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  1. Christian Boltanski sculpture

    Art installation created by Christian Boltanski in 1988 consisting of a black and white photograph in a tin container covered by wire mesh and illuminted by a single light bulb.

  2. Pamphlet cataclysm of the World"

    A critical survey of Hitler's Mein Kampf. Published by the American Goodwill Association, New York, NY.

  3. The Poison Mushroom Book

    Antisemitic children's book, Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom) acquired by Isadore Tuerk, a psychiatrist in Patton's 3rd Armored Division, in Gotha, Germany, circa May 1945. It has an anti-Jewish inscription in a child's handwriting and a stamp from a school library in Gotha. It was published by Der Stuermer Verlag, a division of the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper, Der Stuermer, published by Julius Streicher from 1923-1945. The illustrations are by Fips (Phillip Rupprecht), the paper's well known antisemitic cartoonist. Both men were arrested by the US Army in May 1945. Rupprecht was t...

  4. Book

  5. "Die Zigeunerfrage"

    Consists of a copy of "Die Zigeunerfrage," written by Tobias Portschy. It is an ideological essay discussing the political ties, hygiene, physical appearance, and religion of Roma living in the Reich.

  6. We will never die

    Recording of the 1943 "We Will Never Die" pageant produced by Kurt Weill. The musical program, recorded at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, involves songs and speeches of tribute, delivered by volunteer actors, actresses, musicians, and composers, in memory of Jews killed by the Nazis. A major part of the production is devoted to honoring the brave Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

  7. Bookburning; filming of Britain's books for safety

    (01:27:22) Part 3, "We Guard Britain's Books." 01:27:31 Berlin bookburning. Crowds at night, burning pyre of books, people tossing books onto the pyre [May 13, 1933 is date given by narrator.] Staged scenes of German book title pages (including H.G. Wells) being stamped with a swastika (swastika is reversed image). 01:27:50 AVs of England, aftermath of Nazi firebomb raids. CUs of books. VS of archivists photographing books on microfilm in England for shipment to the US. VS, crates of microfilmed books being loaded onto a freighter. VS, librarians at Library of Congress in Washington, DC cat...

  8. Truman and Berlin Conference

    President Truman on board the Navy ship Augusta enroute to Berlin Conference. Casual shots of Truman waving to a crowd in Antwerp. Truman on parade in Europe. Truman getting on plane, various shots of plane taking off and landing. Meeting of Truman and military leaders to discuss the primary goal of winning the war in Japan. Parades and processions of British Army and Navy. Discussion of Cairo Declaration. AVs of war ravaged Berlin. [Nazi footage-Hitler addressing crowds at 1930's Nazi rallies]. Truman raises the flag of victory over Europe. Various shots of American soldiers and civilians ...

  9. Postcard from the Manouchian network of French resistance Jews

    Recto, photo images of Maurice Fingercwajg, Szlama Gryzywacz and Wolf Wajsbrot and a "Medaille de la Resistance Francaise"; verso, a paragraph in French which describes the members and the activities of the group; postcard is numbered "004794"

  10. Scrapbook of the American Jewish Art Club

    Includes exhibit announcements, newsletters, newspaper clippings and paper reproductions of art pieces from 1931-1962.

  11. St. Louis in Cuban Harbor

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 777, Part 2A. Release date, 05/28/1939. Various MLS of ship St. Louis (shot from sea level looking up to bow). At harbor. From starboard, people at rail. MS well-dressed and good looking men in white jackets, uniforms stand on ground/dock. LS "St. Louis" on side of ship. LS ship pulling out of harbor (backwards). People standing around on land. Intended narration according to UN Motion Picture Release: "907 Jewish refugees from Germany aboard the liner Saint Louis, who were refused admission into Cuba as the liner rode at anchor for days or cruised in West I...

  12. Tannenburg Memorial

    Outdoor military ceremony in stands, Hitler and Ludendorf. MS flags, Wehrmacht. Big radio mikes as Hindenburg speaks.

  13. Jewish forced labor

    CU Jewish men squinting into camera, sitting around, jackets folded in laps to display star patches. Star of David patches (larger than usual, for propaganda purposes) on backs of clothes. All the men are cleaning up large pieces of debris from the streets (fence posts, big pieces of wood, metal, some munitions shell casings). Shoveling, sweeping, pushing wagon filled with debris.

  14. Street scenes in Wittenberg; Hitler Youth; church

    Establishing shot, EXT, MLS of street, Schlosskirche (All Saints Church) in BG where Luther nailed his 95 theses. Workers are digging a trench along street. SS man standing on sidewalk as traffic passes; bus comes up and stops. Nazi official with swastika armband directing traffic; two women pass in FG, wheeling baby carriage. Cut to EXT, MS, angle up, church roof and steeple. MCU, worker digging trench with a pick-axe, pauses to look at camera. CU, doorway of church, painting of the crucifixion in arch above door, writing on the door. MCU, rear view of man opening church door; enters. INT,...

  15. Goebbels and "Der Angriff"

    A very brief shot of a printing press switches to the masthead of "Der Angriff" [The Attack] with a close up on the line "published by Dr. Goebbels". A sequence of shots of Goebbels: getting out of his car, speaking, working at his desk. The screen splits with the words (partially cut off on screen): Der Angriff ___gt Unsere [ver?]teidigung [Der Angriff is our defence?). Goebbels is shown speaking on the other side of the screen.

  16. Hitler speaks in Vienna

    At Heldengedenkplatz. Jubilant crowd swarms the square. Hitler speaking at anniversary of Austrian annexation. Border gate going up. Wehrmacht going down country road, at the border near Kufstein(?).

  17. Illegal Ship

    VAR shots of people on board. Everyone goes below deck to hide from bombs. British Navy patrollers jump onto refugee boat. Refugee boys toss out fake sign "Karaco Adalia" and raise Star of David flag and banner: "Haganah Ship Unafraid."

  18. Oath-swearing ceremony for military recruits

    Oath ceremony for hundreds of military recruits at Feldherrnhalle on the Odeonsplatz. New Reichskriegs flag raised. Various shots of soldiers saluting or with forked hands. Repeat oath to Hitler and new flag. VAR CU of hands and faces, flags; one or two good general view of square filled with soldiers; double-exposure special effect of Hitler's face imposed over image of fluttering swastika banner.

  19. Oral history interview with Nathan Zielinski

  20. Nazi parade; Religious Jews in Berlin

    "East Berlin" Jews in street (in religious garb) intercut with Party Day 1927. Nazis marching in the street. Hitler, standing with Streicher in an open car, greets/salutes. Streicher et al festooned with flowers. Lots of people waving, saluting in the stands. Goebbels at NSDAP office, working at desk.