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  1. Julius Crane collection

    Article entitled "Strong youth role in Holocaust remembrance," dated April 1993, a ceremony in which the donor's mother, Ruth Crane, delivered a speech.

  2. Book

  3. Kharkiv Oblast Archive records

    This collection contains the records of the Kharkiv city administration agencies and German control agencies including the military Kommandantura. Subjects include the staffing of city administrative positions with ideologically appropriate people, the confiscation of (mainly Jewish) property by German military and other agencies, the creation of special police units, name lists of city district mayors and administrative personnel, orders from various German commands, and the German mobilization of labor and agriculture to support troops and the civilian population. The bulk of this materia...

  4. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. High and MCU, prosecution counsel James McHaney interrogating witness. Unidentified defense lawyer at speaker's stand. Short shot, defense attorney Seidl Ratz. Judges filing into court. Unidenfitied witness being interrogated by his lawyer.

  5. Martin H. Gordon papers

    Correspondence relating to the plight of Jews.

  6. Nazi feature film on espionage, British agents, German rearmament

    Plot Summary: In this feature film set in 1936, Mr. Morris operates a British espionage ring based in Berlin that is eager to receive information about secret German rearmament plans. He is successful when he bribes a broke engineer involved in the construction of a new artillery cannon and places an agent in a military airport testing a new type of bomber. However, when Morris deliberately makes the acquaintance with the girlfriend of Hans Klemm, a soldier running in new tanks, he encounters trouble. He initially makes some progress by utilizing the soldier's friendliness and naiveté, but ...

  7. Arthur Greenleigh papers

    The Arthur Greenleigh papers contains correspondence, reports, and various other records created by Arthur Greenleigh from the period of 1943 to 1956. From 1943-1946, Greenleigh served with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), and from 1946-1956, Greenleigh served with the United Service for New Americans (USNA) and the United Hias Service (HIAS). The reports and correspondence from his years at the JDC focus on assisting Jewish displaced persons during and after World War II. The reports give status updates and activities of the JDC, while the correspondence is with both...

  8. Mauthausen photographs

    Three original black-and-white photographs inscribed with "Mauthausen 8 May 1945" on the back of each photograph, as well as seven duplicates. The photographs depict piles of corpses found within the Mauthausen concentration camp, and a photograph of a man, possibly a survivor, sitting on the ground with a cart and building in the background. The photographer is unidentified.

  9. Defendants at Medical trial; Welt Im Film: Berchtesgaden and US diplomats in Stuttgart

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Scenes of defendants Genzken, Blome, and Rose making their statements. CU, judge. 00:05:45 Welt Im Film. Obersalzberg Today (CAD) Pan, ruins of Berchtesgaden. Bomb damaged Berghof. INTs of the Berghof's air raid shelter. Pan and shots, the countryside showing the damaged country home of former Nazi officials. Martin Bormann's villa totally destroyed. The damaged SS barracks. American soldiers and some civilians enter the underground shelter of Hitler's Eagles Nest. View of the mountains. Byrnes in S...

  10. Michael Danziger papers

    The papers consist of a labor card and a driver's license issued to Fajwel Dancygier [donor's father] at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, a photograph of a boy wearing a dark military-style hat and a Star of David pin, a photograph of Itta Rizal Danziger [mother of Philip (Felix) Danziger] who perished in the Holocaust, and an identification document issued to Fajwel Dancygier by a Polish government official in Braunschweig (Brunswick), Germany.

  11. Sia Hertsberg papers

    Contains certificate from Stutthof, a memoir, and a photocopy of family photographs.

  12. Nahum Goldmann

    Born in the Russian Empire (now Belarus) in 1895, Nahum Goldmann received a law degree and PhD from the University of Heidelberg. He was President of the World Jewish Congress from 1948 to 1977 which he founded with Stephen Wise. He was a Zionist activist but was often critical of Israeli public policy. He was instrumental in creating the Jewish Material Claims Conference. Goldmann wrote an autobiography called "Sixty Years of Jewish Life" in 1969. He died in 1982. In this interview shot in Israel, Lanzmann and Goldmann discuss Stephen Wise, when the Jews realized the reality of the Final S...

  13. Book

  14. Diane Karsh Covert collection

    Two photographs of Ann and Izzy Arbeiter; informal interviews of each Ann Arbeiter and Izzy Arbeiter; nineteen photographs portraying Rose Murra and her family; informal interview with Rose Murra; brief biography of Nathan Murra.

  15. Bronia Feit memoir

    Contains a testimony, typescript, 16 pages, recounting the invasion and occupation of the author's hometown in Poland from 1939 onward.

  16. Jewish council in Krakau Rada Żydowska miasta Krakowa (Sygn. 218)

    Contains lists, correspondence, reports, instructions, and various other documents relating to the activities of the Judenrat (Jewish council) in Kraków, Poland, during the German occupation; evacuation and transports of Jewish citizens from Kraków; Jews in forced labor; the murder of Jewish physicians from Kraków and Kielce; aid for the poor Jews of Kraków; activities of the Jewish police in Kraków; Jewish welfare centers in Kraków; and issuance of identification cards to Jews in Kraków. Also contains a list of names of Kraków Judenrat members.

  17. Holiday memories from my childhood in Muelheim

    Testimony: photocopy of typescript, 12 pages, titled "Holiday Memories from my Childhood in Muellheim," 1995.

  19. James D. Newton memoir

    Testimony: Typescript, two pages, excerpted from book by donor titled "Remount the Red Horse." This excerpt describes Newton's experience as U.S. soldier discovering concentration camp in 1945.

  20. A memoir

    Testimony: Typescript 2 pages, recounting family's emigration from Hildesheim, Germany, after start of anti-Jewish persecution.