Relates the conditions American soldiers found when they liberated Dachau, including: sanitary conditions inside the camp; starving camp inmates and incidents of cannibalism; sadistic camp guards; medical experiments involving inmates; the effect of the camp on the civilian population living near Dachau; and Golec's ideas to prevent Germany from waging war again.

Consists of a copy of an excerpt from "Polnische zigeuner: historische und sittenkizzen" by Jerzy Ficowski. The excerpt contains information relating to the treatment and persecution of Roma in Poland during World War II and their suffering in concentration camps. Also included is information about medical experiments conducted on Roma children (twins) by Josef Mengele, the imprisonment and murder ...

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01:23:09 Point System Discharge, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, May 30, 1945. Interview of three Staff Sgts eligible for discharge on point system. Each tells of the combat duties and delight in being able to return to the US. 01:27:33 (LIB 6562) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MCU off-screen voice interviews Dr. Hussarek of Czechoslovakia, who tells how he was hung by his wrists ...

Surveys Nazi persecution of Jews and other groups, particularly the racial legislation, forced sterilizaton (including medical experiments in mass sterilization in Auschwitz), and the "euthanasia" program. Notes that the methods used to murder the mentally and physically handicapped were later applied to Jews. States that the known detention and death centers numbered 10,005 and divides them into 16 ...

Helena Piasecka (1914-2006) was born Helena Karolewska on October 2, 1914 in Żuromin, Poland to Helena (née Baranski) and Jakub Karolewski. She had two sisters: Władysława Karolewska (later Władysława Łapińska), and Henryka Karolewska (later Henryka Szawarin). She was Roman Catholic, and married to Edward Piasecki. After Germany and Russia invaded Poland in September 1939, Helena and her husband were ...

Sketches the history of the Final Solution and of the concentration camps from the Nazi accession to power through the Second World War. Describes in detail the construction and layout of Auschwitz, the transports and selections, the gassings, the medical experiments, and the SS personnel. Surveys the sources for knowledge of the Holocaust, including Nazi archives, the testimonies of perpetrators, ...

(Paris 489) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Thomas J. Dodd, US prosecution, introducing witness Dr. Franz Blaha. Dodd reads Dr. Blaha's signed affidavit telling of his career as head of a hospital in Czechoslovakia and his experiences as a Gestapo prisoner. The affidavit reveals that the Germans used healthy prisoners for various medical experiments. If the prisoners did not ...

Book and folder: records of the hospital laboratory in the Dachau concentration camp. Recorded in book and on separate pages contained within the folder are last names of victims interned in Dachau and records of their blood and urine work. The book, which dates November 30, 1942 - April 7, 1943 is labeled on cover "Häftl.-Revier Laboratorium" [prisoner laboratory area]. The folder bears pink label ...

Proposes a framework for understanding the history of the Holocaust, focusing on the German perpetrators of the genocide and reflecting on social, ethical, and religious issues. Discusses the evolution of antisemitism from the ancient period to Nazi racism. Describes the Nazi rise to power, anti-Jewish laws of the 1930s, the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, ghettoization in occupied Poland, mass killings in ...

Testimonies and reports written by Jewish and non-Jewish inmates from the Netherlands, most of them political prisoners, regarding prisons and concentration camps, 1933-1945
 
 Lists of people from the Netherlands who perished in camps, and a report regarding the persecution of Jews by the Amsterdam Police, 1939-1945;
 
 Correspondence of the Netherlands Tracing Mission, 1945-1948;
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See part 2 (pp. 63-201), "Les crimes biologiques de la médicine SS", which includes discussion of the participation of SS doctors in the experiments, and selection and extermination of victims, in the concentration camps. 223 pages

Greenman was born in 1910 in London to a Jewish family; in 1913 he and his widowed father settled in Rotterdam. Greenman failed to escape to England when the war began, and in 1940 was caught by the German occupation. He lost his British identity papers and, because of bureaucratic procrastination on the part of Dutch officials and of the Swiss consulate that represented British interests, could not ...

This collection consists of correspondence and contracts regarding the publication of <em>Auschwitz in England</em> , by Mavis M. Hill and L. Norman Williams. The collection consists primarily of correspondence and contracts re the publication of the book and issues relating toa BBC broadcast of a dramatisation of the book. In addition there is a copy transcript of the testimony of Dering during the ...

The collection of lantern slides and boxes is from the holdings of the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. This Institute for anthropology and genetics was one of many centers used for the study of eugenics during the Third Reich. Aside from ordering sterilization and other eugenic "procedures," medical experiments originating in euthenasia killing centers and concentration camps were also evaluated ...

Kanes relates his own story and that of his parents, Soli and Caroline Kanes, who married in 1941 and lived in Amsterdam. After the German occupation his parents worked for the Dutch resistance, but in August 1942 Soli was arrested and sent to Westerbork. In April 1943 Caroline and three-month-old Levie were sent there as well; however, the baby was taken from the train by members of the resistance. ...

Consists of a war crimes case file relating to the Auschwitz concentration camp, crimes allegedly committed by camp personnel, medical experiments, lists of war crimes suspects, and testimonies by Auschwitz survivors. Includes documents relating to Drs. Josef Mengele and Friedrich Entress, and to Konrad Reinhard, a Roma who collaborated with the Germans. The earliest war crimes cases were investigated ...

Josef Mengele (1911-1979) was born on March 16, 1911 in Günzburg. He studied medicine and anthropology in Munich and Bonn. Mengele was deployed as camp physician (Lagerarzt) in Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp from May 1943 onwards. He was tasked with the selections and conducted medical experiments on prisoners. He left Auschwitz in January 1945 just before the Red Army liberated the ...

This film was taken by a Soviet military film crew upon liberating Auschwitz in January 1945. CUs, children, showing numbers on their arms. The girl in the center of the frame not wearing a uniform but a regular jacket is Sarah Racimora. The boy to her right is Rene (Guttman) Slotkin. HAS, procession of children evacuating the camp, barbed wire. CUs, charred heads and remains of bodies in ovens. CUs, ...

Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe (The Ancestral Heritage) Society, 1935-1945&#x0D; &#x0D; Documentation of Das Ahnenerbe Society, a pseudo-scientific organization founded through the initiative of Heinrich Himmler and Darre, in 1935, which dealt with the study of ancient German history and in anthropological research in order to decide on various issues in Nazi ideology. At the peak of its activities, ...

Reel 5: Courtroom scene, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at podium speaking about Canaris and Hans Frank describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Goering, Hitler, and other Nazi officials in a meeting. Pan, hut with thatched roof. 05:38:38 CU pipes from a German police car bearing a license plate POL-28545 and a German police truck with license POL-51628 (as well as ...

The documentation is divided up to reflect the twelve cases: Case 1 (Medical): charged twenty-four defendants with performing medical experiments on concentration camp inmates and other living human subjects Case 2 (Milch): charged Erhard Milch with the exploitation of slave labour and carrying out medical experiments on concentration camp inmates Case 3 (Justice): charged sixteen defendants with war ...

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