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  1. UN opens conference at San Francisco

    Issue 153, Part 1: Opening of first session of U.N. Secretary of State Stettinius introduces President Truman who speaks from Washington, D.C. Good CU. Architects of a "better future." Second day session, EXT, various delegations arrive. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden of Great Britain with Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov and Lord Halifax. Joined by Stettinius and Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko. VS, delegates seated in auditorium. Shots of press coverage. China delegate Ambassador T.V. Soong, Molotov, and Eden speak (sync sound).

  2. Arthur Hecht papers

    The Arthur Hecht papers consist of two German passports ("Reisepass") stamped with a red "J" and issued to Simon Hecht and Lottie Hecht in Vienna, Austria in September 1938.

  3. Frances Laxson papers

    The Frances Laxson papers consists of a letter and liberation photographs sent home by James Laxson. The photographs consists of liberation photographs of either Dachau or Buchenwald concentration camps.

  4. Varian Fry letter to Jean Gemähling

    Jean Gemähling (1912-2003) was a French Catholic educated at an English boarding school and worked as one of Varian Fry's assistants in Marseilles. In his January 9, 1945 letter to Gemähling, Fry asks for news of Gemähling’s survival and arrests in Vichy France and describes his 1945 memoir Surrender on Demand, his work at the New Republic and establishing the American Labor Conference on International Affairs, and his personal life as well as those of common friends and acquaintances. Among others, he mentions Jay Allen, Heinz Behrendt, Daniel Benedite, Georg Bernhardt, Victor Brauner, And...

  5. Hans Cherney photograph collection

    The Hans Cherney photograph collection consists of photographs taken at a Jewish rally or meeting in Germany during the 1930s. The photographer is unidentified. Also included is a photograph of a sign printed with an antisemitic sentiment in German.

  6. Jewish Workers and the Masses Handbill urging Jews and workers to remain and build a Socialist Poland

    Handbill issued by the Bund, the Jewish Workers Party in Poland (Ogólny Zydowski Zwiazek Robotniczy] urging Jewish workers and to remain in Poland and to build the future with the Socialist government in opposition to reactionary forces who might otherwise gain power.

  7. US soldiers go directly to the Pacific from Europe

    Issue 166, Part 3: Good aerial shots of American staging area of tents, equipment. GIs loaded into transport, then board ship in Marseilles for war in Pacific. Served food by Red Cross worker. Men line rails of ship. LS, ship pulls out.

  8. World Union of "Alliance Raciste Universelle," Department for Germany, Berlin Weltband der Volkischen Abteilung Deutschlands der "Alliance Raciste Universelle," Berlin (Fond 1299)

    Records relating to the pro-Nazi alliance, also known as European Union of Racists, whose purpose was to repulse purported Jewish influence on national life in various countries. Included are organizational bylaws, samples of the alliance periodical Judenkenner, materials on Jews and Freemasons, correspondence with local branches of the alliance and with Munich NSDAP headquarters, announcements of lectures, reports from sympathetic visitors to Germany who repudiated "Jewish hate propaganda," membership lists, and proofs of racial purity. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  9. Jews in park in Warsaw, 1938

    CU, baby in carriage. Men and women sit on benches in park, read newspaper.

  10. Raul Hilberg, Omer Bartov, and Christopher Browning discussion on the Holocaust

    Recorded program features Raul Hilberg (emeritus professor, University of Vermont), Omer Bartov (Harvard University), and Christopher Browning (Pacific Lutheran University) and includes discussion of such topics as German policy toward Jews in occupied Poland and Russia; Einsatzgruppen purpose and tactics; effects of the Russian campaign on organization of the German army; and carrying out of the "Final Solution."

  11. Records of the Former Military Archive in Potsdam Archivalien des ehemaligen Heeresarchivs (Fond 1275)

    The full collection at the source archive consists of records consolidated from various sources concerning German military forces during WWI and WWII. Includes Bormann orders, records relating to operations on Leningrad, intelligence activities, war diaries of the Strafbataillon (German Penal Battalion) (1944); German leaflets against British and French government (1939); leaflets, posters, newspapers; bulletins of anti-fascist organizations of Denmark (1943-1944); information bulletin of the International Union of Trade Unions; war diaries from occupied countries and from German-Soviet fro...

  12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, 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.

  13. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note

    1 (eine) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; 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 was 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 kill...

  14. Oral history interview with Corrie Ten Boom

  15. Reading of indictments at Nuremberg Trial

    Reading of indictment at Nuremberg Trial. Courtroom at rest (pre-trial). Court rises as Tribunal enters. Dock showing Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, etc. 01:01:58 Hess stares stonily (at camera). Hess looks around room, smirks and smiles as MP picks up Hess' earphones for him to hear. MS, MLS, defendants, judges, courtroom audience listening as Justice Lawrence (voiceover) speaks about giving defendants access to documents that will be used as evidence during the trial. (poor image quality-scratches on film, underexposed footage) 01:02:39 Lawrence continues stating, "Indictment shall now be rea...

  16. Nazi war criminal sentenced

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 444. Release date, 10/22/1945. According to UN advance information: "Nazi Criminals Face Justice" Dachau, Germany. Men who perpetrated some of the worst war crimes in history face Allied courts. Franz Strasser, who murdered many Allied airmen is convicted and sentenced to be hung--the first Nazi to be tried at this former notorious concentration camp. Shows Commission, including Judge Col. Raymond E. Zickel at far right at 02:45:00.

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, 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.

  18. Oral history interview with Helena Tygier-Bialek

  19. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

    Jacket issued as a uniform to an inmate in the concentration camp Ravensbrueck.

  20. Oral history interview with Piera Solender