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  1. Chimowicz family letters

    Consists of two letters, written by brothers Alfred and Hermann Chimowicz (later Herman Shine), from Karlsruhe, Germany, in the spring of 1946. The letters were sent to their cousin, Masha Glicenstein, who had immigrated to Palestine in 1937. The letters describe their own Holocaust experiences and those of the extended family, who were from Swarzędz (Schwersenz), Posen, Kalisz, and Łódź. Includes details of life in the Łódź and Warsaw ghettos, concentration camps Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Flossenbürg; a death march from Dresden to Theresienstadt (Terezin), and their post-war lives, includin...

  2. Gardelegen atrocity; German civilians gather food; bombing of train yard

    (LIB 5724) "MURDER, INC.", Gardelegen, Germany, 16 April 1945. Slate indicating cameraman Bowen from the 405th Regiment (102nd Infantry Division). The Isenschnibbe estate. Scorched doorways. US soldiers set up tripod outside crematorium. A pile of bricks. 00:00:36 CU of an empty, open grave. SS guards were unable to bury all of the bodies before the 102nd Infantry arrived in Gardelegen. 00:00:46 A dead prisoner laying face-down outside crematorium. Two soldiers examine bodies pouring out of building. 00:02:10 Roll #I slate. Pile of charred bodies near the doorway of the crematorium. A large...

  3. Postwar economic recovery in Germany; Nuremberg trials

    Welt im Film Nr. 82 newsreel documenting German economic recovery after the end of the war. Men, women, and children are depicted as happy and hard-working citizens whose labor helps makes Germany prosperous again. 00:00:46 A snowy landscape, possibly in the Alps. People in strange costumes dance and parade in the snow. Children scream and hide from the costumed figures. Men open mask flaps and drink beer that local women bring them. 00:01:06 A woman in an industrial uniform works with machinery. Factory workers use recycled military helmets to make kitchen utensils. Punching holes in metal...

  4. Selected records from the collections of the Teleorman branch of the Romanian National Archives

    This collection contains selected records of: The Prefecture of the sub-district of Alexandria- relating to Iron Guard goods, as well as a file on Jews, and the forced labor of Jews; The Mayorship of Zimnicea-relating to the identification of Germans and Jews, the surveillance of the Iron Guard, orders concerning the confiscation of Jewish property, lists of goods belonging to Adventists, confiscation of property from Elias Abramovici, and orders and instructions regarding the restoration of civil rights to Jews; The Mayorship of Teleorman-relating to the surveillance of Jews and Iron Guard...

  5. Charles Deibel collection

    This collection relates to an attorney with the United States military who served as a defense attorney at the Dachau War Crimes trials, which were run by the Judge Advocate General’s Department of the United States Third Army. Charles B. Deibel, Jr. served in this role between 1945-1946, spanning the trials of personnel from the Dachau, Mauthausen, and Flossenbürg concentration camps. The collection includes original photographs and photographic negatives of images taken during the trials and candid photographs of Deibel and the rest of the defense team. The collection also includes intere...

  6. Frieder children at play

    Morris and Julia Frieder's children in Cincinnati, Ohio in the early 1930s. Jane (b. 1927), the oldest daughter of the family, and her classmates climb on a jungle gym on a rooftop playground at the University of Cincinnati nursery school. 00:02:00 Jane, with the short, dark hair, plays in the sandbox. Jane and her younger sister Peggy (b. 1930) play outside their home wearing bathing suits.

  7. Lena Lipchiz papers

    The Lena Lipchiz papers document relatives of Lena Lipchiz who remained in Poland when she immigrated to the United States. Records include one 1920 photograph of Moryc Baumgarten in Łódz; an admission card allowing Basia Baumgarten visitors at a Chojny sanitorium; a 1940 letter from Basia in Łódz to Lena in New York; a 1940 postcard from A. Dziaba in the Łódz ghetto to Lena; and a 1946 postcard and empty 1947 envelope from Isak Kleber in the UNRRA DP camp at Grugliasco to Lena.

  8. "Account of Flight with American Newspaper Editors and Publishers Investigating War Damages and Atrocities in Germany"

    Consists of one photocopy of a typed testimony, 15 pages, entitled "Account of Flight with American Newspaper Editors and Publishers Investigating War Damages and Atrocities in Germany," written by John Whitehead on May 2, 1945. In the testimony, Mr. Whitehead describes flying over the rubble of buildings in Germany, hearing from newspaper editors about their experiences in Europe thusfar, and participating in the tour of the Dachau concentration camp.

  9. Joseph Borkin papers

    Consists of correspondence and research material (photocopied and original) related to the research, writing, and publication of the book "The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin. Among the research materials are court documents from various legal cases against successor companies to I.G. Farben, which were tried in United States courts during the 1950s and 1960s, as well as subject files of copied primary and secondary source materials about individuals, organizations, and products related to I.G. Farben. These latter materials range information about the pre-World War I ...

