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  1. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

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

  2. Oral history interview with Piera Solender

  3. Peasants in Berestowitz, Poland

    Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. CU, elderly woman with scarf around head. "Polish Peasant Types" "Grandpa" MCU, old man with girl.

  4. The Striker, Special number 1, May 1934, 12th year 1934 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Issue of Der Sturmer, a viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Julius Streicher, an early Nazi Party member, from 1923-1945 in Germany. The newspaper's frequent subtitle was "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" [The Jews are our misfortune]. The paper thrived on scandal, and preferred sensational stories of Jews committing disgusting, evil acts. It was also infamous for its antisemitic cartoons. Streicher was arrested by the US Army in May 1945. He was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed per the ruling that his repeated articles calling for th...

  5. David Briggs photograph collection

    Photographs of wagons containing corpses from Dachau being driven through the town of Dachau on their way to burial.

  6. French resistance

    Newsreel describing resistance activities in France. Title reads: France Actualites. La France et L'empire L'Europe et le monde. Destruction in city. Books in a pile. Civilians look at destruction. Weapons. CUs members of the Manouchian Network (mostly young). These individuals are identified at the end of Film ID 411 with inserted titling: Manouchian; Boczor; Rayman; Celestino; Fingercwajg; Wajsbrot. Soldiers guarding entrance. Diplomats enter sanctuary, viewing body, exiting. Coffin loaded onto a wagon and paraded through the city. Civilians and soldiers watch.

  7. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 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.

  8. Atom bomb havoc

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 432. Release date, 09/10/1945. According to UN advance information: "Hiroshima-Atomic Bomb Target No. 1" When Col. Paul Tibbetts, Jr. winged his Superfortress over Hiroshima, that metropolis became the first target city for the new destructive terror--the Atomic Bomb. This single bomb, equal to 20,000 tons of TNT in explosive power, levelled 70% of the city, killed 126,000 and left acres of empty wastelands in the heart of a once thriving city.

  9. Felice Shekar collection

    Consists of seven original photographs from the liberation of Ohrdruf. Contains images of American soldiers witnessing victims, helping survivors, and one photograph of a crematorium.

  10. Book

  11. Filthy Jew Antisemitic cartoon by Fips of a Jew selling nude women in a shop window acquired by a US soldier

    Antisemitic cartoon by Fips (Phillip Rupprecht) taken from Julius Streicher's villa, Pleikershof, in Cadolzburg, Germany, by E.H. Mayer, a US soldier, in May 1945. Fips made the drawing in 1924 for Der Stuermer, the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Streicher from 1923-1945. Fips was a well known antisemitic caricaturist for Der Stuermer from 1923-1945. Rupprecht was arrested by the US Army in 1945, tried by a German denazification court, and sentenced to six years hard labor. Streicher was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed per the...

  12. Album

  13. Bitter War on West Front (Gen. DeGaulle)

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 371.

  14. Oral history interview with David Faber

  15. Oral history interview with Gene Klein and Jill Klein

  17. Oral history interview with Morris Lang

  18. Werner Isenberg papers

    The Werner Isenberg papers include biographical materials and correspondence documenting Werner Isenberg’s family from Dortmund, their emigration from Nazi Germany to South Africa and the United States, and relatives murdered in the Holocaust. Biographical materials include passports for Lina and Simon Isenberg as well as certificates required for emigration. This series also includes a list of relatives of Werner and Therese Isenberg from the Isenberg, Kleeblatt, Freund, Bendorf, Hainebach, Stahl, Kahn, and Levy families who were murdered during the Holocaust. The correspondence series pri...

  19. Muzeum Slovenskeho Narodneho Povstania records relating to Jews in Slovakia

    Relates to anti-Jewish policies in Slovakia, the Hlinka Guard, and other Holocaust-related topics.

  20. Leather ID bracelet with a copper tag with a prisoner number worn by a concentration camp inmate