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  1. Paul R. Brown collection

    Collection of photographs of unidentified camp. Acquired by Paul Richard Brown (donor's father) while serving with the US Army in Europe during WWII.

  2. Jackson reads Accusation Act at Nuremberg Trial

    Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 21, 1945. MCU, Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, addresses the court. Rear view, Chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert H Jackson reads the Accusation Act, including names of the defendants, history of the Nazi Party, and the annexation of Austria. MS, Goering and Hess in box. VS, courtroom and lawyers listening to Jackson.

  3. Congressional group; corpses at Mauthausen

    Congressional Group, St. Valery, France, April 27, 1945. Seq: At Camp Lucky Strike for release of American prisoners of war, Congressmen, including Senator Alben W. Barkley, talk to some of the released men. Concentration Camp, Mauthausen, Austria, May 7-8, 1945. MS, CUs, inmates mobbing wagon loaded with potatoes in prison yard. MS, CU, prisoner eating spilled food from sidewalk. MCUs, German SS officer is badly beaten by liberated prisoners. Soldiers trying to get something out of Nazi's mouth. MSs, CUs, piles of emaciated bodies. Survivors near barbed wire holding out bowls.

  4. Ernest Michel collection

    Correspondence from Ernest Michel, originally of Mannheim, Germany, that he sent to an American pen-pal (Robert Lindsay, of Wilmington, Delaware) from 1937-1939, as well as selected postwar documents, and a DVD titled "Ernest Michel: Memories of a Lifetime" (undated). Also includes a file of materials related to an Auschwitz-Buna Memorial Dinner in New York, and to survivors of that camp, 1964.

  5. Records on the Holocaust in North Africa from the German Federal Archives Freiburg and Berlin

    Records on German military actions in Tunis, and Africa, mostly administrated by Obersturmbannführer Walter Rauff, and secret reports on Africa and its Jewish population by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt, and Reichsführer SS. Includes war diaries of the German Naval Command North Africa and German Naval Command Tunisia, summary reports, radio messages from the combat area in Libya and from the battle area in North Africa, reports relating to political situation in Libya, Morocco, and to "Jewish questions" in South Africa, newspaper clippings and agency reports about the situation of Jews in ...

  6. Rinah J. Karson collection

    Contains letters and postcards written in the early and mid 1930s from Berlin, Brussels, Paris, and elsewhere.

  7. Maria-Anita Menkes Gol Papers

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Maria-Anita Menkes (donor's mother) who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919 and lived in Lvov, Poland [present day Ukraine]. Included are documents issued to Helena Babijczuk and used by Maria to obtain false documents in the name of Helena Babijczuk Keck, allowing her to pass as a Roman Catholic. Also included is post-war documentation illustrating her chronology during the war in Piaseczno and Lvov, Poland; her experiences and those of her mother, Stella Menkes, who was killed in the Katyn massacre in Poland in 1940; and the exp...

  8. German invasion, occupation of France

    Reel 8: German engineers repair a bridge which a locomotive crosses. German civilians manufacture war material. German officers confer, trucks transport supplies, men shoe horses. German soldiers sort mail. German troops enter a cathedral. Germany's advance- German forces move through Hangest (France). French and German planes dogfight, a French plane crashes, and Stukas bomb Allied positions. Women wash clothes, boys play, men work, and all listen to an occupation broadcast in French. Maps the German attack on Weygand Line forts. Planes bomb the Line and artillery bombards it.

  9. Rudolf Weiss collection

    Consists of pre-war and wartime documents regarding Rudolf Weiss's life as a refugee. Includes his German passport, 1941; letters and postcards from family and friends; documentation regarding emigration to Switzerland and to Honduras; documentation regarding his pre-war life in Milan, Italy.

  10. World War II French poster collection

    The collection consists of posters depicting anti-Semitic, anti-British, and anti-American propaganda created in German occupied France during World War II.

