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  1. Lidia Pierz photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs of the donor and family and friends from Borysław, Poland (now Boryslav, Ukraine), who perished in the Holocaust: Zygfryd Rappaport [donor's first husband]; Marceli Aleksander Egert [donor's brother; perished in Brzuchowice concentration camp]; Nela Egent [donor's sister; perished in Brzuchowice concentration camp]; Leon and Roza Egert [donor's parents; perished in Brzuchowice concentration camp].

  2. Triumph of the Will: 1934 Sixth Nazi Party Conference in Nuremberg

    Title: "Sixth Party Congress Excerpts from an Official Party Film "Triumph of the Will" 4-10 September 1934" 01:39:02 Series of German titles in pseudo-Gothic font, to 01:39:48 Rudolf Hess opens the party congress, and acknowledges the late Field Marshal von Hindenburg and their colleagues who have gone before them, as all stand. To 01:40:49 Hess continues speech, acknowledging international visitors and the Wehrmacht, then begins speaking directly to "mein Fuehrer." Great applause, cutaways, as he tells Hitler, " You are Germany." Hitler, Hess, Goering, Rosenberg, and several other Nazis s...

  4. Dachau war crime trial ticket

    Pre-printed ticket for entrance to the Dachau War Crime Trial. Handwritten notation in ink, "220- Mr.Singleton or Capt. Hardly, Air Traffic Service, 5th ACS Wing" with graphite notations on verso.

  6. Identification tag issued to a forced laborer in the Warsaw ghetto

    Identification tag 7190 issued in summer 1942 to Gina Tabaczynska whil a forced laborer of the Schultz Firma in the Warsaw Ghetto. The tag was supposed to protect the owner from deportation. In November 1940, the Tabaczynski family fled Klodawa, Poland, because of the anti-Jewish persecution of the German occupaton authorities. They were later forced into the Warsaw ghetto. Gina, her parents, her brother, Pawel, and his wife, Bela, worked in the business office of the Schultz Firma which protected them from deportation through the spring of 1943. In April 1943, when the Germans began to liq...

  7. Anita Sockol collection

    The Anita Sockol collection consists of two postcards and an autograph album that belonged to Anita Plachte (later Sockol), from mid-1930s, brought out of Nazi-occupied Europe.

  8. Berlin AJDC Tracing Office, 1945-1947 [Book]

    An American Joint Distribution Committee Publication in memory of the Jewish Holocaust survivors of Berlin, Germany.

  9. Selected records from the Central State Archives of Lithuania (Fond R-973/1-3 and Fond R-1390)

    Contains selected records of Fond R-973 (Jewish ghetto police in Kaunas, reels 1–51), including police daily reports, statistics, correspondence, investigations and the ghetto court cases relating to events in Kaunas ghetto, including activities of armed Lithuanian “partisans." Includes registration books of investigation cases, listing and personal files of ghetto police, various police officer lists, lists of deportees, hospital records, the Kaunas ghetto-plan with marked houses, and Josef Schlesinger drawings. Contains also selected records collected by the Vilnius Jewish Museum, Fond R-...

  10. Rafael Pijade collection

    Contains a written memoir, 14 audiocassettes, articles about Jews in the Yugoslav Resistance Movement from 1941-1945, photocopies of pictures of family members, and photocopies of general articles written about the Holocaust.

  11. Antisemitic Campaign opens: Boycott, Bookburning

    "Part 2: Acquiring Totalitarian Control of Germany, 1933-1935." Title: "Opening of the Official Anti-Semitic Campaign 1 April 1933" Minister for Public Enlightenment & Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, launches antisemitic campaign in Berlin Lustgarten. Original sound, Goering addresses a cheering crowd. Boycott of Jewish shops, Berlin. Crowds. SA men chant slogans from truck in the streets: "Germans, protect yourselves. Don't buy from the Jews." On doorway the sign with skull: "Achtung Juden". On closed stores the sign "Jude" painted on window. Party members put up signs, hold back crowds, ...

  12. Women survivors; corpses; execution

    "Crime et Chatiment" [ECPA handwritten notes indicate that these are Jewish women at "Camp Transit d'Allach."] Women survivors. Young, showing numbers on arms, holding pictures of themselves before the war. Sign: "...Dachau" ; "Waffen SS" HAS, camp courtyard with survivors. "X" on back. Cages. Near gas chamber, man in striped uniform showing INT of gas chamber (dark). Pile of corpses. Carrying corpse inside shack. Pile of clothing. Bodies on wagon. American/French? soldiers escort man to his execution. Firing squad.

  13. Allen and Jenny Zuman photograph collection

    The collection consists of four photographs of Jenny Solomson Zuman's family in Vilna, Poland (currently Vilnius, Lithuania), all victims of the Holocaust, including Eddie Solomson, Shejnke Solomson, and Cheryn Gitle.

  14. "Studenternes Efterretnigstjeneste"

    Contains copies of a newspaper entitled "Studenternes Efterretningstjeneste," with information about the arrests of members of the Danish population by the Gestapo. Studenternes Efterretningstjeneste (SE) was an underground resistance organization in Denmark.

  15. Directorate of the Ustaška nadzorna služba (UNS), Jewish section

    Disposition of formerly Jewish-owned property, establishment of superior “Aryan” rights, exemptions from the requirement to wear the star of David, lists of Jews deported to camps.

  16. OSE home for Jewish boys

    OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) home for Jewish boys in Ecouis, France. The teenage boys had been liberated from Buchenwald just three months prior. The boys dance. 00:02:46 The boy carrying a suitcase is Israel Meir Lau. The teenage boys engage in sports, visit the city and some board a bus and wave goodbye, perhaps emigrating to Palestine or other places. A memorial service/parade and display of models the boys made in a woodworking class. They socialize with girls and build a fire.

  17. Invasion of Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands

    Title: "1940 " Title: "Invasion of Denmark and Norway, 9 April 1940" LSs of battleships, Nazi flag flying, men on deck. MCU, large gun, infantry with machine guns, troops looking through glasses, planes flying above harbor, Nazi troops parading through streets of Denmark, boats landing at Copenhagen. INT, airplane loaded with troops and bicycles. Airview of Norway coast. Planes landing, soldiers marching from field. Radio tower being guarded, view of Oslo with Nazi soldier on guard in FG, bombing of docks and marching through the streets. Title: "Invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands, 10 ...

  18. Agnes Papier photographs

    The collection consists of three photographs of a concentration camp immediately after liberation.

  19. Liro KZ-Nebenlager Lieberose: Drei starben im KZ-Nebenlager Lieberose: Das Schicksal der juedischen Familie Wollner

    Contains a booklet, 41 pages, with photocopied photographs and biographical information about the fate of the Wollner family during the Holocaust.

  20. Harry Ehrismann papers

    The Harry Ehrismann papers consist of an unbound scrapbook created by Ehrismann documenting the voyage of the MS St. Louis, its return to Europe, and the selection of passengers to be transferred to the Netherlands. The first folder includes correspondence; notes; a report by C.G. van Dalfsen and Gilles Hendrik van Helden (inspectors of the Municipal Police of Rotterdam) describing the selection of refugees to be welcomed by the Netherlands; a list of those passengers; a registration card for Hannelore Klein; and three name cards worn by passengers Hannelore Klein, Hilde Pander, and Martin ...