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  1. Hauer and Honig families collection

    Photographs, documents and prayer books related to the Hauer and Honig families in Berlin, Shanghai, and the United States.

  2. Werner Meyerstein and Ruth Echt collection

    The collection consists of newspaper clippings, documents, photographs, butcher's certificate, identification cards, immigration documents and passport documenting the experiences of Werner Meyerstein and his family in Germany and Sosua. The collection also includes documentation, passport, immigration papers and other identification from Germany and Shanghai belonging to Ruth Echt. In addition, the collection includes a glazed ceramic cup with handle.

  3. Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center collection

    This collection consists of materials originally donated to the Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center in Springfield, MA.

  4. Temporary religious buildings during siege of Tobruk

    Australian soldiers fire a Howitzer. Pan of destroyed military vehicles in a desert. A shrapnel damaged school named for Benito Mussolini that is now being used to hold church services for Allied soldiers. The camera pans down from the minaret of a mosque to a hand-painted sign on the building that reads: "Out of Bounds Musulman Church." Camera pans around the exterior of a Catholic church with a statue of the Virgin Mary outside. Damage shown to a hospital mosque. A soldier walks into a heavily damaged building with a sign reading, "Out of Bounds Jewish Soldiers Synagogue." Panning shot of...

  5. Poster of a Jewish Bolshevik bully shaking his fists in defense of NYC

    Anti-Semitic, anti-American Nazi propaganda poster issued in German occupied Italy ca. 1943, with a cartoon of a Jewish Bolshevik shaking his fists at all comers. The threat of the Jewish Bolshevik or Judeo-Communist conspiracy was a cornerstone of Nazi Party ideology. The 1917 Communist revolution that brought down the Russian Empire shocked the world. The prominence of Jews in the Bolshevik leadership fueled this imaginary merger of international conspiracies between the Communists and the Jews to destroy civilization and take over the world. In July 1943, Allied forces invaded Sicily. Mu...

  7. Book

  8. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 486) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Continuation of Walter Neff testifying and identifying pictures in book of evidence. When asked whether experiments were made on prisoners other than those condemned to death, he answers in the affirmative. Neff admits that out of 70 prisoners who were not condemned to death, 40 died when they were used for experiments in the pressure chamber.

  9. Selected records of the Amtsgericht Schroettersburg Sąd Obwodowy w Płocku (Sygn. 651) : Wybrane materialy

    Criminal cases against Poles and Jews for theft, smuggling, fencing, illegal trade of meat, bread, and helping Jews. The accused were sentenced to very severe punishments: death penalty, concentration camp, a prison camp, and a fine. Most of the convicts did not survive.

  10. Francie Alpert papers

    The collection consists of documents and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Francie Alpert (born Fernande Waligora), originally of Paris, France, who survived the war as a child refugee in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Documents include Francie’s clothing ration card, identification card, French passport, and resident alien’s border crossing identification card. Photographs include prints and copyprints of Francie as a child and teenager, her parents Szmul and Rose Waligora, Szmul’s father Szoel and his wife, Rose’s parents Abraham and Isza Kunigis, and Francie’s sister Janette.

  11. Interviews with Buchenwald survivors

    Concentration Camp, Buchenwald, Germany, April 26, 1945. CUs, MSs, internees of Buchenwald concentration camp are interviewed with other survivors. [Image is scratched] CUs, internees from Vienna, Brussels, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands speaking of the horrors of the camps in which they were held prisoners. MSs, CUs of the following persons: Kurt Gatner, former chief of bodyguard of Kurt von Schuschnigg of Vienna, Austria; Jean Blum of Brussels, Belgium; Victor Herskovics of Prague, Czechoslovakia; Serge Kaplan of Eindhoven, Netherlands; Otto Feuer of Hamburg, Germany; and George Henning of B...

