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  1. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

    Bar of soap issued to 15-year-old Erwin Dankner in June 1944 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. The soap was never used. Erwin, his parents, Henry and Catherina, and his brother, Anthony, arrived in Bergen-Belsen by train from Budapest, Hungary, as part of a rescue effort organized by Rezso Kasztner. Later in 1944, the family was transferred to safety in Switzerland.

  2. Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Totentanz

    1. William Sharp collection

    Once when Adolf Hitler was standing by the tomb of Richard Wagner, whose music he adores, he referred to himself as "the young drummer of the German people." He has been a drummer all right [sic], thumping the tom-toms of hate and "race" to a chorus of hysterical "Heils" while the German people march blindly to their destruction. This drawing I completed in Germany. Imagine what would have happened if the Gestapo had seen it.

  3. Westerbork labor

    Slave labor at Westerbork transit camp. Recycling metals - men working at tables, putting things into baskets and barrels marked Kupfer [copper], Messing [brass], etc. Forward tracking shot through shop past workers, including at least one woman. Man with goggles and sledge hammer working outside on metal rods. (Some scenes marred by camera fault). Close view of men at work table, in assorted clothing and assorted markings. Some have stars; armbands are present on most. Women pulling wire through boards, in a circle. Some have stars. Closeup of hands and tangled wires. Men at work table wor...

  4. Fried family papers

    1. Eleanor and Ernest Fried collection

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war correspondence, postcards, photographs, forms, family trees, genealogical charts, photograph albums, and journals of Ernest Fried and Eleanor (Lore) Lustig, both of whom emigrated from Germany to the United States in the late 1930s.

  5. Theodor Kleinsorge papers

    The collection primarily documents the arrest of Theodor Kleinsorge, originally of Laßbruch, Germany, as a non-Jewish political enemy of the Nazis in July 1944; his deportation to the Dachau concentration camp in September 1944; and his death in Dachau in February 1945. Wartime materials include documentation about his arrest and deportation sent to Theodor’s wife, Ruth Kleinsorge; correspondence from Theodor and Ruth to Theodore’s mother Elise Kleinsorge; one letter written to Ruth from Theodor while imprisoned at Dachau; and several family photographs. Biographical material includes ident...

  6. Rotenberg and Weiss families photograph collection

    The Rotenberg and Weiss families photograph collection consists of photographs of the Rotenberg (later Roth) and Weiss families before and during World War II. The photographs includes images of Jack Roth in his Polish Army uniform before the war, including one of a group photograph of soldiers seated at a table set for a Passover Seder. A studio portrait of the Weiss family in Plonsk, Poland, undated, including Samuel Weiss and Rachel Weiss, and their five children: Sarah Weiss, Regina Weiss, Max Weiss, David Weiss, and Adolph Weiss.

  7. Selected records from the Regional State Archives in Opava

    Features administrative records pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets and the enactment of anti-Jewish measures in the districts of Opava and Olomouc, including from the Oberlandrat, the Regierungspräsident Troppau, the SD headquarters in Opava, the Gestapo headquarters in Opava, the Finance Chief in Opava, and the Police Headquarters in Olomouc. Also features administrative records from the State District Archives Přerov, State District Archives Šumperk, State District Archives Bruntal, State District Archives Karviná, State District Archives Jeseník, and the Stat...

  8. Westerbork Camp: paper factory; carpentry hall

    MS, men cleaning a freight car floor with shovels. Group of men pulling small wagon filled with empty cans? Pressing cans, separating and cutting metal pieces. 01:34:28 Westerbork's paper factory. Men and women separating sheets of paper. MS, piles of white paper sheets. Large hall packed with women working on sewing machines, using dark colored textiles (for military uniforms?). Men cutting through layers of fabric. Making toys. Shelves filled with beautiful handmade toys (stuffed animals, wooden cubes, etc.) 01:45:05 MS, sign on brick building: TISCHLEREI, HIER MELDEN. Carpentry hall. Sig...

  9. Majakowski Eisler Lieder

    1. Music study collection

    AURORA (2) ‎– 5 80 004, Format: Vinyl, 7", Mono, 45 RPM, Black label, Country: German Democratic Republic (GDR), Released: 1968. Album is from Aleksander Kulisiewicz's personal collection. Tracklist: A1. Linker Marsch. Conductor – Walter Goehr Written By – Wladimir Majakowski A2. Zeit Marsch Conductor – Adolf Fritz Guhl Written By – Wladimir Majakowski B1. Subotnik Conductor – Walter Goehr Written by – Wladimir Majakowski B2. Vorwärts, Bolschewik! Conductor – Walter Goehr. Written By – Ernst Busch, Peter Hacks

  10. Der Deutschen Freiheit Morgengruss

    1. Music study collection

    Political songs sung by German singer and actor Ernst Busch. Album is from Aleksander Kulisiewicz's personal collection. Side A: Huttens Kampflied - 1521; Bauernkreig - 1525 Side B: Das Lied Vom Hasse -1841; Die Weber - 1844; Das Blutgericht - 1844