  10. Isenberg family at leisure; children play

    Sally Isenberg walks out of a door, followed by an older Artur and grandmother Bertha. Coy pond in the garden. [VQ - film not registered in camera well, poor] Helmut runs toward the camera and takes off his hat. The Isenberg family, Alice, and Bertha Marx walk toward camera, posing. Norbert plays with a yo-yo. House. The adults and children pose for camera, walk along the street, and joke. 01:27:16 Pan of the house and gardens. Norbert on his bicycle. Family members (including Bertha, Leo, and Margot Greif) gather in yard, Sally appears at 01:28:32. Boys and girl play, Helmut and Norbert ri...

  11. Wellisch family correspondence

    Consists of correspondence from Lena (Lina) Wellisch, of Vienna, Austria, to her son, Marcel Wellisch, who had emigrated to Palestine. The bulk of the correspondence is from 1939-1941, as Mrs. Wellisch described her experiences under Nazi occupation in Vienna and prior to her deportation.

  12. Martin Koplow testimony

    Consists of written testimony by Martin Koplow (born Koplowich), originally of Czestochowa, Poland. In his testimony, he describes forced labor in Rakow, and a forced march to Gross-Rosen, though specific details regarding places and dates are incomplete. The testimony, written as short essays and longer narratives, some fragmented and incomplete, were written as a result of a writing class Mr. Koplow attended in 1979-1980. Mr. Koplow wrote the pieces in the third person, though he describes his own experiences; the pieces also include notes from his writing professor.

  13. Palace of Electricity at the Paris Exposition

    Panoramic film of the 1900 Paris Exposition of the Palace of Electricity, a pavilion that provided the energy for the other exhibits. Crowd in front of the Palace of Electricity. Row of empty chairs outside. Men stand and look toward the camera. Base of the Eiffel Tower. People stroll. The Palace of Electricity. People walk toward the Palace of Electricity.

  14. Provincial Court in Kielce Sąd Wojewódzki w Kielcach (Sygn. 306)

    Contains selected files of the Provincial Court in Kielce during the years 1945-1956. These trials refer the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of Nazi criminals and their collaborators guilty of murder and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. Selected files mostly refer to crimes committed against Jews, but the collection contains also files related to Polish and Russian victims. The “Sierpniówka” was one of the world's first legislation...

  15. Golstick family photograph

    Photograph: image of Golstick family taken in Riga, Latvia in the 1930s. Photograph previously belonged to donor's grandmother, and it was the last item she ever received from them. It is presumed they all perished during the Holocaust.

  16. Fake diamond ring bartered to save the life of a Jewish family

    Finger ring made by Abraham (Bumek) Gruber in 1942 using crystal and nickel to simulate a diamond ring. In 1943, Bumek was working as a butcher at the oil refinery camp Galizien in German occupied Poland with his wife Blimka and daughter Liba. That summer, the Germans took Blimka and Liba, and other Jewish families, and executed them in the Bronica forest. Bumek planned to give himself up in the next Aktion, but he met Tusia and her 4 year old daughter Fela and formed a bond that changed his mind. He decided to go into hiding with them in Mlynki Szkolnikowe, where his family had once lived....

  17. Officers oversee training and exercises at a Hitler Youth camp

    In Groedig, Austria, the Hitler Youth camp's site manager gives commands to the organized troop. He has a death's head emblem on his cap. A HJ member with SS patch practices giving orders. The troops run drills. A senior Hitler Youth officer with glasses reviews the men and gives orders. He wears a Hitler Youth uniform, with the rank of Obergebietsfuehrer, as well as an infantry assault badge and the ribbon for the Iron Cross, Second Class. 01:01:07 SS Oberscharfuehrer at left. The officer, second from left (shorter man), is an army Unteroffizier (roughly a corporal). He wears a buttonhole ...

  18. Wertheimer and Reich families photograph collection

    Contains photographs depicting the Wertheimer and the Reich family from Znojmo in Moravia, Czechoslovakia.

  19. Oral history interview with Sally Wechsler

  20. Dressing and burial of corpses at Falkenau

    Card: "V-E +1, MAY 9, 1945." Card: "Produced in Falkenau Concentration Camp." Card over Nazi swastika and eagle: "in choslovaki [sic, probably meaning Czechoslovakia]" Shot of a handgun, Card: "OST Russia." Card: "Presented by 16th Infantry Regiment." Card: "1st U.S. Infantry Division." Card: "Supervised by Capt. Kimball Richmond." Card: "Photographed by Cpl. Samuel Fuller." Men carrying tools walk down a village street. Soldiers stand in front of barbed wire. Well-dressed, healthy men walk and carry shovels and pitchforks, soldiers watch from the side of the road. Two men stand behind barb...