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  1. Medal issued to Polish prisoners of Nazi concentration camps

  2. Corfu

    Lanzmann filmed the few surviving Jews of Corfou, Greece. Many are craftsmen who experienced deportation to Auschwitz and Birkenau. Some interviews take place in the synagogue and the cemetery. Additional reels of location filming show local merchants and shops. FILM ID 3406 -- Camera Rolls #4-11A -- Armando Aaron -- 01:00:08 to 01:24:10 Surviving Jews of Corfu walk down a street in Corfu, Greece with Lanzmann. The four survivors walk towards the camera. 01:03:05 Armando Aaron explains (in French) that on June 9, 1944, the Jews of Corfu (numbering 1,650) were ordered by the Germans to gathe...

  3. British enemy

    Reel 6 Michael O'Brien, an Irish rebel leader from Dublin, is hanged in 1903 by the British for subversion and high treason. His eighteen-year-old son, also named Michael O'Brien, is sent to St. Edwards College -- a boarding school specifically aimed at making Irish children 'think English' by tight surveillance and ideological education. There, a fellow student collects information for his uncle at the British Secret Service. As a result, Patrick O'Connor unconsciously betrays Michael's widowed mother for harboring Irish freedom fighters even though he eventually joins the rebels' cause. O...

  5. Metal tag issued to inmate in Melk concentration camp

    Metal tag issued to inmate in the concentration camp Melk (subcamp of Mauthausen-Ebensee).

  6. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 486) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. German civilian attorneys cross-examining an unidentified witness. Witness Walter Neff is sworn in and is informed by Walter Beals, the President of the Tribunal, that since he may be tried as a war criminal later on he can refuse to answer any questions which in his opinion will incriminate him.

  7. Andre Steiner

    Andre Steiner, an architect, discusses the Judenrat and resistance activities in Slovakia with Lanzmann. He recounts relations with Rabbi Weissmandel and Gisi Fleischmann in their attempt to rescue Slovak Jews from deportation. FILM ID 3414 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 00:00:22 to 00:33:51 CR1 Andre Steiner was born into an assimilated Czechoslovakian Jewish family. He was an architect in Brno and in 1939 he was imprisoned briefly because his father-in-law was a leader of the Jewish Agency in Czechoslovakia. He and his family left Brno for Bratislava as soon as he was released from prison. In Br...

  8. Memoirs

    Contains a testimony, photocopy of typescript and manuscript, eight pages.

  9. David Shtambrandt memoir

    Contains a testimony, typescript, three pages, describing David Shtambrandt' experiences in Odessa and surrounding region during the Holocaust. Three other copied documents include a Russian certificate certifying that people named in document (Raisa Turchina, V.G. Mamchur, A. Kashuk) lived in Domanovka in 1941; a document related to Claims Conference hardship payment given to Shtambrandt; and a letter from Yad Vashem that acknowledges the memoir he sent to them in 1990.

  10. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda

    Reel 9 This feature film dramatizes the evils of the "bolschewistische Weltvernichtung"[Bolshevik destruction of the world] using the tools of the Soviet secret police GPU and the Comintern to spread anarchy and chaos. Peter Assmuss, a Baltic German student in Riga in the summer of 1939, is innocently drawn into the net of a high-ranking GPU agent Nikolai Bockscha and forced to participate in killing a dissident Armenian national leader in Kovno. Peter hides in Rotterdam with the ethnic German Irina, the secretary of the killed. Eventually they are caught and tortured by the GPU in the cell...

  11. Aron Rabinovich memoir

    Contains a testimony, 4 pages, Russian and typescript, along with a 3-page English translation, recounting the author's experience in the Domanovka, Ukraine ghetto, 1941-1943, and in a Jewish children's home after escaping from Domanovka.

  12. Ada Lichtman

    Ada (Eda) Lichtman talks about her experiences in the Krakow ghetto, her father's murder, and her transport to Sobibor. She was chosen to do the SS laundry in Sobibor and remembers cleaning dolls and toys seized from a transport of children for the SS families. She talks about Franz Stangl and Gustav Wagner and relates a story about a Dutch transport where the prisoners were given postcards to write home before they were murdered. At Lanzmann's urging, Lichtman sews doll clothes during the interview; this is a duty she used to perform in Sobibor. FILM ID 3270 -- Camera Rolls #1-4-- 01:00:18...