  11. Songs from the Depths of Hell

    1. Music study collection

    Remember: Songs of the Holocaust. Performed by Sidor Belarsky. Tracklist: A1 Josef Rosensaft; A2 Moyshelech Shloimelech; A3 Es Brent; A4 Erev Yom Kippur; A5 Brig. Gen. Glyn Hughes; A6 Zog Nit Keinmol B1 Dr. Nahum Goldmann; B2 Shtiler, Shtiler; B3 Dos Yiddish Kind; B4 Dr. Gideon Hausner; B5 Nizkor Conductor – Vladimir Heifetz; Narrator – Brigadier-General H. L. Glyn Hughes, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Dr. Gideon Hausner*, Josef Rosensaft

  12. Zipper Conducts Dachau-Lied

    1. Music study collection

    Dr. Zipper conducts the Dachau Song with words by Jura Soyfer at the September 1988 Styrian Autumn Festival in Graz. Playwright Jura Soyfer and composer Herbert Zipper, active in Viennese antifascist cabaret, were arrested by the Gestapo after the German-Austrian Anschluss of 1938. They met again at Dachau, where both toiled as “horses,” hauling cartloads of heavy stone throughout the camp. Soyfer and Zipper wrote Dachau Song [Dachau-Lied] in September 1938 as an ironic response to the motto “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Makes Freedom) inscribed on the gate at the entrance to the camp. Initiall...

  13. Westerbork Arrival

    Arrivals at Westerbork transit camp. Workers and guards at train station. Train pulls in. People get off trains with bundles; chaotic feeling. Freight train pulls in, Jewish prisoners from Vught concentration camp wearing clogs and work clothes, get off, line up. They have been sent to Westerbork for punishment. Brief INT of registration (out of focus).

  14. The Liberators: The Liberation by the Criminal Army! Poster

    1. David Diamant collection

    Political poster of the French resistance group Manouchian network. In February of 1944, this poster appeared all over France. The Gestapo executed these men. Their leader was an Armenian name Missak Manouchian. The Poster was meant to make an example of these ten partisans whose faces appear.

  15. British propaganda: anti-German

    Jiri Weiss assembled this documentary footage which he brought from Czechoslovakia to Britain after fleeing German occupation. Film shows images of agriculture, people in folk costumes, and a church Sunday. The narrator describes Czechoslovakia as a "nation of freedom and peace" for nearly 1,400 years. Scenes of Prague during narration about the development of a Czechoslovak democracy in 1918 under Pres. Masaryk, similar to Great Britain's. Czechoslovakia's virtue as a "bastion against fascism" is demonstrated by its "education for freedom, education for peace". Images of the social project...

  16. Aharon C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aharon C., who was born in Opoczno, Poland in 1921, one of seven children. He recounts attending cheder, public school, then Tarbut school; participating in Gordonyah; antisemitic violence; his older brother's emigration to Palestine in 1935; two brothers' conscription; German invasion; one brother's return; anti-Jewish restrictions; Germans taking community leaders for ransom, including his father; the community paying the ransom; his father's appointment to the Judenrat; ghettoization; working in the family bakery; volunteering in a soup kitchen; his assignment to b...

  17. Robert R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert R., who was born in Mellrichstadt, Germany in 1924. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending a Catholic school; antisemitic harassment; attending high school with his brother in Bad Neustadt an der Saale; increasing antisemitism; expulsion from school in 1937; attending a Jewish school; having to leave town for defending himself against an attack by Hitler Youth; being beaten by Nazis; apprenticeship with an uncle as a tailor; Kristallnacht; his father's and uncle's arrests; his arrest and deportation to Buchenwald; a fellow prisoner assisting him; standin...

  18. Jadwiga G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jadwiga G., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1923, one of three children. Ms. G. recalls her family's affluence; attending Polish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; ghettoization; moving to Melgiew in summer 1941; her future husband joining them; visiting friends and relatives in the Lublin ghetto; obtaining authentic documents as non-Jews; round-ups of Jews from nearby villages in October 1942; returning to Lublin; her father leaving en route when he was robbed and lost hope (she never saw him again); his non-Jewish, former employer arranging ...

  19. Rachel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel S., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1923, one of five children. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; sneaking back to her former neighborhood and receiving food from non-Jewish neighbors; forced labor; her father losing his will to live; his refusal of an offer from a non-Jewish friend to hide their family; remaining in their apartment with one sister during a round-up (another sister and her parents were shot in a mass killing at Ponary); joining her brother who was hiding in a village; discovery; incarceration ...

  20. Ann R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann R., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1929. She recalls early happy memories; German bombardment; wearing the yellow star; expulsion from school; watching the Gestapo round-up her parents; and their wanton destruction, including the "evisceration" of a doll. She remembers informing the sanitarium where her brother was hospitalized that her parents had been taken away (they would not keep him anymore since there was no one to pay); giving him to a strange woman; wandering the streets with her sister; a nun offering to help them; moving many times; a visit from h...