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  2. Barbie Trial -- Day 12 -- Bailiff introduces witnesses; lawyers demand Barbie's presence in court; recess; Lanfranchi testifies

    Bailiff introduces witnesses who will testify on Day 12 (May 26, 1987); they stand before the court. The trial is suspended for ten minutes at 13:53:23; tape recording stops and skips to real time 14:03:12 where judges re-enter court. Lawyers plead for Klaus Barbie's presence in the courtroom. Jacques Verges, Barbie's attorney, demands that Barbie remain in prison which is his legal right. The judges recess to make a decision at 14:14:22 [14:24:05 real time]; tape recording stops again and skips to real time 14:48:52. The judges return to the courtroom and report that Barbie will be forced ...

  3. Rivka Avichail papers

    The papers consist of 28 photographs and one transit pass issued to Regine Gartenlaub [donor] relating to the experiences of Rivka Avichail before World War II and during World War II while she was in hiding.

  4. German officers confer on East Front

    Reel 2: 00:48:35 Large gathering of German military officers conferring in the field around a map. Soldiers resting by the side of the road. 00:49:35 Armored cars and tanks bear large "+" markings. 00:50:00 Side view of short general, two Iron Crosses on uniform. Others around him, including some in black Panzer troop uniforms. 00:50:13 Front view of high-ranking (short) man, possibly Gen. Heinrici (could also be von Kluge).

  5. Bombed rail cars; German military personnel meet in the field

    Military personnel moving a bomb in a train car, followed by several stacked bombs waiting in a rail yard. German personnel carrying luggage through a train yard. Panning shot of bombed out city with its rail yard. Overhead view of a crated bomb on an open train car. Several different shots of soldiers waiting in the rail yard, leaning on a bomb and unloading a bomb as people on a bridge watch. Shot of a damaged building, panned down to civilians waiting with loaded wagons on a long floating bridge. Panning shot of damaged buildings and coastline, followed by close-ups of the floating bridg...

  7. Barbie Trial -- Day 13 -- Witnesses testify

    The testimony of Mme. Léa Feldblum continues. She finishes answering a question posed by the President, Cerdini, before recounting her deportation to Birkenau and subsequent separation from the children she had accompanied from Izieu. She makes direct reference to Zlatin, the husband of Mme. Sabina Zlatin (maiden name Chwast), whose testimony was on May 27, 1987 (Film ID 3908). Feldblum discusses her life at Birkenau, the selection process led by Josef Mengele, and her liberation in 1945 by Russian troops. M. Rappaport, attorney for the prosecution, describes Feldblum's decision to voluntar...

  8. Teheran Conference

    An American Air Force officer holds a slate with the date and name of the cameraman. Shots of Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower riding at the head of a caravan of Jeeps and cars. The group appears to be driving through an American military base, with mountains visible in the background. Roosevelt's Jeep passes a line of uniformed men standing at attention, and then stops beside an American flag on a pole. Roosevelt removes his hat and places it over his heart while a band plays. The Jeep continues on past a long line of troops; closer shots of the two men. Roosevelt, his back to the ...

  9. Bronze abstract sculpture with a marble base depicting a group of men, women, and children crowded into a boat, Exodus

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn516364
    • English
    • 1948
    • a: Height: 26.500 inches (67.31 cm) | Width: 31.500 inches (80.01 cm) | Depth: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm) b: Height: 15.875 inches (40.323 cm) | Width: 29.750 inches (75.565 cm) | Depth: 12.875 inches (32.703 cm)

    Sculpture created by Nathan Rapoport representing the voyage of the Exodus 1947. The sculpture depicts several figures gathered around a central bearded male figure positioned on a small sailing vessel. It is thought that Rapoport began drafting designs for this sculpture soon after the event and around the same time that he was creating his best-known work, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial. However, the exact date and place of creation are unknown. The Exodus was a cargo ship that left France in 1947 intending to illegally transport 4500 Jewish Holocaust survivors to British ruled Pales...

  10. Barbie Trial -- Day 17 -- Discussion of the chain of command in the Lyon Gestapo; a witness testifies

    13:36 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:37 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session 13:39 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:02 Cerdini calls the session to order; the bailiff reads Barbie's statement that he refuses to appear 14:05 Prosecutor Klarsfeld asks that the Floreck Report be read into the court proceedings: Vergès had referenced the report in ...

  11. Lathe demonstration at Agro-Joint in Jankoi

    MS Many men seated outside next to a picket fence. Three men demonstrate their new lathe to Morris Troper.

  12. Barbie Trial -- Day 7 -- Two experts testify

    14:56 Witness Holtfort testifies, via an interpreter, that the documents presented to him by President Cerdini for verification are indeed authentic 15:07 Cerdini asks Holtfort whether, in his professional opinion, it is possible that the signature of Barbie's name was in fact written by someone else. Holtfort replies that theoretically, yes, but he has never seen a case of that in his years of research in this topic 15:10 Holtfort continues that, given the hierarchy of the SIPO-SD, a false signature would have been illegal and simply wouldn't have happened. Cerdini asks Holtfort to testify...

  14. Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- Two victims testify

    17:03 President Cerdini resumes the hearing 17:05 Cerdini deposits into the record a magazine article written by Vergès in 1987, presented to the court by the prosecution 17:05 Cerdini calls another witness, Srul Kaplon, to testify, and he presents himself to the court; Mr. Kaplon is a civil party in the suit against Barbie 17:06 On March 23, 1943, the witness was taken by two Gestapo agents to the Hotel Terminus, along with his parents, brother, and sister; there, he was beaten and interrogated by Barbie; he told Barbie that he did not speak German, and Barbie replied that 'all Jews speak ...

  17. Barbie Trial -- Day 6 -- Barbie's knowledge of the Final Solution; an expert testifies

    16:21 Prosecutor Iannucci reminds the court that Barbie had been a member of the SD since 1935 and of the Nazi party since 1937; Dachau was inaugurated in March 1933; argues that Barbie cannot have been a member of the organization, for whom the concentration camps were an arm of government, without knowing they existed; gives history relating to the Reichstag Fire (February 1933) and the subsequent decimation of personal freedoms by the Nazi party, as well as the inauguration of Dachau just one month later. 16:27 Nordmann remarks that Barbie's formal education, and therefore his ideologica...

  19. Drawing

  20. Barbie Trial -- Day 2 -- Round-up and arrests of Jews

    15:28 A clerk lists the arrest and deportation of Régine Skorka. 15:29 The round-ups of Jews by the SNCF railway. 15:32 The arrest of Jules Cros. 16:57 Charges may be brought against Klaus Barbie in the case of Mme Bogatto.