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  1. Matteo Pierro papers

    Consists of photocopies of correspondence and extracts from publications which relate to the fate of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust.

  2. British enemy

    Reel 4 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...

  3. Leica camera and leather camera case

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn11423
    • English
    • a: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) b: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Depth: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)

  4. British enemy

    Reel 6 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...

  5. Bruce Tapper and Szczupacki family collection

    Photographs, circa 1900-1937, and letter relating to the Szczupacki family of Sejny (Poland).

  6. Motke Zaidel and Itzak Dugin

    Motke Zaidel and Itzak Dugin are survivors of Vilna. They tell the story of their extraordinary escape from the Ponari camp, digging a tunnel for months, where the dogs that caught them backed away whimpering because the men smelled of death. The interview took place over two days in the forest of Ben Shemen (an Israeli forest resembling Ponari) and in Mr. Zaidel's apartment in Peta'h Tikva with the family of Zaidel. FILM ID 3782 -- Camera Rolls 2-4 -- Foret Ponari CR2 Lanzmann, Zaidel and Dugin meet in a forest in Israel which resembles the forest of Ponari, next to Vilna. Before the war t...

  7. Viktoria Kogan papers

    Contains a memoir and certificate in Russian.

  8. Bernard and Doris Doctor papers

    Consists of directives issued by various offices of the Nazis restricting and forbidding Jews to be a part of German life, and directives deporting Jews from Tubingen, etc. The collection also consists of a postcard from Gurs; a letter for assistance and a photocopy of a headstone with members of the donor's family inscribed on it.

  9. Oral history interview with Dalibor Lovric

  11. Peter F. Dembowski papers

    One postcard illustrating the German Prisoner of War Postal System sent to Peter Dembowski [donor] from Stalag XB on 21 October 1944; handwritten postcard, unknown source copied from a note written by the donor.

  12. Klaf found on a street in Vilna after liberation

    Klaf found by Eugenia Kwartac Hirschkorn on a street in Vilna, Poland, after the city was liberated in July 1944. A klaf is a kosher piece of parchment that is used for Torah scrolls or inserted into a mezuzah. Based on the small size of this piece, and the writing on the klaf, it is likely from a mezuzah.

  13. Sketch

  14. Holocaust related records from European archives collected by Yad Vashem

    Consists of records filmed at various European Archives. The collection contains material regarding several different topics. A majority of the material concerns partisan groups active in the USSR, particularly in Belarus and Ukraine. This includes reports from partisan groups to Soviet leadership, names list of partisans in the different groups, as well as postwar memoirs and interviews of partisans. The remainder of the material is primarily concerned with Jewish life under German occupation in former Soviet lands, particularly the cities of Kiev, Pinsk, and Brest. This includes German de...

  15. Eugen Czinner papers

    Consists of three letters written on pre-printed prisoner stationery by Eugen Czinner while interned in the Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps. The letters, two from Buchenwald written in 1941-1942 and one from Auschwitz written in November 1944, were written to Marie Czinner in Pilsen.

  16. Oral history interview with Jack Morse

  17. Hersh Smolar - Minsk ghetto

    Hersh Smolar, was the editor of a Yiddish daily newspaper. After the war began, he became a leading member of the resistance in the Minsk ghetto and the commissar of a partisan group operating in the Belorussian forests. He discusses conditions in the ghetto and resistance activities. FILM ID 3376 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:07 to 01:30:17 Hersh Smolar was an editor of a Yiddish daily paper in Bialystok and left for Minsk by foot in June/July 1941 to get out. [The Germans advanced into Minsk on June 28, 1941, blocking all roads for evacuation]. He found Minsk abandoned by the Russian gove...

  18. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda

    Reel 8 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...

  19. Postcards

    Consist of two postcards, which relate to the donor's experience during the Holocaust.

  20. Helen Preiss collection

    Contains a photocopy of "Translation from Polish of a small diary written by Helen Preiss" which consists of two entries, dated May 8, 1943, and May 19, 1943, in which she describes her deportation from Sosnowiec, Poland; life in "Landschut Camp" (Landeshut concentration camp); and her transfers to Auschwitz and "Peterslager" (Peterswaldau) concentration camps. The collection also contains a "Note written by Helen Preiss in 'Ludwiksdorf' 1945" to her dead mother describing her despair when, after liberation, she discovered that her mother did not survive.