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  1. Robert B. Austin photographs

    The photographs depict Buchenwald concentration camp at the time of liberation as well as bridges built in Germany by the 61st and the 296th Engineer Combat Battalions of the United States Army.

  2. Photo at Dachau

    The photograph depicts Allen Cohen [donor] guarding SS prisoners at Dachau concentration camp after liberation.

  3. Auschwitz liberated

    This film was taken by a Soviet military film crew upon liberating Auschwitz in January 1945. CUs, children, showing numbers on their arms. The girl in the center of the frame not wearing a uniform but a regular jacket is Sarah Racimora. The boy to her right is Rene (Guttman) Slotkin. HAS, procession of children evacuating the camp, barbed wire. CUs, charred heads and remains of bodies in ovens. CUs, cans of gas and other chemicals. Corpses, including one woman with an embryo beside her. Piles of false teeth, razors, eyeglasses, and clothing. Soviet soldiers hold up some children's clothing...

  4. Shmaryagu Shargel photograph collection

    The collection consists of six photographs depicting the family of Shmaryagu Shargel, originally of Janów neighborhood of Tarnopol, Poland (Ternopil, Ukraine), including Shmaryagu’s father Naftaly Shargel, Riva Shargel, Reila Aizenberg, and Lazarus Mesyo. There is also a post-war photograph of Shmaryagu with his family visiting the graves of Jews murdered in the Trembowla ghetto.

  5. Shirley Bush photographs

    The photographs were taken at Buchenwald concentration camp immediately after its liberation in 1945. One photograph was taken in Kassel, Germany. Some of the photographs have captions in English.

  6. Guttman family photograph

    Image of the Joseph Guttman family on the day after Passover being taken by horse-drawn wagon to the Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary, ghetto in 1944.

  7. Ikenberg photograph collection

    Copy prints depicting the Ikenberg family at the beach with a Nazi flag in the background, the Ikenberg family store in Germany, and a copy of a postcard with four stamps commemorating Hitler's birthday that has the caption "Wer ein Volk retten will kann nur heroisch denken."

  8. Ignaz Wessely papers

    The papers consist of 2 postcards sent by Ignaz Wessely (donor's father) to his wife, Gertrude Wessely, while he was interned in the Dachau concentration camp after Kristallnacht.

  9. Tartière family papers

    The Tartière family papers consist of correspondence, photographs, printed materials, relief agency records, and business records documenting Gladys and Raymond Tartière of Middleburg, VA; Hugh Byfield’s service in World War II with the 1269th Engineers C Brigade and visit to Dachau concentration camp after liberation; Jacques Tartière’s acting career in Paris before the war and service with the Coldstream Guards, French Foreign Legion, and Free French Forces during the war; Drue Leyton’s work with the French resistance; and Gladys Tartière’s work following the war with American Aid to Fran...

  10. Gerber Ezriel letter

    The letter was written by Gerber Ezriel from a DP camp in Germany to Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations, asking for assistance with his emigration to Palestine.

  11. Mathew Matusiak papers

    The papers consist of a letter written by Mieczyslaw Matusiak [donor] from Dachau concentration camp to his parents in Łódź, Poland, and an envelope sent from Dachau by the donor to his father.

  12. Leaflet Merkblatt

    Contains one "Merkblatt" leaflet.

  13. Postwar retrospective: Germany, war in Europe

    US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany. Reel 1, Opening credits. HASs, MSs, Berlin's war ruins, rubble, buildings, street signs laying on ground. Allied victory celebrations in Paris and London. Lots of waving, happy crowds, parade. Flashbacks to war scenes show soldiers marching, amphibious landings, Allied planes bombing enemy cities, parachutists, airborne operations, and masses of war material being transported by railway, truck, and ship. Plane crashes. Soldiers embarking and disembarking from transports and landing craft, ...

  14. Buddi Tepper papers

    Two diplomas issued to Chaje Vladislavovskyte (donor's mother) and Chakeli Aleksotskiu (donor's father) at the Jewish Gymnasium in Virbalis, Lithuania, in 1923.

  15. Liberation: Ludwigslust; US press at Dachau; Buchenwald

    04:48:10 Concentration Camp, Ludgwigslust, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs, CUs, survivors in courtyard cooking around open fire. Getting water from well. LSs, camp buildings. VAR shots of survivors. 04:50:30 (LIB 6324) American Newspapermen Inspect Concentration Camp, Dachau, Germany, May 7, 1945. CU, US newspapermen and party are sprayed with delousing powder. Survivors behind barbed wire in large field. CUs, US press. 04:51:19 (LIB 6339 and 6340) 11th Panzer Division Surrenders, Neumark, Czechoslovakia, May 4, 1945. EXTs, MSs, MCUs, US 90th Div Brig Gen Herbert Earnest in discussion with Germa...

  16. In the Museum of German History Caricature of Hitler and German historical figures as museum mannequins

    Postwar color caricature by Alfred Uzarski (1885-1970) depicting Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, a decapitated Jewish head, and other historical German military figures,as well as a decaptiated as mannequins on display in a museum hall. Uzarski was a successful writer and artist, known for satirical works critical of German bourgeois society and the radical right. He was co-founder of the avant garde Junge Rheinland group in Dusseldorf, which included Pankok, Schwesig, and Wollheim. After the Nazi regime gained power in 1933, art was expected to promote Nazi ideology. Modern art and those who cr...

  17. Belsen liberation, atrocities

    Sequence of Bergen-Belsen at liberation 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. Belsen sign; child survivors behind barbed wire with Luba Tryszynska; eating; emaciated survivors. 06:28:25 Woman (Mrs. Rosalie Weisner) kneels to kiss the hand of a British soldier on the day of liberation (April 15, 1945). Corpses; burials at Belsen; British soldiers...

  18. Postwar retrospective: Germany, war in Europe

    US propaganda/documentary film about World War II. A post-war U.S. narrative of intentions in Germany. Reel 7, Corpsmen carry wounded on stretchers. Troops cross a river and attack and capture Cologne, and advance into Germany. Shows war ruins in Julich, Cologne, and other German cities. Parade of troops through ruined cities. German refugees. Sign on wall: "Hitler ist Kaput". Troops advance. Destruction of cities. Fighting, crossing Rhine. Corpsmen treat the wounded. Red Cross ambulances. Ruins. Soldier playing tuba, others relaxing watching the "Rhine Rodeo." 04:10:52 Reel 8 shows an airb...

  19. Louis Weiss papers

    Contains postcards between Louis Weiss and his wife, Ethel Brasch, while he was interned at the Horthy Liget camp; a work conscription issued by the Hungarian Royal Defense Ministry to Flaum Ernone; an identification card for Ethel Brasch, issued by the Royal Defense Ministry; and a report card.

  20. Buchenwald concentration camp liberation photographs

    Contains three photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation. One photograph shows a concentration camp oven and two photographs show a large pile of corpses in front of a building.