print outs of genealogical information for Janka and Etelka Weisz.

  17. Starzynski family collection

    Contains Judal and Szajndla Starzynski's legal documents pertaining to their Holocaust experiences and health problems for their restitution claims.

  18. William Powell collection

    Contains a 1997 audiocassette and copy of a newspaper article about William Powell's experiences as an American military survivor of Buchenwald.

  19. Congregation Hakafa letters

    Contains English translations of letters from individual survivors describing the ordeals that they experienced in the Minsk ghetto or as partisans hiding in the forest during the Holocaus.

  20. Eugenia Pinski papers

    Contains three memoirs entitled, "Class Reunion," "The Last Days of War," and "The Last Days of the Bedzin Ghetto."