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  1. Gustav Laabs and Lettre Becker

    RG-60.5025 Hidden camera interview with Gustav Laabs, who drove a gas van at Chelmno. Lanzmann is challenged by two neighbors after Laabs refuses to open the door to his apartment. Additional rolls contain industrial scenes and footage of a truck in transit. The truck was manufactured by the company Saurer, which also manufactured gas vans during the war. Multiple takes show Lanzmann reading a letter written by the engineer Dr. Becker in which Becker details the operation of a gas van. FILM ID 3824 -- Laabs CR#4-7 Maison Chelmno CR4 Germany filmed from the rear window of a moving vehicle. C...

  2. Volksempfaenger radio

  3. Herta Oberhauser questioned at Medical trial

    (Munich 542) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. LS, Herta Oberhauser is cross-examined by attorney. Witness is asked if she gave injections to patients to relieve their pain or to kill them. She received awards for her work with the sulphanilamide experiments. She is questioned by a defense attorney. Answers by witness are in German (translation is not provided).

  4. General Association of Jews in France. Camp Commission

    Consists of records relating to the operations of the Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF) Commission des Camps, The Commission des Camps was headquartered in Toulouse, halfway between the camps of Gurs and Rivesaltes, and proximate to three other camps. The Commission's goal was the centralization of camp archives. The collection includes hundreds of letters from refugees and internees, testifying to the plight of Jews in France during occupation.

  5. Joel Leitman papers

    Photographs of Dachau and a DP certificate for Buchenwald.

  6. The studio

    Contains a typescript (photocopy), 632 pages, of a fictionalized account of Jews in London prior to World War II, titled "The Studio."

  7. Brian Wolfson collection

    Contains two bound volumes sent to the donor's family in 1950 by Judge Michael Musmanno of Pittsburgh, PA, who had served as a judge at the Einsatzgruppen Trial (part of the subsequent Nuremberg trials) in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1948. The first volume is his concurring opinion in the case of "United States vs. Oswald Pohl, et.al.," the second is "Opinion and Judgment of the Tribunal," Case No. 9, 8 April 1948, at which Musmanno was presiding judge. Also contains two letters from Musmanno to Emanuel Wolfson, which were enclosed with each volume when mailed in 1950.

  8. Bracelet

    Pendant created by victims in concentration camp.

  9. Sonia Farler papers

    Contains a photocopied postcard sent to American family from Latvia in 1937, and a family photograph.

  10. Joseph Taler papers

    The papers contain certificates, work permits, identification cards, receipts, postcards, photographs, and other documents related to Joseph Taler, originally of Rozwadów, Poland, including his survival during the Holocaust living under the false identity of Józef Skwarczyński and his life after the end of World War II.

  11. Small poster made to discourage US troops from socializing with Germans

    Handbill issued by the American Army which uses an image of Holocaust victims to remind soldiers not to fraternize with German civilians.

  12. Table of contents

    Title and contents page from a portfolio of reproduced drawings created by Henri Pieck depicting life as a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1945.

  13. Eugene Patipa identification card

    The identification card states that Eugene Patipa, born on December 29, 1922 in Minsk, CSR, was in Mauthausen Concentration Camp from April 8, 1945 to May 4, 1945.

  14. Russian News (1943, No. 73-74)

    Reel 1: Artillery shells Dobronske, White Russia. Tanks and infantry advance. A German observation tower is blown up and its occupants killed. Troops enter the rubbled town and are greeted; they cross the Soje and Dnieper Rivers in boats and on pontoon bridges that are heavily shelled. Titles in Russian.

  15. Harold Wallerstein papers

    The collection consists of two German passports ("Reisepass") stamped with the letter "J." One was issued to Max Wallerstein donor's father in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia, and the other was issued to Elisabeth Wallerstein [donor's mother] in Mannheim, Germany, in 1939.

  16. Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers

    The Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers contain documents and photographs concerning Morris Breitbart of Szczakowa, Poland and his wife, Lucy Gliklich of Nisko, Poland, whom he married at the Rosenheim displaced persons camp after World War II in 1949. Included in the collection is a diary written by Morris while he was in hiding in Poland from 1943 until 1944, postwar documents regarding his credentials as a dentist, immigration to the United States, and restitution claims against the German government. Photographs in this collection depict the Gliklich family before the war in Nisko, Poland,...

  17. Book

  18. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 pfennig coin

    Coin used in the Łódź [Litzmannstadt] Ghetto during the Holocaust.

  19. Alan Marcus collection

    The Alan Marcus collection consists of one audio tape of the NBC production "The Girl Without a Name"; a photocopy of the transcript of the same production, a photocopy of "Ratachusky's Return," which was written by Alan Marcus [donor] and published in "The Atlantic" in August 1946, and photocopy of email correspondence.

  20. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note