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  1. Denmark general election

    A report about the March 23, 1943 general election in Denmark. Men on bicycles exit a building (holding bags of ballots?). Montage of Danish pamphlets and newspapers about the election. A sign announces that it is election day. Flags in the streets of Copenhagen. A crowd of people outside a polling place (?). A woman affixes a badge with a Danish flag, presumably an indication that he has voted, to a man's lapel. A horse-drawn taxi drives down the street. Citizens enter a polling place. Overhead shot of people in voting booths. Boxes of ballots are emptied and sorted at tables.

  2. Sketchbook by Fips of daily prison life created while jailed as a Nazi propagandist

    Sketches created in 1945 by Philipp Rupprecht, pen name Fips, while a prisoner-of-war in the 7th Army Internee Camp #74, in Ludwigsburg, Germany. In late 1945, he presented the notebook to Army Provost Marshal William Gustin. From 1923-1945, Rupprecht was a well known antisemitic caricaturist for the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper, Der Stuermer, published by Julius Streicher. Rupprecht was arrested by the US Army in 1945, tried by a German denazification court, and sentenced to six years hard labor.

  3. Fonds FSJF-après-guerre (MDLXXXIV). Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France

    Records of the Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France (Federation of Jewish Charities in France) FSJF: Correspondence, reports, minutes, leaflets, cultural programs, press articles related to socio-legal assistance for Jewish survivors and the needy, commitment to the memory of the Shoah, support for the State of Israel, promotion of Yiddish language and the renewal of Jewish culture in France.

  4. Endzweig family papers

    Comprised of correspondence, photographs, and identity documents, such as work permits and registration certificates for Leopold Endzweig, annotated by his son, the donor, Manfred Endzweig. Documents capture Leopold Endzweig's experiences once liberated from Buchenwald.

  5. Oral history interview with Zolomu Boilciou

  6. Michelle King collection

    Consists of four wartime postcards: three color postcards of artwork depicting (respectively) the Bureau of Printing and Engraving; Pennsylvania Avenue; and "New Government Buildings on Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues Triangle;" and one photographic postcard of the newly erected Pentagon. Also includes one ration book holder advertising Imperial Dairy Products, containing four original wartime ration books, circa May 1942.

  7. Woodblock print depicting Jewish internees at High Holiday services

    Woodblock print depicting Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services in the synagogue in the Central Promenade Camp on the Isle of Man.

  8. Prayer book

    Megillat Esther, the scroll of Esther, read on the Jewish holiday of Purim carried by Anton Spitzer when he moved to Iasi, Romania, in 1931. Shortly before he was taken away by the Nazis in 1944, Anton hid the scroll in a cellar in the Iasi ghetto. He recovered it when he returned to Iasi after the war in 1945. The family would read from this scroll on Purim in Iasi until they immigrated to Israel in 1950.

  9. Klein, Leikach, Schonebaum family history

    Contains a family history of the Leikach, Schonebaum and Klein Families including family trees, maps, illustrations, photos and a roster of family members; also includes photocopy of proclamation by Mayor Martin O’Malley designating April 1, 2006 as “Leikach-Glick-Shanis Day” in Baltimore. Includes a memoir dated c. 1992; in English.

  10. Taylor reads indictment at Medical trial; defendants

    (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MLS, General Telford Taylor, in speaking of Rostock, Rose, Handloser, and Schroeder, states that they held eminent positions in international medicine. Backgrounds of some defendants given. Taylor reads indictment of Brandt, Handloser, Rostock, Schroeder, Rose, Romberg, Backer-Freysing, and Weltz, who speak to their lawyers during recess. Shot of Herta Oberhauser leaving courtroom. Taylor addressing the court. CU, board showing relations between government and defendants. CU of General ...

