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  1. Charles and Malka Bilfeld family Collection

    The collection consists of prayer books, a cup, a bowl, an identification card, and photographs relating to the experiences of Szapse (Charles) and Malka Bilfeld and their son Mozes (Marvin) in Poland and the Soviet Union before and during the Holocaust, and in Germany, where their daughter Chana (Anna) was born, and the United States after the Holocaust.

  2. Felicia and Leon Weingarten collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Felicia and Leon Weingarten's respective families during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Leah Goltzman collection

    An oral history interview and memoir detailing the wartime experiences of Leah Goltzman and her family

  4. Nacht family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, papers, drawings, photos, passports, notebook and additional materials relating to and documenting the experiences of Max Nacht, his wife Elfriede (nee Kamm), sons Edward and Felix, Elfriede's parents Alfred and Amalie Kamm and their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust in Germany, Shanghai, and the Dominican Republic.

  5. Yad Vashem

    University course-debate at Yad Vashem. Shalmi Barmore, the Director of Education, stands in front of an assembly of military students after showing a film. Barmore and several students debate the resistance actions of the Jews during the Holocaust. They show concern that the Holocaust could happen again, in any country, including Israel. A student asks why the world appeared to be uninterested in helping the Jews during the Holocaust. Another student responds that the world was aware of what was occurring, but due to the violent situation they could not do more than accept refugees. A stud...

  6. Political cartoon by Rollin Kirby portraying a bloodstained Hitler standing on a pile of human skulls

    Satirical drawing created by Rollin Kirby and published in the New York Post on June 4, 1940. He inscribed the drawing and gave it to Charles Neal and Lida Thomas on June 4, 1940. The drawing depicts Adolf Hitler holding a bloody sword and standing atop of mound of human skulls. A vulture perches on the pile next to him. Kirby had been a celebrated political cartoonist in the US since World War I (1914-18), and won three Pulitzers in the 1920s. His editorial cartoons appeared daily in a series of New York newspapers. He was known for his bold visual style and his support of the common man a...

  7. Folk dancing in southern Poland

    Men and women folk dancing in full, traditional central Polish folk dress. The sequence plays in slow motion.

  8. Postwar: Verdoner children emigrate on the Gripsholm; walk around NYC

    Color part of "November 1946 Gripsholm" reel. CU, Yoka and Francisca Verdoner on the deck of a ship SS Gripsholm bound for the USA. This footage was shot post war, the Verdoner children were hidden children. Their mother Hilde was deported to Auschwitz and perished during the war. CU, all three Verdoner children arm in arm on deck- Francisca, Yoka and Otto. MCU, Otto on deck, he is playing with what looks like a piece of 35mm film(?). There are some instances of overexposure on this reel of film. Yoka moving about on deck. Panning shot of the ship's mast and various displaced persons on dec...

  9. Radio-Sende-Spiel [Radio transmission game], a Nazi propaganda board game

    Playing board for a Nazi propaganda game, Radio-Sende-Spiel: Ein luestiges Wuerfelspiel fuer vier Personen [Radio Station Game: A funny dice game for four people.] The game is based upon the sending of radio messages between transmission towers of the German Armed Forces within Germany circa 1942, thus Czechoslovakia and Poland are shown as part of Germany. The player's goal is to make it around the board while avoiding enemy or foreign radio stations. Radio transmissions are monitored by enemies of Germany. Cities outside German boundaries, such as London, Paris, Bucharest, and Moscow, are...

  10. Cigarette card album

    German cigarette album, Deutschland erwacht. This album was probably received as a gift by the donor’s grandfather or great-grandfather who worked with the Frankfurt Zoological Society. All the German captions have been translated into English and pasted into the album.

  11. Book

    Medical book

  12. Book

    Children's school book

  13. Sándor Eppler collection

    Consists of photocopies of letters and telegrams of condolence received by members of the Eppler family after the death of Sándor Eppler in 1942. The collection also contains photocopies of eulogies and newspaper clippings. Sándor Eppler was the General Secretary of the Hungarian Jewish community, and represented the community at the Evian Conference in 1938.

  14. Irene Adler memoir

    Contains one memoir, 87 pages, written by Irene Adler. In the memoir, she describes her childhood in a north-eastern village of Hungary in the 1930s, hiding in Budapest during the Holocaust, her escape from a death march in late 1944, her life and liberation in the Budapest ghetto, and her ailyah to the newly-founded state of Israel. She also describes the experiences of her husband, Mr. Bernard Adler, who was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz and was liberated in Ebensee.

  15. Ferencz interviewed by Dr. Nada Monjoletti

    Radio interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Dr. Nada Monjoletti. WFAS-AM 1230 Ferencz discusses his book "Planethood" and how to manage the planet so that all humans can live in peace and dignity. He urges the public to think in planetary terms rather than nationalistic terms for world peace. Ferencz outlines three fundamental components to international law and order that parallel the three branches of government employed in the US: a) laws that define the minimum standards of behavior among nations; b) courts to determine if standards are violated and to serve as a forum in which differe...

  16. Sentencing Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg Trial (SOUND ONLY)

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. NOTE: Here, the actual sentences for the defendants are read, but there was a court ruling that no filming and photographs were allowed during the announcement. So the voice of judge is heard, no pictures, white screen, SOUND ONLY. Continuation of sentences pronounced by tribunal. 02:17:15 Hermann Wilhelm Goering: Death 02:18:08 Rudolf Hess: Life imprisonment 02:18:34 Joachim von Ribbentrop: Death 02:19:01 Wilhelm Keitel: Death 02:19:33 Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Death 02:20:00 Alfred Rosenberg: Death 02:20:34 Hans Frank: ...

  17. Collective farms; Zhukov decorates partisans; soldiers defending Latvia

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel / 35 / Moscow / April 23, 1942 / Directed by M. Fidelevoy" / "Through the front-line of Leningrad" Angled ELS of procession of partisans in horse drawn sleds moving through the woods. LS of men conferring on skis. Procession passing through collective farm. Title: 01:41:10 "Award of the homeland" Coverage of ceremony where Commander Zhukov greets and decorates partisans. LS of Zhukov giving partisan lengthy kiss. CU of woman adjusting medal pinned to her shirt. LS Zhukov speaking to assembly. Title: "An investment in the military - an investment in victory" ELS grou...

  18. Germany Awake!

    Summary of film: Recounts Germany's wartime experience and encourages German citizens to help effect a successful peace. Reel 3: German civilians are shown bodies in Nordhausen and Belsen concentration camps. People, body parts and objects from the Hadamar Institute are shown briefly. Brief shots of gold earings, teeth, etc. being sorted at Majdanek. American POWs shown. Female survivors being treated by Red Cross workers. Belsen- fields of decaying bodies, German civilians and soldiers placing bodies in trucks to be transported for proper burial. VS of high ranking Nazi officials. 08:14:00...

  19. Gusta Dickman collection

    Documents and photographs relating to Dr. Gusta Dickman (née Lempert), born May 20, 1904 in Żurawno, Poland. She graduated with a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Lvov University in 1927. In 1929 she married Michał Dickman, an architect, and the couple moved to Warsaw in 1935. They were forced into the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940. Michał Dickman was murdered in 1942, and Gusta managed to escape from the ghetto during the Warsaw ghetto uprising in April 1943. She obtained false documents, which allowed her to stay in Warsaw untill October 1943 at which time she moved to Milanówek near Warsaw a...

  20. Identification tag found by a US soldier near Auschwitz

    Clyde W. Dooley, a member of the U.S. occupying forces, found the tag near the Auschwitz Concentration camp.