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  1. Heinz Schubert - Einsatzgruppen

    Lanzmann used the false name Dr. Sorel and filmed this interview clandestinely. Heinz Schubert was Otto Ohlendorf's adjutant in Einsatzgruppe D. He was sentenced to death in the Einsatzgruppen trial at Nuremberg for his role in the massacre of Jews in the Crimean town of Simferopol. His sentence was commuted to ten years in prison. Schubert never admits to much criminal or moral guilt. The interview ends when Schubert discovers that Lanzmann has been filming it. Several men, among them Schubert's son, attack Lanzmann and his interpreter, Corinna Coulmas. The Schuberts pressed charges agains...

  2. Prayer book

    Jewish prayer book issued by U.S. government and carried by U.S. soldier during WWII.

  3. Israel

    Location filming of the desert landscape, cemeteries, the city of Jerusalem, and life at the seashore in Tel Aviv, Israel for SHOAH. FILM ID 3611 -- Tel Aviv. Bor de Mer. Prieres Dizengov People milling about the seaside in Tel Aviv. Camera pans out to show more people on the beach and cars parked on the grass. Two armed soldiers walk by and smile at the camera. 01:01:38 Man holds clapper indicating camera roll 85. People fishing, children look at the camera filming them. Camera pans over beach and shore. Camera focuses in on a mother talking to her young son, then out over the sea and coas...

  4. Walter and Elizabeth Richards family papers

    The Walter and Elizabeth Richards family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, restitution files, and subject files documenting a German Jewish family from Berlin, some family members’ escape to Argentina, the United States, and England, the deaths of Elizabeth Richards’ parents at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, and postwar efforts to receive restitution for confiscated money and property. Biographical materials include a 1922 German citizenship form for the Lewin family, employment information for Gyuri Olah, Hans Reich, and Walter Richards, emigration forms...

  5. Maurice Rossel - Red Cross

    As a representative of the Swiss Red Cross in 1944, Maurice Rossel was asked to inspect Theresienstadt. He admits that he gave Theresienstadt a clean bill of health and would probably do so again today. He was also given a tour of Auschwitz, which he did not realize was a death camp. Lanzmann's questioning points to the degree to which Rossel and others were manipulated by the Nazis and to what extent they were willing to be fooled because of their own politics and prejudices. This interview is the basis of Lanzmann's 1999 documentary "A Visitor from the Living" [Un vivant qui passe]. FILM ...

  6. Doris Izes collection

    Documents regarding donor's attempt to obtain immigration papers for a family member.

  7. Siegmund Levarie collection

    Postcard addressed to Sophie Löenherz; mentions Erna Patak, first president of the Austrian section of the WIZO.

  8. Photographs of victim of an unknown concentration camp or labor camp in Germany

    Contains a photograph of a dead inmate at unidentified camp following liberation, with a United States Army medic looking on. Written caption on back identifies medic as "Milton Baker from Michigan, 2nd Armored Division in Germany."

  9. The stories of the families Bach and Herz (Wolf - Mayer)

    Contains a personal testimony and a detailed family history of the Bach and Herz families.

  10. Taylor reads indictment at Medical trial; defendants

    (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MLS, General Telford Taylor, in speaking of Rostock, Rose, Handloser, and Schroeder, states that they held eminent positions in international medicine. Backgrounds of some defendants given. Taylor reads indictment of Brandt, Handloser, Rostock, Schroeder, Rose, Romberg, Backer-Freysing, and Weltz, who speak to their lawyers during recess. Shot of Herta Oberhauser leaving courtroom. Taylor addressing the court. CU, board showing relations between government and defendants. CU of General ...

  11. Harry Posmantier and family papers

    Contains photographs of a relative who died at Auschwitz and a photograph of the donor's brother, Sam, who was a Jewish policeman at Landsberg DP camp. There also is a photocopy of his postwar ID certificate.

  12. History of Jewish community of Willmars in Germany

    Contains a letter from the mayor of Willmars, Germany, Gerhard Schaetzlein, written to the donor in 1995, along with with copies of contemporary documents about the history of Jews in Willmars, which Schaetzlein said he had been collecting in order to write a history of this town.

  14. Ingrid Decker papers

    Consist of three manuscripts in German and English relating to the life of Elizabeth Koch-Thau during the Holocaust. They were written by Ingrid Decker [donor] in German and translated into English by her daughter. Contains another manuscript in German written by the donor entitled "Die Polenreise" along with some poems written by other authors.

  15. Bendix Landau memoirs

    Consists of a copy of 40 excerpted pages from memoirs by Bendix Landau, of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, addressing the circumstances of his deportation in September 1942 and his subsequent internment in Theresienstadt. Later pages concern Bendix's mobilization during WWI and military life.

  16. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark coin

    20 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  17. Nazi feature film on espionage, British agents, German rearmament

    Plot Summary: In this feature film set in 1936, Mr. Morris operates a British espionage ring based in Berlin that is eager to receive information about secret German rearmament plans. He is successful when he bribes a broke engineer involved in the construction of a new artillery cannon and places an agent in a military airport testing a new type of bomber. However, when Morris deliberately makes the acquaintance with the girlfriend of Hans Klemm, a soldier running in new tanks, he encounters trouble. He initially makes some progress by utilizing the soldier's friendliness and naiveté, but ...

  18. The Hugo Princz case

    Narrative about the donor's incarceration in concentration camps as an American national and his attempts to receive restitution from the German government.

  19. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 486) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. German civilian attorneys cross-examining an unidentified witness. Witness Walter Neff is sworn in and is informed by Walter Beals, the President of the Tribunal, that since he may be tried as a war criminal later on he can refuse to answer any questions which in his opinion will incriminate him.

  20. Book