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  1. Kristina Singer essay

    Contains an essay by Kristina Singer describing her meeting with Holocaust survivors Kuba and Helen Beck in 1991. Kuba and Helen Beck were deported from Kraków, Poland, in 1943 and interned in Płaszów concentration camp where they encountered Amon Goeth and worked in Oskar Schindler's enamelware factory. Helen Beck was transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp but was released three weeks later due to the efforts of Oskar Schindler. Kuba and Helen Beck now live in the United States.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- The New School, NYC (University in Exile)

    New School for Social Research, NYC. 03:11:34 CU of sign, EXT: "The New School". 03:12:51 INT, people walking through lobby, information board. 03:13:43 CU, individual names and their subjects. View of faculty members meeting around table in front of mural, with the president of the New School, Alvin Johnson. There are various European exiles, including Leo Strauss, Frieda Wunderlich, Emil Lederer, and Max Wertheimer. (Full list of names is available in March of Time research files). 03:14:07 View of adult students in class. 03:16:52 People at a meeting.

  3. Oral history interview with Theodore Kessler

  4. Oral history interview with Bruno Eidinger

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Mosque; Arabs in Palestine

    Road junction with Syrian and Transjordanian borders. Buses, signpost "Jerusalem Trans Jordan South" and "Frontier Syria". 06:32:45 Desert, cows, sea. People on beach. 06:33:24 Jassar Mosque at end of road, old market square in FG. Teachers walking. 06:34:19 Entrance, students walking up and down. Playing board games. 06:35:25 Reading mail. Street scenes with camels, busy 06:36:07 Men drinking tea/coffee. 06:36:45 Shot of busy square. Band walk past. 06:37:45 Arab women and children. 06:38:47 Shot of town. Street, countryside. 06:40:21 Men walking in FG, Khalissa Arab Market, merchants, but...

  6. Oral history interview with Eugene Fellner

  7. German minority census of May 17, 1938 to 1939 Reichssippenamt Volkszählung vom 17.05.1938 durchgeführt 1939

    Contains records of the census of "non-Teutonic" (Jews) peoples in Germany conducted by the Reichssippenamt in 1939.

  8. Records of the Associations for the Care of Orphans CENTOS Zespół Zwiazek Towarzystw Opieki nad Sierotami, CENTOS (Sygn. 200)

    Contains reports, minutes, remarks to reports, inspection reports, kitchen inventory, kitchen menu, financial statements, correspondence, and a variety of documents relating to the work of the CENTOS kitchens and boarding houses between 1941-1942, in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Records document virtually all aspects of CENTOS kitchens activities, including organizational structure, kitchen expenses, staffing, kitchen menu, food supplies, falsification of food supplies, unfair accusation of shortages, disinfection of the kitchens, coal supplies, and all elements of inspection tasks.

  9. Rudolf A. Haunschmied collection

    Two cassettes with music and a discussion regarding the concentration camp Gusen I and II. Cassette 1, Side A: Names of musicians: Herbert Strobel (sp?), Bernard Offen (sp?), Kurt Neumayer (sp?). Program is a memorial event, possibly at the Gusen site; narration in English and German. Sound quality is adequate for 40 seconds only and largely inaudible thereafter. Main speaker is a Polish-Jewish survivor of Mauthausen visiting from California; he tells his story at 16:00. Musical interludes: 07:35 "hasidic nigun" (a textless tune) sung by the men. 12:00 cello solo and male voice perform unid...

  10. Michael Botermans poems

    Contains two poems entitled "Yehoshuah" and "Why" written in remembrance of Holocaust victims and survivors.

  11. Oral history interview with Binjamin Wilkomirski

  12. Schwarz and Mandl families papers

    The Schwarz and Mandl families papers include identification papers; birth, marriage, and death certificates; immigration and military records; restitution files; and photographs documenting the Schwarz and Mandl families of Vienna Austria before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  13. Heinz Praeger papers

    The Heinz Praeger papers include biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting Heinz Praeger, his prewar life in Germany, and his wartime years as a refugee with his wife and son in Shanghai. Biographical materials include three copies of a brief biography of Heinz Praeger by Michael Carlon describing Praeger’s childhood in Berlin, antisemitic persecution in the 1930s, his imprisonment in Dachau after Kristallnacht, his relocation to Shanghai, meeting and marrying his wife, the birth of their son, the family’s immigration to the United States, and their lives in New...

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    Lithograph of Oranienburg

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    Lithograph of Oranienburg

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    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ship en route to South America

    On board the SS Brazil (tendered by the US Maritime Commission to North and South American diplomats, bankers, and businessmen to initiate the "Good Will Service" to South America), leaving New York. People on shore waving. New York city skyline. Small boat spraying water, more boats. 01:12:20 People on board, painting, sunbathing. 01:13:12 Officer navigating, looking at route (chart of South America), Capt Harry Sadler at desk. 01:14:58 Engine room. 01:17:20 At sea, captains. 01:18:40 Seaman with gadget. Steam. 01:20:19 Seamen winding up rope.

  18. Society of the Survivors of the Riga Ghetto Conference (New York)

    Lanzmann films at a New York conference for survivors of the Riga ghetto in 1978. Includes an interview with several former Jewish policemen from Riga, Latvia who describe the division of the ghetto into sections for Latvian Jews and German Jews, dealing with the Nazi discovery of a secret weapons cache, and responsibilities as Jewish police. Lanzmann raises the question of collaboration and acknowledges the survivors’ openness as they talk. He also interviews veteran frontline soldier, Friedrich Baer. The reels also generally show the conference proceedings inside the New York hotel. FILM ...

  19. Germans and Czechs in the Sudetenland

    Reel 1 Anna lives with her German father Mayor Jobst at a rural estate near Budweis in the Sudetenland. Her mother, of Czech origin, killed herself because of an unfulfilled desire to return to her native town of Prague. Already engaged to a young peasant from the village, Anna is attracted to the engineer Christian Leidwein from Prague and travels to the 'Golden City' to visit him. While staying with the family of her mother and working in their tobacco store, she is seduced and made-pregnant by cousin Toni Opferkuch. Her changing morals are accompanied by her changing appearance -- jewelr...

  20. Nazi feature film on espionage, British agents, German rearmament

    Plot Summary: In this feature film set in 1936, Mr. Morris operates a British espionage ring based in Berlin that is eager to receive information about secret German rearmament plans. He is successful when he bribes a broke engineer involved in the construction of a new artillery cannon and places an agent in a military airport testing a new type of bomber. However, when Morris deliberately makes the acquaintance with the girlfriend of Hans Klemm, a soldier running in new tanks, he encounters trouble. He initially makes some progress by utilizing the soldier's friendliness and naiveté, but ...