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  1. Ministry of the State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property. Series of "P" reports Ministarstvo Državne Riznice. Ponova. Ured za Podržavljeni Imetak, Serija prijava "P"

    Contains records relating to the Aryanization and disposition of Jewish property. Collection contains property registration forms that were filed by the Jewish population of the Independent State of Croatia in June and July 1941. The collection is organized alphabetically by administrative commune and town. Reels 1 through 54 contain registrations from Antunovac to Varazdin, and Reels 55 through 110 from Varazdin to Zupanja. Registration forms from the city of Osijek, which had the third largest Jewish community in wartime Croatia, can be found on Reels 26 to 40. Registrations from the city...

  2. John Turbish photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs depicting the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp by United States troops.

  3. General directorate of Passports Office records Directiunea generala a politie Paspoarte

    Contains records from the office of the General Directorate of Passports (Ministerul Administratiei si Internelor, Directia Generala de Pasapoarte) related to Jewish emigration to Palestine from Romania. Includes a name list of Romanian Jews who traveled to Palestine on the ships "Kasbek, "Mefkur," "Morina," "Selahadin," "Toros," and "Bulbul."

  4. Biruta Poyser photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs and one photographic postcard of staff at the Jewish hospital in the ghetto of Łódź, Poland. The postcard shows three rows of doctors and nurses standing outside the hospital. The remaining three photographs are individual portraits of survivors who worked at the hospital. Included among these portraits are Bronislawa Lewkowicz, wearing a nurse's uniform; Mania Fajvlevitz, a midwife, wearing a pearl necklace and rectangular pin; and Hania Feiner.

  5. Simona G. Frajndlich papers

    The papers consist of an identification card, certificate, University student book, letter of recommendation, three letters from Chemisches Institut der Universität, biographical documents on war experience, an admission pass, and courtroom map.

  6. Suitcase

    Suitcase carried from Eastern Europe to Italy by a family of Jewish Displaced Persons.

  7. A Jewish Resistance network in France Groupe d'Action Coutre la deporation-En hommage a son fondateur et Chef: Joseph Bass

    Contains one memoir about Denise Siekierski's Holocaust experiences.

  8. Dzialoszynski family photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographic portraits of Ruth, Erich, and Herta Dzialoszynski taken in Glatz, Germany, in 1939.

  9. Maximilian Landau collection

    Consists of 323 photographs and 17 documents relating to Maximilian Landau and his work in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp, Germany. Relates in part to the development of sports activities in the camp and includes photographs by George Kadish.

  10. Henryk Nirensztejn papers

    The papers consist of photographs and documents regarding Henryk Nirensztejn (born Chaim Goworczyk) and his family before and during the Holocaust in Poland.

  11. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 53, 62, 63 and 64 -- Excerpts from diary of Grand Mufti Hajj Amin Al-Husseini and other witnesses

    Session 53. Witness Margit Reich is questioned by State Attorney Gavriel Bach. Bach asks about correspondence she received from her husband after he was sent to the Kistarcsa camp in Hungary. She reads from a postcard thrown from a train and a letter written on toilet paper that she received from him. Footage cuts to Session 62 at 00:10:44. Witness testimony from Leslie Gordon. The witness speaks in English, which is translated into Hebrew. He tells of being put to forced labor in Buczacz, Hungary, where the SS and SD forced him to dig ditches. A German truck painted with the words "Deutsch...

  12. David Berger papers

    The papers consist of a letter in Yiddish written by Charles Fechtenbaum in 1988, a translation of the letter into English, and a clipping from "Jewish Currents", November 1999, relating to Ania Francos' life and to the Holocaust experiences of the Fechtenbaum family.

  13. Eichmann Trial -- Session 84 -- Examination of the Accused re: Greece, Bulgaria, Romania

    Footage begins in the middle of Session 84. Servatius presents documents on Greece beginning with an order from Eichmann to Wisliceny for the deportation of all the Jews in Athens and Greece in general to Auschwitz. Eichmann states that he did not give these orders (00:02:19). A large section of the proceedings is missing. Servatius introduces an invitation from Rademacher to a meeting in Berlin for "Jewish Specialist Officers" to discuss technical matters relating to concentration camps, including visits to certain camps. Eichmann cites another document about the same meeting in which ther...

  14. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 6, 7 and 8 -- Hausner's opening statement

    Sessions 6, 7 and 8. Footage of an empty courtroom. It is before session 8; the camera focuses on the audience members as they take their seats. Attorney General Gideon Hausner sits at his desk readying himself for the next session. The Judges enter the courtroom and open the trial. Hausner continues his opening statement with Section 7 - "The Extermination in Northern, Western, and Southern Europe." He details the anti-Jewish campaign in Western Europe, instigated by Eichmann's department: "...anti-Jewish legislation, depriving the Jews of human and civil rights; identification of Jews by ...

  15. Oral history interview with Robert C. Pomeranky

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 105 -- Servatius re-examines Eichmann

    Session 105. There is some overlap from Tape 2185, where Eichmann is being read a passage to which he is attributed, Eichmann said that he never had any special positions, but always followed orders, and Eichmann quotes a man named Miller saying, "Had we had 50 Eichmanns, we would have automatically won the war," insisting that this was not about Eichmann's effectiveness, but rather his ability to follow orders. Eichmann says that while he cannot attest to the accuracy of every word, he says that he did say something to that effect. 00:01:33 Dr. Servatius asks what the ranks were of the peo...

  17. Propaganda filming of the Warsaw Ghetto: prison; street; corpses; burial

    ***This footage is from a roughly ninety-minute propaganda film that was never finished or shown publicly. It was created by a German propaganda camera team in the spring of 1942.The Nazi regime created these ghettos and imprisoned Jews within them, subjected them to these conditions of starvation and disease and overcrowding. And yet, with a film like this, they hoped to suggest that these conditions were chosen by the Jews, that they were natural Jewish living conditions. This film is considered propaganda because it is heavily staged, omits selective information, attempts to establish gr...

  18. Records of the Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police Einsatzgruppen reports

    Contains the complete Einsatzgruppen reports ("Erignismeldung UdSSR" and "Meldungen aus den besetzten Ostgebieten") dating from 23 June 1941 to 1944. Copies of reels 233, 234, 235, and 236, from NARA microfilm publication T175. Virtually complete; only number 158, 21 January 1942 is missing.

  19. A Void in My Heart The Memoirs of Regina Godinger Hoffman A Jewish Holocaust Survivor (1927-)

    Contains a memoir about Regina Godinger Hoffman's move from Cleveland, Ohio, to Sinovoir Szinervarlja?, Hungary, her life in the Chust ghetto in Poland, Regina's experiences in Auschwitz, and her later return to Cleveland, Ohio, after the Holocaust.

  20. Jewish Ghetto in Amsterdam

    WS street with large street sign: JUDEN VIERTEL JOODSCHE WIJK. Another sign hanging sideways on a building: FUR WEHRMACHT VERBOTEN. DER KOMMANDANT DER STADT AMSTERDAM (Nazi headquarters in Amsterdam). Street scenes, well dressed man riding a bicycle. 03:32:01 CU of street sign: JUDENSTRASSE JOODSCHESTRAAT. People and children on street, some with Star of David on clothing. Woman pushing baby carriage, streetcar passing by sign: JUDEN VIERTEL JOODSCHE WIJK. Girls with Star of David on their coats eating ice cream. 03:32:39 MS open market with sign: TIJDENS MARKT VOOR JUDEN VERBODEN. Crowd of...