(Munich 155) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 8-10, 1946. HAS, Tribunal as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence administers oath to Adm. Karl Doenitz (latter not visible). HAS, Capt. Otto Kranzbuehler questioning his client Doenitz at the stand. (Doenitz not visible. Interpreter's voice is heard giving questions and answers in English.) MSs, Kranzbuehler at speaker's stand. HAS, left side of prisoners' ...

The collection consists of clippings, copy prints, drawings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Stefan Horn as an interpreter at the War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II.

(Munich 173) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 17 and 20, 1946. Commander in Chief of the Navy questioned as to the impression a speech by Hitler made on him in which he announced that after a long time of not involving France and Britain in the war, he had now decided to attack. HAS, MCU, Dr. Walter Siemers, counselor for Erich Raeder, at lectern. English interpreter is heard translating ...

Draft article by Robert Weltsch entitled: "Hans Kohn: Interpreter and Historian of Nationalism" 

Contains letters and documents pertaining to his role as an interpreter during the Nuremberg Trials.

70 pages illustrations, folded diagram 35 cm

Summary: Austrian Franz Strasser is tried for the murder of Lt E Warren Woodruff and an unknown airman. His testimony is in German. Cpl. Henry Halperin is the interpreter for all witnesses; Sgt. Sessler interprets for Franz Strasser. The six-officer Army Military Commission included Capt. Victor Miles, Lt. Harvey Szanger, and Col. Raymond E. Zickel. Reel 4: Prosecutor reading (incomplete). Commission, ...

Collection of photographs documenting survivors and victims found in the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation; dated April 1945. Photographs given to Richard Lyons by his neighbor Agnes "Sue" Sullivan who herself had received them from a friend. Ms. Sullivan worked as an interpreter/translator/court reporter at the Nuremberg Trials.

Documents including certificates, correspondence, and identification information, family photographs, and restitution-related papers, relating to Olga Schuman (formerly Ester Kopolovicova) of Drahova, Czechoslovakia (Drahovo, Ukraine), who survived Auschwitz and Stutthof. Also includes a DVD photos and Olga's oral history, in addition to a guidebook, Nový Tlumaĉ Americky [The American Interpreter] ...

Consists of one memoir, 12 pages, entitled "Looking Back, But Not in Anger: The Story of One who Eluded the Holocaust by the Skin of his Teeth," by Herbert P. Paisley, originally of Berlin, Germany. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Germany, schooling in Belgium, imprisonment in St. Cyprien and Gurs, joining the French Foreign Legion and later the British Pioneer Corps, where he worked as ...

LT GEN ANTON DOSTLER, GERMAN WAR CRIMINAL TRIAL, Palace of Justice, Rome, Italy. Gen. Dostler testifies through his interpreter about checking higher command to determing if these American soldiers came under the Fuehrerbefehl order. In learning that they did, and that he was ordered to have the men shot, he instructed his chief of staff to carry out the order.

US Army jacket with insignia that belonged to George Topas, a Polish Jewish survivor. He taught himself English while in the camps. After his liberation, an American officer asked him if he wanted to join up as an interpreter and he became a member of the Yankee Division.

(LIB 3385-3390) Displaced Persons, Verviers, Belgium, February 10-13, 1945. MCU, interrogation of German woman and her child by a Belgian officer. Interviewer speaks in French and German. MCU, interrogation of single woman by French interpreter. MLSs, MCU, displaced persons center administration office. US Army Capt speaks over phone and receives shipment of notification of arrivals. Capt designates ...

Documents and correspondence concerning Samuel Halber (donor’s father). Born June 22, 1914 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he fled Nazi-occupied Europe in 1941 through Spain and Portugal were he applied for a US visa, ultimately arriving in New York City in 1941. He was drafted into the United States Army and was a Military Intelligence Interpreter, translating German, Dutch, and French in England until ...

(Munich 164) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 16, 1946. LS, court in session as member of the Commission calls defendants for recital of their names and background. Gen Sepp Dietrich is called and he gives his name and age. MS, Dietrich answers questions of the Commission. Defendants Fritz Kramer, PJ Ochmann, Joachim Peiper, Hermann Priess, and Wolfgang Richter rise as they are called. ...

(Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. Defendants, defense counselors, and Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson listening to Goering testifying. Goering testifies that he supervised all concentration camps until 1934. Pan from Goering talking to defendants listening intently. LS, interpreters' box with several people speaking into microphones as Goering testifies. Goering ...

(Munich 211 and 222) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. CU, Wac? wearing earphones seated in visitors' gallery. LS, translation section during court session. MS, British officer and two women of the translation section in courtroom. CU, women translators giving answers of witness in English. MS, girl translator giving answers in French. CU, male interpreter speaking in French. MS, group ...

(Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 14, 1946. Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson addressing the Tribunal on a point of international law. Goering sits in the witness box and his attorney Dr. Otto Stahmer stands alongside him. Justice Lawrence answers Jackson. LS, defense counselors talking excitedly to the prisoners about Jackson's statement. MS, Jackson, defense counselors, and ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Henry Einstein was a veteran of World War II who continued to work for the United States government for nearly 40 years as a civilian. He served as a clerk, investigator, and interpreter at war crimes trials in Nuremberg. Einstein also worked for the Court of Restitution Appeals, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Henry Einstein died in Nov. 1988.

(LIB 3385-3390) Displaced Persons, Verviers, Belgium, February 10-13, 1945. MSs, MCUs, delousing displaced persons. Short scene, small child and woman undergo medical examination. MCU, US Army officer through German/Russian interpreter, interviews a Russian displaced person. The security examination of the Russian reveals that he served with the Russian army and was captured by the Germans in 1943, ...

The material relates to Joseph Crane's experiences and relationships with people he met at Civilian Internment Camp #5. The collection consists of photographs of SS personnel, a statement given by an internee of Civilian Internment Camp #5, a letter of protest from some internees regarding the delay in their release, two poems, a report about war criminals and war crimes trials, and an arrest repo ...

Opys 20 (Inventory 20). Reference lists about members of political parties, White Guard members, gendarmes, Red Army deserters, and persons employed in the authorities during the German-Fascist occupation. Selected files related to the Nazi occupation period: File 1 – Clergy who served German occupiers in the churches of Poltava region, 8 pages. File 4a – Germans who lived in the region during the ...

Copyright Holder: Dr. George Sakheim