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

  2. 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.

  3. 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...

  4. Sketch

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  8. 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.

  9. 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...

  10. Florence M. Weinberg collection

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

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

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

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Drawings and documents of the children of Izieu Dessins et documents, des enfants d'Izieu

    Contains documents related to the operation of the children's hostel/orphanage in Izieu, France. Also contains artwork and writings of the children housed there.

  16. Kurt and Johanna Fish family papers

    The Kurt and Johanna Fish papers consist of correspondence, testimonies, documents, and published materials. Testimonial materials include a narrative written by Kurt Fish entitled “A Player to be Named” in which he tells his own family history and wartime experiences through a pseudonymous friend in the military named “Connie,” as well as a transcript of an oral history interview with Kurt, which was conducted by Rosemary Lawson in 1978. Kurt edited and made corrections to the transcript in 1991. The vast majority of the collection consists of correspondence between Kurt, in Vienna and lat...

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  18. Jan Karski

    Jan Karski tells of his capture and torture by the Gestapo when he was a courier for the Polish underground. He also describes his clandestine visit to the Warsaw ghetto and his meeting with Szmul Zygielbojm, six months before Zygelbojm's suicide. See pages 491 - 494 of the English translation of Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare (March 2012) for a description of his interactions with Karski after filming this interview. FILM ID 3133 -- Camera Rolls #1-5 -- 01:00:33 to 01:32:10 Karski tells of his first missions as a courier for the Polish Government in Exile. [No visual until 01:01:56]...

  19. Prayer book

  20. Hans Prause

    Hans Prause was an engineer with the German Reichsbahn who was stationed in Warsaw, Radom, Lvov, and Malkinia. He talks about the good relations between the German and Polish railroads, preparing trains before the invasion of the USSR, the situation in Lvov, hostile relations between the Poles and the Jews, and visiting the Warsaw ghetto. He defends the fact that he signed orders by saying that the trains would have gone regardless of anyone's signature. He defends Ganzenmüller regarding transports to Treblinka. FILM ID 3331 -- Camera Rolls #1-4 -- 01:00:07 to 01:33:56 Rolls 1-2 Prause sits...