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  1. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  2. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of corpses inside truck cargo bay; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  3. Heinz Gappe papers

    Contains bookplates, pamphlets, wedding invitations, business cards, newspaper and other materials, some of which concern the Jewish community in Breslau.

  4. Oral history interview with Eric Hauser

  5. Ms. Sally Goldhirsch papers

    Includes a postcard from Szloma Erlich in the Łódź ghetto to her sister's family in the U.S. (Brooklyn address, but forwarded to New Jersey), dated 1941. Card written in German, but with Yiddish sentence across top. Pleads for them to send more packages with food, as their mother is elderly and quite weak, and wonders why they haven't responded to the cards she had previously sent. Also includes a photo reproduction of an image of a round-up of people.

  6. Tall white wooden wardrobe used at Dzierzazna concentration camp for children

    White upright storage cabinet used to store goods at Dzierzazna prison camp for Polish children in a district of Łódź, (Litzmannstadt), Poland, circa March 1943 - July 1944. The prefabricated wardrobe was manufactured in Germany and put together using assembly instructions. Dzierzazna opened on January 12, 1943, as a subcamp of the Polish Juveniles Camp of the Security Police. The SS had a Lebensborn (Fountain of Life) program that urged SS and Wehrmacht soldiers to have at least four children, in or out of wedlock, to grow an elite Nazi Aryan population. By 1939, non-Aryan mothers were acc...

  7. Der Sohn : ein Drama in füng Akten [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  8. Book

    Insert in book concerning the study of eugenics.

  9. Adelaide Davidovitch passport

    The passport was issued to Adelaide Davidovitch by the French Consulate in Prague, Czechoslovakia, giving her permission to enter Mexico, leaving from France.

  10. Book

    Book concerning the study of eugenics.

  11. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Close up view of a pile of corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  12. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  13. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  14. Inert Zyklon B, spent Gypsum pellets, from Majdanek concentration camp

    Inert, Gypsum-based, spent Zyklon-B pellets, recovered outside a crematorium at Majdanek killing center in Poland, following the liberation of the camp by the Soviet army in July 1944. Developed and patented in 1924 by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung mbH (German Corporation for Pest Control, a subsidiary of Degussa), Zyklon-B was originally produced as a pesticide and rodenticide. It was created by infusing liquid hydrogen cyanide (also known as prussic acid) into one of three carriers: wood fiber disks, diatomaceous earth (trade name: Diagriess), or gypsum (calcium sulfate, ...

  15. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of corpse lying next to a rail track; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

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

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  17. The Woman, After Whom One Longed For Die Frau, Nach Der Man Sich Sehnt [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  18. Jewish Religious Service

    MS, religious service in a synagogue. Rabbi and cantor singing, praying with open prayerbooks. CU, Rabbi (back of his head) with ark open before him. Camera pans the congregation, singing. MCU, cantor standing before large, arched windows, glare of light through window. Cantor seen mainly in profile, while singing turns occassionally toward and away from the camera.

  19. The Striker, Number 34, August 1936, 14th year 1936 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    [Edited by Julius Streicher. The cover story concerns the proceedings against Philipp Schmulewitz of Magdeburg on conspiracy charges.]

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

    German National Socialist newspaper.