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  1. Book

    Medical book

  2. Brick rubble recovered from the Warsaw Ghetto

    Brick rubble from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. The rubble was excavated from the site of what is now the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, located among the ruins of the former Crown Artillery Barracks. The Barracks housed the ghetto post office, and at one point was the seat of the Judenrat. The monument was commemorated on April 19, 1948, and was the second monument, following a modest memorial unveiled in April 1946. On October 12, 1940, German authorities in Warsaw decreed the establishment of a 1.3-square-mile Jewish ghetto and forced over 400,000 Jews from the city and nearby towns to...

  3. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of three men standing in front of an oven door with a corpse on a stretcher; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  4. Gute kameraden [Book]

    Children's school book

  5. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  6. Book

    Medical book

  7. Book

    Children's school book

  8. Book

    Medical book

  9. Beehrt sich darzubieten : Paradies Amerika [Book] Paradies Amerika

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

  10. Scarf made by a concentration camp inmate and given to another inmate

    Scarf embroidered by unknown Hungarian girl and given to Dr. Flora Kerner while interned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.

  11. Candleholder

    Created by unknown artisian, 1908, Warsaw, Poland. Found by U.S. officer quartered in home of Nazi officer. Given to Maurice H. Baller by the U.S. Officer.

  12. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Various Nazi leaders

    Various clips of Nazi leaders. "Germany" (produced by Movietonews) Shirtless men pose for farmers' union. Germans marching with shovels. Hitler at rally with crowds. Tanks. LS, Nuremberg rally. 01:11:08 "Das Grosse Werk der Naechstenliebe" (produced by Fox Toenende Wochenschau) Goerlitzer, District Leader of Berlin, speaking from stage re: Winter Relief at soup kitchen. Sign reading "7 Januar 1934, Eintopf Huhn-Nudeln." [Chicken and noodles] CUs, women and men eating at communal tables while band plays on stage. "Deutschland auf der Transfer-Koferenz" (produced by Fox Toenende Wochenschau) ...

  14. Envelope

    Envelope for 1947 correspondence from the Okre̜gowy Komitet Żydowski (Jewish Committee) of Kalisz, Poland, to Eva Cohen in New York, N.Y., about survivors in the village and the kinds of kosher foods that could be sent to Poland.

  15. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  16. Anthropometer used to measure length of body parts in Nazi Germany

    Anthropometer, for measuring the human body, owned by Dr. Eugen Fischer, a German Anthropologist and leader in the Nazi-controlled German eugenics movement from 1933 to 1945. In the early 1900s, Swiss Anthropologist Dr. Rudolf Martin, designed the tool so that it could be stored in several pieces in a portable case and used in the field. Anthropometry is a branch of Anthropology that focuses on how to systematically identify and classify a range of physical characteristics found within different populations of people. Many supporters linked eugenics to race, and believed that “race mixing,”...

  17. Oral history interview with Salomon de Hond

  18. Buchenwald survivors; German civilians view camp

    Slate: "Capt. Carter, Prod #186, Buchenwald, Rock-C39, Date 4-16-45" HAS of crowd of German civilians in main courtyard of Buchenwald, moving about, mix of soldiers and civilians. Male survivor stands in front of a building. Barred window partially visible in BG. Man is wearing what appears to be a uniform coat and looks directly at the camera. CU of his face as he demonstrates facial wounds; he has scars on his face and one eye is swollen shut. A younger male prisoner looks right and left and then directly at the camera. Camera pans from toe to head of a woman, against the same wall; she i...

  20. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.