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  1. Hans and Johanna Hirschfeldt collection

    Certificates relating to emigration, first to Britain in March 1939, and then to the United States in 1947.

  2. Majon Huff photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs of corpses taken at the liberation of Dachau concentration camp.

  3. Rudolf Vrba - Auschwitz

    Rudolf Vrba was a Slovakian Jew who escaped from Auschwitz in April 1944 in hopes of warning the world about the imminent destruction of the Hungarian Jews and inciting the Jews to revolt. He describes working on the arrival ramp for ten months and witnessing as Jews from various countries went to the gas chambers. He and Lanzmann debate the culpability of the Jewish council members and other Jewish leaders, who Vrba describes as traitors who collaborated with the Nazis. FILM ID 3226 -- Camera Rolls #98,99 -- 01:00:00 to 01:22:24 CR 98: Rudolf Vrba and Claude Lanzmann sit on a bench in Cent...

  4. Memoir

    Contains a photocopy of typescript text, unpaginated (approximately 50-60 pages), titled "Escape from Gestapo and S.S." by K. Elsberg.

  5. William and Jean Helmar papers

    The papers consist of four postcards and letters with envelopes written and sent by William Helmar from Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps to his parents in the Netherlands. Also included is a note with instructions to concentration camp inmates' friends and families about sending packages to prisoners.

  6. Ministère des Affaires Étrangères: Guerre

    Includes information about religious affairs; foreign Jews in France and in French territories; naturalizations; German residents; the Vichy government; diplomatic and other relations with Bulgaria, Morocco, Hungary, Switzerland, Croatia, the Soviet Union, and Italy; internment camps; and administrative questions relating to camps. The records were created by various offices and departments in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its overseas embassies and consulates.

  8. Sketch

  9. Tallit

    A Jewish prayer shawl.

  10. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda

    Reel 4 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...

  11. Joseph Rosen papers

    The Joseph Rosen papers consists of photographs, mostly of concentration camps after liberation with captions in French on verso. Most of the images are copies of widely-published press photos. Also included are two documents in French relating to Joseph Rosen: the first one recognizes him as former concentration camp internee, originally from Czechoslovakia but who had survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald; the second is a certificate of repatriation stating that he was originally from Munkacs, and that his parents were Maurice and Therese (nee Bercovici) Rosen.

  12. The surrender of the Dachau KZ prisoner compound, 29 April 1945: a compilation of documents and photographs

    Donor's purpose "is to provide documents to challenge the Sparks Scenario and to set the record straight." Last part of this collection is research conducted at National Archives by Arthur Lee, Jr., and Sol Feingold. Part B is selected material from BG H. Linden.

  13. Basil Herzstein collection

    Photocopies of excerpts of books and magazines relating to Donor's father, Fred Herzstein. Newspaper clippings from German newspapers and Dutch magazines containing articles relating to donor's father, from the 1930s.

  14. Wilbur T. Hooven III papers

    Typescript memoir of liberation experiences at Ohrdruf. Copy of map of the 89th Infantry Division.

  15. Selected records from the Nikolaev Oblast Archives

    Contains lists, reports, and other documents relating to the fate of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews deported in the Golta district of Transnistria (Ukraine). The paper portion of the collection contains lists of Jews interned in the ghetto in Slivina, Ukraine (between the Dniestr and Bug Rivers).

  16. A photograph of atrocities from Landsberg

    Contains one photograph of corpses, purportedly from the Landsberg camp.

  17. US cities: Atlanta, Washington, DC and Panama City

    Location filming of Atlanta, GA, Washington, DC, and Panama City, FL for SHOAH. FILM ID 4626 -- Atlanta Ville ATL 24 Highway toward downtown Atlanta, where Lanzmann interviewed Steiner and Reams. Shots of the city from a car. FILM ID 4627 -- Washington Ville 52.61.62 (probably related to the interview with McClelland or Karski) DC. Lafayette Square, the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building from street level. Lanzmann plays with a squirrel in Lafayette Square. (19:50) East side of the Capitol Building. Jefferson Memorial. Lincoln Memorial. . FILM ID 4628 -- Panama Ville P...

  18. Summary of trial judgment in Medical case

    (Munich 619) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Judgment and Sentencing, Nuremberg, Germany. LS, MS Army photographer setting up camera in booth. LS, MS Judge Beals giving a summary of the trial and how the defense and prosecution conducted the case and what points the defendants were tried and convicted on.

  19. Cardinal Faulhaber letter

    The Cardinal Faulhaber letter was written by Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber and addressed to the administration of Dachau concentration camp requesting the release of clergymen imprisoned within the camp. Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber (1869-1952) was a German cardinal and archbishop of Munich, Germany who was a prominent opponent of the Nazis.

  20. Poster