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  1. Lettre Just 5 Juin 1942 (audio only)

    Claude Lanzmann recites the June 5, 1942 letter from Willy Just to Walter Rauff regarding gas vans in Chelmno for the SHOAH film team in May 1983 in Germany. FILM ID 3637 -- Lettre Just, version 1 FILM ID 3638 -- Lettre Just, version 2 FILM ID 4603 -- Lettre Just, 2 versions (more than two versions read by Lanzmann, 19 minutes)

  2. Harry Bender collection

    Six letters sent to the donor after World War II. They are from a group of people the donor came into contact with in France after their escape. The donor helped them reach Paris.

  3. AJC offices - New York

    FILM ID 4600 -- AJC NY 162-168 Claude Lanzmann interviews an American Jewish Committee (AJC) employee at the New York City office. During the interview the employee acts as a guide, taking Lanzmann on a tour of the building housing the AJC, which is comprised of several departments. The guide explains the main functions of the departments they pass: the Public Education and Information Department, the Foreign Affairs Department, the Domestic Affairs Department and the Library. Overall, the AJC is concerned with maintaining the rights and freedoms of Jews and other minorities. Lanzmann comme...

  4. Germany and Switzerland

    Location filming of scenes in Germany and Switzerland for SHOAH. FILM ID 4612 -- Berlin 1.2.3 Reichstag Le Mur traveling nuit Camera focuses on the front facade of the Reichstag- Dem Deutschen Volke and slowly pans out. (05:35) Sign reads,"Sie verlassen jetzt West Berlin." Berlin Wall behind the Brandenburg Gate. (07:20) Nightlife in downtown Berlin. Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. This reel was probably filmed for the interview with Deutschkron, RG-60.5044. FILM ID 4613 -- Lehrter Bahnhof / Ext. Grunewald / LB 1 BER 4 Train station looking toward the Berlin TV Tower. S Bahn station at the ...

  5. Łódź

    Location filming in the Polish cities of Łódź and Częstochowa, including train stations, the ghetto, and landscape. FILM ID 4643 -- White 38 Łódź et Paysage Chutes Bte.38 (04:36) Travelling shots on a cloudy day, a snowy, slushy field rushing by, power lines overhead. (0.53) A man driving a cart pulled by horses in a town. Camera zooms out to reveal a church on the right side of the cart. (1.18) A barn-style house, faded brick sides and a thatched roof. Street in Lodz, a cyclist, and the church. A field, trees next to the church. Man driving a cart full of coal, saying something to the came...

  6. Combat in Soviet Russia

    Military Film Report: On the German and Russian encounter in the area of Kharkov, Murmansk, Rostov and Sevastopol, Russia. Reel 2: Part 3: "Sturm auf Rostow." German forces assault Rostov; boats land, troops billet. Shots of town after German occupation of July 23, 1943. Part 4: "Kaukasusfront Elbrusbesteigung." Map locates Caucasus Mountains and Mt. Elbrus. German troops and pack animals travel through Caucasus and assemble on Mt. Elbrus. Part 5: "Kampf um Sewastopol." German tanks, transport vehicles, and artillery advance on Sevastopol. German antiaircraft guns down Russian bombers and t...

  7. DAF membership fee book for Gerta Aufshnaiter

    DAF membership fee book maintained by Gerta Augshnaiter.

  8. British enemy

    Reel 10 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. ...

  9. Mordechai Podchlebnik - Chelmno

    Mordechai (Michael) Podchlebnik recognized the corpses of his wife and children when unloading bodies from a gas van at Chelmno. He was a witness at many postwar trials, including the Eichmann trial. He tells Lanzmann of his escape from Chelmno and how he tried to inform people about Chelmno, but he was not believed at first, until his story was corroborated by another escaped prisoner. FILM ID 3294 -- Camera Rolls #1-7 -- 01:00:16 to 01:32:27 Lanzmann is seated with Podchlebnik at a table surrounded by windows. Off camera is an interpreter, Fanny Apfelbaum. The tape jumps frequently and th...

  10. Letter from the Ichud (Kraków) to The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee regarding Oskar Schindler

    Consists a letter relating to Oscar Schindler's rescuing of Jews, and about his postwar financial condition.

