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  1. "Message to the Six Million" poem

    Consists of a letter containing a poem entitled "Message to the six million" written by Viola Sutliff.

  2. Linda and Friedrich Breder testimony

    Consists of a copy of a brief survivor testimony written by Linda Breder (Libusha Reich) during the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in April 1983. The testimony describes Breder's deportation to Auschwitz, her participation in the "Kanada" kommando, her witness to the sabotage of the Birkenau crematoria, and her subsequent incarceration in Rechlin, a subcamp of Ravensbrück. Also included is an abstract of the testimony written in English.

  3. The origin and activity of the Jewish Academic Secondary School founded in the year 1862 in Nove Mésto nad Vahom (Slovakia)

    Consists of one copy of "The origin and activity of the Jewish Academic Secondary School founded in the Year 1862 in Nove Mesto Nad Vahom (Slovakia)" (undated) written by Artur Klein. The essay contains information about the establishment of the school, its curriculum, and its first educator, Rabbi Josef Weisse. Also included is an anonymous English-language summary of the essay.

  4. Towel

    Hand towel used by Jewish slave labor throughout the time period of the Holocaust.

  5. US soldiers search houses in German town; capture Cologne

    (LIB 3784) Attack on Meschernich, Germany, March 6+8, 1945. LS, MS 23rd Regt, 2d Div, soldiers move along street in deserted town, rainy. Civilians watch. CU, soldiers break down door of house with guns and enter. VS, soldier directs civilians and German officers by wave of hand. CU, woman unlocks door of house and soldiers enter. MS, CU, German soldiers surrender, being searched by US soldiers. CU, officer speaking with German civilian. LS, rolling hills, village. MS, soldiers crossing field and entering Meschernich. Civilians stand at edge of a square, fork in road. MS, soldiers entering ...

  6. Case against Hess presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 543) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 7, 1946. LSs, rear views, unidentified defense counselor at stand requesting documents offered for evidence by the British prosecutor. MCUs, prisoners' dock. MLSs, MSs, rear views, Col. Allan Griffith-Jones, British prosecutor, presenting case against Rudolf Hess.

  7. Kivilsha & Grigorjov testify at Nuremberg Trial

    23:11:07 (Munich 13) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 26, 1946. LSs, Eugene Kivilsha, Red Army physician, testifying on stand identifies a photograph presented to him. (The witness and counsel speaking in Russian.) LSs, Dr. Hans Laternser, defense counsel for the German General Staff and OKW, questions the witness in German. LS, audience attending trials. MLSs, prosecution staff in courtroom. LS, court adjourns; judges file out. 23:16:09 (Munich 14) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, no date (silent). HSs, Tribunal as witness Jacob Grigorjov testifies. HSs, Eugene Kivilsh...

  8. Jackson raises international law issue at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 14, 1946. Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson addressing the Tribunal on a point of international law. Goering sits in the witness box and his attorney Dr. Otto Stahmer stands alongside him. Justice Lawrence answers Jackson. LS, defense counselors talking excitedly to the prisoners about Jackson's statement. MS, Jackson, defense counselors, and interpreters discuss the issue.

  9. Franz Sobotka papers

    The Franz Sobotka papers consist primarily of letters Franz wrote to his family while imprisoned at Buchenwald. The letters relate how Sobotka misses his family, include instructions for sending him packages, and inquire about news of relatives and friends. The collection also includes letters to him from his wife and son, many with draft replies from him on the versos, as well as a 1944 map of the Weimar SS garrison command (Standortbereich), stamped "SS-Kraftfahr Ausbildungs und Ersatz regiment!"

  10. Seconde Guerre Mondiale records (AJ 72)

    Contains documents extracted from official records found in Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau. Records include lists of political prisoners, lists of prisoners used in medical experiments, correspondence, requests, statistics, medical statements, discipline statements, and administrative documents. Also collection contains interrogations of ex-guards in concentration camps, liberation photographs, published testimonies,essays, clippings related to antisemitism, prosecution of Jewish in France, and to the Vichy politics.

