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  1. Defendants and Taylor at Medical Trial

    (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Opening statement, American trial and American judges. LS shot of courtroom from above. Judges enter, MLS 4 judges. Defendants answer one by one. President of the Tribunal states that as names are called, they will rise and answer questions. Karl Brandt, Paul Rostock, Oskar Schroeder, Rose, Pokorny, Oberhauser, Handloser, Ruff, Fritz Fischer, Blome, Sievers, Brock, Becker-Freysing, Weltz, Romberg, and 4 others. MS, Gen. Telford Taylor tells of "nameless dead...These wretched people were...

  2. Postage stamp

  3. Pierre Haber memoir

    Contains a testimony, typescript, one page, about Pierre Haber's experiences as he and his family fled from Landau/Pfalz, settled in Strasbourg, were interned by French officials, and how his father purchased a Cuban visa and left in 1942.

  4. Silk map

    Map of Central Europe, 1943, depicting Germany (north), Bohemia and Moravia, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary (north) on "Sheet E" and Croatia (west & central), Montenegro (west), Hungary (west), Slovakia (south), Germany (south), Italy (north and central), and Switzerland (east) on "Sheet F."

  5. Ernst Heumann collection

    Contains correspondence and financial reports concerning the publication of Aufbau by the New World Club (also known as the German-Jewish Club), an organization of German Jewish emigrants in New York. Also included are files concerning Aufbau advertising manager, Hans Schleger, and a May 1941 issue of International Science, a publication of the New World Club.

  6. Alfred Haas collection

    Contains three undated photographs of Alfred Haas' law class circa 1920s (Haas is not identified in any of the three photographs) and photocopies of fragments of the August 20, 1934 issue of "Mainzer Anzeiger." The newspaper contains articles about the NSDAP activities in Mainz, Germany.

  7. Remember never to forget

    Contains information about Rose Eizikovic Bohm's experiences in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia under Ukrainian, Hungarian, and German occupation; in the Papul, Czechoslovakia, ghetto; her deportation to Birkenau concentration camp; her transfer to "Lager C" of Auschwitz concentration camp; her transfer back to Birkenau; her memories of selections by Josef Mengele; her transfer to an unnamed labor camp; her transfer to a camp near Salzwedel, Germany; her liberation on April 12, 1945; her return to Czechoslovakia; her emigration to Israel in 1949; and her immigration to the United States in ...

  8. Oral history interview with Oskar Schindler

  9. Sketch

  10. Walter Stras collection

    Consists of a report from the Bürgermeister in Brücken, Germany, concerning the Jews in the town in 1938; letters from Hilda and Simon Straass, Walter Stras' parents, in Gurs concentration camp; a propaganda leaflet entitled "Kraft durch Fruede!"; a letter of identification for Walter Stras written by H. E. Wortsmith of the 6th U.S. Armored Division; copyprints of photographs depicting scenes of Brücken and Steinbach am Glan, Germany; Walter Stras' Ausweis (identification card) from Buchenwald concentration camp; a letter from Lotie Marcus of United Jewish Social Services concerning Walt...

  11. Central Archives of the Federal Security Services (former KGB) of the Russian Federation records relating to war crime trials in the Soviet Union

    Contains interrogation transcripts, witness statements, arrest warrants, evidence documents, copy prints, sketches, diagrams, photographs and other trial documents relating to the arrests and investigations of suspected war criminals for war crimes trials held in Riga, Kiev, Minsk, Babruisk (Bobruysk), Sevastopol, Kishinev (Chisinau), Chernihiv (Chernigov), Pskov, Velikie Luki, Stalino, Krasnodar, Bryansk, Nikolaev, Novogrod, Leningrad, and Smolensk in the Soviet Union. Also includes trial documents for trials of several individuals suspected of war crimes and several Sachsenhausen concentr...

  12. Hostages and political prisoners Otages et détenus politiques

    Contains records of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Commission of Prisoners, Internees, and Civilians (PIC) from ACICR series G 44, Otages et détenus politiques, relating to aid for hostages and political prisoners in Nazi concentration camps; hostages and political prisoners in prisons and concentration camps in Germany; hostages, political prisoners, and resistance fighters imprisoned during World War II and after by satellite regimes of the Nazis or imprisoned by Germany in countries occupied by Germany and German nationals detained or interned in countries of the Allied c...

