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  1. NOTICE! NOTICE! Text only wanted poster listing people sentenced to death for crimes against the German government in occupied Poland

    Warning announcement issued in Zakapone, Poland, on October 31, 1943, by the Chief of SS and Police in the Krakow District. The poster announces that the 27 listed persons have been charged with various crimes committed against the German government in Poland and sentenced to death. Persons 1-6 for participation in the roving bands, person 7 for illegal weapons possession, persons 8-9 and 11-27 for illegal activities, and person 10 for participation in a terrorist group. Although the sentence has been carried out on the first five people, the remaining people may be pardoned if no further a...

  2. Hitler visits troops in the last days

    A frail-looking Hitler visits soldiers in the East. He greets military officers and sits at a desk with a map in front of him. Hitler exits the building and is greeted by saluting soldiers. Hitler drives off in a car. Deutsche Wochenschau eagle graphic on screen.

  3. Judith Korot collection

    Contains documents, letters, and photographs illustrating the Grunberger and Freimann families in Slovakia during the Holocaust.

  4. Hanna plays with a camera and lipstick case with her father Benedikt

    Hanna has a photo camera, her father Benedikt looks over her shoulder and sticks his tongue out at the camera. He begins explaining it to her, helping her to use it. She also plays with a lipstick case.

  5. Petain and Leval receive the Vichy diplomatic corps

    Henri Petain and Pierre Laval receive members of the Vichy diplomatic corps, who give them New Year's greetings. Very dark shots of Petain, Laval and Papal Nuncio Valerio Valeri.

  6. 100th anniversary of the German railway

    Hitler arrives at the ceremony to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Reichsbahn at the train station in Nuremberg. The narrator says there are 3,000 spectators. Nazi flags wave in the wind. Hitler walks past a train, accompanied by a large contingent of railway officials, including Julius Dorpmueller (in bowler hat). They walk across a field crisscrossed with train tracks. Hitler salutes a group of railway workers and receives cheers from a stage in front of a huge crowd. Views of new trains rolling down the tracks. 01:04:31 Dorpmueller stands beside Hitler. More views of new trains, ...

  7. Sephardic Songs of Monastir Kantigas de los Sefardes a Monastir

    Sephardic songs of Monastir, Macedonia. CD 1 contains forty tracks of music sung by Avram Sadikario, recorded in 2004. CD 2 contains a document with the text of the lyrics.

  8. Lieberman family relaxes on the terrace in prewar Poland; Hanna and Thomas bathe

    The family is in the yard. Hanna and Thomas run around unclothed. High angle shots looking down at the porch, where the family eats. Includes Thomas, Benedikt, Heinrich, Hanna, and Magda. CUs, Emanuel (with glasses) and Nelly. The children bathing in the wash tub with Benedikt.

  9. Peter Kauf collection

    Contains thirty-eight original photographs of the Kauf family before the war in Berlin, during the war in Belgium, and after liberation. Peter Kauf survived the Holocaust in hiding; his older brother was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered upon arrival; his parents were hiding most of the time, but at the end of the war, they were arrested and imprisoned in a transit camp in Belgium.

  10. Otto Kundert collection

    Identification card issued to Otto R. Kundert (donor's father), War Crimes Duty Officer for the 7708 War Crimes Group of the United States in Germany; two (2) photographic prints - black and white images identified on verso by Otto Kundert as atrocities from Buchenwald used as evidence in war crimes trials in Germany in 1945 and 1946; both images are dated November 8, 1945, Wiesbaden, Germany, inscriptions are in English.

  11. "The Holocaust Years"

    Consists of one memoir, 20 pages, entitled "The Holocaust Years", written by Morris Gliklich, originally of Nisko, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Gliklich describes pre-war life in Nisko, the German invasion of Poland, anti-Jewish legislation, and their escape into Russian territory. While in Russian territory, the family was reunited with Mr. Gliklich's father, whom they had believed to have been killed during the German invasion. The family was forced onto a train headed east and arrived in Siberia, where they lived in the areas of Synia and Kirinsk until 1943. The family slowly made their wa...

  12. Richard H. Ennis photograph collection

    Contains six photographs from Richard. H. Ennis (donor's father), a member of the 10th Armored Division during the liberation of Landsberg, Germany in 1945. Images depict medics and US Army personnel examining corpses in the front of burnt huts which the inmates were forced into; later burned by German military before retreat from the advancing 7th Army.

