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  1. Eichmann Trial -- Selections from sessions 93 and 94 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    The footage begins in the middle of Session 93. Judges Landau, Halevi, and Raveh are seated at the bench. Assistant State Attorneys Bach and Bar-Or are seated at the prosecution table. Robert Servatius is seated at the defense table. Cross-examination of Adolf Eichmann by Attorney General Gideon Hausner continues. Eichmann is asked if the testimonies from Rudolf Hoess, Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Dieter Wisliceny, Rudolf Mildner, and Alfred Six submitted in his defense were truthful or whether these men gave false testimony. A small portion of the session is missing and footage resumes with Hausne...

  2. Book

  3. John and Melanie Balzer collection

    Contains materials concerning the experiences of apparently unrelated individuals during the Holocaust. The materials were compiled by John and Melanie Balzer. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Mother of pearl pendant

    Pendant that originally belonged to Magda Lowy. She received it before the beginning of World War II in 1939 and entrusted it to her aunt, Jolie, for safekeeping. Jolie survived the Holocaust by living in hiding in Belgium. In June 1944, 21 year old Magda and her family were deported from Satu Mare, Hungary (Romania) to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland. She and her sister, Elizabeth, were able to stay together at Auschwitz and at Ober Hohenelbe, the labor camp in the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) where they were sent in November. They worked as forced labor in a factory making ele...

  5. Collection of materials for the history of the Jewish population in Łódź Zbiór materiałów do dziejów ludności żydowskiej w Łodzi (Sygn.205)

    This collection contains records relating to the history of the Jewish population in Łódź between 1939-1945. Includes bulletins, lists of various economic investments, a city administration telephone directory and correspondence, a collection of documents related to the creation of the ghetto, information leaflets (NSDP), court files in civil cases, correspondence of the Police (Gestapo. Geheime Staatspolitzei Litzmannstadt), lists of displaced people to Germany, Himmler directives, military messages from Hitler's headquarters, statistical summaries on the Łódź real estate, name lists of te...

  6. Walter Schüler law office 621-1/85 Walter Schüler

    Records of the law office of Dr. Walter Schüler, a German Jewish lawyer in Hamburg. Contains only client files.

  7. Antisemitic scrapbook

    Contains a scrapbook with newspaper clippings dated 1938-1939, with international headlines from newspapers in the United States. Includes hand-written comments, underlining, and other notations inserted periodically. Includes several headlines about Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany, some clippings from German publications, and articles about Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. The creator of the scrapbook was apparently a graduate of that college; one clipping about Franklin & Marshall includes the handwritten notation, "The Jewish invasion of my alma mater is on with...

  8. George Salamon collection

    Contains three copy print photographs; one portrait of David Rotenberg (donor’s maternal grandfather), who was killed on a death march; one portrait of the donor’s parents Laszlo and Etelka Schonfeld; and a portrait of the donor and his mother in Budapest, c. 1947. George Salamon and his mother survived together in a safe house of the Swiss Embassy in Budapest, while Laszlo Schonfeld was killed while part of a forced labor battalion in Ukraine.

  9. Stephen Bass document

    Liberation document issued for Istvan [Stephen] Bass, who was born in Koszeg, Hungary in 1923 and was deported to concentration camps, and liberated in Gusen concentration camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen in Austria. Document dated June 8, 1945; entitled "Provisional identification card for civilian internee of Mauthausen," and "Ausweis - Certification."

  10. Scrapbook

    Includes information about the work of Josef Rosensaft with the displaced persons of Bergen-Belsen, the final days and closing of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, compensation for Jews who were detained in the camp after liberation, and antisemitism experienced by Jews remaining in the British Zone after liberation.

  11. Unused yellow cloth printed with 2 Stars of David with a J to be made into badges

    Star of David badge templates acquired by Henriette Parker from Julia Pierre Nicaise who hid Henriette in Belgium during the Holocaust. The badges would be cut out along the outline for use. In May 1940, Nazi Germany occupied Belgium. In 1942, the German authorities required all Jews to wear Judenstern on their outer clothing at all times to separate them from the general population.

  12. Nazi mythology

    As expressed by this film's subtitle, "Allegory of our History and Life," the German forest is a symbol for the German people. The film describes the intimate relationship between peaceful Germans and wood from the Germanic times of Arminius to the present. It draws an analogy between the vertical German tree and the upright German peasant-soldier. In contrast, the aggressive alien is shown as destroying beloved trees, thus destroying the German people. This mystical relationship between man and nature is grounded in the organic idea of a pure-blooded Volksgemeinschaft [ethnic-racial commun...

