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  1. Book

  2. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  3. Die Revolution Von 1905-1907 [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  4. [Newspaper]

    Newspaper published by NSDAP.

  5. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of four men moving a corpse with tongs in front of oven; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  6. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  7. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  8. Book

    Book concerning the study of eugenics.

  9. Bookmark

    Bookmark inserted in book concerning the study of eugenics

  10. Johannes Lublink photograph

    Contains a wedding photograph of Johannes Lublink and his wife after liberation after they returned to the Netherlands.

  11. SA.: Mann in Front (Munich, Germany) [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  12. Łódź ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note

    50 Pfenning note from Litzmannstadt.

  13. Reichstag Address on Disarmament

    "May 17, 1933, Hitler Speaks at the Reichstag on Disarmament." LS, large swastika banner, backdrop behind podium. Hitler addresses seated Reichstag members.

  14. Opening of the Official Anti-semitic Campaign

    "April 1, 1933, Opening of the Anti-Semitic Campaign." Goebbels addresses a cheering crowd. Trucks filled with Nazis move through the streets. Crowds fill streets of Berlin. On doorway the sign with skull: "Achtung Juden". On closed stores the sign "Jude" painted on window. Party members put up signs, hold back crowds, and sing in the streets. A huge crowd yelling "Heil" as Goebbels speaks re: the battle against Jews. Wide pan of the audience and Goebbels standing on a stage/balcony outdoors. Many SA men on a truck go through the streets with banners waving, shouting "Kauft nicht bei Juden....

  15. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  16. Der Golem [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Munkacs: Prewar Jewish life: rabbi, wedding, children

    Men on bicycles wear sashes with Hebrew blessing, parading for May Day. Huge crowds of well wishers on street. Grand Rabbi of Munkacs in car on Mihaly Street, makes statement re: Jews in America (it is important to keep the Sabbath). Wedding party enters (synagogue courtyard?). Celebration of the Grand Rabbi's daughter's wedding. Night shots of wedding, large crowd under chuppa, cantor sings blessing. Zionist school: Large group of children sing "Hatikva" in a performance for the first graduation of the Hebrew school. Cheder: Small group of Orthodox children recite lesson, Melamed leads. St...

  18. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  19. Buchenwald camp at liberation - the dead and the living

    Slate: "Capt. Carter, Prod #186, Buchenwald C-31, Date: 4-19-45" MS of a truck bed piled with bodies, clothed and unclothed. CU of a bearded man lying on the ground. His arms are crossed over his chest, his tattooed number visible on his forearm. Medium, direct shot of a truck bed of corpses. Extreme CU of corpses, slow pan over their heads and feet. Extreme CU of three heads and feet. MCU of a clothed corpse lying on a low wheeled stretcher. CU of a man's face who had apparently been beaten. A picture of Jesus is pinned to his clothing. Extreme CU of the same inmate at different angles. MS...

  20. Map of Treblinka drawn by a former inmate

    Map of Treblinka I created by Fred Kort, 1946.