  11. Fighting in North Africa and USSR

    Animated map of North Africa. German soldiers on lookout from a rocky hilltop. German planes drop bombs. German soldiers fire artillery into a valley and move across the desert in tanks. Shot of a destroyed American tank. Luftwaffe bearers of Knight's Cross and paratroopers walk along the road, smiling. British and American POWs surrender their weapons. CUs of POWs. German soldiers move down a road, passing two dead Allied soldiers. Destroyed and abandoned war materiel on the ground and in a trench. German soldiers climb on and inspect destroyed tanks. 01:13:23 Animated map showing Moscow, ...

  12. Moskovits Archive: Court cases against Dierig Holding Company Archivo Moskovits: Prozess gegen Firma Dierig Holding

    Legal cases and correspondence related to the trial against Dierig Holding AG company that used forced and slave labor during Nazi era. It consist of lawsuits of Holocaust survivors and former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps against Dierig Holding company who worked as forced labors at company's branches in Nazi Germany. The trial took place in 1999.

  13. Oral history interview with Eugene Messer

  14. Harold Reichenthal collection

    The Harold Reichenthal collection consists of an undated letter (postmarked June 1938) from Isser Reichenthal in Berlin to Jack Cohen (or Cohn) in Schenectady, New York, requesting affidavits for his daughter, Dorothea (Reichenthal) Graf and her husband Ernst Graf. Also includes the envelope in which the letter was mailed.

  15. Eliezer Yerushalmi papers

    Collection consists of several manuscript and typescript drafts of writings by Yerushalmi describing events in the Šiauliai (Shavli) ghetto during the German occupation as well as other topics. Includes a manuscript text in a notebook, titled "Di geshikte fun Shavler geto un fun zefon Lita bekitzur;" manuscript drafts of several plays, including "Profesor Shuster;" and a draft of a novel, "Man iz im mekane di dira, a novele fun plitim in Italye," which is based on the lives of Jewish refugees in post-war Italy.

  16. Sketchbook with paintings and sketches

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn592728
    • English
    • a: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) c: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) d: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) e: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) f: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) g: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) h: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)

    Sketchbook belonging to Dora Ajlkichen (1926-1942) who was deported from Brussels on 15 August 1942 and was murdered at Auschwitz.

  17. RAD labor in July 1943

    Private film by Herbert Apfelthaler. Title card reads “Soldaten der Arbeit” with a Nazi insignia. Another title card briefly reads “Ein Ferrania Film der Hera / von: H. Apfelthaler. / Mitwirkende: Führer und Mannschaft des RAD Abt S/343 Schönering.” Nazi insignia. Title card: “Student u. Handwerker, Bauernsohn u. Lehrling, zu einer Gemeinschaft zusammengeschweißt, arbeiten unter dem Zeichen des Reichsarbeitsdienstes.” View of houses on the other side of a river. A mini-bus drives down the road on the side of the river. Young blond men, part of the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD), ride in the car....

  18. Bill Rosenbluth collection

    Contains two black and white photographic prints entrusted to donor's family by a cousin, Abraham Holzman, who was in the United States military during WWII. Images depict corpses, victim of Nazi persecution, and civilians who were probably forced to assist with burial; location not identified but likely to be the Mauthausen concentration camp or one of its subcamps.

  19. Invasion of France

    Night scenes: sounds of mortar fire and burning buildings along the Maginot Line. Shots of German planes overhead, aerial views of the Maginot Line, German planes dropping bombs. Germans shooting cannons; soldiers crossing the Rhein in a small boat. More fighting, until the narrator states that Strasbourg, the old German city, is again in German hands. Organ music plays over a shot of a cathedral. German troops pass French civilians on a road. The narrator announces the entry into Metz. Civilians lining the road salute the passing German troops. Happy population of Metz out on the streets; ...

  20. Lilly Isaacs diaries and photographs

    This collection includes three diaries created and written by Lilly Isaacs while imprisoned in the Sömmerda labor camp from 1944 until after liberation in 1945. During her imprisonment Lilly worked in a munitions factory where she used materials from the factory, such as paint and paper, to make her diaries. In the diaries Lilly writes about being separated from her family at Auschwitz, missing her family, air raids, the development of the war, her experiences in Sömmerda, and liberation. The diaries also include poetry. The collection also includes photographs taken in 1940 of Elizabeth ...