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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Oral history interviews of the Marcia Horn collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, liberators, veterans, a rescuer, a witness, and the child of a Holocaust survivor produced by Dr. Marcia Horn.

  2. Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center collection

    The collection consists of an Israeli flag, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Paul Taylor as part of his duties as an aide to the mayor of New York City, charged with arrangements for visiting dignitaries in the 1950s.

  3. International Red Cross labels

    Collection of labels printed and used by the Red Cross during the Holocaust.

  4. Leo Vogel collection

    The collection consists of a hand stamp, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Leo Vogel in prewar Karlsruhe, Germany, as well as postwar correspondence between the attorneys and Mr. Vogel's daughter, Marlies Levenger, concerning his restitution claim.

  5. Lester D. Edelstein collection

    Consists of an original photocopy of a letter writen by a soldier in the 11th Armored division regarding the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. The soldier, whose name is unknown, described what they witnessed when they entered the camp and what they learned from prisoners with whom they spoke. Also includes a speech, on audio CD, with Lester D. Edelstein, who was a captain in the 11th Armored Division (63rd Armored Infantry Battalion), in which he describes his memories of Mauthausen, including how the camp smelled and his impressions of how people managed to survive.

  6. Segen family collection

    The Segen family collection consist of biographical materials, resettlement and immigration papers, restitution papers, correspondence, photographs, childrens clothing and artifacts documenting the experiences of Berta and Moses Segen in the Borszczów and Radom, Poland ghettos; their time in resettlement camps in Germany; and their immigration to the United States in 1949.

  7. 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...

  8. Emil and Erich Beamt letters

    Consists of copies of letters written by Erich Beamt and his brother, Emil Beamt, president of the Jewish community of Prostějov, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), during the period from 1939 to 1942. The letters describe the sorrows and anxiety felt by the Beamt family members as they witnessed the Nazi advance during the early years of World War II and the family's strong desire to emigrate to Canada, the United States, or South America before their deportation.

  9. Nuremberg: War Crimes Trials - Soviet compilation

    Russian film produced by the Central Studio of Documentary Films in Moscow about the War Crimes Trial (IMT) in Nuremberg, 1945-46. War footage: Warsaw destroyed, Operation Barbarossa, transports. Courtroom scenes: prosecutors and defendants enter, seated. Courtroom. Gen. Rudenko, Soviet prosecutor. Reel 1 begins with shots of defeated Berlin, Allied troops marching, hoisting flags and piloting tanks. MS of Nazi officers surrendering. Tracking and still MSs of Goering, Keitel, Doenitz, Goebbels' corpse, Jodl, Ribbentrop. Tracking shot of empty bombarded Nuremberg juxtaposed with archive foot...

  10. Llewellyn Zullinger photograph collection

    Consists of three photographs of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and eight photographs of the liberation of the Ohdruf concentration camp.

  11. Russian documentary

    Russian film produced by the Central Studio of the Red Flag of Documentary Films in Moscow. Includes footage of a memorial statue to victims of Kzasula village.

  12. Documentation of the German and Ukrainian authorities in Ukraine, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the German and Ukrainian authorities in Ukraine, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Order issued by the mayor of Odessa regarding Jewish property and Jewish owned assets; - Instruction of the municipality of Kamenets Podolskiy and the Feldkommandant, including a definition of who is a Jew and the imposition of the obligation to wear a yellow badge by the Jews of the district and region; - Announcements by the German authorities in the area of occupied Ukraine, including instructions and laws related to the imposition of restrictions on the Jews.