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  1. Prewar Jewish family life in Budapest

    Boy and girl (the Szondi children?) play in a park, with a child’s harness and toys, probably in October 1933 [Dr. Szondi was a famous psychiatrist and friend of Ernö Schiffer’s]. (02:34) Toddlers (János and friend from Mohacs, Zsuzsi Sarvari) play in City Park (Városliget) and pose with their moms for the camera. Boy digs in the dirt. The toddlers run in the grass. János embraces and kisses Zsuzsi; they continue to play in park, dog. (06:26) Marcsa Schiffer (visiting from NY) and other women walking along a path in the park in August 1933 in Janoshegy. Brief view of Gyuri Pinter, the photo...

  2. Chelmno (CH)

    Interviews with local Polish people in and around Chelmno, as well as location filming. FILM ID 3767 -- White 72 CH 48-49 Lettre May. CL lit Lanzmann reads a letter from Mr. May regarding operations at Chelmno. FILM ID 4602 -- Foret Chelmno FO 1-4 Interview Uniquement Interview with two men in the forest near Chelmno. The Poles brought SS guards to the forest at night in order to exterminate Jews. Lanzmann asks the men to describe Polish women who worked for the Germans, Jewish victims' belongings, and the occasions when Goering hunted in the forest near Chelmno. FILM ID 4629 -- White 31 CH...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Czechs in Mladá Vožice; local Nazi collaborators beaten; portaits of Czech resistance heroes; Soviet liberators

    “Mladá Vožice” (a town in the South Bohemian region of Czechoslovakia) “Za kvěnové revoluce a v prvých měsících osvobozené republiky” Hay fields move in the wind, farmland in the BG. Houses on a small hill, grove of trees. In the small Czech town, clocktower next to a building: "JG. SYNEK.” Small statue. Large white building, people walk up the front path. A horse and wagon along a road, a woman walks behind. Two church domes above the treetops. People in another part of town. Church from a different angle. Man walks toward the camera, bell-tower. Houses. Trees. Church. Clouds roll overhead...

  5. UNRRA selected records AG-018-005 : Bureau of Administration

    Records on UNRRA's organizational and procedural history, the Headquarters central files (Registry files) dealing with every aspect of UNRRA's work.

  6. Records of the Former Military Archive in Potsdam Archivalien des ehemaligen Heeresarchivs (Fond 1275)

    The full collection at the source archive consists of records consolidated from various sources concerning German military forces during WWI and WWII. Includes Bormann orders, records relating to operations on Leningrad, intelligence activities, war diaries of the Strafbataillon (German Penal Battalion) (1944); German leaflets against British and French government (1939); leaflets, posters, newspapers; bulletins of anti-fascist organizations of Denmark (1943-1944); information bulletin of the International Union of Trade Unions; war diaries from occupied countries and from German-Soviet fro...

  7. Remains of Lidice in June 1942

    Lidice, June 10-24, 1942. This film was made by Czech filmmakers for the newsreel "Aktualita" and discovered in a secret German archive in Prague in 1945. It documents the immediate aftermath of the Lidice tragedy, where 173 men were murdered and the town was set on fire by members of the Gestapo from Kladno and Prague. Section 6 of the RAD was summoned to remove all external evidence of this Nazi crime and was housed in nearby barracks. SS officers and the leader of the Kladno Gestapo, Wiesmann, can be seen in the footage. Two Czech filmmakers were already in Lidice on June 10, 1942. The m...

  8. Prayer book

    Prayer book for the first and second say of Sukkoth from the library of Isaac Ossowski, a prominent member of the Jewish community in Berlin, Germany, who emigrated in 1938 to avoid the increasing persecution of Jews by the government of Nazi Germany. It is a narrative of the culture, history, and traditions of the Hasidic movement. Rabbi Ossowski was head shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohel [practitioner of ritual circumcision], sofer [scribe], and hazan [cantor, musical prayer leader] at the Alte Shul [Old Synagogue]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, increasingly severe sanc...

  9. Silver medallion with Mary enthroned holding Jesus given to a Jewish girl living in hiding

    Catholic medallion given to 17 year old Roza Kwar in 1944 by a Polish Catholic teenager admirer when she was living under a false identity as a Catholic. He had made a pilgrimage to Czectochowa to see the Black Madonna and bought it there. After Nazi Germany occupied Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) in June 1941, Roza and her parents, Benzion and Tinka, were moved to the Jewish ghetto and assigned to forced labor. In August 1942, Benzion purchased false papers for her. She escaped and went to live with Krystyna Moskalik, a Polish schoolteacher, in Sieciechiowice. That area was liberated by the...

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Session 100 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    The camera fades in onto Eichmann seated in the booth during recess. There is a shot of the prosecution desk with Hausner, Bach, and Assistant to the Attorney General Ya'akov Robinson seated (00:00:48) followed by various shots of the accused, the prosecution, and the courtroom. Assistant State Attorney Bar-Or enters and walks to the prosecution table (00:02:14). Servatius is shown arranging documents on his table (00:05:15). All rise as the judges enter the courtroom (00:06:45) and the attorneys bow to the judges (00:06:52). Attorney General Gideon Hausner resumes cross examination of Eich...

  11. Łódź becomes Litzmannstadt, reels 1 and 3

    Germans build new planned city for German Volk. Łódź before and after being "rebuilt." Stroll through town, labor camps, city street. Reel 1: LS panorama of city. Animap highlights darkened area "Wandalen" (early history of Vandals and Germanic occupation of area). CU stone surrounding circular metal object, pull out to reveal museum (archeological?) cases of vases. "Das Gefaess Aus Biala..." label on one of the vases. Swastika carved into urn. CU of ornamental crosses and other objects, spearheads, helmets. Map of Sudetenland and Warthegau, extreme Eastern edge, points to Litzmannstadt (Łó...