  13. Gustaw Alef Bolkowiak - Warsaw

    Gustaw Alef-Bolkowiak (Bolkoviac) addresses the tension between Polish and Jewish resistance movements and the question of Polish antisemitism. He talks about arms in the Warsaw ghetto, the Bund, the Zegota Council to aid the Jews of Poland, Poles who hid Jews, and Communist partisans. FILM ID 3373 -- Camera Rolls #1-4 -- 01:00:00 to 01:18:05 Note: There is no transcript for Rolls #1-4 (it is either nonexistent or missing). Lanzmann says he wants to talk about Bolkowiak's involvement as a leader of the Communist Resistance movement in the Warsaw ghetto and describes that he is particularly ...

  14. Tadeusz Pankiewicz - Cracow

    Tadeusz Pankiewicz was a Pole who ran a pharmacy within the confines of the Krakow ghetto, refusing the Germans' offer to let him relocate to another part of the city. He aided Jews by providing free medication and allowing the pharmacy to be used as a meeting place for resisters. FILM ID 3220 -- Camera Rolls #1-2, 3-4, and 5-7 01:00:09 CR 1,2: Lanzmann and Pankiewicz stand in a Krakow street. They spend most of the interview in different parts of the Plac Zgody (now Plac Bohakerow Getta), from which Jews were deported from the Krakow ghetto. They begin walking. Pankiewicz tells Lanzmann th...

  15. Rostock questioned at Medical trial; von Papen sentenced at Nuremberg trial

    (Munich 522) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Pribilla questioning Rostock. HS, judges. Pan to Pribilla as voice of Rostock is heard. (Rostock is off-screen). 04:13:30 (Munich 523) Verdict Day at von Papen Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, February 24, 1947. SILENT. Von Papen walking down aisle in courtroom. Judges enter. Judge Sashs, presiding, brings the court to order. 01:15:09 Von Papen with his son, his attorney, and Dr. Sybil. EXT of Nuremberg Rathaus where trial was held. Von Papen stands and listens to verdict. Judge reads the...

  16. Yad Vashem

    University course-debate at Yad Vashem. Shalmi Barmore, the Director of Education, stands in front of an assembly of military students after showing a film. Barmore and several students debate the resistance actions of the Jews during the Holocaust. They show concern that the Holocaust could happen again, in any country, including Israel. A student asks why the world appeared to be uninterested in helping the Jews during the Holocaust. Another student responds that the world was aware of what was occurring, but due to the violent situation they could not do more than accept refugees. A stud...

  17. Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers

    The Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers contain documents and photographs concerning Morris Breitbart of Szczakowa, Poland and his wife, Lucy Gliklich of Nisko, Poland, whom he married at the Rosenheim displaced persons camp after World War II in 1949. Included in the collection is a diary written by Morris while he was in hiding in Poland from 1943 until 1944, postwar documents regarding his credentials as a dentist, immigration to the United States, and restitution claims against the German government. Photographs in this collection depict the Gliklich family before the war in Nisko, Poland,...

  18. Sylvia Simon Tansey collection

    Three letters written to Sylvia Simon, from her cousin in Vienna (and subsequently of Chicago), Siegfried Feiger, describing his family's experience prior to and following their immigration in 1939.

  19. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

    Concentration camp uniform jacket issued to Michael Zylberberg and worn in Birkenau and Mauthausen.

  20. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case; Welt im Film no. 57

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Courtroom, dock. MS, defendant Oskar Schroeder is interrogated by his defense counsel, Dr. Rudolf Merkel. 09:29:41 Welt im Film no. 57: "Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas in Hamburg, Germany" SEQ: Douglas arrives in Hamburg, Germany to attend a session of the Zones Advisory Board. He greets the members of the Zones Advisory Board and in his speech says that his appointment coincides with the beginning of a new phase of British policy regarding the British Zone. "The Scholl Case." The first ses...