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  1. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Detailed image of pile of corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  2. Simone Weil Lipman papers

    The Simone Weil Lipman papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting Lipman’s work rescuing Jewish children with the Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) in Rivesaltes, Poulouzat, and Châteauroux during the Holocaust and caring for child survivors at the le Petit Monde children’s home near Paris after the war. Biographical materials include identification papers and education and employment records in Lipman’s assumed name (Simone Werlin) and attestations documenting her work rescuing and caring for Jewish children with the OSE at Rivesaltes and Châteauroux during the H...

  3. Partial cement post with embedded bar from the 1866 Neue Synagoge, Berlin

    Partial cement post with an embedded sign post from the 1866 Neue Synagoge [New Synagogue] in Berlin. Parts of the structure were rebuilt in 1988 and materials presumed to be original were preserved. This was originally named the Oranienburger Strasse Synagogue. It had seating for 3000 and was the largest in Germany. The synagogue was damaged by rioters during the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, but was still used by the dwindling Jewish community of Berlin in Nazi ruled Germany. In 1940, the German Army seized the building to use as a warehouse for uniforms. It was heavily dam...

  4. Statue Brand wood and metal hand crank wringer for clothing

    Hand crank clothes wringer made of wood and metal, of the type used in the Łódź Ghetto in German-occupied Poland from May 1940 to August 1944. Łódź was occupied by Germany a week after the September 1, 1939, invasion of Poland. The city was renamed Litzmannstadt, and in February 1940, the Jewish population, about 160,000 people, was confined to a small, sealed-off ghetto. All residents had to work, and many became forced laborers in ghetto factories. Eventually, nearly 100 factories were in operation. The major ones produced textiles, including uniforms for the German Army. In the ghetto, p...

  5. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Detailed image of corpse; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  6. Book

    Medical book

  7. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  8. Chaim Rumkowski declaration

    Declaration number 392, Litzmannstadt. Declaration in the name of Chaim Rumkowski, Elder of the Jews, that the "Restrictions on passage are lifted."

  9. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  10. German Jews prior to deportation to Riga

    Assembly and arrival of Jews at collection center located on the Killesberg (mountain), outside city limits of Stuttgart. Scenes are prior to their deportation to Riga, Latvia, in November 1941. Film was commissioned by the Stuttgart city propaganda office.

  11. Der Sohn : ein Drama in füng Akten [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  12. Der Engel vom Westlichen Fenster [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  13. Illustrierter Beobachter (Munich, Germany) [Newspaper]

  14. Book

    Medical book

  15. Morris Kornberg collection

    The collection consists of photographs of Morris Kornberg and his friends; an identification card for the Jewish Community of Wuerttemberg (Israelitische Kultusvereinigung Württemberg); and a commemorative album with tipped-in photographs by Alexander Fiedel of the "Jidiszer D.P. Center UNRRA - P.C. IRO in Stuttgart" written by M. Kornberg.

  16. Susie Greenbaum Schwarz papers

    The Susie Greenbaum Schwarz papers consist of a diary, false identification papers, and photographs documenting Susie Schwarz and her parents’ experiences in hiding on Christian farms in the Netherlands during the Holocaust as well as tracing correspondence documenting the deportations of Carolina Pagrach and her husband Mozes Levisson from Westerbork to Sobibor and their deaths. Susie wrote her diary in hiding in the form of a cookbook. In it, she complains of boredom and intersperses recipes with personal observations about her experience in hiding and news she hears about the war’s progr...

  17. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  18. The Prelude Das Vorspiel [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  19. Pogroms, gold fillings, murders in Latvia and Lithuania described in Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 443) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 13, 1945. RVs, Major Walsh, US prosecutor, reading original Nazi letters which describe pogroms and other actions taken against the Jews in Latvia and Lithuania. He further reads documentation on the removal of gold teeth and fillings from the mouths of Jews before their annihilation. "Actions," burning of synagogues, etc., in Riga and other areas. LS, courtroom, waiting. Reading of memo by SS Brigadefuehrer Stahlecher to Himmler (10/15/41) reporting a pogrom, "Aktion Gruppe" : "To our surprise, not easy at first, to set in motion ...

  20. The Woman, After Whom One Longed For Die Frau, Nach Der Man Sich Sehnt [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.