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  1. Singing on Horst Wessel Platz

    A huge crowd gathered on Horst Wessel Platz in Berlin sings folk songs. The narrator says that the event, and others like it, was organized by a Berlin radio station. The camera focuses on a choir of Hitler Youth and League of German Girls members singing. The crowd then whistles the tune.

  2. Citation and Medal

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn515164
    • English
    • a: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) b: Height: 3.870 inches (9.83 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm)

    Citation: "a", Medal: "b", Frame: "c." Citation and medal awarded by Adolf Hitler to Mr. Walter Brown for his monetary contribution to assist in funding American athletes competing in 1936 Berlin Olympics, and for Mr. Brown's participation as a member of the American Olympic Delegation: dated January 10, 1937; in German. Medal is gold-colored metal cross with white enamel details showing the 5 Olympic rings with Nazi eagle and swastika hanging on a red, white and black ribbon. The citation is printed in red and black ink with an embossed Nazi seal. There is a descriptive plaque on the frame

  3. Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program

    Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's First Person Program. The collection is arranged chronologically.

  4. Goering press conference

    Members of US and British press interviewing Hermann Goering sitting under a shade tree. Correspondents listening and taking notes and photographs.

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Session 55 -- Testimony of Dr. G. Gilbert re. Nuremberg witnesses

    Session 55. Court has not commenced. 00:05:33 Witness of general information - Professor Gustave M. Gilbert, Professor of Psychology at Long Island University, USA. Military psychologist (first Lieutenant), then intelligence officer during War. Then assigned to the Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Questioned about role at Nuremberg. 00:13:38 Discusses the Nazi's knowledge and reaction to Gilbert being Jewish. Gilbert discusses the defendants' sanity (Rudolf Hess is talked about), psychological tests and personalities. 00:21:57 Gilbert explains about notes he took on the Nazis and a diary he ...

  6. Kovno ghetto collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, documents, and scrip relating to life in the Kovno (Kaunus) ghetto in Lithuania before and during the Holocaust.

  7. Renate Fleischer Fajer collection

    The Renate Fleischer Fajer collection consists of correspondence and notes written by Else Kroner to her son Heinz Kroner in Breslau, Germany after her arrest on February 27, 1943, as well as a letter written by Heinz Kroner to his neighbor in the period between his mother's deportation and his own on March 24, 1943. Also included are photographs depicting members of the Kroner and Fleischer families in Breslau, Germany and later in São Paulo, Brazil. There is also a photograph of Renate Fleischer Fajer with her husband Dr. Abram Fajer in Scotland, 1950s. The documents relate to the Fleisch...

  8. Sami Steigmann collection

    Contains materials documenting the Holocaust experiences of the Steigmann family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Helen Fagin collection

    The collection consists of five issues of the Yiddish language periodical "From the Last Extermination: Journal for the History of the Jewish People during the Nazi Regime."

  10. Löwenstein and Stern families collection

    The collection consists of document cases, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Fred Loy (born Alfred Löwenstein), Lola Stern Loy, Julius Loewenstein, and their families in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and China before and during the Holocaust, and in the United States after World War II.

  11. Kőszeg brick factory collection

    The collection consists of two broken tiles and four bricks from a local brick factory relating to events in the area of Kőszeg, Hungary, during the Holocaust

  12. Dario Navarra

    Il fondo conserva principalmente ritagli di giornale, raccolti da Dario Navarra durante il suo esilio in Svizzera, che coprono l'arco cronologico degli eventi della seconda guerra mondiale (1939 - 1945) applicati su 14 quaderni; l'ultimo quaderno contiene articoli e immagini dai lager riprese nell'immediato dopoguerra. Si segnalano la presenza di due diari manoscritti (cfr. bb. 1 e 2, voll. 1 e 9), il primo dei quali redatto ad Alano di Piave nell'estate del 1939, e un album fotografico (cfr. b. 1, album 16). A corredo del fondo si conserva infine un fascicolo contenente la copia della lett...

  13. The American magazine collection

    The collection consists of twelve issues of American magazine, published 1942-1943.

  14. Feeding survivors and barracks in flames at Belsen on the 7th Day

    Soldiers open can of food for a woman. MSs of camp huts in flames ["accidental fire" handwritten into caption on one sheet, and on another "One of the huts caught fire - I was unable to ascertain whether this was done purposely by the inmates or whether it was accidental. It was not set alight by British troops for any reason."] CUs of flames. British soldiers and ex-prisoners watch the fires.

  15. Private papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (A440)

    Personal papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (1904-1992). The collection consists of articles, notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscript and narrations of Eva Michaelis-Stern concerning her work for the Youth Aliyah in Germany and England; correspondence between Eva Michaelis-Stern and various people, mainly private; agreement between Michaelis-Stern and war veterans organization; newspaper articles, pictures and letters, notes, various booklets, guides and printed material from the Keren Hayesod, the Central Zionist Archives and the Council for Social Services and Voluntarism, inclu...

  16. Wooden hearse used to bury Jews in the local cemetery of Piatra Neamt, Romania

  17. Prayer book

    Consists of a Tefilat Yiśraʼel (Israels gebete) prayer book, published c. 1943 Basel which includes names and addresses of various contacts inscribed by the donor's father, a Holocaust survivor, while living as a displaced person in Leipheim.

  18. Process for presenting evidence at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 450) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 17, 1945. MS, Rudolf Hess standing in prisoners' dock talking to his attorney. (Mute) Sound begins at 03:0119 Robert G. Storey, prosecution counsel, addressing the court. LS, MS, Fritz Sauckel's counselor, Dr. Robert Servatius, offers protest to the Tribunal. Speaking on behalf of the "Organization der politischen Leiter" [Organization of Political Leaders] Servatius questions the sufficiency of opportunities and time to discuss evidence presented by the prosecution. 03:04:45 Pan to bench as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence tells Dr...

  19. Selected records of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Waszyngtonie (Sygn. 490)

    Correspondence, reports, memoranda, press clippings, press reviews and other documents concerning the following subjects: Political relations between the US and Germany; minorities in Poland and the USA, immigration policy in USA and Canada; Polish and Jewish scouting in the USA; Polish Army in France (1939); Jewish issues in Poland and Germany (1935-1937); diplomatic reports on the situation in Germany (1940); Polish-American relations (1944-1945); World War 1939: the situation of children and women, the fate of prisoners of war; immigration policy in USA and Mexico (1940-1944); aid for re...

  20. Kommittén for levande historia

    • YK 5252
    • Riksarkivet
    • Kommittén for levande historia
    • English

    The archive of the state expert commission includes documentation of the committee's work as well as the material collected and produced by the commission in 2001. It comprises 40 archive volumes, and includes 94 video and audio tapes of interviews conducted as part of the Committee's documentation project. One of the main principles that guided the collection was that it would have a Swedish perspective. Thus, interviews were not primarily made with Holocaust survivors, but with others, who in one way or another, came in to contact with the Holocaust, like medical staff, the drivers of the...