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  1. Book

    Mishna entrusted to siblings Otto and Greta Schneck by their parents Regina and Sisman Schneck upon the children's emigration to the United States from Vienna, Austria, in 1937. Sisman and Regina were unable to leave Europe and died in the Holocaust. A Mishna is the oral redaction of Jewish law and Rabbinical discussions composed under the direction of Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi around 200 CE.

  3. French and German troops at the tomb of the unknown soldier

    The second anniversary of the foundation of Légion volontaires française on July 8, 1943. French volunteers lined up in the square in front of a palace. A French flag is raised as a bugle plays. French officers and German officers stand together. A French officer gives a speech over shots of French and German soldiers standing at attention. Shot of spectators watching the ceremony. The German and French soldiers (some on horseback) march out of the palace square and down the Ponte Alexander to the Champs Elysses to the tomb of the unknown soldier and lay a wreath. The soldiers and the crowd...

  4. "My short story of time in Mauthausen"

    Consists of one memoir, 15 pages, entitled "My short story of time in Mauthausen," by Waldemar Bialous, originally of Warsaw, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Bialous relates his memories of his transfer from Auschwitz to Mauthausen and of his life within the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he worked in the kitchen until his liberation. Also includes correspondence from Mr. Bialous to Mr. Charles Torluccio, an American liberator of Mauthausen. The two men reunited at the 50th anniversary of the liberation in 1995.

  5. European seashore

    LS, EXT, sailboat in the water. Panning shot of dock, several boats, unidentified town, buildings, visible in BG. VS, EXT, the sea, sunbathers on the beach, large house by the sea, palm trees, women passing by in the courtyard in some sort of military uniform.

  6. Barbie Trial -- Day 16 -- Two civil parties testify

    17:15 Defense attorney Vergès asks the civil party to comment on the responsibility of Barbie of the destination of the transport; discussion regarding the fact that the train's original destination was Drancy 17:17 Prosecutor Klarsfeld comments that the eventual destination of prisoners sent to Drancy was Auschwitz anyway, so whether or not Barbie gave the order for the August 11 transport to continue directly to Auschwitz, he knew that would be the inmates' eventual destination 17:18 Vergès critiques the prosecution, saying that they do not follow proper court proceedings when asking ques...

  7. U.S. soldiers on barges

    LS, US soldier, in combat helmet, in FG of picture looking out to sea from boat. VS, boats, US army men on barges, soldiers posing for camera. LS, land, two flags planted in soil on hill- US flag and another flag that is white with a red cross. VS, EXT, army ships, unloading at beach head seen in a LS from a high angle, the Aleutian Islands (Kiska). American soldiers with packs climb hill, relax on hillside. VS, scenic panoramas of snow-covered mountains.

  8. Barbie Trial -- Day 15 -- Elie Wiesel testifies

    13:47 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:47 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session 13:49 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:12 Cerdini calls the session to order; the bailiff reads Barbie's statement that he refuses to appear 14:15 Prosecutor Bermann asks to add two names to the list of civil parties set to testify on the day of June 5 14:16 Cerdini ca...

  10. Dorette Luedecke papers

    The collection documents Margarethe Luedecke's [donor's mother] experiences as a forced laborer in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust and her brief internment in Theresienstadt concentration camp, from which she gained release through the efforts of her non-Jewish ex-husband. Also included are a last letter from her maternal grandfather before his death in 1942 and post-World War II documentation concerning Dorette Luedecke and her mother.

  13. Janet Moskowitz photographs

    Consists of six photographs from the collection of Jadzia Zuchter (now Janet Moskowitz), originally of Be̜dzin, Poland. Includes pre-war photographs of Jadzia and of family and friends, many of whom perished in the Holocaust, as well as a photograph of Jadzia and her husband, Mosze in a displaced persons camp in Germany.

  14. Gen. Zorn and other German military officers in Russia; musical performance

    Reel 2: 00:00:00 Klappe 1-Lo 12: July 6, 1941: German military crossing a pontoon bridge. Shot of 8 German soldiers buried next to a blockhouse; switches to a different angle and shows soldiers walking past the graves. CUs of military vehicles moving across a pontoon bridge, with groups of soldiers relaxing on the bridge. Soldiers working on building a bridge, as a group of young boys looks on. Klappe 2-Lo 13: July 8, 1941: Captured Russian soldiers walking towards the camera. Military vehicles of the 3rd Panzer Division moving into a town, driving past the wreckage of a Russian plane. A so...

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  16. "Escape from Treblinka"

    Consists of one videocassette, approximately 10 minutes, entitled "Escape from Treblinka." The video relates the Holocaust experiences of Edward Weinstein, originally of Losice, Poland. Mr. Weinstein was deported to Treblinka in August 1942 and escaped on September 9, 1942. He spent the remainder of the war in hiding in the Polish countryside until the area was liberated in July 1944. The video uses photographs and home movies of a 1993 trip to Poland, to tell Mr. Weinstein's story.

  17. Spielman family papers

    The collection primarily documents the experiences of the Spielman family of Kraków, Poland after the Holocaust in Budapest, Bratislava, and the Gabersee displaced persons camp in Germany. Included are photographs from Budapest, Bratislava, Gabersee, and a small amount of pre-war family photographs. Documents include a Christian identity paper issued by the Polish Ministerium in Hungary to Simon and Czarna Spielman and their children Arthur and Helen under the false name "Nieczkowski", membership cards, birth certificate, citizenship papers, and a World ORT Union document. Most documents r...

  18. Radio truck seeks listeners; Roma

    Two trucks with the phrase "werdet Rundfunkhoerer" [become radio listeners] emblazoned on their sides enter a small town. Children follow after the trucks eagerly. There is a loudspeaker visible on top of one of the trucks. The children crowd around the trucks as a man distributes leaflets. The truck is shown parked at the base of a rotating windmill. The next part of the clip shows a group of Roma/Sinti gathered around a cooking fire and standing in front of the radio wagon. They laugh and wave at the camera. A group of children plays a ring-around-the-rosy game.

  19. Mascha Benya Matz scrapbook

    The scrapbook consists of photographs and clippings about Mascha Benya Matz's life in Germany as an opera singer with the Kulturbund organization.

  20. Mother of pearl pendant

    Pendant that originally belonged to Magda Lowy. She received it before the beginning of World War II in 1939 and entrusted it to her aunt, Jolie, for safekeeping. Jolie survived the Holocaust by living in hiding in Belgium. In June 1944, 21 year old Magda and her family were deported from Satu Mare, Hungary (Romania) to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland. She and her sister, Elizabeth, were able to stay together at Auschwitz and at Ober Hohenelbe, the labor camp in the Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia) where they were sent in November. They worked as forced labor in a factory making ele...