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  1. Book

  2. Never say never

    The partisan's song (Jewish resistance theme song).

  3. Leslie Van de Ven collection

    Materials regarding Gerard Van De Ven, a Dutch university student who resisted the Nazis.

  4. Franz Suchomel

    Lanzmann interviewed Franz Suchomel, who was with the SS at Treblinka, in secret at the Hotel Post in April 1976. This was the first interview Lanzmann filmed with the newly developed hidden camera known as the Paluche, and he paid Suchomel 500 DM. In the outtakes, Suchomel provides further details about the treatment of Jews at the camp, as well as a more ambivalent memory of his experiences than is apparent in the released "SHOAH". FILM ID 3753 -- Camera Rolls 1-2 Lanzmann asks Suchomel to describe his arrival at Treblinka and Suchomel tells of his shock at finding himself with seven othe...

  5. Sketch

  6. Pery Broad

    Pery Broad spent two years as a guard in Auschwitz Birkenau. Broad voluntarily wrote a report of his activities whilst working for the British as a translator in a POW camp after the war. The Broad Report corroborates extermination installations and the burning of corpses. This interview was filmed in 1979 with a hidden camera, known as a Paluche, which caught fire. FILM ID 3438 -- Camera Rolls 1A -- 02:00:18 to 02:12:29 Lanzmann and Broad begin the interview by discussing the recently presented television miniseries, Holocaust. Broad states that he can face the past, but cannot dominate it...

  7. Bijvoegsel van de Nederlandse Staatscourant van Donderdag

    Contains supplements to the publication "Nederlanse Staatscourant," consisting of lists compiled by the Dutch Ministry of Justice accounting for missing Dutch residents and their likely or recorded fates after arrest and deportation during German occupation.

  8. A new dawn, a new hope for man

    Collection of poems, essays, and thoughts from students while reading literature from the Holocaust, specifically literature by Anne Frank. Other literature on prejudices are also included.

  9. Hans Gewecke

    Lanzmann used a false name and filmed this interview with a hidden camera. See his description of filming Gewecke in his memoir The Patagonian Hare, published 2009 by Farrar Strauss and Giroux, pages 456-457. Gewecke was the Gebietskommissar of Siauliai, Lithuania. In 1971 he was convicted and sentenced to four and a half years in prison for participation in the execution of a Jewish baker for smuggling. Gewecke is evasive about when he arrived in Siauliai, stating that the killing actions there took place "before my time." He claims that he was not a crass anti-Semite and provides as proof...

  10. Handbill

    German Weekly Review, Nr.85

  11. Liturgy for Yom Hashoah and Haatzmaut Shabbat services

    Publication: Order of worship for Yom Ha-Shoah service at Temple Akiba, Culver City, CA, in the year 5742 (1982). Booklet compiled by Rabbi Allen S. Maller, printed, 48 pages.

  12. Abraham family papers

    The Abraham family papers contain documents and photographs pertaining to Walter and Ruth Abraham, a German-Jewish family, as well as their siblings and parents. During the Holocaust, the Abraham family evaded capture by hiding in several non-Jewish German homes. The documents consist mainly of identification papers such as birth and marriage certificates and identity cards for the Abraham family. Also included are post-war identification material for Walter’s mother Elsa Abraham, and a declaration of death for Ruth’s mother Henriette. Other documents include documentation for Ruth’s sister...

  13. Rostock interrogated at Medical trial

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. LS, MS, defendant Paul Rostock is interrogated by the prosecutor James McHaney.

  14. Jacqueline K. Holland papers

    Contains a photocopied journal, written by Francois Montel, about events in Compiegne, France, from April to June 1942. Also includes photographs, a postcard, and an explanatory note from the donor.

  15. Central Committee of Jews in Poland, People's Courts. Centraly Komitet Żydów w Polsce. Sądy Społeczne (Sygn.313)

    Contains case files from the Courts Division of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland documenting Jewish individuals’ collaboration with the Nazis in the ghettos and concentration camps. Includes name lists of collaborators with Germans.

  16. Fernande Susanne Epler passport

    The passport ("Reisepass") was issued to Fernande Susanne Epler [donor] in Vienna, Austria.

  17. Remember never to forget

    Contains information about Rose Eizikovic Bohm's experiences in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia under Ukrainian, Hungarian, and German occupation; in the Papul, Czechoslovakia, ghetto; her deportation to Birkenau concentration camp; her transfer to "Lager C" of Auschwitz concentration camp; her transfer back to Birkenau; her memories of selections by Josef Mengele; her transfer to an unnamed labor camp; her transfer to a camp near Salzwedel, Germany; her liberation on April 12, 1945; her return to Czechoslovakia; her emigration to Israel in 1949; and her immigration to the United States in ...

  18. Oral history interview with Judith Meisel

  19. Bedrich Bass - Prague

    Bedrich Bass discusses the present-day Jewish community in Czechoslovakia and the cost of maintaining the old Jewish cemetery in Prague. FILM ID 3888 -- 1,2 son seuls (audio only) FILM ID 3889 -- 4-6

  20. David R. Hubbard collection

    Contains a letter and nine photographs recounting a visit of U.S. Army Sgt. David Hubbard to liberated Buchenwald camp in May 1945. The letter is addressed to Hubbard's parents and describes what he saw at the camp site. Also includes a photocopy of an article from a magazine, undated, circa 1990s, titled "WWII War Stores, South Carolina," recounting Hubbard's experiences.