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  1. Book "Ein Bilderung fuer Gross und Klein..." [A Story for big and small]

    Nazi and anti-semitic propaganda for children.

  2. Paula Epstein collection

    Letter contains information regarding Dr. Cohn receiving a teaching position at the university of Breslau in 1932. It states that the political situation is not "agreeable."

  3. Alfred Ament papers

    Contains identification documents, including an Austrian birth certificate, an application for US immigration visa, a US quota immigrant visa document, a "Kinderausweis" (child identity card), a US immigrant identity card, all issued to Hans Ament (donor's brother). The family was unable to successfully emigrate despite receiving US visas, and Hans went into hiding in an orphanage in Izieu, France. He was arrested during a raid of the children's home in 1944, and deported to Auschwitz.

  4. Philip Friedman collection

    Collections consists of 93 published photographs used to commemorate the 1936 Olympics.

  5. Biography and other documents relating to a member of a German resistance group Mildred Fish Harnack

    Contains information about Mildred F. Harnack, who was an American national and was executed by the Nazis for her participation in the Red Orchestra (Rote Kapelle, a German resistance group).

  6. Brasserie Munich - Josef Oberhauser

    Josef Oberhauser was a SS officer in Belzec. He was interviewed in a Munich beer hall and refuses to answer many of Lanzmann's questions. Oberhauser answers Lanzmann's questions regarding the beer he sells, but refuses to respond to questions concerning his days as an SS officer in Belzec. Lanzmann attempts to interview former SS officer Mr. Oberhauser in the beer hall where he works. Trying to warm Oberhauser up to an interview, Lanzmann asks Oberhauser how many liters of beer he sells a day. After asking several times, Oberhauser answers that he sells 450 liters a day. He tells Lanzmann t...

  7. Henryk Gawkowski and Treblinka railway workers

    Henryk Gawkowski was a locomotive conductor at the Treblinka station and estimates that he transported approximately 18,000 Jews to the camp. He drank vodka all the time because it was the only way to make bearable his job and the smell of burning corpses. He describes the black market and the prostitution that developed around the camp. This interview also includes conversations with several other Polish witnesses who were railway workers. FILM ID 3362 -- Camera Rolls #4-7 -- 01:00:00 to 01:13:26 Gawkowski and a Polish choir sing "W mogile ciemnej ?pij na wieki," a Gregorian-chant style fu...

  8. Sketch

  9. Irving A. Heyman memoir

    Testimony: Typescript, 4 pages, from a former U.S. soldier, describing his experiences at the Battle of the Bulge and subsequently, at Remagen and at the liberation of Buchenwald.

  10. Broadside

    Broadside entitled "Every penny earned by Singer Sewing Machines goes to the Enemy.." and stamped by Toni Eggler, Wolfratshaussen of the Reichsverband Deutscher Mechaniker.

  11. Nazi banner

  12. Germans and Czechs in the Sudetenland

    Reel 1 Anna lives with her German father Mayor Jobst at a rural estate near Budweis in the Sudetenland. Her mother, of Czech origin, killed herself because of an unfulfilled desire to return to her native town of Prague. Already engaged to a young peasant from the village, Anna is attracted to the engineer Christian Leidwein from Prague and travels to the 'Golden City' to visit him. While staying with the family of her mother and working in their tobacco store, she is seduced and made-pregnant by cousin Toni Opferkuch. Her changing morals are accompanied by her changing appearance -- jewelr...

  13. Oral history interview with Berry Nahmias

  14. Rostock testifies during Medical trial

    (Munich 522) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MS, Paul Rostock, one of the defendants, testifying in German. Occasionally a question is put to the witness by the defense counsel Dr. Pribilla. MS, Karl Brandt and other defendants in box. (Brandt is mentioned in Rostock's testimony).

  15. A survivor of Cariera de Piatra: a memoir

    Discusses life in Czernowitz prior to the war; transport to Transnistria (Ukraine); a year stay in Lager at Cariera de Piatra; ghetto in Tulchin for one year; escaping into the forest to the Yampol ghetto; liberation.

  16. Aaron Fleck papers

    Photocopies of certificates and correspondence, in Yiddish, of donor's relatives in Kovno (Lithuania) and Cleveland (Ohio), circa 1878-1940.

  17. Hansi Brand

    Hansi Brand and her husband Joel were members of the Relief and Rescue Committee of Budapest, Hungary, as was Rudolf Kasztner. Brand details her husband's experiences with Eichmann and the "Blood for Goods" rescue scheme. She also addresses the controversy over whether Kasztner neglected to warn the Jews of their fates. She states emphatically that by 1944, of course, everyone knew what it meant to be deported to the East. FILM ID 3109 -- Camera Rolls #1-5 -- 01:00:00 to 01:34:28 For the first part of the interview Hansi Brand speaks Hebrew and Lanzmann English, with the aid of a translator...

  18. Fritz Schnaittacher papers

    Two letters from a U.S. soldier to his wife.

  19. Julio Herman letter

    The letter was written to Julio Herman by a friend describing the sad situation of his parents in Vienna, Austria, in 1943.

  20. British enemy

    Reel 9 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...