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  2. New York Herald Tribune (New York, New York) [Newspaper]

  3. The New York Times (New York, New York) [Newspaper]

  7. Dorothy Shapiro collection

    Consists of American newspaper articles discussing the situation of Jews in the immediate postwar era. Includes two letters from the Vaad Hatzala rescue organization addressed to Dorothy Shapiro, dated March and April 1945, acknowledging her fundraising efforts.

  8. Warsaw ghetto scenes (before and after Uprising)

    Excerpts from Nazi film footage. Many people crossing over a footbridge into the ghetto. Homeless people sitting in the street. LSs of tenement buildings. Shots of bodies being taken off the street and loaded onto a death cart. Tanks on road. Brief shot that showing two German soldiers (SS?) standing in the middle of the street with damgaed buildings on either side. Smoke fills the street. The narration states that this is footage of the 1943 uprising and it appears quite similar to "Stroop Report" still photos. Distant shot of fires burning, then panning shot of destroyed ghetto.

  10. Edwin Chwedyk photograph

    Image of Edwin Chwedyk, created by unknown photographer, 1939, Lublin, Poland.

  11. Jews mistreated; Riga synagogue burned

    Men and policemen beating Jewish men in the street, dragging one man, punching one man. Fire in Riga synagogue (see fire through stained glass windows).

  13. The Eternal Jew Poster for an anti-semitic film

  14. The All American Paraglide [Newspaper]

    Printed on Victory in Europe (VE) Day by the 82nd "All American" Airborne Division.

  15. Concentration camp uniform coat worn by an Austrian Catholic inmate

    Concentration camp uniform knee length coat worn by Karl Unterthiner, an Austrian Catholic political prisoner in Dachau concentration camp from March 25, 1944, to April 29, 1945. Karl lived in Sterzing, (Vitipeno) Italy, an alpine village, which was part of Austria until World War I. In June 1939, Germany and Italy agreed this area would be Italianized. Residents who wished to retain their German culture and language were given the option to go to Germany or Austria which was part of the German Reich. Karl was Austrian, and he refused to leave his home and spoke out against Fascism and Nazi...

  17. Persecution of Jews 1933-1945

    Pre-title sequence: Bookburning in Berlin, Joseph Goebbels speaking. 09:02:58 View of bodies stacked with wood for burning, and Heinrich Heine quote. 09:03:11 Film title: DER GELBE STERN: Ein Film ueber die Judenverfolgung 1933 - 1945. Events of January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany. NSDAP (Nazi Party) organization, new members, SA marching in streets. S.A. Heim [Sturmabteilung headquarters] 09:05:09 Joseph Goebbels speaks at Sportpalast in Berlin, against the lying Jewish press etc. This preceded Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, February 10. 09:05:53 Still ...

  18. Russian monuments destroyed

    Man smashing plaster statue with a sledgehammer. Group of men pulling down bust of statue with ropes. Man cutting into a tapestry picture of Stalin's head. Crowd cheering.

  19. Hadassah Rosensaft photograph collection

    The papers consist of one photograph of Benjamin Bimko-Preizerowicz, son of Hadassah Bimko-Rosensaft [donor] and Josef Preizerowicz, who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, on December 3, 1937 and died at Auschwitz-Birkenau on August 4, 1943. The papers also include a photograph of a group of Jewish men with raised hands that was taken in Będzin, Poland, in September 1939.

  20. Oral history interview with Henry Meyer