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  1. Anniversary of Munich Putsch

    Anniversary of the 1923 Munich Putsch. Reenactment of the burial of the party members killed in the Putsch, at the Feldherrnhalle in Munich. Horse-drawn hearses carry coffins into the Feldherrnhalle. The event appears to be taking place at night and is lit by torches. Good views of the hall, including two large stone lions flanking a staircase. Flag-draped coffins line a wall; above them are banners bearing the names of the dead. A uniformed man stands behind each coffin. The scene switches to a solemn outdoor parade headed by Julius Streicher. Streicher stops, salutes. A wreath is laid. Hi...

  2. American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors collection

    This collection contains numerous testimonies and memoirs, poems, songs, and various other materials written at the behest of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council during the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors convention in April 1983. Includes also copy of documents, photographs and newspaper clippings related to the life of the Holocaust survivors during the World War II. The materials include information about life in the ghettos, and concentration camps, episodes of emigration, and liberation of the concentration camps during World War II.

  3. [Newspaper]

    Newspaper published by NSDAP.

  4. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  5. Photograph of liberated concentration camp

    Image of an allied soldier standing in front of a pile of corpses in a liberated concentration camp. Caption on verso: "May 1945, somewhere in Germany."

  6. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of U.S. soldiers looking at corpses lying on ground; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  7. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper

  8. Jewish Agency for Palestine pin issued to an American rabbi

    Pin issued to Eugene Lipman after World War II when he worked for the Jewish Agency for Palestine.

  9. Youth Meeting in Thuringia

    "June 18, 1933, Youth Meeting in Thuringia." Hitler speaks before a crowd of several hundred thousand. Hitler at outdoor rally of youths, screaming his speech and stabbing the air emphatically. Re: recruitment of millions. Long, wide pans of vast crowd; "heils" and Hitler above them on an elevated platform decorated with large swastikas.

  10. Map of Theresienstadt drawn by an inmate while in the camp

    Map given to Max and Johanna Liebmann by Bedrich Borges, whose brother Erik drew the map while interned at Theresienstadt concentration camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. The artist told his brother that he drew the sketch under the orders of the SS command in the camp. The sketch is marked as an air raid shelter, however, the intended use was as a gas chamber. Erik was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and killed in 1944.

  11. Prayer book found in an abandoned synagogue

    Prayer book found in a former synagogue in Hessen, Germany,

  12. Oral history interview with Robert Zimmer

  13. Nazi S.A. banner captured by member of US Army in Germany

    This Nazi banner was brought to the U.S. after liberation by Samuel Reiss, a member of the Army Corps of Engineers stationed in Europe.

  14. Hand knitted wool sweater made after liberation from donated materials

    Sweater made by Frances Oxenhandler with material received from the Joint Distribution Committee.

  15. Schoolbook

    Contains a children's school book dating from the Third Reich era.

  16. Bookburning

    "May 10, 1933, The Burning of Books." Several angles of the big bonfire in front of the university in Berlin, at Opernplatz, into which books are tossed by students, SA men, others. Nighttime. Narration in German says that "un-German and immoral (undeutsch und unsittlich) books are being gathered by students and publically burned." Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, addresses the crowd; speech re. ending Jewish domination of German intellectual life. After the speech, the gathered crowd, including SA men and others in uniform, sing; natural sound (tune of "De...

  17. Arnstadt and Nordhausen concentration camps

    Arnstadt and Nordhausen after Allied soldiers arrive. General shots of corpses and survivors. Survivors receive aid. Some well-known shots of survivors as they board IRC van. (LIB 5566) Arnstadt Horrors, Arnstadt, Germany, April 14, 1945. 02:07:05 EXT, Sequence-German civilians disinter bodies of concentration camp victims. 02:07:27 CU, a cadaver with a damaged skull. 02:07:49 LSs, CUs, dog kennel for watchdog. 02:08:08 Begin new roll. 02:08:14 Pan from camp gate to tents used to house 1700 prisoners. 02:08:40 LSs to MSs, corpses lying outside of grave from which they have just been exhumed...

  18. Inauguration of Jewish Hospital

    Opens with a number of intertitles, written in Romanian, describing the event. The inauguration of a Jewish Hospital on 1 September 1931. Men speak from a podium at the opening day activities. There are VS, panning the audience, made up of benefactors, etc. Many shots focus on the women in the audience, audience members stare directly at camera, often with a stern look. Each speaker is proceeded by an intertitle, giving their name, rank, affiliation with the hospital, etc. Some of the featured speakers are as follows: Dr. Iosif Sebestyen, President of the Hospital Committee; Dr. Sebestyen J...

  19. Corpses, survivors at Dachau

    (LIB 6576) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. LSs, CUs, survivors attending services conducted by American Jewish chaplain. Women and men weeping. Flags, chaplain at podium. CUs, corpses. LS, outdoor church services. MSs, survivors, flags. 02:47:43 LS, MSs Men wrapped in blankets, sitting on flatbed, assisted by liberators. Naked corpse lying in stretcher, EXT. Church service, flags. Cut to piles of corpses. Full screen view, starved, mutilated bodies of former camp inmates. Additional scenes, freight cars loaded with dead bodies. 02:50:00 HSs, long line of German prisoners is marc...

  20. Goering, Hess, others at Nuremberg War Crimes Trial

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 1946. 02:16:05 CUs, Hermann Goering. Goering looks directly at camera, then away; blinking; speaks to man to his left (off camera) calmly; inattentively grins; smiles as if there was a joke. 02:16:24 CUs, Hess. Stares at the camera, then downward; grim expression. 02:17:03 CU, Goering nervously tugging at scarf tied beneath collar of uniform. 02:17:28 CU, Goering resting his chin on his hand. 02:18:00 CU, Hess stroking his face with his hand. He is looking downward, pulls at his lip, rubs face, squashes cheek, picks at his cheek. 02:19:10 CU, Wilhe...