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  2. Torah scroll torn into four pieces from a desecrated synagogue

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn11285
    • English
    • a: Height: 27.500 inches (69.85 cm) | Width: 52.500 inches (133.35 cm) b: Height: 27.625 inches (70.168 cm) | Width: 52.250 inches (132.715 cm) c: Height: 27.250 inches (69.215 cm) | Width: 59.375 inches (150.813 cm) d: Height: 27.625 inches (70.168 cm) | Width: 27.875 inches (70.803 cm)

    Torah scroll fragments from the Kluckygasse Synagogue in the 20th disctrict of Vienna, Austria, desecrated on Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. The Torah scroll may have been taken from the orthodox shul. The Torah was torn into four pices and left on the street. It was picked up by a non-Jewish civilian, who stored it in his attic until giving it to the Archive of the Austrian Resistance.

  3. Vinnitsa Oblast Archive records

    This collection contains various types of documents relating to the registration of Jews and Roma and Sinti; the confiscation, plundering, and disposition of Jewish property; labor policies regarding local-hire employees in agriculture and industry; anti-partisan activities; the registration of taxpayers; the ghettoization of Jews; the requirement to wear the Star of David; medical conditions in the ghettos; and aid to Romanian Jews from the Federation of Romanian Jews (Central Evreilor Bucharest). Included are name lists of Jews in forced labor, Jews working in civil administration offices...

  4. A letter from Daphne McLachlan about her experiences at Bergen-Belsen

    Testimony: One letter (two pages), from Daphne McLachlan to Rabbi Abraham Klausner, 1995, describing her experiences at Bergen-Belsen.

  5. Oral history interview with Dalibor Lovric

  6. Abba Kovner - Vilna

    Abba Kovner lived in disguise in a convent at the beginning of the German occupation in 1941. He was a central figure in the Zionist youth resistance movement in Vilna. He commanded an underground partisan resistance group throughout the war. He describes the way the Germans avoided panic among the Jews. Kovner maintains a poetic approach to Lanzmann's questions throughout the interview. This interview took place over two days in Kovner's Kibbutz Eyn Ha'horesh (between Nethania and Hadera). FILM ID 3236 -- Camera Rolls #2,3 -- 01:00:12 to 01:24:55 CR 2 01:00:12 Kovner sits outside on a park...

  7. Peter Bergson and Samuel Merlin - New York

    Peter Bergson and Samuel Merlin were activists in the United States during the war. They talk about conflicts with other Jewish groups, especially with Rabbi Stephen Wise. Bergson and his group organized the the We Will Never Die pageant and made other bold publicity moves aimed at influencing American policy in favor of helping the Jews of Europe. FILM ID 3254 -- Camera Rolls #48-50-- 01:00:18 to 01:33:18 Roll 48 01:00:18 Claude Lanzmann, Peter Bergson and Samuel Merlin sit inside a small meeting room around a table in New York City. Lanzmann, off-camera, asks the men about how the general...

  8. Corfu

    Lanzmann filmed the few surviving Jews of Corfou, Greece. Many are craftsmen who experienced deportation to Auschwitz and Birkenau. Some interviews take place in the synagogue and the cemetery. Additional reels of location filming show local merchants and shops. FILM ID 3406 -- Camera Rolls #4-11A -- Armando Aaron -- 01:00:08 to 01:24:10 Surviving Jews of Corfu walk down a street in Corfu, Greece with Lanzmann. The four survivors walk towards the camera. 01:03:05 Armando Aaron explains (in French) that on June 9, 1944, the Jews of Corfu (numbering 1,650) were ordered by the Germans to gathe...

  9. Commissariat général aux questions juives records

    Contains correspondence between the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ) and various offices such as the ministry of the interior, the finance ministry, military authorities, the German occupation authorities, associations for war orphans, and the ministry of education. Topics include the “Jewish Question,” the number of Jews in various regions, Jewish ex-servicemen, and Aryanization.

  10. Giulietta Donati Baquis story

    Testimony: photocopy of typescript (3 pages) and manuscript (2 pages), about author's experiences in Florence, Italy during Holocaust.

  11. Henry Hanski papers

    The papers consist of two Signal Corps photographs of corpses at a concentration camp and twenty pages from a publication of camp and ghetto songs and poems.

  12. British enemy

    Reel 7 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...

  13. Trude Schiff passport

    The passport ("Reisepass") was issued to Frau Hans Schiff [donor] in Cologne (Köln), Germany.

  14. Select committee records of the U.S. Congress relating to the Investigation into the Katyn Forest massacre

    Contains information about the Congressional Investigation which took place circa 1951-1952, looking into the Katyn Forest Massacre (execution of several thousand Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest).

  15. 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 ...

  16. Max Botie passport

    The Polish passport ("Paszport") was issued to Max Botie, a German Jewish man.

  17. Marturiile Lui Felix Braunstein

    Contains information about the deportation and killing of Jews in Iași.

  18. Suitcase

  19. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda

    Reel 9 This feature film dramatizes the evils of the "bolschewistische Weltvernichtung"[Bolshevik destruction of the world] using the tools of the Soviet secret police GPU and the Comintern to spread anarchy and chaos. Peter Assmuss, a Baltic German student in Riga in the summer of 1939, is innocently drawn into the net of a high-ranking GPU agent Nikolai Bockscha and forced to participate in killing a dissident Armenian national leader in Kovno. Peter hides in Rotterdam with the ethnic German Irina, the secretary of the killed. Eventually they are caught and tortured by the GPU in the cell...

  20. Oral history interview with Melvin Goldfarb