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November - December 1941 Poor quality shots at first. It is now winter; snow lies on the ground. Wreckage of cars and corpses. A cow wanders past. 01:38:52 A group of Russian partisans has been hung and left on display with a sign that reads (partly illegible) "On the night of November 24th, 1941 these beasts of the Russian regiment 239 813 a. 817 mutilated and murdered German wounded." Good CUs of ...

Reel 1: 00:05:14 Western Ukraine. Some scenes could be Lvov. German tanks move through a field; charred landscape. 00:06:02 Large groups of Ukrainian civilians look suspiciously at the camera. Small town; German tanks in the streets. Young girls hand flowers to Germans. Tanks crest a hill top, move through a village with thatched-roofed homes. A deep anti-tank trench. 00:08:05 Various shots in a damaged ...

"What is Holocaust literature? When does it begin and how is it changing? Is there an essential core of diaries, eyewitness accounts of the concentration camps, tales of individual survival in hiding? Is it the same everywhere: in the West as in the East, in Australia as in the Americas, in poetry as in prose? Is this literature sacred and sui generis, or can it be studied in the light of other literatures? ...

Myra Genn (b. Ziunia Herbst) was born on June 1, 1938, in Trembowla, Poland (now Terebovlia, Ukraine). Her father, Chaim David Herbst, who was born in 1908, was a Zionist activist and educator. Along with Dawid Turkel, he organized a Hebrew language elementary school in Trembowla. Myra's mother, Sabina Sizes Herbst, was born in 1903. Chaim and Sabina married in 1936 and owned a leather goods store ...

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 ...

Wanda Rotbart (formerly Natka Kronenberg and Wanda Levenkopf), was born to Moishe and Chava Kronenberg in Warsaw, Poland where Moishe worked as a furrier. There, she attended school until the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939, when she had to suspend her education during her second year of high school. A year later in 1940, Wanda and her family moved into the Warsaw Ghetto. 1942 Wanda’s mother and sister ...

O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981
 
 Leyb Koniuchowsky was born in Lithuania on 18 November 1910. An engineer by profession, he resided in Kaunas (Kovno). During the German occupation he lived in the Kaunas Ghetto and worked there until his escape. He found shelter in a bunker at a farmer's home where he remained until the liberation ...

1938 color home movies of Kannenberg family in Germany. Two young girls (nieces) with Arthur Kannenberg and shiny black Mercedes flying small swastika. Intertitle: "Unser Vater an seinem 73.ten Geburtstag (Our father on his 73rd birthday) 21.6.38." Grandfather, grandmother, 3 young girls bring flowers. Family scenes, including storefront "Villa Luise." [1944 police document identifies Inger Poulsen ...