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  1. Barbie Trial -- Day 5 -- Sealed documents are admitted into evidence

    18:26 President Cerdini oversees the public sealing of the documents admitted into evidence. 18:43 Cerdini calls a recess.

  2. Berell Guldes letter

    Contains one letter, written in Yiddish and dated July 9, 1941 from "Shifra" in Philadelphia to her sister, Berell Guldes, in Poland. In the letter, Shifra writes that she hopes Berell is alive and implores her to write a few words to her sister. Also includes envelope. The letter was censored by the Germans but returned to the United States, as Ms. Guldes could not be located for delivery.

  3. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Consists of seven photographs taken after the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. Includes photographs of corpses as well as survivors.

  4. Henry and Harriet Fink photograph

    Consists of one photograph, dated July 29, 1938, of Henry (Heinz) and Harriet (Peppi) Fink walking in front of a Hitler Youth parade.

  5. Janos and Marta Beer papers

    The János and Marta Beér papers consist of five photographs by Tom Veres; three lists of Jews in different localities (prison camps) who fall under the protection of the Swedish Legation in Hungary; a letter signed by Raoul Wallenberg to free Dr. Georg Ballint (a Swedish citizen); a document issued by the Royal Swedish Embassy in Budapest stating that János Beér is a permanent employee of the Humanitarian Department; an identification card for János Beér issued by the Office for Jewish Issues; and a work identification card signed by Raoul Wallenberg.

  6. Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Department of Jewish Compatriot Association Centralny Komitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Ziomkostw (Sygn. 303/XIX)

    Contains records from regional Jewish compatriot associations in Poland and from some places currently behind the Ukraine border; organizational reports and bulletins; correspondence with foreign charity institutions; questionnaires and applications for help; and name lists of traced people. Also contains name lists of members of Jewish associations in the Warsaw district.

  7. Barbie Trial -- Day 17 -- Victims testify

    14:54:11 Fernand Hahn speaks about prison, SS, and explains that during his deportation to Dachau on in June 1944, Barbie identified himself by name to prisoners at the station saying they would never come back. Hahn says he had not seen Barbie clearly enough to be able to recognize his face after 43 years. 14:55? But he says he remembered Barbie, speaking in French while in a group of German soldiers, as saying that the war was lost for Germany, but that he had put aside "booty" and had a plane ready to take him to South America. 15:16 Judge Cerdini asks Hahn how he could be sure the man w...

  8. Drawing

  9. Oral history interview with Rudy Katz

  10. Lea Berkman photograph collection

    The Lea Berkman photograph collection consits of 22 photographs depicting twins Lucyina Cuker and Irka Cuker and the Cuker family in Radom, Poland, prior to World War II.

  11. Records of the Hungarian Prime Minister's Office: Bureau of Exemptions (MOL K 466)

    Under German occupation in Hungary, in 1944, Regent Miklos Horthy established an office to exempt prominent Jews from particular measures such as wearing the yellow star, ghettoization, or deportation. This collection contains lists of people eligible for exemption status and individuals applying for this status.

  12. Mary Costanza collection

    The collection contains a variety of materials related to the representation of the Holocaust in the Arts, both by Holocaust survivors and post-Holocaust artists. Much of the material was generated during research for Mary Costanza’s seminal monograph on the topic titled “The Living Witness.”.

  13. COHASCO collection

    Collection includes post-war refugee tracing forms; propaganda leaflets; the final, 1949, issue of the camp newspaper in Cyprus (where Jews wishing to immigrate to Palestine were detained); letters sent by internees at Camp Du Vernet, France, in 1940; a letter written and signed by David Zvi Pinkas, a signer of the Israel's Declaration of Independence; a 1911 antisemitic broadside published by Theodore Fritsch; a 1947 circular listing the aims of the first Zionist Congress after the Holocaust; a copy of the 1943 "Proclamation of the Children," proclaiming that children in Jerusalem ask the ...

  14. George Schwab photograph collection

    The George Schwab photograph collection consists of twenty photographs relating to the experiences of George Schwab during the Holocaust. Seventeen photographs are images from Blankensee displaced persons camp near Hamburg, Germany; images on board the "Marine Perch" to the United States; and images from Bremen and Berlin, Germany. Three photographs depict images from Rīga, Latvia.

  15. Israeli Holocaust commemoration stamps

    Consists of one set of six commemorative stamps and a envelope stamped "day of issue," issued in Israel to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II and to honor the Jews who fought against the Nazi regime, whether as partisans or as soldiers in the Allied forces.

  16. Rene and Betty Braat photograph collection

    The collection consists of 53 photographs documenting the experiences of the Braat and Mooleman families in the Netherlands before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  18. German troops in France, 1940; French colonial POWs

    Reel 1: 00:50:35 Scenes on French country road. Captured French colonial troops in various uniforms walking several abreast along road (including Arab and African soldiers). French town (apparently not Paris). Hotel de Ville entrance and metal grille with sign. Pan to two Gothic cathedral towers badly damaged. Small sign "Kommandantur" hanging on door. Blurry images of damaged buildings.