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

    This tape begins in the middle of the proceedings of Session 104. Attorney General Gideon Hausner questions Eichmann about comments Eichmann made to Wilhelm Sassen regarding his inability to keep up with the pace of deportations in Hungary. Hausner cites quotes in which Eichmann compared the deportation in Hungary with the ease of those in Denmark and Holland, referring to the Jews of Hungary as being offered to them like "sour beer." This section duplicates footage found on Tape 2181. The footage is edited at 00:03:30, skipping a lengthy section in which Eichmann is cross-examined about hi...

  2. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 1 and 2 -- Indictment reading of 15 counts

    Sessions 1 and 2. Begins during Session 1 as Attorney General Hausner is countering the Defense's assertion that the Israeli court lacks objectivity. There is a blip at 00:03:04 and the tape skips to Hausner discussing his agreement to accept affidavits from the Defense witnesses and forego his right to cross-examination. 00:05:19 There is another blip and the footage jumps to Session 2 as Hausner is reading international statutes as points of evidence for holding the Eichmann trial in Israel. 00:06:33 Another blip and the footage skips to Hausner discussing Eichmann's extradition from Arge...

  3. Medical kit

  4. Eichmann Trial -- Session 85 -- Written testimonies from von Thadden, Juettner, and Grell are presented to the court

    Session 85. An affidavit is read, describing Mueller acting without Eichmann's knowledge. It says that he was cautious to the point of exaggeration, and could often be called fearful. 00:06:53 They move on to Eberhard von Thadden's testimony. Dr. Servatius selects the passages he wants to use so that the interpreter can read them afterwards. Von Thadden describes himself, and then begins describing his time with the SS and his duties with respect to Eichmann's office. He also describes Eichmann's rank within his office. 00:25:11 The affidavit says that he cannot point to a single case where...

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Session 82 -- Eichmann's testimony re: Bohemia and Moravia and France

    The footage begins near the opening of Session 82 with Servatius questioning Eichmann on the stand. Servatius presents communications between Himmler and Kaltenbrunner about the deporation of 5,000 elderly Jews from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz. There is some confusion regarding the date of the document. Servatius presents another document, which describes a change in the Jewish leadership of Theresienstadt from one person, a Dr. Edelstein, to a triumvirate consisting of Eppstein, Löwenherz and Edelstein. Servatius asks Eichmann if this was a demotion for Edelstein. Some of the proceedings a...

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

    Session 114. Servatius addresses each of the accounts upon which Eichmann is indicted and explains why, in his view, Eichmann is not guilty. This tape begins with Count 8. Servatius states that it must be rejected because it would be retroactive prosecution. 00:03:23 Dr. Servatius addresses Count 7, saying that the theft of property is not a crime against humanity in any of the definitions given by other courts. He then says that Eichmann did not enrich himself with any of this property, and thus would be innocent of the international agreement concerning theft of property established after...

  7. Eichmann Trial -- Session 101 -- Cross-examination of the Accused: Liechtenstein, concentration camp authority, Eichmann's autonomy

    Session 101. Eichmann answers questions about the Bondi case involving Jews whom Eichmann refused to grant passage to Sweden. Attorney General Hausner, along with the Judges, question Eichmann. The freedoms for Jews in Liechtenstein is discussed. When asked how this applies to him, he says that his office was in charge of all things dealing with property. 00:12:42 Hausner asks why Eichmann was the one choosing who was in command of a certain concentration camp. He says that he does not know, considering that it was 20 years ago. He says that the SD was inexperienced in his region, and so he...

  8. Gem micromatic safety razor and case given to a concentration camp inmate after liberation

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn516031
    • English
    • a: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) b: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Gem safety razor and case given to 24-year-old Morris Rosen after his liberation from Theresienstadt concentration camp on May 9, 1945. Following the occupation of Poland by Germany in September 1939, Morris, his parents, and 10 siblings were interned in the Jewish ghetto in Dabrowa Gornicza. From 1942-1944, the Germans transferred Morris through a series of camps: a labor camp in Szczcakowa, Sosnowitz and Annaberg concentration camps, and Gruenberg and Kretschamberg labor camps. In early 1945, Morris was in Kretschamberg labor camp when the Germans decided to evacuate the inmates because o...

