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Language of Description: English

  1. US Army advances at Iwo Jima

    Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 4: 08:46:30 "Pacific - Ulithi Anchorage" Shows aerial views of many ships anchored at Ulithi Harbor in the Carolines. Shows activities at an emergency landing field on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines. Guerillas help fuel and hide planes. 08:48:41 "Pacific - Iwo Jima" Troops and supplies reinforce Iwo Jima under enemy fire. Carrier planes bomb the island; ships and artillery shell caves. Shows dead Japanese and the flag raising on Mt. Suribachi.

  2. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 174) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 20, 1946. Former Lt. Virgil P. Lary, Jr. takes the stand and tells how his unit was captured and how many of the US soldiers were massacred. CU, Lt. Col. Barton J. Ellis, Chief Prosecutor, questioning Lary. MCU, Col. Ellis. MS, Lary demonstrates how the first two shots were fired by one of the defendants and walks to prisoner's dock and points out George Fleps (No. 14) as the man who killed the American prisoner.

  3. Ardeatine Caves Massacre: identifying bodies

    Ardeatine Caves Massacre, Italy. CUs, doctor in white lab coat taking notes. CU, notes. Sign: "Reparto Riconoscimento." Men carrying coffin, with body. Doctor in office, meeting with civilians dressed in black who identify personal effects. CUs, women with personal belongings. A man enters office, to identify personal belongings. CUs, clothing, documents. CUs, human remains with no. 101, 106. VAR, bodies in open coffins. Blessing of bodies by priest. Woman viewing remains, being held up by two men, crying. Coffins with flowers. CU, nameplates: "Montezemolo" "Renzo Giorgini" Pan, relatives d...

  4. Joseph Berger papers

    The Joseph Berger papers consist of a brief memoir, identification papers, ration tickets, business permits, immigration documents, restitution paperwork, and a photograph documenting Joseph Berger and his family, the Lwów ghetto, surviving the Holocaust under a false identity, and immigrating to the United States. The brief memoir describes the Lwów ghetto, the murder of Berger’s first wife and older daughter, saving his younger daughter by giving her a false name and abandoning her in a park, escaping from the ghetto with his second wife, surviving the rest of the war using false identifi...

  5. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  6. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  7. Photograph of children liberated at Buchenwald

    Contains one black and white photograph depicting a group of children that were liberated at Buchenwald. The young boy in the middle is Joseph Schleifstein. Behind him is Abram Wroclawski, originally from Łódź who was sent to Auschwitz before coming to Buchenwald.

  8. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  9. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  10. Siddur. 1940. Selections. English & Hebrew. Prayer book

    Miniature Jewish prayer book for members of the British Army with an inscription on the first page.

  11. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  12. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  13. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  14. Portfolio

    Set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski; published by Muencher Graphische Kunststalten GMBH, F. Bruckmann KG, 1948, Munich, Germany.

  15. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  16. Arthur Goldstein photograph collection

    This is a collection of 21 photographs taken after the liberation of Dachau and Ohrdruf, taken by Arthur Goldstein.

  17. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  18. Book 2nd subtitle: "The Father of the Jew is a Devil" [trans.]

    Children's book disseminating anti-semitic propaganda

  19. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  20. Prayer book