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  1. Propaganda film about the improved life of the German people under Hitler

    Well-known scenes of interwar unrest, including street riots and communist rallies, interspersed with caberet performers and people in nightclubs. Shot of a bearded Jew walking down the street in Berlin. A brief shot of Hitler speaking is followed by Otto Braun, Prime Minister of Prussia, speaking against National Socialism in March, 1932. He speaks of a secret Nazi document that details plans to seize goods from farmers; those who resist will be shot (uncertain translation). The next scenes show Hitler among joyous crowds at a rally of some kind (presumably of farmers) and a brief shot of ...

  2. George Charles Lange family collection

    Collection consists of 23 photograph prints showing images from Ohrdruf concentration camp post-liberation; images captioned on reverse in English by George Lange, a soldier in the U.S. Infantry Division. The photographs were taken by another soldier and entrusted to Lange, who was also a witness to the liberation of the camp in April 1945.

  3. Eli Wallach collection

    Collection of 31 Nazi propaganda photographs found on the floor of the Propaganda Ministry in Berlin, Germany, August 1945.

  4. Print 2, Deby Rogalinskie, depicts trees

    Print 2 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  5. Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter [Cross of Honor of the German Mother] medal, 3rd Class Order, Bronze Cross

    Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter [Cross of Honor of the German Mother] medal was instituted by the Nazi Party in 1938 as a propaganda measure to promote National Socialist population policy. This medal is a 3rd class order, Bronze Cross. There were three classes of medal: gold, for eight or more children, silver, for six to seven children, and bronze for four to five children. Recipients were nominated by Nazi Party or government officials and had to be pure Germans, of good character, politically and socially. The first awards were in 1939 to some 3 million German mothers, the last in 1944.

  6. John Kaufmann album "Deutschland, England, Australien"

    Album entitled "Deutschland, England, Australien" created by John Kaufmann (born Hans Werner Kaufmann), originally of Heidelberg, Germany. The album includes writings, drawings, and photographs chronicling his family and his Holocaust experiences as a German refugee who fled to England in August 1939, was sent to Australia in July 1940 aboard the HMT Dunera as an enemy alien, and interned in the Hay internment camp in New South Wales.

  7. Wistreich and Tragarz families papers

    Wistreich and Tragarz families papers include documents and photographs relating to the Wistreich family during the Holocaust, including their escape from Krakow to the United States via the USSR, Japan, and Shanghai and photographs and documents relating to the Tragarz family in France. Dora and seven of her siblings survived in hiding in Corez, her sister Perlette survived Auschwitz, her oldest brother Charles was killed at Auschwitz, and their parents were also killed in the Holocaust. Charles’ baby son Daniel survived. Dora and her twin sister Miriam used the aliases Denise and Marie Ta...

  8. 'Tran und Helle' dialogue re. listening to foreign broadcasts on radio

    Tran and Helle admire Tran's radio. Helle notes that Tran can hear all sorts of great programs from throughout the Reich. Tran says that he can also hear foreign news broadcasts, to which Helle replies that Tran could go to prison for such behavior. Even if Tran is not caught, says Helle, good Germans do not do such things. Helle continues to berate Tran for believing that foreign broadcasts tell the truth. Tran answers that he is old enough to tell if something is true and he turns on the radio. The voice of the radio announcer says that someone was just sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison ...

  9. Selected records of the Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahr-Korps (NSKK) (NS 24)

    Contains records of the NSKK corps-leadership, mostly from the inspector of technical training and equipment and the Main Office of Technology.

  10. Dr. Leon Cytryn collection

    Photo album from Marburg, Germany assembled by Dr. Leon Cytryn while he was in medical school. Documents relating to Dr. Leon Cytryn’s liberation and stay in Landsberg DP camp, circa 1946. Included is a group of loose photographs.

  11. Gina Bilander collection

    Album of copy prints of donor's father and his twin brother as well as other family members in prewar Łódź, Poland. Donor's father immigrated to the United States in 1936. He was one of nine children in the family. Original photos of Herman Goering taken in 1945 when donor's father was a Private 1st class member of the 253rd Engineering Corp under General Patton during WWII. Their platoon guarded Herman Goering after his capture in 1945. Photograph of donor's father wearing his army uniform taken in Germany in 1945, signed by donor's father for his wife.

