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  1. Joel Shapiro bronze sculpture

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7314
    • English
    • 1993
    • a: Height: 288.000 inches (731.52 cm) | Width: 180.000 inches (457.2 cm) | Depth: 102.000 inches (259.08 cm) b: Height: 96.000 inches (243.84 cm) | Width: 60.000 inches (152.4 cm) | Depth: 90.000 inches (228.6 cm)

    Joel Shapiro site-specific sculpture displayed outdoors in the 15th Street Plaza of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The towering work is constructed from two bronze forms suggesting a symbolic dialog addressing the disintegration of families and the tragedy of lives interrupted by the Holocaust. It was commissioned by the Museum's Art in Public Spaces program.

  2. Charles Marks photographs

    Consists of three photographs taken by Charles Marks while in the United States Army Air Forces. The photographs depict Red Cross workers uncovering buried bodies in Lyons, France in November 1944.

  3. Children in Berestowitz, Poland

    Children stand in front of BIBLIOTEKA.

  4. Bernard Rechnitz memoir

    This collection includes a memoir written by Bernard Rechnitz from 1946-1947. In the memoir Bernard records his thoughts on what happened during the Holocaust and recounts his family’s experiences from 1939-1943. Bernard writes about life before the war, moving his family from Katowice to Kraków, the German invasion, confiscation of Jewish property, and their imprisonment in the Płaszów labor camp. The collection also includes a translation of the diary.

  5. 157th Infantry Association records relating to the liberation of Dachau

    Contains information about the liberation of Dachau on 29 April 1945 by the 42nd and 45th U.S. Infantry Divisions. Additionally, donor Felix Sparks provides background on Dachau and his recollections of its liberation and aftermath (e.g., encounter with General George S. Patton Jr. over threatened courts martial of 45th Infantry Division members in connection with events during liberation). Also included are re-created excerpts of unit daily journals during the time of Dachau liberation with explanatory notes added by Sparks.

  6. Selected records from the Romanian Information Service

    Reports, lists, orders, correspondence, court documents, and testimonies relating to the surveillance of Romanian Jews (including Chief Rabbi Moses David Rosen), Jewish organizations, foreigners in Romania, and members of the Iron Guard (Garde de Fier) by the Serviciul Special de Informatii and other agencies; the special taxes, forced labor, and morale of Jews; the establishment of the Czernowitz (Chernivt︠s︡i) ghetto; the deportation of Jews from Transylvania and other locations to Transnistria (Ukraine); the emigration of Jews from Romania to Palestine; Romanian Jews in concentration cam...

  7. Records relating to the Jewish community of Melʹnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (a.k.a. Melnitze or Melnica), Poland

    Contains information about the German invasion of Melnitsa, Poland, on 26 June 1941; the killing of Jews in Melnitsa suspected as communists; homes inhabited by Jewish families; and the fate of the Jewish families of the community during the Holocaust.

  8. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm (Sygn.72)

    Contains information about activities of Gendarmerie personnel in Schrimm (Srem), Poland; use of Poles from the Schrimm area for labor; activities of the SS, Gestapo, and local police in Poznań, Poland; treatment of POWs; treatment and persecution of Roma; members of the Reinefarthe Gruppe (police personnel from Schrimm) taking part in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; participation of the gendarmerie in the expulsion of Poles from their homes and settlement of Germans in their places; Polish orphans transferred to the camp at Łódź, Poland; establishment of a youth camp at Ł...

  9. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Hermansbad (Ciechocinek, Poland) (Sygn. 71)

    Contains information about the persecution of Jews and Roma; resettlement of Polish and German nationals; homosexuals placed in preventive custody; deportations of Jews and non-Jews; Jewish communities; Jews transported to Chelmno killing center in April 1942; Jewish labor battalions; escaped prisoners of war; political prisoners; statistics on Jewish populations; expropriation of Jewish property; killing of Jews who tried to escape from Inowroclaw (a.k.a Hohensalza) Ghetto; transports; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; and compulsory and slave labor, Reel 1 contains collections of newsletters or Mel...

