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  1. Emanuelis Zingeris papers

    The papers consist of papers relating to the Holocaust in Lithuania and photographs depicting life in Jewish ghettos in Lithuania during World War II.

  3. Battle Front; Destruction in Riga

    Airplanes and pilots flying. Map of USSR showing Jonava, Kovno, Vilna, Riga, and other cities. Military tanks storm Riga. Views of military destruction and ruins in city streets. Men and women civilians clearing up rubble from street.

  4. Oral history interview with Helga Epstein

  5. Anti-Jewish Acts in Baltic States

    Shots of the INT of a synagogue, possibly Jonava. SS guard ordering Jewish men and young men coming out of a building (the synagogue?) -- a roundup. The Jews run down the street. The following scenes are disjointed. Shots of the Riga synagogue burning at night. The famous shots of forced labor of Jewish men climbing out of a ditch with shovels and digging on the roadside; one religious man is approached by soldiers and made to take off his shirt. Jews beaten in streets by locals and then forced labor of Jews cleaning the streets after bombing and destruction, lots of rubble. In Mogilev, Jew...

  6. Army talks

    Contains an issue of "Army Talks" magazine, dated November 11, 1945.

  7. Burying the dead

    Bodies of Latvian Nationalists murdered by GPU in or around Riga. Men carrying dead bodies on stretchers. Placing bodies into coffins. CU, woman mourning. CU, two young boys dead on ground. Woman with kerchief on head wailing over a dead man, wringing her hands, her wailing is audible.

  8. Pető family papers

    The Pető family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, a personal narrative, photographs, property records, a newspaper, and a ticket documenting Judith Pető Leiber and her family, her early career in handbag design, her uncle’s experiences as a refugee in Nice, her family’s survival in Budapest, the confiscation or loss of her relatives’ property, and efforts to recuperate it. Biographical materials include birth and marriage certificates; education and employments records; and identification papers documenting Judith Pető Leiber and her parents, sister, grandparents, an...

  9. Bar of soap stamped RIF produced in occupied Poland

    Bar of soap produced around 1942 in a soap factory near Buna-Monowitz concentration camp in Monowice, Poland.

  10. Bernard Chessman papers

    Includes military manuals, military orders, and articles concerning the activities of the 29th the U.S. Infantry Division in Germany during World War II. Also included are materials concerning the 115th U.S. Infantry Division of the Maryland National Guard from Towson, MD.

  11. Anklageschrift gegen Lensch and Dr. Struve

    Contains documents relating to the war crimes cases of Friedrich Karl Lensch and Gerhard Kurt Struve, who were accused of acts of “euthanasia.” Included are witness statements, testimony by physicians, biographical information about Lensch and Struve, and information about various mental health institutions in which the defendants allegedly carried out the killings.

  12. Destruction of synagogue

    Dresden synagogue taken down.

  13. Process of isolating, labeling, deporting, murdering Jews

    DER KRIEG. Germans enter Poland. Lwow pogrom amateur footage; stills. Nazis entering towns via truck; Hitler speeches; clips from Nazi propaganda and newsreels, Jews forced to work for Germans in occupied territory, roundups in Jonava, Latvia. Hangings in occupied territory. German raid, checking papers, in various Polish locations. Riga scenes of harassing Jews. (locations and images intermixed) Jews in Balti, Romania, moved in large numbers along road. Krakow ghetto created, Jews moving in, others moving out. 10:06:45 [01:06:12] DAS GHETTO. Warsaw Ghetto scenes (includes b/w version of sc...

  14. Stefania and Helena Burzminski photograph collection

    Contains two photographs of Stefania and her sister, Helena Burzminski. The two sisters hid thirteen Jews in their attic in Przemysl, Poland, during World War II.

  15. Dachau concentration camp photographs

    Contains eighteen photographs of the Dachau concentration camp at liberation.

  16. Goebbels re: bookburning and boycott; crowds in street; Reichstag fire trial; Nuremberg Laws; vom Rath's funeral

    05:02:43 Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, speaks at bookburning, Berlin Opernplatz, at night: brief clip of his speech referring to Jewish intellectual domination . . ." Followed by shots of men throwing books into the bonfire. People, mainly civilian, march past behind the fire and the flames roar. "Berlin, May 10, 1933" . To 05:03:08 05:03:09 Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, speaks from podium at Lustgarten to assembled crowd, announcing boycott of Jewish businesses. Pan of masses as Goebbels speaks with some passion, using his hands. Crowd responds "Hei...

  17. Jews mistreated; Russian prisoners

    Chaos. Jewish men beaten in street, dragged around. CU, faces of Russian prisoners.

  18. Perl Lea Grossman family papers

    The collection primarily consists of letters and photographs documenting the extended family of Perl Lea Grossman from 1917 through World War II. Included are letters sent from Poland to Esther Rifka Beer Tucker in Pennsylvania from 1928-1945. Also included is a prepaid passage contract for Gdynia-American line No. 24295 and the passenger list for the ship M/S Piłsudski which left Gdynia, Poland on Wednesday, November 16, 1938.

  19. Polish Jews; excerpts from Nazi newsreels and Eternal Jew film

    Shots of terror and harrasment by SS soldiers. Quick cuts of EXT of synagogue, INT of synagogue (scrolls and scroll covers). CU Jewish men. SS men line up Jewish men against a building and check their papers. Two Jewish men walking in a rural area followed by two soldiers. Street scene and five haggard Jewish men lined up against a wall; one of them has a stick. Men crammed into an open top wooden wagon. "Der Ewige Jude" outtakes, INT, pan of faces of the Jewish men against the wall.

  20. 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...