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  2. Adam and Irena Gilert photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs of friends and family of Adam and Irena Gilert from Warsaw, Poland, and photographs documenting the Gilerts' escape from German-occupied Poland. The photographs also depict memorial services commemorating the Warsaw ghetto uprising and Jewish members of a Communist youth organization called the "Young Pioneers."

  3. Mauthausen liberation photographs

    Consists of six photographs taken upon the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Photographs depict groups of survivors receiving food and health care as well as congregating socially.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Tito's Partisans

    Uniformed and armed partisans marching through the streets of a town and across a field. Shots of male partisans receiving instructions from a commander (close-ups of commander), then saluting. The commander chats with the troops; good close-ups of male and female partisans. The scene switches to the interior of a partisan barracks. British, American and Soviet flags are visible on the walls. The soldiers are at leisure, sitting or lying on the floor, smoking and reading. One writes a letter. Outdoors again, two female partisans are shown helping two small girls down a flight of steps. The ...

  5. David Rendel collection

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Rendel family and other families in Łuków, Poland. Most photographs are described by David Rendel [donor]. Also includes postcards of the area, testimony pages from Yad Vashem detailing the fate of family and friends, and two pieces of scrip from the Łódź ghetto.

  6. War crimes investigation and trial records from the Republic of Moldova

    Contains records related to criminal investigations into war crimes and enemy collaboration in Moldova and Transnistria.

  7. Records of the partisan movement in various localities of Bulgaria

    Records of 12 operative zones of the partisan detachments reporting to the staff of the zone of operation. Includes orders, appeals, lists of partisans, war diaries, activity reports etc. Also contains post-WWII memoirs by veteran Bulgarian communist partisans.

  8. Book Eine darlegung wahrnehmbarer tatsachen in erfüllung der offenbarung die Gott Jesus Christus gab, um sie seinen knechten kundzuttun

    The collection consists of five books written by Jehovah's Witnesses that were among the titles of books burned by the Nazis in 1933

  9. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Contains seven photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp post-liberation; includes photographs of the entrance to the camp, gallows, corpses outside barracks, and burial preparations.

  10. Records transferred to the Government of Sweden by the Soviet Commission to investigate the fate of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg

    Contains records related to an investigation of the fate of the Swedish Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg who disappeared in the Soviet Union after WWII. The files include correspondence between Soviet Government agencies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden, the Ministry of Interior of Sweden, and the Swedish Ambassador in Moscow, regarding the investigations of Wallenberg's fate after he and his driver Vilmos Langfelder had been arrested and taken into custody by Soviet authorities in Budapest in May 1945. All the documents had been gathered by the Soviet Commission, established in 1990....

  11. Starokonstantinov photograph

    Consists of a photograph of peasants standing in a field next to a large pit; caption reads "On this territory, German Fascist beasts tortured, murdered, and buried alive 5200 Jewish families in the city of Starokonstantinov in 1942." Starokonstantinov is now Starokostinatyniv, Ukraine.

  12. Navy blue pinstriped jacket and pants worn by the groom at his wedding to another survivor in a DP camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn516093
    • English
    • a: Height: 33.000 inches (83.82 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) b: Height: 40.250 inches (102.235 cm) | Width: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm)

    Blue pin-striped suit worn by Welek (William) Luksenburg, 24, for his wedding to Hinde (Helen) Chilewicz, 21, on March 2, 1947, in the displaced persons camp in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany. The couple met in 1944 as prisoners in Gleiwitz concentration camp. In 1941, Welek, his parents, and brother Szlomo were in the Jewish ghetto in Dabrow Gornicza in German occupied Poland. In 1942, his parents Rozalia and Simcha were deported and killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Welek got Szlomo released from a labor camp hospital and escaped a prison camp to care for him. When Welek was arrested, Szlom...

  13. Milton Frankel liberation photograph collection

    Consists of photographs taken at the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp as well as photographs of the V-2 rocket factory at the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp. Also includes a still negative film strip of post-liberation Nordhausen concentration camp, acquired by Milton Frankel, a United States Military officer stationed in Germany. Multiple images on one uncut strip inside metal canister labeled "negatives of Milt's Holocaust pictures." Images Germany, negatives American.

  14. Fred Arthur Porkka photographs

    Consists of two photographs taken by a German soldier in 1939. The photographs are described as Kraków/Tarnów; one shows citizens walking down a street, and the other shows two German soldiers with a man described as Jewish. The photographs were confiscated by Private First Class Fred Arthur Porkka, who captured the photographer in 1945.

  15. Nazi Party Rally

    Title on screen: "Parteitag der Freiheit." Reich Party Day in Nuremberg, 9/10-9/16, 1935. Music plays over a view of a hall filled with Party members standing at attention in front of a large Swastika flag backdrop. The front row is composed of high-ranking leaders, including Hitler, Hess, Streicher, others. The camera pans slowly to an empty podium, then back to the Party leaders. Hess approaches the podium, salutes, and announces the opening of the seventh Reich Party congress. Low aerial shots of the huge crowd, and shots of other leaders, including Goering, Frank, Rosenberg, Goebbels (l...

  16. Leni Riefenstahl gets film prize for Triumph of the Will

    Title on screen: "Die besten geistigen Werkes des Jahres erhalten in der Berliner Staatsoper den Filmpreis und Buchpreis 1935." Goebbels at a podium announcing Leni Riefenstahl as the winner of the 1934 Film Prize for her film Triumph of the Will. Shots of Hitler and other leaders (Wilhelm Frick, Goering, Hess, Ley, in the audience as Goebbels describes Triumph of the Will as the "great film vision of the Fuehrer." Riefenstahl is not shown. Goebbels goes on to award the Book Prize to Eberhard Wolfgang Moeller for two of his books of poetry.

  17. Wuhlfel burial of Russian POWs

    (LIB 6231) Disinterment, Reburial of Russian Prisoners of War, Wuhlfel, Germany, May 2, 1945 Head-on shots, several Russian civilians riding bicycles; red flag on handlebars of first bike. LSs, city hall building in Hanover. MSs, CUs, German civilians dig up bodies of 250 murdered Russian prisoners. MSs, bodies are wrapped in white sheets, placed in trucks, and transported to reburial grounds. VAR, released Russian slave laborers observing reburial. Pan from German civilians carrying bodies to Russian flag flyings atop pole. CU, Russian flag lowered to half-mast. MCU, US chaplain conducting...

  18. Ohrdruf liberation photographs

    Consists of five photographs of the Ohrdruf concentration camp after liberation in 1945; includes photographs of barracks, of the entrance to the camp, and of the digging of burial ditches. The photographs were taken by Roy (Lee) Mackey, a soldier in the United States Army.

  19. Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Meurthe-et-Moselle

    Contains administrative documents relating to the systematic persecution of Jews in the Meurthe-et-Moselle Department of France bordering Alsace-Lorraine. Primarily consists of documents related to the rounding up, inventorying, and deportation of Jews in the Department.

  20. Cudzynowski family photographs

    Consists of 23 pre-war and wartime photographs of the family of Hadassa Cudzynowski, of Sosnowiec, Poland. Many members of the family, including many pictured, perished during the Holocaust.