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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. XI Olympiad

    First day of Olympics - newsreel outtakes. Includes shots of Nazi and Olympic flags on Brandenburg Gate, motorcade through - torch runners through. Shot of stadium bedecked with huge swastikas, some Olympic flags.

  2. Yaakov Borenstein collection

    The collection consists of a prayer-book found by Marguit Loewy Borenstein [donor's mother] in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945 and a photograph of Marguit and her sister, Terka Loewy (b. 1928), taken in Nové Město, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), during the summer of 1945 soon after their liberation from Auschwitz.

  3. Yaakov Zakon collection

    Contains one videocassette, two brochures, three copies of articles, four copies of legal documents, and one copy of a handwritten letter pertaining to Estonian cultural life.

  4. Yad Vashem

    University course-debate at Yad Vashem. Shalmi Barmore, the Director of Education, stands in front of an assembly of military students after showing a film. Barmore and several students debate the resistance actions of the Jews during the Holocaust. They show concern that the Holocaust could happen again, in any country, including Israel. A student asks why the world appeared to be uninterested in helping the Jews during the Holocaust. Another student responds that the world was aware of what was occurring, but due to the violent situation they could not do more than accept refugees. A stud...

  5. Yaffa Eliach Shtetl collection

    The collection consists of artifacts related to the experiences of Yaffa Sonenson and her family in Ejszyszki, Poland (Eisiskes, Lithuania) and the Radun ghetto (Belarus) before and during the Holocaust when, as a child, she lived in hiding, and also artifacts collected by Dr. Eliach relating to Jewish life in the shtetl before the war.

  6. Yaffa Margules Shnitzer and family papers

    Consists of photocopies of correspondence related to writing and attempts at publishing a memoir entitled "I Survived Belzec Crematories," by Jaffa Margulies Shnitzer (alternate: Schnitzer), dated from the 1970s through the 1990s.

  7. Yaffa Rosenthal collection

    Contains materials donated by Yaffa Rosenthal. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. The Yahad-In Unum Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    The collection consists of 5 finger rings recovered by Father Patrick Desbois and Yahad-In Unum near a mass grave site for Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Bus'k, Ukraine.

  9. The Yahad-In Unum Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    The collection consists of artifacts used or discovered by Yahad-in Unum during their work to investigate and to document the mass executions of more than 2 million Jews in Eastern Europe between 1941 and 1944 by Nazi Germany and those who collaborated with therm.

  10. Yahad-in Unum oral history collection

    Oral history interviews conducted in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus by Yahad-in Unum.

  11. Yakob Langer collection

    Photocopies and transcripts from the collection of Yakob Langer (also known as Klaus Langer), originally of Essen, Germany. Includes color copies of pages of Yakob Langer's diary, a typed transcript of a letter written by his father between November 1941 and April 1942, and an audio recording in which he reads portions of his diary.

  12. Yakov and Tosia Klinger collection

    Collection consists of a letter from Yakov and Tosia Klinger in the Warsaw ghetto to Yakov's sister, Rozia Piotrkowski; the letter was written shortly before the Klingers and their young son, Sunio, were deported to Treblinka in 1942, where they were murdered. Also includes an original photographic print of Yakov and original modern writings by Michael Koenig, the nephew (by marriage) of Yakov Klinger.

  13. Yakov Gincherman collection

    Contains an oral history interview with Yakov Gincherman, ten black and white photographs, and a newspaper article pertaining to the memorial at the Jewish cemetery in the village of Nafartav to the thousand Jews shot by German fascists, 1941 September 14.

  14. Yakov Neuman papers

    Contains two notebooks, handwritten and hardbound. The notebooks were written in displaced persons camps in Germany and Cyprus by three rabbis (sometimes the rabbinate from Stuttgart is used). The notebooks contain notes on permits for "agunot" (women whose husbands had disappeared or who had died without witnesses, and men who could not prove that they are single or widowed) to marry and a list of names of women who are permitted to marry. The notebooks also contain testimonies of survivors regarding the circomstances surrounding the death of the above mentioned spouses. Each notebook cont...

  15. Yakov Polishchuk papers

    Includes papers relating to Yakov Polishchuk life as a war prisoner in the forced labor in Germany, Austria, and in the Dachau concentration camp from 1942 to 1945.

  16. Yakov Shvartsman memoir

    Testimony, typescript, one page with handwritten annotations. Describes Shvartsman's experiences in Odessa, the Ahmechetska concentration camp, and Domanevka during occupation.

  17. Yalta Conference

    Part 2: Preparations are made for the Yalta Conference in Russia. Supplies arrive and communications lines are strung. Delegates arrive and are shown in conferences. Personages: Anthony Eden, Secretary of State Stettinus, Ambassador Harriman, Winston Churchill, President Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin. According to UN contents sheet: "The three parties reach a firm accord on military and political points. Coordinated plans are made for great new blows against Germany from all directions. Reaffirming the resolve of the United Nations to cooperate fully after the war, Roosevelt, Churchill, and ...

  18. Yalta Conference

    Reel 2: FDR, Churchill, and Stalin pose. Shows views of Sevastopol. FDR entertains Churchill, Haile Selassie, Ibn Saud, and King Farouk aboard ship; Ambassador Winant, Admiral Leahy, and Hopkins are present. FDR addresses Congress on the conference.

  19. Yalta Conference

    Reel 1: Generals Wood, Smith, Marshall, and Somervell deplane in Malta; British Gen. Alexander, Admirals King and Cunningham, Ambassador Harriman, and Anthony Eden debark from a ship. Churchill salutes as President Roosevelt debarks. The Allied leaders enplane for Yalta after a conference. Molotov greets FDR, Churchill, Stettinius, Eden, and Hopkins as they deplane in Yalta. A Soviet honor guard is inspected. Stalin arrives at the conference site.

  20. Yamashita Trial; Jackson and map at Nuremberg Trial

    22:44:35 Yamashita Trial, 20th Day, Manila, Philippines, November 21, 1945. Gen. Muto on stand answers in part the question: "Describe the military administration in the Philippines." 22:47:08 (Paris 374) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 22, 1945. LS, prisoners sitting in dock. Pan to US Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson speaking. Rear view, Jackson addressing the court. MS, Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Doenitz, Raeder, von Schirach, and Sauckel in prisoners' dock. Goering makes notes on pad. LS map on wall showing German aggression. Note: Voice of Jackson heard throug...