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  1. Book

  2. Prayer book

  3. Oral history interview with Frances Hirshfeld

  4. Auschwitz

    Location filming of Auschwitz and Birkenau in winter for SHOAH. FILM ID 3451 -- Auschwitz 48D-64B / Birkenau int. camp (white label 69) -- 01:00:13 to 01:14:25 Museum sign on Auschwitz-Birkenau grounds in four languages regarding the cremating pits, mass transports, and extermination. WS sign, remains of crematorium in BG, guard-tower. WS building remains, sign regarding the destruction of the crematorium by the Sonderkommando in 1944. Pan of snow-covered camp grounds. Quick shot of Lanzmann with fur hat standing in the field. CU, reeds, barbed wire fence, building remains, pan. 01:05:13 HA...

  6. Sketch

  8. Sketch

  9. Karl Kretschmer - Einsatzgruppen

    Karl Kretschmer was Obersturmführer with Einsatzgruppe 4a (Babi Yar) and wrote an infamous letter to his wife and children about the killings. In this hidden camera interview, Kretschmer is very reluctant to talk. Lanzmann asks about Babi Yar and Kretschmer says he wasn't there. He says he doesn't remember what his letter said since he doesn't have them any more. Kretschmer says he was struck by the fact that the Jews put up no resistance at mass shootings. FILM ID 3246 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:00 to 01:12:37 Lanzmann sits in a hotel room reading some papers, preparing for a secretly t...

  10. Sketch

  11. Antonina and Jonas Paulavičius photographs

    The collection consists of three photographs of Antonina and Jonas Paulavičius and their family of Panemune, Lithuania. The Paulavičius family rescued 16 people during the Holocaust, including 12 Jews primarily from the Kovno Ghetto. There is also a post-war photograph of Antonina with 6 of the Jews the family helped rescue: Miriam Krakinowski, Yohanan Fein, Musia Gershenman, Tanya Ipp, David Rubin, and Aaron Neimark.

  12. Richard Glazar - Treblinka

    Richard Glazar, a survivor of Treblinka, is another individual featured prominently in Shoah. In the outtakes, he talks about his Czech heritage, Theresienstadt, his experiences at Treblinka, and witnessing the transports as they arrived from Grodno, Bialystok, Saloniki, and other places. He also describes the prisoner revolt on August 2, 1943 and his escape from the camp. FILM ID 3314 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:03 to 01:34:05 CR1 Glazar sits on a couch in front of a window. Church bells ring periodically throughout the interview. He talks about his early life: he was born in a small tow...

  13. Bronislaw Falborski

    Bronislaw Falborski witnessed the deportation of Jews from Kolo to Chelmno. He talks about the speed of the gas vans. This interview takes place in Falborski’s home in Poland and was recorded during Lanzmann’s second trip to Poland. FILM ID 3809 -- Camera Rolls 1-5 CR 1;2;3 (Rue à Midevits) CU, framed painting of Mary nursing baby Jesus on the wall. Mr. Falborski was the private driver for May from the autumn of 1941 to 1942. May lived in the house of a former forest warden, named Gay, in a town near Kolo. Falborski also lived in the house of an evicted forest warden. The wardens had been e...

  14. Richard Rubenstein

    Richard Rubenstein, an American professor, relates his position on stateless people, bureaucracy, and the role of churches during the Holocaust. FILM ID 3871 -- Camera Rolls TALA 1-5 Allies CR1 Professor Rubenstein begins the interview by describing the beauty of Wakulla Springs, near Tallahassee, Florida, where the interview will take place. Lanzmann asks if it is a fitting place to talk about the Holocaust, to which Rubenstein answers it is as fitting as any other place, as the Holocaust was so unnatural and destructive. 01:02:22 CR2 He implies the similarities of the sanctuary in which t...

  15. David Wisnia songs written in Auschwitz (Oswiecim)

    Consists of the handwritten lyrics to four songs: "Oświęcim" (in Polish), "Oświęcim" (in Yiddish), "Mendele" (in Polish), and "Schweig, Herzele, Schweig" (in Yiddish), written by David Wisnia while imprisoned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The lyrics were smuggled out of the camp in a metal can by Wisnia's friend, Isaiah Kalfus, during the evacuation of the camp. Also includes sheet music for "Oświęcim" written in 1984, as well as an audiocassette of the songs.

  16. Table of contents

    Title and contents page from a portfolio of reproduced drawings created by Henri Pieck depicting life as a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1945.

  17. Correspondence and documents relating to Westerbork concentration camp

    Contains copies of correspondence and documents, circa 1942, relating to the experiences of Menil and Rosa Strawczynski's (donor's parents) at Westerbork.

  18. Album from the Jewish orphanage in Brest-Litovsk, Poland

    Contains a color photocopy of album with drawings, and a name list of Jewish children from a Jewish orphanage in Brest-Litovsk, Poland.

  19. Bruce Neuburger papers

    Contains a bound, self-published book containing biographies of various members of Neuburger family, and photocopies of documents used in trial of Benno Neuberger in Berlin in 1948.

  20. Letter from the Ichud (Kraków) to The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee regarding Oskar Schindler

    Consists a letter relating to Oscar Schindler's rescuing of Jews, and about his postwar financial condition.