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  1. Eichmann Trial -- Session 109 -- Slawik affidavit and related questioning

    Session 109. Shots of Eichmann's empty booth. He enters. 00:06:35 Judges enter the courtroom. They begin the 109th Session of the trial. The Slawik affidavit is read for the Defense. The witness, Alfred Josef Slawik, was a servant of Eichmann's in Budapest. He says that he never heard of any cases where a Jew was mistreated. He discusses numerous things that Eichmann has been accused of doing in his time at the villa, and says that all of them are false. 00:19:51 Hausner points out that Slawik says he was employed by Eichmann for only a few months in a single place. 00:20:48 Dr. Servatius s...

  2. Dorit Mandelbaum papers

    The papers consist of 44 photographs and six documents relating to Dorit Mandelbaum's parents, Jakub and Anka Mandelbaum, before and during World War II in Kozienice, Poland, and their stay in the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany, after the war.

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

    Session 70. Cuts between the film footage entered as evidence and shots of Eichmann in the courtroom watching the footage. 00:01:06 The scene opens on the courtroom, there is no sound. 00:02:58 Eichmann is brought in. 00:06:09 Film footage is shown of people walking through a camp covered in snow (Auschwitz). Cut to Eichmann then back to footage of a crowd walking through the camp; inmates looking through barbed wire; another shot of the camp covered in snow. Eichmann in courtroom. Film: building with scaffolding around it, snow, train, industrial town. 00:07:17 Aerial shot pans across snow...

  4. Dorothy Wilonsky photograph collection

    This collection consists of seven photographs of Robert Wilonsky who worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and his family in Munich, Germany after World War II. One photograph depicts Sam Moseson, Robert's brother, Dorothy and Robert Wilonsky, and their daughter, Mona, on the eve of their immigration to the United States in 1949.

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Session 1 -- Reading of indictment

    Session 1. Court officials are organizing the courtroom for the trial. Various individuals walk around the room, greeting and talking to each other. There is occasional sound as the trial commentators prepare for Session 001. The trial begins, and the camera focuses on Adolf Eichmann as he sits in the glass box. As the three judges, Moshe Landau, Benjamin Halevi, and Yitzchak Raveh enter the courtroom, the commentators detail trial particulars such as the trial number and specific court officials. Judge Landau formally ascertains the defendant's identity and choice of council. He then grant...

  7. Book

  8. Lewis Shabasson collection

    The photograph collection documents the prewar lives of Lewis Shabasson (born Levi Szabason) and his family in Kozienice, Poland; wartime life in the Kozienice ghetto; and postwar life in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp and Munich, Germany. The collection also documents the prewar and postwar lives of Lewis’s wife, Lifcia Najman, and her family, originally from Radom, Poland, and her relatives in the Birenbaum family.

  9. Martin Perlmutter papers

    The Martin Perlmutter papers contain biographical materials and photographs documenting Perlmutter’s time in Italy with his wife, primarily in the Bari displaced persons camp, after World War II before their immigration to the United States. Many of the photographs depict camp demonstrations against British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and restrictive Palestine immigration policies. Biographical materials include identification papers and travel papers documenting the displaced persons status of Martin and Dora Perlmutter and their immigration to the United States. Documents include immigr...

  10. Peter Prosaw scrapbook Jewish D.P./In The UNRRA-Camp Team 1027/Berlin

    Scrapbook entitled “Jewish D.P./In The UNRRA-Camp Team 1027/Berlin” created by Peter Prosaw (born Pinkus Proszowski), a survivor of Auschwitz originally from Łódź, Poland. Peter, who also had training as a graphic designer, ran the orphanage in the Düppel Center displaced persons camp in Berlin-Schlachtensee. The annotated scrapbook includes depictions of staff members, residents, buildings, schools, programs, and cultural activities. Many of the pages incorporate photograph collages as well as original documents. A separated blue cardboard cover with adhesive tape on binding is also included.

  11. Star of David badge worn in Romania

    Star of David badge issued to/worn by Abraham Sendyk (donor) in Czernowitz, Romania; dated 1941.

