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  1. Oral history interview with Vivien Spitz

  2. Oral history interview with Dalibor Lovric

  3. Oral history interview with Samuel Stern

  4. Oral history interview with Ari Tornur

  5. Oral history interview with William Luksenburg

  6. Oral history interview with Rose van Thyn

  7. Oral history interview with Morris Wollach

  8. Oral history interview with Karl Targownik

  9. Oral history interview with Judith Meisel

  10. Oral history interview with Robert St. John

  11. Oral history interview with Ruth Bacow

  12. Oral history interview with Dayle Bates

  13. Tallit

    A Jewish prayer shawl.

  14. Shmuel Tamir

    Shmuel Tamir represented the defendant in the Kasztner libel trial in Israel He speaks passionately about the virtues of Rabbi Weissmandel and the perfidy of Rudolf Kasztner. FILM ID 3396 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:05 to 01:33:41 CR 1 01:00:05 - 01:11:16 Shmuel Tamir sits at a wooden table in front of a striped curtain with several books on the table in front of him. Lanzmann says that one of the main protagonists of his film is Rabbi Weissmandel. He asks Tamir to explain how he met Weissmandel and what his impressions were. Tamir says that in the course of the Kasztner trial he came acr...

  15. Camionnette (minibus used for hidden camera interviews)

    Minibus with equipment for hidden camera interviews, staged in the suburbs of Paris at Saint Cloud, near the LTC Studio where the final film's editing was done, in May 1983. This could have been staged in France rather late in the film's production to illustrate a sequence about the hidden camera interviews for the final film (note the closeups of the minibus and the "home" of a perpetrator -- the zoom into a specific window, for instance). FILM ID 3452 -- Ext. Camionnette / Camera Rolls 1-4-6, 14-26 Several sequences showing exteriors of the red-striped Volkswagen minibus with the equipmen...

  16. Lilly Gliksman Zaks collection

    Consists of seven photographs from the Lilly Gliksman Zaks collection; includes pre-war photographs of her brother, Chaim Gliksman, a banker from Bedzin, Poland, who was a member of the Sonderkommando in Birkenau and perished there in 1944; and post-war photographs of Lilly Zaks, her husband Szajo, and their son Jerry, who was born in 1947 in the Stuttgart hospital. Notable is a copy of a false ID card for Szajo Zaks as a Pole, Jan Byczek, and photographs of Zaks while he was posing as Byczek. Szajo Zaks escaped from a deportation to Auschwitz and hid as a Pole for the remainder of the war.

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

  18. Otmar Pirnat papers

    The papers consist of two letters written by Otmar Pirnat, a political prisoner at the Mauthausen concentration camp, to his parents on Mauthausen camp stationery. Mr. Pirnat, originally of Maribor, Slovenia, was wrongfully arrested as a partisan, sent to prison in Vienna, then to Mauthausen, were he was imprisoned for more than two years.

  19. Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection

    The Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection consists of a handmade book which was created by liberated inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp. The book was presented Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum in 1945. It includes a photograph of liberated prisoners as they are about to emigrate to Palestine as well as lines from a song by Mordecai Geburtig sung in the ghetto in Kraków, Poland, and a song about Buchenwald by Percy (Peretz) Brand. Translation: Page 2, in Yiddish and English: "Isaiah 21-12;/Watchman, what of the night?/Watchman, what of the night?/The Watchman said:/The morning...

  20. Leib Teitelbaum identification card

    The identification card ("Ausweis") is for civilian internees of Mauthausen concentration camp and states that Leib Teitelbaum, No. 1072, was interned at Mathausen from March 13, 1945, to May 6, 1945.