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  1. Nazi propaganda: history of Germany

    This historical feature film begins in 1862 with King Wilhelm I appointing Otto von Bismarck as head of the Prussian government. Since Germany was divided into 35 different political entities and transferred to various principalities, the nation is portrayed as desperately longing for national unity. Bismarck's first political action of dissolving the Prussian parliament because the opposition leader Virchow refused to finance a military reform and rearmament plan is followed by tough censorship of the press. From 1866 to 1870, Bismarck wages wars against Denmark, Austria, and France accord...

  2. List of war crimes suspects from Gerolzhofen

    Letter from Louis Hahn, of Milwaukee but originally from Gerolzhofen, Germany. Letter, written in 1946 and addressed to American Military Government in Gerolzhofen, sought to identified leading Nazi figures in that town, as Hahn remembered them, so could be apprehended by authorities and tried.

  3. Krieger and Lederer family papers

    Documents related to Lederer family, of Plzen, Czechoslovakia. Includes letter from Francis Lederer in 1945, describing what happened to various family members during the Holocaust, and between Harold Marx of Teaneck, NJ and the U.S. Consulate in Prague (March 1939), regarding efforts to obtain a visa for Zdenka Lederer.

  4. Deposition of Isaak Egon Ochshorn

    Photocopied document, looks to be testimony from Ochshorn given for purposes of trials at Nuremberg, about life in six Nazi concentration camps. Is in German, but also appears to have handwritten Hebrew translation.

  5. Enoch Tencher memoir

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, written in answer to a questionnaire. Describes experiences in Krosno, Poland, pre-war antisemitism, life in Krosno ghetto during occupation, various labor camps (Auschwitz, Mauthausen), liberation, and the Landsberg DP camp.

  6. A memoir relating to experiences in Ukraine

    Testimony, handwritten, 15 pages, Russian, describing experiences in Moldova and Ukraine in ghettos, during occupation.

  7. Edward Kaluski collection

    Typewritten (unattributed) report about Dachau; passport size photos of Edward Kaluski, including one in a metal frame stamped "Post of Dachau, Official Pass No. 485"; pass from UNRRA administration allowing Kaluski to leave camp (August 1945); CIC receipt showing that Kaluski turned in his military ID at Dachau in May 1946; and printed programs and similar ephemera relating to one-year anniversary commemorations of liberation of Dachau, 1946.

  8. "Paths of Fate, Auschwitz-Birkenau, No. B-1968"

    Contains a memoir entitled "Paths of Fate, Auschwitz-Birkenau, No. B-1968," relating to experiences in Białystok, Majdanek, Blizin, Auschwitz, and Ohrdruf.

  9. Personal history

    Consists of a handwritten memoir, 2 pages, written by Lilly Aron Weiss, originally of Balassagyarmat, Hungary. In the memoir, she describes her experiences in Hungary in 1944, her deportation to Auschwitz, being separated from her family, and life in Auschwitz. In the fall of 1944, she was transferred to the Ashesleben airplane factory and from there, to Theresienstadt, where she was liberated.

  10. Memoir relating to the Holocaust in the Bershad ghetto

    Contains a memoir related to the author's experiences in the Bershad ghetto, in the Vinnitsa district, Ukraine.

  11. Jack Penrose Stockton papers

    Includes photographs of corpses at liberated concentration camp (likely Ohrdruf), and photocopied documents relating to military career of Jack Stockton in U.S. Army, and letter from U.S. Army in 1993 confirming that his unit liberated Ohrdruf.

  12. Oral history interview with Edith Pagelson

  13. Bella Raytur memoir

    Testimony, typescript, three pages, about Bella Raytur's experiences in Balta Ghetto, after family fled from their home in Ribnitsa, Moldova.

  14. A memoir relating to the liberation of Dachau

    Testimony, 6 pages, photocopy of typescript, recounting experiences of Dan Daugherty, an American soldier, at liberation of Dachau.

  15. Memoir relating to experiences in Poland and the USSR

    Testimony, 54 pages, typescript, titled "Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor," by Feldman. Describes childhood in Stoczek, Poland (SE of Warsaw), invasion in 1939, flight to Soviet Union (after time in Bialystok), time as laborer in Magnitogorsk, Arkhangelsk, and in Uzbekistan, post war life as DP, immigration to Israel then to U.S.

  16. Trial records pertaining to the Peoples' Court case of Herbert Baum et al

    Contains eight photographs related to the Herbert Baum Group, and a photocopy of "Befannimachung" with English annotations.

  17. Branding iron retrieved from Dachau by a US soldier

    Branding iron discovered by Andrew J. Highbarger at Dachau concentration camp. Highbarger was a sergeant in the 4th Division of the 3rd US Army. He believed that it had been used to brand prisoners who had escaped from Dachau or from the camps where they had been incarcerated before being transferred to Dachau.

  18. Weissman family papers

    Photocopies of letters sent to Jack Weissman, of New York, from his mother and sister in Poland (Zdynia, Lwow), 1940.

  19. Winkler family papers

    Contains photocopied documents concerning Mikulas Winkler, originally of Berehowo, Czechoslovakia, and his experiences as a displaced person (DP) after WWII in Germany and his immigration to the United States.

  20. A memoir relating to Jews in Pechora

    Testimony, handwritten, six pages, about author's experiences in Tulchin (Vinnitsa district), Ukraine, during German occupation.