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  1. Pathe brothers footage of Mendel Beilis

    Russian intertitles. Excerpts from a Pathe brothers film about the 1913 trial of Menachem Mendel Beilis, who was accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy (blood libel). This trial received worldwide attention and ended with Beilis' acquittal by an all-Christian jury. Shots of the house where Beilis and his family lived when he was arrested. Panning view of the court house where Beilis stood trial. Beilis' wife and his three children exit a building and smile at the camera. They pose against a wooden fence. Portrait of Beilis.

  2. Ruth M. Grill photograph collection

    The collection consists of pre-war, wartime, and postwar photographs of Ruth Rubenstein (later Ruth Grill) and her family, originally of Königsberg, Germany. Includes pre-war photographs of Ruth's father, Heinz Rubenstein, and his staff at a Jewish hospital in Berlin, and a postwar photograph of Ruth en route to the United States aboard the MS Nieuw Amsterdam in 1948.

  3. Ephraim Menaker photograph collection

    Collection of five photographic images depicting Ephraim Menaker and his family in Lvov, Poland before World War II. Ephraim Menaker was mobilized with the Russian Army in 1941 and remained in service until 1945. Most of his family was sent to the Lvov ghetto and from there to Belzec where they were killed

  4. Dead and dying at Dachau

    Closeup footage of the dead and dying in Dachau. MS pan of bodies in small room. Some clothed, some not. CU of hand clutching ribbon. Pan back over same bodies. CU of some of dead. MS of room in brick building bodies piled in long narrow space between two concrete partitions. CU of dead mans face, CU of water trough, CU of shoe floating in trough. MCU of bodies in camp uniforms visible through entryway in brick. CU of face of dead man. MS through brick entryway of stack of clothed bodies. MS and CU of dead men on floor. MCU Body of man half covered by blanket lying on straw in barracks room...

  5. Surrender of General Elster; US infantry in France, Belgium, Maastricht, Netherlands.

    General Major Botho Elster studies a map with a French Lieutenant Colonel. Accompanied by other high-ranking officers, Elster bids farewell to some of his troops in a wooded area. He salutes, speaks to the men, and shakes their hands. On September 16, 1944, on the Loire bridge in Beaugency, France, Elster capitulated and handed over 19,500 men to the French. He did so without permission from his superiors, for which he was sentenced to death in absentia by a Nazi court. 01:01:37 US infantry patrols in France. Soldiers walk along devastated, empty streets. A tank rolls down the street. A med...

  6. Sketchbook by Fips of daily prison life created while jailed as a Nazi propagandist

    Sketches created in 1945 by Philipp Rupprecht, pen name Fips, while a prisoner-of-war in the 7th Army Internee Camp #74, in Ludwigsburg, Germany. In late 1945, he presented the notebook to Army Provost Marshal William Gustin. From 1923-1945, Rupprecht was a well known antisemitic caricaturist for the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper, Der Stuermer, published by Julius Streicher. Rupprecht was arrested by the US Army in 1945, tried by a German denazification court, and sentenced to six years hard labor.

  7. Jan Niebrzydowski papers

    Papers consist of a postcard sent by Adolf Hettich, SS-Sturmmann serving in Gusen II, a sub camp of Mauthausen, located in Sankt Georgen in Austria. This postcard was sent on March 16, 1943 to Irena Bielicki in Pabianice, Poland. The reverse side of the postcard shows the dining hall for the SS in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

  8. Mordechai Theo Vered papers

    Papers consisting of letters, travel documents, certificates, photographs, and other documents relating to the experiences of Theo Markus Verderber [donor] as a child on the Kindertransports to England during the Holocaust.

  9. Ruth U. Pleszowski papers

    Collection of photographs and documents relating to Adam Pleszowski [donor's husband] and his parents Felicja Klopholcz and Jeshik Pleszowski, further documenting their experiences following the Holocaust and their immigration to Israel and the United States. Shortly after returning to Krakow after liberation, Felicja met a stranger on a street in Krakow who told her that he recognized her from her photographs. The Polish woman had moved into the Klopholcz's apartment and had discovered their prewar pictures which she preserved. She then returned the photo album to Felicja.

  10. Zehava Bendor papers

    Collection of photographs, identification cards, correspondence, and other documents relating to the experiences of the Dars and Bernstein families during the Holocaust.

  11. I.B. Bunn photograph collection

    Collection includes a photograph of two survivors from Holland and a photograph of American soldiers near Lake Attersee. The photographs were taken by I.B. Bunn, a member of Company B, 305th Medical Battalion, 80th Infantry Division, immediately following the liberation of Ebensee concentration camp in Austria.

