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  1. Jews wearing armbands in market square in Slovakia

    Shots of buildings surrounding a town square. A bearded Jewish man wearing an armband holds his hat on his head. Two Jewish women, also wearing armbands, walk toward the camera. MLS of people in the market square. Several more Jews walk past the camera. Brief shot of people in a swimming pool, then back to the market. The camera picks out several more Jews amongst the other people at the market. They all wear armbands.

  2. Reports and investigative materials compiled by the Military Commissions of the Red (Soviet) Army related to the crimes committed by the Nazis and their collaborators on the occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during WWII

    The collection consists of the investigative materials, reports and statements compiled by the military commissions of the Red (Soviet) Army established for the investigation of the crimes committed by the Nazis and their collaborators on the occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during WWII.

  3. Ezriel Reitzfeld identification card

    Collection consists of an identification card issued July 1, 1948, to Ezriel Reitzfeld, in the "Exodus" Police force in the Sengwarden displaced persons camp.

  4. Robert S. Tullman collection

    The Robert S. Tullman collection consists of two scrapbooks and a photograph album relating to the career of operatic performer and cantor Robert S. Tullman (Tulmann). The scrapbooks include articles and announcements of his performances in German, 1925-1930. The photograph album contains photographs of Tullman in various performances, as well as photographs of Robert S. Tullman and his wife in the United States, circa 1930s-1940s.

  5. Ed R. Harris photograph collection

    Collection consists of ten photographs taken by Ed Harris, an American soldier, immediately following the liberation of the Ebensee concentration camp in Austria.

  6. Nazi banner with a black swastika within a white circle

    Nazi flag recovered from the stadium at Nuremburg, Germany in the spring of 1945 by Glen Hatch, a soldier in the United States Army. Hatch also was with one of the US Army units that liberated Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945.

  7. Einstein speech on the occasion of the opening of the German radio exhibition

    Albert Einstein gives a speech at the opening of the seventh German radio exhibition at the base of the radio tower in Berlin. Einstein instructs his audience that when they listen to the radio they should think of all of the known and unknown scientists who have contributed to its development. He says that engineers have contributed much to democracy by facilitating daily work as well as making the work of great thinkers available to all. He says also that radio has a special role to play in international reconciliation. Good MCUs of Einstein as he reads his speech and of the audience.

  8. Personal archives of the Yiddish writer, Yiehiel (Ikhil) Shraybman

    The bulk of the collection consist of letters received by the writer from Yiddish writers in the Soviet Union, Poland, Israel, United States, and France, as well as from readers of his books. This collection also includes letters received by Yiehiel Shraybman from various Jewish cultural institutions and Yiddish periodicals.

  9. Portfolio cover page

    Portfolio cover page for book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  10. "A Conversation with Hans Fantel"

    Consists of one oral history interview with Hans Fantel, originally of Vienna, Austria, conducted by Rosemary Masters in 2000. In the interview, Mr. Fantel discusses his childhood in Vienn and his discovery, after the Anschluss, that his grandmother was Jewish and he was therefore deemed to have "impure blood." He became a member of the Czech underground and immigrated to the United States, where he married and became an author and journalist. His father, who was Jewish on his mother's side and who had argued against German rearmament, was arrested in 1938 and did not survive the war. After...

  11. Captured German POWs; camp victims and survivors

    Mr. Dixon chronicles the progress of the 99th Chemical Mortar Battalion, primarily in Germany, includes captured German POWs, victims of concentration camp, and liberated former camp inmates most still in uniforms walking in line along the road. Trip to Paris Arc de Triomphe, Tomb of Unknown soldier. Group shot of battalion commanders, army vehicles in snow of courtyard going back to front. Trucks full of captured German POWs coming across Bailey bridge. MLS American tanks and other artillery firing in the Colmar pocket. Camouflaged guns, destruction. German Tiger tank, soldier points to ar...

  12. Chava Edelman collection

    Contains 16 photographs pertaining to the experiences of the Weineirman family in Transnistria between 1941-1944.

  13. 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 ...

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. 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.

  19. Booklet

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

  20. 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.