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  1. Adolphe and Raechel Dikker collection

    The collection consists of a postcard and a pillowcase relating to the experiences of Adolphe and Raechel Dikker during World War II when Adolphe, a Dutch civilian, was imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp in Java.

  2. Louis Ranciato collection

    The collection consists of a portrait painting by Gyorgy Beifeld (George Byfield), clippings, a journal, and photographs relating to the experiences of Louis Ranciato, Staff Sergeant in the United States Army and a liberator of Dachau concentration camp in Germany during World War II.

  3. Armaments officials, Nazi leaders at conferences, weapon inspections

    1941-1944 Armaments specialists at conferences and weapons demonstrations, including Armaments Minister Albert Speer, Hitler, Himmer, military and industrial leaders. Reel 2: Events of 6 and 7 June, 1943, in Hillersleben, Germany. Participants in front of the conference building, talking to each other and posing for the camera. Goebbels, Speer, others, exit the building. Conference participants watch a demonstration of flamethrowers. Interior shot of men eating in a large dining hall. Porsche waves to the camera. A large group of the participants, in uniform and civilian dress, stand outsid...

  4. Jewish Ghetto in Amsterdam

    WS street with large street sign: JUDEN VIERTEL JOODSCHE WIJK. Another sign hanging sideways on a building: FUR WEHRMACHT VERBOTEN. DER KOMMANDANT DER STADT AMSTERDAM (Nazi headquarters in Amsterdam). Street scenes, well dressed man riding a bicycle. 03:32:01 CU of street sign: JUDENSTRASSE JOODSCHESTRAAT. People and children on street, some with Star of David on clothing. Woman pushing baby carriage, streetcar passing by sign: JUDEN VIERTEL JOODSCHE WIJK. Girls with Star of David on their coats eating ice cream. 03:32:39 MS open market with sign: TIJDENS MARKT VOOR JUDEN VERBODEN. Crowd of...

  5. German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 9)

    Portrait of Bernhard Loesener, who was in charge of the Jewish Affairs office until 1943. His portrait is replaced by that of Globke. Scenes of Wannsee as the narrator describes the Wannsee conference. Excerpt from "Der Ewige Jude" showing rats. Quick succession of well-known still photographs showing the persecution of Jews, followed by a discussion of the similarities between Globke and Adolf Eichmann. Footage of a German confiscating personal property from Jews. A document is used to prove that as early as 1933 Globke profited from the persecution of the Jews. Footage of Jews at forced l...

  6. Anniversary of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem

    "Soviet Ukraine"- Release 33. This is a propaganda newsreel, therefore the language is pro-Stalinist. Anniversary of Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1939. Meeting, speakers, various.Itzik Fefer..CU of newspaper. Portraits on a wall, from left to right: Taras Shevchenko, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Sholem Aleichem. Workers from the capital of Soviet Ukraine celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Jewish writer Sholem Aleichem. An honored poet, David Gofshtein, addresses the audience with an interesting and lively story about the life and work of Sholem Aleichem. Sholem Aleichem's brother speaks about...

  7. Kan family postwar in US: Robert's child

    Color. Robert gets into a car, out of the car, and walks to the house. Robert walks out of a house with a boy. They walk down the sidewalk and wave. LS, mother in the doorway of the house. She then walks toward the camera. The boy gets into a car and sits in the driver's seat. 01:07:06 City skyline. Boy plays with children on a sidewalk, children line up for the camera. 01:07:56 Robert holds the hand of a younger child in a blue snowsuit who looks and waves at the camera. Robert and his wife, seen earlier, walk down the sidewalk with the children.

  8. Allach gold-ringed porcelain vase with presentation box found in the Reichstag, Berlin

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35878
    • English
    • 1945
    • a: Height: 14.620 inches (37.135 cm) | Diameter: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) b: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Depth: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm)

    Allach presentation vase, model # 500, found by Colonel Ronald M. Hubbs in an office in the Reichstag in Berlin following the capture of the city in May 1945 at the end of World War II. The Allach porcelain factory was one of the SS's (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) first industrial enterprises, under the direct control of Heinrich Himmler. The factories were sub-camps of Dachau concentration camp, with camp inmates supplying the forced labor. Although the Reichstag was not used for Parliament sessions after the infamous 1933 fire, it was used for ceremonies. Himmler was believed to h...

  9. David Schwarz

    Il fondo personale contiente gli originali delle lettere ricevute dalla famiglia di Hersch Wolf Schwarz di Czortkow dal 1939 al 1943 con abbinato testo del traduttore. Tra le carte si conserva la copertina del libro di Iride Tradati Schwarz dal titolo "Meghillat irida. Lettera ai nipoti. Una famiglia ebraica nella bufera (1939-1945) note di vita vissuta in Polonia e in Italia". Ad ogni documento scritto in diverse lingue - yddish, russo, polacco, tedesco e ucraino - è allegata la traduzione manoscritta e dattiloscritta per la comprensione del testo. I documenti raccolti da Iride Schwarz col...

