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Men work near a river to install metal pipe in Palestine. Water flows from the installed pipe and the men celebrate. A tall wooden pole with electric cables running from it. Panning shot of a park on a windy day. A busy city street, in which people mill about, men lead camels loaded with gear, a public bus is parked on the side of the street, the roof of a large estate is visible behind a high wall. ...

Part one: Vital signs: the Milosevic Trial and its context : a foundation primer. The context, contested : histories of Yugoslavia and its violent dissolution. - The forum : the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. - The man on trial : Slobodan Milošević. - The trial: IT-02-54, prosecutor v. Milošević. - Part two: Causes of death. - Real justice, in time : the initial indictment ...

Arthur (Menachem) Spielman was born on Dec. 10, 1928, in Kraków Poland, to Simon (b. 1900) and Czarna (née Stiel, b. 1902) Spielman. Arthur had two sisters, Helen (b. 1931) and Barbara (b. 1939). The family was Orthodox and Simon owned as shoe making business where Czarna also worked as the bookkeeper. Simon was born in Slovakia and considered a foreign national so the family was exempt from many ...

This collection contains: a photocopy of a newspaper article on the death of Jozef Ber Helfgott in 1930 ; two M. Hohner brand harmonicas from the 1930s, played by Eliezer Helfgott and Israel alias Simon Helfgott ; a certificate of primary education awarded to Eliezer Helfgott, 1933 ; a pre-war photograph of Isaak and Bacia Helfgott-Faszczak, ca. 1938 ; identity certificate issued to Israel Helfgott ...

Avraham Tory (born Avraham Golub) was born in Lazdijai, Lithuania in 1909. He was the youngest of six children born to Zorach and Sarah Leah (nee Prusak) Golub. He attended Hebrew High School Marijampole and upon graduation went to America to study law at the University of Pittsburgh. Following his father's death, he returned to Lithuania and continued his law studies in Kaunas. As a young attorney, ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

This collection contains a Polish passport issued to Marjem Wyszegrodzka in 1937. Marjem Wyszegrodzka, born on 20 August 1908 in Łęczyca, Poland, moved to Belgium and married Leibisch Goldfischer. She had been in Belgium since 22 August 1927, working at a clothing shop in Brussels. On 7 October 1942, both Marjem and Leibisch were registered at the Dossin Barracks for deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau ...

Bad quality footage at first. Scenes from World War II: planes, bombs falling, explosions, tanks, soldiers running across battlefields. Narrator describes it as "the face of war," and discusses the soldiers who fought. Images of Allied soldiers. A picture of an elderly Jewish man is shown, which the narrator describes as "more horrible still than even the face of warr," as it calls to mind the horrors ...

Shot by unidentified German soldier. HA panning shots of Warsaw showing people in a wide open space, probably after rubble from destroyed buildings was cleared. Camera pans in the opposite direction and shows the Central Railway Station. Ground-level shot of the Hotel Polonia and buildings next to it on Jerozolimskie Avenue. People pass by on foot and in horse-drawn carriages. 00:41 Man (foreground, ...

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 ...