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  1. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 6, 7 and 8 -- Hausner's opening statement

    Sessions 6, 7 and 8. Begins during Attorney General Hausner's opening speech. He describes the terrible conditions inflicted upon the Jews in concentration camps. There is a blip at 00:04:42 and then Hausner continues his description by quoting eyewitness accounts of Nazi violence. There is another blip at 00:08:50 and the prosecutor refers to the extermination of Galician Jewry; he states, "The accused, as head of the Gestapo Department for Jewish Affairs, as Special Commissioner for the extermination of the Jews, bears direct responsibility as the initiator and implementer of this blood b...

  2. Rosalie Herman and Max Honigsberg family papers

    The Rosalie Herman and Max Honigsberg family papers include biographical materials and photographs documenting the Honigsberg family’s prewar life in Poland and Germany. The collection also includes a digital copy of Max Honigsberg’s self-published memoir, Maxie: An Autobiography (2013).

  3. Camera

    1. Fred Lubcher collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn724605
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Depth: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) b: Height: 2.875 inches (7.302 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)

    Camera in case that Fred Lubcher brought with him from Vienna.

  4. Morck and Mayer families papers

    The Morck and Mayer families papers include documents relating to the prewar life and immigration of Anneliese Morck (later Anne Martin) and the extended Morck and Mayer families from Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg, Germany. Identification and immigration documents relating to Hugo, Alice, Anne, and Heinz Morck include German passports, certificates of registration for the United Kingdom, certificates of naturalization for the United States, affidavits, visa documentation, packing lists, and passenger booklets for the SS President Harding. Identification and immigration documents relating...

  5. Joseph Wulf sound recordings

    Songs performed by Joseph Wulf. The arranger and pianist on the recordings is Friedrich Scholz. Wulf announces the song titles, composers and poets at the start of almost every track in the following order: 1. Zol zayn 2. Hey, tsigelekh 3. Azamer bi'shvakhim 4. Yedid Nefesh 5. Fun land tsu land 6. Hatsos 7. A small biographical note about Weingarten (spoken) 8. Zunenshtraln 9. Unter di khurves fun poyln

  6. Rauter Trial, Westerbork

    "Neerlands Nieuws / Polygoon Profilti" "Het Proces Rauter Opens with the trial of Hanns Rauter, an Austrian who was the highest SS official in Nazi-occupied Holland and who was tasked with setting up Westerbork and Vught 02:19:44 The judge's voice, presumably reading the indictment, over footage of well dressed civilians wearing stars either arriving at Westerbork or boarding for deportation to Auschwitz or Belsen. Men, women, and children. Good shots of Dutch military police on duty. Back to Rauter sitting at the trial. 02:20:12 Men wearing wooden clogs getting off train at Westerbork lini...

  7. Schema of inmates, soccer, train at Camp Westerbork

    Schema with camps and numbers of inmates. (**This most likely refers to where Jews were deported to from Westerbork. The numbers closely correspond to those in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, p. 1646): EINGANG 103.376; BERGEN BELS 3029; THERESIENSTADT 2470; NACH DEM OSTEN 91.545; INTERNIERURG 350; LAGER VUGHT 897. 03:02:30 Horse-pulled plowing tool, farm animals, preparing soil for seeding. 03:03:12 Slate: ...ALSO JETZT KOMMT...AH...SCHAUN SIE SICH'S MAL AN! Man and woman carrying large wooden board, unfinished barrack in BG. 03:03:35 Soccer match. [VQ deteriorates: jumpy, unstable "doub...

  8. Isidoro e Giulia Goldfinger

    Il fondo raccoglie documenti della famiglia Goldfinger ed in particolare di Isidoro Goldfinger. Oltre alla sua attività lavorativa (cfr. b. 1, fasc. 1), sono conservate carte sulla sua attività politica come l'adesione al Partito Nazionale Fascista (PNF) - a cui rimane iscritto fino all'introduzione delle leggi razziali - e al partito Alleanza Nazionale; ha collaborato inoltre con il Keren Kejmet LeIsrael (KKL) dal quale ha ricevuto un diploma di benemerenza (cfr. b. 1, fasc. 4). Della famiglia Goldfinger si conservano due fascicoli nominativi intestati a Ida e Giulia contenenti documenti d...

