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  1. Lucy Lutostanska Reports 1937-1945

    Contains an English version of Lucy Lutostanska's Polish memoir that describes her role as a rescuer during the Holocaust. Included are correspondence between Lucy Lutosktanska and Dan and Karen McGlaughlin.

  2. Robert Jackson in his office

    (Munich 135) Robert H. Jackson, Nuremberg, Germany, May 2, 1946. Jackson seated behind desk in his private office talking with Brig Gen Telford Taylor. Same setting with Jackson talking to Thomas J Dodd, assistant prosecutor. CU, Jackson speaking. CU, Dodd. MS, Jackson going over papers handed by his secretary Mrs. Douglas. Jackson at desk signing papers. Note: Some CUs of Jackson are scratched.

  3. Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records: DC, FW, KL/Haffa, ZA VI, ZB, ZB II, ZC, ZCII, ZJ, VgM, VGH and ZM

    The collection contains selected records from various record groups compiled by the former East German Security Service "Stasi." Materials are of mixed provenance, mostly on persons involved in Nazi war crimes, but are primarily papers generated by the German Security police and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) between 1933 and 1945 and German prosecutors and courts after 1945.

  4. Verdoner children playing in the yard

    VS, Francisca and Yoka Verdoner playing in their yard with their mother Hilde and their grandmother, and two puppy dogs.

  5. Verdoner family at home

    Verdoner family at home. INT, scenes of Hilde Verdoner with baby Francisca Verdoner being fed, crawling around with bare bottom. Scenes in their home. Scenes of Francisca potty-training, hamming it up for the camera, calling to the cameraman. VS, Yoka and Francisca playing together, eating dinner at table. Yoka feeds herself.

  6. Duda family papers

    Contains 18 documents pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of Adam Duda in Pawiak, Majdanek, Flossenbürg, his service with the Polish Guard Units for the American Occupation Army, and work for the IRO as a driver and metal-polisher. Other documents contain information about Janina Duda that include her work card from Warsaw and a letter from the War Relief Service National Catholic Welfare Conference IRO Resettlement Center to the Bavarian Offices for Compensation indicating that Mr. Duda has obtained a work contract in America and requesting that Adam and Janina Duda's request be taken ...

  7. Ruth Wasserberger letter

    One letter with typed text on US Department of State letterhead; addressed to Ruth Wasserberger from Pierrepont Moffat, Chief, Division of Western European Affairs.

  8. Hilde Robbins photograph collection

    Consists of 35 photographs from Shanghai.

  9. Book

  10. Judge Ben Lindsey

    MS, Judge Ben Lindsey pleads for humanizing the treatment of girls who go "morally wrong." He proposes a "House for Human Welfare." (filmed in studio)

  12. US troops in Occupied Italy

    Shots in harbor, uniformed men. On small boat, rowing boats around. In cave (Blue Grotto, Capri?). On boat, American flag. Shots of land. Sailing boat. 01:03:06 underexposed shots. Garden, flowers, sailors. 01:04:06 Destroyed buildings, military vehicles. Children and military. Beach. 01:05:24 Military playing baseball. "2nd Depot Headquarters" title. Red cross van, military barracks/tents. 01:06:57 Filming in vehicle. Pans of railway, buildings, landscape, river. 01:07:53 On ship, can see land, soldiers. 01:10:05 On shore with soldiers. 01:10:17 (black and white) Ruins, land strip. In plan...

  13. Hitler; bookburning

    WS, huge crowd, Hitler with Goering and other elite. Hitler giving Nazi salute, swastikas, Hitler in uniform, crowd, SA, burning books. "We thought he was funny that Nazi paper-hanger...and that Nazi salute, we thought that was funny too." CU, Hitler watches bookburning. Britain's Chamberlain and France's Daladier deplane airplane. "You saw the burning of the books, the non-Aryan books, remember? You thought that such hysteria wouldn't spread, that Chamberlain and Daladier would contain such poison inside Germany." MLS, defenses of France's Maginot Line. WS, Nazi rally at Nuremberg. VS, cro...

  14. War Crimes Trial: Franz Strasser

    Summary: Austrian Franz Strasser is tried for the murder of Lt E Warren Woodruff and an unknown airman. His testimony is in German. Cpl. Henry Halperin is the interpreter for all witnesses; Sgt. Sessler interprets for Franz Strasser. The six-officer Army Military Commission included Capt. Victor Miles, Lt. Harvey Szanger, and Col. Raymond E. Zickel. Reel 3: Reichl continuing testimony. Defense attorney reading Reichl's sworn statement; defense attorney questioning Strasser; prosecutor questioning Strasser.

  15. Łódź Ghetto ration cards

    Consists of two ration cards: no 907 issued to the donor, Hanna Poznanska; and no. 02411, issued to Felicja Poznanska, the donor's mother, in the Łódź Ghetto.

  16. Verdoner children at home

    Francisca Verdoner Kan, as a young baby in her crib. Her mother Hilde is also in the scene. The crib is placed outside in the garden. VS, family members in the garden, three women and a man at the table eating. Yoka Verdoner, the eldest child is also present.

  17. German educational film: Scenes of nature and daily life in Spreewald, Germany

    Described in the opening titles of the film, as a "nature film", this footage depicts the town of Spreewald in the Brandenburg section of Germany. VS, EXT, stream, trees, various flora and fauna, wooden homes, locals canoeing down a stream or a river, farming, tending to the soil and to crops. VS, two canoes with two groups of children heading downstream, and then docking in front of their schoolhouse. MS of a police officer in uniform, patrolling in canoe. Bails of hay are also transported along the river. The rest of the footage is comprised of similar scenes of locals carrying out daily ...

  18. Isabelle Bates photograph

    Consists of a black and white image of three teenage girls sitting near a tree, holding toddlers. Inscription on verso: "Isabelle in camp 43/ sick already," dated March 1943. Donor is the child seated on the far left, marked with "X." The photograph was taken in a Swiss internment camp.

  19. Two-sided crayon drawing of a girl wearing a cross created by a young girl living in hiding

    Double-sided drawing made by Betty Julia Ensel while she was living under an assumed identity in the Netherlands. One side depicts a girl in a dress wearing a cross; the drawing on the opposite side portrays 6 girls. When Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940, three year old Julia lived in Amsterdam with her parents, Rose Marie Schink, who was not Jewish, and Guy Weinberg, who was Jewish. Rose Marie hid twelve Jews in the attic of her house in Blaricum and was in contact with the Dutch resistance movement. Julia attended school under her mother's maiden name in order to avoid suspici...

  20. Doll vest

    Julia Schor played with the doll vest while in hiding during the Holocaust.