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  1. Twentieth Century Fox version, Reel 5: 20th July bomb plot; Hitler's 55th birthday

    Reel 5 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. (The order of this reel is slightly different that the version shown in the Nuremberg courtroom - see RG-60.2465). Title: "1944" "Conference after Hitler's escape from the bombing plot 20 July 1944." Hitler with Mussolini and others at the Fuehrerhauptquartier (FHQ). Mussolini leans out of a train window and speaks to Hitler. Goering, Funk, Sauckel, Speer, Dr. Sauer, Lammers, Himmler, Goebbels, Guderian, Fegelein, Bormann, Jodl are all present. The narrator notes that Goebbels was ...

  2. Hilda Seftor memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 8 pages typewritten, regarding the wartime experiences of Hilda Seftor (born Hilda Cohen), originally of Scotland. Her mother was the president of the Refugee Children's Committee, and Hilda describes her memories of the kindertransport children who lived with her family and of life in wartime Scotland.

  3. Postwar devastation; opening of Nuremberg Trial; early Nazi party history, events, leaders

    Part 1 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA Reels 1 & 2] "Europe 1945" Panorama of war devastation: buildings and cities laid to waste, rubble, mother climbing out of trap door shelter with naked baby in arms, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters, children running down steps, clambering for food, poverty, homeless people, begging for food, weeping woman. "Nuremberg 21 November 1945" EXT and INT Nuremberg Palace of Justice. CU, document announcing trial and listing the accused. Seating of International Military Tribunal. Chief US prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson pre...

  4. Charles Scherz Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of two photographs taken upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. One depicts a building in Buchenwald with a sign asking war correspondents to go to the press room for assistance and one depicts Allied liberators walking towards the entrance of Buchenwald, on which is hung a banner regarding the triumph of anti-fascism. The photographs are from the collection of Charles (Jeff) Scherz, who liberated the camp with Patton's Third Army.

  5. Ben Shahn poster of a hooded chained man issued to protest Nazi destruction of Lidice

    Poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information as a response to the Nazi-led annihilation and destruction of communities throughout the Czech Republic, including Lidice. It also protests the retaliatory measures taken for the attempted assassination by Czech resistance members of Reinhard Heydrich, director of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, under the Nazi occupation.

  6. Jewish Cultural and Educational Society "Tarbut," Wilno office (Fond 295)

    The collection contains records of the Jewish private schools located across Wilno area (Adutishkis, Oszmiana, Moldeczno, Ostryna, Vasiliszki, Radoszkowiczy etc.). The file for each school contains certification of the schools and its curriculum, correspondence with the Board of Education of the Wilno district of Poland, Office of School Inspector and other Polish government institutions.

  7. Elie Cohen memoir

    Consists of one memoir by Elie Cohen, originally of Thessaloniki, Greece. In the memoir, Mr. Cohen describes his experiences in the ghetto in Greece and his memories of Birkenau, where he was given the number 114222.

  8. Josef Berman collection

    Contains thirty-eight letters sent by Josef Berman to his wife Maria Brodskaya. These letters span the years of 1941-1945. Also included are three photocopied letters from Maria to Josef spanning the years of 1944-1945. The letters span the period of 1941-1945. Primary content pertains to details of Josef Berman's service in the Soviet Army, and his wishes for the welfare of his family evacuated from Kiev during the war.

  9. Rebecca Siegel papers

    Collection of documents, photographs, and a copyprint of a greeting card illustrating the Salomons family surrounding the Holocaust in Amsterdam, Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, as well as immediate post-war life in the Netherlands and immigration to the United States. Included are the last notes written by donor's father before his death in Bergen-Belsen. Dated 1939's-1940's.

  10. "Standing in the Face of Madness: Raoul Wallenberg's Fight to Save the Jews"

    Consists of one DVD on which is a documentary entitled "Standing in the Face of Madness: Raoul Wallenberg's Fight to Save the Jews," created by Brittany Darrow and Megan Reese for the National History Day competition of 2006. Includes an extensive annotated bibliography and a description of the multiple interviews conducted by the donors.

  11. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The photographs depict a pile of corpses and a pile of bones behind a gallows. The photographs are from the collection of Emmet Stevens, who was a member of the United States Army.

