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  2. Schwarz and Rosenwald families collection

    The collection consists of a bank note, a framed poem, correspondence, documents, a photograph album, and video tapes related to the experiences of extended family members of Richard Schwarz and Bertha Rosenwald Schwarz and their emigration from Nazi Germany to the United States, made possible by the financial assistance of Julius Rosenwald.

  3. Gusen liberation photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs taken after the liberation of the Gusen concentration camp. The photographs depict the burial of corpses in mass graves, the burning of barracks, a soldier standing in front of the sign for the Gusen cemetery, and the painted corpse of former commandant Franz Ziereis impaled on a barbed wire fence.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Spring in Paris

    Eiffel Tower at dusk. 03:55:04 Building, trees. 03:56:59 Champs Elysee, busy street, restaurants, cars. 03:58:17 Flower stall, magazine stall. 03:58:50 Work men having lunch on pavement. AV street. 04:00:04 Base of Eiffel Tower - construction. Looking up at Tower. People on bench. 04:02:01 Bridge.

  5. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 12: 06:34:15 MS Local women on planks pa...

  6. Police Order (Polizeileche Anordnung) regarding formation of a new Jewish quarter in the city of Przemysl

    Police Order (Polizeileche Anordnung) regarding formation of a new Jewish quarter in the city of Przemysl, Poland.

  7. Cardinal Innitzer of Vienna, speech and procession

    Crowds line the streets of Vienna. A procession moves down the street; a band plays. Church bells peal as nuns and Catholic clerics move down the street. Cardinal Theodor Innitzer, surrounded by other clergy, waves and blesses the crowd. The scene changes to show Innitzer giving a speech in which he says (in part) that religion and love of the fatherland belong together. Cardinal Theodor Innitzer was the primate of Austria. In 1938 he publicly endorsed the Anschluss and met with Hitler, but he later repudiated the Nazis.

  8. Victor Bienstock papers

    The Victor Bienstock papers document the pre-war and wartime work of journalist Victor Bienstock, as he served as an overseas correspondent for the Overseas News Agency, a subsidiary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The collection contains materials relating to the on-the-ground coverage of wartime events from various locations (London, Cairo, Rome, and France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and the fate of Jews in Nazi occupied lands. The Victor Bienstock papers contains travel materials; ephemera; correspondence; diaries; an unpubl...

  9. Mann and Schwarz families papers

    The Man and Schwarz families papers consist of two family photograph albums documenting the prewar lives of the Mann and Schwarz families in Tarnów, Poland and Vienna, Austria. The albums are titled "1817-1918" and "1927-1937." Included are depictions of family life, vacations, children, relatives and friends, and Lazar and Helene's wedding in 1930. Also included are a small amount of documents, primarily copies of correspondence. The majority of the photographs are annotated by the donor and include descriptions of the fates of family and friends during the Holocaust.

  10. Arditti family photographs

    The Arditti family photographs consist of 62 family photographs mounted on photograph album pages. The images depict members of the Arditti family, a Turkish Jewish family from Smyrna, who emigrated from Turkey to France in 1920. Identified family members include Jacques Arditti, his parents, his brother and sister, his sister’s son, Jean-Pierre Franck, and his wife, Jacqueline Guiard. Photographs also depict Leon and Nelly Jaffe and their children, Albert and Liliane, who were relatives on Jacques’ mother’s side. Most of the photographs were taken in France, in Joinville-le-Pont, Deauville...

  11. M.46 - Documentation from the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), 1939-1960

    M.46- Documentation from the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), 1939-1960 In the RG there is documentation from the following organizations: - The Council for Religious Affairs of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, 1943-1953, and the Council for Religious Affairs of the Government of the Soviet Union, 1943-1954 The documentation includes protocols, official correspondence and reports concerning religious life and the Soviet Jewish communities during the war and afterwards, the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust, statistical data regarding the Jewish population and...

  12. Newsreel film recording worldwide war activities

    Records world-wide war activities. Reel 1: (1941-42) Pearl Harbor is attacked. President Roosevelt signs a mutual aid pact with 26 other nations. Churchill inspects damage in London. Shows destruction in Russia and China. Industry is converted to war production. Draftees are inducted and trained. German submarines sink US ships. Wheat, factories, and bridges are destroyed by retreating Russians. Shows Cordell Hull.

  13. Two clips from an anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda film, Jud Süß

    01:11:19 to 01:11:33 Suess and the Duke watch a ballet rehearsal from a balcony. The Duke orders his secretary to go and fetch one of the ballet dancers for him. 01:11:39 to 01:11:47 Suess and the Duke at a ball at the palace. A woman lifts the skirt of another woman to show off the second woman's legs to the Duke. Suess smiles at the girl and the Duke removes her mask and asks her why she is crying. [Suess has arranged for the young pretty girls to be separated from the others at the ball so that the Duke can have his choice. Suess himself dances with and attempts to seduce Dorothea].

  14. Barbie Trial -- Day 7 -- Two experts testify

    15:52 Witnesses Streim and Holtfort, both German attorneys with experience evaluating Nazi documents and strong understanding of the Nazi and particularly SS command hierarchies, testify as to their knowledge of the SS officer school where Barbie received training in 1935-1937. Holtfort explains that a principal objective of the school was to inculcate an understanding and adherence to Nazi ideology. 15:58 The attorney asks Streim and Holtfort to testify to their understanding of the rules SS members had to obey in their day-to-day lives, as well as punishments handed out for disobedience. ...

  15. Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, Berlin Sportpalast

    Nazi party rally in the crowded Berlin Sportpalast on February 10, 1933. Hitler in uniform explains the ideological reasons for the Nazi rise to power and their main political aims. He announces the indictment of the politicians responsible for the evils of the Weimar Republic and promises to 'resurrect' a "Neue Deutsche Reich" [new German Empire] undivided and rooted in 'healthy' soil. He does not openly address the Jewish question. Hitler closes with the last words of the Lord's Prayer and Amen. The audience of civilians and uniformed SA and SS rises, cheers, shouts 'Heil,' and gives the ...

  16. Torah scroll with cover and box

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn562912
    • English
    • a: Height: 17.500 inches (44.45 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) b: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 7.130 inches (18.11 cm) c: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 18.310 inches (46.507 cm)

    The scroll was used by Rabbi Ralph M. Weisberger during his military service in the Persian Gulf, circa 1944.

  17. Michael Lowenthal collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence illustrating Alfred and Herta Gotthilf Levy and their son Heinz. Included are receipts and correspondence between Alfred Levy and his colleague Andreas van Mierlo, who sent packages to the family in Vught, s'Hertogenbosch, and Westerbork concentration camps between 1943-1945; post-war correspondence concerning Heinz, who survived, mainly to the van Mierlo family from Klara Gotthilf, Heinz's maternal grandmother in Switzerland; and accounting, through an attorney of possessions left in Edem, the Netherlands upon the family's deportatio...

  18. Book written by an Austrian Jewish refugee rescued as a child and brought to the US

    Copy of a book written by Peter Linhard, who, as a six year old, was one of "50 children" brought to America from Vienna, Austria, in 1939 by Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  19. Portfolio

    Folio cover for an introductory insert and a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  20. Oral history interview with Marge Weiss