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  1. Samuel and Gertrude Gerstenfeld photograph collection

    The collection consists of nine photographs of Sam Gerstenfeld, Gela Majman Sam Gerstenfeld's cousin, Gela Putterman and her daughter, Sara [Gertrude Gerstenfeld's sister and niece], and other family members and friends.

  2. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

    Concentration camp uniform jacket issued to Michael Zylberberg and worn in Birkenau and Mauthausen.

  3. Taylor reads indictment during Medical trial; Gebhardt's background

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Defendants file into docks. Taylor reads indictment. CU charts offered in evidence, as voice of Taylor is heard. Pan, defense cousel. Cut-ins, defendants listen to the address over headphones. (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. CU, Karl Gebhardt takes notes. Prosecutor James McHaney speaks of Karl Gebhardt. As camera remains on Gebhardt voice of prosecutor is heard giving details of defendant's background. Judges lis...

  4. American serviceman papers

    The papers belonged to a unknown United States serviceman and include forty-eight photographs depicting wartime Europe and liberated concentration camps, an envelope, a set of souvenir postcards from Liverpool, England, and a business card from the Taverne Savoy in Brussels, Belgium.

  5. Diary from the ghetto in Budapest

    Donor's mother describes life in Budapest during the Holocaust.

  6. "View the Starry Realm"

    Copy of the hymn, the lyrics of which are by Dr. Norbert F. Capek, a Czech Unitarian minister who died in Dachau as a result of medical experimentation in 1942.

  7. Robert Reams - Fish(ing Party)

    Ambassador Robert Borden Reams was interviewed about American diplomats during a fishing and golfing trip in Panama City, Florida. Ambassador Reams agreed to meet with Lanzmann on the condition that there would be no formal interview, and that topics such as the Bermuda Conference, governmental policies and the State Department during World War II would not discussed. He refuses to tell Lanzmann why he doesn't want to talk about them. Much of Lanzmann's and the Ambassador's time together is spent fishing and golfing, although he eventually opens up to Lanzmann's questions. FILM ID 3875 -- C...

  8. "The bloody record of Nazi atrocities"

    Consists of two copies of the late 1944 publication, "The Bloody Record of Nazi Atrocities" edited by Joe Weil and published by Arco Publishing Company. The publication is split into two parts, "The Crimes," written by Burnet Hershey, and "The Punishment," written by Johannes Steel. The publication is illustrated with artwork by comic book artist A.M. Froelich and with photographs supplied from the Soviet agency SOVFOTO.

  9. Oral history interview with Vivien Spitz

  10. Joseph Gosler collection

    Family register used when Joseph Gosler [donor] lived in the underground. Poem entitled "Hidden Children, W.W. II" written by donor.

  11. Central Archives of the Federal Security Services (former KGB) of the Russian Federation records relating to war crime trials in the Soviet Union

    Contains interrogation transcripts, witness statements, arrest warrants, evidence documents, copy prints, sketches, diagrams, photographs and other trial documents relating to the arrests and investigations of suspected war criminals for war crimes trials held in Riga, Kiev, Minsk, Babruisk (Bobruysk), Sevastopol, Kishinev (Chisinau), Chernihiv (Chernigov), Pskov, Velikie Luki, Stalino, Krasnodar, Bryansk, Nikolaev, Novogrod, Leningrad, and Smolensk in the Soviet Union. Also includes trial documents for trials of several individuals suspected of war crimes and several Sachsenhausen concentr...

  12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

  14. Silk map

    Map of Central Europe, 1943, depicting Germany (north), Bohemia and Moravia, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary (north) on "Sheet E" and Croatia (west & central), Montenegro (west), Hungary (west), Slovakia (south), Germany (south), Italy (north and central), and Switzerland (east) on "Sheet F."

  15. Executive instinct: Reinhard Heydrich and the planning for the final solution: a report

    Contains an essay, typescript, 31 pages with footnotes, delivered as an address at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on December 6, 1993.

  16. Mengele Factory Workers

    Lanzmann talks to German workers and peasants in the present-day Mengele family factory in Günzburg, Germany. The workers are unresponsive, saying things like, "Auschwitz was part good and part bad." Or that "it's all in the past." Most of them only admit to a vague idea of who Josef Mengele was. FILM ID 3887 -- Shoah Sequence Mengele // image + mixage Color sequence prepared by the editing team in June 1985 possibly for television distribution following the identification of Mengele's body on June 6, 1985. Opening shots of Karl Mengele street signs and farm equipment with the Mengele name....

  17. Bernard Rosenberg collection

    Bernard Rosenberg's collection of World War II memorabilia includes the Nazi party membership booklet for Karl Schmahl (b. 1891 in Frankfurt am Main) and a propaganda pamphlet by Joseph Goebbels entitled, "Dreissig Kriegsartikel für das deutsche Volk."

  18. Oral history interview with Rose van Thyn

  19. New York

    Location filming of scenes in New York City for SHOAH. FILM ID 3449 -- Camera Rolls NY 39.39A.139-142.161 La Ville -- 01:00:01 to 01:08:51 Car on Brooklyn Bridge going into Manhattan. World Trade Center (WTC) and Woolworth Building on left. Manhattan Municipal Building on right. Car on BB going towards Brooklyn. Financial District straight ahead. Major buildings from left to right Chemical Bank Building (at far left), 120 Wall Street (stepped design). The two tall buildings in BG are First National City Trust Co. and 60 Wall Street (the tallest building in this group). 01:00:41 First, a vie...

  20. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda

    Reel 7 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...