  13. Invasion of Poland

    An American female narrator speaks over German newsreel footage showing the bombardment of the port of Danzig by the German ship Schleswig-Holstein. Polish and German officers confer as the Polish garrison surrenders. German soldiers hand out cigarettes to Polish POWs. German infantry advance on foot into Polish territory, accompanied by horse-drawn artillery. German troops advance across a field, under cover of artillery fire. Large numbers of Polish POWs marching and then eating in a large enclosure. Some look suspiciously at the camera. Polish refugees (probably Volksdeutsch) receive sou...

  14. Paulette Daser collection

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Piroska Schwartzova [donor] born in 1924 Negrovo, Czechoslovakia (present day Ukraine) and moved to Belgium in July 1938, but was unable to return to Negrovo; materials include identification cards for Piroska in Belgium and later, Southern France, where she was forced to flee in an effort to escape Nazism. Also included are postcards and letters from her parents and family who were unable to escape, and were eventually deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where they are presumed to have perished.

  15. Cpl. Joseph C. Dumps photograph

    Contains a photographic print, black-and-white image of two men speaking to group of American soldiers; inscribed in verso by Cpl. Joseph C. Dumps (donor’s father) that “These men were just telling us of the large ovens in the prison camp Dachau. In these ovens over 3000 people were burned to death.” The soldiers are with the 6th Air Disarmament Group,9th Air Force; Ebermanstadt, Germany; in English; 1945; sent by Cpl Dumps to his wife living in Baltimore, Maryland.

  16. Second Unger family visit to Polish village

    The Unger family and townspeople stand around a car in the village of Niebylec. They stand in a group with Yankel; Morris sports a straw hat. Sitting in a car, Ethel poses with Kalman. The family departs in a buggy to visit friends in the countryside. The family is greeted by their friends. CU of Kalman and his friend conversing. 01:12:19 HAS, people gathering to go to synagogue. Men dressed in religious garb. Little children stand in the courtyard looking up at the camera, shooting from inside the window of a house. Ethel in a long dark coat and light dress and Sy stand together and look u...

  17. Postwar destruction in Germany

    Aerial views of a German city, probably Stuttgart, along the river with collapsed bridges and bomb sites. Pan of the twisted metal of bombed rail cars and railroad tracks. VAR shots of massive destruction and rubble. 01:09:30 CU, "Photographieren Verboten!" sign. Soldier talks to a woman on a bike, gesturing and trying to show her something on a piece of paper. Piles of rubble on street. 01:09:53 Two young boys (orphans?) in oversized coats and boots look up at the camera. Three walls of a warehouse barely stand amidst the rubble and debris. Some buildings in BG remained untouched and undam...

  18. Hoess and others arriving in Warsaw for trial; snapshots from Germany

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 60 Title: Vor dem Warschauer Prozess: Ankunft der Hauptangeklagten [Before the Warsaw trial: arrival of the main defendants]. Nazi defendants disembark from a plane under guard by Polish soldiers. The narrator says that they are guilty of countless crimes against justice and humanity. Some of the men are made to stand posed for the camera as they are identified: Josef Buehler, Hans Frank's deputy in Poland; Ludwig Leist, mayor of Warsaw; Jaeger, the police president of Posen, Beckmann, former head of the Krakow Gestapo; Polnikow, head of the Posen Gestapo, Daume, rep...

  19. "We Are Here"

    Consists of one DVD, entitled "We Are Here", written and produced by Harrison Heller. The documentary tells the story of Helen Bronstein and Harry Shabas, who participated in a Jewish partisan group from 1942-1945 and later married. Helen Bronstein, who is interviewed on the documentary along with her sister, Dorothy, was originally from Drohiczyn, Poland, and survived in various hiding places until joining the partisan group. Also interviewed is Boris Kotler, who, like Harry, was originally from Siemiatycze, Poland, and who recounts the story of the formation of the partisan group. Harry a...

  20. US Army poster for public display of war news for May 1-8, 1945

    News poster arranged for display by Tina Gioffredi Battani in the ordnance plant in Ankeny, Iowa, where she worked during World War II. She changed the posters on a regular basis as they were issued weekly by the United States Army Information branch to explain and update the public on the status of the war in Europe and Asia. This 2-sided poster, issued May 14, 1945, depicted events from the week May 1-8. One side, titled: Victory in Europe, has an image of captured German soldiers and a map pointing out Japan with an explanation of the danger posed by the escalation of their military forc...