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  1. Chaim Rumkowski declaration

    Declaration number 392, Litzmannstadt. Declaration in the name of Chaim Rumkowski, Elder of the Jews, that the "Restrictions on passage are lifted."

  2. German Jews prior to deportation to Riga

    Assembly and arrival of Jews at collection center located on the Killesberg (mountain), outside city limits of Stuttgart. Scenes are prior to their deportation to Riga, Latvia, in November 1941. Film was commissioned by the Stuttgart city propaganda office.

  3. Torah

  4. The New Republic (New York, New York) [Magazine]

  5. Morris Kornberg collection

    The collection consists of photographs of Morris Kornberg and his friends; an identification card for the Jewish Community of Wuerttemberg (Israelitische Kultusvereinigung Württemberg); and a commemorative album with tipped-in photographs by Alexander Fiedel of the "Jidiszer D.P. Center UNRRA - P.C. IRO in Stuttgart" written by M. Kornberg.

  6. Susie Greenbaum Schwarz papers

    The Susie Greenbaum Schwarz papers consist of a diary, false identification papers, and photographs documenting Susie Schwarz and her parents’ experiences in hiding on Christian farms in the Netherlands during the Holocaust as well as tracing correspondence documenting the deportations of Carolina Pagrach and her husband Mozes Levisson from Westerbork to Sobibor and their deaths. Susie wrote her diary in hiding in the form of a cookbook. In it, she complains of boredom and intersperses recipes with personal observations about her experience in hiding and news she hears about the war’s progr...

  7. Pogroms, gold fillings, murders in Latvia and Lithuania described in Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 443) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 13, 1945. RVs, Major Walsh, US prosecutor, reading original Nazi letters which describe pogroms and other actions taken against the Jews in Latvia and Lithuania. He further reads documentation on the removal of gold teeth and fillings from the mouths of Jews before their annihilation. "Actions," burning of synagogues, etc., in Riga and other areas. LS, courtroom, waiting. Reading of memo by SS Brigadefuehrer Stahlecher to Himmler (10/15/41) reporting a pogrom, "Aktion Gruppe" : "To our surprise, not easy at first, to set in motion ...

  8. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  9. Oral history interview with Richard Korngold

  10. Stills of Romanian fascist atrocities; pogrom

    A film showing photographs of Romanian fascist atrocities. Intertitle reads, POGROMUL DE LA BUCURESTI. Document, 2? January 1941 (text in French). Photographic stills illustrate atrocities, mangled faces, corpses, portraits. VAR images of devastation. Talmud/Torah. INT, destruction of synagogue, chairs, debris, rubble. CUs, documents with Jewish names. 01:10:56 Document, 29-30 June 1941 (text in French). More stills of atrocities. Corpses dead in the streets. Some images include soldiers and civilians. Corpses lined in fields. CU, document (text in French). More corpses. Trial stills. Prepa...

  11. Card

  12. Book

    Medical book

  13. Die Voraussetzungen der Ersten Russischen Revolution 1894-1899 [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  14. The Prelude Das Vorspiel [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  15. Nazi flag

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn3371
    • English
    • 1933-1945
    • overall: Height: 102.990 inches (261.595 cm) | Width: 45.980 inches (116.789 cm) | Depth: 116.810 inches (296.697 cm)

  16. Tallit

  17. Elisabeth L. Winn papers

    The papers consist of two identification cards for foreigners and stateless persons issued to Elisabeth Winn (b. Gessler).

  18. Christening of New Great German Aircraft

    "Christening of New Great German Aircraft." Goebbels addresses the crowd which also sings a party song at the christening of a new great German aircraft in presence of Cabinet members. Goering officiates the launching of the "von Hindenburg". MS, Cabinet members. CU, back view, speech by Goebbels at airfield. LS, aircraft. CU, Hindenburg and others in crowd. Cover removed from plane, bottle smashed on plane, name on plane revealed "von Hindenburg". LS, crowd heils in unison.

  19. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case, judgement and sentencing

    (Munich 619) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Sentencing of defendants in the Nuremberg "Medical Trial." Most are sentenced to death by hanging or life imprisonment. Slate reads: "Army Pictorial Division. War Crimes Trials. Sentencing. 20 Aug. Last 700. Case #1. CAM 369, MAG 522. Nuremberg War Crimes Trials: "Medical Case" " MHSs, defendants individually step into prisoners' dock to hear sentencing (expressionless faces). Camera remains on defendants as voice of presiding judge is heard sentencing each one. Sentences are handed dow...

  20. Sachsenhausen map

    Map showing ground plan of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen. Purchased from the Organisation "Stichting '40-'45", 1946. Plan shows site of the camp and surrounding area of Oranienburg, existing and planned barracks for the SS, the main office, vehicle storage and the information office.