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  1. Map of Theresienstadt drawn by an inmate while in the camp

    Map given to Max and Johanna Liebmann by Bedrich Borges, whose brother Erik drew the map while interned at Theresienstadt concentration camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. The artist told his brother that he drew the sketch under the orders of the SS command in the camp. The sketch is marked as an air raid shelter, however, the intended use was as a gas chamber. Erik was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and killed in 1944.

  2. Prayer book found in an abandoned synagogue

    Prayer book found in a former synagogue in Hessen, Germany,

  3. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  4. Oral history interview with Robert Zimmer

  5. Casper Hauser or the Laziness of the Heart Caspar Hauser oder Die Traegheit des Herzens [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich. Publisher: GMBH Berlin

  6. Nazi S.A. banner captured by member of US Army in Germany

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn3369
    • English
    • 1933-1945
    • overall: Height: 20.080 inches (51.003 cm) | Width: 46.460 inches (118.008 cm) | Depth: 118.110 inches (299.999 cm)

    This Nazi banner was brought to the U.S. after liberation by Samuel Reiss, a member of the Army Corps of Engineers stationed in Europe.

  7. Hand knitted wool sweater made after liberation from donated materials

    Sweater made by Frances Oxenhandler with material received from the Joint Distribution Committee.

  8. Schoolbook

    Contains a children's school book dating from the Third Reich era.

  9. Bookburning

    "May 10, 1933, The Burning of Books." Several angles of the big bonfire in front of the university in Berlin, at Opernplatz, into which books are tossed by students, SA men, others. Nighttime. Narration in German says that "un-German and immoral (undeutsch und unsittlich) books are being gathered by students and publically burned." Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, addresses the crowd; speech re. ending Jewish domination of German intellectual life. After the speech, the gathered crowd, including SA men and others in uniform, sing; natural sound (tune of "De...

  10. Arnstadt and Nordhausen concentration camps

    Arnstadt and Nordhausen after Allied soldiers arrive. General shots of corpses and survivors. Survivors receive aid. Some well-known shots of survivors as they board IRC van. (LIB 5566) Arnstadt Horrors, Arnstadt, Germany, April 14, 1945. 02:07:05 EXT, Sequence-German civilians disinter bodies of concentration camp victims. 02:07:27 CU, a cadaver with a damaged skull. 02:07:49 LSs, CUs, dog kennel for watchdog. 02:08:08 Begin new roll. 02:08:14 Pan from camp gate to tents used to house 1700 prisoners. 02:08:40 LSs to MSs, corpses lying outside of grave from which they have just been exhumed...

  11. Inauguration of Jewish Hospital

    Opens with a number of intertitles, written in Romanian, describing the event. The inauguration of a Jewish Hospital on 1 September 1931. Men speak from a podium at the opening day activities. There are VS, panning the audience, made up of benefactors, etc. Many shots focus on the women in the audience, audience members stare directly at camera, often with a stern look. Each speaker is proceeded by an intertitle, giving their name, rank, affiliation with the hospital, etc. Some of the featured speakers are as follows: Dr. Iosif Sebestyen, President of the Hospital Committee; Dr. Sebestyen J...

  12. Corpses, survivors at Dachau

    (LIB 6576) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. LSs, CUs, survivors attending services conducted by American Jewish chaplain. Women and men weeping. Flags, chaplain at podium. CUs, corpses. LS, outdoor church services. MSs, survivors, flags. 02:47:43 LS, MSs Men wrapped in blankets, sitting on flatbed, assisted by liberators. Naked corpse lying in stretcher, EXT. Church service, flags. Cut to piles of corpses. Full screen view, starved, mutilated bodies of former camp inmates. Additional scenes, freight cars loaded with dead bodies. 02:50:00 HSs, long line of German prisoners is marc...

  13. Goering, Hess, others at Nuremberg War Crimes Trial

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 1946. 02:16:05 CUs, Hermann Goering. Goering looks directly at camera, then away; blinking; speaks to man to his left (off camera) calmly; inattentively grins; smiles as if there was a joke. 02:16:24 CUs, Hess. Stares at the camera, then downward; grim expression. 02:17:03 CU, Goering nervously tugging at scarf tied beneath collar of uniform. 02:17:28 CU, Goering resting his chin on his hand. 02:18:00 CU, Hess stroking his face with his hand. He is looking downward, pulls at his lip, rubs face, squashes cheek, picks at his cheek. 02:19:10 CU, Wilhe...

  14. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Detailed image of pile of corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  15. Simone Weil Lipman papers

    The Simone Weil Lipman papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting Lipman’s work rescuing Jewish children with the Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) in Rivesaltes, Poulouzat, and Châteauroux during the Holocaust and caring for child survivors at the le Petit Monde children’s home near Paris after the war. Biographical materials include identification papers and education and employment records in Lipman’s assumed name (Simone Werlin) and attestations documenting her work rescuing and caring for Jewish children with the OSE at Rivesaltes and Châteauroux during the H...

  16. Partial cement post with embedded bar from the 1866 Neue Synagoge, Berlin

    Partial cement post with an embedded sign post from the 1866 Neue Synagoge [New Synagogue] in Berlin. Parts of the structure were rebuilt in 1988 and materials presumed to be original were preserved. This was originally named the Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue. It had seating for 3000 and was the largest in Germany. The synagogue was damaged by rioters during the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, but was still used by the dwindling Jewish community of Berlin in Nazi ruled Germany. In 1940, the German Army seized the building to use as a warehouse for uniforms. It was heavily dam...

  17. Statue Brand wood and metal hand crank wringer for clothing

    Hand crank clothes wringer made of wood and metal, of the type used in the Łódź Ghetto in German-occupied Poland from May 1940 to August 1944. Łódź was occupied by Germany a week after the September 1, 1939, invasion of Poland. The city was renamed Litzmannstadt, and in February 1940, the Jewish population, about 160,000 people, was confined to a small, sealed-off ghetto. All residents had to work, and many became forced laborers in ghetto factories. Eventually, nearly 100 factories were in operation. The major ones produced textiles, including uniforms for the German Army. In the ghetto, p...

  18. Book

    Book by German author whose writings were banned during the Third Reich.

  19. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Detailed image of corpse; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  20. Prayer book