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  1. Henry Lasker papers

    Includes various materials concerning Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust, the suffering of Jews through history, and atrocities toward Jews in the Soviet Union and Poland. Also included is the November 1928 report of the Constituent Convention of the Federation of American Jews of Lithuanian Descent. The report discusses the persecution of Jews in Lithuania. See RG lists for RG-10.01701 through RG-10.017*09 titles.

  2. Isabella Leitner collection

    Consists of various materials concerning Isabella Katz Leitner and her family. The documents relate specifically to the emigration of the Katz family members to the United States and the search for other family members who were left behind in Germany. Also included is an audiotape containing a speech by Hajo Kolshorn, a former junior officer of the Nazi German navy. The speech is one in a series from the "History as Recollection" program at Marietta College. The speech discusses antisemitism.

  3. William and Mies Oudegeest interview

    The William and Mies Oudegeest interview consists of audiotapes and transcripts of an interview with William and Mies Oudegeest relating their participation in underground resistance during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and their hiding of Dutch Jews. The collection also includes a photocopy of a letter from a Dutch couple named Menleman describing the care required for their daughter.

  4. Richard Straus papers relating to restitution

    Contains correspondence concerning Richard Straus' assistance to relatives in their attempts to receive restitution from the German government for property lost before their emigration to the United States. Also includes term papers written by Straus while enrolled at Georgetown University and several income tax forms.

  5. Records relating to displaced persons in Ebensee

    Contains photocopies of name lists of displaced persons, grouped by nationality, remaining in Ebensee concentration camp after liberation. Lists of Polish displaced persons make up the bulk of the collection. Also included are records relating to the Polish Committee in Ebensee and a map of Austria showing Mauthausen and the Mauthausen sub-camp network.

  6. Jewish Resettlers in 1920s

    HA line of cars in small town. People pack furniture. MS of trucks and cars passing by, some traditionally dressed Jews visible amongst belongings on vehicles. HA of trucks on rural road.

  7. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Refugees arriving at Ellis Island on the "Marine Flasher" ship. Crowd waving. A scuffle breaks out among refugees, one woman is visibly upset and yelling toward the camera. Refugees embrace, some with bundles. CU of a woman holding a baby. Side view of a boy waving. Various shots of two children. Two women show tattoos to camera (they seem to be mother and daughter, but this is not confirmed.)

  8. Thomas Sulenski photographs

    The papers consist of six photographs from the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp and of Hitler's Eagle's Nest.

  9. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Refugees wave from ship, the Marine Flasher, to people at dock. Men and women kissing, toting luggage. Children waving to camera. Refugees showing tattoos to camera. Scan of people waiting for refugees to arrive. Seqeuences repeated, although there are a few additional scenes and color bars. Weber family with tags standing together at 06:05:40 (top row: Gertrude, Senta, Ruth, Alfons; bottom row: Renee, Judith, Bela). Sonia Weissman appears briefly at 06:05:50.

  10. Antisemitic campaign: Boycott, Bookburning, Goebbels

    "Part 2 Acquiring Totalitarian Control of Germany, 1933-1935." "Opening of the Official Anti-Semitic Campaign, 1 April 1933." Minister for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels addresses a cheering crowd in Berlin Lustgarten. Speech. Boycott of Jewish shops begins. Truck filled with Nazis moves through streets, chanting: "Germans, protect yourselves. Don't buy from the Jews." Crowds in Berlin streets; good views, various. On doorway, sign with skull: "Achtung Juden." On closed stores the sign "Jude" and the Star of David painted on windows. SA men put up signs, hold back cro...

  11. Metal tipped whip used at Auschwitz concentration camp

    Whip with a rubber handle and a metal tip at the opposite striking end that was used at Auschwitz concentration camp

  12. Yank, the Army Weekly (New York, New York) [Magazine] The Army Weekly

    Freedom and Food cover story with a photographic image of woman standing in front of barbed wire fence, holding a box of rations.

