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  1. Dachau liberation photographs

    Consists of 12 photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Includes photographs of the railcars which held victims as well as carts used to transport the bodies of victims for reburial. The photographs are from the collection of Grant Balch, a liberator of Dachau.

  2. Card files of confiscated Jewish properties from the District of Lublin Kartoteka skonfiskowanych nieruchomosci żydowkich z Dystryktu Lubelskiego (Sygn. 243)

    Contains card files organized in alphabetical order by geographical place name. They contain the following information: date of confiscation; address and description of the property; and name of the Jewish owner. The properties were confiscated by the Germans and administrated by the Treuhandstelle.

  3. Dachau?; military vehicles; tent camp

    EXT, panning shot, LS barracks and barbed wire at Dachau?, red and white flag hanging from barracks. Traveling shots from moving vehicle of countryside, snow-capped mountains, locals look at passing vehicle, churches, steeples, etc. MLS, GIs camped in clearing, military vehicles, supply trucks, etc. CUs, GIs approach camera. VS, locals, farm, cows, women, children caring for farm animals, clearing fields, etc. VS, soldiers taking still photos, posing, hamming for camera. US army camp, army tents, local boys in Lederhosen walking around in US army camp.

  4. German military transports cargo across a river; signs in wooded areas

    Reel 3: 00:15:45 Sign indicates tonnage that can be carried by road/bridge, and seems to have the signature of "2.Komp." Vehicles of the IV Panzer Division roll across the bridge. Numerous shots of soldiers transporting cargo/men across a river on a ferry. Civilians present as wagons are unloaded. Reel 4: 00:18:40 An officer presents a soldier with an Iron Cross as other soldiers look on. 00:20:00 Signs with unit markings and directions. Survey of a destroyed wooded area. CU of a large sign beside the road: "Hier beginnt der Arsch der Welt!" Various signs: "Gehst du von hinnen, denk an Götz...

  5. Capture of Josef Meisinger

    Josef Meisinger, the so-called Butcher of Warsaw is captured. He is dressed in civilian clothes and talks to American Air Force personnel, including MPs. 01:13:39 Lt.Col Jennis R. Galloway (left, facing the camera) and Major James W. McColl (to his right) had orders to escort Meisinger from Atsugi air base Japan to Frankfurt, Germany to await trial as a war criminal. He is escorted across an airfield and onto a plane. Lettering on the side of the plane reads: THE AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND. Some shots repeat.

  6. Agro-Joint in Kiev

    Morris Troper and three officials talk at a cooperative for support of invalids where cloth is made out of rags. CU (dark) of students of wood-working factory and training school. Good shot of lumber yard of plant. MS of former peddler leading work horses, followed by good CU of him. Panoramic sunset.

  7. Drawing

  8. German educational film: North Polar Submarine Expedition, 1931

    Film documents the Wilkins-Ellsworth North Polar Submarine Expedition in 1931, where valuable scientific information was collected in the hopes of reaching the Arctic. The mission failed due to repeated mechanical problems of the 'Nautilus' ship. German intertitles (in quotation marks). "Im 'Nautilus' unter das Polareis!" "Ein Kinagfafilm aufgenommen mit der Agfa Movex auf Agfa Umkehrfilm 16mm" "I. Akt. Von Bergen bis zur Eiskante" "'Nautilus' am Kai in Bergen" Man on pier, boat anchored. "Der Bug des U-Bootes mit dem Stossfaenger" CU ship. "Das Heck des 'Nautilus' das noch mehrene Meter un...

  10. Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- Two witnesses testify

    17:57 The witness, Mr. Stourdze, describes the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945 on foot to Gleiwitz, and then by coal train to Mauthausen and Oranienburg; the witness was then sent to Flossenburg, where there were inmates of several concentration camps; they were forced under scalding water for 20 minutes, and then made to stand outside naked in the bitter cold for three hours; the witness stayed for two weeks before being transferred again, to Regensburg, where he worked constructing a runway for a jet engine factory; Hermann Göring arrived and inspected the facility, which was ridd...

  12. Ink drawing by Esther Lurie of Michlean Amir

    Portrait drawn by Esther Lurie, in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1951. Michlean Amir met Esther Lurie in the apartment of her grandmother’s friend, the historian Nellie Schur. Dr Schur was working on a project to create maps of the new state of Israel with the cartographer, Joseph Shapiro, who was Lurie's husband. Lurie offered to do her portrait. Esther Lurie was a professionally trained artist whose drawings and sketches, done from 1941-1944, while she was imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, and Stutthof concentration camp, were published in 1945, providing eloquent visua...

  13. Burning Russian villages; German officers examine papers

    Reel 1: 00:00:00 Panning shot of a village on a hill, with many of the buildings on fire. A German soldier walking through a street fires a (flare?) gun into an open doorway of a building. Another soldier walks up to a home, breaks a window and throws in a hand grenade; cameraman starts to pan away as the explosion knocks him over; subsequent shot shows half of the home blown away. Panning shots of burning, damaged homes. Brief shot of German soldiers cooking. Several shots from different angles of groups of Russian locals (only women and children) fleeing down a country rode with bundles a...

  14. Paul and Martha Landmann collection

    Consists of correspondence between Paul Landmann and Martha Wertheimer and between Martha Wertheimer and S. Oppenheimer during World War I. In some of the correspondence, the authors hypothesize what life will be like for the Jews in Germany after the war. Paul and Martha married soon after the war, and the collection also includes some of Martha Wertheimer's post-World War II correspondence.

  15. Minnie Friedman Piha photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph album and 77 loose photographs relating to the experiences of Minnie Friedman Piha [donor's great aunt] while working in the Women's reserve or "WAVES" in post-World War II Germany.

  16. Records of seized Jewish property in Trieste

    Contains records related to Oscar Casa, the accountant in charge of Jewish property seized by authority of the German administrators of Trieste, Italy.

  17. Richard T. Breidenbach photographs

    Consists of 36 photographs, taken upon the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, by Captain Richard T. Breidenbach. Includes photographs of the Dachau grounds, of survivors, of victims, and of the railcars.

  18. Safety fountain pen used by a courtroom illustrator at the Major War Crimes Trial

    Waterman-style safety fountain pen used by Edward Vebell, 24, to create courtroom sketches at the 1945 Trial of Major German War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. The sketches were published in the U.S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes on December 9, 1945. A young commercial artist when he was drafted for the US Army, Vebell was the first staff illustrator for Stars and Stripes. His assignments included combat zones in Italy and France. For the Nuremberg trial assignment, he sat in the press gallery for 3 days and used field glasses to “bore into th...

  19. May-Reich family papers

    The papers consist of 32 photographs and documents relating to the experiences of the May and Reich families during the Holocaust.

  20. Holocaust revisionism literature collection

    Consists newsletters, publications, and advertisements produced by various Holocaust revisionist groups between 1979-1985. Includes material from the Institute for Historical Review, the National Front, and On Target. Also includes pamphlets entitled "The Anti-Jewish Agenda" and "The Hidden Alliances of Noam Chomsky."