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  1. Wenceslas J. Wagner papers

    Contains photocopies of personal notes, essays, and newspaper articles written by Wenceslas J. Wagner concerning experiences as a resistance fighter in underground movements in Poland, and as a political prisoner in several Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

  2. Wilhelm Coenraad Laros papers

    Consists of copies of a testimony and other materials relating to Wilhelm C. Laros and Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust. Among the topics mentioned are concentration camps, death marches, and activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in Europe before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  3. Family poses for the camera

    Reel 1. Multiple sequences showing the entire family (including the visiting Louis and Harry Sommer, Hermann Klein, and Jacob Grossman) posing for the camera, probably in Humenne, Slovakia. Family members (well-dressed) take turns walking towards the camera in a street/alley. Dark shots in a field. Man holds up his pocketwatch. More posed shots around an automobile. 00:03:50 The children play near a home. 00:04:52 Family at the farm, landscape, herding sheep. More portraits. Children blow kisses, wave, and try to feed the animals. The family continue to take turns for posed shots.

  4. Oral history interview with Yehuda Bauer

  5. Hitler postcards on display; Hitler Youth

    Shop windows and people on sidewalk, looking at display. CUs of Hitler postcards in a shop window and on a postcard rack inside the shop. Three young Hitler Youth in uniform look at the cards. Brief shots of cranes, industry. Note: J.Bryan's film lecture, "Germany 1937," says several hundred Hitler Youth were in Friedrichshafen, returning from the Nuremberg Party Congress, here seen buying postcards.

  6. Mobile Bath Unit at Belsen

    MS of soldier at valve controls of water heater for Mobile Bath Unit. He is member of Airborne Forces. Puts hose in water. MLS departing ambulances with pile of hoses in foreground, survivors, mostly women, milling about camp, with watchtower in background. Women collect water from communal faucets. CU, woman filling a basin with tap water.

  7. Hitler speech at Reichstag: war against US

    Hitler walks past honor guard into Reichstag. Dark footage inside, MCU of Italian and Japanese officials. Audience cheering. Good CU of Hitler seated preparing to speak. MS Hitler at podium, then LS from high angle. Hitler speaks (but no sync sound, whole piece is voice-over narration). More audience shots, members of German general staff who look grim, Nazi Party bigwigs, diplomats, and Nazi party members.

  8. Book

  9. Pamphlet cataclysm of the World"

    A critical survey of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Published by the American Goodwill Association, New York, NY.

  10. Liberation photographs of Dachau and other camps

    Consists of positive photographs and negatives depicting scenes of Dachau and what seems to be various other concentration camps soon after liberation. The photos focus on the camp prisoners and the crematoria.

  11. The Poison Mushroom Book

    Antisemitic children's book, Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom) acquired by Isadore Tuerk, a psychiatrist in Patton's 3rd Armored Division, in Gotha, Germany, circa May 1945. It has an anti-Jewish inscription in a child's handwriting and a stamp from a school library in Gotha. It was published by Der Stuermer Verlag, a division of the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper, Der Stuermer, published by Julius Streicher from 1923-1945. The illustrations are by Fips (Phillip Rupprecht), the paper's well known antisemitic cartoonist. Both men were arrested by the US Army in May 1945. Rupprecht was t...

  12. We will never die

    Recording of the 1943 "We Will Never Die" pageant produced by Kurt Weill. The musical program, recorded at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, involves songs and speeches of tribute, delivered by volunteer actors, actresses, musicians, and composers, in memory of Jews killed by the Nazis. A major part of the production is devoted to honoring the brave Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

  13. Der Engel vom Westlichen Fenster [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  14. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  15. Photograph of liberated concentration camp

    Image of an allied soldier standing in front of a pile of corpses in a liberated concentration camp. Caption on verso: "May 1945, somewhere in Germany."

  16. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of U.S. soldiers looking at corpses lying on ground; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  17. Illustrierter Beobachter (Munich, Germany) [Newspaper]

  18. Jewish Agency for Palestine pin issued to an American rabbi

    Pin issued to Eugene Lipman after World War II when he worked for the Jewish Agency for Palestine.

  19. Book

    Medical book

  20. Youth Meeting in Thuringia

    "June 18, 1933, Youth Meeting in Thuringia." Hitler speaks before a crowd of several hundred thousand. Hitler at outdoor rally of youths, screaming his speech and stabbing the air emphatically. Re: recruitment of millions. Long, wide pans of vast crowd; "heils" and Hitler above them on an elevated platform decorated with large swastikas.