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  1. Simon Breitstein photograph

    A photograph of Simon Breitstein taken in the Łódź Ghetto, dated June 6, 1940.

  2. Geclewicz family photographs

    Contains approximately 69 postwar photographs brought by parents Anna (nee Charlotte Gersten) and Daniel (Gedalia) Geclewicz (later Geslewitz) from Lüneburg, Germany, depicting displaced persons in and around the town.

  3. Apron

    The apron was made for Julia Schor while she was in hiding as a child in the Netherlands during the Holocaust.

  4. American soldier life in Belgium

    "Welcome to our home theatre.” Scenes from soldier life in the wintertime of 1944 in Belgium. The men wash mess kits, use latrines, walk around town, and have snowball fights. Panoramic shots of buildings and factories in Dolhain. The Grand Bazaar, a department store in Verviers. Scenes from a three day pass in Eupen, including destroyed buildings and rubble. Shots of Murray Goldblatt in a military office in Dolhain. Street scenes of soldier life in Dolhain.

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Session 25 -- Testimony of Y. Zuckerman

    Session 25. Witness Yitzhak Zuckerman discusses Jewish hope to immigrate to Palestine during 1940: "Some people managed to reach Palestine...Some were caught and returned... and were murdered on Polish soil." He also describes the efforts of the Jewish underground in Warsaw. Attorney General Gideon Hausner questions Zuckerman about his fake Aryan papers, as well as his impressions of Nazi-occupied Poland. Zuckerman replies: "Degredation, depression, helplessness..." Court is out of session after a blip at 00:06:30; the audience enters, and the camera focuses on the Israeli Police Officers a...

  6. Ilana Lenji photograph collection

    Contains a photo of Ilana Lenji (donor) taken by photographer Thomas Veres in Budapest. Mr. Veres was Raoul Wallenberg's photographer.

  7. Book

  8. Medical kit

  9. Fritz and Thea Lowenstein Klestadt family collection

    The collection consists of two drawings, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Thea Löwenstein Klestadt and Fritz Fred Klestadt before the Holocaust in Dusseldorf, Germany, and the United States where the couple emigrated in October 1937.

  10. Dr. Lutz testifies at medical trial

    (Munich 480) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. CU, defense counsel Dr. Wille. LS, Dr. Wolfgang Lutz testifying on stand. Pan of courtroom during testimony of Lutz.

  12. Photographic print, manure distribution

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613478
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.940 inches (27.788 cm) | Width: 13.940 inches (35.408 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of manure distribution in Vysni Apsa, Carpathian Ruthenia, ca. 1938.

  13. Leaflet

    Leaflet, "Speak Out - Shall it be War or Peace?...No Convoy Rally" Los Angeles; American Peace Mobilization, 1941.

  14. Wladislaw and Jozefa Misniakewicz collection

    The collection consists of books recovered from a burned synagogue, in Dubiecko, Poland, in September 1939, by Wladislaw and Jozefa Misniakewicz.

  15. Impact of Marshall aid on Germany

    This description of the film "Me and Mr. Marshall" is from the "Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948-1953" program: The impact of Marshall aid is told personally by a young German coal miner. He describes (and the viewer sees) conditions in Europe after the war and some of the ways the Marshall Plan helped Europe get back into production and into the import-export business. Footage includes Secretary of State George Marshall describing the way the European Recovery Program is supposed to work (a re-enactment - not the June 5, 1947, Harvard speech). Also includes animated grap...

  16. DPs in Germany

    (LIB 4171-4178) Displaced Persons, Anrath, Germany, March 15, 1945. MCU, young male child holds large pieced of black bread and eats from large bowl. MCU, two eat from community bowl. In BG, male DPs. MS, CUs, women wash dishes in courtyard. Trucks loaded with male DPs leave center. SEQ: Italian woman crying as husband leaves in truck. Woman faints as truck pulls away. SEQ: US soldiers try to console Italian girl. Other DPs stand in BG as girl weeps. CU, INT, military government office. Officer at desk speaks. (no sound)

  17. Carmela Hevion collection

    Collection of photographs of the Wolgroch and Abramowicz families from Warsaw, Poland. The donor's parents immigrated to Palestine: Mordechai Wolgroch 1919, and Miriam Abramowicz in 1924. Miriam's brothers and their families perished in the Holocaust and five of Mordechai's siblings and their families perished as well.

  18. Rivka Ribak collection

    The collection consists of a fragment of embroidered curtain and a scarf relating to the experiences of Rivka Ribak during the Holocaust in the Warsaw ghetto in German occupied Poland.

  19. Sara Sternlicht identification card (Kennkarte)

    Contains an identification card (Deutsches Reich Kennkarte) issued to Sara Sternlicht (donor's mother); marked with large "J" identifying her as Jewish; black and white photograph of bearer affixed; issued November 20, 1939; Vienna, Austria.

  20. Selected criminal cases of the Jewish residents of the Lviv region and Jewish refugees from Eastern and Central Europe arrested by the Soviet Security Services of USSR (NKVD) [Fond R-3258]

    This collection contains investigative records (interrogations, verdicts, court hearings, appeals, personal documentation of defendants etc) related to the arrest, interrogation, and subsequent trials of Jews, residents of the Lviv region arrested by the Soviet Security Services (NKVD) after the occupation and annexation of Eastern Poland (present day Western Ukraine) and accused for the Zionist, religious, and political activities as well as for belonging to the category of people who were considered by the Soviet authorities to be "dangerous to the Soviet society." In addition, this colle...