  12. Eichmann Trial -- Session 112 -- Prosecution continues summing up

    Session 112. A near empty court, people milling about. 00:05:31 Judges enter. They begin reading the schedule of the next few sessions (Duplicate footage from Tape 2221). Hausner resumes summing up. He discusses Eichmann's Blood for Goods trading proposals, saying that it was independent from the foreign ministry. 00:13:37 The possibility of Eichmann being angry at Becher is discussed, describing the various times where Eichmann became angry when someone tried to take control of Jewish affairs from him. Eichmann's ruthless words are read from the Sassen documents, multiple times he condemne...

  13. Camp Amersfoort, Netherlands

    MS Group of thin men with shaved heads in a poorly lit hall, German officers walking by [VQ: extremely poor, grainy, hardly visible]. Large pile of ropes, inmates de-tangling ropes. Men look malnourished and sick. Pan of men in white uniforms, Nazi officers, and people in suits (some are Red Cross officials) standing next to barbed wire. They are posing for camera, joking, and smiling. CU of inmates standing very still, looking exhausted and thin with patched numbers on their camp uniforms and armbands: CONTR AB [VQ: deteriorates again, jumpy, film appears damaged]. 03:26:33 Inmates cleanin...

  14. Identification certificate

    The identification certificate was issued to Eugen Fiscman [donor's brother] in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, stating his intent to immigrate with his brother, Michal [donor], to Uruguay from the "U.S. Zone of Germany."

  15. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 23 and 24 -- Testimony of L. Wells, H. Ross, and J. Buzminsky

    Session 23. Adolf Eichmann stands as the Presiding Judge enters and then sits down. WS of the courtroom. The Presiding Judge takes notes and declares the twenty-third Session of the trial open. He then confirms that applications submitted by Dr. Servatius will be discussed later on. Servatius states that the evidence given by the witness, Dr. Wells, is irrelevant and repetitive and thus should not be submitted. Attorney General Hausner responds by saying that Eichmann was appointed by Reinhard Heydrich, who was in charge of exterminating the Jews, and offers several other examples as well. ...

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 114 -- Closing statement of the Defense

    Session 114. Eichmann's empty booth. Eventually he enters and sits down. 00:10:13 Judges enter. The Judges open Session 114. Attorney General Hausner says that he has prepared a list of precedents mentioned in his closing statement. Dr. Servatius then submits the written copy of his closing statement. Dr. Servatius says that the accusations of Hausner, if true, would be worthy of a monument to Jew-haters, saying that Eichmann was some superman able to commit all of these atrocities. Instead, he says, it was the top brass that decided that Eichmann would be the scapegoat for their actions. 0...

  17. Margaret Marflow papers

    The papers consist of a poem and envelope sent to Margaret Weiss from Ruth Rosenbaum, who went from Germany to England on a Kindertransport on January 19, 1939, dated 1945. Also included is a newspaper clipping that mentions Margaret Weiss, S.R.N., as a recipient of a Distinction Certificate after successfully completing her final examination.

  18. Eichmann Trial -- Session 38 -- Testimony of M. Ansbacher and submission of documents

    Session 38. Modechai Ansbacher is testifying for the Prosecution, answering questions about witnessing the deportation of many children, he was one of them. He was in Belgium until the German occupation. He was sent to Calais by the Belgian government, and attempted to escape to England, but they could not. The Blitzkrieg had caught up with them. They were sent to a small concentration camp in Calais until the Belgium Red Cross sent them back to Brussels. 00:04:50 Tape jumps. Ansbacher is discussing the work he did, and says that he was involved in a clandestine school. He says that everyth...

  19. Ross M. Snowdon papers

    The papers consist of five photographs taken by Ross M. Snowdon, a Master Sergeant in the 11th Armored Division, after the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp in 1945 and a booklet about the history of the 11th Armored Division during World War II.

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Session 113 -- Prosecution continues summing up

    Session 113. Attorney General Hausner names all of the people who would have to be lying in order for Eichmann to be telling the truth. He provides numerous examples of how this would have to be true. 00:06:59 Hausner says that Eichmann has shown his intelligence and stature through all of the cross-examinations, and has given evasive excuses as answers to all questions. He insists that Eichmann knew of the anti-Semitic policies of National Socialism, and that his claims of writing in the heat of the moment are bunk. 00:16:35 He says that Eichmann would not have stopped within the Third Rei...