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  1. Portfolio

    Portfolio of prints of drawings by Violette Rougier-Lecoq depicting life in Ravensbrück concentration camp.

  2. Album Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers

  3. Amalia Kurland Spiegelman photograph collection

    The collection consists of 18 photographs of the Kurland family, taken mostly in Sosnowiec, Poland, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  4. Inge Schlesinger memoir

    Contains a memoir about Inge Schlesinger's childhood in Berlin, Germany, forced labor experiences at the Zeiss-Ikon factory in Berlin and in Auschwitz, experiences in Ravensbrück, Grima, Belgium, and later emigration to the United States.

  5. Germany at liberation: refugees, destruction, etc

    French liberated prisoners. US soldiers and ammunition, firing from tank. Tanks on village street. Airplanes dive bombing. MCUs German POWs. German civilians. Damaged gate entrance reading in part "Trier." German civilians departing town; horse, oxen, and tractor drawn wagons loaded with possessions. 01:07:20 Slate reads "Luxembourg, April 14, 1945" Germans with belongings on carts. CUs, displaced persons in line for water on city plaza, waving to camera, holidng up water cans (staged). Digging with shovels. April 16, 1945 - MCUs, German children in park, in Wiesbaden, Germany, wrestling. A...

  6. Repression of Jews, beating, slave labor; Riga synagogue burning

    Man beaten, pushed around through crowd. German soldier, man pushed into unidentified building. VS, CUs of men's faces. Brief shot of road sign: "Achtung Baustelle". Men with picks, shovels, clearing area. 04:02:30 Subtitles: "Leniwi zydzii" [Lazy Jews] "zostah natychmiast zabrani do roboty" [have been taken immediately to work]. Men getting off trucks and carrying shovels/tools. German soldiers giving orders. Men taking off shirts, looking at camera, continue digging, picking up large rocks and moving them. 04:03:03 Subtitle translation: "Polish population delivers the Jewish 'agents'." Ma...

  7. Bill Vegh memoir

    Contains a memoir about Bill Vegh's childhood in Czechoslovakia and experiences in Auschwitz.

  8. Scott Wade Stewart photograph collection

    Consists of seven photographs depicting the liberation of a concentration camp after World War II.

  9. Gertrude Jorisch papers

    The Gertrude Jorisch papers consist of a partial list of victims from Skałat, Poland (now Скалат, Ukraine); Gertrude Jorisch’s 13 page memoir about her prewar life in Skałat, the deportation of her family to Belzec, her time in the Skałat ghetto and labor camp and hiding in the forest, and postwar antisemitism in Skalat; and photographs of herself, her father, her husband, and other Holocaust survivors at the displaced persons camp at Deggendorf.

  11. Stanislaw (Mundek) Steiger letter

    Contains a letter, two pages, written by Stanislaw (Mundek) Steiger to Leo Brawer in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1938 about the treatment of Jews in Germany and Austria. He describes anti-Jewish propaganda radio broadcasts and the deportation of Jewish Polish citizens out of Germany to Poland.

  12. John Paczkowski newspaper articles

    Contains four newspaper articles about John Paczkowski's liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.

  13. Doily with a gray and red cross stitched couple with flowers recovered postwar by a Polish Jewish girl

    Embroidered doily with crocheted trim recovered by 17 year old Masza Senderowksi after the war from the house of a non-Jewish neighbor who had looted the Senderowksi home. It was likely embroidered by her younger sister Sonia, 13, who was killed during the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Zdzieciol, Poland (Dziatlava, Belarus.) Masza, her parents, and three sisters lived in Zdzieciol, which was occupied by German troops in June 1941. In August 1942, as the Germans prepared to liquidate the ghetto, the residents were ordered to the village center. Masza, then 14, and her two older sisters...

  14. Book

  15. Indictment: Opening Petition for the Auschwitz Trial Antrag auf Eröffnung des Hauptverfahrens, Anklageschrift, Landgericht Frankfurt am Main

    Contains files from the opening of the main proceedings of the first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial.

  16. The Bible

    CBS News correspondent Alexander Kendrick interviews the first Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion on the Bible and his individual religious ideology.

  17. Book

  18. Badge for the 1936 Berlin Olympics

    Badge from 1936 Berlin Olympics.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Yugoslavia during liberation

    Jeep with Russian officers going through cheering crowd. Yugoslav partisan army. Russian army and partisan leaders, proclamation from stage. Marshall Josip Broz Tito reviewing partisan troops. Allied observers present. Wounded partisans in the parade. Russian tanks through outskirts of Belgrade. Street fighting. Carrying wounded on stretcher. Russian artillery advancing through streets of Belgrade. Prisoners (Germans?) being marched through Belgrade streets. Aerial view of Belgrade.

  20. Hitlerjugend scrapbook

    Ulrich von Fumetti's scrapbook includes photographs, postcards, letters, and newspaper articles that depict his training in the Hitler Youth or Hitlerjugend in preparation for a career in the military.