  12. Eva Baumohl papers

    The Eva Baumohl papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, personal narratives, and photographs documenting Eva Baumohl’s family in Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Antwerp; her father’s and brother’s expulsion into Poland in 1938; Eva’s survival in Auschwitz with her sister Erna; and her husband, Naftali Baumohl. Biographical materials include Eva’s wartime and postwar foreigner identification card in Belgium, her Belgian travel card for foreigners, and her son Bernard’s business card. Correspondence include letters and postcards among Eva Baumohl, her parents, and her siblings in Berl...

  13. Myron Bassman collection

    Correspondence: sent from Sokółka and Dąbrowa near Grodno in Poland by family and friends of Szejna Sylvia Jaroszewska (later Sylvia Bassman, donor's mother) in Brooklyn, NY. Photographs: images of family and friends of Szejna given to her on the occasion of her leaving Poland for the USA in 1939. None of the relatives in Poland survived the Holocaust. Prayer book: hand-bound with an inscription on the cover, dedicated to Szejna by her brother Israel Zvi Jaroszewski.

  14. Booklet

    Folksongs and songs glorifying Hitler and Germany, including music and guitar chords, for members of the Hiltler Youth.

  15. Lachter family photographs

    The Lachter family photographs consist of twenty pre-war and post-war photographs documenting the Lachter family of Turobin, Poland. Prewar photographs depict Izak’s uncle Pesach Diamant in Turobin, Mottle Leichter’s extended family, a group from Turobin in a horse-drawn wagon, and Izak Lachter’s father, Moshe, wrapped in a winter coat and boots. Postwar photographs depict Holocaust survivors, including Izak Lachter, at the Lampertheim displaced persons camp and in Ulm and Heidelberg.

  16. Sara and Jochanan Ben-Dor collection

    Photographic prints and documents documenting the experiences of Sara (Gyorgi) Heisz Ben-Dor and Jochanan (Tibor Blau) Ben-Dor in Hungary before and during the Holocaust and also liberation and afterwards; dated 1930's and 1940's.

  17. Cossack volunteers

    LS of Cossack volunteers on horseback. They dismount and shoot at targets with cartoon drawings of Russian officers on them. Shot of Germans officers standing with men in Cossack dress. Cossacks gallop across a field with swords drawn. They use the swords to cut off the heads of mannequins in the shape of a Jew (wearing a Star of David on his chest) and Josef Stalin. CU of Stalin's head on the ground.

  18. Wehrmacht soldiers are welcomed in Yugoslavia

    Wehrmacht soldiers preparing to invade Yugoslavia from Hungary on the morning of April 10, 1941. Smiling soldiers marching, tanks rolling down a road. Kessel says that the soldiers called the battalion commander "Ohm Krueger." Quick shot of Serbian civilians wearing home-made swastika armbands. Kessel notes that the German soldiers viewed these men, who had shortly before been enemies of the Germans, with "mixed feelings." Men identified by Kessel as Croatian farmers wearing Serbian uniforms give themselves up to the Germans. A Serbian officer gives a Hitler salute. Romanian soldiers search...

  19. Zalcberg family collection

    Consists of documents and photographs relating to the post-war experiences of Morris, Regina, and Chana Zalcberg. This includes emigration documentation from the Feldafing Displaced Persons camp, a photograph of the family, and six audiotapes of the oral testimony of Morris Zalcberg, recorded in 1981, who was in the Polish army before the war.

  20. Kurt and Helen Rosendahl collection

    Collection consists of four photographs, one 2 RM note from the Buchenwald SS commisary, three documents declaring K. Rosendahl a former political prisoner (from the Amicale of Buchenwald, the National Federation of World War II political prisoners, and from the Brussels Minister of the Reconstruction), two photocopies of identifying documentation, one article by Kurt Rosendahl entitled "Buchenwald Revisited (2 pages), and one exhibition brochure for "The Overlooked Holocaust: The Devastation of the Sephardic Communities," which ran from 11/16/92-6/24/93 at the Holocaust Resource Center and...