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  1. An Unknown World, Stories of Jewish Family Life of Judae Eine Unbekannte Welt...

    Contains a book entitlted "Eine Unbekannte Welt," published in 1907 by Laenger & Friedberg, Frankfurt am Main, about stories of Jewish family life.

  2. Interview of prisoners, Dachau

    (LIB 6557) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MCUs, American officer (off screen) interviews prisoners of different nationalities including Dr. Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Dortheimer, Mr. Baum, Edmond Michelet and Prof. Popovitch (Yugoslavian). Each relates in English his experiences at the camp and the conditions which led to their being taken prisoners.

  3. Keith Suter interviewed by Clare McNamara

    Interview with Keith Suter. Host: Clare McNamara Suter discusses war crimes, Nicaragua, South Africa, economic sanctions, atomic diplomacy, and conflict resolution.

  4. Krupp family at rally; Krupp firm; Portraits unveiled; Goebbels visits Krupp works

    Reel 2: 07:01:22 "1 May 1934, Jubilee" Members of the Krupp family attend a Nazi rally in Berlin. 07:03:00 "Nazi officials visiting the Krupp Firm" Soldiers marching, holding flags with swastikas, delivering speech, distributing Hitler's book, "Mein Kampf." 07:03:50 "Dedication of Hitler painting at Krupp's Institute for Physical Research" Unveiling of portraits of Hitler and Bismarck. Shots of officials talking, Krupp leaving. Chamber music group playing, audience members and speakers salute both pieces. Unveiling portrait of Bismark and bust of Hitler in a meeting room. 07:07:32 "Goebbels...

  5. Jews at UNRRA camp in Austria

    Displaced persons, UNRRA. Signs in Hebrew. At right, sign reading "UNRRA DP camp Admont." Several scenes of Jews marching with picks and shovels. LS, camp, tending crops, hoeing, women washing (various shots). MCU, four men walking on dirt road, UNRRA official? UNRRA officers caring for children. School children, teenagers sitting at desks outside, teacher writes on blackboard: "We hope to go to Palestine" in English and Hebrew. Couple looking at announcement board. CU, man sitting on steps.

  6. Atrocities: Ohrdruf; Nordhausen; Buchenwald

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 393, Part 1. Release date, 04/26/1945. Scenes of atrocities: (Ed Herlihy commentator) "Helpless prisoners tortured to death by a bestial enemy...Here is the truth!" Freed US POWS at side of road cheering on tanks as they go by. Boy smiles. MCU, POWs get soup from big tureen. CU, in line, medical aid. Group MS. Bandaging a man's back, covering up a bloody calf wound, shoulder/back wound. Soldier in bed helped to sitting position by two nurses, view from behind showing emaciated back. LS, Hadamar cemetery from above; one grave among many being dug. CU and MLS,...

  7. Ferencz lecture: Rotary Club of Toronto

    Ferencz speaks about his book "Less Than Slaves" (1979) that explains how German industrialists could become accomplices to the exploitation of people for the sole purpose of working them to death. He discusses the principles established at Nuremberg, including the crime of aggressive war and crimes against humanity, and expresses his hope for an international criminal court. Three essential mechanisms that would reverse the "international anarchy" of today and provide a world for all humans to live in peace and dignity are laws, courts, and a system of effective enforcement. He stresses th...

  8. Poster

  9. US airlift; German law; Attlee; Pres. Morrison; Marshall Plan; Wilhelmstrasse Trial (Ministries Case)

    World in Film issue no. 205: 08:11:54 "10,000 Tonnen in 24 Stunden: Der Rekordtag der Luftbruecke" 10,000 tons a day, Record for Airbridge. US airlift 08:13:00 "Frankfurt: Einigung ueber das Grundgesetz" Agreement on German Basic Law. World in Film issue no. 198: 08:14:02 "Attlee in Berlin" World in Film issue no. 204: 08:16:04 "Lord Praesident Morrison in Deutschland" Lord President Morrison in Germany. Dr Reuter and Gen Robertson and others in BG. MS, Morrison signing the Golden Book of the city of Berlin. Sequence: Morrison and party watching steel processing in Ruhr plant. 08:17:19 "Ein...

  10. Oral history interview with Philip Fried

  11. Levine Collection

    Contains prewar family photos for an unknown family, some dating as early as 1917; a postcard to Karl Oberndorf in New York, from "Erna," postmarked January 26, 1938; a postcard addressed to Isaak David in Heppenheim, Germany; a menu from a wedding party for Isaak Oberndorf of Heppenheim, dated August 12, 1889; a small book of amateur photogrpahy instructions bearing the handwritten bname Karl Oberndorf of Heppenheim; and a German "Kennkarte" for Kurt (Israel) Heimann, issued in Hamburg 15 December 1938.

  12. Oral history interview with Susan Cernyak-Spatz

  13. Oral history interview with Henry Laskau

  14. Righteous Among the Nations medal awarded to a Hungarian rescuer

    Righteous Among the Nations medal and presentation box awarded to a non-Jewish woman by Yad Vashem in recognition of her saving a Jewish mother and son in Hungary during the Holocaust.

  15. Jewish refugees arrive from Shanghai

    Jewish refugees from Shanghai arrive by ship in San Francisco, CA. CUs smiling passengers (women, men, children, well-dressed), babies, waving groups. Lots of joy. 01:02:41:17 Four adults from left, Paul Gordin, his mother Raisa (Sachin) Schwartzberg, an unknown woman, and William Schwartzberg (Raisa's husband). Speech to group from balcony (by Macky Gaberman?, escort leader of refugees).

  16. Selected records from the Polish State Archives Tarnów Branch

    This collection contains investigative and court cases in Tarnów relating to the following two categories of offenses: 1) Against public order and instigation to disturbances of public peace (mainly anti-Jewish propaganda and actions); and 2) Cases involving Jewish plaintiffs, often having to do with complaints against members of the Jewish community organization, the Kahal in Tarnów.

  17. "Sieben Johre"

    Contains a book of nine drawings, entitled "Sieben Johre." The cover is thick paper with fabric spine; metal rivet at top and bottom. The right side is torn and missing.

  18. Marcel Rowen collection

    Contains memoir, copyrighted 1990, entitled "The Gates of Heaven," detailing the experiences of Marcel Rowen (formerly named Marzel Rauchwerk) in prewar Leipzig (Germany); after his expulsion, along with his father and grandfather, to Poland in October 1938 because they held Polish passports; in Tarnów (Poland) before the German occupation and later in the Tarnów ghetto; in Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps; in Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp after liberation by the Americans; and after his emigration to the United States; and a cassette recording of a 12-minute pre...

  19. Jonathan Borofsky lithograph

    Lithograph of a work by Jonathan Borofsky produced in 1986.

  20. Japanese & German troops advance; African campaign; Stalin's fight against Germany; factories on home front

    Records world-wide war activities. Reel 2: (1942) Japanese and German troops continue to advance on all fronts. US and Japanese fleets are attacked by carrier planes off Midway. The British stop German armor at El Alamein, Egypt. Shows street fighting in Stalingrad. Shows British and Russian factories. Personages: Admiral Nimitz, Joseph Stalin.