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  1. Karl Freising collection

    Correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to Karl Freising's immigration to the United States, his attempts to find employment, a legal dispute with another refugee, and correspondence concerning his attempts to get his mother, Emilie, out of Germany.

  2. Button

  3. Sketch

  4. Oral history interview with Tibor Kovacs

  5. Small red bag with ball of yarn

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn11828
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) b: Diameter: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)

  6. Freezing experiments presented at Medical trial

    (Munich 480) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MLS Prosecutor Alexander Hardy speaking of the freezing experiment reports. MLS, Hardy reads a letter from Sigmund Rascher who writes of his work and asks for captured Russians to be used for freezing experiments. MS, defendants in dock.

  7. Assembled shots (Poland and Israel)

    Assembled color negative rolls containing location filming of Poland and Israel for SHOAH. The original color negatives were received in cans labeled "Tu Ne Commetras Pas Le Crime," 1991. The prints were in cans marked "Retirages de Shoah" which roughly translates to "Miscellaneous Reprints of Shoah". FILM ID 3196 -- Bobine 3. Retirages de Shoah (43:16) [Tu ne commetras pas de crime Boite G. Łódź] 00:42 Slate reads 'Cracovie' (Krakow); shots of three war-era photographs: many people walking in the street, carrying their belongings in large sacs; a soldier in uniform stands on a set of troll...

  8. Jacob Arnon

    Jacob Arnon was a Dutch Jew and leader of a Zionist student organization. Arnon's uncle was one of the chairmen of the Jewish Council [Judenrat] in Amsterdam, and though he admired his uncle greatly, he condemns the Council's actions, especially their choice of whom to deport. Arnon's uncle survived the war but the two never spoke again. FILM ID 3265 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:18 to 01:29:12 [CLIP 1 BEGINS] Mr. Jacob (Ya'akov) Arnon, born Jaap van Amerongen, sits outside on a balcony and holds a pipe. There are some construction and other noises in the background. The image is soft when ...

  9. Selected records from the Odessa Oblast Archives, Izmail branch

    Contains records on Transnistria region (Ukraine) related to economic, administrative, religious and political matters. Collection consists of correspondence, name lists, orders, instructions from the Governor's office, Ministry of Internal Affairs and police offices pertaining to political, moral, and economic condition of the population. Includes material on Communist and Komsomol party activities, Jewish and Roma labor camps, various religious sects, and lists of persons working in the "Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle."

  10. The Sigmund Gorson collection

    Contains typescript memoirs and news clippings, mostly from the 1970s and later, concerning a Holocaust survivor in Pennsylvania.

  11. Feiga Kerzner receipts

    The Feiga Kerzner receipts consist of receipts Feiga and Benzion Kerzner received from the Soviet Consulate in Tehran documenting some of their donations of large sums of money, Persian carpets, shoes, and other supplies to the Red Army as their contribution in the fight against Hitler.

  12. Joseph R. Beyrle collection

    Memoir of Joseph Beyrle's [donor] wartime service; articles pertaining to donor as a POW.

  13. Red painted hand stamp with Geheim for Secret

  14. Oral history interview with Robert St. John

  15. Lublin and Majdanek

    Location filming of scenes in Lublin and Majdanek camp for SHOAH. FILM ID 4641 -- Lublin Ville (white 11) Empty streets and alleyways in Lublin. FILM ID 4642 -- Majdanek (white 12) Outer perimeter of the concentration camp, Majdanek. Some interior shots. (06:46) Tour group. (10:50) Lanzmann stands in a clearing, speaking French. Camera focuses on interiors. (25:33) Driving around the perimeter of the camp.

  16. Index of prisoners in the Hasag Pelcery labor camp in Częstochowa Kartoteka wiezniów obozu pracy Hasag Pelcery w Czestochowie (Sygn. 207)

    Contains the index of 4,724 prisoner names, some Jewish, from the Hasag Pelcery (Pelzery) forced labor camp in Częstochowa, Poland, which operated from circa June 1943 to circa January 1945. The index contains biographical information for each prisoner including, but not limited to, prisoner name, prisoner identification number, date of birth, occupation, prisoner's residence before coming to Hasag Pelcery, and prisoner's work assignment in the camp. The index cards are undated.

  17. Karl Targownik papers

    The Karl Targownik papers consist of biographical materials and restitution files documenting Targownik’s partially successful efforts to receive compensation for damages he suffered during his internment in the Bochnia ghetto, Płaszów labor camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau. Biographical materials include birth certificates, tracing materials, continuing medical education documentation, and military service papers documenting Karl Targownik’s birth in Hungary, the ghettos and camps he endured during the Holocaust, continuing medical education courses he attended in the 19...

  18. Eva Eiseman papers

    The papers consist of documents and a photograph relating to the Cohen family of Hamburg, Germany, and their escape from Nazi Germany to Montevideo, Uruguay, on the ship "General Artigas."

  19. Sketch

  20. Auschwitz

    Location filming of Auschwitz and Birkenau in winter for SHOAH. FILM ID 3451 -- Auschwitz 48D-64B / Birkenau int. camp (white label 69) -- 01:00:13 to 01:14:25 Museum sign on Auschwitz-Birkenau grounds in four languages regarding the cremating pits, mass transports, and extermination. WS sign, remains of crematorium in BG, guard-tower. WS building remains, sign regarding the destruction of the crematorium by the Sonderkommando in 1944. Pan of snow-covered camp grounds. Quick shot of Lanzmann with fur hat standing in the field. CU, reeds, barbed wire fence, building remains, pan. 01:05:13 HA...