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  1. Alvin J. Schoenhals letter

    Contains a letter, five pages, written by United States Army Sgt. Alvin J. Schoenhals to his family describing what he saw when he visited the recently-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp on June 14, 1945.

  2. Helena Aussenberg papers

    The Helena Aussenberg papers consists of two essays: "The history of the Jewish commune in Radomysl Wielki" includes descriptions of the impact of the Holocaust in this community. "Radomysl Wielki--partisan Warfare," is an account of Helena Aussenberg's participation in partisan activities in this area.

  3. US soldiers resting at campsite

    Underexposed sequence of men with mess kits, standing around waiting. Cleaning mess kits, various CUs. Campsite activity continues. Lieutenant passing out lifesavers, cigarettes, opening mail, etc. Men digging hole or trench, clowning around. Jeep has sign that reads: "Messenger - do not delay." Hands something to people in tent and drives off. Various shots of camp. Moffat and others cooking on fire and eating. Shot from INT of truck and reverse angle of men loading in. VS of men walking around and eating from mess kits. VS of muddy ground. Dark haired GI with round, steel-rimmed glasses. ...

  4. Photographs of Irving Haas's grandparents

    Color duplicates of two photographs of an elderly man and woman identified as Irving Haas's grandparents.

  5. Goebbels re: bookburning and boycott; crowds in street; Reichstag fire trial; Nuremberg Laws; vom Rath's funeral

    05:02:43 Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, speaks at bookburning, Berlin Opernplatz, at night: brief clip of his speech referring to Jewish intellectual domination . . ." Followed by shots of men throwing books into the bonfire. People, mainly civilian, march past behind the fire and the flames roar. "Berlin, May 10, 1933" . To 05:03:08 05:03:09 Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, speaks from podium at Lustgarten to assembled crowd, announcing boycott of Jewish businesses. Pan of masses as Goebbels speaks with some passion, using his hands. Crowd responds "Hei...

  6. "Europa Europa" by Shlomo Perel; translated by Bryan Mark Rigg

    Contains a translation, 117 pages, of Shlomo (Solomon) Perel's book "I am Solomon Perel," or "Europa, Europa."

  7. The girls from Salzwegel: 40 lager girls, by Itka Najman Slodowski

    Consists of a photocopied manuscript containing the memoirs of 40 women survivors of Salzwedel concentration camp. Each memoir includes a photocopied photograph of the survivor and a questionnaire asking her name, date of birth, names of her parents and siblings, her ghetto- and camp-internment dates, names and addresses of other Salzwedel survivors with whom she is in contact, and names of women who did not survive. Copies of a Salzwedel camp map, a speech given by Itka Najman Slodowski during a June 1996 survivors' reunion at Salzwedel and survivor lists are included in the manuscript. A ...

  8. Nathan and Regina Eschwege collection

    Collection contains five photocopied letters written in 1941-1942 by the donor's parents, Nathan and Regina Eschwege.

  9. Eszter Forrai collection

    Contains copies, in French, English, Hungarian and Yiddish, of "Steps," written by Eszter Forrai, an Hungarian poet living in France; a copy of an illustration for her poem done by Frans Schuursma, a Dutch painter; and a copy of a catalog, in French and English, for a Paris exhibition of Frans Schuursma's work.

  10. Lilly Herz Bendheim collection

    Collection contains documentation regarding Erwin Bendheim in Germany during 1937-1938. Collection includes original Schutzhaftbefehl, Entlassungsschein, and Abmeldebescheinigung.

  11. Harry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry B., who was born in Gorlice, Poland in 1929, one of five children. He recalls his family's affluence; German bombardment; escaping to Jas?o; his father and oldest brother boarding a train which left before the rest had boarded; returning home; ghettoziation; a Gestapo shooting his brother; a friend on the Judenrat convincing the Gestapo not to touch the rest of the family; deportation of all Jews in 1941; remaining behind to clear bodies (he never saw his mother or siblings again); transfer to P?aszo?w; a privileged position caring for the Kommandant and his fam...

  12. School Museum, Council of the District of Dresden collection

    The collection consists of classroom furniture and educational supplies used in Germany during the Nazi regime, before and during the Holocaust.

  13. Rose G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose G., who was born in Nasielsk, Poland in 1914. She recounts living with her husband's family in Serock; the outbreak of war; incarceration with her parents-in-law and children in the Nasielsk synagogue; a mass shooting of sick people behind the synagogue; transfer with her family to Kock via Warsaw; her child's and parents-in-law's death due to starvation; working with her husband on a Polish farm; her other children's denouncement while she was hiding in a different place; transfer with her brother to Parczew; then to the Mie?dzyrzecz ghetto; deportation after th...

  14. Handbill

    German Weekly Review, Nr.85

  15. Harry Gordon manuscript

    Contains an 360 page handwritten manuscript entitled "The Shadow of Death" by Harry Gordon, which was latter published in English by the University Press of Kentucky in 1992.

  16. Michael Greenburg collection

    The collection consist of 5 pieces of scrip.

  17. Eugene Miller collection

    The Eugene Miller collection comprises subject files documenting Miller's interest in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Treblinka; the Łódź ghetto (including images of Chaim Rumkowski and Hans Biebow); other ghettos and camps; war crimes procedures against John Demjanjuk and Adolf Eichmann; investigations into the identity and fate of Josef Mengele; Heinrich Himmler; Martin Borman; and SS personnel and organization. Most of these records are reproductions of original materials. The collection also includes original photographs of Jewish Holocaust survivors from Poland who studied med...

  18. Joanna Bruzdowicz collection, 1989-1997

    Contains a copy of Joanna Bruzdowicz's score, "The song of hope and love," for cello and piano, with the composer's dedication to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum handwritten on the inside cover as well as copies of two pamphlets and of several newspaper articles concerning her career as a pianist and composer. The world performance of "The song of hope and love" took place at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 22, 1997.

  19. "Wir Fahren aus Theresienstadt; we are leaving Theresienstadt, 1945"

    Collection describes a train scene when inmates were being transported to Auschwitz.

  20. Samuel Schwarzberg papers

    Collection contains the correspondence and receipts for Samuel Schwarzberg's restitution claim against the German government. Collection also includes two handmade kipots belonging to Samuel Schwarzberg.