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  1. David Kovack collection

    Contains an album entitled "Slovakia," with copies of newspapers and documents created by David Kovack (donor's late husband) in memory of the Jews killed in Slovakia from 1939-1945. David Kovack was a survivor and was a member of the partisans in Slovakia for 4 years.

  2. Hitler Youth

    Brief shot of Karl Doenitz follwed by a one man torpedo in the water. A man wearing a Ritterkreuz gets out of a small submarine. Scenes from the Pacific: Japanese pilots in the cockpit (staged); bombing ships; conference with Allied soldiers somewhere in the Pacific. Narration is Japanese. 03:05:47 CUs of German soldiers in battle. Good CUs of faces. Overhead shot of a large group of Hitler Youth boys who have volunteered for the war effort [Kriegsfreiwilliger]. The leader of the ceremony announces that 70% of the boys from the class of 1928 have enlisted. Deutsche Wochenschau eagle on screen.

  3. Malka Goldberg - Warsaw

    FILM ID 3869 -- Camera Rolls Goldberg 176,177 No clapperboard. Audio operator speaking French and street noise to 1:34. Lanzmann and Corinna Coulmas start by asking Malka Abramson Goldberg about her business, children, and grandchildren. Goldberg then tells them that she was in the Warsaw ghetto, Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Malhof before immigrating first to Sweden and then to the city in which the interview takes place (probably Tel Aviv). At Lanzmann's prompting, Goldberg explains that she was part of the resistance, but does not remember specific dates such as when she was arre...

  4. Letters of congratulations for Hadassah Rosensaft on her eightieth birthday

    Contains copies of letters of congratulations for Hadassah Rosensaft on the occasion of her 80th birthday from President George Bush; David Dinkins, mayor of New York City; Chaim Herzog, president of Israel; and Teddy Kollek, mayor of Jerusalem.

  5. החלטות על הכרה במוות (Todeserklaerungen) של קרבנות יהודיים של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Iserlohn (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12424769
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who p...

  6. Stanley Jacobson collection

    Collection consists of documents, identification papers, and correspondence relating to Jacob and Frieda Jacobson (donor's grandparents) and their son Michael Jacobson (donor's father) and their experiences during the Holocaust, dated 1941-1950. The family was sent from their home in Holland to Vught, Westerbork, and Theresienstadt.

  7. The Eternal Jew Der ewige Jude [Book]

    Antisemitic propaganda book, Der ewige Jew [The Eternal Jew] created as promotional material for a Nazi regime sponsored exhibition of the same title in November 1937 in Munich, Germany. A postcard canceled December 18, 1937, has the exhibition information.

  8. Breendonck; Hannover; Arnstadt

    "Breendonck" Views of Breendonck camp in Belgium. EXTs of prison used to house Belgian patriots. Blood-stained coffins are exhibited as evidence of brutality Inmates demonstrate the methods used against the prisoners, such as beatings with barbed wire poles, chaining them into a vise, thumb screws. Victims reveal results of beatings and cigarette burns; a woman also reveals scars on her hips. 01:09:40 "Hanover Concentration Camp" [Neuengamme] General views of the camp where only 200 remained of 10,000 Poles. INTs of the camp, few remaining inmates mill about. VS, Red Cross clubmobiles enter...

  9. Jewish refugee children, England, play in park

    Jewish refugee children playing in a park. MLS of kids dancing in a circle. Girl with a hoop. Group of children playing leapfrog. Children indoors with toys at table. CU girl with doll. CU boy writing letter. High angle view of long table and children eating soup. Eating at table.

  10. Hans Frank

    Hans Frank, Governor-General of Poland, visits Stry (a small town in western Ukraine), and is presented with flowers. Marches in city streets lined with Ukrainians. HAS in Belgrade,Serbia military gathering, Serbs, flag. Russians crowd in city square marching with signs, parade of collaborators. Translation of Ukrainian narration: With great enthusiasm the Ukrainian population greeted the General-governor. [Belgrade/Serbia]: And in Belgrade there were also many Serbian volunteers who agreed to fight against communism. On St. Yuriy's (St, George) Day Serbian volunteer units received a flag. ...