  12. Freyer and Lichtenstein families papers

    The collection consists of biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, and photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Leo and Eva Freyer (née Lichtenstein) and their children Marion and Ursula in Berlin, their emigration from Germany to the United States in 1939, and wartime correspondence with family members and friends still in Germany. There is a small amount of material related to the Lichtenstein family of Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Biographical material includes birth certificates, German identification cards and passports, marriage papers,...

  13. Jean Pictet - Red Cross

    A leading member of the International Council of the Red Cross, Jean Pictet was responsible for the preparatory work which led to the conclusion of the four Geneva Conventions in 1949. FILM ID 3444 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:08 to 01:27:25 Roll 1 Jean Pictet sits in his office in the International Committee of the Red Cross (Comité International de la Croix-Rouge). Pictet began working for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1937 when he was twenty-five years old. He started as a legal secretary and worked closely with the President of the ICRC, Max Huber. In 1946, Pic...

  14. Portrait of a Young Girl with Two Yellow Badges Diukan na’arah ‘im shnei tla’im tsehubim Portrait print by Esther Lurie of a young woman wearing a plaid dress with two Star of David badges

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn59171
    • English
    • 1941
    • overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) pictorial area: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm)

    Print of a portrait drawing by Esther Lurie of a young woman in checked dress with two Star of David patches. It is print 19 of 20 and is signed the artist. This print is a version of the drawing, Portrait of a Young Girl with Two Yellow Badges, which Lurie did in the Kovno ghetto and for which she was awarded the Dizengoff Prize in 1946 in Palestine. In 1934, Esther and her family emigrated from Latvia to Palestine. She went to Europe in 1939 for advanced art training and was visiting relatives in Lithuania when World War II began with the September invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. In s...

  15. Eichmann Trial -- Session 97 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    The camera fades in onto a medium shot of Servatius seated at the defense table and examining documents. Adolf Eichmann is shown entering the booth (00:01:16) carrying documents and escorted by three Israeli guards. There are various shots of Eichmann, Servatius, and the courtroom. Hausner and Bar-Or enter the courtroom and are seated at the prosecution table (00:05:40). The camera occasionally shows shots of people in the audience. Eichmann is shown rising as judges Halevi, Landau, and Raveh enter the courtroom (00:07:20). Presiding Judge Landau opens the ninety-seventh session of the tria...

  16. Sam Rafel visits his hometown of Gombin in 1937

    1937 trip to Gombin, Poland (123 km northwest of Warsaw) filmed by Sam Rafel at the request of Nathan Zolna Solomon, who had emigrated from Gombin to Newark NJ and provided Sam Rafel with the camera. The first shot is a grainy, dark interior shot of a crowd of people. This might be the crowd that assembled for Sam Rafel's 1937 visit. He wrote, "the affair took place in the Firemen's Hall, in the presence of three thousand people, virtually the whole Jewish population of Gombin." The quality is much improved in the next scenes, which are street portraits, where Rafel posed people in groups a...

  17. Speculum owned by a German emigre and US Army medic

    Speculum used by Dr. Bruno Lambert, who immigrated to the United States from Nazi Germany in 1938, and served in the United States Army Medical Corps during the war. Bruno attended medical school in Germany from 1932-1937, but was not allowed to receive a diploma as a Jew under the Nazi regime. He transferred to a university in Switzerland, and earned a Doctorate of Medicine in July 1938. With the help of Margaret Bergmann, Bruno immigrated to the US in August. Margaret was a Jewish athlete who was banned from competing in the Olympics by the Nazi authorities, and subsequently immigrated to...

  18. Caroline Ferriday collection

    The Caroline Ferriday collection includes applications for reparations, medical records, photographs, correspondence, and printed material documenting survivors of Nazi pseudo-scientific experiments in concentration camps, particularly the sulfonamide experiments on Polish female political prisoners at Ravensbrück, and Ferriday’s efforts to help the victims receive medical care in America and reparations from the German government. Dr. Karl Gebhardt, Dr. Fritz Ficher, Dr. Herta Oberheuser, and others conducted the Ravensbrück experiments, which were supposedly designed to test the efficacy ...

  19. Portrait of a fellow inmate in Terezin ghetto created by Bedrich Fritta

    Ink wash painting of Wilda Petschau created by Bedrich Fritta in 1942 in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp where both men were imprisoned. Petschau was killed soon after the portrait was completed. The drawing was hidden in the walls of the ghetto and recovered after liberation in May 1945. Fritta, a Czech Jewish cartoonist and graphic designer, was deported to the camp from Prague on November 24, 1941. He was assigned to head the Graphic Department. Fritta was part of a tight knit group of artists determined to secretly document the wretched conditions of daily life in the camp. In summer 1...

  20. Large red Nazi garrison swastika banner signed by soldiers of the 80th Infantry

    Very large red Nazi swastika banner taken by 19 year old Paul Mercer, a US soldier, at the end of the four day battle to capture Kassel, Germany, on April 4, 1945. Paul and his unit, the 318th Machine Gun Squad, 80th Infantry Division, Third Army, faced stiff opposition at Kassel, which had a still operating Tiger Tank factory. At 12:30am, April 4, General Major Erxleben surrendered with about 400 troops. He wanted to present the garrison banner to the American commander but it could not be found. Paul had slipped behind the troops and removed the flag without anyone's noticing. The banner ...