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  1. Jewish medical resistance in the Vilnius ghetto during the Holocaust

    Contains a typescript text entitled "Jewish Medical Resistance in the Vilnius Ghetto…", 113 pages, plus endnotes and copies of photos.

  2. Pál Szegö diary

    This collection consists of a diary written by Pál Szegö, originally of Hungary, while he was in a forced labor battalion in Hungary and at the Mauthausen concentration camp from 1944-1945. Pál wrote in the margins as well as on blank pages of a pocket New Testament that he kept with him in the camps. In the diary he writes about the horrible living condition while in the forced labor battalion including the lack of food, unsanitary conditions, punishments, and frigid weather conditions while digging trenches and working in the forest. Pál continues his diary while on a tugboat to Mauthause...

  3. Judenrat in Przemyśl Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Przemyśl (Sygn.264)

    Records of the Judenrat in Przemyśl. It contains the IDs of Dawid Haupt (born in 1891) and his family: Alicja (born 1894) and Izabela (born 1921)

  4. Oral history interview with Hélène Spierer

  5. Goering testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 53) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. LS Hermann Goering under questioning by Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. Jackson is annoyed that Goering does not answer questions and delays the trial. Jackson speaks of Goering's involvement in concentration camps and describes the ways and means of arresting people. Goering responds in German. Jackson speaks about Nazi organizations responsible for propaganda and carrying out orders. Goering testifies that the SS and SA never received any orders to kill. At least "not in his time," he had no influence on the SS. LS, courtroom rises fo...

  6. Sketching defendants documents, map at Nuremberg Trial

    22:25:18 (Paris 386) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 27, 1945. CU, cartoonist sketches Walther Funk and Wilhelm Frick. MLS of prisoners' dock, visible are: Albert Speer, Constantin Neurath, Hans Fritzsche, Franz von Papen, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Rosenberg. MLS, MS, Erich Raeder's counsel makes plea to Tribunal, complaining about receiving documents presented by the prosecution too late. The list of documents the defense uses, which had been handed out the previous day, were partly incomplete, and therefore made the defens...

  7. Family in garden

    Family shots (probably) of a man (the filmmaker?) from behind crouching before a boy and mother tearing grass. Probably at Prater garden.

  8. Philip and Marta Beckman collection

    Contains photographs and documents concerning the Holocaust experiences of Philip Beckman and Marta Roth Beckman. Consists of photographs and documents about Philip Beckman and Marta Roth Beckman. Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Malka Roth Beckman [donor's wife] and Rafael (Rafal) Beckman [donor] after their liberation from concentration camps as displaced persons in Italy, specifically, Cesaria Santa Maria de Leuca and Bari. Malka, born 1929 in Sighet, Romania, was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and transferred eventually to camps in Germany where she wa...

  9. Postwar destruction; liberation of Dachau; DPs going home

    8mm color and b/w motion pictures taken by Dr. Myron E. Greene (a dentist) during his five years in the Army. His unit took over Dachau from the 45th Div. at noon on April 29, 1945. Scenes showing destruction in Germany. Camera moving quickly. Clouds of smoke, flames, airplane in sky (dark). American GIs smoking, looking at sky. 06:03:15 (black and white) At military camp, jeeps, soldiers dressing. Destruction, ruins, rubble. Ambulance with Red Cross and military trucks moving in town; in same scene, people walking through the streets in the opposite direction, some have belongings. Scenes ...

  10. Rabinowitsch family papers

    The collection includes identification cards belonging to Gabriel Rabinowitsch, Fryda Nadel Rabinowitsch, and Leib Nadel, in Russian, issued 1946-1948, and the handwritten journal kept by Gabriel Rabinowitsch while in hiding near the Vilnius (Vilna) ghetto between November 1943 and June 1944. In the journal, he describes his wartime experiences, including the German invasion of Vilnius, forced labor, deportations, and his escape into hiding in November 1943. He describes life in hiding and hearing of the Soviet offensive. Also included is an English language translation of the diary.

