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  1. Inge Deutschkron

    Inge Deutschkron, a German Jew who appears only briefly in Lanzmann's completed film, witnessed the increasing persecution and violence in Berlin, including the promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht. Her father escaped to England but she and her mother remained behind and went into hiding in 1943. Lanzmann interviews her in a coffee house in Berlin in which she remembers seeing a "Jews Not Wanted" sign during the Nazi years. FILM ID 3420 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:08 to 01:33:06 CR 1 Inge Deutschkron sits in a café speaking with Lanzmann. She expresses feeling strange, sin...

  2. Report of Joseph Weinstock

    Testimony: typescript, 2 pages, giving brief description of Weinstock's experiences: from Wiewiorka, Poland; interned in Pustinia ghetto, labor camp at Rzeszow, and then Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald, and loss of entire family.

  3. Oral history interview with Myer Glick

  4. SS embossed portfolio cover

  6. Ehud Avriel

    Ehud Avriel was born in Vienna and became active in escape and rescue operations after the Germans invaded. He continued this work once he reached Palestine in 1939. Avriel later held several positions in the Israeli government. FILM ID 3100 -- Camera Rolls #1-4 -- 01:00:07 to 01:33:11 Roll 1 01:00:07 Ehud Avriel sits in a chair in front of a window overlooking the ocean, most likely in a hotel or office in Tel Aviv, Israel. Claude Lanzmann remains off camera while he asks Avriel questions about the missions he was involved in during the war. Avriel was part of a group of emissaries called ...

  7. Lutz questioned at Medical trial

    (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Prosecutor Alexander Hardy reads a letter from the Waffen SS to the Luftwafffe asking that Dr. Rascher be transferred to the SS. 02:14:40 Prosecutor James McHaney asks that Wolfang Lutz be called to the stand. Lutz is sworn in. McHaney questions Lutz about his medical career. Camera remains on defendants and lawyers as Lutz is examined. MS, three judges on bench.

  8. Papers relating to the life and achievements of Ela-Chaim Cunzer

    Magisterium Dissertation in Mathematics, "On Convex and Subharmonic Functions," by Ela-Chaim Cunzer. Copy of original and translation from Polish by Krzysztof Wlodarski. Foreword and background notes by Esther Rudomin Hautzig. University of Wilno Documents relating to Mr.Cunzer's dissertation and his application to the University in Polish and Latin. Documents in Polish and Latin: index of courses l grade book copies; permission to use library; copies of receipts of payment for studies; examination documents. Paper and electronic copies of University of Chicago World Wide Web site relating ...

  9. A memoir

    Contains a photocopy of a typescript testimony, in Polish.

  10. The Nuremberg Laws Nuremberg Race Law teaching chart for explaining blood purity laws

    German Nuremberg Law teaching chart that distinguishes the hierarchal difference between German-blooded individuals, Jews, and those in between, distributed in 1936. The chart separates individuals into three “races”: German-Blooded, Jews, and Mischling (part Jewish) based on their grandparent’s race. Mischling are further broken down into two grades: first class, those who are half-Jewish (two Jewish grandparents); and second class, those who are one quarter Jewish (one Jewish grandparent). These three “races” were codified by the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of Ger...

  11. Postage stamp

  12. David Kalinsky collection

    Consists of letters, certificates, family tree, photographs, English translations, etc., which relate to the plight of members of the donor's family during the Holocaust and their postwar experiences.

  13. Roswell McClelland

    Roswell McClelland was the US Representative to the War Refugee Board (WRB) in Switzerland before serving as a US Ambassador to the Republic of Niger. In this interview with Claude Lanzmann, McClelland recounts his personal experiences, his motivations, and his work with the WRB. The interview was filmed at the home of James MacGregor Byrne and June Byrne in Chevy Chase, MD (friends of Mr. McClelland). FILM ID 3432 -- Camera Rolls #63-68 -- 01:00:30 to 01:28:35 01:00:30 CR63 Claude Lanzmann and Roswell McClelland sit at a round table with notes and binders laid out between them. The wooden ...

  14. Livia Molnar Bergen papers

    Consists of certificates, correspondence, and permits related to the Holocaust experiences of Livia Molnar (later Bergen), originally of Budapest, Hungary. After dropping out of a death march from the Kristianstadt concentration camp due to frozen feet, Ms. Molnar was arrested and sent to an auxiliary hospital near Hoyerswerda, where she spent several months recovering. Includes identity and travel passes related to her post-war return to Budapest, hospital documents, correspondence she received at the hospital, and a restitution document.

  15. Abramo Segre letter

    Contains a photocopy of a newspaper clipping, from an unidentified Italian newspaper, with English translation. The article reprints the text of a letter from a man (Abramo Segre) who wrote to his fiancee during his deportation journey, and threw the letter out of the train, where it was eventually delivered to his fiancee. Segre was ultimately killed at Auschwitz.

  16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

  17. Adolf Eichmann trial ticket

    The ticket was issued to Laurence Ottenstein for admission to the trial of Adolf Eichmann on June 8, 1961, in Jerusalem.

  18. British enemy

    Reel 8 Michael O'Brien, an Irish rebel leader from Dublin, is hanged in 1903 by the British for subversion and high treason. His eighteen-year-old son, also named Michael O'Brien, is sent to St. Edwards College -- a boarding school specifically aimed at making Irish children 'think English' by tight surveillance and ideological education. There, a fellow student collects information for his uncle at the British Secret Service. As a result, Patrick O'Connor unconsciously betrays Michael's widowed mother for harboring Irish freedom fighters even though he eventually joins the rebels' cause. O...

  19. Oral history interview with Frances Hirshfeld

  20. Rostock questioned at Medical trial; von Papen sentenced at Nuremberg trial

    (Munich 522) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Pribilla questioning Rostock. HS, judges. Pan to Pribilla as voice of Rostock is heard. (Rostock is off-screen). 04:13:30 (Munich 523) Verdict Day at von Papen Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, February 24, 1947. SILENT. Von Papen walking down aisle in courtroom. Judges enter. Judge Sashs, presiding, brings the court to order. 01:15:09 Von Papen with his son, his attorney, and Dr. Sybil. EXT of Nuremberg Rathaus where trial was held. Von Papen stands and listens to verdict. Judge reads the...