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  1. Jewish Agency for Palestine pin issued to an American rabbi

    Pin issued to Eugene Lipman after World War II when he worked for the Jewish Agency for Palestine.

  2. Eva Braun & family vacation; Hitler at Berghof

    Reel 6 of the private motion pictures Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). COLOR. Inside Eva Braun's house at Wasserburgerstrasse 12 in Munich. Eva's father Friedrich Braun tying string around trunk. Two men removing trunk and large duffel bag to truck. Eva walking towards camera with a film camera in her hands, which she's winding. Eva on tarmac of Munich airport greeting people, taking pictures. Eva and group getting on airplane, including Eva's mother, Franziska; her father, Friedrich; her sister, Ilse; and Anni Brandt, wife of Hitler's personal physician Dr. Karl Brandt. Plane "Grenzmark" ...

  3. Dutch newsreel

    Title: "NATO Berlin-Toen en Nu...?" Aerial view of Berlin, busy streets and promenades, well-dressed people in cafes, Brandenburg Gate, streetcars, group of children with school bags on their backs cross street. 03:38:58 Explosions, ruins, Nazi monument with sign: "Unsere Mauern brachen aber unsere Herzen nicht." (no sound from this point). Rising Nazi flag, parade at Brandenburg Gate, smiling women carrying small Nazi flags, German soldiers marching, large crowds, man attaching Nazi flag to storefront, Nazi banner around truck, ruins with flags hanging above, woman puts sign on top of ruin...

  4. Danielle [Fernande] Halerie Snegg and David Snegg collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge, a drawing and correspondence relating to the experiences of Avram, Marguerite, Danielle [Fernande], and David Halerie in France during and after the Holocaust.

  5. Francis Sheehan photograph album

    Photograph album chronicling Francis Sheehan's experiences during the European Campaign. Includes photographs of the liberated Nordhausen concentration camp. Consists of 61 photographs attached to album pages.

  6. Book

    Medical book

  7. German civilians forced to view atrocities at cinema

    Crowds of German civilians waiting, then entering cinema "Scala Lichtspiel" under compulsion. Some look disturbed as they exit. Pan, crowd of well-dressed people queuing in front of a building. A few British soldiers tend to the crowd, containing them. Another large group of people exit the building, walking past the waiting masses. MCU faces as they walk past the camera. Some smoke pipes, some with hats. Pan, group standing at opposite side of entrance doorway. Large crowd pushing to get in and out of the building. View from inside doorway, sign reading SCALA LICHTSPIELE. View of people en...

  8. Day after liberation of Belsen by British 8 Corps; SS overseers

    British MP Daniel O'Shaughnessy and surrendered Hungarian guard on duty at main entrance of Belsen Concentration Camp. Notice on sentry box reads: "Allied Military Commander. Entrance Belsen Camp." Supply truck backs up and German POWs unload flour sacks from truck into warehouse. British RASC men also help unload truck. Blurry shot of a tattooed arm. Two smiling young female inmates, healthy, with soldiers. Sign in Russian on barbed wire reading "Halt! Anyone crossing the wire will be shot!". Series of shots of women behind barbed wire, waving to camera and talking with British soldier in ...

  9. Abstract painting of a prison camp with ghostlike figures and a hanging created postwar by a former inmate

    Abstract impressionistic white painting created by Motke Blum in 2004, evoking his experiences in forced labor camps in Romania during the Holocaust. His "need for constant renewal" led to minimalist work done in gradations of white. Motke was from Romania where violent persecution of Jews was common by the late 1930s. It increased when the revolutionary Fascist Iron Guard took over the country in September 1940. That year, 15 year old Motke was sent to a forced labor camp near Bucharest, then to Obor labor camp where he worked 20 hours a day, unloading trains and clearing bombed areas of r...

  10. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Refugees arriving at Ellis Island on the "Marine Flasher" ship. Crowd waving. A scuffle breaks out among refugees, one woman is visibly upset and yelling toward the camera. Refugees embrace, some with bundles. CU of a woman holding a baby. Side view of a boy waving. Various shots of two children. Two women show tattoos to camera (they seem to be mother and daughter, but this is not confirmed.)

