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  1. Atrocities: Ohrdruf; Nordhausen; Buchenwald

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 393, Part 1. Release date, 04/26/1945. Scenes of atrocities: (Ed Herlihy commentator) "Helpless prisoners tortured to death by a bestial enemy...Here is the truth!" Freed US POWS at side of road cheering on tanks as they go by. Boy smiles. MCU, POWs get soup from big tureen. CU, in line, medical aid. Group MS. Bandaging a man's back, covering up a bloody calf wound, shoulder/back wound. Soldier in bed helped to sitting position by two nurses, view from behind showing emaciated back. LS, Hadamar cemetery from above; one grave among many being dug. CU and MLS,...

  2. Ferencz lecture: Rotary Club of Toronto

    Ferencz speaks about his book "Less Than Slaves" (1979) that explains how German industrialists could become accomplices to the exploitation of people for the sole purpose of working them to death. He discusses the principles established at Nuremberg, including the crime of aggressive war and crimes against humanity, and expresses his hope for an international criminal court. Three essential mechanisms that would reverse the "international anarchy" of today and provide a world for all humans to live in peace and dignity are laws, courts, and a system of effective enforcement. He stresses th...

  3. Poster

  4. US airlift; German law; Attlee; Pres. Morrison; Marshall Plan; Wilhelmstrasse Trial (Ministries Case)

    World in Film issue no. 205: 08:11:54 "10,000 Tonnen in 24 Stunden: Der Rekordtag der Luftbruecke" 10,000 tons a day, Record for Airbridge. US airlift 08:13:00 "Frankfurt: Einigung ueber das Grundgesetz" Agreement on German Basic Law. World in Film issue no. 198: 08:14:02 "Attlee in Berlin" World in Film issue no. 204: 08:16:04 "Lord Praesident Morrison in Deutschland" Lord President Morrison in Germany. Dr Reuter and Gen Robertson and others in BG. MS, Morrison signing the Golden Book of the city of Berlin. Sequence: Morrison and party watching steel processing in Ruhr plant. 08:17:19 "Ein...

  5. Oral history interview with Philip Fried

  6. Levine Collection

    Contains prewar family photos for an unknown family, some dating as early as 1917; a postcard to Karl Oberndorf in New York, from "Erna," postmarked January 26, 1938; a postcard addressed to Isaak David in Heppenheim, Germany; a menu from a wedding party for Isaak Oberndorf of Heppenheim, dated August 12, 1889; a small book of amateur photogrpahy instructions bearing the handwritten bname Karl Oberndorf of Heppenheim; and a German "Kennkarte" for Kurt (Israel) Heimann, issued in Hamburg 15 December 1938.

  7. Oral history interview with Susan Cernyak-Spatz

  8. Oral history interview with Henry Laskau

  9. Righteous Among the Nations medal awarded to a Hungarian rescuer

    Righteous Among the Nations medal and presentation box awarded to a non-Jewish woman by Yad Vashem in recognition of her saving a Jewish mother and son in Hungary during the Holocaust.

  10. Jewish refugees arrive from Shanghai

    Jewish refugees from Shanghai arrive by ship in San Francisco, CA. CUs smiling passengers (women, men, children, well-dressed), babies, waving groups. Lots of joy. 01:02:41:17 Four adults from left, Paul Gordin, his mother Raisa (Sachin) Schwartzberg, an unknown woman, and William Schwartzberg (Raisa's husband). Speech to group from balcony (by Macky Gaberman?, escort leader of refugees).

  11. Selected records from the Polish State Archives Tarnów Branch

    This collection contains investigative and court cases in Tarnów relating to the following two categories of offenses: 1) Against public order and instigation to disturbances of public peace (mainly anti-Jewish propaganda and actions); and 2) Cases involving Jewish plaintiffs, often having to do with complaints against members of the Jewish community organization, the Kahal in Tarnów.

  12. "Sieben Johre"

    Contains a book of nine drawings, entitled "Sieben Johre." The cover is thick paper with fabric spine; metal rivet at top and bottom. The right side is torn and missing.

  13. Marcel Rowen collection

    Contains memoir, copyrighted 1990, entitled "The Gates of Heaven," detailing the experiences of Marcel Rowen (formerly named Marzel Rauchwerk) in prewar Leipzig (Germany); after his expulsion, along with his father and grandfather, to Poland in October 1938 because they held Polish passports; in Tarnów (Poland) before the German occupation and later in the Tarnów ghetto; in Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps; in Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp after liberation by the Americans; and after his emigration to the United States; and a cassette recording of a 12-minute pre...

  14. Jonathan Borofsky lithograph

    Lithograph of a work by Jonathan Borofsky produced in 1986.

  15. Japanese & German troops advance; African campaign; Stalin's fight against Germany; factories on home front

    Records world-wide war activities. Reel 2: (1942) Japanese and German troops continue to advance on all fronts. US and Japanese fleets are attacked by carrier planes off Midway. The British stop German armor at El Alamein, Egypt. Shows street fighting in Stalingrad. Shows British and Russian factories. Personages: Admiral Nimitz, Joseph Stalin.

  16. Mezuzah pendant kept during his imprisonment by a concentration camp inmate

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8744
    • English
    • overall: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Diameter: 0.980 inches (2.489 cm)

  17. Oral history interview with Siegfried Halbreich

  18. Torah scroll fragment used as a mailing envelope

    Torah scroll fragment desecrated and used as an envelope.

  19. Shoe worn by female prisoner in a concentration camp

    Shoe was worn by Lenke Keszler who was interned in a sub-camp of Riga. While Lenke was in Latvia, her foot became sore. She wrapped a blanket around her foot instead of wearing the shoe. Lenke was pulled away and killed in Latvia. Her daughter Clari saved the shoe and kept it while she was in hiding.

  20. Interview by Michael Krasny

    Radio interview with Soli Similani (sp?), representative of the African National Congress to the United Nations. Host: Michael Krasny. KGO (ABC news)