  11. Isenberg family at home in Vaduz; men dancing; swimming

    Boys swim in a pool at the family home in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Modern-looking houses with mountains in BG. More diving and swimming. 01:39:40 Car and Norbert on bicycle pass a large house. Norbert and an unknown man walk towards camera on street, one with a cigar in his mouth, car in BG. Sally and Erna tussle in bed. Sally walks past window. 01:41:01 [VQ shifts to poor] Men in national costume dance and play in a street under "Hotel Greif" awning (hotel in Wels, Austria). People watch from the sidewalk. Older man lies in a chair by a window with Norbert. The elders Nathan Stahl and Julie I...

  12. Gusen; Mauthausen; Nordhausen

    "Mauthausen Concentration Camp" [Footage shows mixed sequences from Mauthausen and Gusen.] High pan of concentration camp Gusen for slave laborers. 01:14:15 Pan of buildings at Mauthausen. Execution site with gallows and shooting wall in Gusen, with 2-3 men standing alongside it, courtyard wall behind. 01:14:23 Soldiers provide "tour" of crematorium and camp Gusen. 01:14:45 American POW Lt. Jack Taylor (U.S. Air Force) talks about his experience at Mathausen, "fortunately my turn hadn't come." He had been captured in Mauthausen for a few weeks from April 1945 to liberation. He talks of two ...

  13. Ludwig Friedrich Sussman collection

    The collection consists of three Jewish prayer books and a medal relating to the experiences of Ludwig Friedrich Sussman, who left Germany for the United States in 1938.

  14. Fighting in Warsaw

    Soldiers walking through rubble. Tossing hand grenades. Searching house-to-house. Mostly MS and MLS. Town is deserted. Flamethrowers. The last image is of a German eagle and Swastika, indicating the triumph of the Nazis. Footage and narration seem to indicate that this shows the German response to the Warsaw uprising (Polish revolt) which began on August 1, 1944 and lasted for two months. During and after the rebellion, the Germans razed the entire city of Warsaw.

  15. Barbie Trial -- Day 5 -- The Izieu Telex

    17:40 An argument between several lawyers from the prosecution and defense ensues because President Cerdini allows defense lawyer Vergès to handle the Telex D'Izieu and remove it from its protective plastic. Several lawyers become very upset, because they are afraid Vergès will tear or otherwise destroy the evidence 17:43 A prosecutor asks that the Telex be examined by the jurors and civil parties; explains why it was necessary to remove it from the plastic (because it was difficult to read some of the text through the covering) 17:51 President Cerdini reads a written statement from Barbie,...

  16. Kozienice ghetto negative slide collection

    Collections consists of 10 negative slides of portrait images of Jews from the Kozienice ghetto

  17. Gideon Poraz Posner collection

    The collection consists of pre-war and post-war depictions of the Posner family, including Salomon Posner and his wife Sabina Posner, and their daughter Ester Tusia Posner, both of whom perished during the Holocaust. Also includes photographs of Salomon's son Gideon (b. 1948) and his second wife Janka Raduszycka.

  18. JDC response to Nazi advance in Europe

    Fundraiser showing international refugee assistance programs of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Rights of Jews in the United States contrasted to the plight of Jews in Europe during the 20th century. "Jude" painted on store window. Focus on Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Images of pre-Nazi times with Jews celebrating, dancing, etc. develop into images of confinement to ghettos, refugees, and post WWII restoration. Focus on Lithuania, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France. Shots of Nazi occupation and refugees. Focus on Balkans includes statistics of Je...

  19. Greta Herensztat Wizenberg collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and photographs relating to the experiences of Greta Herensztat and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  20. Feature film about a Russian army officer: soldiers going to war

    Feature film about a young Russian army officer. Begins with his participation at a Russian youth military school and follows him as he advances in the army. Film portrays youthful patriotism through the willingness of young Russian men and women to enlist. The inhumanity of war is illustrated through scenes of extreme and ruthless German aggression. There are many any scenes of camaraderie between soldiers, battles with the Germans, and the destruction of war. Reel 2: (badly scratched). Parade at train platform, train station, waving goodbye as soldiers board train. Views of countryside fr...