  13. Refugees arrive at Ellis Island

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 504, Part 1. Release date, 05/20/1946. Refugees arriving at Ellis Island on board the "Marine Flasher". LS, boat lined with passengers. View from boat, silhouetted FG men with hats, crowd waving. MS family waving, standing at edge, packed crowd behind fence/barrier of Ellis Island. Dark interior. Slow pan people on boat; happy. CU old woman with flowered hat and younger woman yelling at guard. MS, young women, Sonia Weissman (survivor of Warsaw Ghetto), running to hug and kiss. Crying women embracing. Similar shots, including hugs, tears, man kissing woman, ...

  14. Eisenhower at Ohrdruf; liberated prisoners with radio

    04:31:58 (LIB 5416) General Dwight D. Eisenhower Visits Atrocities Concentration Camp at Ohrdruf, Germany, April 12, 1945. MSs, CUs, Eisenhower looks at dead bodies, GIs standing in BG. Former prisoner (survivor) with scarf talking to officers. CUs, dead bodies of prisoners. MSs, Gens Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley and Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. leave camp. MSs, CUs, US soldiers look at dead bodies of camp victims. 04:32:37 (LIB 5562) Liberated Yanks, Russians, and British, Duderstadt, Germany, April 10, 1945. CUs small radio built by one of the prisoners. CU, one of the liberated men cook...

  15. Gardelegen photographs

    Series of seven original black and white photographs taken at Gardelegen, Germany in April 1945. Each photograph measures approximately 3 5/8" x 2 1/2." Four of the series are captioned on the back.

  16. Majdanek liberated

    Opening titles and credits (see transcription below). Pan of prisoners behind barbed wire. CUs prisoners, their tatooed numbers, of the electrically charged barbed wire, ruins, various signs, guard towers, aerial views, etc. The Russian officers examine officials of camp. Men dig up graves for evidence. CU, women weeping as bodies are uncovered. CUs, decomposed bodies and pile of skulls. Gas chambers. CU can of chemicals used for gas. INTs, camp, etc. Officials of the camp are examined and, with the help of female Russian interpreter, various prisoners tell their stories. Rolling credits at...

  17. Destruction of Worms, Germany; POW camp

    (LIB 5406) Seventh Army POW Cage, Worms, Germany, April 7, 1945. AVs city of Worms, showing damaged town below. AVs, showing undamaged Catholic cathedral and Lutheran church in Worms. AVs, prisoners of war in caged area. LSs, MSs, HSs POW enclosure holding 2400 prisoners. MS, prisoners arriving and getting out of trucks. Individual CUs, various types of prisoners.

  18. Ludwigslust: Germans reburying corpses; graves; service

    (LIB 6389) Remnants of Nazism, Ludwigslust, Germany, 7 May 1945. MCUs, townspeople walking past pits containing bodies of former slave laborers/prisoners who died from malnutrition and torture. VS, German civilians digging graves and reburying concentration camp victims. MCUs, MSs, Maj Gen James M Gavin, 82nd ABN Corps and other US officers attending burial ceremonies. CUs, Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish chaplains speaking at ceremony. CUs, Gavin and other US soldiers. Burying victims. MSs, body lying in grave as earth is shoveled over it. Germans burying victims, grave markers. More shot...

  19. Concentration camps; liberation; atrocities

    Clips of Dachau, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Ludwigslust, Ohrdruf, Leipzig, and Gardelegen. Sequence from the pre-completed and pre-restored version of "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey," formerly known as “Memory of the Camps,” transmitted by WGBH/PBS FRONTLINE in May 1985 with commentary specially recorded by the actor Trevor Howard. Narrator's voice is not heard throughout. HAS, Buchenwald. Opening gates at camp; survivors in striped uniforms; men in bunks. British soldiers show survivors (living skeleton men) to camera. CUs, survivors, on litters, corpses, ovens. Clothing set aside...

  20. Bookburning, German civilians

    US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany. Includes images of Goering at a press conference, war crimes trials, animated question marks, people around a pile of burning books in street, CU of "Mein Kampf" going into flames. "We will abolish all Nazi laws in which these ideas are fixed - all laws of discrimination by race, creed, or political opinion. It is not our intention to enslave the German people, but to re-educate them toward a democratic way of life." German civilians gathered looking at posters describing atrocities of war...