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Consists of one DVD, entitled "Late Embrace," (28 minutes), a documentary produced by Yehudit Shenhar and Alisa Eshed in Jerusalem in December 2006. The documentary is the story of Ester Roter, who was a hidden child and the only survivor of her family. After the war, Ester immigrated to Palestine and, conflicted about her feelings towards them, did not keep in contact with the Kormarniccy family who ...

Consists of 8x10 black and white Signal Corps photographs taken during and immediately after World War II. Includes photographs of Allied conferences (including Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam, and Quebec), journalists visiting the concentration camps in April 1945, the capitulations of both Japan and Germany, the Nuremberg trials, Landsberg prison, members of the Signal Corps, USO shows, atrocities in the ...

Describes author's reactions during her visit to Buchenwald and its memorial on Yom Kippur, 18 Sep 1991. The author was born in Germany to Christian parents.

(LIB 7175) First Allied Court, Lillehammer, Norway, July 10, 1945. SEQ: Trial of Wehrmacht captain who killed a Russian ex-prisoner of war. Witness gives evidence. The court principals are British and American officers. A German general who commanded the occupation of Norway is among the spectators. Shots of the building where trial is held. MLS, US captain and officers visit the place where the crime ...

Rabbi William Z. Dalin (born Velvel Zev Dolinsky, 1906-1996) was born in Šiauliai, Lithuania to Shlomo Zalman (1871-1911) and Rachel Dolinsky (née Boner, 1875-1945). He had four siblings: Mina (1896-1974), Simcha (1898-1990), Mendel (1901-1912), and Bluma (1904-1942). Shlomo was a rabbi, and William studied at the Slobodka yeshiva where his father taught. He immigrated to the United States in 1926 ...

Amateur footage taken by an American Jew, Joseph Shapiro, during a visit to relatives in Horodok (Gorodok), a Polish shtetl, said to have been located somewhere between Minsk and Vilna. Milk and bagels are distributed to hungry children at an outdoor party. In addition, there are school scenes, market scenes, people going up and down the main street on foot and in horsedrawn wagons, women at work, ...

A map shows the location where Hermann Goering is visiting wounded soldiers on the Eastern front. The men are on a train travelling back to Germany. CUs of Goering and smiling wounded troops. Goering is accompanied by a large entourage of officers and several nurses.

REEL 2: The rise of fascist dictatorships. Some of the Nazi leaders: Hess, Goering, Goebbels, etc. collecting money for charity outside a theater, and cheerfully chatting with the theater-goers. Giant Nazi rally. Hitler speaking to huge crowd who sit listening while being snowed upon. Italian politician Balbo visits Goering's Karinhall, shooting party includes Ernst Udet. Series of CUs of different ...

Testimony. Typescript letter, 3 pages, written by Alex Weiss after visiting the USHMM in 1993, about his experiences as a soldier who encountered the Gardelegen massacre.

The collection documents the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of Arthur Hecht and his family, who primarily lived in Hörstein, Germany prior to WWII. Documents include birth and death certificates, a naturalization certificate, military discharge papers, a track award, and a 1946 clipping documenting Arthur’s reunification with his parents after their immigration to the United States. Original ...