  13. Selected Records from the International Committee of the Red Cross Commission for Prisoners, Internees and Civilians. Jews (Israélites), 1939-1961 (bulk 1940-1950)

    Contains working files of Hans Bachmann, personal secretary to Carl J. Burkhardt, relating to assistance to Jews in various countries and civilian detainees of concentration camps in Germany from 1939 to 1945; administrative records of the Department of Special Assistance (DAS) relating to actions in favor of Jews; records relating to materials and moral assistance from the International Red Cross (ICRC) on behalf of European Jews; general records relating to ghettos, internment camps, and concentration camps for Jews; records relating to ICRC appeals to various governments asking for respe...

  14. American Relief for Poland organization records

    Contains reports, bulletins, general correspondence, name lists, "welfare messages," financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and various other records relating to the work of the American Relief for Poland from 1939 to 1952. The files of the American Relief for Poland, Lisbon office, contain reports and general correspondence from Florian Piskorski, American Relief for Poland delegate to Europe, general financial records of the Lisbon office, name lists of Polish and Jewish refugees, Polish prisoners of war, and Roman Catholic priests, in concentration camps receiving aid, and ...

  15. Lwów files Teka Lwowska (Sygn. 229)

    This collection contains reports, articles, clippings, and various other documents relating to the persecution and execution of Jews in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine); the activities of the Jewish council (Judenrat) in the Lwów ghetto; the confiscation of Jewish property; the eviction of Jews from their homes; various "actions" in the ghetto, some specifically targeting elderly Jews; the mistreatment of Jews by Ukrainians; the burning of synagogues; the extortion of money from Jews in the ghetto; the activities of the German police and Gestapo; Jews taken to forced labor camps near Lwów; ...

  16. Index of prisoners in the Hasag Pelcery labor camp in Częstochowa Kartoteka wiezniów obozu pracy Hasag Pelcery w Czestochowie (Sygn. 207)

    Contains the index of 4,724 prisoner names, some Jewish, from the Hasag Pelcery (Pelzery) forced labor camp in Częstochowa, Poland, which operated from circa June 1943 to circa January 1945. The index contains biographical information for each prisoner including, but not limited to, prisoner name, prisoner identification number, date of birth, occupation, prisoner's residence before coming to Hasag Pelcery, and prisoner's work assignment in the camp. The index cards are undated.

  17. Jewish council in Krakau Rada Żydowska miasta Krakowa (Sygn. 218)

    Contains lists, correspondence, reports, instructions, and various other documents relating to the activities of the Judenrat (Jewish council) in Kraków, Poland, during the German occupation; evacuation and transports of Jewish citizens from Kraków; Jews in forced labor; the murder of Jewish physicians from Kraków and Kielce; aid for the poor Jews of Kraków; activities of the Jewish police in Kraków; Jewish welfare centers in Kraków; and issuance of identification cards to Jews in Kraków. Also contains a list of names of Kraków Judenrat members.

  18. Jewish councils Rady Żydowskie (Sygn. 214, 215, and 220 through 224)

    Contains reports, name lists, correspondence, financial records, and various other records relating to the work of Jewish councils (Judenrat in Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Końskie, Warsaw, Jasło, Falenica, Lochów, Staszów, Włoszczowa, and Pińsk. The majority of the files relate to the work of the Sanitation Commission of the Jewish council in Staszów, Poland.

  19. Klara Ostfeld collection

    Contains a typewritten, English-language translation by Martha Luchsinger of Klara Ostfeld's memoir relating to life in Cernauti, Romania (now Chernivt︠s︡i, Ukraine), under the Iron Guard (Garda de Fier) and the Ion Antonescu regime; her deportation to Transnistria (Ukraine) in 1941; conditions in "Mogilev Podolsk" (Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ, Ukraine) and Scazenetz forced labor camps; and her postwar life in Romania, Israel, and Venezuela. Carlos Rangel wrote a "Prologue" to the memoir. The title pages for the Author's note and Ch. 1. are missing and the title pages for Ch. 9. and Ch. 52. are in...

  20. Jonas Landau memoirs

    Contains Jonas Landau's memoir relating to his childhood in prewar "Stolpce" (Stolbce, Poland, now Stolbëisy, Belarus); the shooting of Jews by the Nazis after they occupied the town in June 1941; his work in the local railroad station; conditions in the ghetto; his escape from the ghetto in 1942; and his experiences from 1942-1944 as a partisan in a predominately Jewish detachment of the Zhukov group in Byelorussia (Belarus). After liberation in July 1944, he returned to Poland where he learned his family had not survived. He decided to emigrate to Palestine, but en route in Germany he me...