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  1. Eichmann Trial -- Session 109 -- Courtroom before judges enter

    Session 109. This tape features mainly the courtroom before the Judges enter to open the 109 Session. The Prosecution and Defense wait for the arrival of the Judges. Eichmann and Dr. Servatius talk over their private microphone line, we cannot hear what they are saying. Hausner consults with others over a book. Various shots of the crowd and Eichmann growing impatient.

  2. Gerd Siegel photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Kurt, Elsa, and Werner Stein [donor's paternal aunt, uncle, and cousin] a few months after Werner's birth and a photograph of Kurt, Elsa, and Werner Stein on a tricycle in Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands on June 20, 1940.

  3. Medical kit

  4. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 14, 20, 21 and 27 -- Testimonies of Z. Grynszpan, A. Lichtman, Dr. M. Beisky, A. Kovner, Dr. J. Buzminsky

    Sessions 14, 20, 21 and 27. Witness Zyndel Grynszpan describes October 28, 1938; the Nazis came to his house and arrested his entire family. They were taken to the precinct and forced to sign a certificate for deportation. He and his family were deported to Poland: "The misery was great. We had no food, we had not taken any food since Thursday, we had not wanted to eat German bread anymore and we were starving." Assistant State Attorney Ya'Akov Bar-Or questions Grynszpan on the conditions of the Zbaszyn camp. There is a blip at 00:16:35 and witness Ada Lichtman describes her father's arrest...

  5. Union of Doctors (Fond 274, Opis 1)

    Contains correspondence with the branches of the union in Sliven (Bulgaria) (file 62), Svogen (file 70), and Khaskova (file 79), including topics such as prohibiting Jewish doctors from having private practices.

  6. Eichmann Trial -- Session 81 -- Examination of the Accused re: Office of Reich Security, visiting a camp, Polish Jews, executions

    Session 81. Dr. Servatius talks, citing pieces from a letter and asking Eichmann if they are valid. Eichmann says that a different conception arose in the SD circa 1938 with respect to the Jewish question. Emigration was encouraged, and creating organizations in favor of that were created. Eichmann says that he had to inform those in Vienna about this new mentality. 00:14:42 Tape jumps. Dr. Servatius submits a letter from Eichmann. It concerns Dr. Loewenherz and his interventions at Eichmann's office, working for the release of arrested persons. 00:19:23 Tape jumps. The judges ask if there ...

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

    Sessions 6, 7 and 8. Hausner discusses Bulgaria's hesitancy to cooperate with Jewish deportations: "Bulgaria did not want to throw its Jews to the wolves..." Despite Bulgarian efforts, Jews were transported to labor camps. The prosecution describes Nazi actions against the Jews in Greece: "Brutality, arrests, plunder, the loot of property accompanied the German conqueror...and the establishment of ghettos." Hausner also mentions Theresienstadt, a temporary collection camp; at Theresienstadt, executions were used as punishment, newborns and pregnancies were terminated, and children were sepa...

  8. Richard Kaufman photograph collection

    The collection consists of two black and white photographs. One photograph shows 12-year-old Richard Kaufman sledding in the street in front of his home, dated 1938 and the other photograph shows Richard Kaufman and his older brother, Karl, on a bicycle in front of their home, dated 1938

  9. Selected records of the Feldkommandantur 814, Vilnius, Fond R-677

    Contains records of the military unit in Vilnius, including information about conscripted Jewish labor, Jewish doctors, orders of the Feldkommandantur, and battles with partisans.

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Session 52 -- Testimony of Pinhas Freudiger

    The footage begins in the middle of the proceedings with witness testimony from Pinhas Freudiger. Freudiger gives an account of his escape to Romania and from there to Palestine. Defense attorney Dr. Robert Servatius poses questions to Freudiger about the ban on railway travel for Jews. He is asked who issued the orders to set up the Kistarcsa camp, as well as about arrests and the severity of anti-Jewish legislation in Hungary and Germany (00:04:14). Freudiger is further cross-examined by Servatius about a report he wrote with Alexander Diamant and Yohanan Link describing Hungarian anti-Je...

  11. Commemorative collection

    Contains postage, postcards, and letters commemorating the Holocaust.

  12. Bernard Steinlauf papers

    Contains four letters written to Ellis Schuman's grandfather, Bernard Steinlauf. One of the four letters was written by Yentl (Mrs. Abraham Imgberge) who was the only child from grandfather Steinlauf's early first marriage. Two letters are from Chaim Hersh Brand, Bernard Steinlauf's nephew. Also included is one picture postcard addressed to Bernard Steinlauf, n.d.

  13. David E. Knott memoir

    Contains a memoir, 27 pages, about David E. Knott's experiences as a member of General Patton's Third Army liberated Mauthausen-Gusen II in Austria.

  14. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 6, 7 and 8 -- Opening speech of Attorney General

    Sessions 6, 7 and 8. The beginning of this tape repeats the contents of Tape 2009 (at 00:33:51) where the Court is in recess. Eichmann enters the glass booth, and passes paper to his attorneys. The Judges enter the courtroom, and Judge Landau opens the sixth session of the trial. Judge Landau announces Decision 3, in which he addresses Dr. Servatius's two preliminary concerns. There is a blip during Landau's opening comments at 00:04:36. Regarding the validity and objectivity of the court, the Judges find: "While on the bench a judge does not cease to be flesh and blood, possessed of emotio...

  15. Diary of Hans Frank

    Contains the diary (day book) of Hans Frank, governor of occupied Poland during World War II. The journal is in typed format, in chronological order, covering all aspect of Generalgouvernment (GG) administration from its seat in the royal Wawel castle in Krakau (Kraków). The entries reflect careful, thoughtful consideration of administrative matters, rather than the spontaneous thoughts or feelings usually found in a diary.

  16. DP Camp Neu Freimann

    Scenes of DP camp Neu-Freimann near Munich, Germany. Street scenes, DPs riding bicycles. Sign: "IRO Area Team 1055 / Neu-Freimann / Siedlung" VAR DPs, man looking at announcement board, working, Red Cross trucks, queue at "Warehouse". Jack Sutin and another man, walking towards the camera, smoking. CU, poster of "Fusball Matsch" Street scenes, DPs milling about. 01:11:35 Soccer match at Neu-Freimann. Shot of spectators.

  17. Maria Dubover photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Maria Dubover in Zhmerynka (Zmerinka), Ukraine, in 1949 and a photograph of Maria Dubover and a boy in Zhmerynka in 1944.

  18. Anna Goldberg photograph collection

    The collection consists of ten photographs depicting Anna Goldberg and other young refugees in Die Jordan House orphanage in Feldafing displaced persons camp in Germany and in Bensheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II.

  19. Correspondence pertaining to Herbert David

    Contains letters pertaining to Samuel Tichnor's attempts to help Herbert David emigrate to the United States from Germany.

  20. Agathe Szarvas collection

    The collection consists of 42 postcards written by members of a labor battalion in Hungary between 1940-1944. A majority of the letters are dated from 1944 and are largely addressed to Dr. Laszlo Vamberi in Letka, Budapest or Tulek, and Dr. Viktor Harmos in Budapest.