  11. Aron Goldfinger collection

    The Aron Goldfinger collection consists of photographs of the donor's mother in Sosnowiec in 1946, of his paternal aunt, taken in the Dunkellhal slave labor camp, Czechoslovakia, in 1944; and of the donor's three children, all of whom were murdered in Birkenau, taken in Zawierce, Poland, in 1938. Also includes a former prisoner identification card issued in Buchenwald, Germany; and documents relating to the donor's seeking compensation from I.G. Farben for his years of slave labor.

  12. Kiev during first days of war

    First weeks of war in Kiev. Wartime in countryside, building defense lines. Stalin, Krushchev, and other Soviet officials and politicians are seen clapping, supposedly celebrating the unification of Ukraine. Cut to the countryside (probably just outside of Kiev), where people dressed in traditional Ukrainian folk costumes celebrate, marching on the streets. They appear to enter Kiev, though this may be a different group entirely. The marchers carry banners, including a picture of Stalin. Khruschev waves at the crowd. Girls appear to wave back. Others hold up flowers and five-point stars. Fa...

  13. Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 348) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 12, 1946. Former Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt enters courtroom and is sworn in at the witness stand by Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence. Von Rundstedt is cross-examined by British prosecutor Peter Calvocoressi.

  14. M. Blank, O. Schmidt, and Keitel testify at Nuremberg Trial; Army review

    07:00:45 (Munich 72) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 28, 1946. HAS, Tribunal and Justice Lawrence swearing in Ms. Margaret Blank, von Ribbentrop's former secretary. Von Ribbentrop's defense counsel, Dr. Martin Horne, questions Ms. Blank. She is heard answering. MS, Dr. Horne at the stand. Paul Otto Schmidt is heard being sworn in and questioned by Dr. Horne. Pan, US and British prosecution at table. (See also 111 ADC 5848 - RG-60.2856, Film ID 2354) 07:04:48 (Munich 97) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 10, 1946. Dr. Otto Nelte questions Keitel as camera shows HAS of...

  15. War Office and Successors: Middle East forces, military sections and headquarters papers, Second World War

    Contains worldwide intelligence summaries, as well as intelligence records relating to Jewish political activities in Palestine.

  16. Dresden Jewish community records

    Contains correspondence pertaining to the repression and persecution of Jews, documents related to the confiscation of Jewish property and its transfer to new ownership, lists of former residents of Dresden, Germany, and their subsequent whereabouts, missing person reports, deportation tables, and captured Nazi party documents.

  17. 1936 Olympics: fencing; wrestling; boxing

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 4: Fencing, Graeco-Roman wrestling, and boxing events are held, Endre Kabos of Hungary wins the sabre contest.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Nuremberg Trial: Walter Funk on stand

    Cross examination of Walter Funk. MS in courtroom at Nuremberg Trial as Walter Funk, president of the Reichsbank, is cross examined by US Prosecutor Thomas Dodd. Closer shot of Funk in witness chair guarded by MP, answering questions. Another LS of courtroom as Funk is on stand, questions by Dodd are about the loot taken from concentration camp prisoners and conquered countries and put into the Reichsbank of which Funk had complete charge, and about which Funk denies any knowledge (regular sound). "Wouldn't you have had to know about the 1,000 wagons of textiles that...had been shipped....c...

  19. War Criminals Hunt

    (LIB 7228-7229) War Criminals Hunt, Norway, June-July 1945. SEQ: US, British, and Nilorg (Norwegian Underground) troops entering German POW camp in the early morning and routing the prisoners from their sleep. The Germans are lined up outside of barracks and informers pass along the lines in an attempt to identify former Gestapo men. MLSs, MSs, German prisoners rush from their barracks in all manner of dress. In many instances the Norwegian troops boot the prisoners to hurry them along. MSs, informers pass along a line of women who had worked for the German government and are presently inte...

  20. Milch testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 41) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 11, 1946. LSs, rear views, courtroom as German attorney questions Erhard Milch (in German). Milch confirms that the German Luftwaffe had not been prepared in 1939, no cooperation or agreements (ROE, command structure) existed with other parts of the Wehrmacht, at least he did not know of any and he should have been informed. Cooperation within the different departments of the Luftwaffe was "loose," the technical department and human resources worked independently. He defines and explains the "Generalstab" as "Fuehrergehilfen" [young o...