  10. Haim Roet papers

    The Haim Roet papers consist of pre-war, wartime, and postwar photographs of Haim Roet; his family, wearing Star of David badges; his rescuers, Anton and Adelaide Deesker; and his brother Josef’s rescuers, Reinier and Margaret Veerman. Additional photographs depict Prims family weddings (Josef and Mathilda Prims, Maurits and Betty Prims), a 90th birthday celebration, a Jewish school in Amsterdam, and rescuers Max Leons and Arnold Douwes. The papers include a May 1945 postcard from Josef Roet in Dedemsvaart to his parents updating them on his and Haim’s situations as well as a July 1945 post...

  11. Justices provide summary, judgement and verdicts at Nuremberg Trial

    Judgments rendered on Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, 30 September 1946. Pan of courtroom from tribunal to prisoners' dock. LS, prisoners' dock and their attorneys sitting in FG as Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence reads from the Nuremberg Charter. MSs, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder. MS, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg. Albert Speer and Fritz Sauckel sitting behind them. MS, Alfred Jodl, Hans Frank, Franz von Papen, Wilhelm Frick. Pan, von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher, Speer, Walter Funk...

  12. Giorgio Perlasca correspondence with Eva and Pál Lang

    Correspondence, sent between Giorgio Perlasca, of Padua, Italy, and Eva and Pál Lang, of Budapest, Hungary, 1988-1992. and with Perlasca's family, 1992-1997. The Langs, who were among the Jews saved by Perlasca's actions in Budapest in 1944-1945, when Perlasca provided over 5,000 people with safe conduct passes through the Spanish legation in Budapest to prevent their deportation by the Nazis, contacted him in 1988 to express their gratitude. The Langs remained in contact with Perlasca in the following years, visiting him in Italy and hosting visits in Hungary, which are documented in this ...

  13. Morris Kornberg collection

    The collection consists of photographs of Morris Kornberg and his friends; an identification card for the Jewish Community of Wuerttemberg (Israelitische Kultusvereinigung Württemberg); and a commemorative album with tipped-in photographs by Alexander Fiedel of the "Jidiszer D.P. Center UNRRA - P.C. IRO in Stuttgart" written by M. Kornberg.

  14. Relocation of displaced persons

    EXT, relocation of DPs and war refugees. Filmed in Linz [see US army truck with Linz painted on the back.] VS, camp from various angles. LS establishing shot of a large crowd of displaced persons- men, women, and children, milling about outside of a barracks-like building (processing center). MCU, refugees in smaller groups, talking to each other as they wait for entrance to the building. Some look directly at the camera, several avoid it. These are many groups of extended families. Julien Bryan's notes do not indicate the ethnicity, nationality, or religious preference of the DPs, but they...

  15. Hal and Robyn Klein collection

    This collection consists of two metal signs posted by the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto. One is for the Statistical Department and the other is for the two white enameled metal signs with black text: One is from "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt / Zentral-Einkaufsstelle" [Main Purchasing Agency of the Łódź ghetto Jewish Council]; Łódź, Poland; dated 1944; in German The other sign (accreted to the collection in 2016) reads "Der Aelteste Der Juden / in Litzmannstadt / Statische Abteilung"

  16. Casablanca Conference

    FDR, Churchill, De Gaulle and Giraud confer, sitting informally outdoors and chatting briefly. FDR with Gen Patton rides in jeep, reviews troops near Casablanca as military band plays. Signal Corps photographers. Nonessential segments: 01:34:56 to 01:41:15, CU two GIs describe their experience landing in North Africa.

  17. Creation of Kutno ghetto; construction; moving in

    People moving belongings. Bundles, carts, people everywhere. Dwarf. Children. Ends with barbed wire gate at ghetto entrance; policeman.

  18. Freud family papers

    The Freud family papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, diaries, calendars, and subject files relating to Martin, Ernestine, Sophie, and Walter Freud’s pre-war experiences in Austria and fleeing to France and England. The collection also includes material relating to Ernestine and Sophie’s immigration to the United States and Ernestine’s career. Biographical material includes a birth certificate, engagement certificate for Esti and Martin, appointment of Esti to the University of Vienna, and the last will and testament for Esti as well as a letter from the Ministry of Just...

  19. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  20. Selected records of the District Court in Kalisz Sąd Okręgowy w Kaliszu (Sygn. 2220)

    Consist of court case files, notes, brochures, proclamations, publications, posters, leaflets related to communist and anti-Polish activities of Jewish population in Kalisz District after Polish independence. Jews were accused of organization of the local communist parties, participation in the plot designed to assassinate Polish independence, dissemination of anti-Polish publications, distribution of communist literature and slogans and banners, participation in the plot of the attack on the state system of Poland, active participation in illegal demonstrations in 1931, participation in a ...