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  1. Nazi atrocities and other newsreels

    "Nazi Atrocities" segment of US Army "Special Film Report" (part of reels 3 and 4). Evidence of atrocities in several captured German concentration camps, including Holzen, Paderborn, Hadamar, and Ohrdruf. LS, camp entrance in Holzen, Germany. MS, CUs, Russian, Polish, Czech and Jewish prisoners behind barbed-wire fence, smiling. Undernourished prisoners. MS, EXT men standing along barracks. VCUs, individual faces. MS, picking lice from body of another. Pan of survivors, facing camera. Former Russian prisoners raid food stores at Paderborn camp. Crowd pushing, eating from tins. US Army jeep...

  2. Linen poster with the song and lyrics to Schnitzelbank

    Large Schnitzelbank linen poster for the popular German call and response song. It is printed with the music and lyrics for the song "Schnitzelbank" and features 12 sets of cartoon images with captions for the rhyming sets used to vary the short verses. This version includes a stereotypical caricature of a Jewish man with the name "Judenmeier" paired with "Grose Eier" (Large Eggs), and 11 other rhyming pairs with drawings. The Schnitzelbank is a popular German drinking song often sung at carnivals, Octoberfests, and other festivals. A poster with cartoons and captions for the rhyming sets i...

  3. Zaifman family photograph

    Framed portrait of the Zaifman family from Łódź, Poland. Sigmond Zaifman is standing in the rear to the right of his sister. Inscriped on verso of the frame: "Zaifman family from Łódź, Poland/Victims of the Holocaust's 'ethnic cleansing'/Ziggy Zaifman, right rear, survived."

  4. Philip D. Vock papers

    The Philip D. Vock papers consist of biographical material, a journal, and photographs relating to Philip Vock’s wartime experiences hiding in France, as a prisoner in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, as well as his post-war experiences in France and the United States. The collection also includes certificates and membership cards for Marguerite Vock, Philip’s mother, Leon Leonoff, Philip’s uncle, and Estreia Leonoff, Philip’s aunt. Biographical material for Philip Vock include a certificate ("Certificat de Bonne Conduite") issued by the French Air Force, a membership card issu...

  5. Hanna Keselman collection

    Consists of two Catholic prayer cards given to Hanna Rawicz (now Hanna Keselman) in the French convent of Viale Regina Margerita in Rome, Italy, in June 1944. The prayer cards, both of which seem to depict the Virgin Mary, have handwritten messages written by Catholic sisters noting on the verso that these cards are for Hanna's protection.

  6. Association of Former Residents of Glębokie photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting relatives and organizations in Glębokie, Poland (today: Glubokoe, Belarus) before the war and after the war when the survivors returned to memorialize their families murdered by the local residents and by the Germans. Collection of newspapers published in Glębokie in 1936-1938 (transferred to USHMM Library). Albums documenting Jewish life in Glębokie after the war and in Israel; manuscripts; correspondence and documentation of the activities of the Association of Former Residents of Glębokie.

  7. Sloan family papers

    Temporary Registration card issued by the Military Government of Germany on September 21, 1946 to Chana Slodownik.

  8. Emil and Martha Feigenbaum collection

    Consists of documents and correspondence relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Emil and Martha Feigenbaum, originally of Berlin, Germany. The papers specifically concern emigration, employment, and visa issues. Although the couple was able to emigrate to the United States before the war, despite attempts, they were unable to save Emil's parents, Meier and Flora, both of whom perished in the Holocaust.

  9. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Collection of photographs documenting the Nordhausen concentration camp immediately following liberation; dated April 1945. Acquired by Captain Donald Shonk Morris, a medical officer with Company D, 329th Medical Battalion, 104th US Infantry Division, who liberated Nordhausen on April 12, 1945.

  10. Jewish life in small town

    Snow on ground. People clearing the streets, chopping ice on a pond. Horse-drawn wagon in the street. Man dragging a sled with firewood. Stars of David plainly visible on clothing. Heavy snow falling; young boy posing for camera.

  11. Oral testimony of Fanny Fogel Hollander

  12. Sudetenland tour

    Private films. Teelnitz at the foot of the Ore Mountains, Karl-Weis-Warte on the Nollendorfer Pass, SA sports festival, train ride via Mariaschein pilgrimage site to Teplitz-Schönau, steamboat ride on the Elbe, 1941: flood in Aussig. From Wannow to the Schreckenstein thermal baths, Erzgebirge ridge, Ebersdorf, ski jump in front of Adolfsgrün, Trip through the protectorate, trip to Prague, Wenceslas Square, Hradschin, Charles Bridge, HJ collecting, Zwickau in Bohemia, winter in the Ore Mountains.

  13. Richard Lowy collection

    Oral history interviews and related footage featuring Leo Lowy and Kalman Braun

  14. Hinzert camp in 1946; repatriation of victims' bodies to Luxembourg city

    Includes original French intertitles. Musical accompaniment and end titles added by Centre national de l'audiovisual Luxembourg in 2003. On March 9, 1946, the bodies of Luxembourgers who died at SS-Sonderlager Hinzert in 1942 were repatriated to Luxembourg city. Amateur filmmaker Alphonse Wirion accompanied the convoy to Hinzert and filmed the camp at length (what was left of it), including barracks, barbed wire fences, watchtowers, debris. Then he searched the woods around the camp, exhumed the bones and the bodies that were lined up in an empty shack. The filmmaker then follows the trucks...

  15. Print 8, Kosciol Sw. Jana w Toruniu, a church in town

    Print 8 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  16. Nazi propaganda film about Theresienstadt / Terezin

    Excerpt of well-known propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos." Documentary footage depicts the life of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt [Terezin] in Czechoslovakia as harmonious and joyful. They wear yellow stars on their civilian clothing but are euphemistically called residents ["Bewohner"] instead of inmates. They look well-dressed and well-fed and keep smiling. No SS guards or other armed Germans are shown. Shots include: men and women work contentedly on farm, in factories, making pottery ...

  17. Burial at Belsen on the 9th day after liberation

    SS men unload bodies from truck onto the shoulders of others who carry them to grave. Civilians and local officials watching. CU, bodies. Camera follows man with extremely emaciated female corpse slung over his shoulders. Dr. Klein picks up decaying body off of truck and expresses disgust. Full truck of corpses, one by one carried to ditch. Cameraman, Sgt. Lewis of the Army Film and Photo section, visible. Exhausted SS men continue carrying bodies one by one to ditch. CUs of emaciated bodies slung over shoulders of SS detail, camera follows men carrying bodies and focuses on various body pa...

  18. "Stolpersteine"

    Consists of one DVD containing a documentary, approximately 22 minutes, regarding the Stolpersteine in Berlin. The Stolpersteine, which translates to stumbling blocks, are small markers that memorialize those who previously lived at specific addresses. This DVD focuses on the Stolpersteine of Siegfried and Marie Perl, who were deported from Berlin to Theresienstandt in July 1942; Siegfried perished there in September 1943, while Marie was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. It also focuses on the memorial for Selma Heimann, who was deported in September 1942 and killed in Raasiku, Estonia. Mrs. ...

  19. Oral history interview with Bertha Zuckerman

  20. 33 testimonies of children, written in Bergen-Belsen after the liberation

    33 testimonies of children, written in Bergen-Belsen after the liberation. The testimonies were given in Polish.