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  1. Trial of the 20th of July plotters against Hitler

    People's court trial of the July 20th plotters against Hitler at the Supreme Court in Berlin. Defendant Fritz Thiele stands before judge Roland Freisler. Freisler asks him whether, in retrospect, he realizes that Germany's enemies would have celebrated the success of the plot (?). Freisler further asks him about the leaflets prepared by the English. Joachim Sadrozinski stands before Friesler and tells of the aftermath of the coup attempt, when Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm convened a hasty court martial and execution of Stauffenberg and some of the other conspirators in an attempt to hide h...

  2. Abstract painting of a prison camp with ghostlike figures and a hanging created postwar by a former inmate

    Abstract impressionistic white painting created by Motke Blum in 2004, evoking his experiences in forced labor camps in Romania during the Holocaust. His "need for constant renewal" led to minimalist work done in gradations of white. Motke was from Romania where violent persecution of Jews was common by the late 1930s. It increased when the revolutionary Fascist Iron Guard took over the country in September 1940. That year, 15 year old Motke was sent to a forced labor camp near Bucharest, then to Obor labor camp where he worked 20 hours a day, unloading trains and clearing bombed areas of r...

  3. British Federation of University Women

    The collection includes minute books and correspondence of the British Federation of University Women (BFUW), the Refugee sub-committee, relating to new applications for assistance, progress of cases, and case files of refugees assisted by the BFUW.

  4. German invasion of France

    The Degeto Weltspiegel logo appears on screen. German soldiers in a tank drive over a bridge across a river. Various shots of tanks. A road sign points the way to Paris and to Soissons. Wehrmacht troops drive horse carts down a dusty road. Brief shot of French POWs. German soldiers cross the Marne in an inflatable boat. More tanks on the road and crossing a river. Brief CU on a German soldier. Burning buildings and huge clowds of smoke. German tanks pass Versailles. A swastika flag (presumably -- the swastika is not visible) is raised above the palace. Shot of Paris, with the Eiffel Tower i...

  5. Moshe Stern collection

    Collection consists of a photograph depicting the donor wearing a Star of David in Budapest, in 1944.

  6. Joe Karpowski collection

    Contains three photographs pertaining to the donor's experiences in an orphanage in a Chateau at Bours outside of Marseille, France, run by the French government. The donor survivied the war in Russia living in Kazakstan and then was sent to children's home affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. He tried to immigrate to Palestine on the Exodus but was sent back to Germany and eventually immigrated to the United States.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Prewar Hungarian Jewish Life in Ruthenia

    EXT synagogue in Ungvar (Uzhgorod), a town in Ruthenia with a large Jewish population. Ungvar was transferred from Romania to Hungary in November 1938. Star of David, detail on synagogue. Men and women and young boy walking in courtyard of synagogue, Hebrew writing on walls of building. Munkacs (? It is not exactly clear when the location changes). MCU, travelling shot of an older man in profile, long white beard and hat, walking toward screen left. MS, woman wearing a scarf on her head, in peasant dress, walks through wooden gate toward camera, smiling, with a chicken or goose in her hands...

  8. Helen Flynn collection

    Collection consists of four photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar after liberation, from the collection of Lieutenant George Flynn [donor's husband].

  9. Capture of partisans in Crimea

    Waffen SS members search for partisans in the Crimea. Soldiers walk through wooded mountainous territory (at 1200 meters) in search of "Soviet soldiers in civilian clothes, Jews, and Soviet agents" who have allegedly been terrorizing the population. The Germans throw grenades and shoot at a stone and wood structure. They capture the "bandits," all in civilian dress. The narrator says that "these rabble can expect no mercy." The prisoners are led away by armed Germans.

  10. Central Historical Commission : Testimonies (M.1.E)

    The collection contains approximately 2,500 testimonies of Holocaust survivors coming from different countries. The testimonies deal with the fate of the survivors during Nazi rule in their countries of origin. The testimonies were gathered by The Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone, Munich.

