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  1. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Munkacs: Prewar Jewish life: rabbi, wedding, children

    Men on bicycles wear sashes with Hebrew blessing, parading for May Day. Huge crowds of well wishers on street. Grand Rabbi of Munkacs in car on Mihaly Street, makes statement re: Jews in America (it is important to keep the Sabbath). Wedding party enters (synagogue courtyard?). Celebration of the Grand Rabbi's daughter's wedding. Night shots of wedding, large crowd under chuppa, cantor sings blessing. Zionist school: Large group of children sing "Hatikva" in a performance for the first graduation of the Hebrew school. Cheder: Small group of Orthodox children recite lesson, Melamed leads. St...

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

  4. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  5. Buchenwald camp at liberation - the dead and the living

    Slate: "Capt. Carter, Prod #186, Buchenwald C-31, Date: 4-19-45" MS of a truck bed piled with bodies, clothed and unclothed. CU of a bearded man lying on the ground. His arms are crossed over his chest, his tattooed number visible on his forearm. Medium, direct shot of a truck bed of corpses. Extreme CU of corpses, slow pan over their heads and feet. Extreme CU of three heads and feet. MCU of a clothed corpse lying on a low wheeled stretcher. CU of a man's face who had apparently been beaten. A picture of Jesus is pinned to his clothing. Extreme CU of the same inmate at different angles. MS...

  6. Map of Treblinka drawn by a former inmate

    Map of Treblinka I created by Fred Kort, 1946.

  7. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of corpses inside truck cargo bay; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  8. Heinz Gappe papers

    Contains bookplates, pamphlets, wedding invitations, business cards, newspaper and other materials, some of which concern the Jewish community in Breslau.

  9. Oral history interview with Eric Hauser

  10. Ms. Sally Goldhirsch papers

    Includes a postcard from Szloma Erlich in the Łódź ghetto to her sister's family in the U.S. (Brooklyn address, but forwarded to New Jersey), dated 1941. Card written in German, but with Yiddish sentence across top. Pleads for them to send more packages with food, as their mother is elderly and quite weak, and wonders why they haven't responded to the cards she had previously sent. Also includes a photo reproduction of an image of a round-up of people.

  11. Tall white wooden wardrobe used at Dzierzazna concentration camp for children

    White upright storage cabinet used to store goods at Dzierzazna prison camp for Polish children in a district of Łódź, (Litzmannstadt), Poland, circa March 1943 - July 1944. The prefabricated wardrobe was manufactured in Germany and put together using assembly instructions. Dzierzazna opened on January 12, 1943, as a subcamp of the Polish Juveniles Camp of the Security Police. The SS had a Lebensborn (Fountain of Life) program that urged SS and Wehrmacht soldiers to have at least four children, in or out of wedlock, to grow an elite Nazi Aryan population. By 1939, non-Aryan mothers were acc...

  12. Casper Hauser or the Laziness of the Heart Caspar Hauser oder Die Traegheit des Herzens [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich. Publisher: GMBH Berlin

  13. Book

    Book concerning the study of eugenics.

  14. Book

    Book concerning the study of eugenics.

  15. Adelaide Davidovitch passport

    The passport was issued to Adelaide Davidovitch by the French Consulate in Prague, Czechoslovakia, giving her permission to enter Mexico, leaving from France.

  16. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Close up view of a pile of corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  17. Inert Zyklon B, spent Gypsum pellets, from Majdanek concentration camp

    Inert, Gypsum-based, spent Zyklon-B pellets, recovered outside a crematorium at Majdanek killing center in Poland, following the liberation of the camp by the Soviet army in July 1944. Developed and patented in 1924 by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung mbH (German Corporation for Pest Control, a subsidiary of Degussa), Zyklon-B was originally produced as a pesticide and rodenticide. It was created by infusing liquid hydrogen cyanide (also known as prussic acid) into one of three carriers: wood fiber disks, diatomaceous earth (trade name: Diagriess), or gypsum (calcium sulfate, ...

  18. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of corpse lying next to a rail track; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  19. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  20. Jewish Religious Service

    MS, religious service in a synagogue. Rabbi and cantor singing, praying with open prayerbooks. CU, Rabbi (back of his head) with ark open before him. Camera pans the congregation, singing. MCU, cantor standing before large, arched windows, glare of light through window. Cantor seen mainly in profile, while singing turns occassionally toward and away from the camera.