  12. Antisemitic Nazi propaganda leaflet mimicking a US silver certificate found by a US soldier

    Anti-Jewish and anti-Allied forces Nazi propaganda leaflet acquired by Charles E. Pugh while he served as a United States paratrooper in France during World War II. These leaflets were dropped from planes over Paris in late 1943, as part of a German propaganda campaign to raise suspicions against the United States and its part in the worldwide Jewish conspiracy which threatened the safety of France and all of Europe. The streets would appear to be littered with real dollar bills. Then, after picking one up, a person would discover that it was fake and see the information detailing how Jews ...

  13. Everyday life at a Roma/Sinti camp

    Russian intertitle. High angle shot of a Roma/Sinti encampment beside a river. Closer shot of a family group under a tent. The rest of this film, not shown here, is about the integration of Roma into Soviet society.

  14. Nuremberg Trial proceedings: summation and verdict

    Part 4 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA reels 7 & 8] Courtroom scenes, questioning various defendants, showing various views of the courtroom and trial proceedings. Questioning Jodl and von Ribbentrop. Prosecutor asks Goering: "Do you still say that neither Hitler nor you knew of the policy to exterminate the Jews?" Goering: "I already had said that not even approximately did I know to what degree this thing took place." Prosecutor: "You did not know to what degree, but you knew there was a policy which aimed at the liquidation of the Jews?" Goering: "No, not liquidation...

  15. Else Pollak Chandler collection

    Consists of the official response to a Red Cross inquiry into the fate of Jakob, Regine, and Edith Pollak, originally of Vienna, Austria. The inquiry was made by Jakob and Regine's daughter, Else, who was able to emigrate to England before the war. The response states that the remaining members of the family perished in the Holocaust. Also includes correspondence sent and received by Else Chandler after her immigration to England, documents regarding her immigration, and documents regarding her pre-war schooling.

  16. "Our Great Escape": Alexander Silbiger memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 39 pages, entitled "Our Great Escape: The Story of a Dutch Family's Flight from Persecution," by Alexander Silbiger, originally of The Hague, The Netherlands. He describes his family's attempts to escape the Nazi regime in 1942, by traveling through Belgium and France before finally leaving Europe. The family first went to Jamaica and then spent the rest of the war in Curacao.

  17. Watercolor of Rivesaltes internment camp created postwar by a nurse/rescuer who worked there

    Watercolor created by Friedel Bohny-Reiter in 1994 depicting the Rivesaltes internment camp in France where she worked for Suisse Secours aux Enfants [Swiss Aid to Children] as a nurse in 1941-1942. The Vichy regime, which governed unoccupied France, interned thousands of refugees in detention camps. By spring 1942, Rivesaltes was a central transit point for the frequent deportations of Jews to killing centers. Friedel dedicated herself to finding safe havens for children to save them from deportation. She placed many in orphanages operated by Secours Suisse and in 1943, was appointed co-di...

  18. Personal records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 150 P)

    Records of Hungarian law enforcement authorities about extra-judicial suppression of such activities as "spreading rumors," "anti-state" or "anti-Hungarian" statements, listening to British or Soviet radio broadcasts, "profiteering," "hoarding," sheltering Jewish fugitives, providing the latter with false papers, bribing officials, "vagrancy," prostitution, "miscegination," and so on. Measures included not only arrest and incarceration, but house arrest, restrictions on use of telephones and postal services, banishment from particular places, forbidding contact with persons outside immediat...

  19. Hannah Weill photographs

    Consists of 13 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Hannah Mansbacher Weill, originally of Berlin, Germany. She and her family immigrated to Shanghai, China in May 1939 in order to escape the Holocaust. They immigrated to the United States in 1947. Photographs depict Hannah in Berlin, life in post-war Shanghai, and photographs of the family's immigration to California.

  20. Vienna scenes; Helen Baker; dogs

    Street scenes of Vienna. People in Austrian dress, streetcars, bicyclists. Helen Baker talks to a young man who sells bread from a large basket on his back. She inspects a large round loaf of bread and then tosses it into the air. The donor, Stan Baker, who was sixteen at the time, feeds a bird and then a squirrel. More street scenes, including several chimney sweeps and people who carry large bundles of wood on their backs. Helen, Stan, and Raymond (Stan's twin brother) appear again at 01:02:27. The camera follows a woman who crosses the street with a huge bundle on her back. Ground level ...