This album reveals how two SS photographers documented the arrival of shipments of Jews to the platform in the Birkenau concentration camp, the selection process, and their path to the gas chambers and the crematoria. The photographs also memorialize the piles of possessions left by the Jews which were sorted in the 'Canada' Barracks. They are accompanied by three articles that describe the development ...

Provinciaal Bestuur van Noord-Holland > Archief van Gedeputeerde Staten > Begraafplaatsen en crematoria > Stukken betreffende de behandeling van de vraag of het financieel verantwoord is naast het crematorium te Velsen een crematorium in Amsterdam op te richten, 1941

Based on official Nazi documents from German, Polish, Israeli, and especially recently-accessible Soviet archives, analyzes the establishment and the technical utilization of gas chambers and crematoria for the implementation of mass murder in Auschwitz-Birkenau. States that the killing with Zyklon B was carried out between December 1941-November 1944. Contrary to evaluations of other researchers of ...

Polish narration. Former Auschwitz prisoners walk slowly past the barbed wire fence. There is snow on the ground. Well-known Soviet footage of uniformed prisoners looking solemnly at camera through fence at liberation in January 1945. Aerial pans of camp. Blueprints or architectural drawings of camp. Interior of barracks with women. "Arbeit macht frei" gate. Pages of photographs. Woman and child stand ...

"The Holocaust is often described as beyond representation. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, which were buried in the grounds of the crematoria at Birkenau in 1944, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The ...

Collectie 270c: Proces Eichmann

Linda Breder was born Libusha Reich on 24 February 1924 in Stropkov, Czechoslovakia (Stropkov, Slovakia) to Fany and Henrik Reich. She had three brothers and one sister. Her family was deported to Auschwitz in March 1942. In January 1945 she was sent on a death march to Ravensbrück. She was liberated on 5 May 1945 from the Rechlin subcamp. Her sister was the only member of her immediate family to survive ...

Archief NL-LdnRAL-1001: Gemeentebestuur Leiden (SA IV) (1929-1946) > Crematoria Code VNG -1.776.114 > Stukken betreffende de behandeling van het verzoek van P.G. Krijnen om een crematorium op te mogen richten, 1940.

Archief NL-LdnRAL-0844: Gemeentebestuur van Hillegom (1928-1990) > Begraafplaatsen, kerkhoven en crematoria > Stukken betreffende de vaststelling van de verordening op de begraafplaatsen en het vervoeren naar en begraven van lijken aldaar. Met wijzigingen, 1933-1962.

Narrator introduces himself as Jack Parker, with the Seventh Army in Germany and describes the “Dachau death camp” which he had entered the previous Monday, April 30th. Parker is a correspondent for some American radio network but does not name which one. Parker and his colleagues had been in Munich, where there was still fighting, and was on his way back to their “press camp” when they got word that ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

Sidney Stenzler (1910-2004) was born in New York to Charles and Sarah Stenzler. He served with the 915th Signal Corps during World War II, was stationed at Landsberg at the end of the war, and volunteered his free time to assist Displaced Persons, for example by publicizing their plight and by collecting clothing and personal items from departing GIs.

Discusses official Polish commemoration of the Holocaust, as organized in the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau. Points out the paradox that Poland, through the fact that Nazi concentration camps were situated on its ground, was predestined for the role of witness, but in fact, until the mid-1980s, the topic remained surrounded by a zone of silence. The annihilation of European Jewry was not mentioned ...

High pan of camp, barracks, open square. Survivors getting water from tank/truck, washing in canal, eating, cooking, pots, some are prisoners of war. Men eating. Fighting over food. Celebrating liberation. Posing for group photograph. "All Polish Greet the Fraternal American Army" on building. Men walking, waving, getting on trucks. Swastika chain link. Familiar faces of liberated men. Man with glasses, ...

(LIB 5569) Bridge Crossing, Saalfeld, Germany, April 14, 1945. SEQ: Tanks of 607th TD and 735th Tank Bn move through streets. LSs, rear views, infantry men of 87th Div atop several of the tanks as they pass camera. MSs, Maj Gen Troy Middleton and Maj Gen Frank L Culin question German officer. LS, vehicles pass over steel treadway pontoon bridge. MS, Maj Gens watch vehicles crossing. Head-on shot, tank ...

Pan, pile of corpses outside gas chamber/crematoria, bones on the ground. CUs, cremation ovens. Family photographs of a victim. More shots of ovens and bones. CUs, women weeping. Pan down, from one woman to a pile of bones. Tall chimney and burial grounds are shown. Bones. A vegetable garden. Men inside barracks. CUs, shoes salvaged by the Nazis. Victims' belongings including: clothing, gloves, toys, ...

Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Against a background of authentic newsreel footage showing the condition of the remaining survivors, the audience is urged to give to the campaign. The funds will allow these people to immigrate, either to Palestine, or the United States, where they can resettle. The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution ...

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 393, Part 1. Release date, 04/26/1945. Scenes of atrocities: (Ed Herlihy commentator) "Helpless prisoners tortured to death by a bestial enemy...Here is the truth!" Freed US POWS at side of road cheering on tanks as they go by. Boy smiles. MCU, POWs get soup from big tureen. CU, in line, medical aid. Group MS. Bandaging a man's back, covering up a bloody calf wound, ...

(LIB 6223) Probably April 30, 1945. Camera pans from left to right showing an overview of the Flossenbuerg slave labor camp, barracks on hillside, trees and mountains in BG. German civilians gathered at entrance to camp. Inscriptions on concrete gate post. Sign: "Vorsicht! Hochspannung Lebensgefahr" and "Arbeit Macht Frei". CU, electrified barbed wire around top of fence and guard towers. Makeshift ...

Dertig genummerde kleurendia's over concentratiekamp Auschwitz-Birkenau als museum (opgericht 2 juli 1947). De opnamen tonen de in oorspronkelijke staat teruggebrachte gebouwen, presentaties en monumenten. De opnamen zijn in de herfst en winter gemaakt. In een vaalrood kartonnen doosje met het opschrift: 'Auschwitz - Birkenau - [idem in het Pools] epoka slajd'. Opnamen: 1946. Foto's liggend formaat ...

US propaganda film about "The German personality" and its national psyche and history. Reel 1 shows panoramic views of the German countryside, its people, music, schools, offices, and factories ('a modern, educated, musical, industrious nation'); dead and living victims of Nazi concentration camps; crematoria, gas chambers, victims' clothing, and articles made of human skin; and victims of Nazi atrocities ...

(LIB 5963) Concentration Camp, Buchenwald, Germany, April 22, 1945. Seq: Members of the House of Representatives visit concentration camp; view piles of bodies; visit crematoria of the camp. Included in the group of visitors: Frances E. Walters, PA; Eugene Worley. TX; Carter Manasco, AL; Albert Rains, AL; Henry W. Jackson, WA; Earl Wilson, IN; Marion Bennet, MO; Gordon Canfield, NJ; Maj. Gen. Vanier ...

Film promoting the need for war crimes trials in Nuremberg. Narration explains the various trials established to prosecute war criminals. Opening shot, statue of Thomas Jefferson in Jefferson Memorial, Washington DC. Ext CUs, Adolf Hitler addressing German people at Nuremberg rally (translated into English). CU, concentration camp victims; weeping relatives/civilians. Piles of corpses, atrocities. ...