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  1. Bible

    Hungarian bible used in Dachau, Germany, following liberation.

  2. Sketch

  3. Germany and Switzerland

    Location filming of scenes in Germany and Switzerland for SHOAH. FILM ID 4612 -- Berlin 1.2.3 Reichstag Le Mur traveling nuit Camera focuses on the front facade of the Reichstag- Dem Deutschen Volke and slowly pans out. (05:35) Sign reads,"Sie verlassen jetzt West Berlin." Berlin Wall behind the Brandenburg Gate. (07:20) Nightlife in downtown Berlin. Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. This reel was probably filmed for the interview with Deutschkron, RG-60.5044. FILM ID 4613 -- Lehrter Bahnhof / Ext. Grunewald / LB 1 BER 4 Train station looking toward the Berlin TV Tower. S Bahn station at the ...

  4. Stanley Hochman papers

    Consists of several copies of "My World War II Memoirs" by Stanley Hochman (typescript, 15 pages), along with photocopies of poetry.

  5. Czeslaw Borowi - Treblinka

    Czeslaw Borowi (Borowy) is a Polish peasant who lived his entire life in Treblinka. He describes the transports and the experience of living in the shadow of the camp. When the Germans were shooting at Jews, his family slept on the floor to avoid stray bullets. He repeats some of the common refrains about how rich Jews arrived in fancy trains and the Jews offered no resistance. Borowi makes the throat-slitting sign in "Shoah." See Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare for his reflections on Borowi and his role in the film. FILM ID 3348 -- Camera Rolls #46,47,48,56 -- 01:00:13 to 01:23:39 Re...

  6. Sketch

  7. Star of David badge with Jood printed in the center

  8. Klaf found on a street in Vilna after liberation

    Klaf found by Eugenia Kwartac Hirschkorn on a street in Vilna, Poland, after the city was liberated in July 1944. A klaf is a kosher piece of parchment that is used for Torah scrolls or inserted into a mezuzah. Based on the small size of this piece, and the writing on the klaf, it is likely from a mezuzah.

  9. Sobibor - Wlodowa (SOB)

    Interviews with local Polish people around Sobibor, Poland, including long sequences of a Catholic mass in Wlodowa. Lanzmann asks about the Jews in Wlodawa before the war and inquires how non-Jewish residents got along with the Jews. Includes shots of the Sobibor camp and environs. FILM ID 4674 -- White 15 Sobibor Gare CU, elderly woman and man sit indoors at the Sobibor train station. “Sobibor” sign. Local people sit on benches outside waiting for train. A train pulls into the station. End clapperboard: SOB 1. 01:03:03 Passengers look out the windows of the railway cars as the train depart...

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  11. Kharkiv Oblast Archive records

    This collection contains the records of the Kharkiv city administration agencies and German control agencies including the military Kommandantura. Subjects include the staffing of city administrative positions with ideologically appropriate people, the confiscation of (mainly Jewish) property by German military and other agencies, the creation of special police units, name lists of city district mayors and administrative personnel, orders from various German commands, and the German mobilization of labor and agriculture to support troops and the civilian population. The bulk of this materia...

  12. Belzec

    Location filming in Belzec, Poland for SHOAH. Film ID 4707 -- Belzec 22-23 Gare. Camp Doubles, Chutes Bte 22 Camp Travelling down a road, trees on either side. Train tracks. Road leads to a metal gate. (1.57) “1942-1943” on the gate. (2.19) Driving down the same road as before, this time getting a clear view of a sign on the right that says “Do Bylego Obozu Zaglady” [to the extermination camp.] Sign includes shield with two swords. (4.41) Railroad tracks and large piles of chopped wood in the BG, CUs. (5.21) Train tracks and old train cars (not on the tracks but beside them). Path of the tr...

  14. Selected records from the Romanian National Archives

    Contains selected records of the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice, Fundatile Culturale Regale, and Casa Regală relating to the fate of Romanian Jews.

  15. Leib Garfunkel - Ghetto Kovno

    Leib Garfunkel describes the Kovno ghetto, where he was vice-chairman of the Jewish council, and the Aktion of October 1941, during which 9,200 Jews were murdered at the Ninth Fort. This was the first interview that Lanzmann conducted for Shoah and Garfunkel died one week after it was filmed. FILM ID 3125 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:18 to 01:21:29 No sound until 01:05:32. Irena Steinfeldt, Lanzmann's assistant, reads passages from Garfunkel's book. Garfunkel talks about the first meeting between the Kovno Gestapo and representatives of the Jewish population. He tells of the Germans enteri...

  16. Florence M. Weinberg collection

    Transcripted copy of Carnet de Kurt Weinberg, trouvéparmi ses documents aprè sa mort and biographical materials (needs summary).

  17. Guerre, 1939-1945 - Vichy - Amerique - USA - Mexique

    Contains photocopied report on Emergency Rescue Committee with correspondence from Varian Fry, pp. 158-234. File 64.

  18. Ministère des Affaires Étrangères: Guerre

    Includes information about religious affairs; foreign Jews in France and in French territories; naturalizations; German residents; the Vichy government; diplomatic and other relations with Bulgaria, Morocco, Hungary, Switzerland, Croatia, the Soviet Union, and Italy; internment camps; and administrative questions relating to camps. The records were created by various offices and departments in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its overseas embassies and consulates.

  19. Benjamin Schlesinger collection

    Letter written by donor's mother, Szyfra Szlizynger who was residing in Bedzin, 1943 April 7, to Mr. Schwartzbaum in Switzerland Ms. Szlizynger was asking for help to obtain a passport to Switzerland mentions husband and 5 children in her letter. Postcard is written by Bracha and Szlamek Piwowonski (aunt and uncle of donor), also from Bedzin in 1943 June 3 to Aron Gepner in Tittmoning internment camp. Piwowonskis wanted help to get to Tittmoning in order to get to Switzerland.

  20. Selected records relating to concentration camps from the National Archives and Records Administration

    Contains camp registration name lists, transport name lists, camp arrival registers, death lists, lists of Jews who emigrated, personal property lists, medical records, death certificates, prisoner biographical data cards, postwar questionnaires, and other camp records. Included is information about the Buchenwald, Dachau, Sandbostel, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Hinzert, Natzweiler, Gross-Rosen, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. The collection also contains documents relating to various Gestapo branches and to the Jewish Agency.