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  1. Hitler and Mussolini; German-Japan pact

    Title: "1942" Title: "A Gift to Hitler February 1942" Title: "Axis Plans at Berchtesgaden 29 April 1942" Hitler and Mussolini confer at Berchtesgaden (1942). Title: "Japanese Submarine Welcomed in German Harbor 30 September 1942" A Japanese submarine is welcomed at a German port. Title: "1943" Title: "Signing of German-Japanese Economic Pact 20 January 1943" Ribbentrop signs pact. Title: "Arrival of Mussolini after his "Liberation" 10 October 1943" Mussolini visits Germany after his rescue from US captors.

  2. Fritzler family papers

    The Fritzler family papers consists of biographical materials and emigration and immigration files documenting Walter, Agnes, and Geoffrey Fritzers education and work experiences in anticipation of their emigration. The collection also includes photographic material of Walter, Agnes, and Geoffrey. Biographical materials include a birth certificate for Geoffrey, marriage certificate for Walter and Agnes, and a death certificate for Agnes. This series also includes a Declaration of Inheritance from Geoffrey Fritzler. Emigration and immigration files include education and work papers Walter an...

  3. "By the Skin of Our Teeth"

    Contains a memoir, 129 pages, entitled "By the Skin of Our Teeth," by Harry Nissimov. Mr. Nissimov writes about his experiences in a Jewish labor brigade in Bulgaria during World War II.

  4. OSE home for Jewish boys

    OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) home for Jewish boys in Ecouis, France. The teenage boys had been liberated from Buchenwald just three months prior. The boys dance. 00:02:46 The boy carrying a suitcase is Israel Meir Lau. The teenage boys engage in sports, visit the city and some board a bus and wave goodbye, perhaps emigrating to Palestine or other places. A memorial service/parade and display of models the boys made in a woodworking class. They socialize with girls and build a fire.

  5. Lorraine Glendinning collection

    The Lorraine Glendinning collection consists of items sent from Lorraine Pressler (later Lorraine Glendinning) in Nuremberg, Germany, to her parents in Missouri, August 1946, including a map of the seating arrangement of the courtroom for the International Military Tribunal (IMT); a visitor pass to the Tribunal (session 390); a letter from Lorraine with envelope; and a newspaper with front page article about the International Military Tribunal entitled "Das Nurnberg Urteil" [The Nuremberg Judgement], with images of defendants, their judgement and sentence.

  6. Hasten Hebrew Academy collection

    Consists of one adhesive stamp with logo from office of Reichskanzlei; three postcards from Zambrów, Poland (dated 1946), written in Yiddish and addressed to George Sampson of Indianapolis, Indiana; and a letter written by Sy Schenkman, a U.S. soldier writing home to his wife in Indianapolis, describing the scene at site of a concentration camp in Nammering (near Bayreuth), Germany, including German civilians being forced to bury bodies of camp victims, and former SS guard being beat up by American troops.

  7. Handmade white flag with a blue Star of David made by a German refugee in Shanghai

    White flag with a blue Star of David sewn by Ruth Linden in 1945 in Shanghai, China, to express her vision of the future flag of Israel. The flag was sewn in the "Ladies Secondhand Store," owned by the Linden family. They provided clothing goods and tailoring services to the community in Shanghai.

  8. Photographic slides of Dachau

    The photographic slides of Dachau concentration camp were taken shortly after liberation. An envelope that contained the slides is also included.

  9. Buchenwald, Nordhausen, Hadamar, Ohrdruf

    High pan of camp, barracks, open square. Survivors getting water from tank/truck, washing in canal, eating, cooking, pots, some are prisoners of war. Men eating. Fighting over food. Celebrating liberation. Posing for group photograph. "All Polish Greet the Fraternal American Army" on building. Men walking, waving, getting on trucks. Swastika chain link. Familiar faces of liberated men. Man with glasses, smiling, waving. Along road, striking at Germans passersby. Man with cane beating another, smashing windows. Captured Germans. Released women, cross on backs. Women cared for by medics, sick...

