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  1. Family life in Pirna, Germany

    DIE PIRNSCHEN - AUGUST 1936. This film shows Manfred "Fred" Hess at home with his wife Trude and two daughters Ursula and Luise. WITH FORK AND KNIFE. CUs, Luise eating. AFTER DINNER, LITTLE TEARS AND LITTLE TUNES. The children play with their father in the living room. Albert Günther Hess (AGH) is teaching the girls piano and playing the guitar for them. DIE ZUHOERERIN (VON EINEN TONKRANK EILINOPERATEUR). CUs, Trude. ANOTHER OPINION. CUs, Luise singing. END OF ACT.

  2. Tante Elisabeth

    Memoir of relatives' experiences during the Holocaust.

  3. Selected records from the Romanian National Archives

    Contains selected records of the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Justice, Fundatile Culturale Regale, and Casa Regală relating to the fate of Romanian Jews.

  4. Poems by Esther Olmer Rutstein

    Poems in Hebrew and Polish in memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

  5. Postcard

    Postcard in Hungarian which states that prisoners are well and getting food.

  6. Eric F. New collection

    Booklet published for the 100th celebration of the synagogue in Wangen. Correspondence, reports regarding donor's father attempts to help other Jewish emigrate from Germany.

  7. Sylvia Simon Tansey collection

    Three letters written to Sylvia Simon, from her cousin in Vienna (and subsequently of Chicago), Siegfried Feiger, describing his family's experience prior to and following their immigration in 1939.

  8. Album from the Jewish orphanage in Brest-Litovsk, Poland

    Contains a color photocopy of album with drawings, and a name list of Jewish children from a Jewish orphanage in Brest-Litovsk, Poland.

  9. British enemy

    Reel 2 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...

  10. "Events in the ghetto: a memoir"

    This handwritten and transcribed oral testimony completed in 1947 at the Warsaw Archive contains information on the Zalkind Family; Germany's invasion of Vilna in 1941; killing of the grandmother, father and uncle of Aron Einat [donor]; life in Vilna Ghetto and concentration camp with donor's mother and brother; liquidation of the camp; hiding during a children's action; being sent to Łódź where donor survived the Holocaust, etc.

  11. Witness statement to the killing of a Lithuanian Jew in 1942

    Contains one document, notarized in Israel, 1950, from Dov Shapiro and Benzion Lapp, testifying that they witnessed the murder of Mrs. Rahel Gordon in the Kimelichek [sic] ghetto in Lithuania in 1942.

  12. Lore Oppenheimer and Hermann Ziering - Society of the Survivors of the Riga Ghetto (New York)

    Lore Oppenheimer and Herman Kempinsky (now Ziering), co-presidents of the Society of the Survivors of the Riga Ghetto, share their experiences during the Holocaust. They address the conflicts between German Jews and Ostjuden, deportation to the Polish border in 1938, propaganda, arrival in Riga and witnessing evidence of murdered Latvian Jews, and life in Riga ghetto. Mr. Ziering conceals his face during the interview which takes place at the 1978 Society conference in New York city. Lanzmann also briefly speaks in German with Friedrich Baer, a WWI veteran frontline soldier, who attended th...

  13. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda

    Reel 2 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...

  14. Henry Feingold

    Henry Feingold, author and professor of American Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, discusses, in an interview with Claude Lanzmann, the American response to the Holocaust with particular importance on the failure to admit refugees and to create a resettlement option. FILM ID 4606 -- Feingold (NY) -- Camera Rolls 145-148 146 (01:00:43) Claude Lanzmann and Henry Feingold sit at a cluttered office table, in Feingold’s New York City apartment. Feingold begins by discussing the unique and even affluent status of American Jewry as an ethnic group during the 1930s. He then raises the question ...

  15. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda film

    Reel 1 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...

  16. Silvana DiPorto articles

    Consists of copies of a series of newspaper clippings from the Italian newspaper "La Spalletta", written by Paolo Meniconi and published in 1995. The articles describe the experiences of Silvana DiPorto, and describes her memories of the aerial bombing of Italy, hiding to prevent being deported, and learning the fates of family memories. Includes English language translations by Lilliana Baron.

  17. Yom ha-Shoʾah commemoration speech

    Speech written and delivered by Isaac Schweitzer [donor], 14 April 1996.

  18. Scarf

    The scarf was worn by Julie DeBevoise during war.

  19. Yad Vashem

    University course-debate at Yad Vashem. Shalmi Barmore, the Director of Education, stands in front of an assembly of military students after showing a film. Barmore and several students debate the resistance actions of the Jews during the Holocaust. They show concern that the Holocaust could happen again, in any country, including Israel. A student asks why the world appeared to be uninterested in helping the Jews during the Holocaust. Another student responds that the world was aware of what was occurring, but due to the violent situation they could not do more than accept refugees. A stud...

  20. Sue Yarnelli collection

    Consists of 10 black-and-white photographs of Ebensee and survivors and victims thereof issued by the United States Army.