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  1. Handmade white flag with a blue Star of David made by a German refugee in Shanghai

    White flag with a blue Star of David sewn by Ruth Linden in 1945 in Shanghai, China, to express her vision of the future flag of Israel. The flag was sewn in the "Ladies Secondhand Store," owned by the Linden family. They provided clothing goods and tailoring services to the community in Shanghai.

  2. Photographic slides of Dachau

    The photographic slides of Dachau concentration camp were taken shortly after liberation. An envelope that contained the slides is also included.

  3. Buchenwald, Nordhausen, Hadamar, Ohrdruf

    High pan of camp, barracks, open square. Survivors getting water from tank/truck, washing in canal, eating, cooking, pots, some are prisoners of war. Men eating. Fighting over food. Celebrating liberation. Posing for group photograph. "All Polish Greet the Fraternal American Army" on building. Men walking, waving, getting on trucks. Swastika chain link. Familiar faces of liberated men. Man with glasses, smiling, waving. Along road, striking at Germans passersby. Man with cane beating another, smashing windows. Captured Germans. Released women, cross on backs. Women cared for by medics, sick...

  4. People with disabilities and heredity

    Nazi propaganda film -- Aufklaerungsfilm [Instructional film] -- depicting life on earth as a permanent struggle for food, reproduction, and survival between strong and weak animals. This analogy is extended to the sphere of human beings, in which the survival of the Aryan race is threatened by 'hereditary' phenomena like mental disabilities and criminality. Allowing those considered "unworthy of living" to live in "palaces" for the disabled and congenitally ill at the expense of the healthy living in shabby conditions perpetuates this sin against the laws of nature. Shows footage of extrem...

  5. Triumph of the Will: 1934 Sixth Nazi Party Conference in Nuremberg

    Title: "Sixth Party Congress Excerpts from an Official Party Film "Triumph of the Will" 4-10 September 1934" 01:39:02 Series of German titles in pseudo-Gothic font, to 01:39:48 Rudolf Hess opens the party congress, and acknowledges the late Field Marshal von Hindenburg and their colleagues who have gone before them, as all stand. To 01:40:49 Hess continues speech, acknowledging international visitors and the Wehrmacht, then begins speaking directly to "mein Fuehrer." Great applause, cutaways, as he tells Hitler, " You are Germany." Hitler, Hess, Goering, Rosenberg, and several other Nazis s...

  6. Annexation of Austria; Munich Pact; Invasion of Poland and Denmark

    Reel 3: Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg addressing government, speech in progress. Schuschnigg replaced by Arthur von Seyss-Inquart in Austria, riding in automobile, waving to crowd. CU, transcription of Goering's conversation with Keppler. In city street, Nazis round up civilians, slowly closing in on them with horses and police, man carried away. Nazis marching in streets, heiling, waving flags. Crossing Austrian border, over bridge LS, lifting up pole, Austrians with big grins. 21 May 1935: Annexation text superimposed on screen. Tanks moving through streets lined with crowds. 05:20...

  7. Isadore Berenstein memoir

    Contains a memoir, 92 pages, which documents Isadore Berenstein's Holocaust-related experiences in Sochocin, Poland, and in Auschwitz concentration camp.

  8. Morris Silberger postcard

    A postcard dated December 6, 1945, written by the wife of Dr. Sandor Rado (Mrs. Sandor Rado) from Budapest, Hungary, to Morris Silberger in Brooklyn, New York. Contains information about the fates of family members during the Holocaust, including Dr. Sandor Rado, who was a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp.

  9. Rosa Marx family letters

    Rosa Marx received the postcards and letters from her parents, living in Vienna, Austria, from 1939 Nov. to 1941 Oct. 14 while living in New York with an aunt and uncle.

  10. Dem herrn Landeskommisar

    Scrapbook containing information about the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, memorial ceremonies held there after World War II, and newspaper articles about various concentration camps.

  11. Rafael Pijade collection

    Contains a written memoir, 14 audiocassettes, articles about Jews in the Yugoslav Resistance Movement from 1941-1945, photocopies of pictures of family members, and photocopies of general articles written about the Holocaust.

  12. Francis M. Shea journal

    The Francis M. Shea journal consists of an incomplete set of Shea’s journal entries and corresponding documents related to preparations for the trial of major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and is dated July 12 - October 29, 1945. Documents include correspondence with Justice Robert H. Jackson and Colonel Telford Taylor, memoranda, and meeting minutes and primarily address policy, procedural, and staffing issues.

  13. Ruth L. Love family collection

    Collection contains 32 original letters written by Ruth L. Love's great-grandmother, Flora Kleinmann, and other letters relating to her family.

  14. Leah Kessler Greenblatt memoir

    Leah Kessler Greenblatt's memoir contains information pertaining to her escape from Baronowicz, Poland, in June 1941, work on a collective farm in the Ukraine, and in factories in Stalingrad and Al Mata. Leah Kessler Greenblatt also describes her experiences after the war in an Austrian refugee camp and her trip to Israel in May 1946.

  15. My First Dress

    Contains a memoir describing the help Marie Pinhas-Lipstadt received from a GI after the Holocaust.

  16. United Kletzker Relief papers

    The collection contains one letter from the United Kletzker Relief asking for the donation of clothing, three United Kletzker Relief booklets, a black and white photograph of the Arrangement Committee of the Kletzker United Relief (1936), and a black and white picture postcard (1932) of Stephen Feinbergand Marjorie Nissen's family members standing next to the tombstone of Yitzhak Moshe, son of Yaakov Kapol. The United Kletzker Relief, composed of those American Jews originally from Kletzk, reorganized themselves to assist survivors of Nazi atrocities. They formed the Independent Kletzker So...

  17. Alec Ward memoir

    The Alec Ward memoir is a 13 page memoir entitled "My Story" by Alec Ward. In the memoir, Mr. Ward describes life in the Magnuszew ghetto, the ghetto Kozenice in the district of Radom, slave labor camps Skarzysko Kamienna and Rakow, as well as life in the Buchenwald concentration camp, the Buchenwald subcamp of Flößberg, and the Mauthausen concentration camp.

  18. Selected records from the Lithuanian State Archives

    Contains documents from the Lithuanian State Archives, Vilnius, selectively filmed by Yad Vashem. Included are records from the offices of the Gebietskommissars Wilna-Stadt, of the Vilnius police, and of postwar war crimes trials records.

  19. Kenneth S. Wherry collection

    Contains photocopies of Senator Kenneth S. Wherry's impressions of his trip with other members of Congress to Dachau, Buchenwald, and Dora, as well as the official report to the Congress of the United States entitled Atrocities and Other Conditions in Concentration Camps in Germany.

  20. Samuel Althaus collection

    Contains an illustrated story about Samuel Althaus's Holocaust experiences and thank you notes written to him by Grafton Middle School Students in York County, Virginia.