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Language of Description: English
Country: United States
  1. Max Eisikovits recordings

    A collection of recordings by Max Eisikovits, Romanian composer, conductor, musicologist and pedagogue, including a publication and documentary: 1. Toamna Muzcala Clujeana Cenenar 'Max Eisikovits' - An autumn musical at the Max Eisikovits Center in Cluj. Performance recording dated October 8, 2008. 2. "Seara de muzica romaneasca" - Evening of Romanian Music including performers: Formatia Art-Contrast (Art-Contrast ensemble, Violin, Viola, Piano). Features two instrumental works by Max Eisikovits. Performance recording dated March 12, 2012. Track listing on CD insert card. 3. Barabas Kasler ...

  2. Oral history interviews of The Last Witnesses of Time collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors recorded throughout the United Kingdom and South America

  3. Joseph and Loeb families collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of members of the Joseph and Loeb families. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Excerpts from private film collections of prewar Jewish life

    A glimpse into the lives of individuals who were soon swept into the destruction of the war. (28:45 minutes) Part One of a three-part video series representing the Holocaust experience with the rich and very personal imagery found in the Museum’s private film collections. Such vivid cultural documents is at once familiar, intimate, and individual, and captures everyday subjects which are quite similar to how people experience life today -- like holidays, birthdays, vacations, or leisure activities. Created solely of amateur films or home movies from over 30 collections, the production conve...

  5. Ponar Yizkor

    A personal-poetic statement by the Holocaust survivor Meïr Shapiro with (commercially recorded) background music.

  6. Minia Moszenberg collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Minia Moszenberg and her family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  7. Ita Rozenczwajg Dimant collection

    Diary: written by Ita Rozenczwajg (donor's mother) during her forced labor on a farm in Germany, 1943-1945 on parchment paper she stole from the German owners of the farm. Collection of photographs (40), pre- and post-war; false documents; wartime correspondence from Ita's rescuer's family, Brust, pre and post-war correspondence; transcript of the Polish language diary; English memoir written by Ita Dimant based on her diary; Hebrew translation of the memoir. Fake tooth that contained cyanide which was installed in the mouth of Ita Rozenczwajg by members of the Polish underground. Ita was a...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- pre-war Prague; Sudetenland

    Air raid rehearsal in Prague. Tear gas released, soldiers, journalists, and cameraman wearing gas masks. Soldier on ground pretending to be dead. Nurses tend "injured." 01:17:52 Czech president Benes horseback riding near Prague. 01:18:53 Views of Prague. Konrad Henlein speaking to crowds in Hohenelbe in the Sudetenland. Parade. People wearing German national costumes.

  9. Berlin 1900

    Berlin from the turn of the century. EXT of the Reichstag, Bismarck Memorial. Automobiles pass, men walk along the street. Statue/fountain. Horse and buggy, pedestrians, and cyclists pass. A group of men stand around a cannon and look toward the camera. Two boys pose while a crowd forms in the BG. Berliner Dom. A busy street. Crowd looks at cannon outside. Richard Wagner statue in the Grosser Tiergarten. Busy street, trams, pedestrians, carriages. Victory Column. EXT of the Reichstag. Albrecht von Roon statue. Busy street, "Friseur" [hair salon]. Crowded train station. Train pulls into the ...

  10. Yolanda Engel collection

    Contains photographs documenting the experiences of the Helen and Ezra Lebovics and their children Yolanda and Harry [born in Verece, Hungary] and Bela [born in Budapest]. Ezra performed forced labor and when Bela only was 2, Helen was deported in 1944 to Bergen-Belsen Concentration camp. The children were reunited with Ezra in January 1945 and in 1946, Helen, who had survived, came back to Budapest where the family tried to rebuild their lives.

  11. Reports of Eichmann trial (NSG)

    Contains 29 reports written by Dietrich Zeug, a German Prosecutor who was a member of the West German observer team at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Zeug worked at the Zentrale Stelle Ludwigsburg and was tasked with looking for evidence that could be of relevance for its work.

