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  1. Partisan warfare maps Bandenlagekarten

    Contains 36 Bandenlagekarten or partisan warfare maps from the National Archives and Records Administration record group 242. Annotations to the maps represent the monitoring of the partisan movement in Eastern Europe and measures taken to suppress it from the side of the German military as well as the SS and the police. Geographic areas covered in the collection include the Soviet Union, Latvia, Yugoslavia, and Belarus. The maps range in date from 1941 to 1944. The bulk of the maps date from 1942.

  2. Oral history interview with Rose Price

  3. Oral History interview with Emilie Klugmann Szekely

  4. Oral history interview with Alfred Stern

  5. Medical kit

  6. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 14, 15, 16 and 21 -- Testimony of B. Cohn

    Sessions 14, 15, 16 and 21. Witness Benno Cohn describes the effects of Nazism on Jewish cultural life: "...we were no longer allowed to play music of German composers such as Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Haydn or Mozart." Assistant State Attorney Bar-Or questions Cohn about book burning. Cohn replies: "The books of the most famous Jewish authors were hurled into the bonfire to the sound of shrieks and applause by the students who were present." Bar-Or and Cohn discuss the Nuremberg Laws; Cohn explains the Reichsbuergergesetz [German Citizenship Law], and reads mandates from the Reichsgesetzbla...

  7. Cikánsky tábor Lety u Pisku Lety concentration camp records

    Contains ledger books, indexes, and lists from the Lety concentration camp for Roma near Písek, Czechoslovakia. The materials contain information relating to camp finances and expenses, prisoner personal information, prisoner entries into the camp, prisoners releases from the camp, prisoners sent to the hospital, prisoner escapes, and prosecution of prisoners in court.

  9. Eichmann Trial -- Session 109 -- Submissions of additional evidence and Vrba's affidavit

    Session 109. Attorney General Hausner discusses the translation of the word 'sonderbehandlung.' Whether or not this affects the testimony of the witness Krumey is discussed. 00:04:42 It becomes apparent that the exhibit has not been submitted by the Defense, and Dr. Servatius argues that parts of it are advantageous and other parts detrimental to the Defense. The Judges discuss this with each other at length. We cannot hear what they are saying. The affidavit concerns Krumey's statement on the Lidice Children. 00:13:58 The Judges ask a question about a Czechoslovak translation, one of the m...

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Session 47 -- Testimony of witness Itzchak Nechama about the July 11, 1942 Aktion against the male Jews of Salonika, Greece

    Opening shot of the courtroom. Adolf Eichmann sits in the booth. Lawyers for the defense and the prosecution are seated at their respective desks with their backs to the camera. The judges enter. All rise and Judge Moshe Landau asks Deputy State Attorney Yaacov Bar-Or to proceed. There appears to have been a brief recess after the entering of many documents into the record and the footage picks up after this. Itzchak Nechama takes the witness stand (00:01:35) and is sworn in. He testifies about his military service in the Greek army, the demobilization of his unit, and his return to Salonik...

  11. Poster

  12. Book

    Book about Nurnberg, Germany post World War II as the home to 20,000 Americans.

  14. Book

  15. KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps. Pictorial report of concentration camps

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn13542
    • English
    • 1945
    • a: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)

    A copy of the “KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern” [KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps] pamphlet published in Germany in 1945. It was published quickly by the American War Information Office to increase awareness of the atrocities that had occurred. It contains post-liberation photographs at Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, and Ohrdruf concentration camps and the site of the Gardelagen massacre.

  16. Box

  17. Ann Benjamin Goldberg papers

    The collection consists of a health card, certificate issued in Bremen, Germany, and photographs depicting Ann Benjamin Goldberg's family in Dyatlovo, Poland (Dzi︠a︡tlava, Belarus) before the Holocaust, her time as a student in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, and her stay and work as a nurse in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II. Additional photographs depict visits to the Föhrenwald and Eschwege displaced persons camps.

  18. Prayer book

    Haggadah used by the Zolno family after the war in Foehrenwald displaced persons camp.

  19. Oral history interview with Alfred Stern

  20. Esther Malin collection

    Contains four pieces of ghetto scrip, four photographs from the Łódź Ghetto, and one newspaper clipping.