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  1. Euthanasia

    Hanna, the wife of medical doctor Thomas Heyt, suffers from multiple sclerosis. He decides to 'redeem' her through a sleeping draught, giving her a 'merciful death.' Hanna thus voluntarily and peacefully ends her own life after unbearable suffering. Dr. Heyt's friend and colleague Dr. Lang (Mathias Wiemann) denounces him to the police, but changes his mind when a child he saved from death becomes mentally disabled. A court jury comprised of a cross-section of German society discusses all the moral, religious, and medical arguments in favor of and against euthanasia. Dr. Heyt argues, with gr...

  2. Handcrafted commemorative coin medallion created for a US crew member on an illegal immigrant ship

    Small medal commissioned by Paul Kaye to memorialize the imprisonment of the crew and passengers of the illegal immigrant ship, Hatikvah, on May 18, 1947, after their capture at sea by the British on May 17 during a voyage to Palestine. It was carrying nearly 1500 Jewish refugees, mostly Holocaust survivors. The medal was made from a hand flattened Cyprian piaster coin by an artist, name unknown, that Paul met in the internment camp on Cyprus. It is etched with the names, Hatikvah and Cyprus, an image of the ship, and an image of the detention camp; the initials of Paul’s nephew, Joseph Ros...

  3. German and woman at cafe

    Another outdoor café scene showing a German and a woman sitting at a table (woman seen before in Story 4410 on Film ID 2720), smiling at the camera. Man's metal arm braces leaning against fence post. Same woman and another sitting at a table drinking tea, perhaps in a yard, greenery. A different woman is shown exiting a restaurant and crossing the street toward the camera. A moment later, a German is shown exiting. He waves his hand in front of his face, perhaps indicating that the camera should be turned off.

  4. Sketch

  5. Cyrla Kaufman papers

    Papers consists of pre-war images of Cyrla Kaufman's family; post-war images of Cyrla Kaufman and her rescuer Tadeusz Lasica, who helped Cyrla escape the Warsaw ghetto, hid her throughout the war, and later married her; and birth, death, and marriage certificates.

  6. Postwar steel wire factory

    INTs wire factory (ECA slates throughout), workers, and equipment.

  7. Lifschitz family photographs

    Two (2) pre-war family photographs: black and white portrait of Chaya Sara and husband Zeev Gorin (donor's father's sister), both of whom perished on October 24, 1927; black and white portrait of Aharon Lifschitz (donor's father) and his younger brother Leibl, 1937, who perished in the Holocaust.

  8. Falkenhausen resigns as military governor of Belgium and northern France

    General Alexander von Falkenhausen officially relinquishes his position as military governor of Belgium and northern France on July 18, 1944 in Brussels. Long shot then CU of Falkenhausen at a podium in front of an audience of men in Nazi uniforms. The location is the offices of the Belgian senate. Shot of Josef Grohe, the new Reichskommissar of the civilian government (the transition from military to civilian government was decreed on July 13, 1944), and General der Infanterie Martin Grase sitting in the front row of the audience. Grase gets up to speak, followed by Grohe. LS of Grohe at t...

  9. Market scenes in Tirana

    "ALBANIA" "Streets and Bazaars of Tirana" Street scenes in Tirana. Craftsmen line up across from the Et'hem Bey mosque (in front of what is now the entrance to the National Library). Shop with three boys. Cobblers making traditional wooden shoes called "nallane". MCUs, market, merchants selling wares. Artisans making "qeleshe", the traditional Albanian cap. Pottery-making. The old bazaar - crowded outdoor market. Pan up, Xhamia e Kokonozit mosque (torn down by the communists in 1967). 01:02:59 Street scenes with pedestrians and building (what is now the Avni Rustemi statue). Four American v...

  10. Paul Bojko papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Paul Bojko of Stawok (Kremenchuk), Ukraine after World War II in the Weissenburg DP camp and the IRO Children's Village at Bad Aibling, and his immigration to the United States in 1951. Documents consist of his International Certificate of Innoculation, USS General C.C. Ballou newsletter, Declaration of Intention form, and naturalization certificate. Photographs depict the Bojko family in Ukraine prior to deportation, the Weissenburg DP camp, and Paul as a scout at Bad Aibling.

  11. Selected records from the State Archives of the Andijan Region related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Collection contains records related to the evacuation of civilians to the Andijan Region of Uzbekistan during WWII. It includes correspondence of the state authorithies regarding resettlement and employement of evacuated civilians, list of factory workers relocated to Andijan, lists of orphans, correspondence related to search of misssing relatives and other documentation

  12. Frame for a painting by a former concentration inmate of a US Army colonel who was part of the liberating force

    Frame for a portrait painting created by Aldo Carpi Di Resmini, a former Italian inmate of Mauthausen concentration camp, in Milan, Italy, for Colonel Frank Weaver, who was with the US Army when it liberated the camp.

  13. "My European Childhood"

    Consists of one memoir, 92 pages, entitled "My European Childhood," by Adam Zygmunt Szumer, originally of Nieglowice, Poland. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Nieglowice and Jaslo, where his parents worked for a small oil refinery. At the time of the German invasion of Poland, the family temporarily relocated to Stanislawow in eastern Poland, before moving to Drohobycz in late 1939. In 1942, Adam acquired Aryan papers and temporarily went into hiding with two Polish Catholic sisters, but was returned to his parents after a traveling mishap. He describes the Drohobycz ghetto and ...

  14. Oral history interview wtih Adam Leczycki

  16. SA propaganda

    The young worker and talented SA leader Fritz Brand constantly argues about the political future of Germany with his jobless Social Democratic father. He is also greatly involved with the ongoing street-fighting between the Nazis and Communists during the extremely violent final months of the Weimar Republic. Fritz's sixteen year old neighbor and half-orphan Erich Lohner is inspired by his example and joins the Hitler Youth. Participating in one of the first legal SA marches immediately after the SA ban is lifted on June 17, 1932, Erich is shot to death by Communists. Subsequently, the Nazi...

  17. Bergen-Belsen

    Contains information about the establishment of health care facilities after liberation, the activities of Hadassah and Josef Rosensaft as leaders in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, and the closing of the camp in 1950.

  18. Gerta Solan collection

    Collection of approximately 27 family photographs documenting Gerta Solan with her parents, grandparents, family and friends before and after WWII in and around Prague.

  19. Oral history interview with Rosa Bornstein

  20. Weinberg family correspondence

    Two postcards sent from Lotte and Bernhard Weinberg of Vienna, Austria in May and November 1938 to their cousins Max, Paul and Sophia Steinberg in Chicago, Il. Among other topics, Lotte and Bernard sought help in obtaining a visa for their daughter Regina.