  10. People with disabilities and heredity

    Nazi propaganda film -- Aufklaerungsfilm [Instructional film] -- depicting life on earth as a permanent struggle for food, reproduction, and survival between strong and weak animals. This analogy is extended to the sphere of human beings, in which the survival of the Aryan race is threatened by 'hereditary' phenomena like mental disabilities and criminality. Allowing those considered "unworthy of living" to live in "palaces" for the disabled and congenitally ill at the expense of the healthy living in shabby conditions perpetuates this sin against the laws of nature. Shows footage of extrem...

  11. Triumph of the Will: 1934 Sixth Nazi Party Conference in Nuremberg

    Title: "Sixth Party Congress Excerpts from an Official Party Film "Triumph of the Will" 4-10 September 1934" 01:39:02 Series of German titles in pseudo-Gothic font, to 01:39:48 Rudolf Hess opens the party congress, and acknowledges the late Field Marshal von Hindenburg and their colleagues who have gone before them, as all stand. To 01:40:49 Hess continues speech, acknowledging international visitors and the Wehrmacht, then begins speaking directly to "mein Fuehrer." Great applause, cutaways, as he tells Hitler, " You are Germany." Hitler, Hess, Goering, Rosenberg, and several other Nazis s...

  12. Annexation of Austria; Munich Pact; Invasion of Poland and Denmark

    Reel 3: Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg addressing government, speech in progress. Schuschnigg replaced by Arthur von Seyss-Inquart in Austria, riding in automobile, waving to crowd. CU, transcription of Goering's conversation with Keppler. In city street, Nazis round up civilians, slowly closing in on them with horses and police, man carried away. Nazis marching in streets, heiling, waving flags. Crossing Austrian border, over bridge LS, lifting up pole, Austrians with big grins. 21 May 1935: Annexation text superimposed on screen. Tanks moving through streets lined with crowds. 05:20...

  13. Isadore Berenstein memoir

    Contains a memoir, 92 pages, which documents Isadore Berenstein's Holocaust-related experiences in Sochocin, Poland, and in Auschwitz concentration camp.

  14. Morris Silberger postcard

    A postcard dated December 6, 1945, written by the wife of Dr. Sandor Rado (Mrs. Sandor Rado) from Budapest, Hungary, to Morris Silberger in Brooklyn, New York. Contains information about the fates of family members during the Holocaust, including Dr. Sandor Rado, who was a prisoner in Dachau concentration camp.

  15. Rosa Marx family letters

    Rosa Marx received the postcards and letters from her parents, living in Vienna, Austria, from 1939 Nov. to 1941 Oct. 14 while living in New York with an aunt and uncle.

  16. Dem herrn Landeskommisar

    Scrapbook containing information about the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, memorial ceremonies held there after World War II, and newspaper articles about various concentration camps.

  17. Rafael Pijade collection

    Contains a written memoir, 14 audiocassettes, articles about Jews in the Yugoslav Resistance Movement from 1941-1945, photocopies of pictures of family members, and photocopies of general articles written about the Holocaust.

  18. Francis M. Shea journal

    The Francis M. Shea journal consists of an incomplete set of Shea’s journal entries and corresponding documents related to preparations for the trial of major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and is dated July 12 - October 29, 1945. Documents include correspondence with Justice Robert H. Jackson and Colonel Telford Taylor, memoranda, and meeting minutes and primarily address policy, procedural, and staffing issues.

  19. Ruth L. Love family collection

    Collection contains 32 original letters written by Ruth L. Love's great-grandmother, Flora Kleinmann, and other letters relating to her family.

  20. Leah Kessler Greenblatt memoir

    Leah Kessler Greenblatt's memoir contains information pertaining to her escape from Baronowicz, Poland, in June 1941, work on a collective farm in the Ukraine, and in factories in Stalingrad and Al Mata. Leah Kessler Greenblatt also describes her experiences after the war in an Austrian refugee camp and her trip to Israel in May 1946.