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  1. British enemy

    Reel 1 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...

  2. Kate L. Lesser collection

    One letter is from donor's brother, Hermann Lesser, who is in Palestine through the efforts of Youth Aliyah. Donor went to England on a Kindertransport. Second letter is from donor's mother, Elsa Lesser, who escaped to Cuba. Last letter was written by donor to her mother one year after leaving Berlin.

  3. Postage stamp

  4. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda

    Reel 6 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...

  5. Joseph Goebbels photograph

    Contains a photographic print of Joseph Goebbels, taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

  6. Oral history interview with Morris Wollach

  7. Oral history interview with Mia Fendler Immerman

  8. Julius Schellenberg papers

    The Julius Schellenberg papers consist of biographical and genealogical materials, correspondence, and restitution files documenting Schellenberg’s family, his immigration to the United States, communications with friends and family who remained in Germany or also immigrated to America, and his efforts to receive restitution for the confiscation or forced sale of his parents’ property. Biographical and genealogical materials include Schellenberg’s birth certificate, genealogical research, and a family tree. Correspondence files consist of letters and postcard between Schellenberg and his fa...

  9. Simha Rotem and Itzhak Zuckerman

    Simha Rotem and Itzhak Zuckerman talk about their involvement in the Jewish combat organization in the Warsaw ghetto and the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The interview with both men takes place at the Ghetto Fighters House in Israel on October 4, 1979. Mr. Rotem was interviewed separately in his apartment in Jerusalem on October 6, 1979. FILM ID 3745 -- Camera Rolls 1-4 Lanzmann says they are standing outside of the Ghetto Fighters House. Lanzmann has brought a model of the Warsaw Ghetto to reference when describing the uprising. Rotem joined the Jewish Combat Organization in 1942. He worked at ...

  10. Alfred Haas collection

    Contains three undated photographs of Alfred Haas' law class circa 1920s (Haas is not identified in any of the three photographs) and photocopies of fragments of the August 20, 1934 issue of "Mainzer Anzeiger." The newspaper contains articles about the NSDAP activities in Mainz, Germany.

  11. Richard Glazar - Treblinka

    Richard Glazar, a survivor of Treblinka, is another individual featured prominently in Shoah. In the outtakes, he talks about his Czech heritage, Theresienstadt, his experiences at Treblinka, and witnessing the transports as they arrived from Grodno, Bialystok, Saloniki, and other places. He also describes the prisoner revolt on August 2, 1943 and his escape from the camp. FILM ID 3314 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:03 to 01:34:05 CR1 Glazar sits on a couch in front of a window. Church bells ring periodically throughout the interview. He talks about his early life: he was born in a small tow...

  12. Hans J. Kaufman collection

    Book and articles regarding donor's father Arthur Kaufman. One photocopy of document with Himmler's signature, 17 August 1942. One postcard with list of names of those who appear.

  13. Hitler's death camps

    A memoir about the donor's Holocaust-related experience at Buchenwald with the 87th U.S. Infantry Division.

  14. Hitler youth educational films

    Different film negatives about various aspects of Nazi culture and how the Hitler Jugend should view Jews (quotes from Hitler), mentally ill, blacks, etc.

  15. Dr. Wiener - Cracow

    Dr. Wiener leads Lanzmann around the Jewish quarter of Krakow and describes various buildings, sites, and his personal connection to the Holocaust. Wiener and Lanzmann talk with Israël Hertzl, a Polish veteran of the Soviet Army. FILM ID 3890 -- Wiener 1-2 Travelling Cracovie INT, Wiener seated in passenger seat of car. Driving tour of the city. Wiener describes streets, buildings, and areas of Kazimierz in Krakow, including Joseph Strasse, on which many of the Orthodox Jewish community lived before the war. He goes on to say that the quarter was the center of Jewish trade. Wiener and Lanzm...

  16. Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee

    The Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee contains a photocopy of the report written by Dr. Reszo Kasztner (Rudolf Kastner) in 1946. The report gives an eye witness account to occupation of Hungary and the treatment of Jews by Nazi Germany. It details Kasztner's experience with the German invasion and occupation of Hungary, as well as the efforts made by Kasztner and the committee to move Jews into labor camps rather than concentration camps. The report contains a photocopy of the original report written in German, as well as an English transcription by Hilda Wolin.

  17. Henry Laskau memoir

    Contains a photocopy of a typescript testimony, two pages, describing the experiences of the donor and his family, from an unnamed German city, through his emigration, his brother's journey on the MS St. Louis, and his parents' deaths at Theresienstadt.

  18. Russian News (1944, No. 1)

    Russian troops, tanks, and motorcycles cross the Dvina River on rafts and reach Vitebsk. Artillery fires on the city. Troops march through its ruins. Germans surrender and are marched to the rear. Citizens berate them, and embrace Russian soldiers. Rockets and artillery are fired. Russian planes pass over. Shows German dead, abandoned equipment, and German prisoners. Five German generals are interrogated by Russian troops.

  19. Photograph of Israel and Rachel Stroh

    The photograph depicts Israel and Rachel Stroh standing in front of Beth Hamidrash in Sedziszów, Poland. Beth Hamidrash was burned along with Jewish occupants on Rosh Hashanah in 1939.