  10. Selected records from the Belarus Central State Archives, Minsk

    Contains orders, lists, reports, correspondence, and various other records relating to activities of the Haupteisenbahndirektion (HBD) Mitte; activities of the Reichsverkehrsdirektion(RVD) Mitte; railroad construction in occupied areas; railroad personnel; activities of partisans; combating partisans; use of labor in the railroad system; persecution of Jews and Roma; killing of Jews; transports to Minsk, Belarus; activities of the Organization Todt; activities of Einsatzgruppen; and activities of German police while fighting partisans. Also included are materials relating to investigations ...

  11. Market scenes in Warsaw

    Market scene. BAZAR sign. People, carts, horses. Shops line busy streets. Kiosks with posters. Some signs in Cyrillic.

  12. Romani people in Yugoslavia

    English intertitles. "Metrotone hits the Romany Trail: A Visit to a Camp of Cheerful Gypsies in the Balkan Mountains" Roma children and adults dancing and playing instruments (and seated, watching) outside tents. Some good MCU, mostly MS. Dust, bright sun, haze/smoke? Smiles everywhere. Great CUs of Roma boys singing. Kids swarm around visitor who is giving out "coppers." Romani woman reads fortune of visitor from cards.

  13. King Lear in Yiddish; Habima Players

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. Prominent actor, Solomon Mikhoels, of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, in his dressing room, applying makeup. Starkly lit closeup of Mikhoels as King Lear. Another prominent Jewish theater group in the Soviet Union, the Habima Players, perform an ancient Hebrew dance.

  14. Yalta Conference

    Part 2: Preparations are made for the Yalta Conference in Russia. Supplies arrive and communications lines are strung. Delegates arrive and are shown in conferences. Personages: Anthony Eden, Secretary of State Stettinus, Ambassador Harriman, Winston Churchill, President Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin. According to UN contents sheet: "The three parties reach a firm accord on military and political points. Coordinated plans are made for great new blows against Germany from all directions. Reaffirming the resolve of the United Nations to cooperate fully after the war, Roosevelt, Churchill, and ...

  15. Habima players

    Habima players perform.

  16. Fountain pen

    Originally used by "Mikolaj" Berezowski, circa 1945, Poland. Presented to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum delegation, Spring 1992, Warsaw, Poland.

  17. May 1934 Jubilee

    "1 May 1934, Jubilee" Members of the Krupp family attend a Nazi rally in Berlin.

  18. Illegal Immigrants

    British soldiers guarding groups of refugees. Refugees smile and wave at camera. Refugees dancing. Refugees mill about with bundles. Tired refugee on ground. Group of young refugees sitting, singing. Guard brings refugee on beach. Refugee ship (SS Susanna) anchored on beach. British soldiers on beach. More shots of ship. Life boat with refugees' goods.

  19. Bulgaria adheres to Axis Pact

    Crowds celebrate Bulgaria's adherence to Tripartite Pact. 5:06:35 Lots of flags. MS, buglers marching toward camera with banners and church in BG on Sofia street. CU, Eagle and swastika. 5:06:49 MLS, Man in uniform other people on frame edge. LS, Man on balcony, tops of banners lower frame. 5:06:57 LS, crowd, many in military regalia looking up at balcony. MS, unidentified Bulgarian leader saluting from balcony. More marching (may be Bulgarian youth brigade of some kind) then LS of large crowd gathered in front of building. 5:07:19 to 5:08:16 Tank crews demonstrating ruggedness and power of...

  20. Antisemitic Exhibit in Zagreb

    The production of an antisemitic exhibit. Gathering books and information, writing text, creation of "artwork," and preparation of propaganda. 01:31:29 Research Institute where traveling exhibit on "Jews" is to be assembled. People bring in whatever information they have on Jews including books and pamphlets. 01:35:42 Translations of parts of Talmud to find out what Jews thought of non-Jews. Preparation of text panels and illustrated art caricature of prosperous businessman. 01:38:04 Sculpting of stereotypic "Jewish" head, director gives preview to journalists. Shows map of Jewish expansion...