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  1. Camionnette (minibus used for hidden camera interviews)

    Minibus with equipment for hidden camera interviews, staged in the suburbs of Paris at Saint Cloud, near the LTC Studio where the final film's editing was done, in May 1983. This could have been staged in France rather late in the film's production to illustrate a sequence about the hidden camera interviews for the final film (note the closeups of the minibus and the "home" of a perpetrator -- the zoom into a specific window, for instance). FILM ID 3452 -- Ext. Camionnette / Camera Rolls 1-4-6, 14-26 Several sequences showing exteriors of the red-striped Volkswagen minibus with the equipmen...

  2. Lilly Gliksman Zaks collection

    Consists of seven photographs from the Lilly Gliksman Zaks collection; includes pre-war photographs of her brother, Chaim Gliksman, a banker from Bedzin, Poland, who was a member of the Sonderkommando in Birkenau and perished there in 1944; and post-war photographs of Lilly Zaks, her husband Szajo, and their son Jerry, who was born in 1947 in the Stuttgart hospital. Notable is a copy of a false ID card for Szajo Zaks as a Pole, Jan Byczek, and photographs of Zaks while he was posing as Byczek. Szajo Zaks escaped from a deportation to Auschwitz and hid as a Pole for the remainder of the war.

  3. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

  4. Otmar Pirnat papers

    The papers consist of two letters written by Otmar Pirnat, a political prisoner at the Mauthausen concentration camp, to his parents on Mauthausen camp stationery. Mr. Pirnat, originally of Maribor, Slovenia, was wrongfully arrested as a partisan, sent to prison in Vienna, then to Mauthausen, were he was imprisoned for more than two years.

  5. Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection

    The Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection consists of a handmade book which was created by liberated inmates at the Buchenwald concentration camp. The book was presented Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum in 1945. It includes a photograph of liberated prisoners as they are about to emigrate to Palestine as well as lines from a song by Mordecai Geburtig sung in the ghetto in Kraków, Poland, and a song about Buchenwald by Percy (Peretz) Brand. Translation: Page 2, in Yiddish and English: "Isaiah 21-12;/Watchman, what of the night?/Watchman, what of the night?/The Watchman said:/The morning...

  6. Leib Teitelbaum identification card

    The identification card ("Ausweis") is for civilian internees of Mauthausen concentration camp and states that Leib Teitelbaum, No. 1072, was interned at Mathausen from March 13, 1945, to May 6, 1945.

  7. Renata Maas photograph collection

    The collection consists of five photographs of corpses possibly killed in a pogrom in Stanisławów, Poland (now Stanislav, Ukraine), as well as an envelope used to store the photographs.

  8. William and Jean Helmar papers

    The papers consist of four postcards and letters with envelopes written and sent by William Helmar from Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps to his parents in the Netherlands. Also included is a note with instructions to concentration camp inmates' friends and families about sending packages to prisoners.

  9. Eugene Patipa identification card

    The identification card states that Eugene Patipa, born on December 29, 1922 in Minsk, CSR, was in Mauthausen Concentration Camp from April 8, 1945 to May 4, 1945.

  10. Susan Mayerowitz papers

    The papers consist of a service record booklet for the German military and a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Kurt Stern donor's father, a Reisepass issued to Hilde Metzger [donor's mother], and one school diploma issued to Kurt Stern in Germany in 1927.

  11. Joseph Taler papers

    The papers contain certificates, work permits, identification cards, receipts, postcards, photographs, and other documents related to Joseph Taler, originally of Rozwadów, Poland, including his survival during the Holocaust living under the false identity of Józef Skwarczyński and his life after the end of World War II.

  12. Lillian Bronner Glass papers

    The papers consist of two identification cards for Lillian Bronner [donor] and Eleanora Bronner [donor's mother] issued at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in N.Y.

  13. Samuel and Gertrude Gerstenfeld photograph collection

    The collection consists of nine photographs of Sam Gerstenfeld, Gela Majman Sam Gerstenfeld's cousin, Gela Putterman and her daughter, Sara [Gertrude Gerstenfeld's sister and niece], and other family members and friends.

  14. Jenohedgy Szerdahelyvi postcard

    The postcard was written by Jenohedgy Szerdahelyvi to Janos Szerdahelyvi in Hungary.

  15. Sheley Temchin photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of General "Rola" Zymierski visiting a partisan unit of the People's Army in Parczewkie Forest in 1943 (Dr. Michael Temchin is second from the right) and two photographs of the staff of a military hospital in Warsaw, Poland, where Dr. Michael Temchin was Chief of Surgery.

  16. Mortimer Greenberg photograph collection

    The collection consists of 16 photographs of the liberation of Nordhausen-Dora concentration camp taken by Mortimer Greenberg, an American soldier who participated in the liberation.

  17. Eugen Czinner papers

    Consists of three letters written on pre-printed prisoner stationery by Eugen Czinner while interned in the Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps. The letters, two from Buchenwald written in 1941-1942 and one from Auschwitz written in November 1944, were written to Marie Czinner in Pilsen.

  18. Photograph of Israel and Rachel Stroh

    The photograph depicts Israel and Rachel Stroh standing in front of Beth Hamidrash in Sedziszów, Poland. Beth Hamidrash was burned along with Jewish occupants on Rosh Hashanah in 1939.

  19. Bella Heppenheimer papers

    The papers consist of two German passports ("Reisepass") issued to Albert and Selma Levy in Germany in 1941 and a vintage photostat produced in 1941 of the marriage certificate issued to Albert and Selma Levy in Birkenfeld, Germany.

  20. Livia Molnar Bergen papers

    Consists of certificates, correspondence, and permits related to the Holocaust experiences of Livia Molnar (later Bergen), originally of Budapest, Hungary. After dropping out of a death march from the Kristianstadt concentration camp due to frozen feet, Ms. Molnar was arrested and sent to an auxiliary hospital near Hoyerswerda, where she spent several months recovering. Includes identity and travel passes related to her post-war return to Budapest, hospital documents, correspondence she received at the hospital, and a restitution document.