  11. Warsaw after German occupation

    Shot by unidentified German soldier. HA panning shots of Warsaw showing people in a wide open space, probably after rubble from destroyed buildings was cleared. Camera pans in the opposite direction and shows the Central Railway Station. Ground-level shot of the Hotel Polonia and buildings next to it on Jerozolimskie Avenue. People pass by on foot and in horse-drawn carriages. 00:41 Man (foreground, carrying briefcase) and woman (background, carrying shopping bag) wearing armbands among other pedestrians on Marszalkowska Street. Panning shots around Zbawiciela Place show halted street car, ...

  12. Selected records from the Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva

    Selected documents from two major record groups in the holdings of the Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva: the High Commissioner for German Refugees, Autonomous Period (1933-1936) and the Intergovernmental Committee Conference at Evian (1938-1939). These records relate to the Evian Conference as well as to Jewish refugees seeking to flee from Nazi persecution. Includes records pertaining to the British Mandate of Palestine, situation reports on various countries in Europe, and correspondence with Jewish communities in Europe and refugee organizations worldwide such as the Jewish...

  13. Compiled short films by Carl Lutz

    Three short/complied films collected or made by Carl Lutz: Nr. 334 Kurzfilme zu Palästina und der Schweiz [1935 to1956] (01:06:11) Nr. 335 St. Moritz (Wintersport) [ca. 1928] (00:15:06) [videotape only; this film wasn't shot by Carl Lutz] Nr. 336 USA (Washington DC, New York) [1930s] (00:13:38) [videotape made around 1990 - the film version is now missing at source archive] Detailed description of Film Nr. 336: Women sit in reclining chairs on the deck of the Conte di Savoia. A group, mostly children, poses by the ship’s railing and waves. Title card reads: “Wir passieren die Azoreninseln, ...

  14. Ellsworth Kelly sculpture

    Ellsworth Kelly site specific sculpture commissioned by the United States Holocaust memorial Museum Art in Public Spaces program. The Art for Public Spaces Program was established to commission works of artistic merit that address the singularity of the Museum and contribute to the visitor's experience of the Museum in ways that are substantial and distinct from the permanent or special exhibitions. Four site-specific works of art, 'Memorial' being among them, were chosen by an independent jury comprised of contemporary art curators and specialists. The subcommittee included Holocaust survi...

  15. Ernst Reiter collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Ernst Reiter during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. Hermine Markowitz collection

    Contains materials donated to the Museum by Hermine Markowitz. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Parade; Krosno town square; ship to America

    Parade with elaborate floats and crowds of spectators. CU, three children and their elders. Toddler with bowlegs. MS, portraits of families outside village homes (still in Krosno?). 00:12:55 Polish troops marching in the street. Banner in Polish above the street. A man with white beard and hat holds a Torah scroll behind gentlemen in formal dress. The American visitors and friends wave at the camera. Locals. 00:14:08 Synagogue (?) in Krosno. MS of a Polish soldier in uniform. The Krosno town square, local children, Jewish men, and crowds. 00:16:16 The large group of Mahler family and Krosno...

  18. Goering/SA in Nuremberg

    Title: "Despite long night journey, no weariness." An SA parade (with banners and flags) marches toward the camera and turns around a corner. Streetcars pass the parade. Scene switches to a building bearing a banner that reads in part: "Reich Party Day". Goering exits the building and gets into a car with some other men and drives off.

  19. Selected records of the commune Daleszyce Akta gminy Daleszyce (Sygn.129)

    Selected records of the Municipal Office of Daleszyce for the supervision of the municipal economy and population, related to trade, industry and books of population. Records reflect the lives of the 276 Jews who lived in the Daleszyce commune between 1919-1924.

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Session 104 -- Cross examination of the Accused concluded

    This tape begins near the end of the morning proceedings of Session 104. The footage begins with cross-examination by Gideon Hausner concerning a meeting in March 1944 in which he promised the Jews that nothing would happen to them after deportation. Hausner accuses Eichmann of knowing that they were being sent to Auschwitz. This duplicates footage on Tape 2183 at 13:31:12. Cross-examination by Hausner turns to Eichmann's intent to write and publish a book with Wilhelm Sassen in 1957, in which Eichmann intended to describe what happened to the Jews as being "one of the greatest crimes ever ...