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  1. Book

  2. Edmund F. Franz papers

    The Edmund F. Franz papers consist of records Franz collected while serving as the chief administrator of the U.S. Army's War Crimes Branch in Wiesbaden, Germany. The records include reports and English translations of statements and interrogation interviews with German war criminals, prisoners of war, and other witnesses recorded by U.S. Army investigators in 1945 in preparation for the Nuremberg trials. Some of the English materials are accompanied by German versions. The papers also include official U.S. Army photographs depicting scenes of atrocities at Buchenwald and Nordhausen concent...

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  5. Roger Bordage papers

    Consists of a letter inscribed on pre-printed stationery from Roger Bordage to his mother Yvonne Bordage in Paris, France. The letter was written while Roger was interned in Oranienburg concentration camp, dated 3 October 1943. This letter was contained in an offical government envelope addressed to "Madame Bordagh" [sic] [donor's mother] in Paris; no signature on note or envelope, dated 28 April 1943. Also in the envelope is a typewritten note by a railroad worker explaining how he retrieved an additional note from Roger Bordage (not in the collection) when it was thrown out of a train ont...

  6. Simone Molin collection

    Contains 22 documents pertaining to the awards granted by French, British and American authorities to Simone Molin (a.k.a. Simone Benoist, or Madame Veuve Garaud) for her activity in the French resistance and for saving airmen of the Allied Forces and Jews during World War II; related correspondence; and 4 black and white photo prints showing Simone Molin.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Army liberates Germany

    1251 B: Our Armed Forces now fight on German soil, December 17, 1944. GIs installed in foxholes in woods. Wrecked railway station in Hagenau, refugees in FG. US infantry passing over bridge from France to Germany. GI taking off "Adolf Hitler Strasse" sign. CU of inscription in German, "Jews, Democrats, and Bosheviks are the gravediggers of humanity..." Alsatian women (former Nazi prisoners) carry water. Women prisoners getting food. CU of Lt. Morris Goodwin. 1251 I: Sign for Strasburg. Tanks rolling into town. Vehicles on fire. Street sign, "Stadtmitte; Kehl 4 km." Refugees; Red Cross.

  8. "How do you like America"

    Contains a memoir about Martin O. Stern's life in Essen, Germany, and their escape to the United States after the Nazis rise to power.

  9. Oral history interview with John Krawiec

  10. Goering press conference

    Members of US and British press interviewing Hermann Goering sitting under a shade tree. Correspondents listening and taking notes and photographs.

  11. Roza Dvortsis photograph collection

    Three photographs of Roza Dvortsis in Chechelnik, Ukraine, circa 1936-1949.

  12. Šiauliai Stadt SS- und Polizeistandortführer, Fond R-717/1

    Contains the Šiauliai and SS police units’ correspondence with high-ranking German authorities.

  13. VE Day in Paris; postwar Germany - destruction; Moosburg

    US GIs swimming in fountain in Paris on VE day, civilians watching in FG. Crowds in cars, on streets of Paris. Place de la Concorde - traffic, crowds. Arc de Triomphe, flying British, French, Russian, and US flags. 01:13:09 From airplane: flying over countryside, wrecked German towns, bombed bridges, river barges. Flying over Moosburg prison camp in Germany, showing barracks, other camp buildings.

  14. Jack Waksal photograph collection

    The Jack Waksal photograph collection consists of 18 photograph prints taken for identification cards in Kruszyna labor camp (Kruszyna, Silesian Voivodeship) in 1941. All of the men depicted in the photographs perished in the Holocaust. The photographs were acquired by Jack Waksal, a Holocaust survivor originally from Jedlińsk, Poland, after the war from the photographer. Four of the photographs have a small piece of paper affixed to the back with a typed name: “Slifkowich,” “Uer Nifeld,” “Sraria Fishman,” and “Kirshenbam Leizer.” Additionally, there is a photograph depicting a street scene...

  15. Gad Beck papers

    The Gad Beck papers consist of a miniature book, two photographs, and an aphorism. The booklet, titled "Erinnerst Du Dich," was created by Manfred Lewin as a souvenir for his lover, Gad Beck, and includes sketches, poetry, and memories. One photograph is a portrait of Manfred Lewin, and the other is a photograph taken by Manfred Lewin of Gad Beck and other members of their youth movement on the roof of the Jewish school at Artilleriestrasse 14 in Berlin. The aphorism is by Wilhelm von Humboldt and describes the beauty of the gift of life.

  16. Yakov Polishchuk papers

    Includes papers relating to Yakov Polishchuk life as a war prisoner in the forced labor in Germany, Austria, and in the Dachau concentration camp from 1942 to 1945.

  17. Children in Medem Sanatorium

    Quote from opening Yiddish credits of film: "This is a documentary film depicting the life of the children in the Medem Sanatorium in Miedzeszyn, near Warsaw. The Sanatorium was founded and directed by the Central Organization of the Yiddish-Secular Schools and the General Jewish Labor Bund in Poland. It bore the name of the Bundist leader Vladimir Medem. The Sanatorium was in existence from 1926 until the summer of 1942. The film was made in 1938. The Medem Sanatorium was an institution for therapy and education. It was renowned throughout Europe for its modern pedagogic methods and served...

  18. Survivor testimonies relating to slave labor

    Contains 42,000 documents, including 25,000 accounts by Holocaust survivors of Jewish slave labor in ghettos and camps.All these survivors have been registered with The Institute of Documentation between 1970-1985 in Haifa,Israel.

  19. Orpo Kommando Kaunas, Fond R-1018/1

    Contains information on police personnel and orders, the rights and duties of police in occupied areas, and the Kaunas concentration camp.

  20. Brzeziny Ghetto

    Brzeziny ghetto, people working in snow, digging, posing for the camera, CUs, etc. Shots of empty streets. Sled with goods dragged in the snow from one house to another. Women and men move about. CU, child with Jude star.