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  1. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 44 and 45 -- Red Cross report

    Witness Ernst Recht is sworn in and questioned by Bar-Or. Recht describes the concentration of the Jews into central locations in Prague and the confiscation of their house keys by authorities prior to their deportation. He describes the documentation and confiscation of the property from their homes to be sent to Germany. Recht refers to this as the "Kramer Operation." Recht describes his appointment to the Council of Elders and the Trusteeship Office in Prague and his contact with Guenther (00:07:26). He says that representatives from Berlin came to inspect confiscated carpets in 1943. Ba...

  2. Selected records of the Comité inter-mouvements auprès des évacués (La Cimade)

    This collection contains selected records of the Comité inter-mouvements auprès des évacués (La Cimade) (Inter-movement Committee for Assistance to Refugees) related to rescue of Jewish refugees in France.

  3. Trip to Kaunas with Abraham Resnick

  4. "My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant"

    "My Father Henry's Route to America: Trenches, Harlem Hell Fighters, POW, AWOL, Stowaway and Illegal Immigrant" by Dr. Rudolph (Rudy Keimowitz) is a 19 page manuscript. The manuscript includes information about Henry Keimowitz's childhood in Hungary, time in the Hungarian Army during World War I, capture and imprisonment by the Harlem Hellfighters during the Battle of Verdun, experience as a POW in France, and his illegal immigration to the United States as a stowaway around 1922. He married and started a family in the United States, and, during World War II, was investigated as an enemy al...

  5. Bumek and Gruber families photograph collection

    Photographs: wedding portrait of Abraham Bumek Gruber (donor's maternal uncle) and Bluma Gruber; portrait of their daughter Liba; and image of Bluma Gruber walking in the street of Drohobycz; Bumek Gruber was a butcher and he was employed by the Germans in the Karpaten Öl forced labor camp; his wife and small daughter were murdered in a mass execution in 1943 in Drohobycz; Bumek met Tusia, a seamstress who had a small daughter, and took care of them. He took them into hiding with him and paid the peasant hiding them with a ring with a glass stone. When the peasant wanted to sell the ring to...

  6. Contemporary painting by a Holocaust survivor

    Painting created by Jiri Konta in 2007. Dr. Konta was a political prisoner in Mauthausen concentration camp from 1943-1945 and liberated there. The painting depicts a prisoner in concentration camp uniform carrying a large stone covering his face.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Embassy in Paris: Press office; Ambassador's office

    July 13, 1938. Silent: US Embassy. EXT of embassy. Shot of flag being hoisted at embassy (taken from Place de la Concorde). CU street sign "Rue Boissy D'Anglas". CU street sign "Avenue Gabriel" on other corner. Main entrance to embassy at 2 Avenue Gabriel. Cars driving in and out. Leblay camera: US embassy, EXT. Dr. Serge Voronoff and wife enter embassy. Voronoff's chauffeur and Pekinese dog. Ambassador Bullitt arriving in car, shaking hands with Walter Lippmann who remains in car. CU Ambassador's car's license plate CD - 5F. Wall camera, Mag. 8: US Embassy, INT, Main entrance hall. Shot, t...

  8. London

    Pan, front of soot covered building, a couple walks by, camera pans up. 01:00:41:05 Large crowd gathered in front of building, man walks in front of the camera, pan up. 01:01:26:06 Pan, “The Old Curiosity Shop. Charles Dickens” (13-14 Portsmouth Street, Holborn, London), groups of people in front, van passes by, “T.H. Bull & Sons Ltd.” 01:01:51:09 Pan, tudor style building. 01:02:04:15 Pan, ornate building. 01:02:47:08 Pan, private garden. 01:03:24:20 Pan, Same ornate building.

  10. Michel Shadur family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, books, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Michel Schadur and his family as they escaped from Nazi Germany to Belgium, then to France, Spain, Portugal, and finally the United States during the Holocaust.

  11. Roza Schwartz collection

    Contains a British Zone PWX/DP registration/identity card for Roza Schwartz, and modern copy prints of corpses at concentration camps.

