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  1. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  2. Print

    Lithograph of Oranienburg

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ship en route to South America

    On board the SS Brazil (tendered by the US Maritime Commission to North and South American diplomats, bankers, and businessmen to initiate the "Good Will Service" to South America), leaving New York. People on shore waving. New York city skyline. Small boat spraying water, more boats. 01:12:20 People on board, painting, sunbathing. 01:13:12 Officer navigating, looking at route (chart of South America), Capt Harry Sadler at desk. 01:14:58 Engine room. 01:17:20 At sea, captains. 01:18:40 Seaman with gadget. Steam. 01:20:19 Seamen winding up rope.

  4. Society of the Survivors of the Riga Ghetto Conference (New York)

    Lanzmann films at a New York conference for survivors of the Riga ghetto in 1978. Includes an interview with several former Jewish policemen from Riga, Latvia who describe the division of the ghetto into sections for Latvian Jews and German Jews, dealing with the Nazi discovery of a secret weapons cache, and responsibilities as Jewish police. Lanzmann raises the question of collaboration and acknowledges the survivors’ openness as they talk. He also interviews veteran frontline soldier, Friedrich Baer. The reels also generally show the conference proceedings inside the New York hotel. FILM ...

  5. Germans and Czechs in the Sudetenland

    Reel 1 Anna lives with her German father Mayor Jobst at a rural estate near Budweis in the Sudetenland. Her mother, of Czech origin, killed herself because of an unfulfilled desire to return to her native town of Prague. Already engaged to a young peasant from the village, Anna is attracted to the engineer Christian Leidwein from Prague and travels to the 'Golden City' to visit him. While staying with the family of her mother and working in their tobacco store, she is seduced and made-pregnant by cousin Toni Opferkuch. Her changing morals are accompanied by her changing appearance -- jewelr...

  6. Nazi feature film on espionage, British agents, German rearmament

    Plot Summary: In this feature film set in 1936, Mr. Morris operates a British espionage ring based in Berlin that is eager to receive information about secret German rearmament plans. He is successful when he bribes a broke engineer involved in the construction of a new artillery cannon and places an agent in a military airport testing a new type of bomber. However, when Morris deliberately makes the acquaintance with the girlfriend of Hans Klemm, a soldier running in new tanks, he encounters trouble. He initially makes some progress by utilizing the soldier's friendliness and naiveté, but ...

  7. Small poster made to discourage US troops from socializing with Germans

    Handbill issued by the American Army which uses an image of Holocaust victims to remind soldiers not to fraternize with German civilians.

  8. Lettre Just 5 Juin 1942 (audio only)

    Claude Lanzmann recites the June 5, 1942 letter from Willy Just to Walter Rauff regarding gas vans in Chelmno for the SHOAH film team in May 1983 in Germany. FILM ID 3637 -- Lettre Just, version 1 FILM ID 3638 -- Lettre Just, version 2 FILM ID 4603 -- Lettre Just, 2 versions (more than two versions read by Lanzmann, 19 minutes)

  9. Bracelet

    Pendant created by victims in concentration camp.

  10. Chelmno (CH)

    Interviews with local Polish people in and around Chelmno, as well as location filming. FILM ID 3767 -- White 72 CH 48-49 Lettre May. CL lit Lanzmann reads a letter from Mr. May regarding operations at Chelmno. FILM ID 4602 -- Foret Chelmno FO 1-4 Interview Uniquement Interview with two men in the forest near Chelmno. The Poles brought SS guards to the forest at night in order to exterminate Jews. Lanzmann asks the men to describe Polish women who worked for the Germans, Jewish victims' belongings, and the occasions when Goering hunted in the forest near Chelmno. FILM ID 4629 -- White 31 CH...

  11. Volksempfaenger radio

  12. Prayer book

  13. Book

  14. The Striker, July 1935, 13th year 1935 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Benjamin and Sophie Esterman were American citizens who were traveling in Europe, and visited Germany in order to see for themselves and to inform others where Nazism was going.

  15. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 pfennig coin

    Coin used in the Łódź [Litzmannstadt] Ghetto during the Holocaust.

  16. Prayer book

    Jewish prayer book issued by U.S. government and carried by U.S. soldier during WWII.

  17. Rostock interrogated at Medical trial

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. LS, MS, defendant Paul Rostock is interrogated by the prosecutor James McHaney.

  18. Banner

    Nazi War banner collected in Germany during or immediately following the Second World War.

  19. Candleholders

    Pair of candlesticks given as a wedding gift to Tony Holtz and Max Hannes, brought to the US in 1937 by Helmut Hannes.

  20. Lutz questioned at Medical trial

    (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Prosecutor Alexander Hardy reads a letter from the Waffen SS to the Luftwafffe asking that Dr. Rascher be transferred to the SS. 02:14:40 Prosecutor James McHaney asks that Wolfang Lutz be called to the stand. Lutz is sworn in. McHaney questions Lutz about his medical career. Camera remains on defendants and lawyers as Lutz is examined. MS, three judges on bench.