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  1. Soviet and Allied officers celebrate the capture of Berlin

    Celebration, capture of Berlin, Russian soldiers, American soldiers, smoking, drinking, gift exchange, violin

  2. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 49, 51, 53, 55, 56 -- Witness testimony

    Session 49. Testimony from Dr. Ernst Abeles, who describes receiving hundreds of postcards from deportees who had been sent to the extermination camps. Abeles tells of when he first learned about the existence of the camps (00:03:36) and describes the "Europe Plan," an attempt by the Jewish community to pay a large sum of money to stop deportations all over Europe (00:05:15). Section on the "Europe Plan" is abbreviated - duplicate footage found on Tape 2059. Session 51. Testimony from Pinhas Freudiger, who gives an account of what happened to Jews who escaped from Slovakia and reached Hunga...

  3. Yom Hashoah commemoration programs

    Consists of programs for the Yom Hashoah commemorations sponsored by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington in 1984, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, and 2009. The programs include poetry, statistical information about the Holocaust, song lyrics, and readings.

  4. District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Katowicach

    Contains records of the District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes of the Silesia territory. Records are very diverse and include files of investigations of German crimes; files on wanted war criminals and verdicts of criminal trials against war criminals, including the case of the crew of KL Auschwitz and its chief officer, Rudolf Hoess; administrative files, including lists of the members of the Commission; case files of SS and Gestapo officers, German physicians, and collaborators, the verdicts of German Sondergerichte; also contains questionnaires concerning location...

  5. Official Nazi photographs

    Consists of thirty-two official photographs taken of Adolf Hitler, members of the SS, Nazi parades, military installations, and various other staged and propaganda events. The photographs are numbered with stamps on the verso.

  7. Dachau liberation photographs

    The Dachau liberation photographs consists of thirteen photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945. Some of the photographs are mass-produced liberation photographs, while others, including photographs of survivors in the camp and of the collection and burial of bodies, are less common images.

  8. District Court in Kielce Sąd Okręgowy w Kielcach (Sygn. SOK)

    Contains selected records of criminal trials conducting at the District Court in Kielce, Poland during the years 1945-1969. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles by Germans and their collaborators during the German occupation.Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals their collaborators guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the w...

  9. Municipal Commission in Lublin to Investigate the German Crimes Miejska Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Lublinie

    Contains records of the Municipal Commission in Lublin to Investigate the Nazi Crimes of the Lublin territory, Poland. Records are very diverse and include files of investigation of German crimes; administrative files, including lists of the members of the Commission; reports and correspondence of the Commission; log books of correspondence, questionnaires with information about places and facts of German crimes; name lists of the deported, arrested and murdered people during the WWII; witnesses’ testimonies; registration cards of the wanted war criminals; name lists of the German officers ...

  10. Nazi, Mauthausen, Belsen, and Auschwitz war criminals tried

    World in Film. Issue no. 43 (1948) 03:30:14 "NUREMBERG AND MAUTHAUSEN." Mauthausen trial: March -- May 1947. Title: "Zwei Prozesse: Nuernberg und Mauthausen." LS, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H Jackson speaking. Pan, prisoners box showing Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, at first trial. German voice over Jackson's, as he details how "a thousand Kaltenbrunners," "a thousand Saukels," etc - were at work within the Nazi organizations. MCUs, Gruber, Grand, Green, SS men standing trial. Pan of Mauthausen criminals. Seated in court, they are compelled to remove shoe laces, etc. to prevent suicide atte...

  11. Ramon Wallen collection

    Consists of one photograph of Adolf Hitler in discussion with three unidentified men in military dress uniforms. On the verso of the photograph, there is a faded printed number "43."

  12. Officers oversee training and exercises at a Hitler Youth camp

    In Groedig, Austria, the Hitler Youth camp's site manager gives commands to the organized troop. He has a death's head emblem on his cap. A HJ member with SS patch practices giving orders. The troops run drills. A senior Hitler Youth officer with glasses reviews the men and gives orders. He wears a Hitler Youth uniform, with the rank of Obergebietsfuehrer, as well as an infantry assault badge and the ribbon for the Iron Cross, Second Class. 01:01:07 SS Oberscharfuehrer at left. The officer, second from left (shorter man), is an army Unteroffizier (roughly a corporal). He wears a buttonhole ...

  14. Commission in Oświęcim to Investigate the German-Nazi Crimes Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Oświęcimu

    Contains records of the Commission in Oświęcim to Investigate the Nazi Crimes commited in Nazi camps. Records include files of investigations of German crimes and administrative files from KL Auschwitz, KL Dachau, and Nazi camps on the territory of France. Contains witnesses’ testimonies, protocols of investigation of witnesses, minutes and photographic documentation.

  15. District Court in Białystok (SOB) Sąd Okręgowy w Białymstoku (SOB), Sygn. GK 205

    Contains selected files from trials in the District Court in Białystok from 1945 to 1969. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles during the German occupation. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's first legislation on liability for war crimes committed during World War II. This...

  16. Government Code and Cypher School: German Police Section: Decrypts of German Police Communications during Second World War (HW 16)

    German language decrypted messages and English-language analytical summaries of German police radio communications from the late 1930s until 1945. Contains information relating to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau and on the Russian Front. The series also contains details of the results of allied bombing raids and allied aircraft losses, prisoners of war (both captured and escaped) and German police operations against allied agents and partisans. Also included are verbatim German police messages for the years 1942-1945. These are contained in 27 volumes as pieces ...

  17. Teresa Matuszewska Stiland (Matla Rozenberg) collection

    Consists of a photograph of Chaim Rumkowski and two photographs taken at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. One depicts survivors in 1946, and one depicts a memorial tombstone in 1947. Also includes three poems written in Polish after the war about Holocaust experiences.

  18. "Some Victims of the Nazi Terror"

    Consists of one magazine entitled "Some Victims of the Nazi Terror," which contains photographs and propaganda information about the Kitchener camp in Richborough, England. The magazine describes the daily lives of the mostly Jewish refugees living in the Kitchener camp. The magazine was created by the Kitchener Camp Committee. In a special camp, Kitchener, in Richborough, Kent, England, some 5,000 people who needed immediate shelter were housed during an eighteen - month period from the end of Jan. 1939. These 5,000 refugees had been released from concentration camps, or their internment h...

  19. Riesenfeld family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, papers, correspondence, a steamer trunk and other assorted materials documenting and related to the experiences of Bruno and Frieda Riesenfeld (nee Schwabacher) and their children Ernst and James (donor's father) originally from Wurzburg, Germany who fled to the Netherlands and immigrated to the United States in March 1940. Also documents extended family and friends.

  20. Sylvia Neulander collection

    The Sylvia Neulander collection consists of a letter written by Sylvia Neulander, who worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) after the war in the US Zone of Germany; addressed to Sylvia's sister Alice in 1946. In the letter, Sylvia describes accompanying a group of orphaned children from Marseille to Eretz Israel (Palestine) in April 1946, and visiting other children who previously had gone to Kibbutz Buchenwald. The collection also includes a photograph of Sylvia in uniform.