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  1. Souvenirs of a 17-Year Old Jewish High School Pupil in Bucharest, 1943

    Contains a speech delivered in Berlin during a meeting on the Holocaust in Romania, organized by the Zentrum fur Antisemitismusforschung der Technischen Universitaet. The speech was delivered in German.

  2. Joseph Harmatz photograph collection

    The collection consists of twelve photographs relating to Joseph Harmatz and his family before and during World War II and his life after the war with members of the Nekama (Revenge) Group.

  3. Frank P. Herold photograph collection

    The collection consists of 21 photographs taken in Bergen-Belsen and Ohrdruf concentration camps immediately following liberation in April 1945.

  4. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 57 and 58 -- Psychologist Gilbert re. Nuremberg. Report of Moshe Sharett; witness H. Brand

    Session 57. Starts with Attorney General [Video translation is inaccurate refers to exhibit T/1777 when means T/1177, June not July]. Submission of documents from Central Zionist Archives and Weizmann Archives. Attorney General describes letter from Hall, of the British Foreign Office, to Dr Weizmann, stating proposal for swapping Jews for trucks and goods (referring to Joel Brand's testimony in Tape 2069, Session 56). 00:03:25 Video translation and transcripts continue to vary. Communications between Britain and Jewish Agency continue. 00:08:30 Report by Mr. Shertok (Moshe Sharett) from Lo...

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 6, 7 and 8 -- Eichmann pleads not guilty

    Sessions 6, 7 and 8. The contents of the tape are not sequentially consistent with the official transcripts; rather the footage is arranged erratically starting in the middle of Session 6 with Attorney General Hausner's opening statement and ending in the beginning of Session 6 with Adolf Eichmann's plea hearing. Begins during Attorney General Hausner's opening speech. He states: "There was only one man who had been concerned almost entirely with the Jews, whose business had been their destruction that was Adolf Eichmann." There is a blip at 00:22:45 to 00:23:15, and the recording backtrack...

  6. Henrietta Steiner papers

    The papers consist of the German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Marie Sara Felberbaum in 1940, a certificate issued by the Nazi Party (NSDAP) releasing Dr. Herbert Steiner from cleaning duties due to his medical position, a photograph of Dr. Herbert Steiner taken in 1938, and a photograph of a program for which Dr. Steiner was a speaker.

  7. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 25 and 26 -- Testimony of Z. Lubetkin, Y. Zuckerman, A. Berman, R. Kuper

    Sessions 25 and 26. Eichmann sitting in his booth. The Judges open Session 25 and present Decision 14. This decision notes the appeal of witness interrogation abroad as certain witnesses would be arrested under the Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law of 1950, should they appear in Israel. Presiding Judge, Moshe Landau refers to Decision 11, which states that foreign courts may acquire testimony from restricted witnesses for the purpose of the Eichmann trial. There is a blip at 00:07:08. Hausner questions Zivia Lubetkin Zuckerman, a resistance fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto about the conditions ...

  8. Medical kit

  9. Henry L. Goldsmith papers

    Contains Henry L. Goldsmith's memoir, a copy of an article entitled, "The Big Test," published in two weekly issues of the New York Forward, a chapter entitled "Buchenwald," and pages 309 and 310 our of Henry L. Goldsmith's chapter 11 "D-Day."

  10. Articles pertaining to the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht in Bretten, Germany

    Contains seven articles pertaining to the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht in Bretten, Germany.

  11. Leibowitz family papers

    Contains one meal card for Samuel Leibowitz from IRO Area 7 Munich Resettlement Center, one baggage check ticket, four registration documents, one certificate for Saul Leibowitz from Munich-Freimann DP Center, an affidavit declaring Saul and Rachel Leibowitz, registration for Military Government of Germany for Saul and Rachel Leibowitz, one program for concert, and witness statements for reparation payments.

  12. Citation and Medal

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn515164
    • English
    • a: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) b: Height: 3.870 inches (9.83 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm)

    Citation: "a", Medal: "b", Frame: "c." Citation and medal awarded by Adolf Hitler to Mr. Walter Brown for his monetary contribution to assist in funding American athletes competing in 1936 Berlin Olympics, and for Mr. Brown's participation as a member of the American Olympic Delegation: dated January 10, 1937; in German. Medal is gold-colored metal cross with white enamel details showing the 5 Olympic rings with Nazi eagle and swastika hanging on a red, white and black ribbon. The citation is printed in red and black ink with an embossed Nazi seal. There is a descriptive plaque on the frame

  13. Emil Leyvand collection

    Contains one sound cassette and the musical score entitled "A Poem about the Holocaust" written and performed by Emil Leyvand.

  15. Records of the Standortkommandantura Marijampole, Fond R-678

    Contains records of the military unit in Marijampole, including secret reports on combat with partisans and on the shootings of Soviet prisoners of war.

  16. Yuliy Yamin photograph collection

    The photograph collection consists of two black and white photographs taken in Belarus. One photograph depicts a woman and three children in a kitchen. The remaining photograph depicts a boy in Minsk, Belarus.

  17. Collection of Hungarian political and military records

    Contains Hungarian political records (correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, diplomatic notes, drafts of laws and decrees, directives, studies, texts of speeches and manuscripts, memoranda, circulars, maps, orders, pamphlets, brochures, leaflets, lists, and name files) relating to the Hungarian Nazi Party, known as the Arrow-Cross Party (Nyilaskeresztes Pát), under the leadership of Ferenc Szalasi, who became Regent and Premiere of Hungary late in 1944. The records relate to the Party's affairs and its relations with the earlier Hungarian Government as well as with the later period ...

  18. Pick family photograph collection

    The Pick family photograph collection consists of photographs of the Pick family of Budapest, Hungary, and the Kornhauser family, and their friends before and immediately following World War II. The images include both victims and survivors of the Holocaust. The photographs also include images of George Pick with his preschool class, first and second grade class photographs taken at the Jewish Boys’ Orphanage School in Budapest, a group photograph taken at the wedding of Dr. Jozsef Szalai, two pictures of a Hungarian Jewish labor battalion constructing a road in Cluj (now Cluj-Napoca, Roman...

  19. Hersch Berman collection

    Contains ten black and white photographs and one legal document pertaining to his experiences in the Enns Displaced Persons camp.

  20. Selected records of the General Inspectorate of the Gendarmerie in the Romanian National Archives

    Collections contains police, gendarmerie, and intelligence reports, name lists, and correspondence. Documents relate to the situation of Polish refugees in Romania (e.g. Colonel Joseph Beck and other Polish dignitaries), also relate to the Zionists, members of ethnic minorities, and to the internal situation in various counties in Romania, in Northern Bukovina, and in Bessarabia under Soviet occupation. Records include name list of "anti-Romanian" persons, name list of 1610 persons who requested repartitions to the Soviet Union in 1941, diverse correspondence from gendarmerie in Soroca, Bes...