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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Frank and Edith Sim collection

    The collection consists of an identification tag and commemorative medal relating to the experiences of Frank and Edith Sim during and after the Holocaust at Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia.

  2. Holub, Glaser and Ornstein families collection

    Papers, correspondence, and photographs related to Eva Glaser (nee Holub), her parents, Josef and Marie Holub (nee Popper), her brother Hanus ("Honza") Holub, and her first husband Arno Erban, and their sons Peter and Tomas. Also includes papers and photographs related to Eva's second husband, Herbert Glaser, his sister, Ana Glaser, and Eva and Hebert's daughter, Vivian; a recorded interview (on CD) and transcript of an interview with Herbert Glaser; restitution-related papers; a photograph album with images of the Holub and Glaser families; documents, a diary and correspondence related to ...

  3. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities

    A propaganda film which laments the waste of money and other resources spent on caring for the mentally disabled and ill, at the expense of the "healthy" population. German intertitles describe the scenes. Film opens with busy street scenes, people going about their daily lives in the city. Switch to rural scenes, people farming, manual labor. Scenes of a Nazi parade and crowds at a huge outdoor rally. Flags flying, people saluting. A shot of the entrance to the "Silberhammer" mental institution; camera pans briefly around the surrounding countryside. The exterior of the institution, which ...

  4. Hanna Moneta photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the Moneta family in Krakow, Poland before the war; members of the "Akiba" Zionist youth organization in Kielce, Poland during "Hachshara"; Hanka Moneta, who survived Płaszów, Auschwitz concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen, after the liberation in Sweden during recuperation; photographs of Mordechai Moneta (Hanka's husband) with his "Beitar" group.

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Copenhagen

    LS, Christiansborg entrance (Parliament and Foreign Ministry building). Amalienborg Palace, residence of the King. 05:08:14 Armed guards. CU, insignia with King's initials. 05:08:52 Oil tanks in Copenhagen harbor (Shell, BP, etc.) 05:09:24 Danish and German boats in harbor. 05:10:14 In Copenhagen, on street outside "Prwatbanken". Bicycles, cars, horse and cart, modern apartment blocks. 05:11:08 EXT, Shell Centralen petrol building. Street, City Hall, automobiles. 05:12:14 Train, station. Copenhagen power plant. 05:13:08 EXT, NSDAP headquarters, swastikas. Power plant. German freighter flyin...

  6. Peter Kauf collection

    Contains thirty-eight original photographs of the Kauf family before the war in Berlin, during the war in Belgium, and after liberation. Peter Kauf survived the Holocaust in hiding; his older brother was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered upon arrival; his parents were hiding most of the time, but at the end of the war, they were arrested and imprisoned in a transit camp in Belgium.

  7. Verdoner family holiday and houseboat

    EXT, MCU, a man in a small house boat, docked. According to documentation that accompanied original films, the man's name is Leo Wijnbergin Punter. Gerrit Verdoner comes out on deck, putting on his shirt, and takes one of the eggs from the table, puts it in his mouth and begins to ham it up for the camera before ducking back inside the cabin. MS, EXT of the houseboat, the sea, and the window of a building, there is a sign on the building that reads: "STALLING-R'JWIELEN". Camera continues to pan building and surrounding farmland. VCU to MS of two young women standing in the doorway of the ho...

  9. Beitar Austria collection

    Photos of the Beitar movement in Austria from 1935 - 1937; Copper symbol of the Beitar movement in Austria

  10. Rosh Hashanah card

    Rosh Hashanah card bearing an embossed image of a bird and a basket of flowers shaded purple. The card and envelope were sent from Eishishok, Poland (Ejszyszki, Lithuania), to Rabbi Aaron R. Charney in Bayonne, N.J.

  11. British II Armored Division Advance

    British soldiers. Tanks move through a burning forest into Germany. Forests burned to clear out Germans. One short shot of sign reading "Danger Typhus". Tanks roll down road. At gate of camp; watchtower. Germans march in, past German officers. Another officer walks up and gives a Hitler salute. More views of the German and Hungarian soldiers watching British armor pass by, and the Belsen camp.

  12. Oral history interview with Alexander Fishman

  13. Justices summarize Nazi Party at Nuremberg Trial

    Judgment delivered at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, 30 September 1946. MHS, British Justice Birkett, British Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, US Justices Francis Biddle and John J Parker reading statement about the formative days of the Nazi Party, including the failure of the first Munich Putsch, etc. CU, Justice Lawrence. MS, Franz von Papen, and Arthur Seyss-Inquart in dock. MS, Justices Biddle and Parker. HS, CU, Birkett reading about the beginning of the NSDAP in Germany.

  14. NSDAP / SA and political activities

    Following "Der Kampf geht weiter!" [The Struggle Goes on!] title, this propaganda documentary depicts the efforts of the NSDAP and SA to organize political activities. Special occasions are indicated by intertitles. 07:01:13 Title cards read: "Hitler's Kampf um Deutschland," "Der Film ist hergestelli von der Landesfilmstelle Hessen, Hessen-Nassau," "An der Camera: Pg. Frank Hensel," "Verleih: Pg. Frank Hensel Frankfurt a. M.," "Erster Teil," "Ein Feiertag in Hessen- Nassau" [Holiday in Hessen-Nassau], "Leitung: Gauleiter Sprenger," and "Vor der Zwingburg des Kapitalismus." 07:02:02 Nazi sol...

  15. Otto Kundert collection

    Identification card issued to Otto R. Kundert (donor's father), War Crimes Duty Officer for the 7708 War Crimes Group of the United States in Germany; two (2) photographic prints - black and white images identified on verso by Otto Kundert as atrocities from Buchenwald used as evidence in war crimes trials in Germany in 1945 and 1946; both images are dated November 8, 1945, Wiesbaden, Germany, inscriptions are in English.

  16. Główny Urząd Celny w Płońsku Main Customs Office in Płońsk Hauptzollamt Ploehnen (Sygn.1058/II)

    Reports and correspondence of custom officials on confiscation of foodstuffs of Poles and Jews and investigations against smuggling.

  18. Central Economic Office : aryanization card file Ústredný hospodársky úrad : karty arizátorov

    Aryanization card file of expropriated Jewish properties in Slovakia, arranged alphabetically by name of the non-Jewish Aryanizer (arizátor). Also lists the name(s) of the Jewish owners (maj. žid. podu.) as well as the type of property (druh živnosti) and its location (sidlo živnosti), among other data.

  19. High Court of Justice Haute Cour de justice (3W)

    Consists of speeches, sentences, witness lists, reports, trial proceedings, telegrams, correspondence, interrogations, and a sentence ledger documenting the High Court of Justice, which was specifically created by decree of the French Ministry of Justice of the Provisional Government of the French Republic on November 18, 1944 to try persons who were a part of the government of Vichy from June 1940 to August 1944. Tried persons included the Chief of State, the Prime Minister and his cabinet ministers, Resident Generals in the protectorates, Governor Generals, and High Commissioners. The ori...

  20. Market scenes in Warsaw

    Market scene. BAZAR sign. People, carts, horses. Shops line busy streets. Kiosks with posters. Some signs in Cyrillic.