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  1. Jewish schoolchildren

    Children posing outdoors, stone and mud houses. Some children in Caucausian dress (boys sheepskin hats, head scarves on girls). Outdoor classroom, shots of children studying, at primitive blackboard. Exercising. FG boys study (looks like davening) with bearded man; children exercise in BG. EXT, shots of school sign in Yiddish (?) and Russian (?). Shots of teenage girls in modern dress exercising. INT of classroom, older children studying (modern dress). CU of Hebrew algebra textbook (in Birobidjan?).

  2. I. J. Kaufman photograph collection

    Contains approximately 44 photographic prints of images taken of various scenes in Warsaw, Poland, in January 1947. Includes images of early monuments erected on the Warsaw Ghetto site.

  3. Hugo Cohen passport

    German passport issued to Hugo Meyer Cohen (donor's friend), September 1938, Hamburg, Germany. "Deutsches Reich Reisepass"; letter "J" stamped in red ink; contains immigration visa for United States dated December 9, 1938; German border stamp issued at Hamburg on December 21, 1938.

  4. Ukrainian crimes against humanity

    Ukrainian Newsreel and Documentary Film Footage about the crimes committed by Ukrainian fascists--bourgeois nationalists-who murdered Ukrainians, Russians, Poles, and Jews in September 1942 near Lake Pisotska in the Vollin area. Shots of criminals and the commandant of Ukrainian police. It is forty years since their crimes, but since there is no statute of limitations for crimes against humanity, the Soviets bring the Ukrainian fascists to trial. Trial footage, including testimonies, witnesses, and shots of civilian audience. Narration argues that Zionists and the Jewish Defense League trai...

  5. Engraved commemorative plaque

  8. Newsreel clips: Einstein speech; Emigration; Jewish refugees in England and Australia; Palestine

    An assembled reel of news clips from Chronos, including: (1) Albert Einstein speech in English. (2) Arrivals and departures. Jews in the Palastinamt [Palestine Office] in Berlin, applying for emigration (see Photo Archives worksheet 64121 for still of this scene). (3) 01:06:59 HAS, refugees, journey by boat, CUs. (4) 01:07:15 Newsreel "Britain receives more of Hitler's refugees" Children. (5) 01:07:43 "Jewish refugee children" [Movietonews] shows Kindertransport arriving in England. (6) St. Louis ship (7) 01:08:27 "Jewish refugees reach Sydney" [Movietonews] Jews arrive on the ship SS Aoran...

  9. Star of David badge with Juif printed in the center

    The badge was given to Harry Gold, 1944, France.

  10. Jewish forced labor

    Jewish men get off of truck with shovels and begin to dig by the road. Religious Jew made to take off his shirt while digging (famous shot). CU, man rolling a rock up hill.

  11. Nazi flag captured by a US soldier

    This flag was captured at Berchtesgaden in Germany at the end of the Second World War in May 1945 by Henry Kraftzeck, a member of the 1101st Engineer Combat Group of the United States.

  12. Bronze sculpture memorializing the Holocaust

    Large, bronze sculpture created by William Tarr in 1989 as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was preparing to open.

  13. Oral history interview with Allen Cohen

  14. Leather ID bracelet with tag worn by a concentration camp inmate

    Prisoner identification bracelet issued to Edwin Chwedyk at Majdanek concentration camp in October 1942. It is stamped with his prisoner number 17215.

  15. W. F. Schmid papers

    The collection consists of copy negatives and contact sheets of Signal Corps photographs and a photocopy of a booklet on the Buchenwald concentration camp by F. M. S. Miller.

  16. Ruth B. Mandel papers

    The Ruth B. Mandel papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting the Blumenstock family from Vienna, their effort to immigrate to the United States via Cuba aboard the MS St. Louis, and their refuge in England during the war, and their immigration to the United States in 1947. Biographical materials include certificates, correspondence, certificates, identification papers, travel documents, and military papers documenting the Blumenstock family’s efforts to immigrate to the United States via Cuba, their refuge in England, Mechel Blumenstock’s service with the British ...

  17. German trials of resisters during the WWII

    05:12:14 Paris, April 1942: A trial of members of the French resistance movement by the German military court. The 23 accused were executed on April 17 and 18, 1942. CUs of bombs and weapons. CU of Andre Kirschen, the son of Romanian Jews, who was not sentenced to death because of a German Military Law that prohibited execution at his young age (15 years old). 05:13:30 Simone Schloss (Jew) beheaded in Cologne on July 2, 1942. 05:13:57 (sound in German) Berlin 1944: People's court trial of the plotters of the Hitler assassination attempt, held in the Supreme Court of Berlin, under Judge Frei...

  18. Yiddish State Theater performs Shakespeare's King Lear starring Mikhoels

    Filmed version of Yiddish State Art Theater (Moscow) production of King Lear, starring Solomon Mikhoels as Lear and Benjamin Zuskin as the Fool. Wide shots of curtained stage and opening of curtains to reveal throne. Grand entrance for Lear. MS of Lear giving speech in Yiddish, daughter and Fool on either side of throne. King Lear's first speech in the play (Act I, Scene 1), refers to dividing the kingdom in three... that strife may be prevented... : "Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. Give me the map there."

  19. Kharkov Trial; Executions

    Scenes from wooded courtroom of men on trial for crimes committed against Soviet civilians and soldiers. The judge reads the sentence before a standing audience. The convicted men are led outside and are hanged at a public hanging. The names of the men are read: Reinhard Redslav, Wilhelm Langfeld, Hans Riitz, Mikhail Bulanov.

  20. Gardelegen photograph

    The photograph depicts three soldiers looking at burned bodies inside a building at Gardelegen, Germany.