  9. Jean Crouzet papers

    1. Gaston Crouzet collection

    The papers consist of a document that lists the names of prisoners in Flossenbürg concentration camp and statistics regarding their death and a document written by Dr. Gaston Crouzet and another doctor regarding the repatriation of French survivors of Flossenbürg concentration camp.

  10. Crouzet family papers

    1. Gaston Crouzet collection

    The collection consists of documents including a menu written by inmates at Flossenbürg concentration camp, correspondence received by Irene Crouzet from her husband and son, Dr. Gaston and Robert Crouzet, while they were interned in several different concentration camps, and a photograph of Ambroise Cognac.

  11. Hanauer family history

    Consists of one family history narrative by Ralph Uri Hanauer's daughter, Terri Brahm. Includes biographical and genealogical information about relatives, life in Germany and the family's Holocaust experiences, as well as copies of family photographs.

  12. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 73, 81, 85, and 86 -- Sassen; Hungary; liberation of Bergen-Belsen; Stalingrad

    This tape contains parts of the following sessions: 73; 81; 85; 86. Session 73. Dr. Servatius reads the Sassen memoirs. He reads a section citing the inability to define Eichmann's role with the camps. He says that there are no examples of Eichmann acting in the camps without Mueller as an intermediary. He concludes with a quote saying that there were no reports of Eichmann disobeying the orders to stop the deportations of Jews. 00:07:22 The Attorney General Hausner submits passages, including a few that were already submitted by the Defense. He reads about Eichmann's proposal to trade Jews...

  13. "Courier: a memoir"

    1. Leah Silverstein collection

    Describes Leah Silverstein's reactions to the Holocaust.

  14. Leah Silverstein memoirs

    1. Leah Silverstein collection

    Contains two versions, typescript, circa 200 pages each of the donor's memoirs.

  15. National Jewish Monthly (Washington, DC) [Magazine]

    1. Rudolf Kovacs collection

    B'nai B'rith publication

  16. Blanket from Foehrenwald displaced persons camp

    Blanket bought by Charlene Schiff with cigarettes which she received in Joint Distribution Committee packages during her internment at Foehrenwald diplaced persons camp, near Munich, Germany.

  17. Fonds Alice Ferrières (MDXXXIII)

    Diary, correspondence,and testimonies from the archives of Alice Ferrières, who ran a network (“Roseau Ferrières”) in WWII to save children. The collection includes a list of people with whom Alice Ferrières corresponded as well as testimonies of former hidden children. In the summer of 1943, as the situation for Jews in France worsened, the leaders of the Jewish Scout movement decided to close the children’s home in Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, in southwestern France, and disperse the girls living there. Some of the girls were housed in a private girls’ school in Murat, in the département of Can...

  18. Coat worn by a female German Jewish member of the Red Orchestra resistance group

    1. David and Lisa Eizenberg collection

    Coat worn by Lisa Gervai-Egler, probably postwar when she returned to Berlin after being liberated from a concentration camp. During the war, while Lisa was a student at the Berlin Museum School of Fine Arts, she joined an anti-Nazi resistance movement known as the Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra). This group smuggled coded messages on troop movements and other strategic information to the Russian Front. Lisa was captured while on a mission in Poland and imprisoned by the Germans. Toward the end of the war, she met an American soldier, David Eizenberg, who was serving as a Russian translator. D...

  19. Vest worn by a female German Jewish member of the Red Orchestra resistance group

    1. David and Lisa Eizenberg collection

    Vest worn by Lisa Gervai-Egler, probably postwar, when she returned to Berlin after being liberated from a concentration camp. During the war, while Lisa was a student at the Berlin Museum School of Fine Arts, she joined an anti-Nazi resistance movement known as the Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra). This group smuggled coded messages on troop movements and other strategic information to the Russian Front. Lisa was captured while on a mission in Poland and imprisoned by the Germans. Toward the end of the war, she met an American soldier, David Eizenberg, who was serving as a Russian translator. ...

  20. Mister C

    1. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    The subject of this song is Winston Churchill, the cigar-chomping British prime minister who between the fall of France and the United States' entry into World War II personified captive Europe's last hope for defeating the Germans. Written soon after news reached Sachsenhausen of the Allied evacuation from Dunkirk in May 1940, “Mister C” debuted at an informal musical evening in Cell Block 3 where, to cite Kulisiewicz, “the most biting and obscene antifascist satires were performed in several languages.” Kulisiewicz further recalls that he would pantomime rowing gestures and whisper “Dunki...