  12. Family in Olomouc; farming

    Hanna is blowing up balloons and playing with them at the garden in Olmuetz, with a few family onlookers. They move into the garden. These women are dressed nicely. They all walk in the hills (farmland?) 02:12:34 Probably Stanislawow - numerous men digging in the ground, Benno is in a white shirt. A wheelbarrow is brought to them. Child, probably Babeta (Alyssa Sperber), with the rake. Pan landscape, farm, Lieberman family. Emanuel Sperber with his wife, Nelly. Thomas Sperber drives the tractor, his father Emanuel (balding and seen from behind) walks towards the tractor.

  13. Oral history interview with Simon Breitstein

  14. Liberation by Russians; crowds; Polish prisoners

    Crowds of people waving and rejoicing as the Red Army troops enter the town. Troops marching prisoners (perhaps Polish) along a road outside the city, then cut back to the center of town. Lvov: more crowds of people, fists in the air, cheering the Soviet liberators. Men climb up onto tanks and throw pamphlets and newspapers at the crowd. The crowds lift the soldiers up onto their shoulders. Cut to a field with damaged vehicles, Polish prisoners laying on the ground, walking along a road. A band plays in the street. VS of an acrobat-contortionist and a clown performing for groups of soldiers...

  15. Report on Inspection of German Concentration Camp at Buchenwald

    Contains a mimeograph copy of a report, 5 pages, distributed by SHAEF, G-5 Division, entitled "Report on Inspection of German Concentration Camp at Buchenwald," dated April 25, 1945. Includes typed signature by Frank McSherry, Brigadier General, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, G-5. Inspection report made by Eric Wood, Charles Ott and S.M. Dye. Physical inspection includes camp's mission ["extermination factory"], barracks, hospital, "body disposal" rations, attempted evacuation and "tattooing."

  16. Erna Low memoirs

    Contains two memoirs by Erna Low titled "I was in Oświęcim" and "Visit from Addis Ababa." The first memoir includes a postscript by her son-in-law Alfred Wolkenberg dated November 1983.

  17. Baby Oda playing

    Outdoors at their home in Dahlem, Oda plays with a pinwheel in her crib. Someone holds her hand as she bounces up and down. A woman holds the toys and entertains Oda. Oda dressed in jacket and hat walks around outside. Mother Ethel helps, boy in BG with a bicycle sails a toy boat in the pond. CUs of Oda with a toddler friend.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Von Brauchitsch and Rommel; German troops in action (captured film)

    Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and a contingent of officers inspect coastal fortifications in occupied France (?). The men walk across a beach toward a large buliding. The camera pans across a line of barricades. Large guns are shown in their emplacements. German soldiers in action: firing guns from camouflaged positions, explosions in the distance. Closer shots of the men using field telephones and consulting maps. Low aerial shot of a group of soldiers; they move out across a field. More shooting. Soldiers advancing through heavy cover and across a river...

  19. Jacob Arnon

    Jacob Arnon was a Dutch Jew and leader of a Zionist student organization. Arnon's uncle was one of the chairmen of the Jewish Council [Judenrat] in Amsterdam, and though he admired his uncle greatly, he condemns the Council's actions, especially their choice of whom to deport. Arnon's uncle survived the war but the two never spoke again. FILM ID 3265 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:18 to 01:29:12 [CLIP 1 BEGINS] Mr. Jacob (Ya'akov) Arnon, born Jaap van Amerongen, sits outside on a balcony and holds a pipe. There are some construction and other noises in the background. The image is soft when ...

  20. Tadeusz Januchta letter

    One letter, dated 12 December 1943, sent by prisoner Tadeusz Januchta, from the Auschwitz concentration camp, to his wife, Zinaida, in Kielce, Poland. In the letter, Januchta reports to his wife that he had received her previous letter, had received a package the previous day, and that while packages have been arriving, she should pay attention to regulations about sending photographs, and not to send him any further money. He closes by sending Christmas and New Year's greetings to his wife and daughter.