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  1. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung (Heidelberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Front page from Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, with the headline: "12 Todesurteile in Nuernberg" or 12 death sentences in Nuremberg. The other side details the roll each Nazi-party member played and the crimes for which they were either convicted or absolved.

  2. Touring Paris

    Jacoby family tours Paris. CUs, pan up Eiffel Tower. Various sights in Paris: EXTs of buildings, statues. French on streets. "John Baillie" tailor shop. Opera House. Traffic. Cafe la Paix. Street scenes. Brasserie. S. Raphael (hotel) car. Champs d'Elysee. Arc de Triomphe. Obelisk in Place de la Concorde. Street scenes, civilians, gardens with pond & tourists. In park outside Paris, street entertainment (band, unicyclist). Leon Blum speaks, airshow, spectators wave white flags. 00:23:07 Notre Dame. Cecil shop. Street scenes.

  3. Illa Sherman photographs

    Collection consists of 20 prewar and wartime photographs of Illa Sherman and her family. Illa Sherman survived the Holocaust in hiding and in a convent in the Warsaw environs.

  4. Ety Moncarz Rosinski photograph collection

    Collection of four pre-World War II photographs taken in Brussels, Belgium.

  5. Skiing vacation in Austria

    A group of skiers prepares to ski down a hill. Longer shots of the group from the bottom of the hill.

  6. Stamp wallet and 119 postage stamps, issued by Nazi Germany

    Set 1: 1 stamp wallet and 23 postage stamps. a. Wallet is brown cardstock. All printing is black ink, except where noted. Manufactured by: ELBE FILE & BINDER CO., Inc., of Fall River, Massachusetts. Front states: STAMP WALLET; at top, Perforation Gauge. At bottom: Property of / Al Perrin, written in script with blue pen. Back has advertisement for manufacturer. Inside is perforation gauge on left, with shallow pockets on right. Dimensions: 5.44 x 3.44 inches b. Stamps with the right side profile of Adolf Hitler’s head. Stamps are uncanceled. All stamps have: DEUTSCHES REICH printed at t...

  7. Antisemitic Nazi propaganda leaflet mimicking a US silver certificate found by a US soldier

    Anti-Jewish and anti-Allied forces Nazi propaganda leaflet acquired by Charles E. Pugh while he served as a United States paratrooper in France during World War II. These leaflets were dropped from planes over Paris in late 1943, as part of a German propaganda campaign to raise suspicions against the United States and its part in the worldwide Jewish conspiracy which threatened the safety of France and all of Europe. The streets would appear to be littered with real dollar bills. Then, after picking one up, a person would discover that it was fake and see the information detailing how Jews ...

  8. Lea Sonnenschein papers

    Transcript of an interview and a manuscript documenting the experience of Lea Sonnenschein in Amsterdam, Westerbork transit camp, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Troebitz, Leipzig, Munser, Buchenwald, and Herenveen.

  9. Victor and Melinda Swiecicki papers

    Papers consist of a train ticket issued to Klara Perl and her son, Benjamin Perl Melinda (Swiecicki's step-father), for travel from Vienna to Trieste in Italy in October 1939. Also included in the papers are six photographic images of Franek Swiecicki (Victor Swiecicki's father) in the Polish Anders Army.

  10. Bidding farewell at New York harbor

    MS, SS Champlain ship (overexposed) at New York harbor. Pan, Jacoby family members, smiling as they bid farewell to Samuel, Marie, Willis, and Mark Jacoby on a trip to visit family in Biecz, Poland and other sites in Europe.

  11. German women involved in war effort; woman wearing Mother's Cross greets her son; German army in France; Warsaw Uprising; action on the Eastern Front

    Cameramen listed on screen: Ammer, Berna, Garms, Grigoleit, Groeninger, Jaeckisch, Kilian, Lempert, Mahla, Pahl, Ritter, Selbach, Stollsteimer, Zeiss. Close up on an announcement requiring both women and men to register with the employment office. Women in an office page through piles of registrations while the narrator says that women must now enroll in the total war effort. Women must fill positions so that men can be free to go to the front. Shots of women operating drill presses, working in an armaments factory, and being trained as streetcar conductors. Women serving in the police and ...

  12. Kharkov trial

    A German defendant at the Kharkov trial says that from 1 September 1942 to 14 September 1943 between 3000 and 4000 residents of the area were murdered. He then describes how the gas vans functioned.

  13. Oral history interview with Daniel Hassan

  14. Sylvia Rozines papers

    The Sylvia Rozines papers primarily contain photographs of the Perelmuter family and their relatives in Łódź, Poland before the Holocaust. They also include photographs taken in the Foehrenwald and Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camps after the Holocaust and an identification card issued to Sylvia at Bad Reichenhall. Photographs depict Sylvia, her parents Izak Mendel Perelmuter and Chaya Wolfman Perelmuter, and her sister Dora Perelmuter Galek. They also depict Izak’s brothers Luzer and Haskel, their wives Andzia and Chana, Andzia and Luzer’s son Monek, and Izak’s sister Itka. Additional...

  15. Elisheva Schelaznicky papers

    Contins a false identification card issued for "Sonja Seegers" and used by Betty Beek (donor's couson) who died in Bergen-Belsen of typhus on March 15, 1945; issued in Haarlem, The Netherlands; dated September 15, 1941.

  16. Barbie Trial -- Day 1 -- Barbie's activities after the war and history of the Nazis in France

    17:31 A clerk reads the list of Civil Parties. 18:07 The clerk lists what Barbie has been doing after the war. 18:14 The clerk discusses the Nazi police organization in France and the establishment of the "Final Solution." 18:23 The clerk lists the sentences against Barbie made in absentia, by the Permanent Military Court of Lyon on April 29, 1952 and on November 25, 1954, condemning Barbie to death. Due to France's Statute of Limitations, Barbie cannot be held acocuntable for these sentences.

  17. Prayer book imádságok zsidó nők számára

    The prayer book belonged to Ibolya Ungar and was saved by Cecilia Ungar, Ibolya's mother during the Holocaust in Budapest, Hungary.

  19. Egg crate used as a suitcase by family living in hiding

    Egg crate used as a trunk by the family of 2-year-old Uriel Cohn to move their belongings from one hiding place to the next in the Netherlands. Eggs were brought to auction in these wooden egg boxes packed in a bed of hay to avoid breakage. On July 15, 1942, the family received a summons from the German occupying authorities for deportation to a labor camp. They decided to go into hiding instead. Uriel’s 6-year old brother, Michael, was placed alone with one family and Uriel was hidden by Everdina and Marinus van der Beek. The van der Beek’s soon offered refuge to both his parents and they ...

  20. Records of the Baranya County Archives, Hungary

    Contains lists, reports, notifications, protocols, minutes, affidavits, certificates, requests, approvals, rejections, appeals, authorizations, powers of attorney, surveys, inventories, police and court records and official correspondence created by the respective offices of mayors; constables; prefects; district notaries; government commissioners; court, police, gendarme, and military officials; municipal finance managements; Jewish communities; Jewish Councils and other authorities of the region of Hungary called Baranya County, affecting the Jewish and Roma population, and regarding the ...