  11. Undzer hurbm in bild

    Consists of an original copy of "Our destruction in pictures," collected and edited by Rafael Olevski, Dawid Rosental, and Paul Trepman and copyrighted in December 1946. The book contains photographs depicting scenes of Jewish persecution, ghettos, starvation, forced labor, concentration camps, liberation, and partisan resistance.

  12. SA propaganda

    The young worker and talented SA leader Fritz Brand constantly argues about the political future of Germany with his jobless Social Democratic father. He is also greatly involved with the ongoing street-fighting between the Nazis and Communists during the extremely violent final months of the Weimar Republic. Fritz's sixteen year old neighbor and half-orphan Erich Lohner is inspired by his example and joins the Hitler Youth. Participating in one of the first legal SA marches immediately after the SA ban is lifted on June 17, 1932, Erich is shot to death by Communists. Subsequently, the Nazi...

  13. Burial; Wehrmacht march in the Netherlands; propaganda march

    Planes fly over the sea. Long pier. Seaside district of Scheveningen, Holland. 01:01:10 Intertitle “Die Fischerflotte kegrt heim.” Rough waves, beach, boats in the ocean, the fishing fleet. Sailboats push against the current. Sun over calm waters. Fishing fleet in the choppy sea. Woman on a balcony. 01:02:38 Intertitle: “Rückkehr vom Feindflug.” Crowded beach. Five planes. Grave covered in flowers with an inscribed cross and a plane propellor. Another grave. Rough waves rolling in the ocean. 01:03:30 Soldiers lined up at attention. They follow drill commands at an official burial ceremony. ...

  14. Erna Ketchie Collection

    Collection of documents, letters, photographs, and scrip (24 items total)

  15. Concentration camp inmate jacket worn by Polish Jewish woman in Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck

    Concentration camp jacket worn by Polish Jewish woman in Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck concentration camps

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 91 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins late in the session during the cross-examination of the accused by Attorney General Gideon Hausner. Adolf Eichmann is asked a series of questions about the Madagascar Plan, including whether or not Reinhard Heydrich made efforts to implement it (00:04:05) and who opposed the plan. [The Madagascar Plan was an idea to resettle the Jews on the island of Madagascar]. Hausner asks the accused if the main objective was to send the Jews there to die (00:07:19). Eichmann maintains that the plan was not to exterminate or annihilate the Jews (00:07:49) and Hausner points out that there...

  17. Destroyed town in Belgium

    Jeep driving through muddy street of severely bombed out town. Civilian digging through rubble with crowbar. Women in winter coats in FG walking down street. Signs reads: "Bastgone." GIs give gift to little girl. Stevens in front of jeep Toluca gives present to little girl (There is a reference that Stevens made in a letter home about giving a Christmas present to a Belgian girl in March, long after Christmas had passed.) Truck pulls into muddy road, in a town that has been devastated by bombs. No buildings are left standing. Sign reads: "keep rollin' Malmady N23, Vielsalm." Pan of flattene...

  18. Eichmann Trial -- Session 109 -- Slawik affidavit and the completion of evidence

    Session 109. Dr. Servatius is asked if he still has the testimony from witness Alfred Josef Slawik (duplicate from Tape 2207). He was a servant of Eichmann's in Budapest. He says that he never heard of any cases where a Jew was mistreated. He discusses numerous things that Eichmann has been accused of doing in his time at the villa, and says that all of them are false. 00:13:07 Hausner points out that Slawik says he was employed by Eichmann for only a few months in a single place. 00:13:55 Dr. Servatius says that this testimony was not available when he questioned Eichmann as a witness, he ...

  19. Liberation of Kiev

    Liberation of Kiev. VS of the city. Soviet troops take the city by storm, routing the German forces. Tanks roll in. A huge icon, perhaps of Jesus, is shown covering the side of a demolished building. A woman cries. Soviet troops greet and embrace women, who thank them for liberating the city. Children walk about. VS, children, women, destruction and rubble in the streets, etc. VS, on a train of German official Hans Frank and advisors discussing plans for the region. Animated maps of Ukraine and Kiev city map. 01:13:37 Translation: They [Soviet army soldiers] reached Kyiv's suburbs. The flas...