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  1. My ten days in Buchenwald: a memoir

    Donor describes his Holocaust related experiences in Buchenwald.

  2. Sketch

  3. Charles W. Mullenix papers

    Contains a letter dated May 4, 1945, relating to Buchenwald atrocities, a certificate of service, and an affidavit.

  4. The Pioneer Woman

    Magazine, "The Pioneer Woman", No. 97, April 1944. Articles in English and Yiddish about women in resistance movements, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jewish refugees, etc.

  5. The machinery of mass murder at Auschwitz

    Contains a draft manuscript entitled "The Machinery of Mass Murder at Auschwitz," 76 pages plus diagrams, written as an update or revision to the author's conclusions in an earlier book, based on review of newly-available documents from Russian archives after 1991.

  6. Heinz Heinz H. Linke papers

    Memoir and news articles relating to the Holocaust experiences of Heinz Linke [donor].

  7. Statements from defendants at Medical trial

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Defendants giving statements: Dr. Rose, Dr. Weltz, Schaefer, Hoven, Beiglbock, Oberhauser. Presiding Judge Beals announces that the evidence is concluded after 139 days of trial and that the Tribunal will now recess for three weeks before rendering a decision. Several prisoners shake hands with their attorneys.

  8. Die Brennessel (Munich, Germany) [Magazine]

    Benjamin and Sophie Esterman were American citizens who were traveling in Europe, and visited Germany in order to see for themselves and to inform others where Nazism was going.

  9. Joseph Lewi memoir

    Contains information on Mr. Lewi's experiences in labor camps during the Holocaust. In Hungry, he worked in different labor camps, was sent to and liberated from Mauthausen. Includes details about other members of his family.

  10. Eduard Kryshak

    A hidden camera interview with Eduard Kryshak, who accompanied two or three train transports of Jews to Treblinka and was a witness at postwar trials in Düsseldorf and Bielefeld. He claims he did not know that people were killed at Treblinka until after the war. Kryshak's wife is frequently visible doing chores in the kitchen where the interview takes place, or watching Lanzmann and Kryshak as they talk. FILM ID 3357 -- Camera Rolls #1-7 Maison/Clinique/Chemin de Fer -- 01:00:00 to 01:27:50 No picture for first few minutes. Lanzmann is talking with a German woman about Kryshak, he is in hos...

  11. David A. Mason collection

    Collection of 23 color photographs of Svätý Jur, Slovakia.

  12. Morton A. Roth photograph collection

    Photographs of scenes in Germany and Austria taken and collected by donor's uncle, Morton A. Roth, a member of the Military Government in Leonberg, Germany.

  13. Jewish resistance personnel executed by the Nazis at Mont-Valeien (Paris)

    Adam Rayski compiled these names; no indication as to where his research was conducted.

  14. Shmuel Tamir

    Shmuel Tamir represented the defendant in the Kasztner libel trial in Israel He speaks passionately about the virtues of Rabbi Weissmandel and the perfidy of Rudolf Kasztner. FILM ID 3396 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:05 to 01:33:41 CR 1 01:00:05 - 01:11:16 Shmuel Tamir sits at a wooden table in front of a striped curtain with several books on the table in front of him. Lanzmann says that one of the main protagonists of his film is Rabbi Weissmandel. He asks Tamir to explain how he met Weissmandel and what his impressions were. Tamir says that in the course of the Kasztner trial he came acr...

  15. Albert Ganzenmueller

    As chief of the German Reichsbahn, Albert Ganzenmüller was responsible for the employment of deportation trains. In July 1942, he wrote a letter to Karl Wolff describing the deportation trains from Warsaw to Malkinia to Treblinka. Claude Lanzmann talks about the letter by Ganzenmueller in a short recording in French. FILM ID 4605 -- Ganzenmueller 1-6 Chemin de Fer

  16. Tom Teicholz collection relating to the trial of John Demjanjuk

    Contains research materials, articles and newspaper clippings, and trial transcripts collected by Tom Teicholz while doing research for his book, The Trial of Ivan the Terrible: State of Israel vs. John Demjanjuk. Also includes drafts for several chapters of Teicholz's book, RG-06.018.04, John Demjanjuk trial, transcripts, February 16, 1987, through April 25, 1988, is not a complete run of the trial transcripts. Researchers should consult the finding aid for details on dates and page numbers of the transcripts.

  17. Germans and Czechs in the Sudetenland

    Reel 6 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...

  18. Recollections of concentration camp Buchenwald, November-December 1938: a memoir

    Contains a testimony, 16 pages, entitled "Recollections of Concentration Camp Buchenwald," by Harvey Newton (Herman Neustadt), with English, German, and Spanish versions of the text.

  19. Oral history interview with Oskar Schindler

  20. Florence M. Weinberg collection

    Transcripted copy of Carnet de Kurt Weinberg, trouvéparmi ses documents aprè sa mort and biographical materials (needs summary).