  11. Fred Mandel letter

    A letter Fred Mandel wrote to his mother in Austria while he was interned as a youth in Dachau. Donor was released from Dachau and immigrated to the United States.

  12. On board the Exodus

    Video copy of Bill Bernstein's 8mm color home movies aboard the ship Exodus 1947. Exodus 1947 carried 4,500 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who sought to illegally immigrate into Palestine. Even before the ship reached Palestine's territorial waters, British destroyers surrounded it. Bill Bernstein, the Exodus's second officer and a Jew, was clubbed to death trying to prevent a British soldier from entering the wheelhouse on the ship. The remaining passengers were eventually transferred to DP camps in Germany. Exodus ship at sea, flag on ship. 01:03:20 MSs, snow on board steamship (probab...

  13. Morris Gabrielides collection

    Collection consists of a photograph of donor with his family taken at the Port of Pireaus, Greece on March 7, 1951, a day before the family left Greece for the United States. Also includes two copy prints, one of the donor and his father and sister circa 1938, and the other of donor and sister (Effie) with parents and paternal grandmother, circa 1939, both in Athens, Greece.

  14. Portrait of a Polish female inmate drawn by a fellow inmate in a Soviet labor camp

    Pencil portrait of Roza Holcman created by Jozia Berko in March 15, 1944, when both women were political prisoners in a Soviet labor camp in Samarka (Temritau), Kazakhstan. Jozia was an underground delegate for the Polish Government in Exile. She was imprisoned by the Soviets at the camp by 1944 and died there in the late 1940s. Roza was arrested by the Soviets in 1942 for doing military recruitment for the Polish Home Army in the east and sentenced to fifteen years. She had a daughter, Aurelia, in November 1944, with an American medic, Phillip Rosenblith, who was later transferred to Mosco...

  15. Franklin Horowitz collection

    Collection consists of a photograph that was taken on May 18, 1948 in Philadelphia pertaining to founding of the State of Israel. Included in the photo are Mayor Bernard Samuel; George Louis, holding the flag; next is donor's aunt, Ann Sebotnik; and behind Levinthal is the donor's grandfather, Lawrence G. Horowitz.

  16. Propaganda film of Jews in Stuttgart; food distribution; claim that rations are the same as for German citizens

    Title: Lebensmittel Sonderverkaufstelle fuer Juden in der ehem. Gastwirtschaft "zum Kriegsberg" [Special food purchasing location for Jews in the former inn "Zum Kriegsberg"]. Jews wearing stars stand in line outside the former inn. Title: Liefertag [distribution day]. People in white coats remove boxes of food from trucks and take them into the store. A shot of the side of a car with an advertisement for Dr. Whilhelm Kraft's crispbread. People continue to unload goods, giving the appearance of abundance. The image is grainy and high contrast. 01:21:57 "Im Gegensatz zu den Behauptungen der ...

  17. Almanacs

    Almanac containing information about the Jewish refugee community in Shanghai, addresses and general information.

  18. National Socialist Lawyer's Association, Reich Law Department Selected records of the the Nationalsozialistischer Rechtswahrerbund, Reichsrechtsamt (NS 16)

    The records contain documentation of the accumulation, budget and bookkeeping of the Bund Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Juristen (BNSDJ) / Nationalsozialistischer Rechtswahrerbund (NSRB), personnel files and records of the education and career advancement of members of the BNSDJ / NSRB, and files from the Reichsrechtsamt and several district-bureaus of the BNSDJ / NSRB, primarily personnel files.

  19. Toni Susskind Weber photograph collection

    Pre-war and war time photographs pertaining to donor's experiences during WWII. Pre-war photos are of the Bnei Akiva youth group. War-time photos are from Switzerland, where Toni managed to escape together with her brother. Included is one photo of Toni's brother David in a labor camp in Switzerland. Also includes a brochure of songs sung by Bnei Akiva members prior to the war (photocopy).

  20. Life (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    One original copy of Life Magazine from September 22, 1947. It inlcudes an article "Exodus Refugees End Tragic Voyage." Sam Brill's father was on the Exodus and is pictured in the image on page 34.