  12. Collective farming in the Ukraine

    Clips show different types of collective farms in the Ukraine. Large sign with Hebrew lettering and a Soviet star, shot from below. A man paints Hebrew lettering on a building. English-language intertitle reads, "Jewish collective farmers." A group of people (many women) holding hoes march out into the fields. Nice shot of an old man sitting beside grape vines. Another shot of the sign with the Soviet star. Women in the field harvest grapes, followed by close-ups of some of the women.

  13. Elias Mermelstein papers

    Contains photographs and documents illustrating post-war experience of Elias Mermelstein (donor). Includes an immediate post-war portrait image of Elias wearing his concentration camp uniform; a later portrait of him appearing much healthier; and document issued by UNRRA stating donor was living in Eggenfeld-Pfarrkirchen in Germany from December 1945-February 1946.

  14. Hemar family papers

    The Hemar family papers includes a 1940 postcard from Helena Kalwari in the Warsaw ghetto to her friend Tosia Stryk in Chicago, birth certificates purchased by Alice and Władek Hemar to secure identification cards under false identities, false identification cards and marriage certificate under the couple’s assumed names, a birth certificate for Ryszard Hemar under his false name, and photographs of Alice and Ryszard Hemar shortly after his birth and of Ryszard shortly after the war ended.

  15. Pocket watch with chain traded for food by a concentration camp inmate and recovered postwar

    Gold pocket watch with chain and engraved floral design traded by Ana Waldner for more food in the munitions factory where she was a forced laborer from 1942-1945. It had belonged to her husband, Chaim, and Ana hid it in the lining of her coat before he was deported from Krakow, Poland. After the war, Hannah tracked down the factory manager to ask for the return of the watch. She believes that he returned it due to fear of being found out and tried as a collaborator by the Russians. Ana and her family were imprisoned in the Krakow ghetto following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, then...

  16. Twentieth Century Fox version, Reel 4: European Pact; Invasion of Poland and West and USSR; visit to a camp near Minsk; war

    Reel 4 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. Most of this reel consists of German newsreel footage with the familiar German narrator, with an English voiceover. No title. Hitler speaks to the Reichstag. He addresses Roosevelt and says that any rumors of intentions by Germany to attack the US are crude lies. He addresses the British government about rearmament and the policy of encirclement which eliminates the conditions for a naval treaty. Title: "Signing of European Pact 21 May 1939." Italy's foreign minister Galeazzo Ciano...

  17. Moorish Dancer 3, The Astute Allach white porcelain figurine of a medieval costumed dancer

    Allach porcelain jester figurine acquired by Adelia W. and Davis O. Morris when they lived in Munich, Germany, as part of the US Army occupation force from 1950-1953. One evening, a man came to their door with the figurine, offering it in trade. He gave it to the Morris's in exchange for a bag of coffee. This is model three of five figures in the Jester series, known as Zaddelrock or Moriskentanzer III, the Astute, produced in 1941. Allach Porcelain and the artist Richard Förster were commissioned by the city of Munich in 1937 to reproduce scaled-down figures of a 1480 Gothic sculpture crea...

  18. Judith Rosenbluth-Mogendorff papers

    Contains a postcard sent by Josef Mogendorf (donor's father) in the Netherlands to his grandson, J. Rosenbaum, in Switzerland; dated September 7, 1942. Also contains a telegram, dated December 23, 1943, sent to J. Rosenbaum in Switzerland from family in Tel Aviv, related to their efforts to assist Josef Mogendorf. Josef Mogendorf was deported from Holland and killed in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on July 16, 1944.

  19. Budapest after liberation

    Budapest after liberation by Soviet forces. Quality varies. A Soviet soldier writes "Budapest" in Russian on a sign. Shots of burning, partially destroyed buildings. A corpse lies in the foreground. More shots of corpses. Soviet soldiers walk across a snow-covered square. Soviet and Romanian (?) officers meet and confer. Soviet soldiers with captured flags. Soviet soldiers arrest Hungarian soldiers. Soldiers are led out of a cellar while other are forced to march down the street with their arms up.

  20. Linen poster with the song and lyrics to Schnitzelbank

    Large Schnitzelbank linen poster for the popular German call and response song. It is printed with the music and lyrics for the song "Schnitzelbank" and features 12 sets of cartoon images with captions for the rhyming sets used to vary the short verses. This version includes a stereotypical caricature of a Jewish man with the name "Judenmeier" paired with "Grose Eier" (Large Eggs), and 11 other rhyming pairs with drawings. The Schnitzelbank is a popular German drinking song often sung at carnivals, Octoberfests, and other festivals. A poster with cartoons and captions for the rhyming sets i...