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  1. Alvin H. Beavers photographs

    The photographs depict the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  2. John Hancock papers

    The papers consist of six photographs from the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald concentration camps and the envelope in which the photographs were sent to the United States in 1945. Captions are printed on the back of each photograph.

  3. A. Morton Rosenfield collection

    The collection consists of 22 photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation and Kibbutz Buchenwald. Photos show corpses, conditions at the camp, and conditions at the Kibbutz.

  4. Ellen M. Fine papers

    The Ellen M. Fine papers consist of Moritz Mayer's 1939 passport, Alice Mayer's 1939 passport including Ellen, and two 1941 telegrams asking for Moritz Mayer's help with Ferdinand and Bertha Simon's emigration.

  5. Dora Pollak family correspondence

    The Dora Pollak family correspondence consists primarily of letters Dora and Richard Pollak received from family and friends in Czecholovakia, England, and Switzerland during and after the war. Wartime correspondence relates family news, documents efforts to emigrate from Czechoslovakia, describes preparations for deportation to Theresienstadt, and relays thanks for care packages delivered to Theresienstadt. Postwar correspondence summarizes wartime experiences and documents efforts to reclaim and manage family businesses and property lost during the war including the Joseph Taussig and Dan...

  6. Emanuelis Zingeris papers

    The papers consist of papers relating to the Holocaust in Lithuania and photographs depicting life in Jewish ghettos in Lithuania during World War II.

  7. Battle Front; Destruction in Riga

    Airplanes and pilots flying. Map of USSR showing Jonava, Kovno, Vilna, Riga, and other cities. Military tanks storm Riga. Views of military destruction and ruins in city streets. Men and women civilians clearing up rubble from street.

  8. Oral history interview with Helga Epstein

  9. Anti-Jewish Acts in Baltic States

    Shots of the INT of a synagogue, possibly Jonava. SS guard ordering Jewish men and young men coming out of a building (the synagogue?) -- a roundup. The Jews run down the street. The following scenes are disjointed. Shots of the Riga synagogue burning at night. The famous shots of forced labor of Jewish men climbing out of a ditch with shovels and digging on the roadside; one religious man is approached by soldiers and made to take off his shirt. Jews beaten in streets by locals and then forced labor of Jews cleaning the streets after bombing and destruction, lots of rubble. In Mogilev, Jew...

  10. Army talks

    Contains an issue of "Army Talks" magazine, dated November 11, 1945.

  11. Burying the dead

    Bodies of Latvian Nationalists murdered by GPU in or around Riga. Men carrying dead bodies on stretchers. Placing bodies into coffins. CU, woman mourning. CU, two young boys dead on ground. Woman with kerchief on head wailing over a dead man, wringing her hands, her wailing is audible.

  12. Pető family papers

    The Pető family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, a personal narrative, photographs, property records, a newspaper, and a ticket documenting Judith Pető Leiber and her family, her early career in handbag design, her uncle’s experiences as a refugee in Nice, her family’s survival in Budapest, the confiscation or loss of her relatives’ property, and efforts to recuperate it. Biographical materials include birth and marriage certificates; education and employments records; and identification papers documenting Judith Pető Leiber and her parents, sister, grandparents, an...

  13. Bar of soap stamped RIF produced in occupied Poland

    Bar of soap produced around 1942 in a soap factory near Buna-Monowitz concentration camp in Monowice, Poland.

  14. Bernard Chessman papers

    Includes military manuals, military orders, and articles concerning the activities of the 29th the U.S. Infantry Division in Germany during World War II. Also included are materials concerning the 115th U.S. Infantry Division of the Maryland National Guard from Towson, MD.

  15. Anklageschrift gegen Lensch and Dr. Struve

    Contains documents relating to the war crimes cases of Friedrich Karl Lensch and Gerhard Kurt Struve, who were accused of acts of “euthanasia.” Included are witness statements, testimony by physicians, biographical information about Lensch and Struve, and information about various mental health institutions in which the defendants allegedly carried out the killings.

  16. Destruction of synagogue

    Dresden synagogue taken down.

  17. Process of isolating, labeling, deporting, murdering Jews

    DER KRIEG. Germans enter Poland. Lwow pogrom amateur footage; stills. Nazis entering towns via truck; Hitler speeches; clips from Nazi propaganda and newsreels, Jews forced to work for Germans in occupied territory, roundups in Jonava, Latvia. Hangings in occupied territory. German raid, checking papers, in various Polish locations. Riga scenes of harassing Jews. (locations and images intermixed) Jews in Balti, Romania, moved in large numbers along road. Krakow ghetto created, Jews moving in, others moving out. 10:06:45 [01:06:12] DAS GHETTO. Warsaw Ghetto scenes (includes b/w version of sc...

  18. Stefania and Helena Burzminski photograph collection

    Contains two photographs of Stefania and her sister, Helena Burzminski. The two sisters hid thirteen Jews in their attic in Przemysl, Poland, during World War II.

  19. Dachau concentration camp photographs

    Contains eighteen photographs of the Dachau concentration camp at liberation.

  20. Goebbels re: bookburning and boycott; crowds in street; Reichstag fire trial; Nuremberg Laws; vom Rath's funeral

    05:02:43 Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, speaks at bookburning, Berlin Opernplatz, at night: brief clip of his speech referring to Jewish intellectual domination . . ." Followed by shots of men throwing books into the bonfire. People, mainly civilian, march past behind the fire and the flames roar. "Berlin, May 10, 1933" . To 05:03:08 05:03:09 Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, speaks from podium at Lustgarten to assembled crowd, announcing boycott of Jewish businesses. Pan of masses as Goebbels speaks with some passion, using his hands. Crowd responds "Hei...