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  1. Bruno and Elsa Lewin collection

    Documents relating to Bruno Lewin and his emigration from Nazi-occupied Berlin.

  2. Leo Mayers papers

    Consists of documents and photographs concerning Leo Mayerowicz (Mayers), including a work permit for the Łódź ghetto; and a postwar identification card from germany identifiying Mayerowicz as employee of the Darmstadt city government in the office of advisor for political, racial, and religiously persecuted people. One of the photographs, of a young boy outdoors, was carried by Mr. Mayers throughout his time in concentration camps.

  3. Selected records from the Politische Archiv des Auswärtiges Amts-Olympic Games 1936

    Contains material from the foreign office on the international issues surrounding the Olympic Games of 1936. Included are documents on potential boycotts (United States and Norway), policy related to the Jews, racial policy, logistical issues, certain events, and propaganda.

  4. Videotaped testimony of Livia Shacter

    Videotaped testimony of Livia Schacter, Holocaust survivor, recorded at Palos Verdes High School, California in April 1996.

  5. Prayer book

    Jewish prayer book issued by U.S. government and carried by U.S. soldier during WWII.

  6. Mortimer Greenberg photograph collection

    The collection consists of 16 photographs of the liberation of Nordhausen-Dora concentration camp taken by Mortimer Greenberg, an American soldier who participated in the liberation.

  7. Kurt Werner papers

    Contains information about the persecution of Jews, Czech, and African POWs during World War II. The donation also contains three photographs.

  8. Alice Berger memoir

    Describes her life in Slovakia before and during the Holocaust.

  9. Prewar family life in Saxony

    THE LIFE OF THE HESSENS AND THE ROSENSTERNS - NATUREFILM. THE HESSENS AND ROSENSTERNS BELONG TO THE CULTURED MAMMALIAN SPECIES LIVE IN INNER SAXONY. Map of Inner Saxony. EXT, apartment building, someone waving on the balcony. INT of home, table with flowers. EARLY IN THE MORNING, WOMEN SEARCH FOR FOOD. Albert Günther Hess's (AGH) sister-in-law Ilse Rosenstern and her son George walking. Street scenes. Woman entering a shop. 12:20 Clock. 1:35 Clock. Same woman exiting shop. MEN HAVE UNUSUAL APPENDAGES FOR AMBULATION. AGH working on his first boat. Automobile. Child on bicycle, scooter. THESE...

  10. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 480) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MLS, MS Prosecutor McHaney interrogating Dr. Wolfgang Lutz. HS, McHaney questioning Lutz. LS, prosecutor's table. McHaney asks a question about Field Marshal Erhard Milch. Pan, defendants in dock. CU, Dr. Alfred Seidel, defense attorney, speaking.

  11. Passport

    Passport belonging to donor's mother.

  12. A statistical analysis of Soviet atrocity charges

    Russian atrocity charges for particular localities are analyzed and compared with a summary atrocity charge issued by the Soviet State Extraordinary Commission. The statistical validity of the atrocity charge is discussed.

  13. Kinderausweis Nr. 1

    Child's passport belonging to donor's late brother, Walter Helmut Israel Berg, dated 1939 July 17.

  14. Detailed scale model of Łódź Ghetto created by a resident and recovered postwar

    Model of Łódź Ghetto created by Leon Jacobson. He began the model after arriving in the Ghetto following his release from a prisoner of war camp in April 1940. The streets and blocks and all other built elements that appear in the model are in the exact locations of those in Łódź Ghetto before it was destroyed. The houses were painted in the original colors. The model is highly detailed and includes some of the official badges of office issued by the Ghetto administration. The official seals used inside the case were used on all official documents. The Ghetto was highly organized and the se...

  15. Oral history interview with Dayle Bates

  16. Indictment in the proceedings against Koch, Ilse for murder

    Indictment, dated 10 May 1950, of Ilse Koch, widow of former Buchenwald Commandant Karl Koch.

  17. Theresienstadt and Prague

    Location filming in and around Terezin and Prague, Czechoslovakia for SHOAH. FILM ID 3765 -- (White 48) Theresienstadt Ville et Crematoire The town of Terezin nearly deserted except for a few people in the streets. 02:44 Group of soldiers and a large blue bus in the street. Street signs "Litomerice, 3; Usti, 28; Praha, 59." Public parks, passing trucks, pedestrians. 11:22 A public square from above and clapperboard with "Bob 50" written on it. Terezin from an upstairs window. Children playing in a park. 13:15 "Bobine 49, Lubchansky Terezin." Street views. 16:00 A wooden tower can be seen ov...

  18. Irmin Sternlieb collection

    Work card issued to Francisca Sternlieb by Romanian Government, dated 1942-1943; with stamps and photograph. Identification card issued to Francisca Sternlieb by Romanian Government; with stamps and photograph. Envelope from Geneva, Switzerland, addressed to "Herrn Isaac Rozentuler, Edinita, Jud, Hotin, Bessarabien," postmarked 2 April 1942.

  19. British enemy

    Reel 5 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...

  20. Ernest R. Stiefel papers

    The Ernest R. Stiefel papers include photocopies of emigration and expropriation documents, Jüdische Kultusvereinigung and Jüdischer Kulturbund documents, and personal narratives describing the Nazi persecution of the Stiefel family from Frankfurt am Main; German and international barriers to German emigration; and the confiscation of money, property, and possessions of family members who emigrated from Germany and of those who stayed behind. Emigration and expropriation documents consist of photocopies of original materials documenting the processes the Nazis used to confiscate money and p...