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  1. Book burning in Berlin

    Book burning outside Kroll Opera House.

  2. Oral history interview with Gershon Yelin

  3. WWI activities; excerpts from Hollywood feature films

    Intertitle: "America enters the fight for democracy!" General Pershing and officers meet. Map of France with animation. 01:03:30 Excerpts from two Hollywood feature films: "Sergeant York" (1941) and "Wings" (1925). Dramatized footage of troops fighting in WWI (some in slow motion). Newspaper headlines of NY Telegram: "War Ends"

  4. Bergen Belsen reunion photograph

    Black and white image of large banquet dinner; banner reading “[Bergen-Belsen; in Hebrew characters] / 1945-1961 / Bergen-Belsen reunion” hanging behind dais; captioned in lower right corner “Bergen-Belsen / reunion / Hotel Delmonico May 7, 1961.”

  5. Oral history interview with Joel Aleksander

  6. Concentration camp striped uniform coat with yellow triangle worn by a Polish Jewish female inmate

    Striped concentration camp coat issued to 17 year old Esther Kessler, or her mother, Masha, when they were imprisoned in Kaiserwald concentration camp. It was worn from September 1943-January 1945 through several camps. It has a handmade prisoner id with a small yellow triangle patch. After German occupied Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania, in June 1941, Esther and Masha were forced into a Jewish ghetto. They were transferred to Kaiserwald in Riga, Latvia, in September 1943 when the ghetto was liquidated. In the summer of 1944, they were sent to Thorn concentration camp in Germany, and worked as s...

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  8. Carolyn Landau collection

    The collection consists of five pieces of Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip.

  9. Oral history interview with Emma Lazar

  10. Family poses for camera; city square

    Reel 4. Women and children from the Sommer and Klein families in alley and doorway of house; they walk towards the camera. Some gather in BG (VQ: fuzzy). Children and women in a group. CU, children slowly walk towards camera. 02:00:43 Pan (left to right), men posing (all in suits, hats, overcoats), glimpse of an automobile next to them. Women and children at family's storefront; pan (left to right) of sign, "Houstinec, Sommer." Man and boy alley (same as before) walk towards camera in an alley. Other members of the family walk towards camera as well, including women, children, and cameraman...

  11. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  12. League for the struggle against racism. Main Board and Regional Boards in Bydgoszcz and Ostrów Wielkopolski Liga do Walki z Rasizmem. Zarząd Główny i Zarządy Okręgowe w Bydgoszczy i Ostrowiu Wielkopolskim (Syg. 360)

    Selected records of the Liga do Walki z Rasizmem (League for the Struggle against Racism). The collection contains a statute, minutes, receipts, cash books, and name lists of the League members of two regions in Poland: Bydgoszcz and Ostrów Wielkopolski.

  13. Nuremberg demonstration

    AGFA 1938. Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, 1938. Crowds. HAS, parade in streets. Demonstrations in the stadium. Street scenes. Swastika flags.

  14. stamped envelope

    Stamped envelope sent to inmate Louis Goldmann at Internment Camp "N", Ottowa, Canada. The return address is in Quito, Ecuador and the sender is Federico Goldmann. The envelope includes 4 stamps. The envelope is postmarked 29 April 1943.

  15. Touring Northern Spain and the French riviera

    With intertitles in English. Shots from up above of the coast and a village below. 0:41 “Cathedral of Notre Dame de la Garde at Marseilles- France.” Shots of the cathedral, two fashionably-dressed women pose and smile for the camera in front of the beach. 1:02 “In the Courtyard of a former Count’s Estate.” The same two women and a man stand before a building with a large rose window. 1:19 “Hotel D’Angleterre in Biarritz.” A well-dressed woman and man exit the Hotel D’Angleterre and walk around the gardens. 2:00 “A drive to St. Jean Pied de Port.” Shot of a flowing river. Car stopped on the ...

  16. Degenerate Art and "Ewige Jude" Exhibitions

    05:10:07 Exhibition of "degenerate art" [Entartete Kunst] in Dresden, 1933. Slow pan of quote on exhibition hall wall reading "Untaufe der Stadt vor 1933: Entartete Kunst" and of exhibition space, framed oil paintings, and a clay statue of a nude woman. Well-dressed museum patrons visiting the exhibit. Paintings on wall in BG. SS soldiers also viewing exhibit. One man showing and explaining some charcoal sketches to an officer. CU bust of Hitler. MS wall with paintings in Nazi realist style. MS of picture of girl in uniform. 05:11:04 Seyss-Inquart opening the 1938 Vienna exhibition on the E...

  17. Polish port city of Gdynia and schoolgirls in Gdansk

    From the factories in Silesia featured in RG-60.4002, also on USHMM Film ID 3004, the next stop is in Gdynia, in the northwestern corner of Poland. Shot of the harbor along the Baltic Sea. VS of mineral ore being loaded onto ships, VS of lumber yard near the ship yard along the Baltic Sea. VS of the streets and architecture of the city of Gdynia, picturesque shots of the boats on the sea and the canals that flow through the city. More shots of workers unloading materials at the dock in Gdynia. End scenes of Gdynia, begin brief sequence of street scenes of Gdansk, also in the northwestern co...

  18. Expanding German culture in East Prussia: Gdansk to Krakow

    Kulturfilm - Map of Sudeten territory, ”ausbreitende deutsche Kultur” [expanding German culture]. Rivers, towns, cows. 12th, 13th, 14th centuries, “Ostraum” 01:02:48 "Ordensburg auf den Weichsel" Ruins (between Danzig and Krakow). Travelogue style scenes of churches, castles, etc. Kopernicus statue. Schlesien. Geese. Posen. City hall. Kaiser castle. "Durch Deutsche geist, deutsche Kraft, deutsche Arbeit - wurde der Ostraum wieder Deutsches Raum!” [Through German spirit, German strength, German work, the Ostraum will become German land again]

  19. Eichmann Trial -- Session 20 -- Testimony of H. Kratky

    Session 20. Court is not in session. The Judges enter and present Decision 11: the Hoettle, Huppenkothen, and von Thadden affidavits are permitted as evidence; the Defense has permission to cross-examine all three witnesses at a foreign court in the witness' resident country. Presiding Judge Moshe Landau directs the interpreter to have a translation ready during the day, and asks Attorney General Gideon Hausner how long it will take him to grant entry visas for foreign witnesses. Hausner responds to Landau's reprimand for reading too much and extending the length of the trial on behalf of A...