  11. Wehrmacht advances in Poland

    AGFA 8 1941. Eastern front. Pan down building, with sign in Cyrillic, brief INTS. Sign: Ukrainian public school in Wroblin Krowleski. Sign for "Rymanow" Soldier poses by sign, "Posada dolna Kreishaupt m. Sanok District-Krakau" . German soldiers greet cameraman, walk along road with rifles. Aerial shots of countryside, looking through binoculars. Soldiers bathe (brief). Perform a drill at camp. 10:27:08 Sign on barracks: "Juden u. Polen Eintritt verboten!" Woman & man pose in doorway of hut. Man plays accordion. Graves. More of the pastoral Polish countryside. Very brief shot of Jewish g...

  12. German soldiers and young women in occupied Paris

    Queues in front of stores, Paris, street views, villa

  13. Reunion of Ukrainian child survivors of Auschwitz

    Reunion of child survivors, now adults, of Auschwitz concentration camp (this appears to be taking place during the 1960s). VS, CUs, faces of men and women as they greet each other again for the first time since their time spent together in the concentration camp. VS, scenes of liberation of orphaned children (back in the 1940s). Children on buses, leaving the camps and being sent to new lives after the war. In Kiev, a large group of child survivors process to an eternal flame and place flowers and wreaths around this flame in a public plaza in Kiev (in the 1960s again). The camera pans the...

  14. County Command of the State Police in Będzin Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Będzinie (Sygn. 1046)

    Various police reports, lists of criminals, reports of officers and police informants concerning political, social and professional organizations, security of the city, unemployment and crime.

  15. Jakob Künzler and Elisabeth Künzler-Bender on a roof terrace in Beirut

    Jakob and his wife Elisabeth Künzler in Beirut. Jakob Künzler was an eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide. He was a Swiss pharmacist who helped provide for thousands of Armenian orphans and the sick and wounded in his hospital in Urfa, Turkey. Elisabeth holds a baby. Jakob plays with the baby’s ears, hands, and cheeks. Elisabeth points at the camera. Jakob talks to the baby. The baby holds onto the woman’s ears. Shot of the couple sitting and talking. They smile at the camera. They balance a book on their knees and read it, looking up at the camera. They pose for the camera on a balcony with...

  16. Development of German campaign in Poland

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 1: maps the Hanseatic cities and Danzig. Shows World War I combat scenes. Describes the Polish Corridor settlement. Shows German refugees driven from Poland. Describes Hitler's proposed highway across the Corridor. Shows Polish Foreign Minister Beck and the Danzig defense corps. Von Ribbentrop enplanes for Moscow. London workers dig air raid shelters. Shows Polish President Moscicki.

  17. Suffering of Germans in Czech; Nazi occup. of Czech

    A Nazi propaganda film that depicts the suffering of the Sudetendeutsche in contrast to the laziness of the Jews who agitate the Czechs into war against Germany. Because of the film's relatively minor quality, it was only screened at internal party events. Produced by Reichspropagandaleitung. Bohemia/Moravia. Map. Narrator, "Before the Slavs...Germans...the German Kaisers built..." WS, lovely Prague views. September 10, 1919, maps, Bolsheviks. 3.5 million Germans driven out of Czechoslovakia? Reichsgrenze. Sudetenland, industry, mining, hot springs in Karlsbad, people, lace-making. (6"37) "...

  18. Peter Bergson and Samuel Merlin - New York

    Peter Bergson and Samuel Merlin were activists in the United States during the war. They talk about conflicts with other Jewish groups, especially with Rabbi Stephen Wise. Bergson and his group organized the the We Will Never Die pageant and made other bold publicity moves aimed at influencing American policy in favor of helping the Jews of Europe. FILM ID 3254 -- Camera Rolls #48-50-- 01:00:18 to 01:33:18 Roll 48 01:00:18 Claude Lanzmann, Peter Bergson and Samuel Merlin sit inside a small meeting room around a table in New York City. Lanzmann, off-camera, asks the men about how the general...

  19. John Phillips collection

    The collection consists of five pieces of Allied Military currency, three military identification tags, a shadow box with a collage of military insignia, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of John Phillips while a soldier in the United States Army from June 1945 to January 1947, and as part of the Army of Occupation from April 1946-January 1947.

  20. Anti-Semitic Nazi sticker

    Anti-Semitic Nazi sticker: "Tod dem Marxismus. Her zu uns! The sticker depicts a man with a swastika-emblazoned hammer about to strike a man wearing a tuxedo and top hat; the bottom half of his body is that of a serpent-like creature. Red, white and red ink on paper with adhesive backing.