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

    View of the courtroom in the Supreme Court of Berlin, showing the accused sitting in the dock, surrounded by police. Roland Freisler and the other judges enter the room and give a Hitler salute before taking their seats. Freisler calls the name of the accused Hans-Georg Klamroth and Klamroth is brought forward. Freisler berates Klamroth for knowing about the plot and doing nothing to prevent it. Hans-Bernd von Haeften is brought before Freisler. After confirming his position in the political department of the Foreign Office, he says that he no longer felt bound by his oath to Hitler, and th...

  2. Reprisal action by the Grossdeutschland regiment in Pancevo

    Color. Shots of the cemetery at night, followed by a sketch that Kessel drew showing how the partisans shot the Germans from hiding places in the cemetery. The next scenes show the gruesome executions of civilians in the cemetery. Members of the Grossdeutschland regiment and Serbian civilians inspect the corpses of men who were lined up against the cemetery wall and shot in reprisal for the killings of the Gemans. Several men are hanged in the cemetery. In his narration, Kessel points out that these are not partisans but civilians who are being executed as examples. Serbian civilians perfor...

  3. Henry J. Kellermann collection

    Consists of documents and correspondence related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war life and accomplishments of Dr. Henry J. Kellermann, originally of Berlin, Germany. Includes material regarding Dr. Kellermann's pre-war life and schooling, the Gross-Breesen agricultural school for German-Jewish boys, and Dr. Kellermann's involvement in wartime refugee affairs and in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Also includes material regarding Dr. Kellermann's post-war career in the United States Foreign Service, where he served in Bern and as the permanent representative to UNESCO, and regarding hi...

  4. Choir practice in the New Synagogue in Berlin on the night before Yom Kippur, 1932

    LS of Cantor Leo Gollanin as he sings the Kol Nidre in front of a choir on the evening before Yom Kippur in 1932 in Berlin's New Synagogue. Closer views of Gollanin and the female choir behind him.

  5. Schoolteachers receive instruction in racial theory

    Daily life at a Nationalsozialistischer Lehrerbund (NSLB) school. The NSLB was founded in 1929 in association with the NSDAP. Its task was to indoctrinate teachers into the Nazi worldview. Title on screen: Weltanschauliche Schulung [education in the [Nazi] worldview]. A group of men, presumably schoolteachers are instructed by Stadtradt Fink, who is speaking. They are outside under a tree. Title on screen: Stadtrat Pg. Fr. Fink spricht ueber die Judenfrage [Fink speaks about the Jewish question]. Interior shot of Fink, standing in front of a swastika flag and speaking animatedly. The camera...

  6. Authur Born collection

    Collection consists of documents, poems and 29 photographs concerning the experiences of Arthur Bornstein [donor], born in Oświęcim, Poland, interned in Sosnowiec ghetto in Poland and ultimately deported to Gruenberg and Kittelitztreben (sub-camps of Gross-Rosen) and Buchenwald concentration camps, where he was liberated and taken to Switzerland by the Red Cross to recuperate. Inlcuded in the collection are pre-war images of donor's family in Oświęcim, poems transcribed immediately after liberation by donor who learned them in Buchenwald, and postwar documents and images of his experience...

  7. Goering visits wounded soldiers on train along his route, Eastern front.

    A map shows the location where Hermann Goering is visiting wounded soldiers on the Eastern front. The men are on a train travelling back to Germany. CUs of Goering and smiling wounded troops. Goering is accompanied by a large entourage of officers and several nurses.

  8. Estate of Leo J. Lewin photograph collection

    Collection consists of 59 photographs taken in the children's home of La Hille. Leo J. Lewin [donor] was part of a group of children who was moved from children's home in Seyre to La Hille by Secours Suisse.

  9. Kazimierz Laski collection

    Collection consists of photographs and documents relating to the Cygler and Wolfowicz families before the war in Częstochowa, during the war in hiding, and after the war in Warsaw, Poland. Cygler was Professor Kazimierz Laski's original last name, and Wolfowicz was Professor Laski's late wife's maiden name.

  10. Bernard Rosenthal photograph collection

    Contains three photographs of the donor's sister-in-law, Rachel Krygier Gottleib (b. February 10, 1926, Warsaw, Poland) and her experience on the "Exodus" ship, 1947.

  11. Jehudit Batelman collection

    Collection consists of photographs documenting the experiences of the Surkis and Pressman families during the Holocaust in Romania.

  12. Print 8, Kosciol Sw. Jana w Toruniu, a church in town

    Print 8 of 10, in a book of ten prints by Leon Wyczolkowski, either signed or signed in plate.

  13. 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.

  14. Pamphlet

    Pamphlet of poetry by Joost van den Vondel, a pseudonym used by Albert Helman. Helman was a member of the Artist's Resistance in the Netherlands and wrote poetry about the Resistance. Joost van den Vondel was a famous poet in 17th century Holland. Helman wrote "Rei van Smeeckelingen" in the style of a 17th century poem and it deals with the deportation of the Jews, names of occupiers and leaders in Germany and collaborators in Holland. It also has religious undertones like Joost van den Vondel's poetry. Helman did this because if his writings were published and displayed under Joost van den...

  15. Gloria Klein collection

    Collection consists of records documenting the experiences of George Klein (Gloria Klein’s husband) during the Holocaust. Records include his DP identification card, a medical certificate, a certificate stating that he was a survivor living in the Bad Reichenhall DP camp, documentation regarding the search for George's father, and a partial document regarding medical exams. Also included are two notecards from his presentations about his Holocaust experiences

  16. Print 10, Deby Rogalinskie, depicts trees

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

  17. Serbian POWs and returning soldiers

    Color. Serbian POWs in a POW camp in Belgrade. The prisoners receive food and look at the camera suspiciously. CU of raggedly dressed civilians who have been taken prisoner. Returning Serbian soldiers look for their families.

  18. Sol and Arlene Sturm collection

    Contains six postcards and two envelopes from letters written to donor's mother, Helen Schreiber, in New York City, from Herman Schreiber and his wife, Netta Horowitz-Schrieber of Stanisławów, Poland, dated 1939-1941.

  19. Ljubica Sarolic papers

    The Ljubica Sarolic papers consist of a November 2, 1944 mailing label from a package sent via the Slovenian Red Cross to Ljubica in the Auschwitz concentration camp by her mother Kati Rozman in Ljubljana; a copy print of a portrait of Ljubica shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 16; and a photocopy of a September 18, 1944 list of prisoners selected by Dr. Josef Mengele for his medical experiments and signed by him. Ljubica appears as prisoner number 75744 at place 45 on the list.

  20. Cesia Fater collection

    Collection of photographs, papers and brochures (including music scores) pertaining to the life of Issachar Fater, cantor, composer and music teacher before the war. In 1940 he was a refugee in Soviet Baronovice and worked as an inspector for teaching of music. After being freed from labor camp in Siberia he became the director of the State Philharmonic Orchestra in Tadjikistan. Returning to Poland, he moved to Paris, Belgium, Rio de Janeiro and in 1962 immigrated to Israel. Includes a birth certificate in the name of Elizbieta Ritkowska issued August 27, 1938 and used by donor during the war.