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  1. Benjamin Finesmith collection

    Consists of photographs and photographic negatives, taken upon the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Also contains correspondence from American soldier Benjamin Finesmith asking family and friends to send care packages to the displaced persons in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp.

  2. Germans advance in Russia; Field Marshall Busch, General Zorn

    Reel 1: 00:00:11 Russian peasants carrying belongings down a dirt road. Large group of civilians lined up outside wooden building with sign in Cyrillic, "Bakadjea - Gastronomia" (delicatessen shop). CU of waiting civilians, man with bandaged head, women holding children, etc. Men, women, children - apparently Slavs. Friendly atmosphere. An old woman rolls a cigarette. 00:02:53 Soldiers firing artillery in the forest. German soldier in a foxhole talks on a field phone and writes on a piece of paper. Pan of ruined buildings, industrial installation? Pan of a damaged lock on a canal. Random sh...

  3. Abstract oil painting of figures imprisoned behind a barred opening on a snow covered hill by Jerzy Bitter

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn523437
    • English
    • 1988
    • overall: Height: 53.625 inches (136.208 cm) | Width: 63.500 inches (161.29 cm) pictorial area: Height: 49.500 inches (125.73 cm) | Width: 59.750 inches (151.765 cm)

    Artwork created by Jerzy Bitter in Israel in 1988, representing the plight of Jewish peasants trying to escape persecution during the Holocaust. The oil depicts tortured abstract figures imprisoned in a stark, dreamlike landscape. In 1941, when he was 6 months old, Jerzy and his parents left their hometown of Lvov for the Warsaw ghetto. They lived in the ghetto until the summer of 1942 when Jerzy and his mother escaped during a mass deportation. They lived in hiding and escaped Warsaw during a forced evacuation by the Germans in September 1944. They settled in Wieliczka, Poland. His father ...

  4. Roman Morrow photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs documenting Roman Morrow and his family's experiences in Kraków, Poland, during the Holocaust. Includes images of Roman Morrow's Maccabi soccer team, members of a Zionist organization, his brother, Steven Morrow, in the Polish Army, Montelupich prison in Kraków, forced labor in the swamps of Pychowiec, a funeral procession, and Roman Morrow in the Kraków ghetto wearing a Star of David armband.

  5. Music in memory of Sobibor

    Music entitled "De Trein naar Sobibor" composed by Mathieu Dijker.

  6. laundry; French town

    Women doing laundry in a large wash basin in an apartment building courtyard. VS, EXT. Buildings, castle, rooftops, houses, apartments- a survey of the architecture of the unidentified town. Civilians, man in US Army uniform. Local women pumping water. Sign in French reads: "Hotel du Roxy" Shot of large, ornate public fountain.

  7. Resistance - women of the FFI (French Forces of the Interior)

    Two women of the Forces Francaises de l'interieur (French Forces of the Interior or FFI). One of them wears a badge bearing the double-barred cross that was the symbol of the French resistance. The camera pulls back to reveal several men in the room The FFI was a confederation of French resistance organizations.

  8. Gen. Hoth and Gen. Zorn on Eastern Front; mass of Soviet POWs

    Reel 1: 00:08:42 Officers and soldiers in conversation, smoking. Line of soldiers on motorcycles moving down a dusty road, followed by other military vehicles. An open car stops and two officers climb in. Views of numerous German military vehicles driving down a dusty road. 00:11.23 Mass of Soviet POWs in ravine, bread thrown down to them by Germans and Soviet civilian women. Scores of men scrambling for the bread. CU of Russians' feet, some missing shoes. Fight between German soldiers and Soviet POWs, a German soldier throws a Russian who runs away, camera pans to follow him blending into ...

  9. Gabriel Schutzengel papers

    The Gabriel Schutzengel papers include Gabriel’s Hungarian identification card and two diaries describing his experiences. The first diary, 1939-1949, is a handwritten account, in Hungarian, about German occupation. The entries include his time in a forced labor camp, the deportation of his mother and sister, as well as details about the fate of Jews in Hungary, particularly in Komárom and Budapest. Gabriel’s memoir, titled "Machzor” is typewritten in English and categorized into sections. The memoir describes the German presence and occupation and includes family trees.

  10. Evelyn Levin papers

    The papers consist of documents concerning two ships, the President Warfield and the City of Lowell. Included are documents and other correspondence between Louis Levin, Evelyn Levin's husband, representing the Potomac Shipwrecking Company from October 18, 1946, and the Chinese American Industrial Company, purchasers of the aforementioned ships. The bill of sale for the President Warfield (later known as the Exodus) is also part the collection as is an inventory from the U.S. Maritime Commission delivered to the Potomac Shipwrecking Company. Also included are additional correspondence from ...

  12. Gmina Żydowska Wiedeṅ (Sygn.103)

    Contains various documents of the Jewish community in Vienna, Austria, including correspondence from 1940, relating to emigration from Vienna and help rendered by Jewish philanthropic organizations. Also contains lists of emigrants and their letters of thanks addressed to the Jewish community.

  14. "A Letter to Shammy"

    Consists of one book of letters and memoirs entitled "A Letter to Shammy," by an author identified as "Kay B.L." The book is addressed to Gitta Shammy (now Gitta Kalderon), originally of Skopje, Macedonia. In the book, the author professes his love for "Shammy" and describes their friendship before the war and how the war has separated them. After Gitta was deported in 1943, "Kay" continued to write to her and left the letters with a neighbor to give to her, should she return.

  15. "Roosevelt and Co.: Krieg-Lüge-Verbrechen" collection

    Consists of one book, entitled "Roosevelt and Co.: Krieg--Lüge-Verbrechen," by Georg Buderose, published in Germany in 1942. The book consists of anti-American propaganda photographs and statements regarding President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his advisers, and his policies. Also includes one short note dated 1945 from "Dick" stating that he found this book in a warehouse near Buchenwald.

  16. Barbie Trial -- Day 5 -- The Izieu Telex

    17:40 An argument between several lawyers from the prosecution and defense ensues because President Cerdini allows defense lawyer Vergès to handle the Telex D'Izieu and remove it from its protective plastic. Several lawyers become very upset, because they are afraid Vergès will tear or otherwise destroy the evidence 17:43 A prosecutor asks that the Telex be examined by the jurors and civil parties; explains why it was necessary to remove it from the plastic (because it was difficult to read some of the text through the covering) 17:51 President Cerdini reads a written statement from Barbie,...

  17. "The Last Act": Hersh Croin memoir

    Consists of a copy of a memoir, 3 pages, entitled "The Last Act," written by Hersh Croin (Harry Kron) in June 1954, in "The Seminarian" newsletter, which was published by the students of the Jewish Teachers Seminary at Folks University in New York. In the memoir, Mr. Kron, originally of Janow-Lubelski, Poland, describes his memories of the deportation from Zaklikow and from the ghettos. Mr. Kron escaped from a concentration camp in Budzin and hid until liberation.

  18. Gertrude Philipp letter

    Consists of one letter, 12 pages, from Gertrude Philipp, of Germany, to the Salberg family in Pennsylvania on August 17, 1939. In the letter, she gives extensive description of her experiences on Kristallnacht and how difficult life had become as a result of the anti-Jewish laws and of popular sentiments.

  19. German 50 pfennig scrip

  20. Raphael Aronson photograph collection

    The collection consists of a collection of 22 photographs which Raphael Aronson found in an apartment in Linz, Austria, in 1946. The photographs depict Jews in the ghettos in Łod́ź and Warsaw, Poland, as well as pre-World War II photographs of antisemitic graffiti on Jewish establishments.