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Private papers of Otto Heim (1896-1978) and Régine Heim (1907-2004), a Jewish Swiss aid worker for Jewish refugees. The collection consists of biographical documents as a marriage certificate, testimonies, speeches at private and family occasions, among others, the speech on 70th birthday of Otto H. Heim, the farewell address of Edi Braunschweig, the report on a trip to Israel 1950, documents on the ...

“Ufa Schmalfilm Magazin” / UFA film logo / “Nr. 43” “Beute im Werte von hunderten von Millionen Mark.” Rows and rows of small carts in a field, some covered. A pile of soldiers helmets. Aerial view of a city. Smokestacks. Nazi officers walk alongside piles of weapon parts. INT weaponry facility. Men pour water from a metal cylinder. Steel rods. Neatly stacked rows of German bombs. 01:01:43 Intertitle, ...

The collection consists of the personal papers of Benjamin B. Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor of the Einsatzgruppen at the Nuremberg Trials. Papers include biographical information pertaining to Ferencz and materials relevant to the Second World War, the Nuremberg Trials, Holocaust-related restitution and indemnification issues, war crimes justice, his activities in the formation of the International Criminal ...

Memory is as central to modern politics as politics is central to modern memory. We are so accustomed to living in a forest of monuments, to having the past represented to us through museums, historic sites, and public sculpture, that we easily lose sight of the recent origins and diverse meanings of these uniquely modern phenomena. In this volume, leading historians, anthropologists, and ethnographers ...

Soft focus throughout. Shots of rubble in the streets of Nuremberg. An explosion raises a cloud of dust. More scenes of bomb damage and another explosion. Long shot of American soldiers posing next to one of the eagle and swastika sculptures in the Nuremberg stadium. Shot of the destroyed stadium. More shots of massive destruction in the city. German civilians on the streets. Destroyed German tanks ...

This collection contains personal papers of Jonas (Jonasz, Janusz) Turkow (1898-1988), an actor and theater director who was born in Warsaw. The collection also contains personal documents of Jonas Turkow’s wife Dina Turkow, Naftali Herc Turkow (his father) and Zygmunt Turkow (his oldest brother, who was a famous actor and director, husband of actress Ida Kamińska. Also included are correspondence ...

The Cynthia Jaffe McCabe papers consists of correspondence, photocopies of archival documents, photographs, slides, and other ephemera collected by art historian Cynthia Jaffe McCabe in preparation for a planned exhibit regarding the work of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee. Includes photographs of Fry and various artists and intellectuals, including Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse, in ...

[Refugies sur le bord d'une route - Nord de la France, Mai 1940] Refugees fleeing villages between Belgium and France. Planes in air, cut in. "Evacuation" sign on bus. Children, elderly, others onto truck/bus, sleeping child in arms. Air attack. Fierce scenes just after fall, flames. Storefront, "Bazar Parisien." Big fires, houses along square, church tower, burnt and falling, broken sculpture, INT. ...

Documents, photographs, correspondence, family history albums, and miscellaneous papers related to the Lessing family (Edward, his parents Nardus and Engeline, and his brothers Arthur and Alfred) in the Netherlands, in the U.S. (1929-1932), while in hiding during WWII, and in the postwar period. Also includes Edward's drawings and sculpture made while hidden, his short memoir, materials related to ...

Green ink lithograph, 38/50, a Cubist study of a woman's head created by Morice Lipsi, an artist known for his sculptures, at an unknown date, but probably postwar. The print was given to Micheline Weinstein, a psychoanalyst, in the 1970s by a patient who had kept it hidden under his floor for years. Morice, who was Jewish and originally from Poland, had lived in France since 1912. When Germany invaded ...