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  1. Trial of Nazi SS prosecutor in 1950s

    Part of a 1955 documentary about the German trial of an official responsible for the Nazi-era persecution of high-level resistance members including Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hans Oster, Wilhelm Canaris, and others in April 1945. Nazi SS prosecutor Walter Huppenkothen was tried in West Germany in the 1950s and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. He was acquitted of murder and died in 1978.

  2. Frank J. Sawyer photographs

    Consists of seven photographs of a German military unit traveling on the Eastern front. Includes a photograph of a burning building, of captured prisoners of war, of supply trucks, and of three Jews who were hung by the side of the road. The photographs are captioned by a member of the unit, and the captions indicate that they were taken near Smolensk (Russia) and possibly Chernihiv (Ukraine).

  3. Silent Heroes Entschädigungsamt Berlin. Unbesungene Helden (B Rep. 078)

    Contains a unique set of records documenting the cases of non-Jewish Germans who helped Jews hide. The collection contains unique stories of hiding of Jews in the West Berlin area through testimonies from helpers and survivors, including investigation if the information could be verified. The collection is a result of an early attempt and initiative of the Berlin senate between 1958-1966 to honor helpers in the Berlin area, on instigation of the Berlin Minister of Interior, Joachim Lippschitz. 1500 files were created which precedes Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations Initiative. It giv...

  4. Oral history interview with Morton Mattel

  5. Ten Brink family papers

    Contains correspondence and one passport, documenting the family of Fritz (Fred) Ten Brink. Includes passport for Rosa Weinberg (nee Ten Brink), originally of Emden, Germany; a Red Cross letter from Fritz Ten Brink and his family (wife Ella and son Peter), sent from England to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ten Brink, of Berlin, October 1942, with reply from them on verso, dated January 1943; and a two postwar letters, from the Baudner family and from Kurt Seligmann, both of Berlin, reporting on the fates of various friends and family members, as well as Ten Brink's parents.

  6. RZ 214, Referat D/Abteilung Inland

    Contains records relating to Nazi party movements in Germany and other countries, concentration camps, elections, emigration, the Kapp Putsch, reports on Jews around the world, expatriations, individuals like Thomas Mann, the exile press, Vatican reports, Pius XII, and Bishop Hudal. Included also are reports on hostility against Germans around the world, records on “relocation” issues in Eastern Europe, youth movements in Europe, "Jewish Question'" around the world, Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Jews in Bulgaria, the sterilization of “ Rheinland Bastarde”, and on racial questions.

  7. Marsh Stanley Marshall photograph collection

    Photographic prints: Six images of the Ohrdruf concentration camp after its liberation and inscribed on verso. Images taken by Marsh Stanley Marshall, a member of the US Army.

  8. Hashomer Hatzair in Romania (R-5-2) השומר הצעיר ברומניה

    Circulars, minutes of meetings, work plans of the central leadership, reports from the meetings of the chief council in Kishinev and Czernowitz in 1927, reports on activities in different brunches, newspapers and magazines published in Romania 1927-1940, including "Mantvivea" and "Iovelua", testimonies and memoirs of the Ha Shomer Hatzair activities in various "kenim" (branches) in Romania, names lists of the members of central leadership and those who had made Aliya in 1938.

  9. Alfred and Hertha Friedheim collection

    Diaries kept by Alfred and Hertha Friedheim, with some loose documents inserted between pages; dated 1939-1941; in French and English. The Friedheims were passengers on board the MS St. Louis in May 1939. When the ship returned to Europe they disembarked in France, and were in the Rieucros concentration camp in Lozere, France before getting American visas. They set sail in May 1941 on board the SS Winnipeg, but were detained in Port of Spain, Trinidad after the ship was commandeered by the Dutch navy. While in Port of Spain, their US visas expired. They were successful in getting their visa...

  11. Minutes of the Commission of Spain Procès-verbaux de la Commission d'Espagne (B CR 212 PV)

    Records related to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formed the so-called Commission d'Espagne (Commission of Spain) on August 26, 1936 which directed and coordinated all of the ICRC's humanitarian activities and operations within both the Republican and Nationalist territories. The collection covers the ICRC's humanitarian activities in Spain and consists of correspondence, reports and minutes of the Commission. Contains documentation on military and civilian prisoners, visits to the internment...

