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  1. Suitcase used by a Jewish family for their flight from Germany

    Suitcase carried by Ruth Arnoldi when her family fled Nazi Germany in October 1941 for Santo Domingo. They had to have the suitcase made to the order per government regulations. A German official supervised the packing of the suitcase, which was then sealed.

  3. Eugen and Helene Cohn papers

    The Eugen and Helene Cohn papers include correspondence and certificates documenting the couple’s health and status as refugees and internees in France following their return to Europe aboard the MS St. Louis, their efforts to gather the necessary documentation to emigrate to Cuba via Portugal, and their departure for Cuba aboard the SS Nyassa.

  4. British enemy

    Reel 4 Michael O'Brien, an Irish rebel leader from Dublin, is hanged in 1903 by the British for subversion and high treason. His eighteen-year-old son, also named Michael O'Brien, is sent to St. Edwards College -- a boarding school specifically aimed at making Irish children 'think English' by tight surveillance and ideological education. There, a fellow student collects information for his uncle at the British Secret Service. As a result, Patrick O'Connor unconsciously betrays Michael's widowed mother for harboring Irish freedom fighters even though he eventually joins the rebels' cause. O...

  5. Passazhirka

    Home recording of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's opera "Passazhirka" (The Passenger; 1968) performed at the piano by the composer.

  6. Gerhard and Ursula Naumann Maschkowski collection

    The collection consists of scrip, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gerhard Maschkowski before the Holocaust in Elbing, Germany, and during the Holocaust in Neuendorf and Auschwitz concentration camps, and of documents, correspondence, and photographic postcards relating to the experiences of Ursula Naumann (later Maschkowski) and her family during the Holocaust in Theresienstadt, and to both Gerhard and Ursula after the war in Deggendorf displaced persons camp, where they met, and in the United States where they later settled.

  8. Portfolio

    Print from 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.

  9. Atrocities at Dachau Concentration Camp

    (LIB 6572) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. INTs and EXTs, gas execution chamber with sign over door in German: "Brausebad" (Shower Bath). CU, pan to ceiling, gas vents; two holes on wall. ECU, one gas "nozzle." CU, floor; bigger vent (against wall). MS, pan to ceiling pipes. CU, 2 soldiers (one looks mournful, one disgusted). Piles of bodies in room adjoining gas chamber. SLATE: Marthey. MLS, Dachau train station. CU sign on building wall "Dachau." CU, street sign with cut-out, low relief sculptures. US armed entrance/gate to camp; two story barracks in BG. Sign: "Quarantine. Ty...

  10. M.27 - Public Record Office, London: Documentation pertaining to Jewish matters

    M.27 - Public Record Office, London: Documentation pertaining to Jewish matters Established under the terms of the Public Record Office Act of 1838, the Public Record Office (PRO) was the official archive of the government of Great Britain. Court documents were originally stored at the archive, however, from the middle of the 19th century, government documents were transferred there, and the law was adapted accordingly. The archive was located in the Rolls Building in the center of London from 1854. In 2003, the PRO was combined with a number of other bodies, and today it is known as The Na...

  11. Belsen: Nazis bury the dead

    Nazi men dragging corpses by the feet to a mass grave/pit, more bodies in the grave, preparing for burial. Supervised by armed British solders in FG.

  12. Elizabeth Rosenbaum Pilossoph photographs

    Consists of 14 photographs and photographic postcards depicting life in prewar Kolno, Poland, as well as pre-war photographs of members of the extended family of Betzalel (Charles) and Tzipporah (Faye) Olek Rosenbaum of Kolno.

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Soldiers; Munich Pact

    667 KK: Hilly countryside. 03:32:45 Underground bunker with barbed wire. 03:32:54 Group of soldiers going underground with rifles. 03:33:29 Beds. Removing gear. Shaving, barechested. 03:34:13 Pouring water from large bucket (preparing food?). 03:34:26 Ladder. Switchboard. 03:34:45 Nazi Party Rally. 03:35:24 German horses, tanks, boats, submarines, planes. 667 MM: 03:35:46 Heston Airport with Chamberlain leaving for Munich. Cabinet members at airport. 03:36:44 Plane taking off. 03:37:02 London street scenes, sandbagging. Marines jumping off truck. 03:38:08 Mussolini arriving with Adolf Hitle...

  14. Polish and English POWs

    Views of extremely long line of Polish POWs trudging along road, including CU of bare and booted feet. LS of POW camp, POWs getting sandwiches. CUs of prisoners lying on ground, looking tired, CU faces. General views of camp, English POWs and Polish POWs. English military officer POW makes statement (in English, synch sound) on the good treatment he has received as a POW. Ethnic Germans in Poland identifying Polish prisoners, with some kind of confusion and angry finger-pointing. 02:07:15: Narrator says that one man recognizes another as the murderer of his brother.

  15. War crimes in Herzenheim

    (B-1190) War Crimes, Herzenheim, Germany, May 10, 1945. LSs, MSs, German civilians digging up bodies in concentration camp. CUs, bodies of men, women and children showing signs of violent death. EXTs, concentration camp buildings, crude and filthy interiors. CU, corpses laid out in field. INTs, camp buildings. CU, naked female corpses laid out. VS, Men burying corpses.

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 82 -- Eichmann's testimony re: Bohemia and Moravia and France

    The footage begins near the opening of Session 82 with Servatius questioning Eichmann on the stand. Servatius presents communications between Himmler and Kaltenbrunner about the deporation of 5,000 elderly Jews from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. There is some confusion regarding the date of the document. Servatius presents another document, which describes a change in the Jewish leadership of Theresienstadt from one person, a Dr. Edelstein, to a triumvirate consisting of Eppstein, Löwenherz and Edelstein. Servatius asks Eichmann if this was a demotion for Edelstein. Some of the proceedings a...

  17. Muzeum Wojska Polskiego collection

    The collection consists of artillery shells, a rifle, and a pistol relating to military activities in the Kampinos Forest and the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland during the Holocaust.

  18. Drawing

    Postcard with self-portrait in frame and text by donor's father, Janos Gombosi

  20. German troops in France, 1940; French colonial POWs

    Reel 1: 00:50:35 Scenes on French country road. Captured French colonial troops in various uniforms walking several abreast along road (including Arab and African soldiers). French town (apparently not Paris). Hotel de Ville entrance and metal grille with sign. Pan to two Gothic cathedral towers badly damaged. Small sign "Kommandantur" hanging on door. Blurry images of damaged buildings.