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  1. Prison for defendants; Landsberg hangings

    SS Bunker, Dachau SS Compound, Prison for Defendants, Dachau, Germany, May 14, 1946. Pan of bunker which houses defendants. LS, German civilian laborers entering main entrance of SS camp. Scenes of prisoners taking walk in yard. MS, Maria Mandl and Elisabeth Ruppert. LS, MP guard trying doors in cell block. MS, Therese Gebhart, Maria Rotman, Barbara Matina seated in cell. CU, Sepp Dietrich seen through cell door opening. Scene through door opening of Sickel seated on bed. Scenes of civilian jailers pressing food through gaps in cell doors. CUs of two unidentified defendants in cell block. O...

  2. Photograph

    Photograph of seven men, dressed in Allied uniforms, standing on a Bimah, backed by an American flag, a flag which bears the Star of David, candles, and bushes. Created by an unknown photographer, September 1945, at the Stadt Theater, Kaufbeuren, Germany.

  4. Sign

  5. Memorial to police

    Title on screen: "Ein Ehrenmal der Polizei auf dem Horst Wessel-Platz in Berlin enthuellt. Unweit dieser Stelle wurden vor drei Jahren die Polizei Hauptleute Anlauf und Lenk von Kommunisten ermordert. [The unveiling of a memorial to the police on the Horst Wessel Plazt in Berlin. Three years ago the police captains Anlauf and Lenk were murdered by communists]." A policeman stands and speaks at a flag-draped podium. He salutes at the end of his speech. The crowd salutes as the memorial is uncovered. Members of the military march past the memorial. Good shots of police in uniform, including c...

  6. Germans and Russians meet at Brest-Litovsk

    Polish tanks and other weapons destroyed or captured by the invading Germans. A pile of captured gas mask and a pile of rifles. Panning shot of dead horses and wrecked military vehicles in and near the Vistula River. German and Russian forces meet at Brest-Litovsk. Junior officers of both Armies salute and shake hands, while German soldiers hand out cigarettes to the Soviets. A Sovier officer hands a German officer a document written in Cyrillic. Soviet and German troops line a road and watch formations from both armies drive past. General Heinz Guderian and General Semyon Krivoshein salute...

  7. Goldschmidt School

    Goldschmidt School. Hebrew on chalkboard. Teacher and Jewish girl. Girls in class at desk. Packing book bags.

  8. Èva Bán family collection

    The collection consists of an embroidered linen relating to the experiences of Gizella Weisz and a photographic print of Vilma Gonda and her daughter.

  10. Erich Oppenheim collection

    Contains a passport issued to Erich Oppenheim upon his leaving Germany in January 1935, and documents and photographs relating to Mr. Oppenheim's family in Nentershausen, Germany. His parents and two brothers were murdered, and his sister left Germany on Kindertransport in 1939.

  11. Book

    Insert in book concerning the study of eugenics.

  12. Esther and Robert Born papers

    The collection primarily consists of a diary kept by Esther Born (née Wittlin), originally of Żółkiew, Poland (present-day Zhovkva, Ukraine), who survived the Holocaust in hiding. The diary is handwritten in Polish on loose sheets of paper, and included is a typed English language translation. It describes in detail the family’s flight from Żółkiew and their experiences while in hiding. Also included in the collection is Esther’s autograph book from Bytom, Poland, and the Memmingen and Wegsheid DP camps, 1945-1947; a 1953 essay about her arrival in the United States; a Wittlin family tree; ...

  13. Family in park in Budapest

    “Danubius Pathé Baby Budapest” A continuation of Film ID 4401, where a group of Schiffer family members walks toward the camera, posing for the camera. Ernö gestures at the cameraman, and waves/sends kisses (possibly to the NY branch of the family). Jonas Schiffer with a cane sits on a bench and smokes his pipe. More shots of the Schiffers walking in the park, posing, probably in 1929 or 1930. “Danubius Pathé Baby Budapest”

  14. My memories of Raoul Wallenberg

    Contains a memoir with Tomas Kaufmann's reminiscences of the assistance given to him by Raoul Wallenberg.

  15. Armband handstitched with a red cross and Star of David by a concentration camp inmate and nurse

    Armband worn by Annie Rose Levine while she was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp. In June 1942, Annie, her husband, Benjamin, and their 4 children were deported by the Germans from Sered, Czechoslovakia, (Slovakia) to Auschwitz. In September, Benjamin was beaten to death by camp guards for saying the Kaddish over a dead bunk mate. In 1943, Annie began working as a nurse in the camp hospital. An SS section leader made her his private nurse. One day, he asked her to get a paper from a box beneath his bed. Also in the box was her husband’s wedding ring. That day, Annie secretly stitc...

  16. Deportation of Jews from Thrace

    The deportation of the Jewish communities of Kavala, Seres, and Drama from Thrace, an area under Bulgarian military administration (now Northern Greece), carried out by the Bulgarians in spring 1943. Nearly seven minutes of film footage recorded by cameramen from Bulgarska delo document this deportation consisting of approximately 3,000 Jews. It was not possible to shoot without some official permission, for example at the request of the Bulgarian commissar of Jewish Affairs, but no records about it have been found. The film material was not used in a newsreel, nor in any film at the time. ...

  17. United Credit Society of Merchants and Reality Proprietors, Ltd. in Kielce Zjednoczone Towarzystwo Kredytowe Kupców i Właścicieli Nieruchomości w Kielcach (Sygn. 1392)

    The financial book of one of the Jewish banks in Kielce. Each page of the book contains a description of financial transactions (shares, dividends etc.), of the shareholder and the date of its adoption. In total, the bank had 182 shareholders.

  18. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate in Szczecin (Stettin) Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Szczecinie (Sygn.484)

    Reports, instructions, correspondence, studies, and other materials related to the condition, activities and migration of national minorities in Poland: Jews, Germans, Ukrainians, and communist groups.

  19. Sussman family papers

    The Sussman family papers document the prewar and wartime experiences of Leo and Rachel Sussman in Vienna, Austria and Switzerland. The collection includes a school certificate, an approval for travel from the St. Gallen Foreign Office, an identification card, and a United States war ration book for Rachel Sussman as well as an identification card for Leo Sussman. Also included is correspondence from Chanine Stroh, Rachel Sussman, and Leo Sussman. Sussman family photographs depict Leo’s father Josef Sussman, Leo’s brother, Moritz Sussman as well as Leo and Rachel Sussman. Stroh family photo...

  20. Court of the First Instance in Miechów Sąd Grodzki w Miechowie (Sygn. 1847)

    Court files in civil and criminal matters in which one of the parties was a person of Jewish origin. Post-war materials regarding real estate owned by Jews, applications for correction or reconstruction of birth, death or other documents.