  12. Records of the commune Stara Wies County Rawski Akta gminy Stara Wieś powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1107)

    The collection contains vital records of the region of Biała Rawska, name lists of fireman in various communes, correspondence, reports, police announcements and orders regulating contacts with Jewish people, and medical orders for Jews and Roma to delouse them for prevention of infectious diseases.

  13. Prosecution of Nazi criminals Stíhání nacistických válečných zločinců (325)

    Records from various archives relating to investigation on Nazi crimes. Consists of testimonies of witnesses in trials against the guards of concentration camps: Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, and Sachsenhausen. Also includes photographs of Nazi criminals and their victims, children’s photographs from Lidice, and other photographs of Nazi crimes.

  14. Pisker, Fischer, and Altstädter families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Pisker, Fischer, and Altstädter families in Yugoslavia. Biographical materials include marriage certificates, two postcards from Alfred Fischer to his wife Elvira Fischer Pisker written while he was imprisoned at the the Stara Gradiška subcamp of the Jasenovac concentration camp, and written testimony from Elvira describing her wartime experiences. The photographs include pre-war family photographs primarily of the Pisker family; the Pisker and Fischer families in Italian-occupied Crikvenica, Croatia; Elvira Pisker’s weddings to ...

  15. Alfons Van San photographs

    Consists of four photographs from the collection of Alfons Van San, who was hidden at the Chateau de Beloeil children's home in Belgium during World War II. The photographs depict groups of boys, including a photograph of a female scout leader with her troop of boys gathered behind her.

  16. Bustling Jewish life in Berlin

    In Berlin, a statue of a woman with her arm outstretched. Busy street scene, Nazi flags are visible from the upper floors of several buildings, as are Hebrew script signs on many of the ground-floor businesses. "Horst Wessel Platz" underground station sign. 01:05:42 Briefly, the facade of a synagogue located at 32 Grenadierstrasse. Quick cuts of two smiling women and street scenes. A residential courtyard with terraces. Concealed view of the exterior of the Reichstag building and the Siegfried statue of the Bismarck Memorial. 01:06:19 Street sign reads "Grenadierstrasse," more scenes of a b...

  17. Burial for Dollfuss in Vienna

    Various scenes of the burial for Engelbert Dollfuss on July 28, 1934 in Vienna. Parade was filmed at the corner of Kärntner Strasse and Kärntner Ring/Opernring in between the Opera house and Hotel Bristol. Wreath-covered vehicles. Crowds line the streets. Regiments of uniformed Austrian men march in unison. Cars drive slowly in the parade, including one with the top down. A decorated officer on horseback motions forward aggressively with a sword. A few quick shots of onlookers.

  18. Julius Hirsch family papers

    Manuscript drafts of song and poetry texts, mostly written for Jewish holidays, and used by various members of the family of Julius Hirsch, originally of Hamburg, Germany, circa 1935-1940. Some of the poetry may have been written while Hirsch was interned as an enemy alien in Great Britain in 1940-1941 at the Hutchinson camp on the Isle of Man, but much of it dates from earlier years. Collection also includes a printed sheet with lyrics and music of the "Hutchinson Camp Song," written by internees at the Hutchinson camp, 1940, as well as newspaper clippings from British newspapers, circa ea...

  19. Dr. Hans Stück collection

    Consists of post-war letters by Dr. Hans Stück, testimonies by Allied military personnel and Holocaust survivors about Dr. Stück's pre-war and wartime activities, and photographs of the Stück family. The letters and testimonies describe how Dr. Stück, though nominally a member of the Nazi Party, defended Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses in court, arranged for the removal of Jews from Buchenwald to places which were relatively safer, and facilitated correspondence between concentration camp prisoners and the outside world. The letters and testimonies were written while Stück was interned as a pr...

  20. Permit to leave Dachau concentration camp

    Permit, dated April-June 1945, issued to 1st Lt. William Michael Looney (donor's father) to enter and leave the former concentration camp Dachau at any time. First Lt. Looney participted in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp and served as a platoon leader of the 116th Evacuation Hospital. For his service he received the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, the Army of Occupation of Germany Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal; dated circa April-June 1945