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  1. Tallit

    Tallit found in German home by Manfred Hohenemser, an American GI who was a German Jewish refugee. After his unit liberated the Ohrdruf concentration camp, they moved on to the town of Eisenbach near the Austrian border. Manfred was ordered to conduct a house to house search, and while doing so, he saw the tallit being used as a tablecloth in one of the homes. Furious, he ripped the tallit off the table and took it with him.

  2. Star of David badge

    Worn by Meir Yelin in Lithuania and the Kovno ghetto.

  3. Selected records from State Archives in Warsaw and its branches in Otwock, Mława, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Pułtusk and State Archives in Płock

    Contains selected records from the State Archives in Warsaw and its branches: The training materials for police officers concerning the Jewish Youth organization, 1939-1943; Resolutions of the City Council, 1915-1919; Correspondence and the lists of registered associations, circulars, announcement.; Records of Jewish organizations and Judenrat (Jewish councils); Books of tenants in various regions of Otwock and other places; The questionnaires about the course of the war activities in the municipality in 1939-1945. Lists of population loss, 1946; Opening protocols of mass graves of Poles mu...

  4. Documentation of the Municipal and District Order Police (Ordnungsdienst) in Borisov, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the Municipal and District Order Police (Ordnungsdienst) in Borisov, 1941-1942 The Collection includes instructions from the Commander of the area administration in Borisov regarding confiscated Jewish property; instructions regarding the manner of confiscating Jewish property; documentation regarding the confiscated Jewish property; documentation of the Order Police in the Borisov District regarding the detention of Jews and their deportation to a ghetto; appeals to the authorities by residents of Novo-Borisov regarding the illegal occupation of homes that were confiscated...

  5. Hitler Youth and SS; German ski and paratroops

    Part 1, Arthur Axmann and Adm. Doenitz address and decorate Hitler Youth members and SS men. Part 2, blood donors line up; whole blood is prepared in a laboratory. Part 3, a leader addresses a youth conference in Prague. Part 4, Italian troops guard the colors on the Russian front. Part 5, Himmler decorates SS men in Naples. Part 6, telephone men splice cables. Part 7, German ski troops train in the French Alps. Part 8, German troops are decorated in Italy. Part 9, German paratroops battle the enemy in a burning villages artillery fires.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- MacArthur's speech to Allied Control Council, part 1

    General MacArthur's speech to Allied Control Council. Members listening. MacArthur speaking. Flags in room. MacArthur: "Our job to help Japan get on its feet - the principles of freedom, democracy will be applied."

  7. Tag der Nationalen Solidaritaet: Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes

    Logbook of corporate donations to to the Nazi party, Germany, dated 1936-1938.

  8. Moritz Rubinstein papers

    The collection includes a Swiss refugee identification card for Moritz Rubinstein (born 1919), a businessman originally from Lublin, Poland, a document from a work camp for internees in Birmensdorf (Zürich), and a pamphlet addressed to refugees issued by the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police.

  9. Badge with a Polish eagle on a castle worn by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

    Uniform patch with a Polish eagle on a red castle issued to Dr. Edmund Lusthaus when he served in the 2nd Polish Corps from 1941-1945. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and seventeen days later, the Soviet Army invaded from the east. Lusthaus was captured and taken to a camp for Polish prisoners of war in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he served as a physician. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Polish POWs were released to join the fighting. Lusthaus joined the volunteer Polish Army of the East, known as Anders Army. In August 1942, the unit left Soviet territory and be...

  11. Book burning

    Paramount News Issue 84. University students collect and burn "un-German" books. Various INT CUs as black-listed works are gathered. CU, books to be destroyed. 01:02:08 Night scenes showing torchlight procession and books being thrown into bonfire (familiar scenes). Various shots. At night, crowd gathered outside building. Lights directed at building, parade, crowd heiling.

  12. Torah scroll fragment from the Remu Synagogue

    Fragment of Torah scroll from the Remu Synagogue in Krakow, Poland.

  13. Destruction and rebuilding in Poland circa 1946; country life in Poland, circa 1939

    Children playing in the rubble in the streets of a destroyed, unidentified city. It may be Danzig, it may be Warsaw, or it may be another Polish city. Bricks from fallen buildings are piled high alongside the street, children pick up sticks and whatever they can find and play with the bricks. Vs of the countryside, a pointed roof house, ducks and geese swimming in a pond, men driving tractors across a field (probably in1946 - see notes field). VS of the fields being plowed. CU on the men driving the tractors, the wheels of the machine, etc. EXT, back in the city, a sign on the corner of a b...

  14. Namering burial of slave laborers

    (LIB 6744) Atrocities, Namering and Eging(?), Germany, May 19, 1945 SEQ: German civilians load and unload wood coffins of 800 Allied slave laborers from carts; hammering covers on coffins. MCUs, several corpses in open coffins covered with insects. SEQ: Catholic ceremony for the dead. SEQ: German civilians place coffins in huge pit.

  15. Cesia Carol Redlich collection

    The collection consists of a Łódź Ghetto coin, certificates, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Cesia Uncyk and her family before the Holocaust in Poland, and after the Holocaust when she lived in a displaced persons camp in Germany and then emigrated to the United States. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: interviews inside a hospital

    Reel 8 of 8: "Gemeinschaftsraum der Männer" [Men's common room]. WS of men in room with wooden benches; some sit, some pacing, one crawls. One seems to be making speech. 00:46:08 One in restraints, arms held back, knocking shoulder against wall. 00:46:27 One in real restraints. Interviewer and microphone in view. Voice off-screen asking questions, seems mocking: "Wollst du nach heim?" (Audible, but hard to hear) "Hast du Kinder?" Answer: "6". 00:48:35 Another patient interviewee, speaks fast, no pauses. 00:49:17 He sings, motions with fingers on arm. "Bäcker... Amerika.." 00:50:07 Woman int...

  17. Luftwaffe Honor Day

    Goering reviews Luftwaffe troops, watches a parade of Luftwaffe. Several good shots of Goering in full regalia, good shots of goosestepping, CUs of soldiers (many shots familiar).

  18. Wenk family collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences of Henriette Kieffer Wenk, her daughter Marion (born in Gurs) in France and in hiding. Also illustrated is Henriette's immediate family including her sister Emma, and Emma's family, who fled Germany.

  19. Marvin Esilinger collection

    Consists of four photographs taken in France depicting the head-shaving and public humiliation of women accused of Nazi collaboration.

  20. Romana S. Farrington papers

    The papers consist of a forged identification card that Josef Radzick created for his wife, Helena (Elka) Radzicki, an "Arbeitsbuch for Auslander" issued to Helena (Elka) Radzicki, and a testimonial of the Radzicki family experience during World War II.