  12. Nuremberg: War Crimes Trial (IMT) - Soviet compilation

    Russian film produced by the Central Studio of Documentary Films in Moscow about the War Crimes Trial (IMT) in Nuremberg. Reel 4 begins with archival footage of Warsaw bombardment: Goering pointing to a map, quickly cutting to an aerial LS of a descending German plane cuts to an aerial shot depicting bombs dropping past lens. CU Goering in courtroom. Montage of archival footage depicting German soldiers entering Paris, often smiling at the camera intercut with MS of French prosecutor addressing court. MS British Prosecutor Hartley Shawcross. Montage of footage of German U-boats under Doenit...

  13. Red Cross ship at NY harbor

    REEL 2: Unedited footage shows personal baggage in the hold of the Red Cross ship Gripsholm, Japanese children, the ship's frozen food locker, Japanese aboard the ship, and railway passenger trains.

  14. Barbie Trial -- Day 9 -- A civil party testifies

    18:09 President Cerdini questions the witness as to how he was able to identify his interrogator as Barbie 18:11 Cerdini asks for specifics as to the type of train used to transport the witness to Auschwitz, and as to whether he knew about the existence of the gas chambers upon his arrival 18:13 Prosecutor Bermann asks the witness how he was able to identify Barbie in their first encounter; the witness thanks the court for the 'gift' of being able to testify against Barbie 18:15 Defense lawyer Vergès questions the witness as to the purpose of his work for the Red Cross, and whether his work...

  15. O. 64.2 - Theresienstadt Collection: Original documentation from the Theresienstadt Ghetto

    O. 64.2 - Theresienstadt Collection: Original documentation from the Theresienstadt Ghetto The Documentation Collection from the Theresienstadt Ghetto is comprised of three principle collections: A. The Zeev Sheck Collection, also known as the Dokumentační Akce-Praha (Prague Documentation Project) Collection [Files 1-110]; B. The Hermann Weisz Collection [Files 111-422]; C. The Miscellaneous Collection including documentation from the ghetto submitted to the Yad Vashem Archives by private bodies and others [Files 423-469]. A. The Zeev Sheck Collection Provenance of the Collection: Born in O...

  16. Anniversary of Manfred von Richthofen's death

    Ceremony commemorating the 15th anniversary of the death of Manfred von Richthofen. Opens on a portrait of von Richthofen, then a shot of his gravestone with a rose laid across it. Large crowds at the cemetery; pastor speaks a brief part of eulogy, people salute as music plays. Civilians and military in crowd. Photographers visible.

  17. FDR and US congress; Huey Long; Father Coughlin

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 7, No. 356, Part 1. Release date, 05/22/1935. 01:58:21 Part 1A: "President reads bonus veto to joint Congress" Washington, DC. The President delivers the first personal veto speech in history to a joint session of Congress, explaining why he refuses to sign the Palman bill for the immediate payment of Adjusted Compensation certificates. Presidential motorcade to Capitol, shot from within a crowd of onlookers. CU of President Roosevelt, flanked by police officers. LS of Joint Congress standing and applauding. LS of Roosevelt speaking at podium to Congress. MCU, famil...

  18. English-Yiddish Dictionary

  19. Romanian troops in Czechoslovakia

    Romanian troops parade on the outskirts of the city of Humpolec. Man plays the cymbals next to a drummer. Local Czech children in traditional folk outfits walk through the streets in front of a marching band. 06:57 CU of two Romanian officers, one tips his hat. More soldiers in a field, they salute as officials walk by. One addresses the crowd from a platform with flags. They salute and march and the band plays. 08:00 glimpse of a cameraman. CU, official. Military parade, ceremony. Automobiles drive away.

  20. Blima Sicherman papers

    Contains documents concerning Blima Sicherman, born in Breslau, Germany [present-day Wroclaw, Poland] in 1905. Includes a Polish postwar passport issued in the Czech Republic and documents for vaccination, immigration documents, and translations attesting to Blima's internment in the Auschwitz concentration camp and then "Brnenc" [Brunnlitz] concentration camp, where she survived due to the actions of Oskar Schindler. From there, Blima went to Sweden and immigrated to the United States. Her husband, Oskar Sicherman and children [names unknown] did not survive the Holocaust.