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  1. Book

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

  2. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of two men dragging a corpse with tongs; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  3. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of two men holding the arm and leg of a corpse lying on the floor; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  4. Note

    Contains a note regarding a patient, dated 18 November 1938, handwritten on paper with the imprint of the Israelitisches Asyl für Kranke und Altersschwache (Jewish hospital) in Köln-Ehrenfeld, Germany, and stamped "Zur ärztlichen Behandlung ausschliesslich von Juden berechtigt" ("Allowed to treat Jews exclusively").

  5. Book

    Book concerning the study of eugenics.

  6. Polish made telephone

    Polish made PZT

  7. Atrocities at Dachau Concentration Camp

    (LIB 6572) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. INTs and EXTs, gas execution chamber with sign over door in German: "Brausebad" (Shower Bath). CU, pan to ceiling, gas vents; two holes on wall. ECU, one gas "nozzle." CU, floor; bigger vent (against wall). MS, pan to ceiling pipes. CU, 2 soldiers (one looks mournful, one disgusted). Piles of bodies in room adjoining gas chamber. SLATE: Marthey. MLS, Dachau train station. CU sign on building wall "Dachau." CU, street sign with cut-out, low relief sculptures. US armed entrance/gate to camp; two story barracks in BG. Sign: "Quarantine. Ty...

  8. Poetry written in the Łódź Ghetto

    Consists of a notebook of poetry handwritten by a 17-year-old girl named Ewa in the Łódź Ghetto, 21 September 1943.

  9. Book

    Insert in book concerning the study of eugenics.

  10. Book

    Book by Hermann Kesten, a German author whose writings were banned during the Third Reich, 1933-1945. On May 10, 1933 thousands of books, such as this one, were burned by Nazi students and their professors throughout Germany. The books, ransacked from libraries, bookstores and universities, were the product of authors who had been blacklisted as "un-German."

  11. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  12. Obligation bond for the Warsaw Synagogue

    "OBLIGACJA" Number 1454, in the institution with list on the backside listing the breakdown of the shares. The bond was issued November 1, 1927.

  13. Metal notebook cover

    The note pad was given as a gift to the mother of Elzbieta Lichtman while in the Lvov ghetto.

  14. Book

    Medical book

  15. Oral history interview with William Serog

  16. 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.

  17. Defendants plead not guilty; Jackson opens the Nuremberg IMT

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 20, 1945. MSs, Tribunal enters courtroom. MLS, German attorney makes statement to court and Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence is heard advising the defendants that they may consult with their lawyers. Justice Lawrence stresses that provisions according to Art. 24 will be followed by the court. Apparently, this refers to the fact that defendants, in their final statement, could only plead "guilty" or "not guilty," but otherwise would not be allowed to make any statements. The defense had complained that the defendants had only been informed about ...

  18. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  19. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  20. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

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