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  1. Herman Spitz collection

    The collection consists of a banner and book.

  2. LTC John V. Riche collection

    Contains photographs documenting the D-Day invasion of France by Allied forces; the liberation of a concentration camp; and the execution of a German spy. Includes an essay titled "Sixty-Five Years of Service: My Military Experience."

  3. Press Archive DAIA (Delegacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas)

    Articles, clippings, correspondence and statistics of the Press Archive DAIA (Delegacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas) related to antisemitism in Argentina and around the world.

  4. Pirika Hershkowitz collection

    The collection includes a calendar in which Pirika Hershkowitz noted significant dates after her and her cousin, Matilda Herz, escaped from a death march from Auschwitz-Birkenau on February 2, 1945. The collection also includes pre-war family photographs in Gherla, Romania and post-war photographs from Cluj and Gherla, Romania where Piri Hershkowitz married Karoly Klein on July 27, 1945 as well as an identification document issued by the Romania authorities to Piri Klein and two letters and a note sent from Bucharest to Piri Hershkowitz.

  5. Otto J. Kahn photograph collection

    Consists of a copyprint depicting members of the Counter Intelligence Corps, including Otto J. Kahn (born in 1906) in uniform (second from the left). Otto, who was born Jewish in Germany, left Stuttgart in 1926 and lived in Chicago. The photograph was taken during the war, though the exact date and location is unknown. Also includes a copyprint of rubble, likely in Germany.

  6. Villa Regenstreif in Vienna

    Introduced with German titles throughout. Views of the Villa Regenstreif (Poetz). Blossoming trees in the spring, the garden, outdoor pool, sculptures, and fountains. The fountain with a high water jet is a copy of New York's Central Park Conservatory. 02:25:14 View of the villa foyer (see Story 1249 at 03:17:15 for a view of the same foyer as the family is forced to sell the villa to the Nazis). In summer, terraces, sprinklers (beautiful shot), stairs. Film switches to color. The twins with red vests ride new bicycles. The garden is in full bloom. In autumn, more faded color scenes of the ...

  7. Thanks to Scandinavia, Inc., records

    Consists of correspondence, publications, fundraising materials, and documents related to the organization "Thanks to Scandinavia," a scholarship fund for Scandinavian students. The fund was established to honor the people of Sweden and Denmark for their heroic actions during World War II. The documents are from the collection of Mr. S. Dell Scott, a member of the group, and cover the period 1965-1975.

  8. Hungary's Prime Minister speaks

    Magyar Híradó 777. Béla Imrédy stands at the front of the room on a stage, behind a white podium. He is giving a speech (in Hungarian). Men (security?) stand in a line against the wall beneath him. There is a large audience listening to Imrédy’s speech. View from an upper level of the crowd, and the guards standing with flags on the side of the stage. Four men stand on the stage. The one on the far left holds a flag. Multiple microphones stand on the podium in front of Imrédy. Various shots of the audience and the guards standing on the stage, each with a flag topped by metal symbols. Imréd...

  9. Barbie Trial -- Day 1 -- Barbie's activities after the war and history of the Nazis in France

    17:31 A clerk reads the list of Civil Parties. 18:07 The clerk lists what Barbie has been doing after the war. 18:14 The clerk discusses the Nazi police organization in France and the establishment of the "Final Solution." 18:23 The clerk lists the sentences against Barbie made in absentia, by the Permanent Military Court of Lyon on April 29, 1952 and on November 25, 1954, condemning Barbie to death. Due to France's Statute of Limitations, Barbie cannot be held acocuntable for these sentences.

  10. Rabbi Jay Stein collection

    Collection consists of 10 liberation photographs from Buchenwald concentration camp in April, 1945, taken or reproduced by the United States Army. Also included is a photograph of Weimar, labeled on reverse as being "Platz Adolf-Hitler." Images include survivors as well as army personnel and barracks and gallows within the camp.

  11. Tallit

    Tallit given to Leo [Leib] Recht upon liberation of an unknown concentration camp in 1945 by the Joint Distribution Committee upon his return to his home town Kielce, Poland, and worn by him until his death in 1992.

  12. East Prussia, Breslau

    Several short documentaries with titles on East Prussia, Silesia, Transylvania, Refugee Camp in Denmark

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- State Department Library; Passport office; Div of Communication and Records

    665 NN Various shots in the State Department library. Man with books. CUs document, treaties signed by officials. People in library, CUs books. Pan right to card catalog. Sign, "Library - US Department of State - For the use of the Department - Not open to the Public." CUs treaty. 665 OO Men typing at desks, telegrams with Secretary of State emblem. Office in Paris? Sign, "Passports Applications and Information. Renewal and Amendments." Passport office. CUs woman filling out paperwork, passport application. Sign, "Division of Communications and Records." INT, office, man at desk. Typing. Mo...

  14. Society of the Survivors of the Riga Ghetto Conference (New York)

    Lanzmann films at a New York conference for survivors of the Riga ghetto in 1978. Includes an interview with several former Jewish policemen from Riga, Latvia who describe the division of the ghetto into sections for Latvian Jews and German Jews, dealing with the Nazi discovery of a secret weapons cache, and responsibilities as Jewish police. Lanzmann raises the question of collaboration and acknowledges the survivors’ openness as they talk. He also interviews veteran frontline soldier, Friedrich Baer. The reels also generally show the conference proceedings inside the New York hotel. FILM ...

  15. Samuel Kramer papers

    Consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs and similar materials collected by Samuel Kramer, an attorney who was legal counsel to Agudas Chasidei Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and who worked closely with Rabbi S. Gourary and his father-in-law, the Lubavticher Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, in attempts to secure visas for several dozen rabbis and students of the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva, first so that they could leave Lithuania for Japan, and then from Japan onward, 1940-1941. The “Correspondence” series is the largest component of the collection, and consists primarily of letters fr...

  16. 56th Armored Engineer Battalion arrives at Mauthausen to bury the dead

    The 11th US Armored Division advances through Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. Includes scenes of surrendering enemies and the 56th Armored Engineer Battalion at the liberation of Mauthausen. Color: Countryside from moving tank. Liberation of German town: flames, civilians, some waving white flags, church. Views of German civilians from tank as US army passes through, 2 men with armbands carry a Red Cross flag. US soldiers marching along road (dark) and through town. Shots of farm animals and barns on fire. 01:22:26 Group of men - brewery workers - exiting building with arms raised. Wo...

  17. Trip to Italy, 1930s

    Ponte Vechhio, the Duomo, The David, Colosseum, fisherman sitting at the harbor, various Italian sites

  18. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  19. Peasants

    Peasants [in the Caucusus?] on ferry, horses eating hay. Women with white kerchiefs sitting on wooden carts on the ferry. VAR shots of peasants.

  20. Hitler, Speer, Karl Brandt, Himmler, Heydrich, Ribbentrop

    Reel 1 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). Film titles/locations include: Am Chiemsee, Wolfgangsee, Aschauer Weiher [pond], Woerthsee, Punktchen am Berg. B/W. Eva Braun swims with her parents and others at the Koenigsee, near Berchtesgaden. Scenes at waterfall. Munich, inside Eva Braun's home at Wasserburgerstrasse 12. INT, Eva Braun with family and friends, seated in front of large fireplace. Includes Ilse Braun and CU of Herta Schneider, her husband, and her oldest child. Koenigsee: The Schneiders pose on the edge of the lake for camera. INT at Berghof, Ber...