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  1. Mina Freier papers

    The papers consist of an identification card for former concentration camp inmates issued to Henry Freier donor's husband in Laufen, Germany, and an identification card ("Ausweis") for civilian internees of Mauthausen concentration camp issued to Mina Horowicz at the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) DP camp in Ebensee, Austria.

  2. Hirsch Henry Kolber identification card

    The identification card for a civilian internee of Buchenwald concentration camp was issued to Hirsch Henry Kolber.

  3. Photograph of Duke University law students

    The photograph depicts the faculty and student body of the Duke University School of Law in the autumn of 1941. Raphael Lemkin stands in the fifth row, sixth from left. Jack Bloom, who was a first year law student at the time of this photograph, is sitting in the third row, sixth from left.

  4. Magdalena Deutsch Klein identification card

    The document ("Legitimation") served as an identification card for Jewish Holocaust survivors who had lost their identification documents in concentration camps. This document was issued to Magdalena Deutsch Klein [donor's wife] who had been interned in Auschwitz, Fallersleben, and Salzwedel.

  5. Bavarian Biological Research Institute letter of protest

    The typed letter was written by members of the Bavarian Biological Research Institute (Bayerische Biologische Versuchsanstalt), protesting that no outrages were being done to Jews in Germany in spite of media reports to the contrary. The letter bears 36 signatures of members of the Bavarian Biological Research Institute.

  6. Daisy Grob papers

    The collection documents the wartime experiences of Blanche Goldszpiner, an American living and working in Warsaw during the Holocaust. Included is a photographic postcard of a seated woman; a letter written by Blanche Goldszpiner in 1940 in Warsaw, Poland, to her cousin in the United States prior her internment in the Warsaw ghetto; and an envelope addressed to "Readers Digest" from Jack Balinsky in Haifa, Israel. The letter states following: "Dear Cousin:/I wrote to you some letters by mail but I see/that they did not reach you. My father addressed to our/Medical Director in Supervisory C...

  7. Eli Oliff papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Eli Oliff (born Eliasz Olewnik), originally of Żuromin, Poland. Included are two photographs depicting Eli in his concentration camp uniform after liberation at Buchenwald, a letter with envelope written by Eli in the Garmisch Partenkirchen DP camp to his relative Joseph Olev in Chicago, Illinois.

  8. Ralph Jaffe papers

    The Ralph Jaffe papers consist of letters and envelopes sent to Ralph Jaffe in Brooklyn, New York, from his brother Del J. Smuklezyte in the ghetto in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, Also included are letters written by Ralph Jaffe to his father, Leib Jaffe who was residing in Lithuania.

  9. Shlomo Shafir photograph collection

    The Shlomo Shafir photograph collection consists of two group photographs of partisans, members of a Zionist underground movement, 1943. Some of the members are seen wearing Star of David patches. One photograph includes (right to left, seated) Esther Gottfarstein, Rivka Rogol and Mina Kaminski (who after the war might have been known as Shapiro) and (right to left, standing) Aharion Rosin, Leah Sokolski, Moshe Nadel, and Miriam Rogol (who after the war was Pfeffer), and Abraham Gurwitz. The second photograph includes (right to left, seated) possibly Chaim Strom, Mordecai Fisher, Moshe Gurw...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- British delegates visit Buchenwald

    British MPs at Buchenwald, Buchenwald, Germany, September, 1946. VS, convoy bearing British delegates arrive and enter the camp. Walking about the camp, inspecting and talking to inmates. VS, Mrs. Mavis Tate and others interview victims in prison courtyard. Survivors cook over fire behind barbed wire. INT, barracks at Buchenwald, talking to survivors in prisoner uniforms lying on cots. CU, pan, two emaciated victims. VS, Mrs. Tate and inspection party through barbed wire. Pan, tilt shot from pile of naked bodies to MPs looking on. MS, inspection party looking at a truck full of dead bodies....

  11. German occupation of Paris; crossing Marne river

    Reel 10: German soldiers advance, cross a river, throw grenades, fire artillery, talk over a field telephone, ride armored vehicles, care for wounded mates, advance thru a city on the Marne, decorate graves, enter Paris, raise a flag on the Eiffel Tower and pass the Arc de Triomphe and other landmarks. Armored vehicles advance towards Paris. Abandoned Allied war material blocks the advance. German forces cross the Marne on a pontoon bridge. Cavalry units ride into Paris. German officers in Paris salute parading troops and award Iron Crosses.

  12. Ohrdruf; Hadamar

    Gens. Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton inspect Ohrdruf camp. Shows whipping posts, crematoriums, and corpses. Civilians taken on a tour of the camp. Shows emaciated inmates of Hadamar, hospital. Corpses are exhumed and buried; autopsies are made.

  13. Ferencz interviewed by Richard Hudson

    Interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Richard Hudson, executive director of the Center for War/Peace Studies. Sponsored by the Center for War/Peace Studies. Series discusses ways of enabling the United Nations to seek a world of peace with justice. Interview focuses on the Center's proposal of a binding triad system for global decision-making (included in Ferencz's book, "A Common Sense Guide to World Peace," 1985). Ferencz describes two defining elements of his book: a) the bridge to peace involves three interlocking components: law, courts, and enforcement; b) if people are better inform...

  14. Oral history interview with Aaron Elster

  15. Charcoal drawing of houses on a street in the Łódź ghetto

    The drawing was created in the Łódź Ghetto.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- The Fall of Schweinfurt; hanging German soldier; factory; interrogating Germans

    The Fall of Schweinfurt (via Paramount). Shots of German soldier who wished to surrender and was hung by the SS from a tree. MS American soldier cutting him down from tree. LS wrecked rubble of ball bearing factory. Shots of GIs inspecting ruins, examining boxes of ball bearings, plunging into boxes of ball bearings. Shots of GIs and officials checking civilians for unknown Nazis; civilians being interrogated. LS German youths (16-18 years) dressed in German uniforms who fought against the Allies. American officers questioning some of them.

  17. Nazi feature film: Antisemitic and anti-British propaganda

    Amschel Rothschild (Erich Ponto) in Frankfurt and his sons Nathan (Karl Kuhlmann) in London and James (Albert Lippert) in Paris are part of an international network of Jewish bankers lending money to powerful people in their respective countries at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Due to their international contacts and ruthless materialistic attitude, the Rothschilds earn money every time non-Jewish soldiers give their blood, for instance when Nathan benefits from advance information about the outcome of the battle of Waterloo. Nathan appears with a strong Jewish accent and appeara...

  18. Suitcase carried by a man emigrating from Nazi-occupied Germany

  19. Handmade table knife made in the Kovno Ghetto

    Knife made by the Lubetzky family while living in the Kovno Ghetto and later carried to Stutthof concentration camp and a Russian labor camp.

  20. Ferencz interviewed on the peace process and Nuremberg

    Interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Kenneth Simon Ferencz discusses his involvement with the peace process as a constructive contribution to the world. He wants to make permanent what he and others did at Nuremberg: 1) prohibit aggression by making war a crime; 2) prohibit crimes against humanity; 3) prohibit war crimes. He speaks about both the failure and progress of the United Nations and charges all people as particularly responsible for not inducing change for a more peaceful world. Ferencz defines the fundamental components of a system of international peace that will tear down bur...