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  1. Paula Biren

    Paula Biren was a young Jewish woman living in Łódź, Poland when the Germans invaded in 1939. She survived the Łódź ghetto and Auschwitz. In her interview with Claude Lanzmann, Biren describes the occupation of Łódź, ghettoization, the children's Aktion of September 1942, and her deportation to Auschwitz. FILM ID 3105 -- Camera Rolls #1-4 -- 03:00:09 to (03:00:09) Biren and Lanzmann are seated outdoors. Lanzmann begins the interview by asking her to start at the beginning, the moment the Germans entered Łódź, what her feelings were, and if she knew at that time what would be at stake. She s...

  2. Die Brennessel (Munich, Germany) [Magazine]

    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.

  3. Ann Strauss-Salfield collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ann Strauss-Salfield (née Schloss), originally of Stuttgart, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between Ann, who fled to England in 1939, and her future husband Milton Strauss living in the United States. The correspondence focuses on their daily lives, but there are frequent discussions of her attempts to get a visa and immigrate to the United States. Other correspondence includes letters to Ann from her grandmother, Uncle Moritz, and her stepsister Margrit; and letters to Milton from his brother Alfred a...

  4. Pamphlet

  5. Romanian Foreign Ministry Archives records

    Contains various documents relating to German-Romanian relations from the perspective of the "Jewish problem." Also contains information on the fate of Romanian Jews in various parts of Nazi-occupied Europe.

  6. Vinnitsa Oblast Archive records

    This collection contains various types of documents relating to the registration of Jews and Roma and Sinti; the confiscation, plundering, and disposition of Jewish property; labor policies regarding local-hire employees in agriculture and industry; anti-partisan activities; the registration of taxpayers; the ghettoization of Jews; the requirement to wear the Star of David; medical conditions in the ghettos; and aid to Romanian Jews from the Federation of Romanian Jews (Central Evreilor Bucharest). Included are name lists of Jews in forced labor, Jews working in civil administration offices...

  7. Prayer book

  8. Commissariat général aux questions juives

    Consists of records relating to the operations of the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives. On 29 March 1941, the Vichy Government of France formed the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ). The CGQJ was responsible for defining Jewish status, inventorying Jewish persons and their possessions, excluding Jewish persons from the French economy, and ultimately, interning Jewish persons to facilitate the implementation of the "Final Solution." The collection contains a variety of documents encapsulating the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives' operations in Toulouse, Marse...

  9. General Association of Jews in France. Camp Commission

    Consists of records relating to the operations of the Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF) Commission des Camps, The Commission des Camps was headquartered in Toulouse, halfway between the camps of Gurs and Rivesaltes, and proximate to three other camps. The Commission's goal was the centralization of camp archives. The collection includes hundreds of letters from refugees and internees, testifying to the plight of Jews in France during occupation.

  10. Union générale des Israélites de France records from the CDJC, Paris

    Consists of records from the Contemporary Jewish Documentation, Paris, relating to the operations of the Union Générale des Israélites de France. The collection contains records from the Archives of the Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF). The collection includes the files of Jewish social organizations integrated into UGIF by the Germans. Representative of the documents in the collection are correspondence between constituent elements of UGIF, reports, statistics, legal affidavits, and testimonies. The collection also includes records from Groupements de Travailleurs Étra...

  11. Oral history interview with Benjamin Chruscicki

  12. Oral history interview with Melvin Goldfarb

  13. Oral history interview with Albert Speer

  14. Oral history interview with Dalibor Lovric

  15. Oral history interview with Myer Glick

  16. Joseph Goebbels photograph

    Contains a photographic print of Joseph Goebbels, taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

  17. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda

    Reel 8 This feature film dramatizes the evils of the "bolschewistische Weltvernichtung"[Bolshevik destruction of the world] using the tools of the Soviet secret police GPU and the Comintern to spread anarchy and chaos. Peter Assmuss, a Baltic German student in Riga in the summer of 1939, is innocently drawn into the net of a high-ranking GPU agent Nikolai Bockscha and forced to participate in killing a dissident Armenian national leader in Kovno. Peter hides in Rotterdam with the ethnic German Irina, the secretary of the killed. Eventually they are caught and tortured by the GPU in the cell...

  18. British enemy

    Reel 2 Michael O'Brien, an Irish rebel leader from Dublin, is hanged in 1903 by the British for subversion and high treason. His eighteen-year-old son, also named Michael O'Brien, is sent to St. Edwards College -- a boarding school specifically aimed at making Irish children 'think English' by tight surveillance and ideological education. There, a fellow student collects information for his uncle at the British Secret Service. As a result, Patrick O'Connor unconsciously betrays Michael's widowed mother for harboring Irish freedom fighters even though he eventually joins the rebels' cause. O...

  19. Oral history interview with Berry Nahmias

  20. Oral history interview with Tibor Kovacs