  12. Miklosh Stern collection

    The Miklosh Stern papers consists of several hundred case files with testimonies, questionnaires, correspondence, physician notes, and other materials concerning restitution claims of Holocaust survivors, from the estate of attorney Miklosh (Mordechai) Stern, Israel, dated 1960s-1970s. Files contain documents reflecting correspondence with law and health authorities conducted while handling claims for compensation by Holocaust survivors according to the "Victims of Nazi Persecution Act 1957." Many of the files contain first and second hand testimonies about the lives of Mr. Stern's clients’...

  13. Vienna

    Title: “Neue Nachrichten No. 3” with WH logo. “Salzburg zur Festspielzeit” “Die Wasserspiele in Hellbrunn” “Mitglied des Klubs der Kino-Amateure Österreichs” CU of a young woman leaning over a railing (this shot was also used in Jonnys Gang film). “Pilger aus dem Burgenland” People standing by the doorway “Glaspalast” (possibly the Franz-Josef-Bahnhof terminus railway station in Vienna). Camera follows a man walking out of the door, passing chairs lining the building exterior. Film ends. Note: This is a roll of trims by Walter Hausner; the handmade titles do not seem to be related to the im...

  14. German troops in Poland; Polish POWs

    Camp of Polish POWs, long line of POWs marching on road, CUs feet. German troops move east, through rural terrain. Graphic of southern front (Lemberg). Troops cross River San, Hitler reviews. Hitler looks at map. German troops, tanks through burning town. Tired German troops and artillery along road. Troops rest by road, sleeping, cleaning equipment, washing shaving, etc. Read papers while marching. Tanks through terrain, villages

  15. Bronner and Kirshenbaum families collection

    Collection of photographs of the Kirshenbaum and Bronner families from Bedzin, Poland, in the Bayreuth DP camp in Germany; photos show their friends and family. Includes a marriage certificate for Sala and Moniek Bronner, a notarized statement of Sala Kirschenbaum, and birth certificates of Sala and Moniek Bronner

  16. Barbie Trial -- Day 3 -- Barbie's life in Bolivia

    15:22 Political activities of Barbie while living in Bolivia. 15:28 Barbie's extradition from Bolivia. 15:30 Barbie reads a statement expressing his opinion that he was illegally extradited from Bolivia. 15:49 Three lawyers state that Barbie's attitude at the trial proves he has no regrets about his actions during the Holocaust. 17:10 President Cerdini asks for the accused to be introduced.

  17. Early Nazi rally (Day of Opposition)

    The Deutschnationale Volkspartei (DNVP) joins the NSDAP in the Harzburg Front alliance. The event was called the "Day of Opposition." Large crowd of uniformed men standing in a wooded area. Many of the men are members of the Stahlhelm, a paramilitary organization affiliated with the DNVP. 10:05:20 Title identifies the "leader of the National Front" followed by a shot of Alfred Hugenberg, head of the DNVP. 10:05:50 Close-up of Franz Seldte, co-founder of the Stahlhelm. 10:06:01 Theodor Duesterberg, another Stahlhelm leader, speaks. 10:06:27 Ernst Roehm is visible in front of a large crowd. H...

  18. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case; Welt im Film no. 57

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Courtroom, dock. MS, defendant Oskar Schroeder is interrogated by his defense counsel, Dr. Rudolf Merkel. 09:29:41 Welt im Film no. 57: "Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas in Hamburg, Germany" SEQ: Douglas arrives in Hamburg, Germany to attend a session of the Zones Advisory Board. He greets the members of the Zones Advisory Board and in his speech says that his appointment coincides with the beginning of a new phase of British policy regarding the British Zone. "The Scholl Case." The first ses...

  19. Bookburning special exhibition monitors 1-5

    AV monitors 1-5 exhibited as part of "Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from April 30, 2003 to October 13, 2003.

  20. Paper Wholesale Company in Częstochowa Ltd. Hurtownia Papieru w Częstochowie Spółka z.o.o. (Sygn.152)

    This collection contains records of the Paper Wholesale Company in Czestochowa including financial books of departments, related to: bookkeeping, sales and employment. The founders of the company were: Leopold Kohn, Józef Markusfeld, Juliusz Schleicher, Gustaw Heyman, Alfred Kohn, Antoni Markusfeld and Stanisław Markusfeld. Initial capital amounted to 35,000 Polish zlotys divided into 100 shares of 350 zlotys each. There were many Jews among the staff and customers of this company who were later victims of the Holocaust.