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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ruins/memorials in Warsaw

    LS, MS Polish sculptor Xawery Dunikowski carving clay for a monument to the Silesian insurgents. CU, the number 744 tattooed on his left arm (from Auschwitz). Dunikowski chiseling marble with a cigarette. LS, MS Monument to the Unknown Warrior with guard parading, some ruins in BG. MS, grave covered with flowers. MS, a marble slab fixed on a pillar with the names of the great battles in which Polish soldiers took part in the West. MS, another slab with the names of the German-Russian campaign. MS, soldier parading. LS, Warsaw with people, trams. LS, Russo-Polish monument with flowers at the...

  2. Military government concentration camp questionaire with photograph

    Photocopy of Arnold Wachtel's postwar Concentration Camp Inmate Questionaire with his photograph.

  3. Marek Jannusz collection

    Contains audio tapes, programs and brochures, etc. of Requiem and Sh'ma dated April 27, 1996, and a Boston University Conference on "Rescue and Resistance WWII and the Present."

  4. U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee to Conduct an Investigation of the Facts, Evidence and Circumstances of the Katyn Forest Massacre, 82nd Congress, 1st Session (RG 233)

    Includes reports, evidence documents, investigation results, and other materials relating to the committee’s investigation on the Katyṅ Forest Massacre,1940 (Murder of the Polish officers and Polish intelligentsia).

  5. Selected records of the Nikolaev Oblast Archives II from Yad Vashem

    Contains primarily documents from the Romanian occupation government’s Prefecture of the Golta region in Transnistria. Roll 1 contains historical and geographical information on the Golta region, correspondence regarding the use of Jews for work, and a 1943 list of Jews in the Golta ghetto. Roll 2 contains military orders and reports about the fight against Soviet activists and Communists, correspondence of the prefect of Golta, correspondence regarding the use of police for disposal of victims’ possessions and the use of prisoners of war for work (1941–1942), and 1943 orders of the 2nd Dep...

  6. Die Grosse Negertrommel der kolonialen Werbun Die Deutsche Afrika-Schau 1935-1943

    Consists of an article entitled "Die Grosse Negertrommel der kolonialen Werbung: Die Deutsche Afrika-Schau 1935-1943" [The Big Negro Drum of Promoting Colonialism: the German Afrika-Show], by Elisa Forgey, which was originally published in Werkstatt Geschichte in 1994. The article describes the ways in which black performers were humiliated and abused during the Nazi era.

  7. Charles Winter collection

    Consists of copies of directives (captured German records) from the Reich Chief of Police and Ministry of the Interior signature blocks by Daluege and Himmler, NSDAP directives, other Police and Nazi Party Officials, etc. Some have handwritten signatures and annotations. These documents mainly relate to Nazi policies and they give some information pertaining to religious intolerance during the Holocaust.

  8. Gerd Siegel photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Kurt, Elsa, and Werner Stein [donor's paternal aunt, uncle, and cousin] a few months after Werner's birth and a photograph of Kurt, Elsa, and Werner Stein on a tricycle in Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands on June 20, 1940.

  9. Sue Yarnelli collection

    Consists of 10 black-and-white photographs of Ebensee and survivors and victims thereof issued by the United States Army.

  10. Certificate of incarceration

    Certifification of donor's incarceration in Stutthof and Dachau concentration camps.

  11. Selected Records Relating to the German Africa Show (Deutsche Afrika-Schau)

    Photocopies of records related to the German Africa Show (Deutsche Afrika-Schau), a tour in Germany organized by the NSDAP to promote German racist ideology and support for colonialism in Africa.

  12. "Krankengymnastin in Auschwitz"

    Consists of a typed memoir, in German, by Simha Naor (born Stella Silberstein, 1899-1994), originally of Vienna, Austria. The memoir, 238 pages, is based on Ms. Naor's journal, which she wrote shortly after her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and which included information about her work in the hospital in Auschwitz. The memoir based on this draft was published in 1986 as "Krankengymnastin in Auschwitz: Aufzeichnungen des Haftlings, Ausgabe 80574."

  13. A memoir

    Contains a photocopy of a typescript testimony, in Polish.

  14. "La Banalita del Bene" The story of Giorgio Perlasca

    Consists of a draft of an English language translation of "La Banalita del Bene: The Story of Giorgio Perlasca," originally of Enrico Deaglio and translated by Gregory Conti. The draft, consiting of 129 pages and including a transcript of part of Perlasca's diary, was later published as "The Banality of Goodness" (South Bend : University of Notre Dame Press, 1998).

  15. Buchenwald, Nordhausen, Hadamar, Ohrdruf

    High pan of camp, barracks, open square. Survivors getting water from tank/truck, washing in canal, eating, cooking, pots, some are prisoners of war. Men eating. Fighting over food. Celebrating liberation. Posing for group photograph. "All Polish Greet the Fraternal American Army" on building. Men walking, waving, getting on trucks. Swastika chain link. Familiar faces of liberated men. Man with glasses, smiling, waving. Along road, striking at Germans passersby. Man with cane beating another, smashing windows. Captured Germans. Released women, cross on backs. Women cared for by medics, sick...

  16. Charles Laufer collection

    The collection consists of Gewerberlegitimationskarte, Landhurm-Pals, Reisepass, Arbeitsbuch, two Polish passports, box of correspondence, blue and white sash, three books, leather portfolio, and two photo albums.

  17. Auschwitz-Prozess 1. Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess: 20.12-1963-20.08.1965: 183 Verhandlungstage : Schwurgericht beim Landgericht Frankfurt am Main

    Contains photocopies of articles from Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, newspapers dated December 12, 1963, to August 20, 1965, concerning Auschwitz-related legal proceedings. Lists of the accused, their sentences, and officers of the courts and maps of Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps are included.

  18. Auschwitz

    Draft manuscripts and research materials for book entitled Auschwitz.

  19. Chayim Gefen: my life: a memoir

    The memoir is in English and Hebrew and relates to the Holocaust experiences of Chayim Gefen in Poland including liberation.

  20. Recollections of a combat medic

    Contains donor's recollection as a combat medic with Company "C," 82nd Armored Medical Battalion of the 12th Armored Division, serving in France and Germany, and participating in the liberation of Landsberg concentration camp.