  13. War Criminals Hunt

    (LIB 7228-7229) War Criminals Hunt, Norway, June-July 1945. SEQ: US, British, and Nilorg (Norwegian Underground) troops entering German POW camp in the early morning and routing the prisoners from their sleep. The Germans are lined up outside of barracks and informers pass along the lines in an attempt to identify former Gestapo men. MLSs, MSs, German prisoners rush from their barracks in all manner of dress. In many instances the Norwegian troops boot the prisoners to hurry them along. MSs, informers pass along a line of women who had worked for the German government and are presently inte...

  14. Albert Ganzenmueller

    As chief of the German Reichsbahn, Albert Ganzenmüller was responsible for the employment of deportation trains. In July 1942, he wrote a letter to Karl Wolff describing the deportation trains from Warsaw to Malkinia to Treblinka. Claude Lanzmann talks about the letter by Ganzenmueller in a short recording in French. FILM ID 4605 -- Ganzenmueller 1-6 Chemin de Fer

  15. Antisemitic propaganda leaflet dropped by German aircraft along a Soviet front

    This 1944 leaflet was directed at the Soviet Red Army soldiers and officers on the Finnish front, possibly near Narva in the northern region. The Red Army had lifted the siege of Leningrad in January 1944, and Soviet forces were advancing toward the Finnish Bay by May 1944.

  16. Daily life in southeastern, northeastern, and central Poland, 1936

    TRIMS depicting a variety of activities in daily life throughout Poland in 1936. The first two trims are MSs of a street corner in Warsaw, a police officer conducts traffic between streetcars, motorcycles, automobiles and horse-drawn wagons. The street is busy with people. The third trim is a low angle MCU of a religious procession in Lowicz, Poland, featured are clergy and townspeople. This is followed by two trims of a building under construction in Warsaw, workmen construct wood frame, cart materials around the site in wheel barrows, as a foreman barks orders. The remaining trims feature...

  17. Reichstag gutted by fire

    Title: "Reichstag is gutted by Fire by Red Incendiaries - Chamber, where Deputies meet in Berlin parliament, is destroyed as result of communist plot." Exterior shots of the damaged dome of the Reichstag, fireman with their truck on the street, shifts to interior scenes of the gutted building. Close ups of structural damage and still-smoking rubble. A policeman stands in the wreckage. Fireman spray water on the rubble. The British narrator tells of the fire, and says that after the imminent general election, Parliament will need to find a temporary home. He notes that Hindenburg's chair was...

  18. War damage; Himmler's greenhouse; Zeilsheim DP Camp

    Albert Scher served with the U.S. military intelligence between November 1945 and May 1946. The film of "Germany" includes coverage of war damage in Frankfurt, Air force station at Eschborn (Wiesbaden air force base), Orly airbase near Paris, Himmler’s greenhouse in Frankfurt (color), daily life in the Zeilsheim DP camp, soccer match, and children in costume for Purim. 01:09:27 to 01:18:06 - Zeilsheim sequence. Assembly center entrance sign. EXTs. Camp life, crowd of DPs. DP policeman. DPs get into car leaving for Palestine via Itay. Hand-made sign on building: "We Want to Go! We Have to Go...

  19. Victor Borden collection

    The collection consists of a watercolor, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Rywen Bornsztein and Mina Flattau, originally from Łódź, during the Holocaust in Poland, the USSR, and Uzbekistan, where they joined the Polish Army and then travelled to Palestine, and in 1951, to the United States.

  20. Jewish home for the people with disabilities in the Netherlands, 1934

    Documentary on the Jewish Home for the Disabled. Titles throughout. Nurses wave. Band plays (brief w/captions). Elderly enter auditorium of home. Entertainers arrive. Orchestra plays, cut aways to audience. Lilliputners (midgets) arrive at home, performing for residents, cut aways people laughing. Louis Davids performs in auditorium. Shot of Fritz Hirsh. Opera performers from the Princess theater depart for Home via bus. Children play in auditorium. Opera company arrives. Hans Lichtenstein directs orchestra (good). Opera company performs concert version of? Sequence of elderly lady lighting...