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  1. German Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND): Records related to War Crime Trials, German Federal Archives Koblenz (BND B 206)

    Consists of documents collected by the German Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) after 1945. 10 files are on the identification of Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbie.

  3. Jewish family in Slovakia

    Pan, fenced estate in Gelnica, Slovakia. (01:00) Lola Engel (nee Schiffer) calls on a dog outside the estate. Three people (including Ernö’s sister Lola and her husband Nathan Engel) walk along the sidewalk and wave. Pan, steeple, and other buildings in the small town. “Danubius r.t. Budapest Pathé 9.5”

  4. Soviet War Memorial; atomic bomb explosion

    Welt im Film Nr. 33, 12/28/1945 "Berliner Bilder" At the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin, a large military ceremony takes place, possibly the dedication in November 1945. CUs of individuals and the memorial. Destruction from the street. People shovel large piles of rubble. 01:01:26 Brief cut of three male runners stand on a track and shake hands with a man in a suit. 01:01:32 Welt im Film Nr. 66, 8/28/1946 "Bikini Atom-Explosion Unter Wasser" A film recording of the second nuclear test in Bikini Atoll on July 24, 1946. The bomb was attached under a boat in 27 meters of water. The underwater e...

  5. Claude Lanzmann, Ziva Postec, and Yael Perlman editing SHOAH, 1983

    "Visiting Yael at Work" Inside the cutting room, Yael Perlman, Ziva Postec, and Claude Lanzmann edit sequences for the film SHOAH. David Perlov narrates his visit to his daughter as Lanzmann describes his approach in French. The voice of interviewee Simon Srebnik in German can be heard in the background. "Yael is working on Claude Lanzmann's film, SHOAH. It is a hard, almost unbearable confrontation for her. Like myself, Yael admires this man who had devoted already years to this project with untiring persistence, no compromise. His approach is dry, unemotional, like that of a legal prosecu...

  6. Eichmann Trial -- Session 99 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins near the opening of Session 99. Hausner continues with cross examination asking the accused about meeting Heinrich Müller, head of Section IV (Gestapo) of the Reich Main Security Office, after witnessing the Einsatzgruppen units in action and telling him that their method was making them into sadists suggesting that another method for executions had to be found. When Eichmann replies that he is not familiar with the last phrase, Hausner notes that during his interrogation he was shown an excerpt from the LIFE article and did not comment on its contents (00:01:38). An excerpt ...

  7. Hinzert camp; convoy

    Collection du Film Scolaire no. 100101 Hinzert. Includes French titles. Soldiers gather for repatriation of Luxembourgers who died in Hinzert. Official ceremony takes place on March 9, 1946. Military trucks. INTs chapel, ceremony for those who died, coffins, men in striped uniforms. 00:01:40 "Grand Duche de Luxembourg Education Nationale Film Scolaire" title. "Les ceremonies qui ont eu lieu lors du transfert de nos heros vers le sol natal les 9 et 10 Mars 1946" "Dans la brume du 9 Mars 1946, a 8 heures, un convoi compose de 12 camions part pour Hinzert" Snowy, windy field. Sign: "Hinzert 2....

  8. Polish Railroad Authority collection

    The collection consists of railroad signal lanterns, a switch lamp, a station telephone, and station signs used in the daily operations of the railroads in Poland before and during the Holocaust.

  9. Entartete Kunst leaflet

    Advertising leaflet for the "Entartete Kunst" [Degenerate Art] exhibition in Munich 1937. The text of the flyer invites the public to visit the exhibition and "to judge for himself" the quality of the art, describing the artwork as "pathologic, sick and spiritually rotten, torturing the fabric" of German society. The flyer describes the exhibition as free to enter, but "forbidden to youth."

  10. Oral history interview with Janina Ludawska

  11. Visiting Switzerland

    On a boat in Switzerland, views of villages, including Hotel Beaux-Rivage and Hotel "Gotthard" (sign). Seaside views of mountains.

  12. Liquor cup

    Liquor cup used by Sylvia Richter's donor family in displaced persons camp of Rachel/Babenhausen.

  13. Selected files from the UK National Archives

    Selected files from the UK National Archives relating to the British investigation and prosecution of war crimes immediately after World War II (WO 309: War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, British Army of the Rhine War Crimes Group (North West Europe) and predecessors: Registered Files (BAOR and other series) & WO 311: Judge Advocate General's Office, Military Deputy's Department, and War Office, Directorates of Army Legal Services and Personal Services: War Crimes Files (MO/JAG/FS and other series) and WO 310: War Office: Judge Advocate General's Office, War Crimes Group (Sout...

  14. UNRRA selected records AG-018-024 : Luxembourg Mission

    Consists of correspondence and reports of the mission. Records relate to tracing of displaced persons, settlement of non-repatriable Poles, and help to deported Jews.

  15. Doll given to a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport

    A doll given to Esther Rosenfeld as a child by Dorothy Harrison when she was in the United Kingdom. Dorothy Harrison was the mother of the family that was caring for Esther after she arrived on the Kindertransport. She received the doll for Esther from an acquaintance who brought it over to the Harrison's home once she found out that Esther was a refugee living with the family in Norwich, England.

  16. Testimony of Hoess, Gisevius, Buhler at Nuremberg Trial; good shots of dock

    (Munich 120) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 25, 1946. HAS, Tribunal at bench (good cutaway). Col. John Amen of the US prosecution cross examining Rudolf Hoess (Hoess is not seen). 18:22:20 French speaker at the podium, choppy bits, recess. 18:22:50 Defense counselor Dr. Rudolf Dix, counselor for Schacht, questions Hans Bernhardt von Gisevius (Gisevius is not seen) in German. 18:23:45 MS, Hermann Goering with hand covering his eyes as if sleeping. Hess fiddles with earphones. Audience in courtroom. Dr. Alfred Seidl, counselor for Hess and Frick at lectern. 18:25 Dr. Joseph Buhl...

  17. Eichmann Trial -- Session 79 -- Eichmann's testimony re: Wannsee Conference, sterilization, "Lidice Children", and evacuation

    The tape begins in the middle of Session 79. Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius questions Eichmann about his feelings of satisfaction at the end of the Wannsee Conference, as indicated by the Sassen document. Willem Sassen, a Dutch fascist, conducted an interview with Eichmann in Argentina in 1956. This interview was used heavily in Eichmann's trial. Servatius' next question is missing and the footage continues with Eichmann testifying about how a particular memo regarding the final solution came to be written and circulated. Eichmann maintains that the letter, written as a consequence o...

  18. Lloyd Harvey photograph collection

    The collection contains 15 photographs of Mauthausen concentration camp soon after liberation in 1945; United States Army soldiers; Lloyd Harvey in uniform; and Spittal an der Drau, Austria. There is also a letter dated June 6, 1945 from Lloyd to his mother Irene Harvey in Palacios, Texas describing his experience at Mauthausen.

  19. Prayer book

    Shavuot Mahzor, published in 1884, that belonged to Martha Bermann Loeb.

  20. Star of David badge worn in Romania

    Worn by Anuta Kling Rappaport Mendelovici in Botoşani-Suceava, Romania during the Holocaust.