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  1. Sofia Auguston memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 14 pages, in English, written by Sofia Auguston, originally of Riga, Latvia. In the memoir, she describes life in the Riga ghetto, escaping several mass shootings, hiding her family's tallit, and being sent to Germany by boat in 1944. She witnessed the sinking of a barge of deportees, but her boat arrived in Stutthof. From there, she was forced to march to Totenhof in Sofienwald, and, in the spring of 1945, was sent on another forced march, from which she was liberated by the Russian Army. After the war, she reunited with her son, who also survived the war.

  2. Israel and Ben Gurion

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: MS of a man. Negev, barracks, people eating. Ben Gurion and a man. Stills of young Ben Gurion. Interview with Ben Gurion. Plowing with horse, VS tilling, sowing, reaping, working the land. Rowboats, people on shore. Laying pipe with crane. More of interview with Ben Gurion. Camp footage, interview continues. Ben Gurion proclaims state (no sync-voiceover). Cheering crowd, children circle with flags, tank plows through building, digging trenches. Ben Gurion inspecting troops, Navy marching, Army marching, women soldiers marching. Graves. Gates of Israel op...

  3. Illustration

    Portfolio containing 20 illustrations of prisoner life in Buchenwald concentration camp and text about artist and his work;

  5. Aenne Hertz papers

    Contains legal documents and correspondence pertaining to Aenne Hertz, a social worker in Germany from 1933 to 1941. After being fired from her public job in 1933 by the Nazis she became a social worker for Jewish organizations and enabled Jews to escape Nazi Germany.

  6. Book

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hodza; Masaryk; Czech army; festival; Prague

    Czechoslovakian Prime Minister Hodza in his office. President Masaryk with the Czech Legion. Czech motorized army, cavalry. 1932 Sokol Festival in Prague. Bata (shoe) store in Prague.

  8. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 68 and 69 -- Testimonies of Y. Dinur, Y. Bakon, A. Oppenheimer, A. Beilin

    Session 68. Witness Yehiel Dinur is sworn in. He identifies himself as a man born in Poland, and as a writer. 00:02:14 He is asked about his pseudonym K. Zetnik. He explains the meaning of his books, particularly the Auschwitz chronicle, he explains how in the camps time passed on a different scale, the inhabitants of the planet breathed and lived under different laws and nature - "their name was the number 'Kazetnik'". That's why he uses this name. He talks about the uniform, and the "Auschwitz planet." 00:09:20 The witness asked to listen to questions, as he continues to speak about what ...

  9. Eichmann Trial -- Session 47 -- Testimony of witness Itzchak Nechama about the July 11, 1942 Aktion against the male Jews of Salonika, Greece

    Opening shot of the courtroom. Adolf Eichmann sits in the booth. Lawyers for the defense and the prosecution are seated at their respective desks with their backs to the camera. The judges enter. All rise and Judge Moshe Landau asks Deputy State Attorney Yaacov Bar-Or to proceed. There appears to have been a brief recess after the entering of many documents into the record and the footage picks up after this. Itzchak Nechama takes the witness stand (00:01:35) and is sworn in. He testifies about his military service in the Greek army, the demobilization of his unit, and his return to Salonik...

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 6, 7 and 8

    Sessions 6, 7 and 8. The Court is in recess. The camera focuses on the glass booth, and pans to Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius as he walks to his desk. The Judges enter the courtroom and open the session. Attorney General Gideon Hausner continues his opening statement with Section IX - "The Camps." He asserts: "...as late as the beginning of 1945, on the threshold of the end of the war, Eichmann was still planning to wipe out all the Jews still alive at Theresienstadt in gas installations to be erected there..." Hausner describes the conditions in several concentration camps: Majdane...

  11. Judith R. Adler papers

    The papers consist of an envelope and a letter, dated May 22, 1939, written by Walter Weinberg aboard the MS St. Louis and addressed to Alfred Weinberg of Chicago, Il.

  12. Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (R 59)

    Records relate to the activities of the agency in directing and overseeing German "Volksgruppen" outside Germany proper, especially population transfers (Umsiedlungspolitik), transit facilities, and ideological indoctrination.

  13. Hannah E. Ohr family collection

    Correspondence, legal documents and photographs relating to Hannah E. Ohr and her family; mother, Emma Kruger; father, Julius Kruger; and sister, Annemarie Heimbach.

  14. Eichmann Trial -- Session 55 -- Testimony of Dr. G. Gilbert

    THIS MASTER TAPE DOES NOT ACTUALLY EXIST. DISTORTION AND DROP-OUT WAS SO SEVERE THAT THE ENTIRE TAPE WAS BLANK. Session 55.

  15. Eichmann Trial -- Session 102 -- Cross-examination of the Accused: corrections to the Sassen document

    Session 102. Attorney General Hausner asks Eichmann to read the corrections he made to the Sassen memoirs. Questions concerning the German Minister of the Interior and his connection to Eichmann are addressed. He then decries the entire document, saying that it is completely muddled, and that he cannot answer any further questions on it. The President of Court says that he will answer questions until he is relieved; Eichmann cooperates, but says that he feels he is being "roasted" until they get the answer they want from him. 00:10:48 Following Eichmann's comments about feeling "roasted", t...

  16. Hanoch Gerstel papers

    The Hanoch Gerstel papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence files, photographic materials, printed materials, and sermons documenting the life of a Vienna‐born pastor who was arrested by the Gestapo in Vienna and his family members in Austria, Sweden, and Hungary. Biographical materials include birth certificates, a Ketubah and marriage certificate, a certificate of origin, a certificate documenting non‐Jewish status, identification cards, and passports documenting the lives of Hanoch and Ester Gerstel, his father Carl Gerstel, and his grandparents Julius and Charlotte Gerst...

  17. Avraham Millo collection

    Contains Holocaust related statements made by Avi Millo, the Israeli ambassador to Romania and correspondence and attachments sent to Ambassador Millo by an Orthodox priest, Mr.Valeriu Voineag from Brasov, who wanted to convince the Embassy of Israel to rehabilitate General Iosif Iacobici, condemned for war crimes in Odessa.

  18. Mosheim and Marx families papers

    The Mosheim and Marx families papers measure 1.0 linear foot and date from 1914‐1952, 1988, 1994, and 1999. The collection contains biographical materials, correspondence files and translations, Inge Moss’s early life story, photographs, clippings, and research files documenting Herbert and Inge Moss’ immigrations to the United States, the unsuccessful immigration efforts of the families they left behind in Munich and Vlotho, Germany, and efforts to find out what happened to them. Biographical materials document the education and immigration of Inge Marx and Herbert Mosheim. Materials inclu...

  19. Sutin family footage

    Family footage showing CUs of Cecilia, the daughter of Jack Sutin. Brief shot of Julius Sutin, the father of Jack Sutin.

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Session 70 -- Screening of films

    Session 70. Cuts between the film footage entered into the trial as evidence and of still photos entered into the trial as evidence and Eichmann watching the footage. Eichmann does not seem to change his expression throughout the screening. 00:00:27 Footage being shown in the courtroom - medical examinations of inmates, posters of Nazis. Eichmann in courtroom speaking. 00:04:32 Footage of train with cattle cars going past. Scenes in a camp, jumping into pits, being helped onto trucks (?), being shot in pits and then buried. 00:06:45 Train with cattle cars at dusk. 00:08:08 Footage of people...