  9. Bulgarian Peoples Bank of Ksanti, Fond 1222, Opis 1

    Contains dossiers of Jewish declarations of currency and assets held.

  10. Union of Journalists records (Fond 185, Opis 1)

    Contains the regulations of foreign journalists’ unions regarding welfare benefits, drafts of legislation regarding journalists in Bulgaria, and letters from establishments and private persons regarding foreign journalists in Bulgaria.

  11. Rosa Scholder letter

    Contains one letter written by Rosa Scholder asking whether Herbert Scholder and his parents, Julius and Lotte Scholder, had arrived in the United States, and about her own hope to leave Vienna and come to the United States.

  12. Eichmann Trial -- Session 83 -- Servatius examines Eichmann re: Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Serbia, Croatia, Greece

    The video begins in the middle of Session 83. Eichmann, having previously stated that he had nothing to do with postal matters, discusses a document in which mail censorship is mentioned. Eichmann explains that censorship of the mail was very important in Holland, given the country's proximity to England. Servatius presents a set of documents about diamond dealers and other tradesmen and the plan to deport these people to Auschwitz. Eichmann testifies to the role of SS Gruppenführer Gluecks and why he himself was sent to Holland for the meeting about the fate of these individuals (00:07:34)...

  13. Imre Ylles Hegedus postcards

    Contains three postcards from Imre Ylles Illes? Hegedus to his family which were mailed from a labor camp, mailed through the postal service, and hand delivered.

  14. Fur jacket

    Fur jacket worn by child in Lampertheim DP camp.

  15. Eichmann Trial -- Session 88 -- Cross-examination of the Accused about membership in the Nazi party and antisemitism

    The footage begins near the end of Session 88 during cross-examination of Eichmann by Attorney General Gideon Hausner. Hausner questions the accused about his dismissal from the Austrian Vacuum Oil Company. Eichmann maintains that he was dismissed because of his marital status and not because he joined the Nazi party. A small part of this section is duplicate footage also found on Tape 2123 (at 01:06:39). Hausner then asks about Eichmann's membership in the NSDAP, the SD, whether he joined these organizations of his own free will (00:03:52), and whether he ever tried to leave the Nazi party...

  16. Lehmann family photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs of the Lehmann family including Gertrud Elias Lehmann, her husband Siegfried Lehmann, and their daughter, Eva Charlotte in Berlin and Mallwischken, Germany. Siegfried Lehmann was the only surviving family member from the Holocaust.

  17. Fred Loeb papers

    Two Cuban entry permits issued by Manuel Benitez Gonzales, Director of Cuban Immigration, for members of the Loeb family and members of the Lehmann/Herz family.

  18. Wolf Baumgarten papers

    The Wolf Baumgarten papers consist of biographical materials documenting Baumgarten's Polish repatriation and the lives and deaths of his family members; correspondence between Baumgarten and his family and friends regarding their experiences in Prztytk, the Łódź and Szydłowiec ghettos, and the Soviet Union; scrip from the Łódź ghetto; photographs of Izak Baumgarten in Łódź, a burning synagogue, a Bytom synagogue, and Jewish men in Poland; and a Yizkor book for Przytyk.

  19. List of Westphalian Jews

    Contains a list of the names and fates of Jews who lived in towns in Westphalia, Germany, between 1933 and 1942.

  20. Roza and Rafal Lekach photograph collection

    The collections consists of 13 photographs depicting members of the Lekach and Itman families, Rafal Lekach and other soldiers of the First Division of the Polish Army, Roza Lekach with the Belorussian partisan group of Denisow, and a visit to a monument memorializing the 3,200 Jews who perished in the ghetto in Dzisna, Belarus.