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  1. B. Diane Clulow photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs depicting a train with people sitting in the first car leaning out of the open door and holding an Israeli flag; a man is standing on the tracks in the distance. Handwritten inscription on the verso of one of the photographs: "Displaced persons in Germany going home to Belgium."

  2. Ticket

    The train ticket was given to Jadzia Liwer [donor] for passage from Yokohama-shi to Tokyo, Japan, and return; printed in black ink on recto and verso; recto background: printed red ink design; No 1418.

  3. Clifford C. Byrum photograph collection

    Consists of 27 photographs depicting Clifford Byrum, other United States soldiers, and German prisoners exhuming infants' graves at a Volkswagen maternity hospital and Kinderheim (children's home) in Rühen, Germany, during the investigation of Nazi atrocities. A maternity hospital and Kinderheim was established by the Volkswagen corporation in Rühen, Germany, in March 1943 for children born to Polish and Russian forced laborers working at the VW factory in Wolfsburg. Because of unsanitary conditions and neglect at the Kinderheim, approximately 365 children under the age of 16 months died ...

  4. Eichmann Trial -- Session 72 -- Submission of excerpts of Sassen Document

    Session 72. Attorney General Hausner describes the skeletons of Strasbourg incident, saying that the guards were very fearful of those skeletons discovered upon Allied liberation, and more concerned about those who had been killed for the skeletons whose flesh had not yet rotted away. He submits the affidavits of a few witnesses from past cases, some of which are no longer alive. 00:09:29 Hausner submits a letter from Brandt to Eichmann. The affidavits regarding the Strasbourg skeletons used in Brandt's case are submitted. A series of photographs are submitted, along with a description of e...

  5. Registration cards of Freemasons in France from Archives du Grand Orient de France

    The collection consists of the registration cards for French Freemasons during the occupation.

  6. Eichmann Trial -- Session 104 -- Cross-examination of the Accused re: Hungary

    The footage begins in the middle of Session 104. Eichmann is shown examining a document. Cross-examination by Attorney General Gideon Hausner begins with questions about the deportation of Jews from Budapest, including the number of people deported and the deportation of Jewish children. Hausner asks about proposals made by Blaschke to Kaltenbrunner for the redirection of trains from Auschwitz to Austria.This is a reference to the "Blood for Goods" transaction, which was the attempt by members of the Hungarian Jewish Relief and Rescue Committee to negotiate with the SS for the exchange of o...

  7. Lubov Shtipelman collection

    Includes three letters and two photographs relating to the life in the Soviet Union - Belarus, in the beginning of the Second World War.

  8. COHASCO collection

    Contains six documents that include an arrest order from the Vilna Ghetto for a thirty-eight year old woman, printed in German on back of a Lithuanian under Nazi occupation form, a1943 Hebrew booklet produced by the Palestine Rescue Committee about mass extermination news received from refuges who were able to escape to Palestine entitled, "Stand By-Save-Rescue," and four Hebrew letters dealing with aid to survivors of Greece and Poland.

  9. Eichmann Trial -- Session 42 -- Cross-examination of Grueber by defense attorney Servatius

    Defense lawyer Servatius is seated going through papers. He hands one of the papers to a man who passes by his table. Shot of the courtroom, Eichmann's booth; Eichmann is escorted in carrying documents. One of his guards delivers a note to Servatius. The camera focuses alternately on Eichmann and Servatius for several minutes. All rise as the judges enter court. Judge Landau announces the opening of Session 42 (00:05:41). Continuation of interrogation of Dr. Heinrich Grüber, Protestant Dean of Berlin by defense attorney Robert Servatius. Grüber describes his association with the Confessiona...

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Session 105 -- Servatius re-examines the Accused

    Session 105. Tape begins midsentence from a question asked on Tape 2186. Eichmann is correcting a passage where he is quoted. 00:00:49 Eichmann is asked about the Declaration of War by Dr. Chaim Weizmann and if he believed that it was a propaganda lie. The answer is interrupted by a slate. 00:03:10 Eichmann is asked about the request of a Dr. Loewenhertz for the remains of Theodore Herzl. Eichmann enthusiastically denies that he is anti-Semitic. His statements in the Sassen Document backs that up. 00:13:05 Dr. Servatius is finished with the re-examination of Eichmann. He will now face quest...

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  12. Lloyd Stephens photograph collection

    The collection consists of nine photographs depicting atrocities committed in Gardelegen, Germany, including the laying out and burial of victims. The photographs were taken by Lloyd Stephens, member of the United States Armed Forces during World War II.

  13. Eichmann Trial -- Session 1 -- Reading of 15 counts of indictment

    Session 1. German translation of the First Count, Letter (h). Judge Moshe Landau continues to read the fifteen counts against Adolf Eichmann, followed by the German translation. When the recitation is complete, Judge Landau asks Eichmann if he understands the charges against him, and Eichmann responds affirmatively. Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius requests permission to voice objections against the court before his client enters a formal plea. Judge Landau agrees, and Dr. Servatius states a concern for both the objectivity and competence of the court. Dr. Servatius suggests that an Is...

  14. Eichmann Trial -- Session 107 -- Eichmann explains his oath to the Party

    Session 107. Tape starts midsentence when Eichmann is asked what his opinion was concerning the Nazi outlook that the Jews must be removed from Germany. (Footage duplicated from Tape 2195.) Eichmann says that he never thought about it, which the Judge quickly disputes. The tape is interrupted by a slate at 00:03:32 and resumes with Eichmann explaining that he had to not make waves in his position in the Reich. 00:04:41 Tape is interrupted again by a slate and resumes with the same footage. Eichmann insists he worked as a low-ranking official in the head office of Reich Security and regrette...

  15. KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps. Pictorial report of concentration camps

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn13542
    • English
    • 1945
    • a: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)

    A copy of the “KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern” [KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps] pamphlet published in Germany in 1945. It was published quickly by the American War Information Office to increase awareness of the atrocities that had occurred. It contains post-liberation photographs at Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, and Ohrdruf concentration camps and the site of the Gardelagen massacre.

  16. Records of the Gebietskommissar Kaunas Stadt, Fond R-616/1

    Contains records of the military occupation administration unit relating to occupation duties, including receipts of German businesses in Kaunas.

  17. Simon Coren memoir

    Contains a memoir, three pages, written by Simon Coren about his experiences in a medical unit that arrived at the Ebensee concentration camp immediately following liberation.

  18. Polish refugees

    Slate: African Mirror #216 "South Africa Provides Sanctuary." Camera: K. Sara. and scenes by courtesy of United News. Camp for Polish children, refugees in South Africa during a visit by Harry Lawrence, Minister of Interior. School scenes, children performing for the visitors. Hospital. Church service. Polish dances. Polish army marching (in Poland).

  19. Records of the Stab der Selbstschutzeinheiten (Schuma) Vilnius, Fond R-660/1 and Fond R-660/2

    Contains records of the Vilnius self-defense units (Schutzmannschaften), including information about personnel, Pioneer Battalion 184, and Communists.

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Session 101 -- Cross-examination of the Accused: Sonderbehandlung, Germanization, and skeletons

    Session 101. Attorney General Hausner asks Eichmann if he took the initiative to make his own decisions, which Eichmann emphatically denies. He says that he never gave any orders and never acted without orders. 00:01:44 Hausner changes topics, asking about the Lidice children and a phone call associated with it (duplicate footage from Tape 2173). When Eichmann says that he cannot remember any such conversation, the Attorney General attacks him, saying that such a thing was not a normal occurrence and could not escape his memory. He says that when it concerns the children, he does not rememb...