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  1. Concentration camp evidence presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 443) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. LSs, RVs, prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd presents evidence on Mauthausen, Gusen, Ebensee, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz. Mentions the court screening of the film "Nazi Concentration Camps." 01:21:59 CU, Mauthausen graphic at front. Map and images. 01:23:16 Close rear view of Dodd speaking. 01:24:01 The shrunken head of a victim is presented as evidence (no CUs). 01:25:19 Dodd: "We have no idea how many died in concentration camps....Nazi conspirators were generally meticulous record keepers. But the records collected here are quite incomplete....Occ...

  2. Oral history interview with Nettie Katz

  3. Metal mezuzah found postwar and used by a Polish Jewish survivor

    Metal mezuzah found and used by Israel Miedzyrzecki (later Israel Nahari) after Warsaw was liberated in January 1945 and his family was able to come out of hiding and re-establish a home. He brought and used it as the family moved to Łódź, then Munich, Germany, and finally to Israel in 1947. The Torah states that every doorpost in a Jewish home should display a mezuzah klaf, a small parchment scroll inscribed with two prayers. The scroll is enclosed in a case and attached to the right doorpost to serve as a reminder of the covenant of faith and a notice of an observant Jewish home. Israel a...

  4. German Atrocities

    Issue 153, Part 3: Assisting survivors of Ohrdruf. Inspected by Gens. Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley. Exhumations at Arnstadt. Assistance given at Nordhausen, German townspeople required to view and assist in burial of dead.

  5. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center

  6. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  7. Jews in Warsaw, 1938

    Children and women in park. Lots of people and baby carriages.

  8. Reis family papers

    Contains a photograph portrait of large group of people, inscribed on verso in ink: "I / People from Kielce (Dad's Home City) / after war / This picture is from Kielce Poland before the pogrom, they / all were kilt (sic) in the pogrom / 1946 Kielce," created in Kielce, Poland, early 1945; and an identity card issued to Lejzor Rajz (donor's husband), August 1945, in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, confirming that he had been a prisoner in the Buchenwald and Dachau camps.

  9. Gateway to Victory: Normandy beach

    Allied convoys land on the Normandy beaches. Gens. Eisenhower and Montgomery and Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsey shown.

  10. Jews in Warsaw, 1938

    People exiting large building. Quick view, women with baby carriages on road.

  11. Gateway to Victory: D-day invasion

    Aerial and amphibious assault on the beaches of Normandy.

  12. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MS, three defendants: Genzken, Gebhart, Blome, as Gen. Telford Taylor reads the indictment of the Medical Case. HS defendants in dock. H Pan from dock to Taylor at podium. He describes experiments on Roma and a jaundice epidemic. Views of audience (out of focus). Taylor delivers from the podium about sterilization. 03:05:00 "In the sterilization experiments conducted by the defendants at Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, and other concentration camps, the destructive nature of the Nazi medical p...

  13. Ticket used to advertise the boycott of Jewish businesses

  14. Calendar with a photo of Chaim Rumkowski printed in the Łódź ghetto

    Calendar printed by Feivish Oszerowicz in 1944 in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. It is two-sided calendar and has a photograph of Chaim Rumkowski.

  15. Sketch of bust used to hide papers for Centre Americain de Secours

  16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  17. Dodd presents evidence at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 386) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. HSs, MSs Thomas J. Dodd of the American prosecution, tells of the great mass of evidence presented during the trial and the criminal tendencies of the Gestapo, SA, SS. HS Col. Andrus, Provost Marshal, speaking to prisoners in dock at end of session. HS prisoners conversing after the court adjourns; Col. Andrus is standing at the left.

  18. Yellow metal badge with a brown Croatian letter Z to identify a Jew

  19. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  20. Jewish children in Warsaw, 1938

    Children in pairs walk down street. Women surround them. Boys play game in street.