  11. Hertha Spier collection

    The Hertha Spier collection consists of a short booklet, in English, entitled "Hertha Speir, KZ A-21646; Płaszów-Auschwitz e Bergen-Belsen" which contains a letter written by Hertha Spier in which she describes her Holocaust experiences. Originally from Bielsko, Poland, she describes the German invasion of Poland and being sent to the Kraków ghetto in 1940. She details her experiences in the Płaszów concentration camp where she was forced to make toys and gifts to be sent to Germany. Hertha describes her and her sister Gisela Pemper’s (née Gruber) deportation to the Auschwitz concentration ...

  12. Postcard

    The postcard was mailed from Hessi (?) Neudorfer in Poland to Magda Feder in N.Y. and bears Nazi postal stamps.

  13. Tibor Messinger memoir

    Contains a typescript memoir, 111 pages, written by Tibor Messinger, describing experiences in forced labor battalion, liberation from Theresienstadt, and emigration to the U.S. in 1948.

  14. Sheley Temchin photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of General "Rola" Zymierski visiting a partisan unit of the People's Army in Parczewkie Forest in 1943 (Dr. Michael Temchin is second from the right) and two photographs of the staff of a military hospital in Warsaw, Poland, where Dr. Michael Temchin was Chief of Surgery.

  15. Becher - Mount Kisco / Weissmandel

    An Orthodox Jew affiliated with Weissmandel's Yeshiva in Mount Kisco in New York, Mr. Becher talks about Rabbi Weissmandel, the "Blood for Goods" and other rescue efforts, and the Orthodox prohibition on violent resistance. FILM ID 3820 – Camera Rolls NY 82-87 -- Becher NY 82 Mr. Becher explains that Rabbi Weissmandel was the first person to explore the idea of bribing the Nazis in order to save the Jews. Rabbi Weissmandel began rescuing Jews from Slovakia in 1942. Religious Jews were opposed to the ban on German goods initiated by Rabbi Stephen Wise in 1933. Becher says Jews were religious...

  16. Martha Michelsohn - Chelmno

    Martha Michelson was the wife of a Nazi schoolteacher in Chelmno. She talks about the Sonderkommando, Jews killed in a church, the terrible smell that pervaded the town when bodies were burned, the Poles' attitude toward the Jews, and the operation of gas vans. She says that she told people in Germany about the extermination in 1942 or 1943 but they accused her of spreading atrocity propaganda. FILM ID 3352 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:00 to 01:32:09 Lanzmann asks Michelson for help understanding what things were like in Chelmno. She says that conditions were very primitive: no running wat...

  17. Raul Hilberg

    Raul Hilberg is the author of the seminal book, "The Destruction of the European Jews." In this interview with Claude Lanzmann for SHOAH, Hilberg discusses several aspects of his research, including the culpability of the German railways in the deportation process of European Jews, as well as the significant roles Adam Czerniakow and Rudolf Kasztner played in the genocide of the European Jews. Hilberg also addresses the general bureaucratic processes at work in the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem. Hilberg is filmed in his home in Burlington, Vermont and on campus at the University of V...

  18. Track and field events in Pirna; prewar Jewish life in Germany

    "Picture Show Nr. 4" SCHILD - SPORTFEST SUMMER 1936. A track and field sporting event in Pirna with Albert Günther Hess's brother Manfred as the judge. HIS HONOR, THE JUDGE [Fred]. FALSE START. SHORT PROMENADES. AGH and his wife Ilse go on a walk through town. AGH films scenes around him: shots of a large building, the park, water flowing into a pond. BIRDS FOR THE EYE. CUs, birds. ICESKATING. CU, a bird "iceskating." OTHER WALKS. AGH and Ilse in a cafe. RETURNING HOME FROM A WALK. CUs of Ilse walking, entering the house. Brief shot of street with park benches.

  19. Herta Grove (née Levi) papers

    Contains information, articles, and clippings from the collection of Herta Grove, a German Jew. Includes clippings, newspaper articles, and summations about the 1905 trial of Mpundo Akwa, a Cameroon prince, defended by Ms. Grove's father, Dr. Moses Levi, and the aftermath of the trial showing anti-black racism.Also includes articles about the Herbert Baum group and other incidents of German-Jewish resistance as well as articles about Nazi plans for Africa, including several by Alexander Kum'a N'dume III.

  20. British enemy

    Reel 3 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...