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  1. Ruth Elias - Theresienstadt, Auschwitz

    Ruth Elias was a Czech Jew who was sent with her family to Theresienstadt, where she became pregnant. She managed to hide her condition in Auschwitz but was eventually discovered and she and her baby were experimented upon by Mengele. She speaks of these experiences and of her solidarity with other women prisoners. FILM ID 3112 -- Camera Rolls #1-2 -- 01:00:13 to 01:14:46 Ruth Elias tells of her early life growing up in Czechoslovakia. She describes the Germans entering Czechoslovakia in 1939. The foreman of her father's factory immediately seized it from him and the family lost their flat....

  2. "The Black Fox"

    Screenplay based on "Reynard the Fox," adapted from a Franco-German folk tale of the 12th century by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which draws parallels between man's inhumanity to man as portrayed in the folk tale and that was seen in Hitler's Germany. The film was produced by Image Productions, Inc. and narrated by Marlene Dietrich.

  3. Gustaw Alef Bolkowiak - Warsaw

    Gustaw Alef-Bolkowiak (Bolkoviac) addresses the tension between Polish and Jewish resistance movements and the question of Polish antisemitism. He talks about arms in the Warsaw ghetto, the Bund, the Zegota Council to aid the Jews of Poland, Poles who hid Jews, and Communist partisans. FILM ID 3373 -- Camera Rolls #1-4 -- 01:00:00 to 01:18:05 Note: There is no transcript for Rolls #1-4 (it is either nonexistent or missing). Lanzmann says he wants to talk about Bolkowiak's involvement as a leader of the Communist Resistance movement in the Warsaw ghetto and describes that he is particularly ...

  4. Transcending trauma: exploring psychological mechanisms of survival and marriage council 1991-1992 annual report

    Reports relating to postwar trauma of Holocaust survivors.

  5. Wedding in Brussels

    Albert Günther Hess and Ilse Sobel getting married at the courthouse in Brussels. Film shows the couple entering and leaving the courthouse (probably the municipal building in Uccle) and a wedding party hosted by friends.

  6. Maurice Rossel's ICRC visit to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz

    This film features Claude Lanzmann's interview with Maurice Rossel, conducted in 1979 for Lanzmann's epic film "Shoah". Rossel was the Swiss delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Berlin. The central task of the delegates was to visit camps to control the observance of the Geneva Convention and the delivery of aid packages. In an official capacity, Rossel was asked to inspect Theresienstadt, a ghetto where Nazis housed wealthy and socially prominent Jews who were being temporarily spared from execution, in June 1944. Rossel admits that he gave Theresienstadt a cl...

  7. Celina's story: a wartime childhood memoir

    The personal narrative describes the Holocaust experiences of Celina Hecht (born Celina Friedmann), originally of Warsaw, Poland, who survived the war as a hidden child along with her twin sister Fay Nadaner (born Fela Friedmann).

  9. The Jew Connoisseur Der Judenkenner (Berlin, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Benjamin and Sophie Esterman were American citizens who were traveling in Europe, and visited Germany in order to see for themselves and to inform others where Nazism was going.

  10. Gebhardt testifies at Medical trial

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MS, defendant Karl Gebhardt testifies from witness stand. His counsel, Seidl Ratz, occasionally puts a question to the witness.

  11. Margot Karp papers

    Original pass for the Office of Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, dated 28 November 1946; also includes two photographs, an original search warrant.

  12. Charles Winter collection

    Consists of copies of directives (captured German records) from the Reich Chief of Police and Ministry of the Interior signature blocks by Daluege and Himmler, NSDAP directives, other Police and Nazi Party Officials, etc. Some have handwritten signatures and annotations. These documents mainly relate to Nazi policies and they give some information pertaining to religious intolerance during the Holocaust.

  13. Bruce Neuburger papers

    Contains a bound, self-published book containing biographies of various members of Neuburger family, and photocopies of documents used in trial of Benno Neuberger in Berlin in 1948.

  14. Records relating to the property of Rudolf Neugass

    Contains information on the confiscated property and subsequent postwar restitution claim of the donor's cousin.

  16. Alfred Spiess

    Alfred Spiess was a prosecutor of the Treblinka trial. He talks about the reorganization of the camp and gas chambers. FILM ID 3895 -- CR 1-4 Lanzmann asks Spiess how he felt when he was given the task of conducting an investigation for the Treblinka trial. Spiess says the trial presented many challenges; one primary concern was how to care for the witnesses. He created a model of the camp to be used for reference throughout the trial since, unlike other camps, Treblinka had been almost entirely destroyed. They created a sketch of the camp which Franz Stangl claimed was 100% accurate. In al...

  17. Sketch

  18. "Symbol of survival: concentration camp money of the Nazi Holocaust"

    Discusses money used in various concentration camps.

  19. Harry Kranz collection

    Contains photographs (33) and copy of typescript text (6 pages), describing a visit made by the donor to his parents' ancestral village in Poland in 1985 to seek traces of the Jewish cemetery and other buildings.

  20. A family history

    Contains a typescript testimony containing the family history of the Todtenkopf family from Gross Konarzyny, in Pomerania, prepared by Harry Todtenkopf. Includes a fold-out family tree.