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  1. "The Black Fox"

    Screenplay based on "Reynard the Fox," adapted from a Franco-German folk tale of the 12th century by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which draws parallels between man's inhumanity to man as portrayed in the folk tale and that was seen in Hitler's Germany. The film was produced by Image Productions, Inc. and narrated by Marlene Dietrich.

  2. Transcript of interview with Eva Weisz

    Testament of Eva Weisz's experiences during the Holocaust.

  3. Ausweis

    Identification paper (Ausweispapiere) for Sara Selman [donor] dated May 8, 1945.

  4. Hitler youth educational films

    Different film negatives about various aspects of Nazi culture and how the Hitler Jugend should view Jews (quotes from Hitler), mentally ill, blacks, etc.

  5. Robert Buckley papers

    The Robert Buckley papers contains two folders. One folder contains two copies of the Jehovah's Witness magazine Awake! , from 1989 and 1995. The magazines each contain an article concerning the Holocaust, including some on the role Jehovah's Witnesses played during that time.The second folder contains photographs from Buckley's trip to West Germany in May, 1990. Besides landscape photos, there are pictures of interviewees Sophie Mewes, Irmgard Jahndorf, Josef and Margarete Niklasch, Hubert Mattischek, Berta and Gustav Wenzel, and Johanna Buchner. Also included is a photograph reproduction ...

  6. Margot Karp papers

    Original pass for the Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, dated 28 November 1946; also includes two photographs, an original search warrant.

  7. Tante Elisabeth

    Memoir of relatives' experiences during the Holocaust.

  8. Wilbur T. Hooven III papers

    Typescript memoir of liberation experiences at Ohrdruf. Copy of map of the 89th Infantry Division.

  9. Liturgy for Yom Hashoah and Haatzmaut Shabbat services

    Publication: Order of worship for Yom Ha-Shoah service at Temple Akiba, Culver City, CA, in the year 5742 (1982). Booklet compiled by Rabbi Allen S. Maller, printed, 48 pages.

  10. Henriette Mandel papers

    Photocopies of family papers, in French, relating to the eligibility of donor's nephew, Robert Kreidelman, for a war-orphan pension. Also contains evidence that donor's relatives were killed at Auschwitz.

  11. DAF membership fee book for Gerta Aufshnaiter

    DAF membership fee book maintained by Gerta Augshnaiter.

  12. Videotaped testimony of Livia Shacter

    Videotaped testimony of Livia Schacter, Holocaust survivor, recorded at Palos Verdes High School, California in April 1996.

  13. Radovolsky family collection

    Memoir by Ida Radovolsky; memoir by Tsilya Radovolsky; three unidentified photographs.

  14. Mariya Lazaretnik collection

    Memoir; photocopy of a certificate (with translation); photocopy of identification card (with translation); photocopy of document entitled Republican Society of Former Prisoners of Fascist Concentration Camps (with translation); photocopy of Confirmation (with translation).

  15. Alice Berger memoir

    Describes her life in Slovakia before and during the Holocaust.

  16. Holocaust related records from European archives collected by Yad Vashem

    Consists of records filmed at various European Archives. The collection contains material regarding several different topics. A majority of the material concerns partisan groups active in the USSR, particularly in Belarus and Ukraine. This includes reports from partisan groups to Soviet leadership, names list of partisans in the different groups, as well as postwar memoirs and interviews of partisans. The remainder of the material is primarily concerned with Jewish life under German occupation in former Soviet lands, particularly the cities of Kiev, Pinsk, and Brest. This includes German de...

  17. Hitler's death camps

    A memoir about the donor's Holocaust-related experience at Buchenwald with the 87th U.S. Infantry Division.

  18. Executive instinct: Reinhard Heydrich and the planning for the final solution: a report

    Contains an essay, typescript, 31 pages with footnotes, delivered as an address at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on December 6, 1993.

  19. Records of Hidegseg trial

    Copies of documents in the custody of the Budapest Municipal Archives from the trial of the guards of Hidegseg.

  20. Feiga Kerzner receipts

    The Feiga Kerzner receipts consist of receipts Feiga and Benzion Kerzner received from the Soviet Consulate in Tehran documenting some of their donations of large sums of money, Persian carpets, shoes, and other supplies to the Red Army as their contribution in the fight against Hitler.